i had sort of been tracking mary todd all of my life. guess somewhere in my heart i knew that i belonged to her. she somehow belonged to me. there are few roles i have felt that way about -- sybil is one of them. i think it's my size and that i somehow have a roundness to my face that perhaps i could put the two people together, me and mary. and then when you add that it was steven's project, that eventually tony kushner wrote the screenplay and daniel day- lewis was lincoln, how would i not want this project? mary was such a complicated, under-examined, really maligned and unbelievable important female american character, and steven had originally asked me, like in 2005, to be mary, but he didn't have the project, really. it was something he wanted to do. he was developing it. he had a screenplay, but it wasn't going to be right. i was, of course, beyond thrilled. i was overjoyed. then when i got in the car to drive home from that meeting, a little voice inside of me said, "nah, not so quick, field. it'll be a journey, and you may not w

todd andrlik. [applause] >> so we'll open up the question and answer right now spent let me just say that todd has done something extraordinary with this book. i didn't know anything about -- i got a call a couple years ago from a guy who collects newspapers, and he wanted to do a book. and i said that's great, and what he is done in this book is taken these newspapers, these primary sources, and published them. that in itself isn't unique. those of us were fortunate enough to live in boston or other places that of great research libraries know we can go to the boston public library, go on the website and get a lot of newspapers. podcast taken them to put them into book with put them in the book but then he did something even more fantastic, which is to assemble just about every scholar on the american revolution, and people have a great detailed knowledge of a particular event or place, that is the folks on the parks service curators that are interpreters of different sites who really know the sit

when todd prays, favor happens. and he told story after story of how he planted seed and god gave him favor. why have god favored me? it's very simple. because the swiftest avenue to favor is obedience. obedience. obedience. when you obey god, it opens the doors of favor in your life. there are three harvests that i'm going to come into a covenant with. the 1,189. number one, i'm going to ask god to send somebody in your life who will give you unstoppable favor. somebody who will bless you like i've been blessed. snap will promote you and open a door. somebody that will give you finances. i felt so sure that there will be many, many, many 72-hour miracles and if i were you there at the your home i would write down, 72-hour miracles. that's the timeframe got has given me. i don't think i have ever shared on television at any time this is the first, for 72-hour miracles. three days. three days. somebody's going to show you favor. i'm going to come into a covenant for the $1,189, someone whether show you favor. god wil

had there not been a mary todd, there would not have been an abraham lincoln. that is simply a fact. she was breathtakingly smart, highly educated, came from a powerful political family in the south and found him as a young lawyer. he was really nothing but a lawyer and she recognized his brilliance and said that's the man i'll marry and he'll be president, and she went about to help him do that. tavis: first of all, before i go any further, the most important question i'll ask, how much fun was it gaining 25 pounds? >> not as much as you think. tavis: just eat whatever you want. >> you know, this is the thing. i was doing it with a purpose because i was beginning to do the research and i was already in this very disciplined place. so like a jerk, i went to a nutritionist and i ate the most repulsive, awful things. i didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers. no, i had these shakes with stuff called progain that weightlifters -- tavis: come on, sally. you're disappointing me now. >> it was awful. tavis: i'm very disappointed i

todd akin, for instance.i did a palm called the female reproduction system, a lecture by todd akin. [laughter] a member of the house committee on science, space and technology. that's true. and then there was a theory that romney just wasn't a very good candidate. didn't say things people understood, didn't connect the people very well have a somewhat awkward. remember when he went to michigan, his home state that primary can set victories for the a rate and michigan. the actual quote was i love this day. it seems right here. the trees are the right height. [laughter] away from here i find no trees that please. no trees at such a perfect height as thieves. for me i cannot ever be a piece with trees that grow no higher than one sneeze or two tall trees that splinter entries. wisconsin sure has bragging rights and cheese in california is rich and kidneys in colorado this week to take your skis. connecticut of course has lyme disease. [laughter] and none of these semi-prepared to sneeze, but here we have the per

