senator jay rockefeller, who chaired a hearing into the cruise industry weeks after the disaster, says company bears responsibility. >> the cruise ship is the captain, right? i mean, he didn't wander in on his own and start turning the wheel or whatever it is, pushing buttons. i mean, the company is the captain. the captain is the company. >> costa and some other lines have made changes since the concordia disaster. current regulations say there must be an assembly drill within 24 hours of embarkation. now those drills are held before a ship leaves port. that wasn't the case with the costa concordia. hector perez said safety officers went so far as to encourage passengers to ignore the lecture altogether. >> he told everybody that we're all adults here, that we came here to have fun, and to go spend your money at the casinos, there's nice restaurants, to go spend -- to go to the restaurants and basically just place your red emergency drill cards in front of the table and he will scan them on your way out. >> after the accident cleared, the industry's largest lobbying group and its euro

senator rockefeller says the industry is piloting their boats through legal loopholes. >> they don'tast guard. they don't pay taxes, which would help these 20 federal agencies which are watching over them. they always say safety is their emphasis. i've never quite believed that. i think the bottom line is their emphasis. >> finances aside, the question looming after the concordia disaster, is the cruise line taking safety seriously? >> did it take the deaths of 32 people onboard to prompt you to take action? don't speak. i'll just leave you two alone. [ male announcer ] black friday's back. savings start thursday at 8 pm. more electronics start at 10 pm. the first and only place to go this black friday. walmart. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the aci

greta: what do you see as the single biggest difference between you and the incumbent democrat senator rockefellerdifference between us is he believes government is the solution. i believe that the solutions lie here in west virginia with great ideas. the other difference is we have an energy sector here in west virginia that is absolutely being hammered by the obama administration. i've been fighting in the house to try to protect our jobs. we have lost thousands of jobs in our coal industry. we also have a very vibrant natural gas industry that i want to protect. that's good for our state, our economics, but it's also good for the energy security of the nation. i think he has much different views on this. healthcare is another big one. i don't agree with the president's health plan as it's moving forward. i think west virginians agree with me there. they don't want to see a big expansion into their healthcare. there are a lot of differences. >> greta: it's going to be interesting race to watch. if we had more time, we would go into sort of the history, the political history in your state, becaus

us about all these things keep getting shot down well let's look at the history here it was senators rockefeller and lieberman a few years ago that initially proposed this kill switch they didn't use that term at least it didn't like that term but that's what it amounts to once you start putting in legislation words like disconnect and urgency powers given to the president in a cybersecurity emergency that's pretty much what it amounts to right and then there were there was just a series outcry people did not like the idea of killswitch in the hands of the president a matter whose party and they backed down it took them a while they did back down and instead what we saw were two pieces of legislation earlier this year and one was a democratic bill that senator lieberman was. trying to move forward to and that would still allow increased surveillance and the other was a republican bill of the house of representatives that. did approve and that would allow but not require companies private companies highest providers what not to turn over information to intelligence agencies and other arms of the

he's about 75 years old, but she in a poll in west virginia, very troubling poll for senator rockefelleras leading him 48 to 44. very bad poll to be in that situation and the republicans are saying she's not conservative enough. >> this is fascinating, but i think you're right to spotlight it. >> just this moment. it became national news. >> are we on national television? >> number one, the cultural war is over because we won. tolerant people won. liberal people won. women won. what you see is a challenge to people like capito, who on nonculture war issues, pretty normal conservatives and the tea party which claimed to be so obsessed with deficits now, is starting to flirt with these other litmus tests. if they want to keep going this to themselves, they are going to continue to undermine people who are politically strong. rockefeller's a big name in west virginia. >> and so, jim demint comes out an says we can't support her. do they know that that haven't elected a republican to the senate in about 4,000 years? >> that's the question and it's very frustrating for them because they feel

the letter you are referring to from senator rock rockefeller and tom harkin, they urge 20 some odd democrats to sign on, don't touch the entitlements, make the ratio, spending cuts and tax increases more like 1 to 1. i don't see this ball moving here. do you? >> i hope it can. what should happen is if they were serious about fixing this problem, let's get this next year so we can do it in a reasonable time frame. couple entitlement reform and tax reform. republicans are willing to put revenues on the table as long as it is on the context of fax -- tax reform that lowers rates. we won't do it in the last 30 days of the year. extend the tax rates rather than take the risk of driving over this fiscal cliff and plunging the economy into a recession. >> the president doesn't seem to be budging on this. the flanks are saying don't even consider doing this. we are at a potential point of no return where if the two sides are that far apart, republicans and democrats, how real is that cliff looking? there is a separate thought that many democrats want to go over that. they want that cliff to happen.

