former ohio congressman steve la tourette, newly sworn in congresswoman tulsi gabbard. mike dewine, tim ferriss and steve rinella. i have one word for you. >> squirrel. >> it's true. we have squirrel. friday, january 4th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> our starting point this morning. in just hours, the brand spanking new 113th congress will vote on a nearly $10 billion aid package for superstorm sandy victims. this after the outrage over speaker boehner canceling the initial vote early this week. athena jones live in our washington bureau. expected to be an easy one today, dana? >> it looks like it will be passed. about $9.7 billion in borrowing authority for the national flood insurance program. that program will run out of money as soon as next week. that's right around the corner, and the house is expected to come in this morning. past that. the senate voted for the larger version bill, and the house is broken into two pieces. the house is expected to approve that scaled-down part as well. >> the other big money vote a few weeks from now. >> january 15th the

. >> thank you, steve la tourette and governor rendell. >> thank you. happy new year. >>> the house got around to voting on an aid package for the victims of hurricane sandy. the conservative club for growth promised to punish anyone who voted it. and 67 republicans voted it down. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." after a week which democrats and republicans were livid that they pulled the plug on hurricane sandy aid, the house voted on it today. overwhelmly approved $10 billion for flood insurance. >> reporter:. but not before a number of said it was about time. >> this is not a handout. not going we are looking forward to favor. >> this action by house republican leadership is too little, too late. >> these are human beings, human beings. children. that have been completely displaced. and it's up to us to get them back on their feet. >> this is a total, total disaster in helping those people that we are pompously saying and uponty if i indicating saying we're helping them. what's our jobs? we're not doing anyb

the tourette gunner was his younger brother. i grabbed tom and he was dead weight, blood pouring out of his ears. i thought for sure he was dead. chuck shoved tom off and fell on top of him to protect him as the vietcong opened fire. flames from the burning vehicle shielded him until the trucks up front turned back to save them. chuck hagel went on to become a republican senator from nebraska. he is now president obama's nominee to be secretary of defense. john kerry, of course, went on to become a democratic senator from massachusetts. he is now president obama's nominee to be secretary of state. eric shinseki went on to become an army lifer. he went on to become a four star general. he was appointed secretary of veterans affairs by president obama, in president obama's first term. general shinseki is expected to stay on at veterans affairs in the second term. if senator kerry and senator hague really confirmed in the two positions for which they are nominated, which especially in the case of senator hagel is no sure bet, but i

there were no meltdowns there were a couple of firsts, miss iowa let the audience know she had tourette's syndrome. one comment she made is getting a lot of attention on the web. >> i personally know people who have had to go to medical marijuana for their last resort for their health care. i completely agree with that, i do not think it should be used for anything but recreational use and health care. >> and miss montana, the pageant's first contestant with autism. >>> a new and surprising take on the lone gunman theory. and this time, it's the family of slain president john f. kennedy speaking out. you have to hear this. >>> plus -- they're getting ready for a big show in washington. president obama's second swearing-in is just over a week away and we're in d.c. live with the latest on the party preps and the inside details. >>> plus anything can happen at the golden globes. we're breaking down some of the odds, pick your favorites and find out what our expert is predicting. ] imagine skin so healthy, it never gets dry again. can your moisturizer do that? [ female announcer ] dermatolog

not exclude people from conversation just because they are disturbing to them even if they have tourettes syndrome which could be disturbing. if they find a hard to talk to the student she will try to do her job better. and prominently with the case of my student who is legally blind a third argument prominent today is this burqa is a symbol of male domination to symbolize the objectification of women to encourage people to think of and treat women as the interchangeable object for their use. we should save the people who make it don't know much about is long but the more glaring flaw is modern societies have male supremacy image treating women as the sex object. hard-core pornographers, a tight jeans come revealing clothing, all of these from -- products teach women to be objects and women are taught to be paid in this way hand that robs them of individuality and reduces them to a commodity and i have written several articles myself the latest was pornographic abuse on the internet. what about plastic surgery? every time i undress in the locker room of my aid jim i see women who have the

. >> my first sargent was mortally wounded in iraq and he was the tourett of am fibbous assault vehicle feels 6'5", 250-pound man. i haven't seen a woman yet that would be able to pull that man out of the amphibious assault vehicle and try to get him to medivac. >> the first female combat pilot disagrees. >> they were making the same argument back then that women didn't have the endurance or the strength to be fighter pilots. i had just completed the hawaii ironman triath lon beating most of the military men. and they said i don't have the insurance to be a fighter pilot. >> there are issues of societal norms. many americans remember when private first class jessica lynch was captured in iraq. her recent biography details how she was rapeed by her captors. in a statement today she said she supported the change. >> listen, there is a big difference between being in harm's way, women are ambushed as part of units. they receive mortars and they have i.a.d. attacks. being in direct combat operation day in and day out is different than being in harm's way. >> the military service chiefs have

