we are advised that took schumer will introduce same-sex reform in january 2010. we are also told that passage by the spring is imperative. congressman good cheer rest will introduce comprehensive immigration reform for the house apparently in the next few weeks of around thanksgiving. while senator schumer is likely to include this language in any legislation, it is not a slam dunk. as the professor told us, there will be different versions of different bills. now, gutierrez's office has been quiet on their version. it is critical that lgbt couples are included in the house and senate versions of comprehensive immigration reform. is a quality-based legislation is critical for the tens of thousands of gay or lesbian couples living in exile, illegally, in fear, in detention, or perhaps separated from loved ones. california makes up a large percentage of bi-national couples, and with special notes -- social networking, it has probably tripled. the largest percentage is from the bay area. i would be remiss -- i believe it would be remiss of san francisco for this ico

schumer: first let me thank my colleague from florida. he knew that i was waiting and i know he cut short his remarks, and i appreciate it. but more importantly than that, i areciate his insight, his articulateness and his desire to help the people of florida. nobody works harder for the people of florida than the senator from florida. and they know disaster jus about better than anybody else given their geographic situation. and so his fight for fema llars is a fight for every citizen of that great state of florida, where i must say many of my former constituents n reside. so i care especially about florida as well. so thank him for both his courtesy and his insightfulness. now, mr. president, fema runs out of money very soon. and already recovery projects in more than 40 states have been halted so fema can focus their last dollars on responding to the latest disasters. to have fema not working in joplin, missoi, where we all saw the pictures because of the dangers that hurricanes irene and lee created that,'s unheard of in this country.

>> chuck schumer who i hope you have on. >> sean: you think chuck schumer is coming off this program.time go offhe air he use add expletive and said he's never blanking coming back. >> that's good television this is the district that he used to represent if it goes republican, a district that went 67% for al gore this is an earthquake. that -- this is the scott brown of 2010. >> sean: i think it is bigger. >> prepare for a lot of scheduling conflicts when obama travels to states like claire mccaskell unfortunately i'm going to miss this. >> sean: in other words the president is becoming toxic. >> even in new york city. >> sean: one of the most heavily democratic districts. >> is president obama in danger of losing even the african-american voting base? tavis smiley says yes. and what it means for the president in 2012. >> first why the federal government is going after one great american guitar company and how liberal policies are probably playing a role. gib son woman: downloading music can be expensive. so to save money, i trained my dog and this cockatoo to play all the hits of the

senator chuck schumer is a democrat from new york. senator schumer, it seems like president obama today hasn't totally bought your idea of going after people who make more than $1 million a year and don't pay their fair share of taxes. >> well, i think it's a good thing. most americans believe that at least on the highest income people, people who make over $1 million, that those taxes should not go down with the bush tax cuts, and maybe should even be a little bit higher. this is the one part of our economic spectrum that's done extremely well over the last ten years. the middle class income is down, poverty is up. even upper middle class people have stayed flat. but the very, very wealthy have done extremely well and they should do their share. they don't care about medicare or medicaid or student loans. this is the way they can help. >> the buffett rule, making sure that people in the very high-income brackets pay the same percentage as people in the middle classes pay. how do you do that? how do you bring that fight to the country

interestingly, chuck schumer is driving the train right now. he won the day on the argument over the strategy -- >> above millionaire? >> yes. and i think you're going to see chuck schumer playing a very important role in the campaign, not just for the deficit reduction deal, if there is one, the budget -- the debt reduction deal, but in the obama campaign to come. >> fascinating. because he's got to deal with the wall street constituency as well. that's his. >> that is his -- >> he's got to punch those guys in the nose while he's doing it. >> he's going to give the president political protection to go after them. >> is it fair to say that going after the rich and their money and working on helping regular guys, he's decided he's going to live with the hatred of business? he's going to live with it? >> if he's going to be a democrat in the tradition of franklin roosevelt, he's got to say what roosevelt said, which is that i welcome their hatred. >> he did. he did do that. we liked that. thank you, howard fineman. coming up, rick perry's leading

