chuck cheurchuck schumer is sayg the law is the problem.t's very different from the time chuck was saying this. >> when people learn what's actually in the bill and all the good it does, it's going to become more and more popular. i think there's a broad consensus that we should do something on health care. it is good for america. we will pass this bill. we will finish this great unfinished business. neil: wait a minute. now, i tried very hard to give him the benefit of the doubt, even arguing better to be honorably late than forever wrong. let's say you guys weren't so kind. allen, i couldn't believe when you said schumer is honorable. he honorably gave the president the heave ho. >> chuck takes first honors. bob in dallas shock over the senator's health care 180. hey, sparky, you do have digital evidence. schumer is not honorable. he's dedicated to be a consistent liar. neil, is schumer trying to admit he's duped without admitting he's a stupid american voter. maybe it's a good time to get the people around the idea, if the congressman ca

schumer: thank you, madam president. now, i rise today on a very important partisan bill that has just been approved by this body unanimously, and that is the justice against sponsors of terrorism act or jasta. and i want to thank first my cosponsor and partner in this and many other issues, i'm happy to say, senator cornyn, the senator from texas, and i want to thank chairman leahy, our chairman of the judiciary committee. under his leadership, it has twice been passed by the senate judiciary committee. now, i feel so strongly about this bill, madam president, because it would allow the victims of 9/11 to pursue some small measure of justice by giving them a legal avenue to hold foreign sponsors of terrorism accountable for their actions. this bill, quite simply, does right by the 9/11 victims. we new yorkers can never forget the terrible day 13 years ago when terrorists attacked our city and murdered more than 2,700 of our friends, our neighbors, our relatives. we were shocked, our hearts were broken. the whole nation

chuck schumer would have referred to that and he didn't. >> you're exploding what chuck schumer had toay. >> no i'm not. i'm just -- believe me, if chuck schumer found good news like that -- you're a good and honorable man -- we would he leapt on that like me a ponder -- ponderosa buffet. >> neil, come on. you pass a piece of legislation. it is a complex piece of legislation. and you need to see how it operates -- >> you have no regrets at all? >> i have regrets we didn't take more time to consider it in a way that was appropriate legislative process, and that is to go to a conference committee. the only reason we couldn't go to a conference committee is because the republicans would not vote to -- >> i don't want to play -- the medical device tax is going. >> let me tell you what. we have large debts in this country. you know why? because people don't like to pay for these things. this is a pay for in the bill. if we take out the tax we need to substitute itself with some other way to pay for it elm the republican congress and the house of representatives passed $600 billion in tax cu

especially schumer. >> i think it makes things worse for them. it makes worse for democrats. >> i don't see how it gives them political cover. i think it gives them credibility, especially schumer falling on his sword. you know why? he is hearing from constituents, whatever you want to say about chuck schumer he is my senator. he was my congressman. he is out. he goes to all the local, little mom-and-pop party. >> that's true. >> i'm sure he is getting his ear chewed off. i am. i'm paying for for this. i can't even understand it. i need health insurance. i'm not covered by anyone. i hand it off to my secretary. i can't figure it out. >> that is lot of power for a secretary. >> it is complicated. >> so the enrollment period for renewals and for new policies opened up after the midterm elections. people are freshly looking at the real price tag what all of this is going to cost them as individuals and families, right? got that going on. but you know, i'm a little confused. i think it is disingenuous for the democrats to come out now, well, it was t

chuck schumer is a consummate political insider.ven't done this if his colleagues were not moving away raptdly from the president given the very bad election results. so, health, this to me is a harbinger of what's to come and will probably lead to an every man, every woman to themselves approach. >> very interesting and something that perhaps happened to republicans in prior years. brad? >> let me tell you something, schumer is the gruber of the senate. he must think we're stupid. he was a leader that jammed through obama care, he knew or should have done that the basis or the foundation for obama care were lies. you couldn't keep your doctor, you weren't going to have any savings, and it isn't about timing, that we mistimed obama care, it's about fraud and dece deceit in bringing obama care to the senate. in an ominous 3,000-page bill that was never read without any transparency at all. >> pat, you have the final word. >> i'll tell you this, what will happen is, what schumer is done is expose what the hypocrisy of washington is. h

