and congressman steve lynch of massachusetts. great to have all of you with us. i want to let our viewers know that we're having a technical problem with the connection with congresswoman moore's picture, but it's important that her voice be here with us tonight. so from milwaukee that's how we're going to do this. and we'll go to her first. congresswoman moore, thank you for your time. do you believe that these poll numbers make it easier for democrats and progressives to stand strong and win the conversation as we move forward. your thoughts. >> ed, i think they're absolutely critical. because i think the republicans feel that they're in the catbird seat. these cuts that are in the sequester, the $85 billion minus the defense cuts, are a republican's dream of ending so-called big government, ending job-killing regulations, to do what grover norquist has always wanted to do, to shrink government and make it so small that you could drown it in the bathtub. and even though between 1.4 and 2 million jobs will be lost, republicans would have accomplished an aspirati

that means so far only two democrats, congressman ed marky and steve lynch have said they're going to make a bid for kerry's seat in the special election. >>> despite a grueling confirmation hearing, the chances of chuck hagel becoming secretary of defense are greater than 24 hours ago because john mccain and three other colleagues of his indicated they would oppose the use of a filibuster to try to block the nomination, rejecting an idea floated over the weekend by senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and others. move by mccain and others now suggest hagel is going to have enough support to be confirm. the nomination is expected to go to the full senate floor this thursday. >>> last night in the book touring supreme court justice sonia sotomayor made a rare television appearance. she was on the colbert report. she talked about her childhood in the bronx, faith in the constitution, but she got a little bit coy when stephen tried to draw her into specifics. >> not all of us believe in the constitution. the second amendment is never to be questioned. do you believe that we have the ri

i think steve lynch, who is a conservative pro-life congressman will lose the democratic primary decisivelyrats are not going to be complacent about this. democrats assume martha coakley would win that seat. the 2010 was a lesson. i don't think the circumstances are the same but i'll tell what you comes out of it. you will have a democratic party very united, very concentrated, very intent on winning that seat, and i think they will. >> professor bob shrum and steve kornacki, thank you so much, gentlemen. >>> next, are we doing enough for the brave men and women who volunteer to fight for this country? stay with us. but before we go to break, tyler mathisen has the cnbc market wrap. good afternoon. >> thank you very much. one day after the dow crossed above 14,000 for the first time in five-plus years, it crossed back below 14,000. i guess investors paying off their super bowl bets. it was down 129 points at 13,880. the s&p 500 down 17 points. nasdaq 3131, off by 47 points today. that's the market action. martin will be right back after this. [ male announcer ] susan writes children's books

a huge problem for the democrats and one of the reasons they were trying to coalesce early and steve lynchbut now that scott brown is not in it, it's hard to tell. in a way unless the republicans can scramble and get a viable candidate, the whole race will come down to the democratic primary. in which case it's not going to matter. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> we turn our attention to international affairs. the violence in syria was on the vice president's agenda. vice president biden met with syria's main coalition and promised continuing u.s. support. the unrest led to a major humanitarian crisis and the fighting between rebel forces and the president's military forced hundreds of thens of syrians from their homes. 700,000 rev news poured into neighboring countries. the united nations is making annest to raise money and give aid to the victims that. and unicef recruited mia farrow to raise awareness. she received acclaim for her role in rosemary's baby. children especially. she joins my by television. we hoped to have you via skype and there was a problem with the connection

merrill lynch and the most paradoxically idea in this research is that it's russia's demographic problems that will drive these changes by boosting internal consumption early on monday i asked steve on car auto from iran captain moscow what he thinks of all this. i can focus on your demographics is certainly not enough to draw this conclusion of course we do know the demographics are for discovery we do know that the population will be declining and this will serve to really create some conditions for us four four four four four growth in real wages which might lead to russia becoming kind of a more western economy but once again we need also to take into consideration that of accumulation of capital and also the productivities of this remaining labor force so i think looking out from now. in a ten year period it's difficult is difficult to do to say at least more of a mentor method of speculation then then then making some some kind of a very very very definite definitive conclusion about. it in ten years' time what about other macro economic indicators like inflation and g.d.p. growth which would you agree with the assessment of your colleagues. inflation is concerned i actuall