among the members of the tea party that chuck schumer was so critical of is senator ran the pulte of kentucky. i asked him what he would make of the president's speech tonight. paul, tonight the president will propose packages. what is there that you will not agree with? >> i have not seen the details. i think a lot of it is the attitude towards business, with a stifling business in our country right now. it is that you cannot be in favor of cutting jobs unless that you like the job creators. everything that seems to come from the administration is we want to take away deductions from the rich people, go after the rich people, and i look at it differently. the american dream is something that anybody can achieve. the president as a product of the american dream and i want somebody who is proud of that. i see it every term, let's punish these people who are making too much money rather than bringing everybody up. it is a different philosophy, a different attitude. >> you think that keeping tax rates lower effectively for everybody, is that the path to stimulating the economy and creat

we are advised that took schumer will introduce same-sex reform in january 2010.we are also told that passage by the spring is imperative. congressman good cheer rest will introduce comprehensive immigration reform for the house apparently in the next few weeks of around thanksgiving. while senator schumer is likely to include this language in any legislation, it is not a slam dunk. as the professor told us, there will be different versions of different bills. now, gutierrez's office has been quiet on their version. it is critical that lgbt couples are included in the house and senate versions of comprehen

i cannot tell you what his bill will look like, what senator schumer's bill will look like. what i can say it is all those pieces work together to ultimately come up with something that is hopefully, at least, something that we can create a foundation from. comprehensive immigration reform has to be broad enough to make -- give us the foundation to build more, but i do not think it will be done at that point. there will be a lot of issues that will not happen in the first go round that will need to be perfected, but me to do enough to turn immigration into something that is not so politicized and is more about really getting down to the problems. i wanted to address briefly some by pointing out, you cannot always tell what will happen based on one set of votes. in the dhhs appropriations bill for 2010, in the senate, and there were a lot of horrible amendments to make e-verify mandatory, inshore every inch of the fence was real, we get ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. -- ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. a lot of people said, my goodn

definition after millionaire is something, something below 200,000, 250,000, who is objecting, chuck schumer, saying cost of living in new york, higher than in mississippi and there should be a differential. sochlt people making that money are in fact democrats and do give money to the democratic party. in its design insults people. in an sur tax, people say i'm willing to pay my fair share. he's reducing their deductions and giving it to them in the neck and they're infuriated and that's what chuck schumer is hearing. >> paul: when we come back, the third debate in as many weeks and this time rick perry steps up, and chief [ male announcer ] take the fixodent 12 hour hold challenge. ♪ apply fixodent once, and it holds all day. ♪ take the fixodent 12 hour hold challenge. guaranteed, or your money back. ♪ find new ways to optimizettedck. to heltheir cash flow.esses so, stop in and ask for a regions cashcor analysis and see how easy it is to get your cash flow (whistles) heading in the right direction. let's talk. i refer to her as "that woman with the great gums." as jill's dentist, i know th

definition after millionaire is something, something below 200,000, 250,000, who is objecting, chuck schumer, saying cost of living in new york, higher than in mississippi and there should be a differential. sochlt people making that money are in fact democrats and do give money to the democratic party. in its design insults people. in an sur tax, people say i'm willing to pay my fair share. he's reducing their deductions and giving it to them in the neck and they're infuriated and that's what chuck schumer is hearing. >> paul: when we come back, the third debate in as many weeks and this time rick perry steps up, and chief rival, mitt romney. did it work. >> [ man ] behind every business is a "what if." what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360 has custom solutions to make it happen, including mobile payment processing, instant hot spots, and powerful devices like the motorola photon 4g. so let's all keep asking the big what ifs. sprint business specialists can help you find the answers. sprint. amer

among those tea parties republicans, senator schumer said there is senator rand paul of kentucky. i asked what he would like to hear tonight. senator, the president will propose a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. it is in a hope to get this economy jump start it. what is there in the package he is likely to put forward? >> i have not seen the details of what is coming forward. i think it is a lot of what the attitude is toward businesses what is stifling businesses in our country right now. it is that you cannot be in favor of creating jobs unless you like the job creators. everything that seems to, from the administration is, we want to take away those deductions from those rich people. i look at it differently. i look at the american dream as something anybody can achieve. i look at the president as a product of -- of the american dream. i would see everyone rising up. it is a different philosophy and attitude. >> do you think that is the route, then, keeping tax rates low work for everybody, is that the route to stimulating the economy and creating more jobs? wha

