like sheldon adelson said today that he believes in gay marriage.nd like, this is -- even david koch says that he believes in gay marriage. the easy, liberal, verities seem to come very easy to these people, just as long as, you said, it doesn't impinge on their bank account. >> it's hedge fund liberalism. >> yes. the other thing that's interesting, when you think about where wealthy folks are, with respect to the obama administration. and we saw all the data on wall street, the pendulum swinging away from barack obama towards mitt romney, how much of it is genuine self-interest in the sense of, just something as simple as the amount of taxes they will pay? >> i would say all of it. i really would. i would say all of it. the banks have two choices. four years ago, they had the choice between barack obama and they knew exactly who he was going to appoint in terms of ben bernanke and timothy geithner, the combination of the team that had saved the world from utter financial collapse. and that's what they knew they needed. and john mccain, on the other

here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture sheldon adelson as you know tycoon to bankroll the romney campaign is coming to washington even though his man isn't in the white house why is adelson meeting with republican lawmakers does he have ulterior motives and. today hundreds of low wage workers took to the streets in new york city protesting for better working conditions and better salaries we'll talk to someone who took part in today's events asking where he sees the fight for a living wage going from here and later in the show we'll have a your take my take lives segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment drive on the air. head first you don't succeed bing bing again you have the republicans top oligarchy foreign casino magnate sheldon adelson is already offering to fund the next election for republicans apparently to protect himself from criminal prosecution adelson spent one hundred fifty million dollars on republicans in the two thousand and twelve election more than anyone in american election history and now he's promising to spend double that

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individuals it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars a sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for example we saw that the what was the the this chain that the olive garden people you know they they put out something about how they were going to fire people to avoid having to give them health insurance or something their sales went way down and so pleased right exactly so there's there's a discipline that keeps corporations from from doing too much in this area but

>>reporter: after the incident at 101 california sheldon and other survivors formed the law center to prevent gun violence. tuesday they wrote this letter to the president obama urging stronger gun control lawsincluding the reinstatment of the federal ban on assault weapons. >> i have been in a building that was under attack if that ever happens again i hope that there is less of a chance for a person that might knock on my door and it will able to shoot 30 rounds%. >>reporter: he hopes that the mass murders in conneticutserves as the tipping point to move this country in a safer direction. >> somebody killer in 21st graders somebody telling them in a safe community in connecticut that tested get somebody going? if that does not do it, i do not know what would. >>reporter: maureen kelly kron4 news. >>catherine: for the third straight day - funeral processions were rolling through newtown, connecticut. more of the victims of friday's shooting at a grade school. among th 7-year-old boy and victoria soto. she's the 27-year-old teacher being remembered for dying while trying to shield her

gates sr will you know do various things but my friends the koch brothers and people of that sort of sheldon adelson they're writing checks for tens of millions of dollars put for political action committees to my knowledge the buffets of the world and people of that sort are not they don't have political action committees they're not putting their money where their mouth is and plutocracy i mean the the merger of corporate and state interests was defined by mussolini as fascism. people use that word people think hitler hitler was not a fascist he was a cult leader but in spain and italy they understood that mussolini dissolved the parliament to some is probably better again he replaced all the elected representatives with the with the represent as the largest corporations in each congressional district. how are we not almost there right now. but we're certainly getting there but in a way it's not really corporations it's individuals it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars as sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you k

tonight i've picked a quote from sheldon adelson's new book. madison wrote, "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. knowledge will forever governor ignorance. and a peep who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." they were pretty smart back then. for more, let's turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director. karen, 49% of republicans think a.c.o.r.n. stole this election. we've got a lot of work to do, don't we, houston? >> yeah, we sure do. >> what do you make of this? >> you know what, ed, the point that you were just making, i mean, it's funny and it seems ludicrous, but at the same time, we know that the kind of misinformation campaigns that fox news and this right-wing, sort of smear machine engage in, it can be very dangerous. i mean, earlier in the show, you talked about people who were calling in to members of congress, asking if their disabled child wa

well, for sheldon adelson, losing an election cost $150 million.eople in charge of writing the laws may have broken his promise. priceless, should i say. tonight in our survey, i asked you, will radical republicans ever agree to a tax hike? 11% of you say yes. 89% of you say no. >>> the great thomas jefferson once said, a properly functioning democracy depends on a well-informed electorate. if he was right, new polling shows that we are in deep trouble. karen finney weighs in on the factually challenged republicans, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. olaf gets great rewards for his small business! pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve great rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles o

