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ari melber, what's your reaction to this decision? do you think that she, herself, is the product of a witch hunt that, frankly, has proved successful for republicans? >> well, clearly it's successful for those republicans who without the strength of the majority sought to prevent her from ever getting a hearing or being nominated. so pick up on what chief white house correspondent and anchor chuck todd said, i agree that part of the problem here is that she is up at the u.n., which is typically an apolitical position. we all agree that should be the case. she has about 150 staff there. so really people forget and democratic administrations which actually have the u.n. ambassador in the cabinet is a position of second among equals. cabinet officials like defense and state have thousands of employees, and that unfortunately plays a part. because she was significantly outgunned politically. she was also in a bind because she wasn't supposed to return fire given her current role. the other big point, and i think this is easy to forget, i

it said it happened only once in aries the ram. that was april 17th, 6 b.c. >> christmas in april? jesus born six years before we thought? it's likely true, since king herod, who went on a murderous rampage when he heard of jesus' birth, died in 4 b.c. but after his birth, jesus largely disappears from view, and the mysteries of his early life deepen. who were jesus' parents, his brothers and sisters? just how did jesus grow up? >> jesus was probably doing what most other teenagers were doing -- honing their job skills, meeting other people, helping to support the family, learning what he could about his community and his tradition. >> his tradition was jewish, and his community was the village of nazareth in rural galilee. just as the ancient prophets had said, the messiah would be a nazarene. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer p

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happy holidays to you, ari. have a great time. coming up next, president obama expecting to announce john kerry this hour as his choice for secretary of state. we'll bring that to you live. joining me mark lambberg, jeffrey gold beg, chris page, chris alissa, and congressman, and councilman hoyer all with us. the next steps for the fiscal cliff. now that the house has bailed on its speaker. andrea mitchell reports is next. more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. by showing you the apartment building where the fire was. when things like this happen, i think you find a new perspective on life. red cross put us in a hotel so we were able to stay to

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msnbc contributor ari melbourne, and michael dicer, professor of georgetown university, and joy reid, editor of the grio.com, and also our mental health expert. obviously, we are still getting reports and know what is happening, but more importantly, we will know the names of the victims. so far, we know the name of the murderer, the name of the ass l assaila assailant, and you heard the police officer there ask the media not to go invade their homes. >> right. >> what are the kind of ethics of being media in a moment like this? >> well, i can tell you that when i saw initially the reports where they interviewed these little kids, all right, it was heartbreaking to watch, and it also felt wrong in a way. although, i know when my kids were registered in school in florida, they were media released meaning that you sign a media release at the beginning of the year so if there was a media event that your children are cleared to talk. so i don't know if that allows the reporters to walk up to the child without the parent and ask questions. >> well, in most cases, there were parents there.

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let me disagree with ari slightly here. there was a vote in the senate on president obama's plan to close gitmo in 2009, and it failed 90 to 6. 90 to 6 very resoundingly. the republicans all opposed it, but 48 of the 54 democrats opposed it too. so the white house giving up at that point was not surprising to me. it's not clear it's the political will on capitol hill to close gitmo, the problem being once you close gitmo, the detainees have to go to prisons in the united states. every senator is basically like, not my district, not my state. i'm not sure until there's a real issue from the senate and the house that you can really move this. the president tried pretty hard, i thought, and is really, like, a loss 90-6 is hard to cover from. >> i agree with perry. it's definitely true you had the democrats in there making the same point, basically they didn't want to see detainees come to the u.s. in that respect, the president was very much boxed in. the problem, though, goes beyond the debate as it stood. i think what the pr

joy-ann, ari, alice, my thanks to all three of you. appreciate your time. >>> we will talk to somebody now who really knows what it's like to be in house speaker john boehner's shoes. i'm joined by former house speaker dennis hastert. sir, great to have you here. i want to start with this tense phone call we have been reporting on between the president and speaker boehner. you were able to sit down and get things done with bill clinton, who at the time was negotiating with a congress that impeached him. in your estimation, why does it seem so hard for these two modern day men to get around the same table? >> i'm not going to impugn anybody on this thing. everybody's got their problems. but i think where we're at right now, boehner's got a big load to carry, not only has to deal with the president, actually get something done, he's got to make sure that his constituency or basically the members of the house are happy about it. i would guess, i don't know what the inside deals are, i would guess right now that boehner's probably getting

i agree with ari in the sense that it's a total artifice. there's no reason why you necessarily need to have that, but railroad ama-- ari makes th good point that home ownership and charitable giving are two things in the tax code we want to keep in place. all economists are nearly unanimous if you raise rates on the top 2% you will shave off 0.1% of gdp. you will have no effect on economic growth if you increase tacks on the extraordinarily wealthy here. but, you know, again, this is a party that has campaigned for three years now on cutting the deficit, on cutting government spending. it's unbelievable to me that when you come down to the 11th hour in the negotiations right now, this party cannot identify any significant cuts of any significant scale in either entitlement spending or discretion yaer spending. it shows you this is a party that can talk the talk but can't walk the walk. >> to julian's point, last week boehner tossed out the idea of maybe going back to paul ryan's budget. today he tosses out erskine bowles recommendation, asi

