obama about senator reid's remarks. take a look. >> harry reid is a friend of mine.e's been a stalwart champion of voting rights, civil rights. he's spending a lot of his political capital in the middle of an election to provide health care to every american, and that's going to have a great impact on african-americans and latinos around the country. this is a good man who has always been on the right side of history. for him to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me and for people to try to may hay out of that makes absolutely no sense. >> roland martin interviewed president obama today. you've seen a little of that interview. you'll hear more of what the president said only to roland martin coming up in just about 60 seconds. 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping's easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. no. come on. how about... a handshake. alright. (announcer)

i think harry reid is a great man. comment obviously is not appropriate, but it certainly is accurate, we know that, speaking a certain way, would have kept president obama from being elected and we have to ask ourselves, are we really judging this person by the content of his character and his capabilities, or are we judging him on superficial trades? we know what harry reid said is true, as a country, what are we going to do with that information. black history month is coming up, maybe it's a good opportunity to explore that. >> the president has released a statement tonight saying he wants to close a book on this. do you think the president should do more, should there be another national conversation on race? >> yes, i think we need to have that conversation, whether the president wants to do it or not, we have to understand, the president probably doesn't w5an to have that conversation, he can't have that conversation. dr. king would have that conversation. i think it's up to us as the american people, i think it

obama about senator reid's remarks. take a look. >> harry reid is a friend of mine. he's been a stalwart champion of voting rights, civil rights. he's spending a lot of his political capital in the middle of an election to provide health care to every american, and that's going to have a great impact on african-americans and latinos around the country. this is a good man who has always been on the right side of history. for him to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me and for people to try to may hay out of that makes absolutely no sense. >> roland martin interviewed president obama today. you've seen a little of that interview. you'll hear more of what the president said only to roland martin coming up in just about 60 seconds. >>> roland martin spoke one on one with president obama about harry reid's comments. here's here to talk to us about that. we played a clip from your interview with president obama a second ago. listen a little bit more about what he had to say about senator reid's remarks. listen. >> he's apologized recognizing he didn't us

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so harry reid -- senator harry reid, frankly, is going to try to weather the storm, which is why youaw him reiterate his issues in terms of cutting it out on the las vegas strip. he knows come monday, this is still going to be out there. so it's not just going to simply die away because the president simply said, i accept his apology. >> roland martin, i know you have a flight to catch. we'll let you go. thanks again for joining us. >> randi, appreciate it. >>> buckling down to fight the yemen threat. the head of u.s. central command is talking about long-term commitment to battle al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >>> a slice of paradise or a dangerous piece of propaganda? how the taliban are allegedly using pictures like these to lure children into the battle. i switched to a complete multivitamin with more. only one a day men's 50+ advantage... has gingko for memp$y and concentration. plus support for heart health. ( crowd roars ) that's a great call. one a day men's. announcer: there's an easier way. create your own business site with intuit websites. just choose a style, then cu

harry reid called me and apologized. i accepted his apology without question because i've known him for years. goes on to say i have seen the passionate leadership he's shown on issues of social justice and i know what's in his heart. as far as i'm concerned, the book is closed. why is it so important here to close this book, april? >> the issue of race in this country, no matter what side of the circle or square you stand in it a very hypersensitive issue. and it is something that cannot be just dealt with in a matter of a statement or just hashing out in a couple of hours after it is found you said something in a book. and this administration knows there is a very fine line. when this president was running, he was running as a man who happened to be black. and he gained the oval office. and just recently i sat down with the president in december and we had a very long, discussion about race where he was embracing race, using words like us and we. he realizes and understands he's an african-american, but this is not wha

one of the reasons that florida state won that game was the play of ryan reid. he went to atlanta and posted a career-best 17. really tough guy. >> larry: the only senior on this florida state squad. >> bob: dulkys rips it out of there. >> larry: great effort by dulkys

