republicans claim he is few unyielding in past fiscal negotiations but he will unlawful be nominated for secretary of penmanship. can you read that signature? can you read that signature? it will be appearing on all u.s. money if he is confirmed and he will try to improve his handwriting. >> can we forge that? same reason i could never be treasury secretary, either. >> that was interesting. glad he doesn't write prescriptions. now, going outside, you can see the clouds are out there. i will keep the showers in the forecast going today and the cold air comes in tonight with the showers and that is the lingering legacy of the storm system and a chance of showers during the 49ers and packers playoff game. i will give you an update on that. >> the oscar nominations are out and we will go >> movies and actors have been nominated for an academy award. did your favorites make it? abc news reporter joins us live from los angeles with the thrill and the disappointment. >> there were several surprises this morning with the nominations that came out. one was silver linings playbook which has ne

republicans claim he is few unyielding in past fiscal negotiations but he will unlawful be nominatedor secretary of penmanship. can you read that signature? can you read that signature? it will be appearing on all u.s. money if he is confirmed and he will try to improve his handwriting. >> can we forge that? same reason i could never be treasury secretary, either. >> that was interesting. glad he doesn't write prescriptions. now, going outside, you can see the clouds are out there. i will keep the showers in the forecast going today and the cold air comes in tonight with the showers and that is the lingering legacy of the storm system and a chance of showers during the 49ers and packers playoff game. i will give you an update on that. >> the oscar nominations are out and we will go ron: years ago i made a promise to provide the best for my family, in sickness and in health. carol and i needed help figuring out what's covered by medicare and what's not. so we turned to the same folks we've relied on for health insurance all these years. announcer: ron and carol called anthem blue cros

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mccarthy reportedly told fellow fellow republicans of the meeting that they must quote show a united unyielding opposition to the president's economic policies congressman pete sessions said that republicans should take on an insurgency mindset as in the taliban in fact to use that phrase. and on my radio show new game bridge confirmed that he was at the meeting and justified this insurgent mentality pete sessions actually wrote for for the national journal but that you guys decided that you were going to become the taliban insurgency he said you have to understand we will become the insurgency i think insurgency is a mindset the taliban taught us this we need to understand that insurgency is going to be required when dealing with the other side and you were quoted in the book as saying that. after this dinner you'll remember this is the day the seeds of two thousand and twelve were sown is that all accurate plan party line the first or taliban i think is not a term i would have used because they're terrorists so were you guys insurgents against the obama presidency well the fact is not the opp

of staff last year and has a reputation of a tough bargainer but republicans say he has been too unyieldingpast negotiations. >> it nearly fell through because of lew's signature. you can see it. that signature would appear on all u.s. paper money if he is confirmed. president obama said he never noticed it at before, he quote, considered rescinding the offer. he says he will try to improve his handwriting. >> do they still teach penmanship? >> sleeping pills that millions of americans use. >> plus, this animal has caused a lot of frantic 911 calls. is it a baby lion or a dog? we'll introduce you to him up next. >> and i'm sandhya patel. skies are clearing out. the chill is moving in. get ready for a freezing cold night. freeze warnings and frost advisories coming up. >> another live look at traffic and golden gate bridge moving smoothly and oncoming traffic coming into san francisco, slower northbound towards marin but not >> larry: a dog groomed to look like a lion is social media sensation. charlie the labra dood le after they were swamped. they saw him walking around and they thought a

some republicans complained that he has been too unyielding on negotiations. his signature will have to be emblazoned on u.s. dollar bills. but you might not be able to read it because his signature is notoriously illegible. >> virginia governor bob mcdonnell urged lawmakers to implement a long-lasting transportation reforms during his state of the commonwealth address. >> we must reform and invest in transportation and infrastructure or job growth and quality family time will suffer. >> he wants to scrap the gas tax and then increase virginia's sales tax to help raise money for transportation projects. he says road maintenance costs will rise nearly $140 million a year if lawmakers don't pass it. >> afghan president hamid karzai making the rounds in d.c. he's scheduled to meet today with defense secretary leon panetta and secretary of state clinton. wednesday he met with lawmakers on capitol hill and tomorrow he will meet with president obama to discuss the size of the future u.s. troop presence in his country. >> in the wake of hurricane sandy, u.s. senator