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senator chuck schumer describing what he saw on 9/11. he joins me live from washington.ank you for your time. i know among other things you will ring the opening bell with secretary clinton and rudy giuliani in observance of the attacks and here we are ten years later and i have been listening to the family members talk about the loss of life and the loss of love, and what are the feelings here as we approach the anniversary today? >> well, first, your heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones. know a lot of the f and the hole in the heart never heals. it was a mindless act of savagery, and you never get over that. second as a new yorker, i'm proud of my city. the resilience that new york showed right after 9/11 happened, they were writing new york off, and big cities that would be targets and people would not want to live there in areas that might be targets and downtown would become a ghost town and that is all down spak, but there is a third thought here, and that is that the politics has so deteriorated in the last ten years that you wonder if god forbid ano

schumer: okay. a patent holder who has his patent -- whose patent is solid has nothing to fear from a section 18 review. indeed, a good patent will come out of such a review strengthened and validated. the only people who have any cause to be concerned about section 18 are those who have patents that shouldn't have been influenced in the -- shouldn't be influenced in the first place and who are hoping to make a lot of money suing legitimate businesses with these not-legitimate patents. and to them i say the scam should stop. in fact, 56% of business patent lawsuits come in one court, in the eastern district of texas. why do they all go to one court? not because of just coincidence. why do people far and wide seek this? because they know that court will give them favorable proceedings and many of the businesses who are sued illegitimately say instead of millions of dollars of discover and everything else in a court that i believe i can't get a fair trial in, i'll settle. that shouldn't happen, and th

you very much, senator schumer. >> always a pleasure. >> came to congress about the same time. i am pleased to join senator reid and senator durbin and senator schumer in urging our republican colleagues to reach commonground, to reach a compromise. last night, we had a debate on the house floor. republicans and democrats rose and particularly some very compelling statements from republicans from pennsylvania and republican from mississippi talking about people who have been ravaged by flood and tornadoes 234 particular. there are people ravaged by hurricanes and fire and draught as well, and the stories were wrenching and the debate was, we need to help, and we need to help now. we suggested last night that what the house is going to pass would not enjoy majority support in the united states senate. we were correct. notwithstanding that, the house determined to send that bill knowing full well 245 it could not enjoy majority support. now, i'd like to read you two statements 245 -- that were made by mr. boehner and mr. cantor in the last 20 12* days. "we know the two parties wi

this is charles schumer's old seat. you can't name the year when it was last red. >> i will say this, if there's an area that can turn red, that's blue -- >> sean: let me put it in other terms. the republican turner is up by six points in the last polls. results coming up. if you look at that poll number and obama's margin of victory we're talking about a 17 point swing in a year. >> look deeper in that poll. independents, the republican was up 30 points which was i thought incredible. a little background for why your viewers across the country should care about this tiny election in new york state. the strategy that the national republican congressional committee used. it was the scott brown strategy. flew under the radar for a long time. they didn't bring in big national figures to campaign for him. he campaigned on the merits. you only started hearing about this race in the last week. >> you had ed koch campaigning for turner. >> sean: assemblyman. >> if there's a district where this could happen, it is here. i think

