i've got to say -- >> in ohio. >> in ohio. in ohio. the swing state of ohio. i do -- i've served with this guy, i've known him for 15 years, i don't get it. >> well, i think there's a couple of things to keep in mind. that we have seen this now how many times in this primary process where somebody enjoys this kind of momentum and this kind of surge. and we still haven't started voting. so i think that's one thing to keep in mind. to endorse gingri. >> if you could do that, we'd all appreciate it. >> i think this is the age of volatility perfectly illustrated where the populist mood leads to great swings in sentiment. i don't think this means gingrich is going to be the nominee much less the president. we'll see a great deal of volatility before the day of reckoning. and i also, think, he doesn't have the organization to go the distance and he's got a huge mountain to climb to beat romney's sophisticated bain capital type organization. and like all of the sort of bubbles in candidate after candidate, it will burst in due course. >> the other point worth making

i've got to say -- >> in ohio. >> in ohio. in ohio. the swing state of ohio. do -- i've served with this guy, i've known him for 15 years, i don't get it. >> well, i think there's a couple of things to keep in mind. that we have seen this now how many times in this primary process where somebody enjoys this kind of momentum and this kind of surge. and we still haven't started voting. so i think that's one thing to keep in mind. the second thing is, david axelrod said it this week, the republican voters are looking to put the snarl on barack obama. and newt gingrich seems to have found a pretty good way to do that in these debates. he's not using paid advertisement to do it. he's doing it, talking to reporters on the fly and he's doing it at these debates. i think those things have mattered. and you see a consolidation of the anti-romney vote. herman cain gets out, that support looks like it's gone to gingrich. voters are looking and saying, look, there's romney, there's everybody else, but that everybody else is represented best by gingrich as somebody who can

not only is he down to 38% approval in ohio, last month ohio voted by a 22-point margin to overturn johnon rights in ohio. that got recalled by 22 points, a landslide against john kasich and the highway republicans. all of which must be weighing heavily on governor kasich as the 2012 race heats s p up sinc ohio is expected to be as hotly contested a swing state as it ever is. governor kasich and the republicans had a plan for that, too, pass a law to severely l curtail early voting in ohio to make it harder and less convenient to vote in the state of ohio. that, of course, political common wisdom says hurts democrats and helps republicans. now ohio voters have done it again. they are going after kasich's kill early voting law as well. ohio secretary of state confirming today that the more than 300,000 valid signatures submitted to recall john be kasich's republican killing early voting law in ohio are sufficient to put that issue on the ballot for recall in november. that means the law is on hold until it can be voted on, which means early voting is saved in highway for the presidential

for example yeah exactly at ohio was a good one because there were a lot of competing ads out there in ohio though the pro union folks were the ones who ended up spending quite a bit more and so maybe the ads worked in their favor. isn't all that money that we know of because the unions say we do know it doesn't have to report it so it may well be that actually the the republican forces spent more than the democrat we just don't know yet i think it's going to be a fascinating test of outside money dark money funding ads versus manpower you know can the unions can a democratic party can just angry wisconsinites muster enough energy to get out the vote enough to beat out what's going to be incredibly well funded recall the focus and in a way it's going to be better to the two thousand and twelve election it's going to it's going to set the tone in that state and around the midwest and and be a hell of a testing ground lieutenant governor kleefisch is also being recalled and has to be recalled separately they have signed separate ballot so what's the situation there that efforts laggin

difference that reporters put up there was that that effort began right after governor case it can ohio passed his anti worker anti-union bill and wisconsin they had this huge gap in this effort started november fifteenth walker passed his bill this spring yet they kept that energy alive throughout the summer into the fall into the winter and here we are now i understand scott walker actually has he's confiding to people that he's not all this concerned about it because of a loophole in the wisconsin law that you know there's going to be all this energy around getting the signatures and all these people in the streets getting out the you know to to get to to pull him out of office and they'll be the recall you know election date set and then he's got a magic trick he's going to play this is sort of the smoking gun in the whole recall effort which is that by some weird bizarre quirk in wisconsin law the limits on individuals giving to the governor for the recall his recall the guys ten thousand nine thousand dollars per person is thrown out the window so essentially he can go to david ko

