also though at 7:40 we have house minority whip steny hoyer. he'll be talking keystone and the new plan. "squawk box" will be right back from a snowy new york city. it is coming down. u . >>> welcome back to "squawk box." mel karmazin joined us yesterday and we got his take on what he thinks should take place. a cbs and time warner merger. >> the deal that should get done the deal that should be absolutely would be the best deal i would invest money in would be the combination of time warner and cbs. okay? that is a match that makes such great logic. okay? time warner has a studio. warner brothers. cbs doesn't have the studio. they have cnn. shareholders including national amusement in my opinion would be better off if cbs and time warner were to combine. >> let's check out the media landscape and what better person to do that with after that comment than dick parsons, the former ceo of time warner. what do you make of mel's comment? >> as mel said in logic it's probably almost compelling. >> almost. >> almost compelling. because when i was the

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we heard remarks from house democratic leaders nancy pelosi and steny hoyer. americans i have as my colleagues to face that rising sun. with new challenges and new opportunitieses. i want to congratulate my friend marcia on the extraordinary leadership she's given. [ applause ] >> to commiserate with my brother g.k. butterfield for the shoes he has to fill. and to all the officers of the congressional black caucus. this is a significant year, as i'm sure my friend jim clyburn will talk about and others talk about. my friend john lewis. 50 years. a half a century. martin luther king said i may not get there with you. but i have seen the promised land. but everybody in this audience knows that we may have seen the promised land but the promise is not yet redeemed. there is still much to do. and the last congress the cbc played a central and critical role in shaping policy and moving legislation forward to benefit all americans. as this new congress begins with challenges facing our country we will continue to look to the group known as the conscience of the cong

and steny hoyer the number two democrat was saying nancy we have to govern.here with the two from the senate and the two from the house trying to make it work, making phone calls to members of his party saying will you please get in line and help out? barack obama. barack obama making common calls with john boehner and mit mcconnell, because the people have sent the message that they wanted things to start to work again. and that's where you come in. because you are the people. and what you do to get more folks to participate in intelligent ways is what this effort on the part of the bpc is all about. america, the first nation, to set itself up on the basis yes, separation of powers, yes, gridlocked ultimate source of power, the people. we've had all kinds of problems. we've made all kinds of mistakes. our history is filled with blunders, and a lot of things that are really embarrassing but we have muddled through through the delaware -- through the decades and now the centuries to produce the strongest most resilient most diverse, most powerful economy in th

democrat steny hoyer says the values are inconsistent with americans. >> young people we have dreams for you, we dream of the great things you're going to do. helping to make america a greater country. >> reporter: 26 republicans voted against the proposal to end mr. obama's deferred action for childhood arrivals program protecting so-called dreamers. tennessee measure marcia blackburn says daca is a magnet drawing children here and defended her amendment. >> a question is it radical to support the rule of law? is it radical to fight for american workers who are going to lose their jobs to illegal aliens. >> reporter: with democrats arguing picking immigration fight on a bill to fund homeland security is dangerous, some say the commander in chief shouldn't veto. >> he will have a choice whether executive -- unlawful executive amnesty is more important than keeping americans safe. that would be a grave mistake on the president's part. >> reporter: gop leaders must figure out what gets through the senate. republicans are the majority with 54 members but need 60 votes to pass the bill l

. >> how democratic whip steny hoyer spoke this morning about what he thinks republican shos do. let's have a lis >> if republicanens want to debate immigration policy they can. they should bring, however a comprehensive immigration bill to the floor like the one that the senate passed in 2013. >> so what happens next with the immigration bill? >> i think what this does is puts republicans in a tough spop spot. last year a big budget fight. congress actually managed to pass funding for the federal government until later in the year except for the department of homeland security. they set this up as sort of a proxy fight over immigration. that department will run out of money on february 27th, if they don't find a way to fund it. >> yesterday we spoke about a third run for mitt romney. how are republicans reacting to that today? >> initially, last friday mitt romney indicated to donors he was looking at another run. and the first spate of stories, former backers saying nice things about mitt romney. in the last 24 hours or so a lot of his former backers still saying nice things ab

