we look at what scott brown's victory means for president obama's agenda. >> ifill: then, a powerful aftershock hits haiti as victims are still being pulled from the rubble. and doctors struggle to provide even basic care. >> we are running our operating rooms without electricity, without oxygen, without proper anesthetics. >> brown: margaret warner gets the latest on the situation in port-au-prince from jason beaubien of n.p.r. >> ifill: paying for the "new york times" on line, but will readers buy in? >> brown: and body scanners in airports. ray suarez reports on a continuing debate. >> they're going to detect prosthetics. they're going to detect vasectomy scars, sex change operations, adult incontinence. >> are they perfect? no. but do they take us very much further down the road to security against this kind of device? the answer to that is yes. ... >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. and by toyota. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundation

he has moved mountains for barack obama in terms of advancing his legislative agenda.d just about everything he could to get the 60th vote on health care. there, he will be fine. mark is right. it is this election he has to face. he is already running really close, if not behind. democrats are going to have to spend a ton of money to keep him in office. he has won a lot of close races. a lot of people concerned that he may not be able to pull this off. more fodder. his opponents putting stuff out there. >> does it make a difference that harry reid didn't, either, "a," try to say these were not my words or this was a private conversation, and i don't want to talk publicly about what was a private conversation? instead, he is addressing it right off the bat that, indeed, it did happen. these were his words. he is apologizing for those words. >> i think too often what happens in washington is when something like this happens, an initial reaction will be to step back and say, that was a private conversation. i don't want to talk about private conversations. harry reid said

he should be credit with helping get president obama's agenda through. we talk a lot about the supermajority, the fact that there's 60 votes in the senate. in fact, there are not 60 votes in the senate and we have seen that in the health care debate. not all democrats are on board. also, if you look at the context of the quote, it doesn't seem as if harry reid was trying to be disparaging, so to speak, in his remark. he was making an observation. it was -- it was an observation he shouldn't have made. it was a poor choice of words, bad choice of words, and i think that president obama understood that. also, in the book we should point out that it's noted, if we are to believe the authors of the book, and i think we should because they are very good journalists, that harry reid was one of the first democratic leaders to tell barack obama to run for president. >> and why would he do that? >> because, you know, according to the book now, and we've heard some of this anecdotal evidence over the past year or so, year and a half, is that democratic leaders did

a live debate this morning between the two sides on the midterm elections and the obama agenda. democratic national committee chairman governor tim kaine of virginia, versus republican national committee chairman michael steele. then, he is governor of the state with the world's eighth largest economy and massive $20 billion budget deficit. as arnold schwarzenegger enters his final year as the governor of california what can he do to turn his state around? how does the future of california impact the rest of the united states? our exclusive interview with california governor arnold schwarzenegger. plus, obama's priorities for the upcoming year. how will the shifting landscape affect health care and the economy? after the attempted christmas day airline bombing exposes cracks in the nation's security system, the president promises to keep the country safe. >> i am less interested in passing out blame than i am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. for ultimately, the buck stops with me. >> insights and analysis from andrea mitchell and nbc news politica

insights on what's ahead for the obama agenda with our round table. nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw, "new york times" columnist david brooks, "washington post" columnist e.j. dionne, and historian doris kearns goodwin. >>> but first some news this morning. the u.s. has closed its embassy in the capital of yemen because of what officials are calling an active security threat posed by al qaeda there. the nouncement one day after the president specifically implicated the yemen based branch of al qaeda for being behind the christmas day terror attempt. >> it appears that he joined an affiliate of al qaeda, and that this group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained him, equipped him with those explosives, and directed him to atta that plane headed for america. >> we are joined now live by the president's top counterterrorism adviser john brennan. welcome to "meet the press." >> thank you, david. >> this president's directive to close the embassies because of specific intelligence that an attack is coming? >> yes, there are indication that's