request and asked to see all the e-mails that were sent regarding the redistricting in ohio and what they found you know in these hundreds of e-mails is that a lot of people were involved in the redistricting that you wouldn't think for instance representatives from team boehner an organization that's involved in advancing the goals of house republicans across the nation are e-mailing back and forth with ohio's redistricting consultants asking for particular favors at the eleventh hour and chatting with each other about you know how to make a map that speaker boehner approves of now obviously this is not really speaker boehner is job to approve of ohio's redistricting map and so that there's been a big uproar especially from democrats in ohio about this but also it's just a great example of the kind of backroom political deals that go on under the cover of a fair and equal redistricting is the sort of stuff eluding. so that's a really interesting question back in one thousand nine hundred six the supreme court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional but they set such a

the gentleman from ohio. the gentleman from ohio has 14 1/4. the gentleman from california has 4 minutes. and the gentlelady from florida has 2 1/2. mr. kucinich: i yiled myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. dr. robert pate from harvard's journal of international security has been quoted as saying the following. sanctions have failed to achieve their objectives in 95.7% of cases since world war i and sanctions are more than three times more likely to end in military conflict than success. so what we have here is that sanctions inevitably equal a failure of diplomacy and war becomes a failure of sanctions. so we must ask ourselves while we stand here for nonproliferation, something that i agree with, how do we stop the nonproliferation of war? particularly, how do we forestall any possibility of a nuclear war? now lawrence korb was the assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration and serves now as a senior fellow at the center for american progress. last month, he submitted an ar

and what's happening in ohio and what happened in ohio a few weeks is go is making some of that happen but there's just got to be more { pushback from the american people. it's starting to happen, but it's just not quite penetrating washington, d.c. yet. >> here's the hypocrisy. all of a sudden we've seen a new republican party. they are suddenly so concerned about making sure tax cuts are paid for. they didn't think that when the bush tax cuts were going through. they didn't want to offset them. what about it? >> well, you're exactly right. there's a little bit of a double standard here. two wars on the credit card. you see the bush tax cuts not paid for, draining the treasury. a prescription drug plan that went with nobody -- no republican in washington, d.c. asking how exactly are you going to pay for this, and now all of a sudden we're looking to make investments into education and transportation and everybody -- or a tax cut for the middle class that's going to save people about $1,000 per family in ohio and all of a sudden, you know, they're looking to pay for things. >> would yo

that's why prominent bankers in this country and many, many, many in ohio are supporting rich cordray and want to get this agency empowered and want to get this agency and the director in place so the agency can do its full panoply of responsibility. and instead right now the agency regulates traditional banks but not nonbank lenders where many of the problems come from this whole meltdown in our economy. the minority's own witness in the subcommittee i chair in financial institutions consumer protections said as much on august 3rd. i hope my colleagues will set aside their fears, their anger, their dislike of this consumer agency and do their jobs, and their job is to confirm someone who's qualified to head up this agency that was created under the law and is the law in this country. consumers need these protections, the banking industry needs this kind of fair, fair-minded kind of comprehensive way of doing it job. rich cordray's distinguished career as a supreme court clerk for two supreme court justices, attorney, ohio's solicitor general, ohio attorney general, state legislator s

bill: do you think ohio in, ohio my sense that is it is 50/50 state. it could go either way.hat way? >> sure. yeah, ohio is very closely different i had divided between republicans and democrats. it tends to be more conservative than it is liberal. and, you know, but predicting 12, that's a year, almost a year, less than a year away. who knows. i mean i don't know who the republican nominee's going to be. bill: who do you think runs the best against president obama at the moment? >> not going there. let it play out. i don't have a lot, bill, believe it or not i don't have a lot of time to be thinking about national politics and i don't. i have got too much to do out here. as things get better out here that's what i care about. i've been in politics a long time, and you know, like watching soap operas in some ways all this political stuff. at the end of the day when we have a nominee, you know, i will get behind them and do what i can but i'm most concerned about keeping our legislature conservative and republican and continuing to fix ohio because here's what i believe, bill.