how much did sheldon adelson spend on this election?> cenk: shooting his girlfriend and then going down the stadium and shooting himself as well. we'll give you more details on that in a second. what everyone is talking about is bob costas' reaction during the sunday night football game. first he started out unobjectible, poignant and he usually is. >> in the aftermath of the unphattible eventsunfathomable events in kansas city. this really puts everything in perspective. if so that perspective has a short shelf life since we'll hear about the perspective we'll regain the next time ugly reality intrudes upon our games. those who need tragedies to recalibrate their sense of proportion with sports would seem to have little hope of truly achieving perspective. >> cenk: i love that. it goes beyond saying he's right, this gives us perspective, and then we forget that lesson. but it applies to the lessons learned from any of these tragedyies. speak of any tragedies the other side said you politicize things. >> ensures more and more domestic d

this happened at the bridge in a credit union on gordon sheldon boulevard. we are live with the attempt to steal hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. >> we have seen chris the attempt to steal atms. -- crzy attempts to steal atms. this one also failed. >> for clock. i heard boom. >> this virginia credit union atm has a hole in the back and an error message on the screen but all in all does not look too bad considering someone tried to blow it up this morning. >> allow bank. -- a loud bang. >> i thought a gas line exploded. >> album. , people evacuated amid fears. there was no further danger. >> the damage atm is in an area near 95 and route 3. >> one witness saw a suspect from a distance and a surveillance camera caught the person. police are not making public in the images from the camera. things have calmed down a lot. >> i guess we are safe. >> presley's -- police stil want to catch whoever perform and failed and on commercial bank robbery. neighbors say this was a heck of an explosion. it set off car alarms at the apartment complex. back to you. >> unbe

sheldon adelson, there is a poem about him, too. >> jennifer: wait. you have a poem about sheldon adelson but i think you can sing it. >> you can sing it. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: tell us about what inspired this "dogfight the 2012 presidential campaign." great for a stocking stuffer for christmas. but it is also very thoughtful. the campaign inspired you obviously. >> i did run in 2008 called deciding the next decider and i had a couple of candidates and poems left over from there. i did one on mitt romney in 2008 which was yes mitt, so slick of speech and slick of garb, he reminds us all of ken of ken and barbie. so quick to shed his moderate regalia, he may like ken be looking genitalia. >> jennifer: ooh! [ laughter ] >> so, i was already sort of -- and people ask me that in 2008, sort of the way they would ask somebody who would -- made a -- done the palace of versailles in beer cans or something. why did you do this? what possessed you? they usually say i had these beer cans around. >> jennifer: you were inspired obviously by the substance of th

carson palmer looking for the win, picked off by sheldon brown.rowns win 20-17, raiders lose their fifth straight game. all right. i've got to ask you, 49ers, both their quarterbacks have things to add mire about them, so who's going to be their quarter back. >> you never go back. remember in high school, you had the boyfriend, and there were times you wanted to go back? he said never go back, and look where you are now. >> we'll give it more time on at 11:30. >> in other words ,,,,

by the way, i saw on the news last night sheldon adelson, the guy with the casinos in las vegas he iser again. he said i will spend $100 million against labor because they realize and these guys all talk together the karl roves, the norquists. >> the koch brothers. >> these people all talk to each other and figure out, how are we going to take over? and what the hell went wrong? they were so convinced that they had the money, that they could win this race now they think we have to go after labor because they are the problem. >> that's why we lost ohio that's why we lost michigan. >> i want to make sure president hoffa that our listeners and viewers understand exactly for working families what right to the work legislation means. because, you know, they do this all the time. they give these fancy positive sounding words. >> we call it right to work for less. >> that's what the president calls it. >> that's what we call it. the south, you compare michigan which is, you know until this recent event, it's almost a 10,000 dollar difference between mississippi or oklahoma and what people ma

that is part of the way sheldon adelson will double his spending and he is going to throw that money behind anti-union initiatives at the state level. it's also why republicans in general don't like unions since republican governors have tried to weaken unions. since the elections of 2010 we have seen this in indiana and wisconsin. republicans tried to do that in ohio too. and voters repealed the anti-union law by 22 points. today republicans succeeded in taking away union rights. they succeeded in weakening unions in the cradle of american labor, in michigan, in walter reuther's home. it didn't even take them all that long. >> mr. speaker, i have a question of final passage of senate bill 116. there are 58 aye votes and 52 nay. >> having voted for, the bill is passed. >> the michigan legislature today finished what they started out of the blue last week. they passed a pair of bills to take union rights away from public employees, and this is important, from workers in the private sector. you can see the reaction from supporters of union rights today at the capitol. more than 10,000

