>> bill: i think is he a complete weasel and here is the proof of that. he is about as left wing as you get. but he is the senator from minnesota. and he was asked by the rochester post bulletin newspaper if he supported a ban of assault rifles. and he won't answer. his spokesperson mark kimble said, quote: i guess i don't have an answer for you. so, franken won't say whether he wants to ban assault rifles because is he from minnesota, a state that's not going to take kindly to that point of view. that's what a lot of these democratic liberal senators that's the position they are in. >> let me just tell you something. i read what senator franken said he affirmed his support for the second amendment rights of people. as a matter of fact. the d.c. vs. heller case is say people have an individual right to bear arms and connected that to self-defense. i don't think senator franken has taken issue to that at all. >> it's a simple question. do you want assault rifles to be banned? he won't answer, period, he is a weasel. >> look, i can't say that and i wouldn't

weasel words is his. meaning euphemisms, words that are the meaning of which is like a weasel going into an egg, it sucked all the meaning out of it. they're weasel words. lunatic fringe is his, and he comes up with it in reference to the, he sees the armory, the famous abstract expression, beginning of abstract expressionism in modern art, and he sees the duh champ nude descending, and he says in everier moment there's a lunatic fringe that takes over and destroys. roosevelt has got, um, he's got invisible government is his, a secret bond between government and business. he's got malefactors of great wealth. he's got great white fleet which is what he dubs the group, the fleet that'll go around the world. nature fakers is his. he starts reading some of these nature writers who are attributing a phenomenal powers to animals, you know, wolves who lead pioneer children out of the woods from starvation and animals with codes of of behavior and animals which act with biblical precision. and, of course, he com

i was a wild weasel.body know what that is? you guys or air force? cadets? okay, good. you have already been there, done that. i was a wild weasel. wild weasel is a very unique and screwy kind of person whose job in life is to go out and get shot at by certain austere missiles and antiaircraft artillery. if you survive in when and when you survive to go back around and you remove those threats so they don't bother anybody else. not going to tell you with the first guy said when asked him to do this back in vietnam. you can read about in the book. there's mixed company and youngsters here so i won't go into that but it's really a screw job and it's most of what i did. i talk a little bit about how all that came to pass. but it's not a textbook. i like, when i learn i like to learn without knowing that i'm learning. have you ever read albrighton's looks? i love his books because i learn a lot and i don't even know i learned anything. you get some history and then you start out with what happened when i was

i'll call for -- i was going to call for the weasel. not a sleazy guy, an actual weasel. a slaeazy guy, an actual weasel. my fault for coming out here. >>> "early start" continues right now. >>> deadly plunge. two americans among seven killed in a helicopter crash in peru. >>> d-day for america's debt. some experts predict we'll hit the ceiling sooner than expected. >>> a new sports dynasty. alabama in a rout on college foo football's biggest stage. >> are we going to talk about this all morning? >> i think we are. >> i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. >>> at the end of the day, irish eyes sadly were not smiling. the alabama crimson tide crushed notre dame's fighting irish in the bcs championship game. they owned the game. apparently. 412-14. they crushed notre dame, nursing its wounds. mante teo said the team did the best it could. >> i think we just did what alabama does, and like said, we had opportunities to make plays, we just didn't capitalize on those opportunities. >> meanwhile, much of the alabama win was credited to nick saban. his fourth bcs title. g

bad guys weasel their way through the door. slide it open. and before you know it, two guys are sneaking up to the front door trying to kick the thing down this is aob but they don't get in, and they don't stay for long, thanks to head of security rocco. a 2-year-old black lab. >> oh! >> look at that. he's big, he's black and he's ominous. >> they heard something, and they took off and then rocco makes his appearance. he doesn't stop there. he chases these guys, it looks like, out to the car. says, this is my lot. you guys gotta go. >> good job, rocco. >> so we've got the shop owner and rocco's boss joining us "right this minute." tell me how you felt when you first saw this tape play back and you saw your hero dog coming to the rescue? >> to be hon e679 with you, i was so impressed. i was like, wow. i couldn't believe it, to be honest, because my security guard, he called me. he said, he's the one who made them run away. right? >> so why get a lab as a security dog? why not a german shepherd or something known to be a security guard? >> the