chuck schumer called on the faa to expedite the rules making process.ant your stories about commercial and domestic drone use. asking if you support or oppose it. on the line for those who support it, walter from rome, new york. caller: good morning. host: you are on the "washington journal." caller: i support it 100%. it is a great example of american innovation. if anything it should be regulated and a more strict way on how they are to use these drones. it should not be taken away or or banned inay -- any way. >> do you own a drone? >> i do not. to the savvy technology. it strictly for military or government use? they are used for good reasons. host: members of congress are supporters of the drone industry and feel the same way. here's a letter from senators last week ending actions on drones. saying some of the current actions are too little, too late. signed by ron wyden, jeff merkley, heidi heitkamp. stated that their concerns will be costly, needlessly restrictive, and hinder . the senators stated the faa needs to act quickly to issue guidelines

i've seen it a billion times from senator schumer.nd of the day, i guess the question is, when was the last time that the airlines actually did reduce fares? i mean, when they get more competition from one of the smaller, you know, airlines that comes in, a jetblue, southwest, ea et cetera et cetera. but there's been so much consolidation amongst the big ones. so what's the incentive? >> i think that's an excellent point. in 2005, there was 11 main airlines in play. now as it's been said, there are about three. and that's obviously hurting us as consumers. and you know, look, as you can tell, i'm british, so a large portion of my family are in the uk. would i like lower fares? ek h heck, yes, i would. do i see them on the horizon? do you sigh schumer's call to action is going to do anything in the near future? sad to say, i don't. >> everyone stay right there. please stay with us. ahead, hackers threaten movie goers, invoking 9/11. now the stars of the movie just canceled all press appearances. should the movie be pulled? that's next.

i remember chuck schumer back then. >> oil companies are making record profits.d to get tough on big oil. when they say jump, we say how high and we should start with speculation. we all agree that that is part of the problem. >> well, it's political grandstanding. what he's trying to do it himself on the side of the little guy. talking about big oil companies, looking out for the little guy, but now gas prices are down and oil prices are down. he needs to demonize who is going after the airline companies and maybe he wants to nationalize it. and at this point they are still publicly trading companies and the management still has to find a province for the shareholder. nevermind that there's labor concerns and other concerns. chuck schumer harty noticed that the airlines by their fuel in advance by contracts. they are not doing the effects of this at this point so this is political grandstanding and nothing more. neil: you know, we hardly noticed just like you hardly notice of the person that she has money so what you think of >> since the year 2000 ticket prices

soon -- chuck schumer saying this. do you agree? no, i have respect for him but i do not agree with him. i think passing health care actrm, the affordable care addresses the needs of middle-class families, people who do not have certainty in terms of health care coverage and are in a very precarious situation from an economic standpoint. differencet was the between life and death, the health care coverage they were able to obtain under the aca. i also think senator schumer is selling his arty short. there was additional action to help address the needs. one issue i worked on when i was in the administration was kyle -- college affordability. $1000 grant. enough, as we laid out in our report. middle-class families need more your the most important thing we can do was to help deal with stagnant wages. we see the economy is improving. we have over 50 months of job growth. the stock market has stabilized. we also see 95% of the income we have gleaned from recovery has gone to the top 1% of earners. we need to flip that. corporate profit

schumer are revealing. no one expected him to come out of strongly as he did at the event at the national press club, and that has elicited some criticism to his left, saying that the passage of the affordable care act was vital to the public, and that even though it remains unpopular and a political liability particularly for central -- for centrist democrats, it is something that needed to go on. widerf the rifts will get next year when republicans flow changes to the law that could garner support from people in the democratic side but more to the center. host: elise viebeck, thanks for joining us the first -- for joining us this morning on "the washington journal." we want to talk about the debate she was talking about with just our democratic viewers for the next half hour or so. was the passage of the affordable care act political strategy for democrats? let's start with wendy, calling in from concord, north carolina, on our line for democrats. good morning, wendy. caller: i would say the affordable ca

that was chuck schumer.sing the sim lutimu democrats should have continued to propose middle class oriented programs and build on the partial success of the stimulus. but unfortunately democrats blew the opportunity the american people gave them. took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem, health care reform. people thought we should have done it, but we shouldn't have done it first. we were in the middle of the recession, people were hurting and said, what about me? i'm losing my job, it's not health care that bothers me. what about me? my income is declining, i can't do the things i used to do. >> let's skip why he's doing it, except to go to the root reality he's getting to. people feel overlooked. they feel their concerns about the economy have been overlooked for the president's agenda. rather than him meeting their agenda. that's the politics. we can talk about what chuck schumer is up to, but the root reality is not there. >> what he's not taking into account, there was a stimulu