valley ohio. it was the only time in american history when the issue of collective bargaining was on a state ballot for a statewide vote and voters voted more than three 50's, 61% to 39% to preserve collective bargaining rights. again, collective bargaining not just for themselves in terms of wages and benefits but collective bargaining, police officers, safety vests for firefighters, right kind of safety equipment. for teachers organizing bargaining collectively at the negotiating table for class size. way more than about them. that's why the voters of ohio such a resounding numbers voted to preserve collective bargaining and what it meant to public employees and what it meant to our way of life for those who are not public employees. we must continue to fight. that's the state level. the federal level we must continue to fight to ensure that these brave public servants have the resources necessary to safely perform their jobs. that's because so many give the ultimate sacrifice. the last ten year

rain that continues along the ohio river, up into ohio. light rain once again. that's going to be in the memphis area and nashville eventually today. we were expecting a few thunderstorms yesterday in texas. we did but we didn't have too much severe weather. just light rain. dallas/ft. worth, you look okay but cool with a slight chance of showers. the only areas that are cold right now, below freezing, is out here in the northern rockies and central rockies. everyone's above freezing in the east. it's an amazingly warm weather pattern. temperature as far north as boston today, 52. only cool air, northern plains. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. today in ohio, mostly just areas of light rain. could be a heavier downpour. temperatures are very warm. raleigh, north carolina, heading up almost 70 degrees today. boston at 52. minneapolis, a little cooler today than yesterday. and this rain will be out shortly looks like a dry weekend for a lot of us. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> everything falls on wall street except for fear. your early morning

, but it's ohio, ohio, ohio.he doesn't win ohio, he's -- it doesn't matter if he wins iowa. it's about changing what the election is about for obama to win. he has to make it, it's about the republicans who have made it impossible for us to address the economy and jobs and they stood in the way. if he can't do that, if it's a ref den rum on him, it's difficult imagining him win win ohio. >> in ohio a huge year for republicans in 2010, one in senate, five house seats. back to 246, the south, this is the one most fascinating, louisiana native. we're not going to talk about louisiana. >> that's not -- >> that would be farfetched. north carolina and virginia. now, virginia, no democrat won since johnson in '64 before obama. no democrat since carter in '76. can he do it again? he wins those two, he's got 28 more. and he's over 270. >> i think virginia's the one that's just right, right teetering on the edge. my hunch is, if the president can carry north carolina, he won't need it because he would probably have gotten

so we went to darke county, ohio right near greenville, ohio. the county has a population of something like 13,000. and we set up to see what would happen. by the time the investigation was over, we learned that even in this little town in ohio this was a problem. >> put your hands in the air! >> turn around. turn around. >> i'm going to read you your rights. if you have any questions -- >> you have the right to remain silent. anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. >> take a seat. watch your head, okay? watch your head. >> in this case, as in the previous investigations, we worked with the computer watchdog group perverted justice. its decoys go into chat rooms posing as 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old kids home alone, open to the idea of a sexual liaison, but they go into chat rooms and they just wait. and they never make the first contact, and sometimes in a matter of minutes a man is approaching them online. the online chat becomes sexual, and the next thing you know a meeting is set. >> come on in, man. i just whacked m