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. >> the botched attack has launched counterterrorism to the top of president obama's agenda. he's promised to work with yemen and fight extremist groups there. the president returns from vacation on monday and meets with top security officials first thing tuesday morning. >>> the british government announced that it will assist the u.s. in yemen to fight increasing threats coming from the country. they have closed the embassy for security reasons. >>> other top stories, the death of a baby girl inside a northeast baltimore home. charges documents show that the man is accused of murdering his daughter. >>> police have identified a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run accident on new years. they believe that thomas judge was behind the wheel when a vehicle struck a pedestrian in annapolis. the man was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> gilbert admitted to brings guns inside the locker room. speaking to reporters last night, he said he used bad judgment but would not go into detail of reports of a dispute with a teammate. he says he will meet with law enforcement officials tomorrow. >>

host: marilyn geewax is author of, right now, a 12 step program for defeating the obama agenda. first up. republican line? caller: good morning mr. steel. i'm going good. i'm a small businessman. been in business 34 years and i'm one of the 70 percent of the population or businesses that generate the jobs that everybody talks about and all they talked about as far as initial >> caller: and all they talked about as far as in this administration is found a way to borrow money that i can't pay back in order to grow my business. my problem is my customers don't have jobs, or they are not spending money. >> right. >> caller: that's probably the problem that small businesses, we are not doing the business. because our customers are not spending the money because they don't have it. now we talk about polls, it's conservatives, democrat, and independents. the last poll i saw, we had 40% of the nation is conservative. and 36% is independent. that bothers me that the republican party now doesn't even go into the polls? >> well, i think that's the point. you know within we're kind of getti

host: marilyn geewax is author of, right now, a 12 step program for defeating the obama agenda.irst up. republican line? caller: good morning mr. steel. i'm going good. i'm a small businessman. been in business 34 years and i'm one of the 70 percent of the population or businesses that generate the jobs that everybody talks about and all they talked about as far as initial administration. finding a way for me to borrow money that i can't pay back to grow my business. my customers don't have jobs or they're not spending money. that's probably the problem 70 percent. small businesses have. we're not going to do the business because our customers are not spending the money because they don't have the money. my concern with the republican party s the fact that now we talk about poles and it's conservatives democrats and independents. the last pole i saw, we had 40 percent of the nation is conservative. 20% in there is democrat and 36 independent. it bothers me the republican party doesn't even go into the poles. if guest: well i think that's point - we're getting blocked and tackles

newman discussing jfk's family of vietnam and comparing it to obama's handling of afghanistan. >> now a discussion on the climate change agenda of the obama administration from thursday's "washington journal." host: juliet upper and joins us from "in washington post, the national environment reporter. welcome to the program. caller: good to be -- guest: good to be here. host: how far as president obama gotten into that agenda? guest: one thing he made clear from the beginning is he wanted to impose a nationwide limit on greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. this is something president bush opposed during his eight years in office, and he was also committed to forging an international treaty which would produce global limits on greenhouse gas emissions. in terms of doing that, he has made some steps through regulation, but he has failed to achieve the overall goal, whether it is on the domestic front or international front, and one of the key things will be looking ahead to 2010, whether he can get congress to enact legislation to put a nationwide carbon cap host: looking from the international perspective, was he

a special election which changed a lot of things including the balance of power and president obama's agenda, which could well be in jeopardy. with us in this first segment of this special hour, wolf blitzer the anchor of "situation room" and john king the anchor of "state of the union," jessica yellen is at the coakley headquarters at the scherr ton hotel in boston and dana bash, cnn's senior congressional correspondent. how did brown win, wolf? >> he got out the independents. he was impressive in doing that, convincing a lot of independents and probably a lot of democrats at the same time that he would be a better united states senator. it was an uphill struggle. it was only a few weeks ago, larry, that everybody assumed that ted kennedy's seat would be -- remain in democratic hands, martha coakley was a pretty popular attorney general. she had a good brand name. no doubt about that. things did not go in her way, and within the past two or three weeks it began to collapse pretty quickly. all of a sudden he wins rather decisively. he got 52% and she got 47% of the vote. that's an impressive