. >> and rick, we just had chuck schumer trying to talk down the policy saying that obamacare was a mistake. if he's trying to paint himself in the middle with, you know the next nominee is going to do that to try to distance himself from president obama. >> you'll forgive me if i don't put too much credibility in chuck schumer. he was the person who led the fight in the senate to pass obamaca obamacare. >> i got to ask lizzy a question. things have to be put in their place. what was the top personal tax rate when john kennedy was president? >> listen, i'm not going to go through these lame -- >> it's not a lame exam. >> you are not the light on the damascus road. >> i'll answer my own question. >> i don't know what your point is. here is the point. what is it today? the effective rate for the upper bracket, 35%. >> hold on a second. it's getting a little out of control. the point is that it's the direction in which you're going that is important. granted, rates for much higher at one point when they were brought down by john kennedy, but he wanted to bring them down. this president has bro

you have been roommates with senator schumer. [laughter] >> yes, we were all kind of bachelors back here when our wives were back in the district and we were all kind of living separately and george miller had a house on the hill. we were all friends and we would go out to dinner and he finally said what we all stay together, so we all moved in to george miller's house and it was chuck schumer, a guy named marty riso from illinois and chuck schumer and i were on the bottom and he slept on the couch and i had a bed that i lived in in the one corner of the room downstairs and this was truly an animal house. [laughter] and chuck was the kind of person, he would munch on anything. my son every once in a while would come back and stay with me and we didn't have any cereal then and so he would buy cereal for himself and chuck schumer before he would go to bed would eat the cereal. so my son would always wake up and say, what happened to my cereal. and he said, i'm sorry, that was chuck schumer. so it's an early washington lesson that h

and one of chuck schumer's housemates is ratting him out.four democrat members of congress have shared a real world style house on capitol hill and while they are away from their home districts. retiring california representative george miller says cleanliness has been an issue over the years, chuck schumer is a tough one. leon panetta, he had hospital quarters on his bed, you could bounce a quarter off his bed. chuck schumer has not made his bed in three years. >> how would you feel knowing that someone with security clearance was smuggling guns aboard that very same flight? authorities say that's exactly what was going on at the world's busiest airport. correspondent jonathan sarin tells us tonight from atlanta about an inside job. >> reporter: federal and new york state authorities have charged a total of five men in connection with an alleged operation transporting stolen or illegally purchased firearms from atlanta to new york aboard commercial aircraft. according to a federal affidavit, mark quinton henry supplied 129 hand guns in vari

schumer. chuck schumer is the leader of e tria bill in the senate he said, dear senator schumer. i want to thank you for your leadership on extending the terrorism reinsurance act and its program. as you well know, tria is critical to our economic and national security. terrorism insurance is necessary for a broad range of economic activities in areas across the country and would be prohibitively expensive or unavailable in the absence of the program. second paragraph. there is clear bipartisan support in both the senate and the house to enact a long-term extension while making reforms to further reduce taxpayers -- taxpayer exposure. time is running short to head off an unnecessary, unprecedented and disruptive lapse of the program which is scheduled to expire in just a few weeks. third paragraph. given the economic necessity and national security implications of this legislation, tria's re-authorization should not be delayed due to disagreements over entirely unrelated financial regulatory issues. i appreciate the hard work you and your bipartisan colleagues are doing to re-aut

