and tanny le clercq made me cry when she fell backward at the end of it. and i thought "oh, boy, i want to work with that company." so i wrote balanchine a note and said "i'd like to work with you. "and i'll come as anything you need or anything you want. i can perform, i can choreograph, i can assist you." and i got a note back saying "come on." [ laughs ] jerry was making money hand over fist and balanchine had -- although he had done good work on broadway -- had never been terribly successful, the way jerry was being. i mean, jerry was really the king of broadway. jerry was connected to a different audience and had a popular point of view that he felt would be useful. and remember in those days new york city ballet was considered very, very elite. it was high tone. sometimes on a matinee there'd be more dancers onstage than in the audience and we were like 40 people in the company. the whole idea of him choosing to work with balanchine, somebody whom he clearly admired and somebody whom he thought was better than him, that said a lot about jerry. mikhai

spoiler alert tanni, kicking the can down the road. the gurus also got lashing. they are the 38 annual misused word list. the survey by michigan's lake superior university said it is a cleaindication of just how annoying 2012 has been. and it doesn't look like the people in washington are going to make next year any better. why, oh, boy, i hope i am wrong. that is my 2 cents more. that's it for tonight's "willis report", have a great new year and a great evening. good gerri:adam: we want to bring you up-to-date on the latest of the efforts of the senate. the white house is where rich edson is. we are waiting for the president come out of the meeting with senate democrats. we have a video showing him going in almost 40 minutes ago. has he said anything? have you heard anything? >> is continuing on capitol hill. joe biden was cut this deal. mitch mcconnell is trying to sell it to some skeptical democrats. congressional leaders are essentially giving the okay on this, but this is something that has to get through both houses of congress. so what you have here is the

tanny was the justice who cast the vote who pushed slavery forward for many years. >> but change didreporter: america's first black president used the lincoln bible in 2009. president obama has again chosen the lincoln bible as one of those he will use to take the oath of office for his second inauguration. this is the actual bible that president obama used in 2009. >> that's correct. >> and the same bible -- >> that abraham lincoln walked up to and put his hand on to swear in in 1861. >> it's kind of neat, a sense of history, doesn't it? >> it has a kind of electricity to it. it really does carry the meaning of the moment. >> reporter: the moment, repeated on monday, when president obama places his hand on this small bible that carries more than its weight of history. president obama will actually use three different bibles as part of the inauguration. on sunday for the official swearing in, he will use the robinson family bible. on monday, for the public inauguration, he will use the lincoln bible, as we mentioned and the martin luther king jr.'s traveling bible. of course, monday