if he should resign, then harry reid should.ze and you know what is in their heart, my feeling is they shouldn't but in this case he should. >> chris: i should point out, senator reed, you're different reed, you're jack reed. if it was fair for lot lot lot to resign, then harry reid should step down? >> there was huge pressure from president bush for trent lott to step down. the comments was an apparent, maybe inadvertent commendation of senator thurmond activities in the '50s and '60s where he was a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation. that's a totally different context. harry reid made a misstatement. he owned up to it and apologized. i think he is mortified by the. stay he's made. i don't think he should step down. i think he is a valuable member of the senate and someone who will continue to lead. >> chris: all right. let's go back to the reason we invited you here, which is national security. let's go through the main reforms that the president imposed this week and is planning to implement. prioritize threat, beef

reid made about him. reid's private comments came when obama was still a presidential candidate. reid reportedly said, obama could win the 2008 election thanks in part to his, quote, light-skinned appearance. reid went on to say obama didn't speak with a, quote, negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. the comments were reported in the atlantic as part of an excerpt by two journalists. in a statement to our network cnn, senator reid says he deeply regrets using such a poor choice of words and he sincerely apologizes to all americans, especially african-americans. after talking with reid today, the president says, as far as he's concerned, the book is closed. >>> just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the eastern u.s. atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pip

they're not going to put any distance between themselves and harry reid. >> there are talks that reid tried to squash that he might not go through the election in november. >> he's in the race. what else is he going to do? he's not going to go back to search light. the only hope he has is that the dysfunctional corrupt republican party in nevada, they have more people under indictment or under -- it's probably the worst state in the union to make the case against harry reid. as unpopular as he is. that's his only hope. >> this is the democrats' great benefit. every time that the democratic party is in trouble, the republicans come the their aid. this week was for the republicans. michael steele comes in and talk about disarray. he's going rogue. >> can i just point out, i think one of the things that makes the american people frustrated, time and time again, liberals excuse racism from other liberals. the comments were outrageo. the notion that they're being excused. >> he thought it was off the record. >> i don't think it's okay if you say it in private or public. the excuse by liber

i want to talk to you first about this thing with harry reid. a book does not make clear where he actually said this, where he made this statement that because he has light skin, barack obama has a good chance of being elected and because he doesn't have a negro accent. who did he say that to? >> we confirmed this morning that he said that to one of the authors. what he was trying to do, he was talking to one of the authors, you know, for this book. what he was trying to do was to explain his early support for barack obama, how no one knew he had come out early for barack obama. so he actually said this during an interview for this book. now that, of course, got his advisors totally off guard. this leaked out late friday night about midnight. he spent all day yesterday, it was confirmed this morning, he made 35 different phone calls mainly to african-americans leaders trying to apologize and get himself out of this mess. >> schieffer: he did apologize to the president. that was accepted. >> that's right. i mean the president said, you know, let'

reid: mr. presimr.eid: an te quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: what is the pending business? the presiding officer: the conrad amendment number 3302. mr. reid: i ask that amendment be set aside and i call up an amendment that i have at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. without objection. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 3305 to amendment numbered 3299. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask further reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i now ask we proceed to a period of monk business, senators allowed to speak for a period up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask cob sent the judiciary committee be discharged from consideration of s. res. 381. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 381, designating the week of february 1 through february 5, 2010, as

>> this is terribly embarrassing for harry reid.early, he did come out this morning and acknowledge saying those words and try to clean it up. this is not necessarily been a good day. a new poll in nevada shows that he is in deep trouble of winning re-election. this is the third or fourth consecutive poll that shows harry reid, if he were running today, would lose re-election. now, he has to deal with these comments. i will tell you what i expect, fred. i think he will do a lot of contrition. he will say that he is sorry. you will probably see black leaders across the country come out, accept that apology and then try to move on i don't think this is a fatal thing for harry reid. it is very troublesome. >> andy, how do you see it? >> well, the one thing i think this doesn't affect oddly is his relationship for the president. he has moved mountains for barack obama in terms of advancing his legislative agenda. did just about everything he could to get the 60th vote on health care. there, he will be fine. mark is right. it is this ele