maybe that's something schumer is signaling. maybe that's what hearken is signaling. >> will they put their political capital and time into that? that's not what they're interested in doing. as a ceo, he has a tough job. every jo ceo does. ceos build coalitions. even though he has two years left, he still has time to build coalitions. neil: but he doesn't want to. he's burning bridges. >> if we're going to see real change, those coalitions -- >> he only built a coalition once. that was with obamacare. it didn't have a single republican in that coalition. >> that's not a coalition then. >> the coalition of democrats. the caucus of democrats. neil: that coalition is turning on him. that's what, what i mean by them turning on him. >> they can strip out parts of obamacare. scared about their next election. >> you talked about jeff bezos yesterday of amazon apologizing. the president hasn't apologized. neil: he must be seeing that chuck schumer has his regrets. he must be seeing sibile, even though she called us idiots for not compre

senator chuck schumer of new york thinks so. >> oil price versus gone down dramatically from over $100 a barrel to $60 a barrel. that's at airline prices profits go way up. why are the ticket prices going up as well? that is just really unfair and wrong. >> schumer wants the justice department and the department of transportation to investigate why air fairs are so high and why some carriers are still tacking on a fuel surcharge? >>> we begin tonight's mark focus with the largest private equity buyout of the year, petsmart has agreed to be acquired by dc partners for nearly $9 billion. this group will pay $83 a share for the pet retailer. partners had been pressuring the company to put itself up for saechl shares rose from 4% to $80.97. >>> river technology agreeing to be acquired by a private equity firm. it will be bought for about $3 billion. the deal comes about a year after the company's biggest shareholder, elliot management, pushed for a sale. riverbed rose 8% to $20.hundred. >>> pfizer enters into a deal. two companies will develop and commercialize the growth hormone treatment

it's so similar to what chuck schumer said.ook, maybe this shouldn't have been our first priority. >> there's a poll out tonight fox news poll about what should happen to the health care law. repeal the law last year 53% thought it should be repealed. that has now risen to 58%. >> more people want it repealed. i actually think it was a great name. >> obama care? >> yeah. it would have sealed obama's legacy as a signature achievement. and even on the campaign trail he was saying hey i kind of like the name obama care. the problem is the bill really has fallen apart physically and in the eyes of the american people. that's the problem. that's why no one likes the name because it reminds them of a bill that's terrible. >> what would you name it? >> i came up with the name frankenstein fiasco. >> that's because it was a nearly dead bill and they had to sew and bolt it to the to get it to pass and it was sort of a mess. >> john, what would you have named it? >> i would leave that to someone much popular. name it after someone really

new york city chuck schumer is calling for a federal investigation.r wants to know why ticket prices haven't gone down even though the cost of fuel has taken a tumble. the high-ranking democrat asked the department of justice and transportation, figure out if airline mergers play any role. he wonders if airlines are taking advantage of flyers. >> well, that's the looming question, are consumers being taken advantage of? signs point to yes when you have such a significant drop in fuel prices over such a long period of time and airline prices continue to go up? something's wrong. >> schumer says the free market doesn't seem to be working. however, officials from the airline say money saved from lower fuel price is being re-invested into new planes and employee perks. >>> frontier airlines will bring back its round trip delaware to tampa flight next week. starting monday, sun seekers can catch a morning flight from wilmington to tampa. the flight was cut back in october but promised to bring it back this winter. >>> nbc 10 following the latest developmen

schumer's argument, i think, is a little more strategic politically.we were doing this as a democratic-controlled congress, the economy still wasn't in great shape, perhaps we should have focused on that, and i think, look, most democrats would say looking at the results of the 2010 elections and the recent elections when the health care law was a big concern, yeah, from a crass political perspective, we should have been focused on other issues. but i think once you talk to, you know, the grand majority of democrats, they would say, look, it was still a good thing to do this. we've tried to address it. sure there have been problems, but over the long term we expect it will work out. i think schumer's point is we probably would have done better in the polls in november if we had focused on broader economic issues and not just this law. jon: all right. it's going to be a fascinating couple of months -- >> sure will be. jon: -- especially as the new congress comes in and they try to decide what to do about the president's executive action on immigration a