how much power does he have to push the obama agenda. >> i think people close to the white house areing this will be over after a few days of back and forth. and i think you saw in the statement from reverend al sharpton jumping into the fray as well, he was saying that democrats hope this does not become a distraction from the health care battle, you have to focus on health care, and the economy, issues that really matter to the americans, i think the fact that al sharpton invoked that, shows there's nervousness about the fact that any sort of distraction, at this moment, just as they're trying to push health care through this final stage on the eve of the state of the union from the president in the next couple wyc weeks shows they're very concerned right now, there's no doubt about that. >> thank you both for your time. >>> for most people, this boils down to one of two things, racism or just a poor choice of words. boyce watkins is a professor -- you have some strong opinions about senator reid's comments. let's begin with the fact that you say you see racism in the senator's wor

people were upset about barack obama not cracking down on the banking systems. people do not understand the hidden agendas because it is not advertised. these banking industry's give millions of dollars to people who campaigned for, to be elected to offices. hypothetically, if barack obama, president bush, or anywhere to put certain restrictions on those banks even the they don't tax them, that would be a very dicey subject. it is behind-the-scenes politics. where all these tea parties in anger and marching -- there was a little, but not like now, when former president bush engaged us into this unjust iraqi war? host: e? guest: the anger was their in 2008. it is not as though president obama walton to the president, but the mood was incredibly favorable for democrat. whether it had been hillary clinton or barack obama, i think the democrats would have had a superb chance of winning the presidency as they did. the anger has been. been -- has been there. and at all institutions, not just at the president. it can to get through the banking industry, the legal industry, and you can look at the press. it is t

. >>> of course terrorism is on the top of president obama's agenda as he returns from a holiday week with his family from hawaii. finding a new place for terrorists, to get them off airliners is certainly a priority. more on the security meshers that kick in today at foreign airports. >> reporter: another sign of the heightened security, travelers delayed sunday evening for at least two hours at newark airport after a man walked the wrong way through a security exit. it happened the same date the government issued new rules for all airlines that fly into the u.s. >> the public just has no confidence anymore in the ability of government to provide a safe environment in which travelers can fly. >> reporter: there will be extra screening for passengers with passports from or who have traveled through nations the u.s. deems suspect. such as yemen. the additional screening also applies to those from or visited countries the government classifies as being sponsors of terrorism such as iran. you may see different threshold for what makes you a select d or no-fly. right now those are very li

guest: there has been a sense that this is an opportunity to strike a blow against president obama's agenda, and scott brown declared he would be the 41st vote in the senate to kill the jerez carol -- health care bill by a filibuster. they are sort of a aroused did they send money. a lot of people have come in from out of state on both sides really, but for republicans, very unusual. people spent the weekend here, came in from nearby states. there was a busload from michigan apparently that came in over the weekend, too. and democrats have sent out a call -- massachusetts generally exports field operatives for democrats on election days -- new hampshire primary, places like that, but it is working in reverse now and they have been called in. host: what about money? you have an estimate, ball park figure on how much money has come into the state from outside sources as well as how much of these candidates have raised and spent? host: many organizations on both sides -- guest: many organizations have lined up to pay for television ads, mainly negative. the estimate was 5 million, it is probab

they did not know that you were releasing the book right now, a 12-step program for defeating the obama agenda, until they saw you selling it on tv. and former g.o.p. chairman said they can't believe that you personally are getting paid $20,000 for a speech at a time when your party is having such money problems. >> a couple of things here. one with respect to leadership, i thought that process had already been taken care of within the party and the staffing and all of that, they had been notified of that. for that, i apologize, i was not trying to blindside anybody in that regard. number two, the book was written in 2008. it was delayed because of production and other things. >> chris: let me take you up on that, because you keep saying that, and yet we went through the book yesterday. and there was reference after reference after reference to 2009. >> the book was updated because of the delay. it was supposed to come out in early 2008, march or april of 2008. it was delayed. and as it was delayed, i updated the book because relevant things were going on. sarah palin's book hit, it was pushed