reid was nine points and five rebounds. singleton with a nice move here.couple of steals and that was a big basket, driving the ball mid court. kitchen with four points in the first half, i thought he played a good all-around game for florida state. any time we talk about virginia tech, we've got to talk about malcolm delaney. he had 11 in the first half. he made a couple of three's, but i think it was his leadership that got them back in the game. >> bob: let's take a look at the first-half numbers, virginia tech ends up shooting 33% for the half. we talked about the starting backcourt for virginia tech. delaney and hudson combine for 18. the starting frontcourt for florida state, singleton, reid, alabi, combine for 18. and the rebounding for florida state, 24-16 here at the break. our halftime scores, florida state 32, and virginia tech 25. >> bob: we're back in tallahassee, 32-25 is our halftime score. the hokies led by malcolm delaney's 11, the high man for florida state, ryan reid with nine. back with more to with leonard ha in welome, ♪ausethe thi th

today, reid issued a major mea culpa saying in a statement -- aides to senator reid said he called a long list of african-american leaders to apologize. he also called president obama. in statement the president said -- the book that started it all isn't out yet. it hits shelves on tuesday. >>> we're going to turn now to the weather making news again tonight. another anxious evening across the deep south. record cold will put crops at risk. more than 30 degrees below normal from texas all the way to florida. they have seen snow in orlando. ryan owens is there at a citrus grove just outside of orlando. ryan? >> reporter: good evening to you, david. farmers are doing everything they can to save all of these crops. ironically enough, they're spraying water on them. it actually freezes around the plants and provides some protection from the even harsher temperatures headed this way later tonight. some of this country's most valuable and vulnerable crops are in for another rough night and farmers aren't sure how many more they can take. >> it's our livelihood. it's how we make our money.

it appears terry reid is more than a few steps behind them. we called civil rights leaders and african-american congressman to apologize for the comments. again your reaction? was it racist, a poor choice of word? first abdul from north carolina. good morning. caller: how you doing this morning. you in this - i think it was a poor choice of words. you can just about know what's in a man's heart. only god knows what's really in his heart but senator reid is trying do the right thing and he just made mistakes. steve, i want to say one last thing. the lady that called you last sunday. her name was patty. i think she really disrespected the program when she came in and she got about 3-5 minutes. i think that was wrong. you have an excellent show and then, the lady from california, called the president a punk. i think when you hear that type of commentary from anybody, you know you - i think you should say, look this is very disrespectful. you don't have to agree with what the president says but don't call him a punk. >> it's a fine line in an open

turning to politics, and a controversy involving senate majority leader harry reid. he already faces a tough re-election in his home state of nevada. and now revelations about some private comments he made about president obama's race during the campaign are causing a stir. more now from nbc's mike vacara. >> reporter: leading up to the election in 2008, harry reid, leading senate democrat and vital obama ally made a case for his fellow senators presidential prospects in racially charged terms. as reported in the new book "game change" reid privately said the nation is ready for a black president, especially one as, quote, light-skinned as obama who speaks, quote, with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. soon after his quotes became public, reid issued a statement saying i sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans, especially african-americans for my improper comments. already behind in recent polls at home in nevada as he fights to win re-election to the senate later this year, reid has worked closely with the president to guide the administ

reid: move to reconsider. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: thank you very much. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: last night the president spoke about many things. i'd like to focus for a moment on just one of them. his comments related to the supreme court's recent decision in citizens united v. the federal election commission. this is an issue to which i devoted a great deal of time over the years, so i think it's important to set the record straight as to what the court did and did not do in this very important and, in my view, correct ruling. here's what the president said, last week the supreme court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations to spend w

senate majority leader harry reid apologizes for remarks. he made about president obama's race. we'll have what he said and how the president responded. >>> gay marriage fight. the battle goes to federal court in a landmark case. we talk to the powerhouse attorney behind the lawsuit. >>> and the wonder bra. how someone's online post about her bra color started a whole movement that's become a phenomenon on the internet. >>> good morning, america. kate snow here. we're happy to have josh elliott espn aker anchor, back with us for a second day here this morning. >> great to be back. good to be here on this sunday, january 10th. >> a lot of people wondering where bill weir is. he's been embedded with the u.s. military in afghanista diane sawyer is also there on the ground. their reports begin tomorrow night on a special edition of "world news." >> lots of news to get to this morning. >>> major earthquake struck late yesterday off the coast of california. leaving people rattled, windows broken, and power out. more on that in a moment. >>> and how did florida farmers fare overnight?