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he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. >> at the national review summit republican leaders discusseday to attract more women and hispanics since the face of the american electorate is changing. >>> the work linked to the fake girlfriend hoax linked to college football player manti t'eo is shutting down her social media accounts. she wrote in the los angeles times that her photo was used without her permission. athat appears that the acquaintance responsible for the hoax easily copied her photo without permission from her social media postings. >>> now to our continuing coverage of the 49ers quest for super bowl victory. here is a live picture at san francisco's city hall. which is all lit up in red and gold. city hall has been lit in the team's colors nines the niners began their postseason ran. they are just eight days way from super bowl xlvii and a bay area man is among those showing his true colors. bay area artist tim hon with the finishing touches on the mural called "gold blooded." it's on the side the masonic lodge. the berkeley graduate used climbing ropes and ladder to do t

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the president will bait us and portray us as cruel can unyielding. >> paul ryan and the reemerging republican party sending a message x. why they say the future looks bright for the gop despite the critics. also, he had a six-day head start before anyone knew he was gone. now the fugitive who simply walked out of jail using an elaborate scheme to escape. new fall out after a school district punished a fifth grader after bringing a paper gun to school . was it all a misunderstanding that went too far? we report you decide. >> i am harris faulkner. we begin with a come back chorus with the grand old party. paul ryan joining republicans and sharing their vision . stay united and stay focused on true conservative principles. ryan speaking today warning that president obama will try to villanize congressional republicans to achieve his goal and down played the republican party's imminent down fall . instead ryan pointing out why he believes that the gop is poised for a rebound. >> we can't get rattled. we will not play the villian in his morality plays. we have to stay united and we have to show t

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. >> reporter: the white house says the president wants both parties to come together and act for the good of the country. the press secretary said the president believes "we need to compromise, not be absolutist, but believe the need to act on behalf of the american people should compel us to make reasonable compromise while we stick to our principles, and that's the approach he's taken since he entered the white house and it's the approach he intends to take in the second term." congressman ryan says he doesn't think republicans are in the political wilderness now since they control the house of representatives and most state legislatures. he says the party needs to broaden its appeal. in washington, molly hennenberg, fox news. >>> coming up, a proposal to raise the minimum wage in maryland is causing concern for local business owners. and we'll tell you why some of the workers who would benefit from the pay hike are worried. >> starting today you could be paying extra to pay by credit card. those stories and more when fox 5 morning news sund

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. >> the white house says the president wants both parties to come together and act for the good of the country. press secretary jay carney said the president believed that quote we need to capri miss not be absolutists but agree the need to act on behalf of the american people should compel us to make reasonable compromise while we stick to our principle. that's the approach he has taken since the end of the white house and approach he will take in the second tex. ryan says he doesn't think republicans are in the political wilderness since they control the house and most state legislatures but they need to broaden their appeal. >> mol knee henneberg. thank you very much. >> the second amendment taking center stage activists making their voices heard in a pair of opposing rallies. lawmakers religious leaders and hollywood stars addressed gun control supporters outside of the capital building. nearby a smaller event billed as the rally against gun extraction brought out those fighting to stop tougher firearms laws. >> extreme winter weather gr

charges of racism were swift and unyielding. >> this officer got off with murder and he didn't have to even go to prison not one day. >>reporter: 2010 jury cleared messerly of all charges except involuntary manslaughter. he was sentenced to two years in prison and given credit for time served. that judgment sparked more charges of racism. >> if you are african american young man you are already racially profiled. clearly you could see from my son being murdered that we didn't 7 the same justice that other people 7. >>reporter: grant mother believes hollywood may help to do that. film set to premiere at the sun dance film festival in two week focus on the event that led up to the shooting, death and protest that ignited passion. >> my hope is people will see the truth. >>reporter: rally peaceful and at the peek about 100 people in attendance. bart for their part continues to work with the grant family to provide them a safe space to have their vigil. this is abc 7 news. >> and there is much more to come on 7 news at 9:00. coming up. victory never smelled so sweet. highlights next stanfo