. >> a pile on with obama's new agenda and i can see the argument. go back to '03 for a second and reimagine the decade and the -- let's say the bush tax cuts never happened -- >> what do you think would have happened. >> we would not be prostrate in front of our lender china. i think we'd be in a stronger place in the world. and we have to fix that, unless you -- >> vickie. go ahead. >> well, mike you just dodged the question. this is for investors, this is death by a thousand tax hikes and they are little tax hikes here and there and they'll make you take your capital elsewhere and you will not invest in new businesses in the u.s. leading to lower job creation over time and is subtle but it happens. >> and by the way, one reason why the 1990s worked was president clinton unlike presidents bush and obama had a strong and stable dollar. you don't have a strong dollar, you have a weak recovery. jimmy carter made the mistake and these two presidents made the mistake, the biggest thing -- >> talking about mistakes, quentin says the republicans were the

the " the washington times" not known as a big promoter of the obama agenda point out we succeeded whereouse passed common sense financial regulatory reform to help prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again. each achievement represents promises kept. we are not stopping. today, we are on the doorstep of accomplishing something washington has been talking about since teddy roosevelt was president. that is reforming health care and health insurance here in america. [applause] believe me, i know how big of a lift this has been. i see the polls. i get 40,000 letters every day and i read a stack of them each night. i catch the occasional blog post or cable clip that breathlessly declares what somethingñlmeans for a political party without talking much about what it means for a country. i know that the virtues of this legislation for americans with insurance and americans without it have been entirely obscured by fear and distraction. but i also know what happens once we get this done, once we sign this bill into law. the american people will suddenly learn that this bill does thing

the " the washington times" not known as a big promoter of the obama agenda point out we succeeded wherehis previous administrations have failed because of the work done in this congress to finally get serious on some of these spending cuts that had been talked about for years. [applause] this house passed common sense financial regulatory reform to help prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again. each achievement represents promises kept. we are not stopping. today, we are on the doorstep of accomplishing something washington has been talking about since teddy roosevelt was president. that is reforming health care and health insurance here in america. [applause] believe me, i know how big of a lift this has been. i see the polls. i get 40,000 letters every day and i read a stack of them each night. i catch the occasional blog post or cable clip that breathlessly declares what something means for a political party without talking much about what it means for a country. i know that the virtues of this legislation for americans with insurance and americans without it have been en

obama policy and the bush policy. they don't want to lose that america should lead the world. we set the agenda. if obama loses that and we saw it late last year when he accepted the noble prize, that fed into the storyline that he doesn't necessarily believe in american exceptionalism. it's more that i want to be president of the world. it's a very effective one. and i don't think -- i think that's a constant in american politic, people want the president to believe in america exceptionalism. chris: what do you think that this president is tilting to the world? >> i'm always amazed by people's warmth towards me. at the the same time having a president who grew up in indonesia. this was always going to be a problem for barack obama. and people are weary. george bush used it an anti-american scentment. john kerry had to denyhe fact that he spoke french. you do have this kind of slightly sort of ambivalent attitude. >> what katty is saying is so true. there's no other country in the world that would let anybody move here -- and yet americans are still very skidish. it's so schizophrenic. chris: let

. >> reporter: this has launched this to the top of president obama's already loaded agenda. he has promised more than double the efforts. the president returns from vacation in hawaii on monday and will meet with top security officials first thing tuesday morning. kathryn brown, wjz eyewitness news. >> and general david petraeus is reportedly in yemen tonight, as the u.s. steps up aid to help yemen fight those al qaeda extremists. >>> meanwhile, in iraq, delays in the country's election will not keep american troops from pulling out by the end of august. the general expects to keep about 100,000 troops in iraq during the march 11th elections, then assess whether that country is on stable footing before moving u.s. forces out. >>> a million people gathered in times square this yew near -- new year's eve. and when it lit up, we could say it wouldn't have happened without two maryland women. andrea fujii explains. >> reporter: it's the moment millions of people around the world waited for. the illumination of the year 2010 in times square. >> it's a once in a lifetime experienc

despite his pledge to embrace fiscal responsibility, president obama's domestic agenda has reflected a belief that big government and massive spending are the keys to promoting economic growth. from car company bailouts to cash-for-clunkers, to a wasteful $1.2 billion stimulus bill that failed to stop unemployment from topping 8%, as the administration said it would, federal spending has soared. so has the national debt. president obama said earlier this year that we can't keep on just borrowing from china. and that's true. so why does the president continue to advocate spending pon that we don't have and will have to borrow? whatever happened to his campaign promise of a net spending reduction? government spending grew by $705 billion in fiscal year 2009, an increase of 24% from 2008. and appropriations legislation enacted this year will increase spending by 8% more in 2010. america's 2009 federal deficit, which is the gap between total outlays and total revenue, made history -- and not in a good way. it exceeded $1.4 trillion, which is the highest amount in history and more than th