he weaseled out of it, i'll leave it alone. i'm a tough guy but i live by my handshake. no one will ever say i went back on handshake. let's go back to herbalife. i'm reading again, what was in the new york times, in the times it says, that she says that he does -- that upbeat research. publication about upbeat research. a fund quietly selling shares. that's what he did. that's what the paper said. and right now, i believe -- and i'm not going to the sec or fcc, but i believe he goes out and has 300 people in a room. this is the typical akman. i wouldn't care if it was anybody else but ackman. but he gez into the room and gets 300 people and tells them how bad this company is. it is a classic stuff. they did it in the 90s. you scare the hell out of people. get the stock down. march the stock on december 31st and make $600 million on paper. and tells the world how great he is. he is giving to charity and shows the world he has made 12%. which isn't so great anyway. i would like to say we made 28% last year without going and having to go pump and dump stocks and go and hav

whatever it may beady debt ceiling, super committee crisis, fiscal cliff, somehow they fail, they weasel out of it. we still have this looming, looming problem. it's deeply political. reality check for folks at home. refusing to raise the debt ceiling is about as fiscally responsible as not pay iing a credit card bill when it comes in. you hear some saying when you hold a hostage, you got to be willing to kill it. >> you are a fiscal hawk. you don't want to be operating without a budget, or a blueprint, for so long. what should this congress do? >> first, we have to focus on the area that has been ignored for the longest amount of time and we know needs to be addressed. we have to reform our health care systems and retirement systems. our nation's entitlement programs are unsustainable. we are truly jeopardizing people who depend on them by being unwilling to make the necessary changes in a gradual and thoughtful way and they threaten the debt going forward. we need to get on top of those as quickly as possible as part of an overall comprehensive deal. more spending cuts have to be put i

i think is he a weasel. i have said that from the jump. but, you will like him or there is an excrews, that's fine. i don't care. but by making this admission, he opens himself up to an enormous amount of potential litigation. >> absolutely. he stands to lose tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. worth $125 million. several lawsuits aren't even filed. the first one is filed a while ago floyd landis one of his teammates who he defamed he brought a whistle blowing suit the government will or will not join in by thursday. that's their deadline to decide whether or not to join him. if floyd landis and the government wins this whistle blowing case he could be looking at $100 million in losses because they are treble damages. >> >> bill: explain the case to me. >> floyd landis said wait a second, you were on this team, you were using these drugs along with me. and you defrauded the government. the oust postal service. >> did landis get caught using them i don't believe. >> he was you. i didn't realize that he was a team of armstrong's. he

want to pay if you don't want to pay your fair share of the cost to society you're just trying to weasel out of it i could just make up anything that we want that's a right what else can we do i have a right to i have a right to gorm a food right i have a right to a steak i don't roll an arm a food in the declaration of law i don't recall health care in the declaration of life is in the is in the declaration of independence how do you have life if you're sick and you can't get treatment while you know how do you have it will you have it you have got it you've got to fight us all where do you get why you have to go fight for yourself you've got to go to this so we have the right to stand outside the hospital and bad and you have a right to die what about this guy have a right to you have a right to die and that's and i absolutely and i'm going to favor is that argument again are just changing the type you're saying to the subject no we're talking about rights tom what right right right is something right must be provided right absolutely be provided right so a positive i agree that negati

euphemisms, words that are demeaning like weasel. he had these analogies and looted lunatic fringes has any comes up with it in reference to the expressionism and he sees that the sending of it and there is a movement of transit takes over. roosevelt got invisible government, he has enough factors under his belt, he has great lakes fleet, which is what he does around the world and it attributes a phenomenal power to pioneer children all over the world and animals with codes of behavior and act from biblical precision. of course, he comes with this term and crusades against them. one of my favorites is william safire, a lot of this stuff is deeply involved. and i did a lot of research with some of these terms. the term that teddy roosevelt used was loose cannon. noncanonical sense of a cannon, but meaning the erratic, a person out of control. the person who was a loose cannon. so you can go on with teddy roosevelt, through the book, the other one is good to the last drop. which was the famous maxwell house saying, and he says oh, it's

it will be interesting to see how they try to weasel out of that while adhering to the bizarre principle raising no revenue and hoping to simply cut as much spending without putting specifics on the table what those spending cuts would be. it will be interesting to see how they deal with the political reality. >> eliot: i'm glad on january 2nd there is still a ray of hope, although that ray may disappear and go behind a car very shortly. congressman adam smith, thank you for your wisdom on these issues. >> thank you. >> eliot: do the pluses outway the minuses. morning the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. morning >> eliot: the 112th congress mayhave ended on a note of sound and fury but as shakespeare said it might have signified nothing. barbara lee of california, a member of the house budget committee, congresswoman, as always, thank you for joining us. >> happy to be with you eliot. >> eliot: a lot of excitement at the end of the session. you voted for the fiscal cliff agreement. explain to us why what you saw in it, and what you're worried about it th

i love the academic who started with the weasel word, arguable. 24r* are a lot of things arguable. >>ddition to the geneva convention that said extraordinary -- it was inhumane weapons. i don't know what is inhumane about an exoskeleten. >> all is fair in love and war which is why i wear an exoskeleten. >> he needs to learn his history. we will go back to world war ii. he was the first by logically engineered soldier. a, he got gorgeous. b, he went over to nazi germany ment -- over to the nazi germany. >> we will close things up with andy levy.