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. we can't get rattled. we won't play the villain in his more raality plays. we have to stay united. we have to show if given the chance that we can govern, that we have better ideas. >> ryan was joined at the national review over the weekend by a handful of republican governors, including virginia's bob mcdonald, who had this advice for the party. >> our politics are off. and we need to be honest about the problems that our movement and our party's got. i know it sounds strange but i think we need to be better community organizers. that's funny, i guess five years ago, it's not so funny now. >> put that on the list of things a gop governor with presidential ambitions wouldn't have said a year ago at a conference sponsored by the national review. speaking of mcdonnell, he made it clear this weekend that the republican party's attempt to, quote, fix their problems by simply changing the rules, namely the rules of how the electoral college votes are awarded, that plan is dead in virginia. mcconnell's spokesman

this meant unyielding opposition to every one of the obama administration's legislative initiatives. they all talked about this and they began to get more and more optimistic and they left feeling practically exuberant. >> count, count them ten official inaugural ball. >> stunning crowd of people. >> the new president had no idea what the republicans were planning. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and first lady. >> surrounded by supporters at the inaugural balls, the mood was hopeful. ♪ at last my love >> didn't have a full sense of what washington was going to be like for him. he had not been in the middle of these kind of down and dirty fights. the ugly reality of governing in washington today. >> that really did end up being a hallmark of president obama's first term in office, right, what happened that first night, that first night of his inauguration, what the republicans were meeting about in washington that night became the story of a large part of his first term, trying to negotiate, trying to bargain, trying to come to middle ground with republica

he will portray us a cool and unyielding. just the other day, he said that republicans are suspicious about social security. he said that we have suspicions about feeding hungry children, that we have suspicions about caring for the elderly. we won't play the villain in his morality plays. >> won't play the villain? the gop has been typecast for their role by their own policies, attacking social security, going after food stamps. if this is the gop idea of change, then they can keep it. joining me now is ed rendell and michael steele. mie kal michael, let me start with you. >> hey, rev. >> for all the talk of republican renewal, i'm not seeing much substantive change from the gop. are you? >> no, i'm not. and i can't take issue with much of your leader in there because, you know, framing the argument begins with galvanizing the base around some core ideas and principles that you are going to use as the foundation for policy announcements and direction for the country. to be quite frank about it, i have not seen that occur. i

in his column in "new york times" today he says people almost never change their unyielding narrativesr unconscious frameworks. it's probably futile to try to change current b republicans. it's smarter to build a new wing of the republican party. >> i really like this idea. i'm glad you brought up this article. i was about to do that. because i think this could be exactly what the republican party needs. the harsh reality here is the fact republicans have not won the popular vote more than once in 2004 since 1988. i mean, these are the stats. this is what we're faced with as a party. so i think this idea of forming a second party, one that is a balanced party, one that can actually travel to the biggest cities around the country and talk about the need for government. yeah, as a republican you can still talk about why we do need government as a country. and you can appeal to people in different demographics that we're not reaching out to today. i don't remember romney traveling to chicago, philadelphia, or new york for example. i think we need to visit those cities just like ronald rea