todd akin, for instance. i did a poem called the female reproduction system, a lecture by todd akin. [laughter] a member of the house committee on science, space and technology. it's true. he's the kind of science committee. then there was the theory that romney was a very good candidate , didn't say things people understood, didn't connect with people very well and was somewhat awkward. for instance, when he went to michigan, his home state for that primary and said the trees for the raid had been michigan. the actual quote was i love this state. it seems right here. the trees at the right height. away from here i find no trees to please. no trees at such a perfect height as these. for me i cannot ever be at ease to grow one's knees. or two tall trees that splinter group wisconsin sure has bragging rights on cheese and colorado is where they take your skis. connecticut of course has lyme disease. [laughter] and none of these semi-prepared to say is currently here with the perfect perfect height of trees. [ap

todd horowitz in the pits of the cme. todd?you know, it looks like we'll have the same kind of action. we'll close flat on the day on s&p action to continue so we find a fundamental reason to break out one way or the other. liz: got to be reason. close to 1472. here we see 1465 for futures. thanks very much, todd. david: screaming to get the last trades in. liz: shares of netflix falling. nicole, head flak to the floor. down over 4% today, down yesterday as well. while they have been working so hard and beefing up their content, it is kpael expensive -- working with warner brothers and disney and starr, et cetera. two key players here. carl icahn and david einhorn. what positions do they have? what positions don't they have? where do they stand pertaining to netflix. while netflix is beefing up the content having streaming video for subscribers. meantime, traders are more focused on what the big guys, smart money is doing. what will these two, carl icahn and david hine horn -- einhorn. that is moving this stock around 4%. david

the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, jonas max ferris and along with todd schoenburger. >> gary get rid of the debt ceiling best or worst thing for the economy? >> it's absolutely the worst thing, brenda. the left likes to say, well, you know, ronald reagan raised the debt limit 18 times, george bush raised it 7 times, bill clinton raised it 8 times. so, you know, both sides do it so it must be okay, and from the perspective of fair and balanced, it has to stop no matter who is president. we go through the same cycle, we raise the debt limit, spend more,en go out and borrow more, and raise the debt limit again and it looks like it's unstoppable, but this is the check and balance of how t govern our society. we can't afford the bills we have now to pay. someone has to say, no, spend what you have and let's move on. >> brenda: you know, it doesn't really mean anything. why not get rid of it. it's been used for political hay, both parties have made political hay out of it. >> that's right, every 18 months we're going through an economic crisis and here we have another one brewing r

todd rydstrom, general manager and cfo. i prepared the budget package and the most important part is about three pages worth. this is the time of the year when we come to you looking for insig insight. what you want to hear in budget meetings and the mayor has met with all department heads as well as cfos. and has given budget instructions to departments. i am pleased to announce that our department has a balanced budget. and you adopted and put forward that two-year budget. and we will go through the budget and visit key assumptions, and come back and share 10 year of projected impacts and 10 years of capital needs. still some big things to talk about. but it won't be the usual line item by line item analysis you have done in the past. what it does is afford us the opportunity to take a higher-level look at what the adopted budget is. it's just a little short of $1 billion, $899 million. and that includes the enterprise and waste water, hetch hetchy. this is on the slides for the viewing audience. and commissioners can you

chuck todd before that starting us off from the white house. thank you both. >>> as we heard, the national rifle association came out with a video attacking the white house gun proposals this morning. and they're taking heat tonight for using the president's daughters as part of their argument. that part of this story tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: they've long been the most feared lobbyists in washington, spending millions to defeat gun laws and candidates they oppose. >> i want to say those fighting words. from my cold, dead hands! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: even as america was shaken by the horror of newtown, the nra escalated its rhetoric, claiming to add more than 100,000 new members, and taking a no-compromise stand. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> reporter: but did the nra go too far with this new web video today, focusing on the president's school-age daughters? >> are the president's kids more important than yours? then why is he skeptical about putting armed se