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miss iowa let the audience know she has tourette's syndrome and one comment she made is getting a lotf attention on the web. >> i personally know people who have had to go to medical marijuana for their last -- their last resort for their health care and i completely agree with that, however, i do not think it should be used for anything but recreational use in health care. >> and then there was miss montana, the pageant's first contestant with autism. >>> a whole lot of people in hollywood hope to bring home an award tonight in particular, the golden globe, the star-studded awards show that will happen evening. nischelle turner joins us from beverly hills. the awards hour is less than four hours away, are you feeling the excitement out there? >> reporter: yes. martin, i am feeling the excitement. some people may say entertainment is the toy department. this is a big night for entertainment. if you like star-gazing and star-watching, then the golden globes is definitely the place for you, because it's where move and i have film collide -- movies and fill? movies and television collide

ohio's steve la tourette dismissed it as a "package put together by a bunch of sleep- deprived octogenarians on new year's eve." and the alabama representative said the house needs more time. >> the house must postpone this vote until congress and the american people have time to study and evaluate this extraordinarily complex legislation and its impact on taxes, revenue, the economy, our debt and a myriad of other issues. >> woodruff: but tennessee democrat steve cohen warned about the consequences of not taking the senate deal. >> my district can't afford to wa a few days and have the sto market down 300 points tomorrow if we don't get together and do something. >> woodruff: later house democratic leaders emerged from a nearly three-hour meeting with vice president biden, who helped broker the senate deal. minority leader nancy pelosi called for action. >> we look forward now as we go forward in this day to see what the timing will be for a straight up-or-down vote on what passed 89-8 last night in the united states senate. >> woodruff: house republicans also met and gave no sign they were

ohio's steve la tourette dismissed it as a, quote, package put together by a bunch of sleep-deprived october octogenenarians on new year's eve and the alabama representative said the house needs more time. >> the house must postpone this vote until congress and the american people have time to study and evaluate this extraordinarily complex legislation and its impact on taxes, revenue, the economy our debt and a myriad of other issues. >> woodruff: tennessee democrat steve cohen warned about the consequences of not taking the senate deal. >> my district can't afford to wait a few days and have the stock market go down 300 points tomorrow if we don't ghettoing and do something. >> woodruff: later house democratic leaders emerged from a nearly three-hour meeting with vice president biden who helped broker the senate deal. minority leader nancy pelosi called for action. >> we look forward now as we go forward in this day to see what the timing will be for a straight up-or-down vote on what passed 89-8 last night in the united states senate. >> woodruff: house republicans also met and ga

steve la tourette is a republican from ohio. he joins me from washington. to start with the general question -- is there a division within your party? >> there's not a division, but there is a feeling after the 2010 election that leaders of both parties weren't doing enough to rein in the deficit and the debt. those are the tea party candidates that have been referred to, so as a result they've laid obstacles in front of the speaker over the last two years. >> you have said that some of the gop must have been drunk to vote for the fiscal cliff deal. >> yeah, i was -- what i voted for -- >> that was my follow-up. i was referring to the senators. my wife has chastised maine and said nothing good happens after new year's eve midnight, and that had -- it was a no-brainer to vote for it, because you saved 9 % of americans from getting a tax increase. what it didn't do is do anything to address the mass i have been deficit and debt we have in this country. that quite frankly is what gets in the way of the hurricane sandy bill. if you look at about $60 billion a y

we'll speak with tulsi gabbard and steve la tourette, been saying a lot of things, not so happy withongress. and two hours away with the big december jobs report. where will the unemployment rate land? kristen romans jumping out of her seat. >> five years' pro visions, i can't wait. >> couldn't sleep last night, so excited. >>> they love their meat. we're talking about the guys from the show "meat eaters." the early word is they are bringing squirrel snack for us. >> are you going to have it? >> i will eat anything. >> i'm going to get my camera out. >> thank you. >>> 53 minutes past the hour. heavy snow blanketing west texas. looks so pretty. especially around el paso. conditions got so intense that large portions of interstate 10 between el paso and ft. stockton to the east closed overnight. let's check in with alexandra steele in the weather center in atlanta for us. >> good morning, zoraida. christine has the jobs report and i have the el paso snow. we're both happy women this morning. hi, everyone. waking up looking at the franklin mountains in el paso. no school -- delayed for

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and heartened, whether it was bill crystal or john tourettes.ott walker was doing really well. i'll show you the polls of how well scott is doing in wisconsin. all republicans, saying we have to stop being the stupid party. what we've been saying for six months. john i thought had one of the best points, that we have stifled debate. the conservative movement has stifled debate and if you go out and you dare to stand out in a crowd, whether it's on taxes or regulations or in the past on immigration, you were completely shunned from the party. finally there's an understanding we've got to grow the party. what we've been saying quite frankly for years and getting attacked. we want colin powell on our side. we want moderate republicans on our side. if we're going to be the majority party again, we've got to expand that party. >> are you saying that pushing her out of the spotlight is part of making the stupid party less stupid? >> what i'm saying is that sarah palin represented a time and place in american politics and now 2008 so much as 2010. and