first a look at the pinocchios.shington post" assigns a certain number of pinocchios to statements from politicians that might be factually challenged. we remember some of the big ones. romney said jeep was shipping american joshs over to jobs over to china and the one from the superpac that seemed to blame bain capital for the death of this workers life. enter, rick santorum. >> euthanasia in the netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized, it's 10%. of all deaths, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily at hospitals so they are older and sick. and so elderly people in the netherlands don't go to hospital. they go to another country because they're afraid because of budget purposes that they will not come out of that hospital. >> don't go trying to track down statistics about involuntary euthanasia in the netherlands. you will find no such facts. now, to harry reid. he made the rounds saying that mitt romney didn't pay taxes for ten years. >> the word is out that he hasn't paid any taxes for ten y

he was awarded the maximum number of pinocchios. also u.n.susan rice has come to a point where circumstances led her to be taken out of the opening for secretary of state. her opening line, quite, my talking points for this evening have been provided to me and fully cleared by the intelligence communitity. what could possibly go wrong. late, quote, day after day, i engage in highly substantive highly technical negotiations with my colleagues here at the u.n., like the russians. as a matter of fact, i can see the russian mission from my house. ♪ deck the halls with bows of holly ♪ ♪ don we now our gay apparel ♪ fa-la-la-la-la la ♪ the ancient carol ♪ >> that's from the same team that allowed us to see call me maybe. that's it for now. up next, your business with j.j. ramberg. begin. tomato, obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could

we all remember the video of pinocchio. >> why, i -- >> monsters? weren't you afraid? >> no, ma'am, but they tied me in a big sack. >> as you know, it was his nose that gave him away with every fib. but tonight new research out of the university of granada, spain, shows walt disney was a science pioneer. look at this. scientists decided to take thermal pictures of someone telling a lie, and you can see it right there, the picture is showing the area around the nose is bright red. it turns out our noses heat up when we stretch the truth, somehow connecting the part of the brain that links heat to emotion. >>> and we have another fresh look at an old idea. our picture tonight, the iconic hollywood sign after its face-lift ready for its close-up. nine letters, each 45 feet tall given a fresh coat of paint, 275 gallons, if you're counting, and the makeover now prepares the sign for its 90th birthday next year. and we really do love hearing what captured your imagination every day. so tweet me your thoughts for "instant index" @dianesawyer. we'll be reading them. >>> and co

he received the theory three pinocchios today. but what sort of reaction have you gotten?we hear the usual suspects try to go after us with the same arguments. two were school shootings that hand in the '90s where teachers or administrators stopped the shooter with a gun. but in both cases, the shooting had already stopped. >> jennifer: i see. with these state laws that are being introduced do you think we can see a divided red/blue country? >> it is certainly possible. i'm not a huge fan of the red/blue paradigm because i think it doesn't look at the complexity of states. >> jennifer: i agree. >> but that said where the gun laws play out at the state level is a very underreported story. there have been a wave of laws passed in the last few years that have made gun restrictions a lot looser. >> jennifer: in michigan for example, there is a huge heritage and respect for hunting, and for democrats especially from urban areas have got to recognize and realize there is a way to have sensible gun safety and respect the second amendment without going whole hog and allowing full

a good example of that, in the post, by the writer that talks about pinocchio, it has developed into almost a legend but it was a one-to-one promise that reagan himself misunderstood. they pretty much got the one-to-one. host: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: for politicians, assigning blame is part of what they do, that is part of their job description. the need to explain to their constituents why they are supporting some things and not others. if you read most of the people that write about these spending programs and where we're headed in the federal budget, we did not assign blame. we're looking at the long term. over the long term, the only thing to blame would be our correct citizenry and politicians, if we can get our act together to do something about it. host: david is on the democrat's line. pennsylvania. good morning. caller: this is 1981 all over again when ronald reagan took office. the national debt was $800 billion. they gave us tax cuts, tax reform. reagan tripled in defense and the national d

we could do it pinocchio test. is that true or false? >> completely false.hey want to keeall the race the same. now lower than for anybody. and maintaining the status quo on rates. the deductns are actually targeted for upper-ince people. the dmocrats, the white house, some left wing groups that on behalff the white house imagined how they would design the republican plan and then they attack it. dishonest during the ampaign, and the president is still running a political capaign. he's been all of last year campaigning for president instead of being resident. he is still campaigning. at some point he has to sit down and decide to be president before he leads. gerri: i want you to respond to something treasury secretary tim geithner had to say about these negotiations. whatever it is rare in the middle of. >> youave for the for the first time in two decades now acknowledging thathey're willing to have revenues grew up as part of the plan. that is a good first up, but they have to tell us what they're willing to do on rates and revenues gerri: even geithner ad

