our other guest is roslyn wiseman. those of you who are parents have probably read her books. queen bee, queen bee wannabes, she has something else coming out that i'm probably not allowed it talk about yet, something to do with boys coming up. but i want to get started because our time is short. lee, first of all, tell us about bully, please, what was your inspiration for that. >> sure, we kind of met before, we definitely wanted to make our session a little more relaxed and so what we'll try and throw it out to questions pretty soon and have a bit of a free style banter amongst ourselves. but bully basically began as a, like most independent film makers, a dream, how can i possibly make this film, be able to capture bullying and give it a home, if you will, in something as durable and impactful as a documentary or a film. it very much grew from my own experiences of having been bullied as a kid and feeling like or taking the memory of how hard it was to communicate what was happening, to find agreement or adults or even to get my parents to advocate on my behalf and feeling

the three wiseman got to eat, but come on, mcdonalds, you say you have to feed them?hristmas, a happy meal away, i'm temperaturing you, to going to hell. did the golden arches just break the golden rule? ♪ [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking atnce] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that's the old me... ♪ announcer: this song was created with heartbeats of children in need. find out how it can help frontline health workers bring hope to millions of children at everybeatmatters.org. neil: well, you know, come to think of it, nothing says christmas ike gathering around the tree, unwrapping presents, anthen, well, hitting the drive-thru,. that's what mcdonald's is counting on. after a memo, seeing how much money they made hand over first thanksgiving day, the company is pushing franhises to fire up fryers christmas day too. a move that is said could be greasy indeed. >> i think it's awful. i think it's awful they are o

the three wiseman got to eat, but come on, mcdonalds, you say you have to feed them?christmas, a happy meal away, i'm temperaturing you, to going to hell. did the golden arches just break the golden rule? ♪ neil: well, you know, come to think of it, nothing says christmas like gathering around the tree, unwrapping presents, and then, well, hitting the drive-thru,. that's what mcdonald's is counting on. after a memo, seeing how much money they made hand over first thanksgiving day, the company is pushing franchises to fire up fryers christmas day too. a move that is said could be greasy indeed. >> i think it's awful. i think it's awful they are opening on christmas day, and i think it's awful that walmart opened on thanksgiving. i feel bad for the owners and workers flipping burgers instead of opening presents, rather than eating christmas ham, it's a burger. neil: depends on whether the family has good cooks, you know? >> that's true too. the founder, ray crock, who founded mcdonalds said no working on thanksgiving or christmas day and wanted the workers to be with th

. >> and meantime, "the new york times" jonathan wiseman reports behind the scene republican leaders are considering the president's plan to extend middle class tax cuts now an address the debt and spending in the new year. here's republican senator tom coburn on "morning joe." >> actually, i would rather see the rates go up than the other way and greater chance to broaden the base in the future. >> do something, a down payment on cuts, on investments and revenue this year. and then in the next year take the time to go over what we would do with real revenue reform. you can't do in it a matter of weeks right now. >> if they do not make this deal on tax rates for the top 2%, then they're going to go away and then we come back and pass tax cuts for everybody under $250. >> families are doing that now, budgeting every single dollar that they have to make sure that they can have the christmas they want for their children. they don't have to budget starting in january a tax increase. >> and throw this in to the pot. developing now, take a look. the house is now leaving town with just thre

someone is spreading a rumor about you and we will work this out and this is something that russell wiseman and haley kilpatrick -- >> host: it was girl talk in the book. >> guest: girl talk, the importance of having older girls, people, talk to the younger girls and say you know, we have all gone through this and it's really hard and it's going to happen and we have to find better ways to respond. i think where you can really get the ball rolling among kids, and again getting kids who are confident and you can really start this and can make being kind cooler than being cruel has a lot of influence over the entire school community. and i think the pert -- third piece of the puzzle is getting parents involved. something that was the biggest surprises of the film was when i went to get releases from all the parents. every parent of the children about their kids to be in the film and as you can imagine, the commerce stations were really intense, particularly when the parents of the kids who are doing the more severe bullying saw the footage. and their response was not only to let their kids se

i have moved too many times, i have like the head less wiseman. >> not so wise now are ya?r stuff in it it makes it multi-religious, like if you put a couple of cabbage patch dolls -- when i would move and lose stuff, i would just fill it in withther kinds of dolls. >> a ganesh kresh. >> you need a kresh course on how to celebrate christmas. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: see what you did there. they are talking about the kansas city tragedy. >> women are victims of violence all the time. >> should have guns. >> or make better decisions. >> or learn to protect themselves. guns are the opportunity to equal the score against somebody more powerful than you are. >> >> stephanie: she should have made a better decision than to get her face in the way of the gunshot. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: all right. i always love it when they -- [ applause ] >> stephanie: get women to fight the war against women. that's good. >> carry more guns! that would be great! what? what is the problem! >> stephanie: kids go to meeting is how we run our business here at the "stephanie miller show." i l