two democratic leader pelosi and the whip, steny hoyer, thank you. leader abcafifteen, we are honored to have one of your caliber among us. thank you so very much. appmack to the hundreds of friends who are viewing this ceremony at watch parties and finally to my family a small number of those who are here. first i asked my daughter to stand. [applause] my cousins, cousins, my first and second cousins, please stand. [applause] .. representing 30 million people. 23 of the house democratic caucus 10% of the house representative, seven ranking member full committee leadership positions. we are one of the largest caucuses in the house of representatives and i'm proud to say we have 20 women members all of our new members are female. [applause] as joe biden would say, that is a big deal. [laughter] the competition of our caucus brings a diverse set of experiences and viewpoints to address the challenges of african-american communities. members of this caucus go beyond their constitutional duties to lead in their communities. they are making a difference.

congressman steny hoyer came out the first day of the retreat for his benefit and he didn't hold back. >> we spent now a month in congress of the united states. we have fiddled while rome has burned for the middle class. ep and that's why they're upset. they hear the talk about the middle class, but they don't see the walk. these weeks have not been good for the majority in the house of representatives or i would say the united states senate. a divisive vote the first week indicating again the deep divisions within the republican party reflected in the vote for speaker. then they brought a bill to the floor where we talk about the american dream. so who do they do on the second week? they want to expel dreamers. then on the third week they want to undermine women's rights to their own choices in health care protection. so they want to kick out the dreamers and undermine women's choices for health. their freedom, we hear a lot about freedom. that they want to underminement and this past week of course they had to pull a bill that would have undermined our environment and our economy. >

inequality and poverty and there are critics in the party, high-level critics including nancy pelosi and steny hoyer board with the change and the obama administration didn't want to have internal fights. they like when republicans are squabbling with each other and they don't want there to be any sort of similar fight on their side of the aisle. >> daniel let me ask you about another piece of news this week. the coke brothers through their politically affiliated networks there was plans they plan to spend 889$889 million and that is more than the rnc and counterparts combined spent in $212 a massive amount of money, are democrats able to counter that? >> probably not. and this next election is going to be ground-breaking in terms of spending any way. whoever gets the nominations are probably going to spend about a billion. but with this koch money, the republican nominee will have an extra ump and it is hard for democrats to counter that. there is just no counter part on the left or counterpart billionaire who can match the koch brothers. >> daniel on the flip side are the republicans getting uncom

in the house, it was john boehner and steny hoyer. because nancy pelosi said i don't want no part of it. and steny hoyer, the number two democrat was saying, nancy we have to govern. and who was there with the two from the senate and the two from the house that were trying to make it work, making phone calls to members of his party saying will you please get in line and help out? barack obama. barack obama making common calls with john boehner and mitch mcconnell. because the people had sent the message that they wanted things to start to work again. and that's where you come in. because you're the people. and what you do to get more folks to participate in intelligent ways is what this effort on the part of the bpc is all about. america first nation to set itself up on the basis yes, separation of powers, yes, gridlock ultimate source of power, the people. we had all kinds of problems we made all kinds of mistakes, our history is filled with blunders and a lot of things that are really embarrassing. we muddled through the decades and

want to turn over the speakership or the leadership of the democratic party of the house, it's steny hoyershe'll find someone down like chris van hollen who have a different generation. the same thing is going on now. romney does not want to sit there and watch jeb bush be the nominee. he'd much rather it be a youngster who he can then become papa bear. >> a lot of sharps were thrown the last couple of weeks. the last straw was jeb getting mitt's iowa guy, his strategist in iowa. all the leaking, all the nasty things being said behind closed door all the things that were being leaked to "the new york times," that romney was reading every day from jeb's camp really at the end of the day bothered him a great deal. i'll tell you, i've been talking to his top people today. i don't see a kumbaya moment. i think you're going to find a lot of romney people that are going to have a hard time getting on jeb's bandwagon. >> really? where did he go scott walker? >> a lot of talk about scott walker, but the field is wide open. you asked who the losers were today, the losers were scott walker rand paul