and chuck schumer's speech was not particularly appreciated in the west wing either.le were wondering whether or not this was sort of an act of desperation for a guy who is having a little difficulty within his own conference. i think the real action to watch is not so much necessarily among the democrats in the senate but the white house versus the senate. i think that could -- has the potential, at least in the next couple of months to get pretty nasty. >> sam, on that note beyond the budget showdown on september 11th, there is, as glen said, the tax, tende extenders, the e funding, and the question is whether it can get done in the lame duck session and during the process of it getting done exacerbates tensions. >> i say it as someone who doesn't celebrate christmas. i think the ebola funding question is like a microcosm for everything here, right? you had a crisis a couple weeks ago that receded from the headlines and suddenly you're facing the prospect of having the president's emergency request going completely unfunded because congress can't get its act togethe

what if you had a scenario, where chuck schumer are saying they're not that constructive.n would it be hillary is destructive? takes the focus off hillary clinton being the lightning rod. there is a flip side of this. >> i do think in some way, not just taking her out of the lime light to be the frontrunners. that always helps. but if elizabeth warren talks more and more about some wacky things she believes, that's going to make hillary clinton seem more reasonable. if you want to druj you mean some of the far left theories and they will, that's exactly what hillary clinton wants. pete, i want to ask you, i think if bill clinton ran today, i'm not sure he could get nominated. he's more the moderate wing. i think hillary clinton is the mother goose of progressivism. is she going to go to that? >> i think she'll be forced to. she's been trying to move to the middle. she'll talk about how she governs, how she would be a governing candidate. what is the rationale? she's a woman. she's waiting her turn. she's a woman. now she's run against elizabeth warren. >> big bill is back

. >>> they're discussing health care again gruber, schumer, and now harkin.ple are admitting mistakes. that's fine. i do it all the time. it involves senator tom harkin, one of bureaucraobamacare's aut. so i look back and say we should have either done it the correct way or not done anything at all. that is not what he was saying when they were pushing this. take a listen. >> i don't care how many times the minority wants to drag it out and slow it down to try to kill this bill. this bill will pass the united states senate, stand strong for the american people. now is not the time to go wobbly in the knees. >> the wind is at our back. i think people now see that this is actually going happen. we're actually going to pass a health care bill. >> this is a great achievement. >> and now achievement he regrets. why the sudden change of heart among democrats increasingly ripping the health care law. something is going on. >> yeah, there is. i just got to take a second and say i'm disappointed by what happened in new york. i think it will now validate the false narr

senator schumer has already broken from obamacare.ansion has no stomach for climate change. elizabeth warren wants to repeal the medical device tax that helps fund obamacare. the democrats took a pounding last month. they lost the senate and they lost because president obama and his signature policies are deeply unpopular. why should they go into the next elections saddled with obama's policy failures. of the republicans want to chip away the obama legacy their best allies are probably disgruntled democrats. we have more on this. dan henninger is next. i want to get right at president obama's problem with his own party. listen to what joe mention said this morning on fox news. >> people want to get something done. i am a moderate democrat. i want to work to get something done. all we have to do is find that middle and find a balance. stuart: dan henninger from the wall street journal editorial board is right here as he usually is. welcome to the program. you agree with my premise the president has a problem with his own party, specifi

dave: we have charlie schumer saying obamacare was a mistake the way they rolled out could there be athe democratic party of resist? >> don't know if it is a hot-button issue right now. was an interesting story. i am not an expert at it but i don't see this galvanizing public opinion as health-care did and i don't see him going that way. dave: president obama's executive orders to push his aggressive agenda resulting in a squeeze on the middle class and a problem for hillary clinton in 2016. former clinton insider joins us on that new at noon. here is why you are not spending all that many u.s. saving on gas. everything else is still a lot more expensive. herman cain joining us. our 22 minutes away. ♪ [ male announcer ] how did edward jones become one of the biggest financial services companies in the country? hey. yours? not anymore. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more than halfway. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. come on in. [ m...the getaway vehicle! ng you more than halfway. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. by avoiding ra