todd, thank you for joining us.preciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> cenk: tell us about that picture back then. what was happening and why did you decide to take that picture? >> well, i was on assignment for the local newspaper there, and i actually had to--i was there with another staff photographer. we were just kind of spending the day taking pictures, of course, a lot of other photos during that day but nothing really too exciting until this happened, of course. and for the most part it was a pretty normal, pretty ease-going day. until this happened, more or less. but a lot of times it was kind of funny because you wouldn't even know you had it back in the old days of negatives. you couldn't see what you had in those little pictures every time. it was just kind of being in the right place at the right time. >> cenk: that's interesting. it's now become an iconic picture in a lot of ways. when you developed the photo did you think, wow this is really powerful. i think i might have something here? could you

and with us today, next us a chuck todd. "the washington post's" kathleen parker. nbc's kelly o'donnell and the "national journal," chris frates. first up, hillary clinton gave as good as she got when peppered by challenging questions on benghazi this week. the reviews were she showed the graph tass and confidence, confidence a potential presidential candidate could. not hard to see the outlines. democrats outdid each other in ladding secretary clinton's remarkable four years but republicans seemed eager to rough up the woman some clearly want to keep out of the white house. and this was the exchange. that drew the most attention. between senator clinton, secretary clinton now and senator ron johnson of wisconsin. >> we were misled that there was supposedly protests and something sprang out of that and assaults sprang out of that. >> we had four dead americans because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they would kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? chris: remarkably calm and i would say charming

and todd. he's the among the nation's leading authority on 18th century newspaper as you can no doubt tale. he's one of the most significant collections in american newspaper containing the earliest printed report and battle of 1763 to 1783. he's the cure rater and publisher of an online museum of historically significant newspaper dating back to the 16th century. todd andrlik we'll open the up and answer "panel. let my say that todd has done something extraordinary with the book. i didn't know -- i got a call a couple of years ago from a guy who collects newspapers that he wanted to do a book and i said that's great, and what he has done in the book is taken these newspapers, these primary sources and published them, and in itself isn't unique. those who are fortunate enough to live in boston or other places that have great research library we can got boston public library and get a lot of newspaper. todd has taken them and put them in a bock. he did something even more great which is to assem

so todd, you're back with us again. six hours to go until midnight. progress reported but still to deal. >> senate republicans, judy, the latest thing that has happened is senate republicans came out of a conference meeting with their leader, with mitch mcconnell all sounding positive. theall echoed what you had in the piece there from mcconnell saying they were very, very close to sequester the automatic spending cuts remain an outstanding issue. and kind of got thrown into the mix again today. you know, the president in that appearance in the executive office building today in front of a supportive crowd, not really a press conference, more of like a minirally, talked about the sequester and his desire to have any delay in the sequester paid for with revenue increases. you know, i talked to a few house members just a few moments ago. not only ot tone of the president's presentation, but also that demand which they consider move og the goalpost even though democrats dispute that on the issue of the sequester, a lot of them are really, really mad abou

mary todd lincoln. she we are the country on her back. >> she did. she did.t she wasn't invited to a lot of parties either. >> stephen: she wasn't. thank you so much for joining me, sally field.

>> todd vestrom, assistant manager cfo. i think it would fall short of a different proposal of what you as a commission felt comfortable and other city policy makers. and summarize those key differences. the idea is there would be a very much larger program and substantially all commercial and substantially all residential customers would be participants. and that that would require in order to do that scale the city borrowing up to a billion and a half dollars, specifically the san francisco public utilities commission borrowinging up to a billion and a half dollars. so, that's a very different assumption and a new risk that we have not received a green light from you or other policy makers to do. * the other key assumptions are there would be a large number of about 300 locally cited and city combined heat and power internal combustion engines. so, that's going to require a siti

[laughter] >> that was brian todd reporting. none of this would require congressional consent.brian todd reporting. apparently, if the trillion government could just mint another one. and, by the way, none of this would requirebut there's no word yet on whether president obama would actually consider it. >> and more money woes to talk about. a new report released today says that employees with the california department of parks and recreation intentionally hid millions of dollars from the state. kron 4's charles clifford has more. >> reporter: last summer it was discovered that the california department of parks and recreation may have had up to 54 million dollars hidden in two accounts. the news was particularily shocking because at the time california was considering closing down dozens of state parks due to a lack of funding the news also resulted in the resignation of parks and rec director ruth colemn. but in this new report, the state attorney generals office concludes that 34 million dollars of that money was innocently misplaced, the remaining 20 million, however, was b