there are so many first-time voters in this cycle just to stop obama and his agenda. is the united states of america. this is a government for the people, by the people, not to the people. that is the main issue we're losing here. people are unhappy. the news media should do their job instead of trying to push obama's agenda and let everything on republicans. i am just laughing at these democrats that say they're caught off guard. they are not in touch with the people. if they were in touch, they would not be caught off guard. host: i will give you both a final comment. guest: the caller gets to the point that many lawmakers have. this is a wake-up call and they admit that they need to focus on jobs and the economy. i think we will see that especially this week very strongly. guest: completely agree. that is the message that the white house started to send as recently as last week when president barack obama said that he hears the paying. t he pain. host: what are you setting out to cover today? guest: i will look at the house races because there are republicans out t

>> reporter: the botched attack has haunched counterterrorism to the top of president obama's already loaded agenda promised to work with yemen and more than double u.s. efforts to fight extremist groups there. the president returns to vacation in hawaii on monday and will meet with top security officials first thing tuesday morning. kathryn brown, wjz, "eyewitness news." >>> general petraeus is in yemen as they help fight al qaeda. tonight, we have an update on the heartbreaking death of a baltimore city infant. janaya wallace was found dead inside this home december 23rd. the 20-month-old girl was beat ton death and now tonight charging documents show that her father jerome wallace and his live-in girlfriend are charged in the baby's murder. >> in past years we've seen numbers of children lost in the community, but this is the first child homicide that we've had in 2009 since the very, very bad law. >> and a bail review hearing is set for monday. >>> also, new developments in a fatal n. new year's day hit and run accident. charges are pending against thomas judge. the 21-year-old has been identif

agenda. it is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> next week, president obama delivers his first state of the union address to congress laying out his vision for the country and his plan to deal with issues such as unemployment, health care, and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> part of the earthquake relief in haiti includes delivery of food. [unintelligible] hamas >> a lot of the people here do not have anything to eat or houses. and we distribute food. we tried to give things like blankets and clothing. [unintelligible] [unintelligible] >> as relief efforts continue in haiti, the house unanimously approved a bill that will allow charitable contributions to hate to leave by march 1 be deductible on 2009 taxes. this is half an hour. >> all of us have witnessed this horrendous events that in our continent and i know whether republican or democrat that we all want to be able to do whatever we can to ease the pain on these poor people. that is why i am glad that we are representing the republicans on the committee that did not hesitate to meet and decide what

guest: there has been a sense that this is an opportunity to strike a blow against president obama's agendaand scott brown declared he would be the 41st vote in the senate to kill the jerez carol -- health care bill by a filibuster. they are sort of a aroused did they send money. a lot of people have come in from out of state on both sides really, but for republicans, very unusual. people spent the weekend here, came in from nearby states. there was a busload from michigan apparently that came in over the weekend, too. and democrats have sent out a call -- massachusetts generally exports field operatives for democrats on election days -- new hampshire primary, places like that, but it is working in reverse now and they have been called in. host: what about money? you have an estimate, ball park figure on how much money has come into the state from outside sources as well as how much of these candidates have raised and spent? host: many organizations on both sides -- guest: many organizations have lined up to pay for television ads, mainly negative. the estimate was 5 million, it is probably

committee and a 12 step program for defeating the obama agenda. politically, if you were a betting man, how many seats do you think that the gop will pick up or lose in the 2010 congressional election? guest guest the challenge with january as we continue the primary process. there's still a number of important districts around the country where individuals are considering running. we're having folks who are in, you know state legislatures decide together go to congress. there's a lot of moving pieces. it's hard to say exactly but the way the trend is going it bodes well for the republicans in the house and senate as well. retirements and fact that i believe there may be a few more blue dogs that decide to come the republican way because it's going to be hard to go back to their districts and argue for the spend and the growth of government in districts that have no toleration for it. so i'm looking forward to some significant pick-ups. i don't know what thats. i can't put a finger or number on it in january. but i think that the work the,nrc and