. >> senators rockefeller and harkin are passing around a letter opening to get 30 sittings.y want negotiations for every $1 out they have a $1 in. it would hold the president strong to medicare medicaid and social security. what they call lifelines to the middle class. david de will testify tomorrow behind closed doors in front of the intelligence committee. we're back after the break. this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>i think that's an understatement, eliot. u>> i'm not prone tot. understatement, so explain to me why that is. i think the mob learned from wall st., not vice versa. break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> stephanie: i'm here. everybody settle, settle. we don't rehearse. we're going to say funny things in a second. [ laughing ] six minutes after the hour, 1-800-steph-12 toll-free from anywhere. we're going to have to have jacki in because this gets betterrer and betterrer. this is the gossipy girl in me comes out. this is spectacular. this is from the l.a. times. jill kel

a lot of veteran senators up like rockefeller, tom harkin, baucus, guys there three, four, five terms. the u.s. supreme court will decide whether it should consider legalizing gay marriage nationwide. there are several cases they could hear, some challenging the federal defense of marriage act, one prop 8 and another case in arizona that could legalize it nationwide, banning it nationwide, or continue the current state laws. the question is how many of these cases do they take? do they roll them all into one? that's what we'll hopefully find out this week and, finally, after a failed senate bid, represe representative todd akin apparently decides he needs to write a book. the congressman told reporters he's still trying to recover from his loss but that he'll get over it quickly saying he has to find a new job soon since he has a mortgage to pay and to make and he might consider taking advantage of his new fame by writing a book. >>> well, nearly 140 million adults shocked this weekend with the average shopper spending $423. that's a rise from last year's numbers. so how will wall str

just want taxes raised, double the figure they raised earlier, and lo and behold, democratic senator jay rockefeller and tom harkin, with a letter to the president urging that he did even more sweeping than that. we urge you to reject changes to medicaid and medicare, social security that would cut benefits commences shift costs to alter the structure of these critical programs or force vulnerable populations to bear the burden of deficit reduction deficits. this goes on and on. they are trying to get 30 more senators or so to sign on to that. there are talking about the ratio of so-called spending cuts to revenues more like one-to-one, but a big chunk of those alleges spending cuts are rehashed cuts from last year's debt ceiling agreement. but that back on the table. what we're talking about here, if you're talking 4 trillion in savings over ten years, a trillion that is a free already done. trillion of that is for wars in afghanistan and iraq that have already been factored for being phased out, no real cuts there. and then i guess it's a jumble because more than a trillion of the remaining figure

"the ed show" was contacted by senator jay rockefeller of west virginia today and his office issued thistement. they are saying, "as deficit reduction talks continue, i'm squarely focused on making sure the middle class and the most vulnerable aren't left to shoulder the burden, and that the very wealthy pay their fair share." >>> coming up, papa john's ceo changes his tune on obama care after a public backlash. stay with us. you're watching the ed show on msnbc. get 36 months interest-free financing through thanksgiving weekend at sleep train, and save $400, $500, up to $600 on beautyrest and posturepedic. even get 3 years interest-free financing on serta icomfort and tempur-pedic. plus, free same day delivery, set-up, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save. but mattress price wars ends sunday, thanksgiving weekend, at sleep train. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> coming up next, corporate leaders are risking their bottom line by choosing to get political about obama care. john nichols and ruth connip join me. >>> lindsey graham's response

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then working together with senator feinstein, the chair of the senate intelligence committee; senator rockefeller, the chair of the commerce committee; and senator carper, who has had a real interest in cybersecurity and is a leader on the homeland security committee; we bring this legislation forward. we're being given a second chance to raise our defenses against the rival nations, enemy nations, industrial spies, cyber terrorists organized anti-american nonstate actors and organized criminal gangs, international organized crime gangs who are constantly probing our computer networks for weaknesses that they can exploit to steal industrial secrets, to take some of the best results of american innovation and entrepreneurship, take it overseas and with it the jobs that come with those secrets. and of course to sabotage critical infrastructure -- power plants, financial systems, telecommunications systems, water systems, and so on and son on -- which are the systems that we depend on in our society for our quality of life, for our freedom of expression. so many of them owned by the private sector a