unless you're ohio state.ll team given a one-year bowl ban for violations incurred when players traded memorabilia for cash at an ohio tattoo parlor. it occurred between 2008 and 2010. the coach at the time, jim tressel, slapped with an penalty, making it unlikely he'll coach in college for the next five years. bo marshall and florida international in st. petersburg. final minute, avoids the sack and finds the stealing touchdown. >>> hockey in new jersey, devils and rangers don't really like each other. a bit of a skirmish on opening face-off and three seconds in, we've got a fight. 40 minutes of penalties handed out in the game's first two minutes of play. eventually they focus on hockey and the rangers beat up the devils on the ice. carl hagelin with the goal. >>> nba, last year's mvp handsomely rewarded. derrick rose getting a five-year contract extension worth nearly $95 million. bulls hosting the pacers. second quarter, rose on the run, pretty reverse layup. bulls win by eight, opening the season christma

today in ohio, the senate voted wisconsin style to strip union rights. the measure passed 17-16 even though six republicans jumped ship and voted with democrats to protect the unions n ohio, cracks couldn't block up quor yum. they said over to the assembly now where republicans will probably pass tlit, too. that said, the protests in the streets in ohio and the wild unpopularity of what republicans are doing and the republican defections on this do not make passage a sure thing. if it does pass, democrats say they will get it repealed by a public vote this november. this is ohio governor john kasich, a remember freshman governor just elected in november. after governor kasich signed sb-. signatures were collected for a citizens repeal. they delivered box after box after box of petitions. today the ohio secretary of state that said 900,000 of the signatures are valid. that is four time the amount needed. this means that there will be a referendum. the vote happens in november. in ohio, the most high profile race in the country, the bid to recall the union

cordray served as ohio's attorney general. a very important scrob in a very, very heavily populated state. while there, he recovered billions of dollars from pension funds on behalf of retirees, investors and others, and he took action against fraudulent foreclosures and predatory lending. he is qualified. he is a man of diligence. senate republicans know that he's qualified. they are blocking his nomination, not allowing a vote because they don't like the federal agency he would lead, an agency that has been established by law. this is the first time in senate history a party has blocked a qualified candidate solely because they disagree with the existence of the agency that's being created by law. republicans are doing this to undermine the system of law we have in our country. democrats fought to pass rawlt reform last year to protect against the greed of big banks. without a director, the consumer financial protection bureau doesn't have the tools it needs to get the job done, and it's shocking that despite the economic cr

. >>> ohio live pictures of the cuyahoga falls a fire is going on. reports are saying that this is one of the largest fires some reporters on the scene have seen through the course of the careers. aid business fire and -- it's a business fire and label manufacturer. the report is that five agencies are on the scene, a five alarm fire. flames reported as high as 100 feet in the air. this is something that's near akron cuyahoga falls. no injuries reported. again, this is is a manufacturing plant and known as techni coat. several reporters are on the scene saying it's the largest fire they have seen in the course of their careers. five fire departments on hand. the live shots out of ohio. we will continue to monitor this. >>> live pictures of the u.s. capitol. we are standing by for a potential government shut down. we were here lawmakers and staffers scrambling to find a compromise yet again. this one, though, could get us to october and then a pretty good chance they will do it all over again. corinne redman has been tracking the story letting you kno

it said it was in cleveland, ohio. i didn't know where cleveland, ohio, was.put it in map quest. cleveland, ohio. >> i didn't know whether to laugh or cry. because, that's exactly how i felt at the time. >> oh, it's a little far from san diego. i can make it work, no problem. >> without a clear plan, jones bought the house, sight unseen. making a down payment with money from his fledgling leg lamp business. with the intention of restoring the house to the way it looked in the movie, inside and out, jones needed money. >> i started kind of the christmas story convention as a fund-raiser to try and generate some money to renovate the house. and once the house opened, just kind of, we hadded grand opening. like this has been a lot of fun, let's continue it. >> now every year at a fancy hotel in cleveland, the christmas story convention kicks off the holiday season. bringing diehard fans of the movie out to meet the actors. diehard fans of the movie out to meet the actors. >> randy parker. >> tour the house, and pose with the leg lamp. for jones it was a no-braine