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. >> you can't fight things you know you will lose on. >> we're trying to do immigration since 2004. >> this could have been done in 2007. >> what were they thinking. >> we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote. >> when we see an opening, however small, we should take it. >> exactly one year ago, this week this is what republicans thought voters wanted to hear about immigration. >> so if you don't deport them, how do you send them home? >> well, the answer is self deportation, where people side they can work there because they don't have documents. >> i am running for office, for pete's sake. >> and just two years ago, just after winning his senate re-election, this was john mccain's position on immigration. >> complete the dang fence. >> it will work this time? senator, you're one of us. >> i'm john mccain and i approve this message. >> and then, on november 6th, 2012, they lost 71% of the hispanic vote to president obama, and literally after that, they started to talk about compromise on immigration. >> we have to get rid of the immigration

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. we can't get rattled.won't play the villain in his morality plays. we have to stay united. we have to show that if given the chance, we can govern. that we have better ideas. >> president obama has said he hoped this re-election would break that republican fever of total opposition, but in an interview with "the new republic" interview, brand new magazine, he said obviously that hasn't happened yet. joining me is columnist cynthia tucker and "the washington post's" eugene robinson. i want to start with gene up here. it seems to me they have this new sort of gee, whiz, we're getting beat up, but they were the party that for four years shut the door on a new president. he won the election -- >> and said, you know, our number one goal is to make him a one-term president, and they said, no, no, no. they said no to measures they had proposed in the past, but as long as he proposed them, they said no. to turn around and then say, oh, he's hitting us, he's beating us up, it's kind of silly, and i don't know -- ar

a terrifying struggle between zookeepers and rescuers trying to free catherine from the bear's unyielding grip. >> the bear would pull catherine toward him. the zoo keepers would pull catherine back toward them. >> she must have felt just like a rag doll being tossed around like that. >> they kept hitting him on the head. it did go good. >> the puny branches do nothing to stop binky. >> and she did make a couple pleas to don't let go. just don't let go of me. i would get a little more of her every time. and then catherine's shoes slipped off. and so her foot just slid through the polar bear's mouth and then she was free. >> lay down, lay down. >> at last, catherine is free of binky's death grip. dr. rayford doesn't know if her injuries will be fatal. she's rushed to the hospital. >> i just felt the crunching of my leg. it was so excruciating. >> i believe it was almost two weeks she was in the hospital. she had some open wounds. a lot of bruising. she also had a broken leg. >> very lucky. i feel very fortunate. >> catherine suffers torn ligaments and a couple broken bones, but the biggest

you've met it with bravery and you've met it with unyielding devotion. what you know, but i don't think you internalize, this generation of soldiers and sailors, marines, coast guardmen, airmen, just since 9/ 9/11 three million, 300,000 men and women of this country, you among them joined our military with the almost certain knowledge that you would be thrust into harm's way, but yet, you stepped up this 9/11 generation that so many pundits wondered about. they're not wondering now. they know who you are. they know what you've done. 1.7, 1.7 million of you have walked across the scorching sands of iraq or been in those god forsaken mountains and plains of afghanistan. many of you just haven't served one tour, you have served two, three, of four, five, the last time of the 23 or 4 times i've been in afghanistan and iraq, i was flying into bagram in a c-17. i went up in the cockpit, the load master is there as well and i said, how many of you is this your first tour? nobody raised their hand. i said second tour? one. third tour? two. fourth, one. fifth, tw

he used to say, i am a man of unyielding principle. and i am a man of unbending flexibility.t is a reflection of this political culture, which is along the lines i just described. host: i want to read you from "the washington post." barack obama begins his second term as the most visible public figure in the world. his face has appeared on more than 12,000 nightly newscasts. pops 952is name and up op results. pages has nearly 35 million "likes." ow, the question persists -- who is he, really? there is a common refrain that obama seems elusive, if not mysterious, less easily categorize and understood than the last democratic resident. -- president. your thoughts? guest: because it is an important point -- the first part of what you read, the extraordinary visibility, the immediacy, the fact the president -- 500 years ago, presidents were names in newspapers. they were not vivid to people. they did not come into our homes in the way the modern president does. it happened to ronald reagan, it happened to bill clinton, george bush. and that is, obama fatigues. three years from no