big issue for senator rockefeller over the years. i think there are ways to do this. i might also add the waiver process here can be helpful. we can learn some things. as we went through the affordable care act we talked about experimenting, let's figure out what works and what doesn't. the cook county hospital, known as stroger hospital, has checkered history to state least, but under our new president, cook county board, they asked for a waiver so that they could take the new medicaid population that's going to come onboard with the affordable care act, get to them early, establish preventive care and medical homes for these people. i think this is going to turn out to be a real money safer. as we start thinking about early interventions and coordinating care for a lot of people who are chronically ill and very expensive, if they aren't cared for under the medicaid program. >> thanks. >> "wall street journal," you also talked about investment, infrastructure, are you calling for a specific language in a potential deal that would be -- would involve these types of in

about medicare and medicaid, and social security, and a letter circulating in the senate senators harken and rockefeller of the same sentiment. do you agree? >>guest: we have different approaches for saving money. if you save money the way we did in affordable care act by reducing costs but not simply transferring rising health care costs on to the backs of seniors that is the approach we put forward. >>neil: you are not in the camp that says don't look, the let are circulating in the senate says don't even look at them. >>guest: i have not season the letter but the same senators voted for the affordable care act and they agreed we needed to change the incentives in the health care system. what we have said, we will look at ways to bring down health care costs over all moving away from the strict fee-for-service system in medicare which we have begun to do. we can build on that. but we will not take a system like the voucher systems that have been proposed and transfer the risks and costs of health care on to the backs of seniors on medicare which is what a lot of these republican proposals would do. we

when you have senators members of the united states senate, like jay rockefeller, say though will notccept any level of enlightment reform, takes the negotiations and puts them in jeopardy before they even begun. what simon laid out is four step process everyone wants to see move forward and we'll have another trillion dollar deficit according to cbo moving into next year and we can't afford anymore like that. if we take what obama would be willing to support which is increase in the age of, again recipients and other type of reforms like that, then we have a legitimate negotiation as we move into it. but when you have liberal members of the democratic party stepping forward and saying before the process begins they will not accept any type of entitlement reform, it makes it untenable process from the beginning. jon: is it no entitlement reform, simon, or is it perhaps entitlement reform when it comes to medicare? i haven't heard anybody talk about reforming social security on democratic side? >> that is good question and i think, look i think we're in the early stages, chris, of this

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senate races. plus let's go back to nbc's democracy plaza right here at the heart of rockefeller center. you can also check us out on the web at nbcnews.com. you're watching "early today." ♪ ♪ >>> a look there for you. bruce springsteen performing at an obama campaign event last night in columbus, ohio. speaking of the boss, it was in his home state of new jersey where officials are making sure voters can cast their ballots despite the devastation from hurricane sandy. voters whose polling places were flooded were busy filling out forms yesterday to cast provisional ballots. in florida and other key battleground states with early voting there are reports of robo calls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the telephone. >>> and during halftime of monday night football espn's chris berman interviewed both president obama and governor mitt romney. he asked mr. romney what he's learned about himself and then to mr. obama who likens politics to sports. we begin with mr. romney. >> this campaign process goes on a couple of years. lots of flights, lots of trips, and what i foun

elsewhere and popular west virginia moderate, shelly moore capito to challenge jay rockefeller and rebuked by tea party senator jim demint and the club for growth among other conservatives and in georgia incumbent senator chambliss looks like he's facing challenges from the right flank and one of those considering a run is conservative blogger and activist eerick erickson. they're early indications of will the republican party be able to overcome what has been a major issue for them? i mean, they have had two election cycles now where they failed to take control of the senate in part because of nominating extreme and unelectable candidates. these are troubling signs for them. virginia's my home state and i have watched the kuch probably a bit more than most and he's more polished, more capable of a politician than a todd aiken but just as far to the right and extreme. as attorney general he pretried to prevent universities in the state from including sexual orientation in nondiscrimination policies and a witch hunt against a former uva professor of climate science as a state senator, as the republican party is