. >> and air travel safety will top the agenda when president obama meets with homeland security officials on tuesday. >>> an lens manhunt for a murder suspect in florida has come to an end. u.s. marshals captured him at a motel in the florida keys. paul merhige is accused of shooting and killing four members of his family after thanksgiving dinner. in his first court appearance this morning, he was ordered held without bond while he awaits trial. the dead include merhige's twin sisters, a 79-year-old aunt and his 6-year-old cousin makayla it is ton. with his arrest, makayla's father says he'll be able to rest easier. >> it means i'll be able to sleep a little better tonight, and i won't be patrolling the inside of my house with my shotgun thinking that the monster is right around the corner. i've been in protective mode. and now that he is captured, at least my family, we can even begin the healing process. >> merhige was captured when a viewer of the show "america's most wanted" recognized him and his car. >>> a woman is resting at her parents' how after authorities say he is escaped fro

in news, the christmas terror scare is on president obama's agenda as he heads back to the white house this morning from his vacation in hawaii. we've got nbc's chief white house correspondent, chuck todd, joining us from honolulu. the president is actually facing a number ever big issues this week. >> reporter: he sure is, ann. when he left he delayed his start of his vacation by a day, because he with a trying to get health care through the senate. well now he left a little bit early on his way back to washington. he should get there by lunchtime today. because of all the things on his plate, including that terror agenda, tomorrow he's got the big meeting with his security and intelligence teams. i'm told no heads going to roll. there isn't going to be a single person held accountable for now. though when congress weighs in and has congressional hearings, how certain people do at those congressional hearings. whether it's dennis blair, director of national intelligence, janet napolitano or michael lighter, head of the national terrorism center. how they perform could dictate how long

you see yourself as the person who will put the brakes on the obama agenda? >> i have a great conversation with the president. i was able to share that with you last night. he called right away, which i thank him for. we were talking and i look for to meeting him and working with him. he said, i heard that you are open-minded and you've got an independent guy. i said, mr. president, you have a wonderful family and i've had great respect for your accomplishments. do you want to bring the truck? i did say that. he laughed, and he said, when i came down there i did not want to go against you too hard. >> i know that you play a lot of hoop. we will play 212. and he laughed again. we may not agree on some things but he has a sense of humor. you have to have a sense of humor about politics. thank you. i said earlier in this will be the last question, i am going down tomorrow as a courtesy call. i am sure it will all work out. i have great trust and the secretary, and everyone knows that this is an overwhelming victory and they are looking forward to it. thank you v

rate and that the line below that online, this election dramatically alters the trajectory of obama's agenda. we will hear more from the agenda next wednesday in the state of the union address. we will go to tom joining from milward massachusetts three did you get the last word appropriately enough from massachusetts. what happened today? >> caller: well, what happened today was absolutely of no surprise to anybody here in massachusetts. that last call from new york harbor to thank him because we are sick of being told we arrest to bid and even to let i watched the martha coakley concession speech she was more professional than i have seen her dahlkempe -- >> host: t think -- does she have a political future for an office in massachusetts? >> caller: no, she's done. martha, we will never hear from her again. but i would say that teresa, the state senate president in massachusetts, had the democrats not heard what we saw tonight and she said the bill -- excuse me, this is niki, tsongas, the health care bill is very complex, it went from three committees and plugging we are too stupid to know

and speaker pelosi's agenda and harry reid's agenda and president obama's agenda. the idea of nationalizing proud private sector companies and taking over 1/3 of the private sector profits and doing so in a little more than a year in the united states and then taxing all of our energy and putting the restrictions on america's economy where it ends up the result is to send jobs to yeas and nays are ordered and china. the american people watched that and they thought, surely these people know what they're doing. but the more mistakes they saw and the list of misguided liberal ideas that had been passed out of the house and sent to the senate and some passed out of the senate was stacking up higher and higher and higher, mr. speaker. and the american people in groups incrementally began to realize they knew better than the people who were in charge in congress. and they lost their trust and their faith in the government judgment of the people they elected in this constitutional republic. especially when they saw that there was a determination on the part of the presid