plus, why is harry reid making an apology to president obama? and some of america's fallen heroes, a final farewell. >>> videotape of the jordanian doctor who suicide bomber killed seven cia operatives in afghanistan aired on al-jazeera and pakistani television today. he was promising to provide information on al qaeda hiding places and was invited on to the cia base. just as he was getting a pat down search, he detonated the explosives. leon panetta said, "in the past year, we have done exceptionally heavy damage to cut and the associates. that is why the extremists it backed." >>> funerals today for some of the cia officers who were killed. harold brown jr. was remembered during a service in massachusetts. the father of three lived in fairfax county. >> i will love you now and forever. >> flags were lowered to half staff at the cia and the seven new stars joined the others on a wall of honor at the cia office in langley. >>> a man with suspected ties to terrorism pled not guilty today on charges he was training for al qaeda. he was accused of

andy reid and his team going back, thinking about the things that they are ing to have to do now. >> cris: but for wade phillips and tony romo and jerry jones, this long wait and flozell adams, it's finally over. they can finally look ahead to their next playoff game. look out. >> al: and that is not intercepted because he was out of bounds. jenkins picks it off and he runs into peters up the field. but he was standing out of bounds so it's just incomplete. ball goes over to dallas. one kneel-down and you can go home. >> cris: there is a smile out of wade! that a boy! all that stuff is finally over! you don't have to listen, tony. you don't have to hear it anymore. he was confident. we talked to him. you know, he never blinked. he just never did. tony felt like he was going to get it done in this one and he certainly did. >> al: so the cowboys don't have to read about it's been since 1996, but, of course, all of the eagl will read now is it happened again. they gave jerry the game ball. >> cris: or he took it! >> al: big mortgage on this place! all the stuff you can get. >> cris: you

andy reid and his team going back, thinking about the things that they are going to have to do now. >> cris: but for wade phillips and tony romo and jerry jones, this long wait and flozell adams, it's finally over. they can finally look ahead to their next playoff game. look out. >> al: and that is not intercepted because he was out of bounds. jenkins picks it off and he runs into peters up the field. but he was standing out of bounds so it's just incomplete. ball goes over to dallas. one kneel-down and you can go home. >> cris: there is a smile out of wade! that a boy! all that stuff is finally over! you don't have to listen, tony. you don't have to hear it anymore. he was confident. we talked to him. you know, he never blinked. he just never did. tony felt like he was going to get it done in this one and he certainly did. >> al: so the cowboys don't have to read about it's been since 1996, but, of course, all of the eagles will read now is it happened again. they gave jerry the game ball. >> cris: or he took it! >> al: big mortgage on this place! all the stuff you can get. >> cris:

i know you know. >> this is more pelosi and reid. so is it more an embarrassment -- >> it's more an embarrassment to the democratic structure. people are going to vote party. if this happens again, the democrats already are wobbling. but i just think it's hugely embarrassing. c-span doesn't carry too many -- >> next time if you don't look at me, i'm going to slap you. >> you're not that good looking. >> can i look at lesley. >> everybody looks at lesley. this evening, glenn beck spend ago lot of time on his program answering his critics. he'll tell us why he's doing that. then, more cheap shots leveled at sarah palin by her biggest an tag mist, joy behar. we hope you'll stay tuned for those reports. an tag mist >>> friday, breaking news, the ap is reporting michael jackson's doctor will be charged with involuntary manslaughter. also, where does the aarp lost 150,000 members since the health care debate began. check out the new beard and all the gray. he's here to comment. let's go to the jackson doctor situation first. involuntary ma

harry reid has said dumb things to the president in the past.e president is pretty forgiving. >> thanks to both of you for coming out here i want to mention a special program note. watch the debut of the daily rundown hosted by our white house team, chuck todd and also savannah guthrie, starting monday at 9:00 a.m. on msnbc and their guest, rahm emanuel. we'll be right back. >>> that's all for today from california, we'll be back next week from washington. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press."