is this a precursor of him knocking off steny hoyer in the bottom of the succession? >> i know that's what you want it to be. >> this is called "hardball" after all. >> is this about getting something done or posing? >> i think it's about getting something done and a realization that democrats felt they didn't go far enough this time around. they pushed forward policies like pay equity for women, like the minimum wage. everybody loved that stuff. >> point of purchase stuff. the big stuff in the supermarket has to be income inequality. >> everybody is hurting. the middle class is shrinking. wages are going down. everyone looked at that and said, you're not doing enough. >> with the economy rebounding a bit, is this a good time to get on the team, the train, and say, look, it's getting better but let's divide it up a little? >> yes, absolutely. if i were a member, a democratic member of congress who lost in november, i would say, where were you when i needed you? i mean, where was this -- where was this tax plan before the election? where was the community college propo

want to turn over the speakership or the leadership of the democratic party of the house, it's steny hoyerind someone down like chris van hollen who have a different generation. the same thing is going on now. romney does not want to sit there and watch jeb bush be the nominee. he'd much rather it be a youngster who he can then become papa bear. >> a lot of sharps were thrown the last couple of weeks. the last straw was jeb getting mitt's iowa guy, his strategist in iowa. all the leaking, all the nasty things being said behind closed door, all the things that were being leaked to "the new york times," that romney was reading every day from jeb's camp, really at the end of the day bothered him a great deal. i'll tell you, i've been talking to his top people today. i don't see a kumbaya moment. i think you're going to find a lot of romney people that are going to have a hard time getting on jeb's bandwagon. >> really? where did he go, scott walker? >> a lot of talk about scott walker, but the field is wide open. you asked who the losers were today, the losers were scott walker, rand paul, te

inserted no amendment for jack abramoff into the help america vote act which was my legacy bill with steny hoyer, the first official election bill dealing with the federal government in probably the nation's history. it was a legacy bill. i did not insert jack's amendment. i was on with congressman mcconnell and dodd. they will verify, at no point did i lay the amendments on the table for jack abe move. did not happen. did i agree to consider an amendment for jack abramoff for that bill? absolutely. i am probably one of the first members of congress in this country's history in modern times to plead a felony for agreeing to consider a amendment to a bill. if they would charge fell felonies on people considering an amendment to a bill there would be very little people left on capitol hill. >> what did you know you were doing something wrong? >> there were bright lines i crossed. jack abramoff said members of the senate were interested in the amendment. i said clearly to jack abramoff that i would consider the amendment, which is my felony, i guess, for considering the amendment. i would consider

we're now pleased to welcome democratic whip steny hoyer who will bring getings followed by assistantn extraordinary group of americans i have as my colleagues to face that rising sun. with new challenges and new opportunities. i want to congratulate my dear friend, marcia fudge on the extraordinary leadership she has given to the congressional black caucus. [applause] and to commiserate with my brother g.k. butterfield for the shoes he has to fill. and to all of the officers of the congressional black caucus. this is a significant year as i'm sure jim clyburn my friend, will talk about as others will talk about. my friend john lewis. 50 years, half a century. martin luther king said i may not get there with you but i have seen the promiseed land. everybody in this audience knows that we may have seen the promised land but the promise is not yet redeemed. that there is still much to do and the last congress the cbc played a essential and critical role in shaping policy and moving legislation forward to benefit all americans. as this new congress begins with new challenges facing our c

steny hoyer on issues facing washington this year and much more. "squawk box" begins at 6:00 a.m. eastern only here on cnbc. join us. >>> we have a big day tomorrow. join us tomorrow and "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good morning on this cold thursday welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer and dave faber. futures warming up after the best day for stocks since december 18th. more encouraging signs since the holiday shopping season. oil struggling to get back to $49. it is down seven of the last nine sessions. then the ten-year pivoting right around 2% after those fed minutes yesterday. our road map begins with investors looking to build off the market's first win for the new year. if you still want more mark lazry says energy debt could return 30%. >> mixed bag for two retailers. family dollar missed numbers, costco ahead of numbers. >> outside of business, a live update on that manhunt in paris. >>> futures are up sharply as stocks aim for a second day of gains after the s&p snapped a five-day losing skid wednesday. oil prices on the