and he's also the author of "right now it will step program for defeating the obama agenda." mr. steele, if we could start politically, if he were a betting man how many seats do you think that the gop will pick up or lose in the 2010 congressional election? >> guest: the challenge with that in january is that as we are beginning this primary process and getting ready for the elections there's still a number of important districts around the country where individuals are considering running for having folks in state legislatures deciding to go to congress so there's a lot of moving pieces so it's hard to say the with the trend is going it clearly abodes well for republicans in the house and the retirements, the fact i believe there may be a few more blogs to decide to come to the republican way. it's been to be hard to come back to the district's and argue for the spending and growth of government in district that have no toleration for it. and so i'm looking forward to some significant pickups. i don't what that is. i can't put a finger or number on it in january. but i think th

it will make it tough for president obama to get the rest of his agenda done. he wants to preserve as many seats as he possibly can. so this is going to be critical. >> thank you for being with us. >> you bet. >>> and let's get an update on the forecast. >> it is cold enough for the earl b. wood middle school to close. they don't have heat. it is closed in rockdale because of that. maybe a snow shower. tomorrow 35 and wednesday perhaps 37. as we look at the forecast, partly to mostly cloudy. northwest winds 10 to 20. sunset at 5:00. not as cold feeling tonight. lows generally in the 20s. windchill will not be as brutal. tuesday highs in the low to mid- 30s. west virginia and ohio trying to move into virginia. a couple of echoes here. we may see a couple of those. we have cloudy skies now. we were seeing a little bit of sunshine. it is 27 in fredericks. windchill of 9 above zero. a little bit warmer feeling down south of fredericksburgy windchill at 5. across arkansas and tennessee there is snow moving into alabama and down in montgomery seeing snow showers. alo

instead of talking about where obama's domestic agenda has brought him, i propose to speak about wherehis foreign policy agenda has brought us. after a year of fairly steady criticism from the right, the obama foreign policy received a second look, a wave of rather considerable consideration after his speech in norway accepting the nobel prize and acknowledged the existence of evil the importance of america and the occasional necessity of waging war. this led to some enthusiastic talk about a new obama doctrine variously described as kind of a christian realism,la borrowian tragic mindedness. i hate to rain on his parade, but i find it hard to join in the general swooning over this newly found foreign policy sophistication. yes, it's good that we have a president who says that gandy would not have done -- gandhi would not have done well against hitler, but is this a philosophical advance for the president of the united states? this is the kind of issue that you dispose of. in your first evening full session in the freshman dorm. pacificism is a serious subject for sweet adolescents or

delegation attended a forum in switzerland to discuss the global implications of the obama administration's legislative agenda on health care, energy, the environment, and financial regulation. this is about an hour. >> welcome, everybody. >> our task is to try to get a global perspective to the legislative agenda and the united states. this is only panel specifically focused on legislative agenda in any one country, so all the talk about change, it is changing. there is still something important about what happens to the united states and congress. when i lived in europe, europeans always used to ask, when do i get to vote in an american in elections? i used to say, that is fine with me. there are a number who might have a word or two to say about that. i do not imagine that will happen anytime soon, but did these you can vote on this panel. the framers would they invented the u.s. government envisioned the united states congress as the first branch of government, the places where all the issues and pressures and the man decided to come together and be resolved. that did not always work as efficiently as the

instead of talking about where obama's domestic agenda has brought him, i propose to speak about where his foreign policy agenda has brought us. they received a second look after his speech in norway in accepting the nobel prize and talked about the existence of evil and the occasional necessity of what. this led to some enthusiastic talk about a new obama doctrine. described as christian realism and a fusion of realism and idealism. i hate to rain on this parade, but i find it hard to join in the general swooning over this newly found foreign policy sophistication. yes, it's good that we have a president who says that gandhi would not have done well against hitler, but is this really a great philosophical advance for a president of the united states? this is the kind of issue that you dispose of. in your first evening pool session in the freshman dorm. pacificism is for sweet adolescence or a way of life for certain eccentric sects who survived because they live among noneccentric sects that fight pacificism and fight to keep those cells free. and yes, obama did offer a defense of war