i love the academic who started with the weasel word, arguable. 24r* are a lot of things arguable. >>re is an addition to the geneva convention that said extraordinary -- it was inhumane weapons. i don't know what is inhumane about an exoskeleten. >> all is fair in love and war which is why i wear an exoskeleten. >> he needs to learn his history. we will go back to world war ii. he was the first by logically engineered soldier. a, he got gorgeous. b, he went over to nazi germany ment -- over to the nazi germany. >> we will close things up with andy levy. >>> back to andy levy. post game wrap up. >> how is the tweeting going? >> please follow me because no one likes me. >> come on you have like eight million followers. >> ridiculous. what is your twitter address? >> dan where will you be this weekend? >> i will be at mcgwire's in bohemia new york on friday and saturday. >> where is bohemia? >> long island. >> mike? >> a bunch of stuff coming up, i will post-it on twitter at mcmoynihan. >> sounds thrilling. >> if you are not that excited about it, why should america be? sometimes i wond

. >> if you're going to try to weasel out of it next year i'm not going to let you what is with the kissing >> i have no idea. i'm in times square. everyone out here, happy happy new year to my family in florida and my family as well. was this all you thought it would be? was it worth it? >> everything i thought it would be. only place i'd rather be right now. >> amazing so glad you're having a great time. happy new year. >> happy new year from mississippi! >> i am so excited. >> happy new year. >> great to have you back. >> well done. >> thank you. >> so now, billions watched the ball drop. washington lawmakers with a bigger ball of their own. all on their own. >> they make us do this. >> we're doing it under protest. >> i to not say fiscal cliff. >> voices say read the prompter. the prommer says the white house had agreed on a plan to prevent taxes going up. the deadline passed. where do we stand? >> what is going on? >> the vice president going to come out? did they? no. this is the city we live n the ultimate contrast. this is dullsville. we're waiting for the senate reset to end. actin

the pledge is not for life but anybody sign the pledge including peter king who tried to weasel out of it, shame on him, i hope his wife understands that commitments last longer than two years or something. the commitment from the -- >> hang on, hang on. that was below the belt. >> if you think a commitment only is not for as long as you make it for, the commitment for the pledge as peter king well knows, when he signed it, is that as long as you are in congress, you will rein in spending and reform government, not raise taxes. it is not for 500 years are two generations. only as long as you are in the house or the senate. he stayed too long that is his problem. you don't tell the bank the mortgage, wasn't that a long time ago? if you make a commitment, you keep it. >> coming up, was mitt romney done in by his own party? the republican presidential candidates may have inflicted mortal damage on him. >> this will go back to the empty chair, he was going to be talking to me tonight about why he said what he said about women. since it is just the chair, as well toss a few questions that a

investigation into its finances is now examing his relationship with san francisco financier tom weaselided financial backing. meanwhile a person familiar with armstrong interview with oprah winfrey says the cyclist was not contrite when he was discussing his use of performance enhancing drugs. the source tells the daily news armstrong described himself as another cyclist to compete in the grueling sport. >>> the mafficks big wave surfing -- the mavericks big wave surfing competition may be held this weekend. a big swell is coming but they don't know if the conditions are just right until 48 hours after the event. spectators you won't be allowed on the beach this year because of safety concerns. organizers say the best way to watch it is online. >>> best way to watch traffic is watch us. because we have sal. >> yeah. >> that is right. here we are. we are starting in oakland this time. and the traffic is moving along pretty well on 880 north and southbound. it is getting more crowded. the morning commute is also going to be a little bit more crowded if you are driving on 580 westbound. n

because the guy is a weasel. we all know it. so what's going on there, rosen?> well, the big decision that he is awaiting from the obama administration is how many u.s. troops the president is is going to leave in afghanistan after our combat mission in that country ends at the end of 2014. the pentagon was recommending 10 to 15,000 troops. now the obama administration is floating numbers like 6 to 9,000 and they refuse to rule out the zero option. >> bill: there must be a reason why they are doing that rosen because it doesn't make any sense. >> there is, behind the scenes the diplomats here in this building the state department are negotiating with afghanistan the terms the terms of our agreement with. they called a status of forces agreement. and they are trying to basically push karzai around a little bit to get some concessions from him. maybe we raise the number of troops if you give for those troops immunity from prosecution. >> bill: stop with your brother maybe we will give you more troops that keep from you getting your head cut off which is exactly w