this is a disaster, i don't care what chuck schumer says.ie wasserman schultz said is dumb this is a really hard district to win, that's silly. >> it is 3-1 democrat to republican. it should be a democrat's dream to win easily in the district. but the thing is a lot of this is local. you have a lot of orthodox jews in the area upset about the same-sex marriage bill in new york becoming law. this is something we saw that david weprin the democrat supported. then questions about president obama's policies with regard to israel and some of the orthodox jewish community, again a lightning rod. anthony weiner's scandal, sex scandal, it was awful, i don't think it inspired confidence. as you pointed out, a lot of the independents right now are buying off of president obama. that's not the democrats. >> sean: i think your analysis is off represented by this race in nevada. mccain won by 88 votes. 26,000 vote jump in just a short period of time. look, this is a 20 point swing in new york compared to obama's margin in 2008 to now. yeah, there is a ve

senator schumer? >> thank you, senators reid and hoyer and speaker pelosi and senator durbin. 59-6 wasn't close. now is the time to work on a reasonable and fair solution find it disaster relief and avoid an unnecessary and destructive government shutdown. the majority leader has said he is willing to meet with house and senate leadership this weekend. we hope that speaker boehner and senator mcconnell will take him on the offer to negotiate a solution. our position is let's talk over the weekend. their position is, take it or leave it. their approach failed on the senate floor this morning, and it is time for them to change their strategy. we have a fail safe measure that will receive a vote on the senate monday. it is a reasonable bill, a bill that will keep the government funded at levels that house and senate democrats and republicans negotiated as part of the debt ceiling agreement. and in a good faith compromise, it contains the same exact amount of disaster relief funding that house republicans

did you know that the cob schumer product safety commission actually says 6,000 americans go to the emergencyjuries from trying to slice that stuff apart? this is a ghost from my christmas past. a painful humiliating christmas past as i tried to open a digital recorder. it's for ages 8 and up. i just get in there above the age limit. it's sealed in plastic designed by has sachlt this packaging would survive a nuclear explosion. 6,000 emergency room visits for this stuff! there are no records for the health risks of those ketchup pacts, despite the countless fake injuries they have aided in films like dumb a"dumb and dumb" but with the new ones, designed by heinz, you have two opposites. it holds more, do you don't have to open as many to begin with. this might be the answer to everything. the cotton begin, the lightbulb, the ipod -- and new ketchup pact packets if we can do this, there is hope for the economy, the middle east and other stuff. >> the condom killed me. >> reporter: i'm john berman for "nightline" in new york. >> thank you for watching abc news tonight. hope you check in with "g

senator schumer? >> thank you.first i want to thank you, leader, for being as usual, your persistent and abominable self working from last week to make sure that we got this done. mary landrieu has just been an amazing leader on this issue. just hearing her on the floor again, convinced of the importance of getting the funds and never giving up until we got them. debbie stabenow made it clear to the caucus how important the job as portion of the bill was and how to trade jobs on the one hand to help victims on the other was unfair and wrong and she succeeded and congratulations to you. now it took longer than i should have that for the disaster victims across the country help is on the way. all of us hope disaster aid would have been settled two weeks ago when the senate acted in a bipartisan way on a package to fully fund fema. but the house insisted on a different approach that complicated matters needlessly. against the urging of many of their own party blocking the house to hold that to impose a political agend

and senator schumer in urging our republican colleagues to reach common ground, to reach a compromise. last night we had a debate on the house floor. republicans and democrats rose in particular some very compelling statements from a republican from pennsylvania and from mississippi talking about people who have been ravaged by floods and tornadoes in particular and people ravaged by hurricanes and fire in the drought as well, and the stories were ranging and the debate was we need to help, and we need to help now. we suggested last night what the house is going to pass would not enjoy a majority support in the united states senate. we were correct. notwithstanding that, the house determined to send that bill, knowing full well that it wouldn't enjoy majority support. i'd like to read two statements that were made by mr. boehner and mr. kantor within the last 12 days. mr. boehner said we know the two parties aren't going to agree on everything. but the american people want us to find common ground, and i'll be looking for it, said mr. boehner on a september 8, 2011, just a few days ag