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senate seat and dealing a blow to the president's agenda. mr. obama has since tried to address rising anger against wall street, proposing limits on the size and scope of the biggest banks. and white house officials today called for a bipartisan task force on cutting the federal deficit, another issue that has been hurting the president. >> there is just this sense of anxiety, of frustration, of anger, the electorate is looking to take it out on somebody. >> last week it appeared the latest target might be federal reserve chairman ben bernanke has been nominated for a second term. senate support appeared to erode over his efforts to rescue the financial system. but senate leaders moved to tamp down the opposition over the weekend. >> i believe that his confirmation will be assured. >> are you on the same page? >> i'm going to vote for him. >> republican leader mitch mcconnell would not foretell his own vote but predicted bernanke will get his second term. >> he is going to have have bipartisan support in the senate and anticipate he would be confirmed

associated press this morning, the obama administration's choice to lead the tsa is withdrawn his nomination because it has become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda. obama tapped barrels othererrol. jindal is worried that he would allow tsa employees to join a labor union. there are holding a hearing on security on the december 22 5 incident. andrew, on the line from florida, independent. hello there. caller: how are you doing this morning? i think he is doing a pretty good job, myself, considering his opposition. this opposition has occurred, it seems like -- i do not know if it is race-based, or if they just hate democrats that much. we allow people to lie and nobody is standing up and saying, hey, these are lies. they keep on lying, and i do not know if republicans are race- based or not. they might just hate poor people. i do not know what this thing is pretty well, i do know, because i know -- i do not know what this thing is. well, i do know. i feel bad for our country right now here it is feels like it is going backwards instead of forward. host: to the republican line, tampa, florida. kirk, what do you think? caller: i was hopeful when he

so instead of talking about where obama's domestic agenda has brought him, i propose to speak about where foreign policy agenda has brought us. after a year of fairly steady criticism from the right, the obama foreign policy received a second look. a wave of rather favorable consideration. after his speech in oslo accepting the nobel prize. in which he acknowledged the existence of evil, the importance of america in sustaining the peace. and the occasional necessity of waging war. this led to some enthusiastic talk about a new obama doctrine. variously described as a kind of christian realism. the tragic mindedness or a fusion of realism and idealism. i hate to rain on this parade. but i find it hard to join in the general swooning over this newly found foreign policy sophistication. yes, it's good that we have a president who says that gandhi would not have done well against hitler. but is this really a great sort of cal advance? -- philosophical advance for a president of the united states. this is the kind of issue that you dispose of. in you're first evening session in the freshman do

instead of talking about were obama's domestic agenda has brought him, i verbose to speak about wheregenda has brought us. after a year of fairly steady criticism from the right, the obama foreign policy receive a second look, a wave of rather favorable consideration after his speech in oslo accepting the nobel peace prize. it is described as a christian realism. or it is a fusion of realism and idealism. i hate to rain on this parade, but i find it hard to join in the general swooning over this newly found foreign policy sophistication. yes, it is good that we have a president who says that condi would not have done well against hitler. it -- that gahndi would have do -- would not have done well. in your first evening in the freshman dorm, pacifism is a serious subject for sweet adolescence or a way of life for certain eccentric sex who survive because they live among non eccentric sects -- for certain eccentric sects. yes, obama did offer a defense of war, but remember he just announced a 30,000 troop deployment surge that was a legacy obligation he inherited. nonetheless, he so ago

chambra of the hudson institute explains the -- quote -- "sheer ambition" of president obama's legislative agenda as the approach of what mr. chambra calls a policy president. he says that the president and most of his advisors have been trained at elite universities, governed by launching a -- quote -- "host of enormous initiatives all at once, formulating comprehensive policies aimed at giving large social systems and indeed society itself more rational and coherent forms of functions." this is governing by taking big bites of several big apples and trying to swallow them all at once. in addition, according to mr. chambra, the most prominent organizational feature of the obama administration is its reliance on czars. more than the romanovs, said one blogger, to manage broad areas of policy. in this view, systemic problems of health care, of energy, of education and of the environment simply can't be solved in pieces. analyzing chambra's article, david broder of "the washington post" wrote this -- "historically, that approach has not worked." the progressives failed to gain more than a brief asc