some republicans have complained that lew has been unyielding in past negotiations.he president said today: >> over the years he's built a reputation as a master of policy who can work with members of both parties and forge principled compromises. >> brown: the announcement came a day after labor secretary hilda solis announced she's stepping down after four years on the job. solis was the first hispanic woman to serve in a top cabinet position. and, she's the latest of several high-profile women to depart, including secretary of state hillary clinton and lisa jackson, administrator of the environmental protection agency. along with the president's earlier nominations-- for state the pentagon and the c.i.a.-- that's raised questions about a loss of diversity in the cabinet. but yesterday, white house spokesman jay carney said the president's record on diversity should speak for itself. >> i mean, the increase in the representation of women in senior positions is dramatic-- it's consistent with or greater than president clinton's staff as well. >> brown: whatever the

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. we capital get rattled.n't play the villain in his plays. we have to stay united. we have to show that if given the chance, we can govern, that we have better ideas. >> the president, i believe, is president today not because of what he does, but because of what he says because people feel like they can relate to him. people feel like -- that he can relate to them and that he understands even though he can't really -- he is not really doing anything to help the people on the ground. they feel like he understands them. >> so the take-away that the president has made the gop the villain? >> you know, i think the take-away is that they don't want to change. paul ryan's remarks in particular were -- boiled down to exactly that, didn't they? he said we've got to keep doing what we've been doing. we're right. you know, maybe we need to repackage a little bit, but we have to do what we believe. they've gotten thib their hats handed to them, and they're not interested in chajing. >> thank you for your time. i apprec

he will portray us as cruel and unyielding. we can't get rattled.n't play the villain in his morality plays. >> democrats are not organized enough to have their talking points be this evident. but when republicans do it, it's kind of obvious. this is the new republican leadership talking point. president obama is mean. and republicans are helpless before his meanness in washington. but you know what? republicans have complete control of government in 24 states. which is a lot. and where they do have control, they're not blaming obama, right? look what they're doing in governance. they're having the rich pay less, and they're having the poor pay more. this is not what they're marketing to the nation, but this is what they're doing when they're handed the reins of government. economist paul krugman wrote about this deja news. taking from ordinary families and giving to the rich. even as republicans look for a way to sound more sympathetic and less extreme, republican policies are taking another sharp right turn. why is this happening? in particular, w

and that's because of this unyielding, uncompromising point of view.nbc poll, a full 1/3 of people volunteered that the thing they wanted congressional republicans to do was compromise. it was the highest item on the obama list, i think was 11%. 34% said we want congressional republicans to compromise. >> i agree with what the republicans decided to do. you can call it kicking the can down the road for three more months. but i think it's great that they are actually challenging the democrats to do something they haven't done in 1,362 days. pass a budget, you know, the president has sent budgets to the united states senate that the democrats have controlled. and he's gotten zero votes every year. what's their vision? >> to the extent that the president is saying on gun control, we talked about this a minute ago, look, challenge republicans. let's change views about gun laws in this country. he's not challenging democrats. he's not saving democrats from themselves when it comes to medicare and saying, look, i know this is a tough vote, about you we've go

some republicans have complained that lew has been unyielding in past negotiations. the president said today: >> over the years he's built a reputation as a master of policy who can work with members of both parties and forge principled compromises. >> brown: the announcement came a day after labor secretary hilda solis announced she's stepping down after four years on the job. solis was the first hispanic woman to serve in a top cabinet position. and, she's the latest of several high-profile women to depart, including secretary of state hillary clinton and lisa jackson, administrator of the environmental protection agency. along with the president's earlier nominations-- for state, the pentagon and the c.i.a.-- that's raised questions about a loss of diversity in the cabinet. but yesterday, white house spokesman jay carney said the president's record on diversity should speak for itself. >> i mean, the increase in the representation of women in senior positions is dramatic-- it's consistent with or greater than president clinton's staff as well. >> brown: whatever t