it will be interesting to see how they try to weasel out of that while adhering to the bizarre principle raising no revenue and hoping to simply cut as much spending without putting specifics on the table what those spending cuts would be. it will be interesting to see how they deal with the political reality. >> eliot: i'm glad on january 2nd there is still a ray of hope, although that ray may disappear and go behind a car very shortly. congressman adam smith, thank you for your wisdom on these issues. >> thank you. >> eliot: do the pluses these talking points, that the right have, about the "heavy hand of government" ... i want to have that conversation. let's talk about it. really? you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. >> eliot: the 112th congress mayhave ended on a note of sound and fury but

the pledges not for life pick anybody sign the pledge including peter king who tried to weasel out of it, shame on him, i hope his wife understands that commitments last longer than two years or something. the commitment from the plant. >> hang on, hang on. that was below the belt. >> if you think a commitment only is not for as long as you make it for, the commitment for the pledge as peter king well knows, when he signed it, is that as long as you are in congress, you will rein in spending and reform government, not raise taxes. it is not for 500 years are two generations. only as long as you are in the house or the senate. he stayed too long that is his problem. you don't tell the bank the mortgage, wasn't that a long time ago? if you make a commitment, you keep it. >> coming up, was met ronnie done in by his own party? the republican presidential candidates may have inflicted mortal damage on him. >> this will go back to the empty chair, he was going to be talking to me tonight about why he said what he said about women. since it is just the chair, as well toss a few questions tha

the pledges not for life pick anybody sign the pledge including peter king who tried to weasel out of it, shame on him, i hope his wife understands that commitments last longer than two years or something. the commitment from the plant. >> hang on, hang on. that was below the belt. >> if you think a commitment only is not for as long as you make it for, the commitment for the pledge as peter king well knows, when he signed it, is that as long as you are in congress, you will rein in spending and reform government, not raise taxes. it is not for 500 years are two generations. only as long as you are in the house or the senate. he stayed too long that is his problem. you don't tell the bank the mortgage, wasn't that a long time ago? if you make a commitment, you keep it. >> coming up, was met ronnie done in by his own party? the republican presidential candidates may have inflicted mortal damage on him. >> this will go back to the empty chair, he was going to be talking to me tonight about why he said what he said about women. since it is just the chair, as well toss a few questions tha

. >> lance armstrong who i think is a weasel, is he going to go on oprah and talk about his alleged drug use in the tour de france. and you say, gibson? what's he going to say? you make a prediction. >> there is no reason to go on oprah except to admit, apologize and ask for forgiveness. there is no reason. >> bill: he lied for 18 years and took all these photographs home? >> is he gonna say it was my drive to win and i had cancer and i had a short life and i really needed to do it and i'm so sorry. please forgive me. >> bill: you should do the interview instead of him because that was convincing. >> oprah is going to give him a little james frey and forgive him. >> bill: oprah is going to forgive him? >> yes. >> bill: what's he going to do? >> go on and tell oprah how thin she looks maybe present her with a stationary bicycle as a gift. katie couric and ellen degeneres and combined couldn't carry her jock. >> bill: flatter her. >> make out ohow uncle tried to make out with him when he was a kid and get sympathy. american hero. went into france and beat the crap out off the ♪y ingrate fr

those are weasel words.say you support an infrastructure bank, if leveraging private capital, that's what a public/private infrastructure bank does. this used to be a bipartisan idea. >> actually it used to be a republican idea. if you look at how the hoover dam was financed, it was financed by public/private infrastructure led by a republican secretary of congress who then went an to be president, named after the dam and seven states collaborated, private sector, all paid back with interest. this is not a partisan idea. >> but it's become one and that's the problem. >> it's not. i agree with you. this is the thing we're all agreed on. i'm puzzled as to why republicans don't like this idea more than they do. i buy into the idea that opacity is a problem. when government gets to do things without proper oversight, things don't always go well. the stimulus of 2009 had some of that going on. but we are talking about building something from scratch. we have to try all options. do you think republicans can get be

what incensed me was that he weaseled out of the deal. we'll leave that alone. you're right.n years ago. leave it alone. he weiss aseled out and i'll te thaw. i am known as a tough guy but if you take my handshake you live by it. there is nobody who said i ever went back on a handshake. now let's go back into herbalife. right now i believe, i'm not going to the s.e.c. or the fdcc but i believe he goes out, has 300 people in a room. this is the typical ackman. i wouldn't care if it was anybody else but ackman but he goes into this room and he gets 300 people and he tells them how bad this company is. it's a class -- you scare the hell out of people, get the stock down. he marks the stock on december 31st and makes $600 million bucks on paper and tells the world how great he is. he's giving it to charity. and shows the world he's made 12% which isn't so great anyway. i'd like to say we made 28% last year without going and having to go pump and dump stock and having to go and have rooms full of people. >> okay. number one carl is free to make a tender offer for the company. you