is defending todd akin's legitimate rape comments. wait until you see this one coming up.his is "hardball," the place for politics. @ñ >>> back to "hardball." now to the "sideshow." is another republican really wading into todd akin legitimate rape territory? believe it. enter phil gingrey of georgia. at an event yesterday he provided some delayed backup for todd akin. >> what he meant by legitimate rape was just, look, someone can say, i was raped, a scared-to-death 15-year-old that becomes impregnated by her boyfriend and then has to tell her parents, you know, that's pretty tough and might on some occasion say, hey, i was raped. that's what he meant when he said legitimate rape versus nonlegitimate rape. i don't find anything so horrible about that. but then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman's body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. he's partly right on that. i'm an ob-gyn doctor. i have been an ob-gyn doctor for a long time, since 1975, and i have delivered lots of babies, and i know about these thi

with us now is todd pitach who wrote "the jailhouse blues" for sat the saturday evening post."ow are you, sir? >> good. good to be here. >> when you consider prison has no correctional aspect and criminalizes it takes in and creating the problem or adding to the problem, prison is not really helping america but it's actually hurting america. isn't it? >> absolutely. i mean, you look at the statistics today. we're spending $40 billion a year, those are the costs that, the direct cost of housing and warehousing these 2.2 million inmates. and we're spending very little on -- yeah, by the way, that figure doesn't take in to account the -- incall kuible cost to families and lost lives in the situation. the system's broken down. >> well, i was looking at a really interesting article in "the new york times" about a young man who shot and killed his girlfriend and his girlfriend's parents really felt strongly, came from sort of a religious background and felt strongly they needed to be able to forgive him and that they wanted to take part in the process of coming to terms with what he

todd, what do you think about that? >> i think that's true. if you look at the 200 guns that were turned in based on reports that i had from people that were on the scene that were watching that know guns, it was basically junk guns in parts and broken things that were turned in, and no drug dealer or psychopath that's going to hurt people with a fire arm is going to turn it in for a $50 gift card to safeway. it's just not going to happen. what you are seeing is possibly families that don't want the gun in the house. that's fine. if they want to turn it in and get a $50 gift card, i don't have a problem with that. >> okay. >> what i have a problem with is the city destroying it in violation of arizona state law. >> got it. >> but gentlemen, and i agree with both of you. i think it's worth it if we get one gun off the street irrespective of what the law dictates that we do after we get them. todd rathner and pastor tait, thanks so much for being with us this evening. >> thanks for having us. >>> coming up, the white house assault on the second

todd? >>> good afternoon today reach todd rydstrom. very quickly for you what this means is whether or not of saves about two and-a-half million dollars a year for the next 13 years for our rate pairs specifically on the overhead rate pierce have saved $3 million with this refundings and it was a successful sell. we had so much demand for our bonds we had thripel the demand for our bonds because of the respective name for the enterprise and p pc and the bond molders loaned us money at 1.2% interest requireflation is around three%. and so that meant that pairs have saved a total of $3 million and we will next sell bonds in the middle of february. so thank you. >> any questions? >>> 3 million right? 333 million right? i 33 million right? i want to make sure that we have it out there. >> so the next one is the jewelry labonte. >> good answering today you will hear about the dam project and so i want to use my recent up date to share with you some good news on other projects on january 11th we reach one of the most significant milestones p

>> hi, my name is todd brown. and i'm the founder and artistic director of the red poppy art house of san francisco. and thank you for having us here and to consider our application. the red poppy art house say non-profit organization, sponsored by the session for the arts. this year we complete our ten-year anniversary, our mission is to serve as a hub for artists with the cultural backgrounds and disciplines. we offer free activities for local families every saturday afternoon. our performance program features an international array of music, film and dance and theater. and we like to think of the red poppy art house as a place of in between, a point of intersection between the communities that share the geography of the district. >> we were made aware that we need a permit to continue our programming. our programming is absolutely critical to the sustainability to the organization. for its revenue that we pay our rent. it is also how we contribute to the livelihood of local artists, 70 percent of the admissions