abdulmutallab, but reid had them hidden in his shoe. former u.s. attorney for massachusetts mike sullivan joins us now. thanks for being here. when we look at the pair parallels here, the shoe bomber was tried in civilian court. but you didn't, as i understand it, have a choice at that time of putting him in a military tribunal, is that right? >> no, we really didn't. the military tribunals had only been established a few weeks prior to richard reid's flight being diverted to logan international airport, so there was no internal discussion or debate about a proper venge. the -- venue. the tools just weren't there, it was new in exercising the broad discretion that the government had in terms of treating international security threats. jane: so when we look at this case and the parallels, you know, some people have drawn between the two, you put richard reid away for life in a super max prison in colorado, it's where he's sitting at this very moment. do you agree that civilian court is the way to go for abdulmutallab? >> well, i don't ha

we can get back to the harry reid comment. an older generation who still is coming to grips with the multicultural, multiracial nature of this democracy. obama is a victory is very, very important. the symbolism is very important, but it has also been exaggerated. it has been exaggerated in the sense that obama's a victory equals the end of racism. a obama's victory equals a post-racially united states. there is one aspect of obama's victory that encourages a kind of become a kind of mythology, a myth making that the united states has completely turned the corner and that if you don't make it in this country it is really based on your sole individual behavior and not any kind of racial institutional racism or a kind of racial discrimination are barriers. the positive to the victory are the way in which obama as president really delivers a different image of blackness, not only to the rest of the country and globally, but also to blacks themselves, especially young people. one of the best things about obama being president, and

. >> democratic control of the house of representatives and as part of that, the runner up, harry reidwho is going to go the way of his preed sees predisesso, tom daschle. >> i was going to say, harry reid, is going to lose in his reelection bid next year in november. >> let's move it to the white house. destined for political, rahm emanuel. he is the white house chief of staff and he will be forced to fall as democrats in congress suffer staggering losses, as you pointed out in the 2010 midterm election. okay, best political theater. pat. >> the beer summit with sergeant crowly and joe biden and obama, on tv, john. great theater. >> and gates and biden looks good? >> i think biden, i agree with monica. biden looks very, very good. he had a rough first half. he's doing fine. >> eleanor. >> year started in january. so i'm going with blagojevich, he was impeached in january and went on to a whole saga of reality shows and it's great political theater, too, because you got the feeling he was somehow enjoying it along the way. >> monica. >> the town hall demonstrations this summer. those d

chip reid is with the president out in hawaii. the rest of our correspondents are around the table with us here in the studio. we want to say especially a welcome to jan crawford who you saw a lot of on "face the nation" back when she was the legal correspondent for the chicago tribune. she's back with us, back where she belongs. her blog crossroads is already up on the cbs website. we expect to see a lot of you, jan, right here. >> it's great to be back. >> schieffer: thank you. let's get right to the big story. and the news overnight of course was that the u.s. embassy and the british embassy in yemen had been closed because of a security threat. david martin, what have you been able to find out about this? >> usually when you close an embassy it's because there's been chatter on the internet and on cell phones about some sort of vague attack against western interests. that's different from what almost happened on christmas day in yemen. there was a specific plot to attack the american embassy on christmas day, and the u.s. pree

today, outside las vegas, reid said in fact, he actively encouraged mr. obama to run. >> i can still remember the meeting that took place in my office with senator barack obama telling him that i think he could be elected president. i've apologized to the president. i've apologized to everyone that is within the sound of my voice that i could used a better choice of words. >> sreenivasan: on sunday some leading republicans called for reid to resign. but today, a spokesman for reid said he has no intention of stepping down as majority leader. he says the people that make hay out of him makes no sense. this was a deadly day for nato forces in afghanistan, with three americans and three other western soldiers killed. the americans died in a firefight with militants in the south. still, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, said the tide is turning against the taliban. >> i believe that we have changed the way we operate in afghanistan. we've changed some of our structures. i believe that we are on the way to convincing the afghan