if it doesn't grow like pinocchios, a study says the temperature around your nose and inner corner of your eyes actually gets warmer when you tell a lie. you may not have any heat detection devices in your aircrafts but people do have ways of knowing when you're lying are don't this, lesli? >> they do. i'm struggling to fine the value in this science. you -- find the value in this science. you lied to me and i have to touch your nose? i guess for me, i can tell if they don't look me in the eye, two, if they're blinking a lot and three, if they're kind of moving their mouth. >> i don't intend to touch anybody's nose. i go with what i think. >> i will not say which child, but one of my children, his, okay that, narrows it down to two and three, his ears turn bright red when he lies and he has gotten caught many a time by the ears. >> for some reason that just didn't work for my mom. i don't know why exactly that didn't work out. >>> here's one that's important. love apparently like egg salad has a short shelf life according to the new york times op ed piece. researchers actually studied

. >> that, of course, gets four pinocchios from the washington post. political pali "politics nation" gave it a pants on fire. let's hope we can play the game inside the lines from now on. we can all have our different opinions, but we can't have different facts. the truth is the truth. is the truth. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball starts" right now . >> severely conservative. let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews down in washington. did you get the impression during the presidential campaign that the press was trying too hard to be even handed? did you think the people delivering the news were pushing what we call ambulanbalance at x expense of the obvious facts? the democrats in this election were like democrats going back to jack kennedy. but the republicans were far to the right as anything we've ever seen from that party, ever. self deportation, treat women like they belong in binders, ignore the rights of gay people, crack down on abortion rights, even in cases of rape. all the lingo in the gop platform approv

in all these instances i cried pinocchio. it just isn't right. and i'm not saying i advocate higher taxes because whether it's the 2% or the 98, i don't think it benefits. but they are playing fast and loose with numbers and they know better. >> but that may be why the president is willing to deal with that $400,000 year figure we have floated, because 250,000 back in '93 when clinton raised rates is about $400,000. today it's almost a perfect historical backtrack to the clinton era. >> no, you're exactly right. i think whether it's 375, it's close enough. >> close enough. >> for argumentative purposes. i'm with ya. i guess the sad part is that we have all these ivy league elite economists that are just everywhere in d.c. and yet not a whisper to the fact that we just discussed. they know, they just don't care to tell us. do they really think we're that stupid? >> no, it's just that ivy league schools are very expensive, you know, liberal cities. >> come on, what do you expect out of d.c.? they're going to tell us what we want to hear, not actual

a good example of that, in the post, by the writer that talks about pinocchio, it has developed into almost a legend but it was a one-to-one promise that reagan himself misunderstood. they pretty much got the one-to- one. host: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: for politicians, assigning blame is part of what they do, that is part of their job description. the need to explain to their constituents why they are supporting some things and not others. if you read most of the people that write about these spending programs and where we're headed in the federal budget, we did not assign blame. we're looking at the long term. over the long term, the only thing to blame would be our correct citizenry and politicians, if we can get our act together to do something about it. host: david is on the democrat's line. pennsylvania. good morning. caller: this is 1981 all over again when ronald reagan took office. the national debt was $800 billion. they gave us tax cuts, tax reform. reagan tripled in defense and the national

a good example of that in the post by the writer that talks about pinocchio.t has developed into almost a legend but it was a 121 promise that reagan himself misunderstood. they pretty much got the one-to- one. host: why is assigning blame more important than getting a resolution? that from rick on the twitter page. guest: 4 politicians, assigning blame is part of what they do, that is part of their job description. the need to explain to their constituents why they are supporting some things and not others. if you read most of the people that write about these spending programs and where we're headed in the federal budget, we did not assign blame. we're looking at the long term. over the long term, the only thing to blame would be our correct citizenry and politicians, if we can get our act together to do something about it. host: david is on the democrat's line. pennsylvania. good morning. caller: this is 1981 all over again when ronald reagan took office. the national debt was $800 billion. they gave us tax cuts, tax reform. reagan tripled in defense and th