senate races across the country. plus, you are looking at nbc's democracy plaza right here in the heart of rockefeller center. you can check us out on the web at nbc news.com/democracy plaza. you're watching "early today." ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> nice listen for you. bruce springstein performing at an obama campaign event in columbus, ohio. in the boss's state of new jersey officials are making sure people can cast their ballots despite the devastation from hurricane sandy. people cast provisional ballots. in florida and key battleground states with reporting, there are reports of robo calls incorrectly telling people they can cast votes over the phone. and in last night's halftime show chris berman interviewed president obama and mitt romney. we begin with mr. romney. >> this campaign process goes on a couple of years. lots of flights, lots of trips. what i found that surprised me is the more events i did, the more energy i seemed to get. >> in sports it's about winning championships. interesting in politics, it's not winning elections, it's making sure that you're delivering for the folks who sent you. >> speaking of spo

senate. she is a pro choice republican and she is a test of the gop's ability to expand the appeal to voters, the congresswoman will run for democrat jay rockefeller'seat. the senator is not saying if he will run again in 2014. it is an exciting day today. shoppers will be pounding the keyboards and not the pavement looking for on line bargains. this year's cyber monday will be a big success with americans expected to spend 1. 5 billion bucks up 20 percent from last year. i saw the deals last night. buy one and 60 percent off on the other. it is enticing. >> brian: deals are for real. and today's on line . happy to see the retailers busy over the weekend. talking about the fiscal cliff. everyone comes back to work . wonder if they will get to work and cut the deals. republicans made it clear they are willing to budge when it comes to the 20 year pledge not to raise taxes that glover norquist had everyone sign before they took office. >> steve: grover norquist has hundreds of republicans to do that. clearly with the fiscal cliff comment and automatic spending cuts and taxes go up on everybody. something has to be done. the feeling is that it will hap

there is a bipartisan bill in the senate supported by senator lieberman and collins, rockefeller, feinstein are the main sponsors. i think that failed on a cloture vote earlier this year. i think there may be another agenda that during the lamb dhaka. whether there is one of probably depends on the outcome on tuesday. >> simply that out. if president obama is reelected. >> when he is reelected -- [laughter] i think the president shares our concern about this and this very up to speed on the elements and the different types of attacks that we are experiencing. i think that he will have to consider an executive order that covers many of the areas legislation could cover, but it's not a complete substitute for legislation. there are some things that only legislation can provide. saddam for example, companies -- you see what would incentivize the company to voluntarily pay this. one can be liability protection if any event were to happen but they had been deployed in what was construed as best practices. that kind of liability protection can only be conferred by statute. so that's the kind of t

senate. she was select to do her 7th term will run for jay rockefeller's seat. he has held the seat since 1984 but has not said if he will run again in 2014. >> what would you do with $425 million? that is where the jackpot for power ball stands right now. no one picked the winning numbers for the weekend drawing so you can run out and buy your ticket before the mad rush begins. the drawing is wednesday night. let's make our plans now. >> office pool. >> congress returns to work today and they are ready to tackle the fiscal cliff crisis. lawmakers are ready tro compromise. >> lawmakers are ready to give in on tax changes in order to get some sort of a deal done. kelly wright joins us with more on what it means for the negotiation. we could be looking at possible tax hikes, isn't that right? >>> oo the government is on automatic pilot. that is five weeks away. for congress there is much work to be done and more compromise to be made in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. it will require give and take negotiations particularly on raising taxes but republican law amer

senate races across the countriment let's go back there. a beautiful sight. it's nbc's democracy plaza at the heart of rockefeller center. check us out at nbc news.com/democracy plaza. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ girl ] hey! [ both laugh ] ♪ hi victor! mom? i know you got to go in a minute but this is a real quick meal, that's perfect for two! campbell's chunky beef with country vegetables, poured over rice! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> bruce springsteen performing at an obama campaign event last night in columbus, ohio. speaking of the boss in home state of new jersey, officials are making sure that voters can cast their ballots despite the devastation from hurricane sandy. voters whose polling places were flooded were busy filling out forms yesterday to cast provisional ballots. in florida and other key battleground states, there are reports of robo calls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the telephone. during halftime of monday night football, espn's chris berman interviewed both president obama and governor romney. he asked mr.