he is one of 13 state attorneys general to cite a recent letter to senate majority leader harry reidand house speaker nancy pelosi protesting a provision of the health care bill that obligates the federal government to pick up the entire cost of medicaid expansion and nebraska. critics call at the courthouse kurt kickback, designed to secure the votes of senator ben nelson for the health care bill. mr. mcmaster will explain why he and the other state attorneys general believe that the agreement is unconstitutional. mr. mcmaster has prosecuted white-collar criminals, internet predators, and drug traffickers. today, he weighs into another controversy in a potentially dangerous area, health care. >> thank you. those other prosecutions are not controversial. almost everyone is in favor of locking up drugÑi traffickers ad the internet predators. this has achieved some cumbersome and run the country and i would be glad to enter any questions ever anybody has about it. it is a very straightforward thing. there are now 15 attorneys general, two democrats and 13 republicans who have joined on

>>> senate majority leader harry reid is apologizing to president obama for a racial comment he made during the presidential campaign. in a new book out monday called "game change," reid is quoted as describing then president obama as, quote, a light-skinned african-american with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. reid says he regrets his poor choice of words and apologizes to all americans, especially african-americans. president obama quickly accepted the apoly and said, quoting now, the book is closed. >>> the heads of both the republican and democratic national committees will square off this morning on "meet the press" when rnc chairman michael steele and dnc chairman tim kaine join david gregory. that's coming up this morning right here on nbc 4. >>> if you are a calorie counter, be ware. a new study says restaurant chains and frozen food meals may have more calories than advertised. the study looked at ten chain restaurants and found the number of calories in 29 items had an average of 18% more calories than advertised. the study also found frozen meals had 8% more

he has good ideas, but it is harry reid standing in our way.ipartisanship can ensue. in terms of seeing five partisanship breakout all over the

and richard reid didn't know anything. >> chris: didn't know if richard reid knew anything. >> maybet was a mistake to try him in criminal administration. if that's obama administration excuse -- >> not an excuse. >> eight years in the war on terror -- >> it's an excellent american standard. you talk about just wanting to make people like us. no, no, no. i was wrong last week when i said on this program i thought he was acting independently. i think there are lots of people who thought it's not only the u.s. intelligence, it was british intelligence, others around the world who didn't pick this up. okay, a mistake was made. it should have been communicated. but to somehow suggest that that is now reason for us to act in a more draconian manner and give up on the idea we want to stop the spread of anti-american sentiment around the world and it's just a matter of, you know, dressing up and being nice to people and leading the guests, that's not right. it's about trying to stop the spread of terrorism to the individuals like this guy abdulmutallab, and the guy at fort hood who picked t

reid: madam president, let's not kid ourselves. we're in this financial situation and these pay-as of pay-as-you-go rules are necessary because we spent the decade spending money we didn't have. we spent too much money on corporations and other red ink policies. those days should be over. we simply can no longer afford t the idea behind pay-as-you-go is very simple. the rule we're proposing for the government is the same one americans use every day in their own individual lives. the same ones we teach our children. in order to a dollar we have to have that dollar in our wallet this. will enforce that commonsense approach. here's what it doesn't do. here's what it doesn't do. it doesn't block emergency spending t doesn't keep businesses from creating jobs, and it doesn't prevent congress from cutting taxes. for all the republican rhetoric on sensible spending, their recent choices call their seriousness into serious question. we drafted a health reform tbhail reduced the deficit by as much as $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years. th

by mark halpern and john hidealman reports that during the campaign last year senate majority harry reid was telling people privately that barack obama's campaign would be helped because he was, quote, a light-skinned african- american with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one." reed spent all day yesterday

reid: i ask tni quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, what is the pending business? the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration 5, h.j. res., resolution 4 which the clerk will report. the clerk: h.j. res. 45, joint resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt. mr. reid: mr. president, is amendment number 3305 the pending amendment? the presiding officer: it is. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion at the desk with respect to that amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close debate on the reid amendment number 3305 to the baucus-reid substitute amendment number 32 99 to h.j. res. 45 a joint resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt signed by 18 senators as follows: reid, baucus, leahy, dodd, kaufman, warner, kirk, udall of new mexico, inouye, merkley,