joining me now is sheldon whitehouse from rhode island. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> sir, this is serious, this is even dire. are you encouraged by the meeting today and the president's remarks in the aftermath of that meeting? >> well, i think that the decision to move the forum for the negotiations to the senate was a necessary one. i have a lot of confidence in harry reid's negotiating ability. mitch mcconnell is a veteran negotiator, and i think there's a far better prospect of something being worked out in the senate than there was dealing with speaker boehner and his completely dysfunctional house republican party. >> sure. well, abiding by convention and of course protocol, the senate won't return until sunday. will there be enough time for the senate leaders to really craft a deal that is substantiative and makes a difference, especially to the most vulnerable americans? >> yeah, i think the two keys that the president laid out are to protect middle class americans from tax increases and to protect famil

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the guy took too much of sheldon adelson's money. >> there is a guy who tried treading water with leadd jan brewer is thinking of running for president in 2016. >> if we can find her. >> she recently met with super pac donor sheldon. bone finger, what a great idea. two local arizona tv stations were told governor brewer was out of the state on private business. where in the world is bone finger? >> she's out of the state for an entire week and i think they certified the election earlier this week and she wasn't there to certify the election. that's a pretty big thing the governor needs to do so they had to have the secretary of state do it. >> stephanie: maybe she's in china trying to help out adelson with his troubles. >> apparently she visited a soldier in walter reed yesterday. she's in the d.c. area. but they won't -- she won't say why she's out of the state for the entire week. >> i would love to see her debate hillary. >> stephanie: governor, your opening statement? >> ahhh. >> happy to be here. >> stephanie: all right, governor, thank you. >> 18-second moment of silence at the v

>> stephanie: how many times has his wife yelled sheldon? >> where is my $50 million?ost $150 million. >> oh wow. ♪ nah, nah, nah, nah ♪ >> stephanie: he promised only to spend a hundred million dollars, but it turns out to be closer to $150 million. >> i'm sure his kids would love to know where it went. >> stephanie: dad. >> dad? >> stephanie: you are giving loser mitt romney all of our money. i hate you. $40 million went to karl rove's cross roads which only had a 4% success rate. >> a lot of holes in the dessert. some of them got batties in them. >> stephanie: if karl rove were to get hit by a bag, if he steps on a bag of vipers we might know where to look. shortly thereafter there will be a giant cartoon hand knocking on mr. mr. adelson's door. >> vipers everywhere you look. >> stephanie: okay. we're just kidding. >> [ inaudible ] is lousy with vipers. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. allison also -- >> that shakespeare statue vipers. >> stephanie: pure vipers. >> that statue of [ inaudible ]. made up of pure broken glass. >> broken glass. >> [ inaudible ] made of

quarter, it is still 13-10, the raiders driving and palmer looking for the win but it is picking off by sheldon brown. brown put it away with 3.5 left. richardson up the gut to make it 0-10. the raiders did score late, too little too late, 20-17 is the final. >> we can't turn the ball over right there. we have all of the momentum and we are moving the ball and we can't -- we can't have that self-inflicted wound right there. if it is not there, we have to get rid of it. but we can't make that mistake. >> we took a shot there and go for a touchdown quickly and didn't put the ball in the right spot. didn't give him a chance to make a play on the ball. >>> david schaub, stanford, on game day tonight at 11:30. >> we'll see you in half an hour on eyewitness news at 6:30. good night. for over 60,000 california foster children, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. everything's different now. sometimes i feel all alone. christmas used to be my favorite. i just don't expect anything. what if santa can't find me? to help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. bring your gift to any

suspected rebels earlier this week and they're being held for a reported one million dollar ransom paul sheldon food professor at california state university says this is yet more proof that terrorists are operating freely inside the country terrorist groups rely on kidnappings for financing so does true of parking lot in america that's true of a. terrorist group so that in many other places. they already have world attention and since announcing as always they are terrorist organizations the goal of the the enemies of syria have been divided into what many pieces so you won't have a syrian anymore you have there is are you have a kurdish. forces and you have all the other sections and you don't have all these sort of opposition members fighting against each other for control i mean you know that the muslim brotherhood paid goons from around the world all wanted to impose their own totalitarian system on what's left of the of syria president putin is also touched upon the war a tearing syria part during his q. and a marathon with the media that's coming your way after a short break stay with. y