>> with all due respect, which is one of those beltway weasel phrasing -- >> that's flat out bull [ muted ]. what did she do to save anybody. >> they were playing election politics. no doubt about it. >> this is the lance armstrong principle of when you're in traubl yell at the person asking you the question. >> the republicans did not examine her with enough aggression. >> i would have relieved you of your post. >> madam secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap. >> it was a good way of having to get out of having to respond to me. >> i was responding to a question soledad. i probably speculated and i shouldn't have. >> the doosy-doo. >>> we begin with a state of transition for american foreign policy as senator john kerry faces a high-stakes job interview to be the secretary of state. kerry's confirmation hearings were rather cordial hosted by the foreign relations committee which he's led for the past four years. but it was an unexpected moment when the hearings were interrupted by a protester that offered perhaps the most telling revelation about the man and the moment. >>

for one thing, this guy was able to weasel himself onto a trip of 11 women from atlanta coming down. he's the only male that made it into the group. and on top of that, mr. marcus williams here, you're in ninth grade. what did you work out with your school? >> what happened was, basically, my grandmother, she's a travel agent. and she planned a trip to come to the inauguration this year. and she had a seat left for me available. so i came, and when i told my teachers, one of my teachers, he was like, well, here's ten pages of homework, but if you can go and report back to us what you saw in washington, d.c., then you won't have to do the homework. so i decided to do the report, of course. >> are you taking video while you're here? what are you doing? >> yes. instead of writing the report, i'm going to actually videotape it. >> reporter: how about that? a man in the ninth grade who knows how to negotiate. that spells politician to me. marques williams, thank you so much. they're all the way here fl atlanta with all these other good folks. and we don't want to miss little anaya here. >

watch the president try and weasel out of the sequester, that it was his idea, and he agreed to it --get on the offense? see i'm with you. i'm a fiscal conservative. but you're on your back feet. >> no, no. the sequester takes place automatically unless something else happens, saving $1.2 trillion. debt ceiling which comes up around march 14th, fuzzy day but roughly march 14th, there the republicans have said for two years now, because the president's busting the budget with all his spending he's going to have to cut spending by the same dollar amount as his debt ceiling. if he tries to weasel out of the agreement we had two years ago on this subject, it's not going to work, that's where the republicans and the american people stand together against obama's overspending. third thing -- >> the argument is about refault. let me stop you right there. steve liesman framed this completely accurate. default is a legal term should only mean the debt. but the moral obligation default is going to be the main story. and that's the story that the republicans need to be prepared for. how can you

. >> i said he's a weasel. >> his livelihood could be determined by our legal system. >> i'll tell youible lawsuits, fraud. it's going to be tough. >> thank you so much. >> but the court of public opinion isn't likely to rest its case for quite some time. >> the interview supposedly lasted for close to three hours. so it's sort of like a regular interview but on steroids. >> the man is a hero. he beat cancer. then he went on to beat something even less popular, the french. >> and the number one other lance armstrong revelation admitted to doping just to get on "oprah." >> you know, it's interesting. you walk down the street. i hear very few people that are in the middle. people are either here or they are over here. so after the interview on thursday night, i'm curious to see how many people's opinions will change one way or the other. i can't wait to see it. i can't wait to see it. >> it's an incredible story that someone could be so high and fall so low. >> starting this weekend president obama's limousine will carry a new license plate, taxation without representation. like all of t

>> with all due respect, which is one of those beltway weasel phrases, you know it means the exact oppositeld. i think there were a couple of republicans on both the house and senate side that tried to make that clear. but i think there were more republicans who squandered the opportunity to really stick it not only to hillary and the state department, but to the entire lying administration. now, i understand that there are a lot of staffers and a lot of republicans on capitol hill who have been so steeped in this that they don't realize that the basics still need to get out to the american public. and that was the missed opportunity, i think. a lot of times, especially with low information voters, repetition is key. the key questions about how this administration lied and lied and lied to the american public and used this youtube video as a ruse really needed to get out there. but i think you could count on the number of fingers on your hand how many times republicans mentioned the video! hello! did you take an oath of office not to mention it yesterday? >> alisyn: there were other questio