there's that rain in ohio, we have to watch this system. it may creep back in and hit us with a chance of showers on the west side. we aim for a high of 52. >>> 4:41. here angela with traffic. >> early morning look at some major routes heading towards the beltway, first, a report of an incident in white hall, old york road near 23. we'll update that in the next report. in the meantime, if you're heading northbound on i-95 from columbia you're looking pretty good in the northbound lanes all the way to 695. another live look at the beltway in the harrisburg expressway north and southbound lanes on i-83 all clear from the pennsylvania state line to 695. and for those heading to the west side of the beltway no travel problems on southbound 795 and also clear eastbound on i-70. back to you. >>> a new report shows mothers who maintain their jobs while their children remain young are happier than stay at home moms. a study labeled part time work over full time, the well being of the moms that worked part time over full time didn't change. the pass

there's an attack on workers' rights in the midwest like there was in ohio we can actually focus and organize workers to use these tools to rapid really respond to show up in organized and state capitals in columbus ohio or madison wisconsin is it isn't going more for was doing the election committee what are your plans for twenty twelve are you going to be back so i don't i don't know yet but i'm still i'm still obviously active engagement for a number of u.s. senators a lot of us governors. and right now my goal for two thousand and twelve is to build up all of the base coalitions on the left so the environmental communities in the. community the. labor communities the african-american communities the latino communities and make sure that they have member to member base communication so that alternately it's not necessarily just about the election it's about how you govern after the election how do you win things on the local level well it's obviously a fact that the lootings in london this summer we're organized through twitter and facebook so so these services can sort of the evi

between wisconsin and ohio.t folks are giving ohio a second look is precisely because john kasic expected policemo4úsú!vóqçoÑ3 t and firefighters which cuts very close to home. there's a belief in what they q1"jjut jobs and that basically kasich was trying to curb their rights with everyone else's was a real touch point for the movement. >> and they are public unions. >> that's something scott walker didn't do in wisconsin. he picked one set of unions to go after and exempted others but what ended up happening was a backlash where all unions came out and pushed against him. i think one of things that we also must keep in mind is that they are going after collective bargaining but they were also taking away benefits that were already promised or given. when you heard the debate about what was happening. i remember mike barnicle said on "morning joe", back then, let's take a step back. remember these aren't people who stole anything fs this was what was promised to them. we have to keep that in mind when we talk a

all kinds of people in ohio. this is the first time in american history -- i asked the senate a story, this question, rachel. it's the first time in american history that a nominee has been blocked by a political party because they don't like the agency. it has nothing to do with rich cordray, it has everything to do with they don't think there should be a strong consumer protection agency with teeth because they know a lot of the gaming, whether it's credit cards or whether it's the volcker rule or whether it's a whole host of other things, the gaming of the system will stop with the strong consumer protection voice with real teeth and real authority in that office can operate. >> do you think there's prospect of that budging? the president putting pressure on it in a big high-profile speech seems to me there might be room for movement. >> one republican supporting him. i'm hopeful we'll get seven or eight tomorrow. the vote will be tomorrow or thursday. we'll be battling for him. it's amazing to me, after going

unless you're ohio state. the school's football team gwynn a one-year bowl ban for violations incurred when players traded memorabilia for cash at an ohio tattoo parlor. it occurred between 2008 and 2010. the coach at the time, jim trestle, slapped with an penalty, making it unlikely he'll coach in college for the next five years. bo marshall and florida international in st. petersburg. final minute, avoids the sack and finds the maim-stealing touchdown. >>> hockey in new jersey, devils and rangers don't really like each other. a bit of a skirmish on opening face-off and three seconds in, we've got a fight. 40 minutes of penalties handed out in the game's first two minutes of play. eventually they focus on hockey and the rangers beat up the devil on the ice. carl hag lund with a goal. >>> nba, last year's mvp handsomely rewarded. derrick rose getting a five-year contract extension worth nearly $95 million. bulls hosting the patriots. second quarter, rose on the run, pretty reverse layup. bulls win by eight, op