was not a continuing body, and the senate said timeout, went back, contemplated what would happen if the rockefelleruling stood and it would change the senate, and decided with robert byrd leading the way to come up with a bipartisan agreement that would not allow that to happen, that changed the filibuster, and the fundamental change was moving at that point from a requirement to end debate to invoke cloture 2/3 of those present voting down to 3/5 of the senate. i will argue that that changed would seem to lower the flood and chris thresher, altered the senate in a fundamental way and the whole idea if it is an issue of significance where the majority leader decides to bring the place to halt and go round the clock, basically went away. there was no incentive for the minority that did not want to take to the floor to dramatize an issue to come to the floor when it was now the burden on the maturity to provide 60 votes. the rule has been in place since 1975. that leads us to another conclusion, which is if there are problems with the filibuster, and issues now which there are, it is not because of t

mk-ultra was investigated in 1975 by the rockefeller commission and the church committee and in 1977 by the senateittee on intelligence and the senate subcommittee on health and scientific research. in addition, tens of thousands of pages related to the program have been declassified and released to the public. our thanks to jennifer youngblood from the cia for getting us that formal comment from the cia. it remains to be seen how many more comments they may have to make if this thing gets into court. >>> i started gymnastics when i was 9 years old and i was watching the 1984 olympics and it spoke to me as if it was like broadcasted directly to me. i immediately took the cushions off the couch and started flipping around. >> joseph putignano's start into gymnastics got serious after that. at the olympic training center just two years later he realized he had a natural gift. but his need to perform perfectly took over his life. >> for me it kind of became a darkness that i have to be perfect. >> reporter: that's where his downward spiral began. >> i had my first drink and all that desire for me to

signed by 17 senators as followed: reid of nevada, tester, conrad, mansion, bingaman, rockefeller, cardin, nelson of nebraska, pryor, shaheen, coons, klobuchar, webb, warner and bennet. mr. reid: i ask consent that the mandatory quorum require under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to calendar number 419. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada moves to proceed to calendar number 419, s. 3525, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the department of defense, for military construction and for defense activities of the department of energy to proscribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: we're going to complete work on this bill; that is, the one that we had the -- prior to the clerk announcing the defense authorization bill. we're going to complete the work on the sportsmen's bill before we go home fo

shpt rockefeller -- nobody knew it was coming. the senate is not a continuing body despite 2/3 of its members are there at any time, and they said, time-out, and moved this bipartner compromise. you could see that happening again where there's this threat of doing it by a unilateral motion and that brings mcconnell and alexander and others to the table, and reid and his colleagues agree that they will be much more open with amendments in return for a change that would ration down the affirmative louse use of the filibuster. host: if the democrats wanted to do this, what's the timeframe? guest: the way it would usually work is you do it right the first day, january3, as the house sets its new rules on that first day. but the original proposal for what's called the nuclear option, which republicans had thrown on the table some years ago over judicial nominations said that we'll do it at any time. not get too technical, but it's basically somebody said to the predeciding officer, we want to know what the parliamentary ruling is on whether you c

i got hooked on the senate and decided to go to law school and came back six years later and was able to work for gaylord nelson and robert byrd. i finished with jay rockefeller as his first chief of staff. i had many memorable experiences, which are not in the book because the book is not a memoir. it is a narrative history. i had a responsibility for trying to write the senate ethics code, lead the effort to write the senate ethics code. i spilled water all over ed muskie when he was angry at us for taking away his honoraria. i had many experiences there. it was a time when the senate, because of the great people in the senate and the way it operated. it was a magnet for a lot of us coming to washington. wandering the halls, and i did not know them all in the 1970's were madeleine albright, stephen breyer, susan collins, lamar alexander. many of the leaders. and in the media today, chris matthews, george will. many of these people got their training in the senate. we were not part of the greatest generation. we have the next best thing. we were trained by them. host: our next call for ira shapiro comes from barry. you have to turn down your set. we are gett

senator barbara boxer about what is really at stake for women in this campaign. you're watching a special edition of "politicsnation," live from democracy plaza here in new york's rockefeller center. >> and after all we've been through together, we can't give up now. >> no. >> because we've got more change to do. >> yes. >> we've got more change to make. victor! victor! i got your campbell's chunky soup. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. the giants don't have a mascot! ohhh! eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. hmmm. for giant hunger! thanks mom! see ya! whoaa...oops! mom? i'm ok. grandma? hi sweetie! she operates the head. [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. [ male announcer ] the way it moves. the way it cleans. everything about the oral-b power brush is simply revolutionary. oral-b power brushes oscillate, rotate and even pulsate to gently loosen and break up that sticky plaque with more brush movements than manual brushes and even up to 50% more than leading sonic technology brushes for a superior clean. oral-b power brushes. go to oralb.com for the latest offers. >>> a story about earl