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that he has worked with senator reid. he snows senator reid. the type of values that he has. the agenda that he's pushed in the u.s. senate. and, didn't take offense at them. >> has president said anything more in light of what we've been hearing? it has been dominating the shows over the weekend and even this morning? >> no. that wasn't, something i heard the president talk more about today. >> and upon the, in light of what has happened with terrorism, terrorism threat, is there anything at all that the administration has plan to do, maybe a second tier priority that has been put on the back burner now because there's been, sort of ramped up efforts with terrorism, the attention and so much of the air sucked out with terrorism -- >> no. are you, you mean an agenda item that the president would be focused on that he is not because of this? >> right, exactly. is there anything else that the president -- >> again, this question sort of come in different forms throughout different times -- >> not juggling or you're handling too much question but is there anything that you said,

reid said mr. obama could win the race because he was, quote, a light skinned african- american with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. the comments were published in a new book about the campaign called game change. now the senator says, i sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans especially african-americans for my improper comments. president obama says haccepts the apology and considers the matter to be over. >>> something not over? health care reform. senator reid helped push through the health care bill, a bill that received no votes from republicans. but tonight a big name clinic is being held up as an example of what could go wrong. fox 5's melini wilx reports on why the clinic has this people worried. >> costs will finally come down for families, businesses, and our government. >> reporter: president obama wants lawmakers to push through a health care bill when they return from recess. he says once the law takes hold, patients and doctors will have more control ov

i don't see how that's analogous to what senator reid was saying.i don't -- i mean, i understand what people have to say on tv or to get themselves on tv. i would suggest they spend about 20 seconds reading a little history and figuring out that to draw the analogy strains any intellectual enterprise or any real reality in all sense of the word. >> on politics, there are indications that massachusetts senate race is tightening up. the dnc said -- top staff or there today. does the president have any intention of giving that to massachusetts to campaign on behalf of martha coakley? >> the president doesn't have any travel plans to campaign in massachusetts. >> robert, given a meeting with the labor leaders later today, do you think the president has done right by a movement that was so much a part of his victory in november, the labor much that? is he -- has he done right by then? has the advance their agenda in the way that he should? >> i think the president has represented working men and women in this country and everything that he's worked on, w

president obama says he accepts reid's apology.'s dana bash reports reid is reaching out to civil rights leaders and african-american members of congress, including julian bond and representatives jim clyburn and barbara lee. >>> in vermont three snowmobiles crashed through thin ice, killing three people -- a man, his 24-year-old daughter, and his 3-year-old granddaughter. the snowmobiles were carrying a total of six people on lake dunmore when the ice gave way just before noon. they were about 100 yards from shore. everyone went into the water except for a 4-year-old child, who was pushed to safety. he reportedly ran for help. two of the five people pulled out from the frigid lake did survive. those are the headlines at this hour. keeping you informed, cnn, the most trusted name in news. >> larry: welcome back. carnie wilson's here, singer, entertainer, and host of "the newlywed game" on gsn and star of the new reality series, "carnie wilson unstapled." which by the way premieres january 14th on gsn. she underwent gastric bypass s

jeff. >> glor: chip reid in honolulu tonight. chip, thank you. as we noted earlier, cbs news has learned u.s. forces are playing a lead role in assaults on al qaeda norsz yemen, which is on the southern-most part of the arabian peninsula. kimberly dozier in washington has more on that part of the story. story. >> reporter: this is yemeni government video of its u.s.-trained counter-terrorist teams at work. but cbs news has lshed exclusively that recent combined air and ground assaults against al qaeda in december were american-led, according to a u.s. special prayings expert who trains yemeni officers. >> that was very much something executed by the united states but with very heavy support by the yemeni government. it was cruise missile strikes, in combination with military units on the ground, but it was a very disik signal from the obama administration that they are serious in assisting yemen remove these al qaeda facilities from its soil. >> reporter: the target, al qaeda of the arabian peninsula, an affiliate of osama bin laden's group with