according to schumer. they never changed the default passwords on their devices.his smart tv buyer says theirs a good reason to do to that. >> do you plan to change the password on this once you get it set up? >> i would have to check. i would have to check. i don't know how true this is. following up but i would have to check to see, if it's needed to change the default, then i'll do that. >> reporter: off smart tv here. if you don't change the default password it can be hacked. so do you plan to change the password once you get that home? >> of course. if i would have known that earlier i probably would have reconsidered paying for it and even then once i got home i'll change the password if that's the case. >> reporter: experts say there's an easy way to protect yourself and your privacy. when you're setting up your smart device or tv take those few extra moments and set up your own personal pass wore. on the east side, i'm lisa evers, fox news. >> would have never thought to do that. now i will. row lull tv show and celebrity baker buddy vallas industry is ver

one, senator schumer, from the 1993 world trade center. i think 9/11 was different.t was certainly different from the perspective of the american people. that i have no doubt. but i think most families, for whatever the reason, didn't come running to me asking for similar treatment. the public, certainly, was behind the program. >> why shouldn't all of those people have gotten the same kind ofs as the 9/11 people? from the per spec tev of the victims, i don't see any distinction. if you try and justify my program, on the basis of the victims lost, i can't convincingly explain why 9/11, yes. 1993 world trade center, no. i this the only way you justify this program as a special carve-out, is from the perspective of the nation. a recognition that 9/11 was along with the american civil war, pearl harbor, maybe the assassination of president kennedy, and 9/11. it's -- its impact on the american people was such that this was really a response from america to demonstrate the solidarity and cohesiveness of the american people towards these victims. that's the only way to exp

so that could explain the likes of chuck schumer and harkin. it is interesting. used to think it is unthinkable to repeal. but you could get a coalition of those you think their lucky stars. >> whatever you think about obamacare it has wiped out a generation of democrats they control the house and the senate now they lost them both. some said it will become the popular and that's why i think shivers remarks were so key. neil: so if you sprinkle those crumbs there is something interesting going on but with chuck schumer who is as much a cheerleader when to harkin on his way out, big is going on. i don't know what to. what is next? >> republican leaders know they have the votes to override the presidential veto. but there may be more of a willingness from the democrats to change obamacare to get rid of the medical device tax. >> with another revenue source. >> it is hard to find money but that would be a huge victory for the g.o.p.. and these democrats voted on obamacare. but in future years they may say i did not vote for that. good to see you. more moments are co

i said, i'm sorry, that's schumer took care of that. so, it's an early washington lesson. >> host: mr. secretary, you lived the most amazing life and for those of us here in washington there's so many aspects to learn from, and to -- in wow forthy fights "you go back to the beginning and talk about when you were running for congress, and you talk about tip o'neill, later was your speaker, came out to campaign for you and it didn't go so well. >> guest: well, no. tip came out and it was wonderful to have him. big irishman from boston, came out, and we did a fundraiser with democrats, and tip went up there and he said, i just -- i want you to do everything possible to work for leo panetta. >> host: in good friend leo. >> guest: and he said it several times, and fortunately most of the crowd kind of took it in stride because he was enjoying himself. he had a few scotchs and was in good shape. and everybody enjoyed the evening, but from then on, when i did get elected, and i went to congress, there was another congressman whose name was nor

what schumer said is fascinating. remember this new class of republican senators who are coming washington to the u.s. senate, tom cotton, they were all elected on a promise to repeal obamacare or cut it back significantly. you will see them look for a few democrats, maybe joe manchin to work with them to cutback some parts of obamacare. schumer's words did not help democrats. >> mitch mcconnell and john boehner say we are not going to shut this thing down. >> what they would like to do is fund the whole government except for the department of homeland security which will enforce the president's immigration edict. but then pass a shorter-term bill for the department of homeland security and then they could revisit it in february the-march when the republicans are a majority. but until then the democrats still control the senate. i think there will be a big fight. bill: byron york. thank you. billmartha: ray rice's wife is w speaking out in an e -- in an ee interview. what she has to say about the nfl, about that infam

i agree with chuck schumer, and i want to quote senator schumer. not the change we were hired to make. crying out for the end of the recession for better wages and more jobs. i see today the article today the rising healthcare costs. when you look at the work that the chairman and senator did together to make a bipartisan agreement a lot of it permanent to help job creations. unfortunately the president disagreed. the house will act this week we will move. again when you look long-term a bipartisan agreement it would be best for the white house. >> hope you all had a good thanksgiving. focused on christmas season and things that they can do to provide for their family. the last thing they want to see under that tree is an increase in taxes. we will bring legislation to prevent that. it is good for the economy. it would have been nice to have a longer-term deal. unfortunately, the white house decided to block that. when you look at what we are doing something that we will help people with disabilities and help them to help themselves something that