playing football in the rain in northern ohio, but that is slowly moving in this direction.n the warm side of the approaching system. 58 pittsburgh. in the upper 40's around 50 hear all the way up to boston. until the brunt can pass us, probably not until tuesday night, temperatures will be above normal. this is like you would expect for an afternoon high. wins allied out of the south. high pressure shifting of the coast and the flow around it coming out of the south. the sprint will slowly creep across the mountains and the baltimore. areas of low pressure will develop along it. some of the cooler air in the upper midwest will try to push our way. there is an area of low pressure all around that, there is the potential in some parts of the mid atlantic four air raids flashed snow mixed on friday. -- for a ran/snow mix on friday. not much going on as far as precipitation, but tomorrow night the better chance for rain. this will start to press for baltimore on tuesday. wednesday, a little rain in the morning and mostly cloudy afternoon. we could even see a little after noon s

unless you're ohio state. the school's football team given a one-year bowl ban for violations incurred when players traded memorabilia for cash at an ohio tattoo parlor. it occurred between 2008 and 2010. the coach at the time, jim trestle, slapped with an penalty, making it unlikely he'll coach in college for the next five years. >>> beef o'brady bowl. bo marshall and florida international in st. petersburg. game-stealing touchdown. they win 20-10. >>> hockey in new jersey, devils and rangers don't really like each other. a bit of a skirmish on opening face-off and three seconds in, we've got a fight. 40 minutes of penalties handed out in the game's first two minutes of play. eventually they focus on hockey and the rangers beat up the devil on the ice. carl hagelin with a goal. rangers take down their foes, 4-1. >>> nba, last year's mvp handsomely rewarded. derrick rose getting a five-year contract extension worth nearly $95 million. bulls hosting the patriots. second quarter, rose on the run, pretty reverse

so they look at ohio as a tough sled. a lot of people look at north carolina and say, how is he going to win that again? they claim they feel as good about north carolina as they do about ohio. gwen: can the obama folks outpopulous the populists in the republican party? >> they're sure going to try. the president gave his big stage in kansas last week and sort of set this message. and the obama people are very sense active to the subject of saying this is the first populist speech he's ever given. they pointed out and transcripts, he's given them back to 2005 when he was in the u.s. senate. so we're going to have a big competition between who can be the most populist. gwen: and some is happening on capitol hill. another stare them down standoff on capitol hill. will the payroll tax holiday be extended? will the congress force the president to approve a canada to texas oil pipeline and will the government shut down? the last answer is not yet. the other two are up in the air. where does all the brinksmanship stand tonight,

john boehner has served the people of the eighth district in ohio since 1990. numerous positions over the years. he became the speaker of the house. ladies and gentlemen, the honorable john boehner. >> let me just say thank you. i want to thank all of my colleagues who have been here today and you who have come out this evening to help celebrate the lighting of the capitol christmas tree. it makes a worthy addition to this great capital tradition of hours. the winter is upon us. the christmas tree flourishes as a symbol of everlasting life. that life and light is christ, whose birth foothold a prophecy of joy and celebration. out in the field, and shepherds and angels broke the silence. peace and goodwill towards men. we best serve this story by serving one another. it is more blessed to give than receive. especially when so many of our fellow citizens are without jobs and in need. christmas is not a distant historical event. i always bring it up closer to the story. on behalf of our family, i want to wish all of you a very merry christmas. [applause] now we ar

she's brought home to ohio more federal dollars than any other state lawmaker.did you bring to the table that she doesn't have there? >> first of all the seat doesn't belong to me, it belongs to the people. and my approach is always to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people and the cleveland area, i've been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. people know me as a person that gets involved, everyone else that stands on the sideline that says it can't be done, i get involved in big picture items, helping save a steel milk but people need help, social security, medicare, my office helps people, in some cases, save their lives. so my -- i'm a ka-do person. i'm used to being in tough situations. and it's been the story of my life. landing on my feet. so i'm -- i know that this is a competitive race. >> you know, tonally how is this going to work? he was asked what's the difference between you and congressman kucinich be and she says she's operational effective, implication you don't get things done, you have a point