we are waiting on san francisccr schumer. he is a smart person. they are trying to gain consensus around issues. once the senate moves forward, the house is ready to move forward as well. we do not have one built. what we have is every conceivable idea that has ever been given to us fleshed out and turned over and written and rewritten. the congresswoman has been working with several bipartisan colleagues did we consider it imperative to have bipartisan support on immigration reform. it dela elays people's fears abt being voted out of office. i cannot talk about how important this issue is to our country now, our economy, and the future character of this nation. with all seriousness we approach this. i have to say that humor helps in dealing with some of the stresses and disappointments. it is with all seriousness and absolute dedication to this country that we try to move forward on this. not only the experts here today, but people who are willing to share their stories. >> thank you. we'll hear from mary next. >> mr. chair and commissioners, tha

yes, it's anthony weiner's district but it was chuck schumer's district. >> yeah. >> this is where schumerf the sunday press conference guy and just knew how to use this queens district, archie bunker's district by the way. before that geraldine ferraro. what's going on? >> democrats have only held this seat for 88 years. >> so it's not a big deal. >> first of all, i'm not giving up on the democratic candidate. turnout can make a difference in these things. >> i was going to say we were in this situation in 2005, ohio two was a special democrat -- there was a republican seat in cincinnati. >> yes. >> ultimately you had a bunch of voters who never voted democratic, couldn't do it. that could happen. >> this may be -- it probably has less to do with partisan politics and democrats and republicans than it has to do with washington. is it working, is it not working? and who's more representative of fundamental change? and in a district that's been held by democrats for 88 years the republican comes along and says, i haven't been near any of that stuff. washington doesn't work. stand with me. i

chuck schumer and hillary clinton, new york senators at the time, the former governor and former mayor rudy giuliani all rang the bell on september 17th, 2001, the day the exchange reopened. many felt a mix of emotions. >> the worst memory-- memory i have of that day is watch a man throw himself out 16901s, 102nd floor, it stays with me always. i will never get over it. >> you have that horrible memory, and the horrible memory of the loss. but then you also have the inspiring memory of the thousands and thousands of new yorkers who rushed to the site. >> reporter: in the financial world much has changed since 9/11. america's unemployment rate now is double what it was back then. and the nation has endured two recessions. but one thing hasn't changed much at all, stock prices. since september 10th, 2001, the dow has risen just 14%. that means an average gain of less than 2% a year. but today many weren't thinking about profits. they were thinking about losses. on 9/11 floor broker kenney pulcaryi decide on a lark to leave his world trade center office and join colleagues. >> only by the

he and senator schumer work on legislation to cut down on the time consuming confirmation of presidential appointees. that is a relatively minor issue in the broad scheme of things, but anytime there is a desire to work across party lines, it increases the prospects. increases the prospects. the senate could become less gridlocked. >> the long-term question is what he seems to be saying in his feeling liberated from leadership is whether the leadership itself is so bound to the party line that makes the prospects for his own future more difficult. he is going to most likely be replaced by john thune. jon kyl is 69. he will be replaced by the number 2 -- in the number of two position most likely by john cornyn. it could set up a team that is gender and more conservative. does that set up well for bipartisan cooperation? that is something we will see in the months and years to come. >> he said you have to do with the quarterback says. did you hear that he did not like the play is being called? >> i did not hear that. he said there were a few occasions when he does not. no one goes into the

schumer: i want to compliment him on this outstanding speech. i hope he'll send -- many of our colleagues are on the way home. the hour is late. i hope he'll send it to them. it's been a joy for me to stay and listen. we talked about this last night when we had dinner. here is another interesting fact amidst so many my colleague has brought up. it's such a great speech. if you look at that chart, from 1999 to 2007, before the recession hit, median income didn't go up. and that is a question we're going to have to pworpbd, and we -- ponder, and we need great minds like his to figure out the answer. if you just blame the recession and think it will come back up, it won't. the kind of structural changes my colleague talks about are so, so needed if we're not going to have a continually declining middle class, even in a period of growth. am i right about that? mr. bennet: i thank the senator from new york. you are right about that. and what you will see on another -- not tonight, but another slide is that we were already on this decline. and you kno