we are very budget conscious. >> sam, talk about, you know, senator chuck schumer, dick durbin.ful guys in the senate right now. what are they like as room mates? >> it was great, actually, because congressman miller and myself, you know, knew what were going on in the house that day. we could check with our senate colleagues what was happening in the senate anded there be some collaboration. there were some differences. we sometimes would fought as our districts had different interests. but it was actually a good way to live. you were in washington from tuesday night to thursday night and it meant that you had to work all the time. you didn't have to feel guilty of not going home to see your family. and then you ahad somebody to collaborate with. you just didn't go back to a place by yourself. it was a good deal economically. i want to complain to congressman russo, the couch was very uncomfortable and took me four months to figure out i could call a store and they would deliver a bed and. >> you get what you pay for, i guess. >> one of the funny things about having four men li

michael schumer, he wrote the book, the believing brain, we construct beliefs and reinforce them, our brains are faulty? >> they are not faulty but they believe in nonsense because we believe just about everything we hear or see or read about or told by others, there is a reason for that, imagine you are a human on plains of africa millions of years ago, you hear a. the grass moving, you believe it is the wind, it turns out it is a predator could you are lunch. you have just been taken out of the gene pool. >> and you don't give birth to people who give birth to us. >> we're descendents to those who are most likely to believe everything is real, just in case it is. our brains are like lawyers, marshals the evidence to form your case. whatever it is. you just fine evidence to fit it, you ignore the evidence that does not fit it. john: believe believe in ghosts and global warming but aliens? about a third of americans believe in ufo's. do you think there are aliens? um, yes. >> aliens, yes. >> absolutely. >> yes. >> yes, i do. >> 100%. john: i mean kpwharbg is that about what isthat abo

chuck schumer had a broadside in which he represents the right wing to the extent there is one.s a savage attack on everything obama represents. they are looking at the shellacking and one way of saying, we have to go left, the other right. i think in contrast there's tremendous harmony on the republican side. a slight argument over how to deal tactically with the executive order but i think it's completely different and there's intimately more comedy on the other side. it's the wrong story. >> but senator schumer said he was not stepping back and that obamacare was the wrong move. >>> let's look at the damage caused by the big california storm up next. er menu at red lo! with more of what you love! try our newest wood-grilled combination! maine lobster, extra jumbo shrimp, and salmon! so hurry in! and sea food differently. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an inje

chuck schumer reported obama care, they were blaming debbie wasserman schultz. but know who was responsible? president obama. this election was a referendum on him. >> i want to specifically ask about the divide in the drablg party. if you u ask on that map now, you said it's sad, it's going to be tough for democrats, srntd it? >> well, no, it depends, as long as the party continues, he's contracting right now to basically a coastal party. and if it starts losesing the midwest and some of the industrial states, then it will be in deep trouble, few problem is the republicans are trying to do well in some of those areas. >> this is the a but, harris, there are 256 electoral votes that are democratic, that is where the democrats won five of the last sick presidential elections and four or five states that if they win just one of, they win the presidency. to while the democratic party is as pat suggests, a coastal party, electorally for the presidency, it's hard, not impossible. >> the republicans have to crack some of these democratic states and reach out beyond a

when you have leading democrats like chuck schumer saying that obama care is a political loser that'sing that the democratic party has no interest in watching obama lead office with approval ratings in the gutter. >> tha i think the pressure for him to compromise is going to come primarily from his own party. >> to jason's other point, we have this statement from the incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. bipartisan jobs bills will see the light of day and will make it to the president's desk and he l have to make a decision. there's a lot we can get done together if the president puts his famous pen to use signing bills rather than vetoing legislation, his liberal allies don't like, he's cited keystone and other priorities. >> maybe i'm being wildly optimistic tick here with the new year, but i think there's a real opportunity, there's been this kind of mutual enabling of dysfunctional and not just between the legislative and the executive branch but between the house and the senate. it was so easy for the house to blame the senate and the senate to blame the senate for fil