las vegas casino mogul sheldon adelson and his wife poured more than $95 million into super political action committees that helped republicans, including mitt romney. >>> this sounds more like a plot out of a tom clancy cold war novel. a rove navy sailor is suspected of telling top-secret submarine tracking technology to the russians. nbc affiliate reporter andy fox with wavy has this story. >> reporter: robert hoffman appeared in court wearing a t-shirt with a rooster on it with the words "born to fight," in reference to cock fighting. mr. hoffman, did you try to sell government secrets? just a big smirky smile from hoffman, who retired a year ago and is trained as a navy cryptologic technician. he is able to find submarines using sophisticated direction-finding technology. the indictment reads hoffman had access to top-secret information which could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security. on october 21st, hoffman is accused of delivering secret information to people he believed to be officials with the russian federation on how to track u.s. submarines using the tech

transportation officials mark sheldon warned holiday travelers. >> certainly, those roads are slick. if you don't have to get out, please don't get out. >> reporter: the storm system caused heavy snow in the midwest, brought heavy rains and wind to the south, and shrouded the city of atlanta in fog. at least two reported tornadoes touched down in the houston area. one man was killed when a toppled tree flattened his pickup truck. by mid-afternoon, nearly 70,000 people in the houston area were without power. meteorologist david bernard says it's only going to get worse. >> this is a wide-ranging storm, as far as impacts go. there's a tornado threat in the south all the way into the southeast for tomorrow. north of that, arkansas into tennessee, indiana, parts of missouri and even into ohio, the threat will be for blizzard conditions developing later tonight and tomorrow. >> reporter: and all that bad weather is tracking east, with the bulk of it hitting the northeast by wednesday night. nm? >> thanks, michelle. police are learning more about what led to the ambush of four firemen yest

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the hard right movement which is funded by cranky billionaires like the koch brothers karl rove and sheldon adelson labor unions which have historically been the vanguard of the progressive movement have been crippled and independent media including print radio and t.v. which used to carry the voices of average working people across the nation through locally owned radio and t.v. stations have been bankrupted and sold off to large corporate media outlets that spew lies in this information to promote the billionaires agenda essentially the progressive counterbalances in america which for several generations kept in check the corporatists who wanted to destroy f.d.r.'s new deal and lyndon johnson's great society they were held in line in the democratic by the democratic party they've been removed. when ronald reagan busted patco in one thousand nine hundred one he didn't just kick off a three decade assault on labor unions he also kicked off a three decade assault once progressive democratic party this is solid is now reaching its peak as republicans and president obama prepared a car of up t

news we all know it was a tough election for mitt romney but it was an even tougher election for sheldon adelson the casino mogul who spent more money on this election than any american in any election in history actually spent more than we all previously thought according to republican fundraisers able to drop as much as one hundred fifty million bucks in the selection and today he has absolutely nothing to show for it is currently facing two federal investigations into his international business where he's allegedly violated the foreign corrupt practices act by bribing chinese officials it also had previously ended that he was supporting romney to in hopes of putting an end to president obama's justice department investigations ultimately he failed however thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision we the people have even more serious problem with our democracy and just inks. billionaire spending a fortune to divert attention away from his own problems we now have to worry about foreign entities meddling in our elections as investigative reporter leif ali of the nation uncove

support behind a coalition that stands against the officially recognized government professor paul sheldon foote from california state university says france's only consume short term financial goals. finance major interest would be to continue with sorenson armaments throughout the we're all the third industry but it i don't think it really cured serve justice it didn't cure and it goes to libya all they were it was to morrow i was going to up and they didn't really care who took over afterwards the. problem or thing the so-called syrian opposition leaders that they are not united the only thing unites the militant they would like to remove the current government they come from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoint with origins. if they ever were to succeed in syria they were not be able to come together and they would be in no round of fighting to determine who. dominate all the other groups. france has the only country willing to pump aid of the middle east region either the us is now assisting libya to as the country attempts to reestablish its military after last year'

movement to overthrow an existing government is unacceptable under international law professor paul sheldon foot from the california state university says that paris is only pursuing short term financial gulf. finance major interest would be to continue with sorenson your remote server throughout the world. but i don't think it really cured sir just as they didn't here in the case of libya all they were close to morrow i was going to operate they didn't really care who took over afterwards the. problem with the so-called syrian opposition leaders that they are not united the only thing unites the loop they would like to remove the current government they come from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoint with their core jims. their average want to succeed in syria they were not be able to come together and they would be in no round of fighting to determine who will. dominate all the other groups. well libya is also welcoming aid from its western backers with washington assisting the country to improve its military the revolution torn state is said to be hosting hundreds of u.s.