todd, let me ask you this.s like you've got lots -- you've got to navigate through so many different things right now and here we are looking at an economy that is sort of growing in quite -- at quite an anemic pace what. are you seeing out there in terms of the customers? are they buying? >> so i think -- you know, as we looked at -- first off, i will say, you know, we're moving into a quiet period so i'm going to be very, very broad. i think christmas was good. we see customers with lots of interest. the transition from online and in-store shopping is taking place, taking place everywhere in the world. so we see interest that's slowly converting. >> all right. we'll leave it there. todd, good to have you on the program. thanks so much. >> thanks, maria. we'll see you soon >> enjoy the rest of ces in vegas. breaking news right now on hugo chavez. let's get to our international correspondent michelle caruso-cabrera. >> it's official. hugo chavez will not be sworn in as the leader of venezuela on january 10th as

todd akin. he's a laughing stock.f touch with the women, the huge margins they lost women by. and he's just a joke for his absurd and offensive kmints about rape. >> todd akin. jonathan? >> i'm going the obvious route. i'm going to say it's mitt romney. this is a man who any republican by historical standards should have won the election against a president with unemployment above 7% with the wrong track in the 60%. with the economy still in the doldrums coming back but not coming back enough. president obama, if you want to be honest with yourself, was not supposed to win. mitt romney was supposed to win, and he didn't. by running the worst presidential campaign at least i have ever seen in my young lifetime. >> but how do you call a man with car elevators in his house a loser? he's doing very well. victoria? >> my loser award goes out to my fellow texans in terms of rick perry. rick perry flopped in the primary. then he goes back to texas and puts all his chips behind david dewhurst in the senate race. when ted cruz

joining me now is todd harrison.he center for strategic and budgetary assessments. todd, good to see you again. thanks for coming in. tell our viewers exactly what we're talking about here. there is a huge industry, $300 billion a year. defense spending as a percent of gdp in 2012 was 4.6% but look at this. in 2015 it will drop to 3.1%. huge drop. so this is one reason why we saw the drop in the gdp last quarter. but specifically let's get much more detailed. what and who are being cut here? >> well, the reason for that drop in defense spending is primarily because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan winding down. so we're seeing, we had been spending up to $160 billion a year on the two wars combined. that has come down already to just $85 billion this year. so we're going to see that continue to decline over the next couple years. eventually the war funding will be completely gun. that is a lot of what we're seeing. david: let me ex-trap lot -- ex-trap owe late who is being hurt. i would expect a lot of small contr

decasta. >> i want to thank todd for doing a good job. and art jensen, even though he said what he said, he makes it a point to have a real good relationship with those that count. i have not attended the bawsca meetings in a long time, but used to at one time. and it has on a regional level that we have this type of relationship so that we can move forward in a very methodical way. so again i would like to thank todd and art for the wonderful work. because you know, normally we don't hear them. but it's time for us to acknowledge their good work and to thank them. thank you very much. >> thank you, any other public comment on item 10? seeing none. public comment is closed. the item has been moved and seconded. commissioners. all in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> the ayes have it. the motion carries. madam secretary, the next order of business. >> item 11, authorize the issuance of task orders above the initial $100,000 allowness approved at the october 9 commission. >> julia ellis, with this item we are asking the commission to

chuck todd. >> here's how it works. he only -- only if he gets a third term.ou have to break -- to transform, to move a country from senator right -- from center right to center left. a more conservative democratic party. that's when you know success -- chris: he's got to get one of these two people elected. >> that's right. >> i don't think that the republicans have the power to make him anything but transformational. he is transformational by virtue of the fact that he is in the white house for a second term as the first african-american. that's transformational and he has an opportunity to replace one. conservative justices on the court, social issues, liberal social issues are entrenched for as far as we can see. chris: would hillary take the court issue if it were appointed to it? >> i should imagine so. that's interesting. i think that's great analysis. and i think it depends on the lenz you look at. for the person who doesn't live and breathe politics he already is transformational and will be. and for people who are assessing the impact of policy, we h