i said, i'm sorry, that's schumer took care of that. so, it's an early washington lesson. >> host: mr. secretary, you lived the most amazing life and for those of us here in washington there's so many aspects to learn from, and to -- in wow forthy fights "you go back to the beginning and talk about when you were running for congress, and you talk about tip o'neill, later was your speaker, came out to campaign for you and it didn't go so well. >> guest: well, no. tip came out and it was wonderful to have him. big irishman from boston, came out, and we did a fundraiser with democrats, and tip went up there and he said, i just -- i want you to do everything possible to work for leo panetta. >> host: in good friend leo. >> guest: and he said it several times, and fortunately most of the crowd kind of took it in stride because he was enjoying himself. he had a few scotchs and was in good shape. and everybody enjoyed the evening, but from then on, when i did get elected, and i went to congress, there was another congressman whose name was nor

and those are, as we've seen from the comments from the senior senator from new york, senator schumer, who gave a very noteworthy speech at the national press club recently, he mentioned things like that we should be focused on, like the needs of the middle class, stagnant wages, mass underemployment, widespread pessimism about the future of the american dream. the last thing we need is a protracted constitutional crisis and that is really sort of a distraction, unfortunate distraction from what we ought to be doing together. if we recognize these as the challenges and the message that was sent on november the 4th, we ought to be working together to address them. but because of this crisis, it will be more difficult but we can't give up. we need to work together to overhaul our job-training programs and give americans relief from the burdens of government that does not work in their best interest. it will be more difficult for us to pass pro-growth tax and regulatory reforms and it will be more difficult for us to do what we need to do to shore up and sustain social security and medic

comments like chuck schumer's obviously don't help.were tremendously unhelpful for the drargs when he said that they really shouldn't have gone after healthcare as their first big ticket item. >> yeah, jackie can a lot of people out there feel they have been hood winked as consumers. they were promised one thing and got an entirely different thing all together. that's why they are upset. then you have that on the heels of jonathan gruber's comments. it's demoralizing. >> yeah. and i think those comments in particular really reinforce some of the concern a lot of people had about obamacare. and i think democrats want to make sure that this is working, at least adequately. so their nominee isn't dealing with this in debates coming up in 2016. >> so if you are republican, what do you do to try to make the most of this situation because they have been given essentially a mandate by saying hey, we are voting for you. we put you in the midterm election so now what? >> i think what you are going to he seat republican does is do the repeal vot

you see, schumer wants to know why airline prices are rising when fuel prices are falling.ell chuck, just look under the airline seat for the bag that passengers place there or that bag they might sticks in the overhead kpartmentes. underlying fares are actually down when you take all that other stuff out. like the fees for where you sit on the plane or the fees for those who got on the plane. it's -- you would think that a guy who was calling for special hearings and investigations when gas prices were rocketing would be just as adamant to get to the bottom of why gas prices are suddenly collapsing, after all, what weirdly goes down must be just as scrutinized as what weirdly goes up, right? weirdly not. a lot of supply right now, not a whole lot of demand, versus when those prices were jumping and there was a lot more demand. that is when booming global power houses were sapping up energy wherever they could get it. but the fracking increasing the supply of oil from which they could get it. fracking and supply took off, china and india and much of the world slowed down, b

earlier this month chuck schumer called for a federal investigation into the high cost of flying. >>> we have much more fact checking on the way, including recent reports that oakland remains california's crime capital, but what do the facebook numbers suggest? >> what i have in this stack are bills that could make a difference to a struggling economy today. >> 300 bills have been bottled up in the senate a historic roadblock. is that true? we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. republicans launched an entire ad campaign around the idea that a democratically controlled senate stopped more than 300 bills from being signed into law. should we expect a more productive senate? history reveals a surprising answer. >> take a look at history over the last couple of years. the house was extremely productive in passing legislation. bills just started to stack up in the senate. >> reporter: these remarks on "meet the press" mirror a national campaign run by republicans. it blames democrats for holding up some 300 bills passed by the gop led house. >> what i have in this stack are bills that cou