senate democrats are hoping he will stick to that claim and not compromise. with republicans they're asking the president not to cave in on talks over the fiscal cliff. those do start tomorrow. west virginia's jay rockefellera's tom harkin are passing around a letter and hoping that at least 30 senators will sign on. now that letter calls for the president to stand firm on revenue entitlement programs and spending cuts. while the president did stop short of using the term "mandate" during the press conference yesterday he did repeatedly mention his election victory, laying the tone he will have the final say on taxes. we're back after the break. stay with us. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. i've been a nurse since 1979. i love being a nurse. a few years ago a friend i went to grade school with showed me a book she had kept from third grade. i had written that i wanted to be a nurse. after being a nurse for about twenty years i decided that i need to further my education. my masters degree was done completely online and that gave me the freedom and ability to do my education while i raised my kids and worked full time. raising my kids as a s

senate? the republicans? would you make a bet on that? no. are you chicken? >>> msnbc is the place for politics, and there is simply no other place to be tonight. rockefellerformed into democracy plaza, and it is from that legendary new york location perched above the skating ruink turned battleground map where we will broadcast live throughout the evening as the people of america decide the outcome of this important presidential election. if you're in the new york city area, we invite you to come down and watch as history unfolds before our very eyes. coming up, the last undecided day for "top lines." [ male announcer ] do you have the legal protection you need? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or living trust. legalzoom makes it easy with step-by-step help when completing your personalized document -- or you can even access an attorney to guide you along. with an "a" rating from the better business bureau legalzoom helps you get personalized and affordable legal protection. in most states, a legal plan attorney is ava

jay rockefeller had time to criticize her, barely an hour after her news conference, it was conservative groups who began to attack her. helped richard mourdock take down indiana republican senator richard lugar, the first with a press release saying her candidacy will undoubtedly be cheered by the g 0 op establishment. congresswoman capito has a long record of support of bailouts, pork and bigger government. quickly followed saying capito is too liberal for them to support. quote, there's no question that congresswoman cap toe is well known in the state and is favored by the washington establishment. they know she won't 0 rock the boat when it comes to cutting deals with democrats to spend money we don't have. freedom works which has given capito a 61% lifetime voter rating said an endorsement would not be, quote, automatic. conservatives aren't happy with her votes for the auto bailouts. west virginia, remember, is still, to put it bluntly, a pork state. robert byrd made it famous but republicans and democrats alike vote to bring federal dollars to west virginia. capito has voted to extend unemployment benefits and as a defender of the state's children's health insurance progr

spoke, senator lee, senator coons, collins, paul, lautenberg, gillibrand, kirk, tester, johnson, sanders, whitehouse, heller, baucus, demint, webb, klobuchar, bingaman, rockefeller, begich, boxer, and a -- an amendment somewhat similar to this, all but one small part of it was similar, received 45 votes in the last session. i want to just spend a moment on the genesis of this amendment because for me it goes back to april of 1942, the day a western defense command and fourth army wartime civil control order went out in san francisco with instructions to all persons of japanese ancestry that all japanese persons, both alien and nonalien, will be evacuated from the above designated areas by 12:00 on tuesday, april 2, 1942. no japanese person will be permitted to enter or leave the above described area after 8:00 a.m. thursday. that was the city of san francisco. and what was created was an internment camp which became a staging area for the placement of japanese americans in detention camps without charge or trial for the remainder of world war ii. this was tanforan racetrack, directly south of san francisco. one sunday afternoon i was a small child in 1942 and my

senator brar ba boxer will join me to talk about what is at stake in this election. >>> good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show." coming to you live from the plaza at rockefeller center. 28 hours until the election. mitt romney's team is going to talk their way to the relationship. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> let us vote! let us vote! >> this is what democracy looks like in florida. and team romney thinks they have it all locked up. >> it looks like the map is starting to he can pand drastically in our favor. >> the spin from the right just keeps oncoming. tonight, richard wolffe and jonathan altar have a massive day on the campaign trail. >>> plus, all the latest on a bizarre day of early voting in florida. the romney campaign finally addresses their chief lie. james hoffa of the teamster reacts. and karen finney and e.j. dionne talk about the rightys who blame hurricane sandy for the rough finish. >> the hurricane is what has broke romney's momentum. >> good to have you with us, folks. the days are racing by and time is running out for the 2012 presidential campaign. mitt romney needs something short of a miracle in the worst way. the campai