democrats seeing an opening to motivate younger voters steny hoyer say young people have a libertarianat as thehill.com. >>> we're going to take you back live to some of the sights and sounds down on the national mall and the march for life, heading toward the supreme court today. [ crowd chatter ]eçu (w [ no audio ] [ crowd noise ] >>> and some live footage from downtown d.c. the 42nd anniversary of roe versus wade. this the march for life. in the house a vote passed to ban federal funding for abortion. it will now go to the senate. a look here at some of the news from this bill. a vote had been scheduled on a stronger bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weekds, but moderate republicans said they would not support that stronger measurer especially so early in the congress, and democrats hoped that the vote alien yates younger voters and women ahead of the presidential election next year with republicans taking a hard line on both of abortion and immigration, democrats see their opening to motivate younger voters. >>> this saturday live coverage of the iowa freedom summite%jy

to democratic leader pelosi and to the whip steny hoyer, thank you both for your leadership and yourhip. assistant leader jim clyburn the cbc is honored, sir, honored, sir, to have one of your caliber among us. thank you so very much. [applause] to the hundreds of friends who are viewing this ceremony at watch parties in my district and all across the country and, finally, to my family a small number of whom are here today first, i will ask my daughter to quickly stand, baby. that's my daughter, valecia. [applause] and i'm going the ask my cousins, my first cousins and my second cousins if they would ease stand. [laughter] [applause] and their spouses. [applause] i'm going to let you figure out which one are the cousins and which ones are the spouses. [laughter] thank you, family. thank you for being here today and supporting me. it is one of the highest honors of my life to start the daunting process of leading a caucus that has a legacy of advocating for african-american interests. our 46 members hail from 32 states -- 22 states, the district of district of columbia and the virgin

we expect nancy pelosi to return as the minority leader and steny hoyer to return as the minority whipand glurebie return as majority whip even though he had some dra versey recently. then election of administrative officers. and then they get to the point where later on in the afternoon they'll adopt the rules package that will govern how things go down in the house during the 1149sdz congress. >> looking ahead to what republicans have proposed for the 114th in terms of their underlying rules what are some of the speed bumps that might be there for them in terms of getting it past without objection from democrats? one of the things that right off the bat that democrats have criticized is that it requires the full dynamic scoring of bills that are seen as having a significant economic impact. republicans say that will allow more focus to be put on the mark economic effects of legislation but democrats we have seen this before that this is like in the early 2000s when we had the bush tax cuts and they were described or sold to congress as saying they would jump start the economy. but th

, growing america's paychecks, put an uber focus on the middle class we heard from nancy pelosi steny hoyerying to benefit the middle class. the risk of doing that, in politics, an uber focus on the middle class people feel you don't look at lower classes or not an upward trajectory. they're mindful of that and want to be a party of optimism and hope. the other big teal here hd president obama speaking to the house democratic caucus. we expect the president to talk about the need to fund the department of homeland security after february 27th. so talked a lot about on this show. at risk of not being funded by february 27th, because republicans want to make a stand against the president's executive orders on immigration. you'll hear a message from democrats out of this rethreatt the department of homeland security absolutely must be funded and really go after republicans, a party that traditionally does better on homeland security saying look they're putting the country at a risk terrorism by nepgting ingneglecting to fund of the democrat of homeland security trying to go back against accoun

steny hoyer on issues facing washington this year and much more. "squawk box" begins at 6:00 a.m.. join us. >>> we have a big day tomorrow. join us tomorrow and "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good morning on this cold thursday welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer and dave faber. futures warming up after the best day for stocks since december 18th. more encouraging signs since the holiday shopping season. oil struggling to get back to $49. it is down seven of the last nine sessions. then the ten-year pivoting right around 2% after those fed minutes

the democratic members have selected as minority whip, the gentleman from maryland, the honorable steny hoyer, and as assistant democratic leader, the gentleman from south carolina, the honorable james clyburn. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentlelady from washington state? mrs. mcmorris rodgers: i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1, resolved that karen l. haas of the state of maryland be and is hereby chosen clerk of the house of representatives. that paul d. irving of the state of florida be and is hereby chosen sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. that ed cassidy of the state of connecticut be and is hereby chosen chief administrative officer of the house of representatives. and that father patrick j. conroy of the state of oregon be and is hereby chosen chaplain of the house of representatives. the speaker: the gentlelady from washington. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. becerra, for the purposes of offe