michael, toure, ari, anthea. we talked about sort of the film and whether or not the film had a morality problem. it also has an inward problem, inward issue, you could say. people are going to go in this film and hear the "n" word a lot even for a quentin tarantino film. >> 110 times. >> knowing tarantino's work, he does use that word a lot. toure, do you think it's defensible this time for him to have that word in there so much? >> absolutely. i want to undercut the discussion but this is the most simplistic and base discussion we could have about this movie. we're in 1853, 1854 -- >> it was a prevalent term used against black people at the time. >> to not use it in this movie would be sort of ahistorical. it would be strange. it doesn't feel out of place as it does in some of the other movies where he uses it to say this thug is amoral or has lack of character or this black person has this sort of super cool thing or the thing he talked about yesterday with jimmy in "pulp fiction" as a separate usage. but ther

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the last time aris was in the u.s. her father shot this video of her, but now she lives in scotland, where her mother lynn is from. a federal judge ruled that lynn could legally take aris back to scotland, despite her father's objections. he says aris shouldn't be with her mother, because lynn has a drinking problem. >> i don't think that somebody with an issue, an alcohol issue like that, can take care of a child. definitely on their own. >> reporter: as evidence, jeff points to this 2010 police video where lynn was charged with disorderly conduct. but lynn says it was an isolated incident after a night out. >> i had too much to drink and i apologized to the court when i was taken to court. that's not a reflection on me as a mother. i wasn't drunk and in charge of my child. >> reporter: it is a classic he said/she said. >> i believe he set me up. >> reporter: lynn accuses jeff of unwanted controlling behavior including a plot to get her deported. >> he told the police on me, on the 24th of december, christmas eve, and

i agree with pretty much everything ari said there. we shouldn't get overly invested in the wisdom of the status quo. one idea that some tax wonks like to talk about, which i think is a good idea, we talk about deductions all the time but we can convert these things called credit. instead of rich people getting a ton of money everybody gets some money for them. if you do that with a charitable instead of a rich guy getting this enormous deduction for all of their -- their $300,000 donation to their alma mater andover just raised $300 million, i'm not sure the tax code needs to be encouraging that, if you change it to a credit, you could have people who make $50,000, make $40,000, make $60,000, they could then get a credit for donating to charity and what you would see if that was done is also a boost on the other side where more folks on the income level were able to donate to the charity or charity able to get more money and see a shift in the composition of charities that got that money from operas and alma matters to churches, to so

here now, cnbc contributor ari melber and michael steele, former rnc chairman. i want to go to my pal, michael steele, whom i haven't seen in so long. millionaire tax rates, issues about the debt ceiling. >> right. >> certainly not enough spending reductions. i talked to conservative republicans. there's a lot of back biting and talking and yelling and not happiness. is the republican party giving up its base? is it giving up the grass roots to make a deal? >> i don't think it is, larry, but i think it's also confronting the new reality post-election. the president clearly has more cards at his disposal to play. he's got the momentum of having the voters behind an idea that rates have to go up at least maybe to 37% or more for those who make $250,000 and above. so speaker boehner's been trying to carry the water for his base, recognizing that the bucket may have some holes in it. but also bringing the pressure to the president that says, look, you know, we're willing to go to that well if we have to on raising rates, but you've got to come to the table with spen

go ahead, ari ne'eman. guest: i really appreciate you tackling these issues. first, that story is a familiar one. a lot of adults are not diagnosed until much later in life. it is a very serious issue. it is one of the reason why this talk of and autism epidemic has been so damaging. the perception that it is some new and recent thing that never existed before now really ignores the experiences of those great many autistic people who have gone unrecognized in the past. one of the ways, and i mentioned this in my testimony -- one of the ways we could put to test this idea of weather we are seeing rising incidence or rising diagnosis is to study the prevalence of autism in adults and compare that to prevail and in children -- prevalence in children. the british government did just such a study and found the same percentage of autism in the adult population as in the childhood population. we need to do that in the united states. all of the statistics we see from the cdc are by and large 8- year-old's. if we were to study adults, we would not only get valuable dat

ari melber, perry bacon, joel sawyer. gentlemen, earlier we talked about the supreme court's decision to take on challenges to the defense of marriage act, also california's proposition 8. ari, could this be the last chance for opponents of same-sex marriage before president obama gets a chance to appoint a liberal judge? >> yeah, i mean look. this is very significant what the court has done here is decided to hear two cases that it didn't necessarily have to hear. and what we have on the court potentially is a bit of a breakdown here. you've got justice scalia who in the lawrence v texas case famously said that the court was embracing the anti-anti-culture which by we the legal profession are too concerned about gays and not concerned enough about the serious religious views people hold. but the scalia court and all eyes will be on justice roberts on whether this is another area where he, another conservative jurist generally seeks to do something bigger and broader and create a press dent that can outlive i think some o

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her maim is aris, and she is 5 years old, and her mom and dad are fighting for custody. how does an ugly divorce make it to the highest court in the land? our cnn joe johns reports. >> aris is a beautiful 5-year-old in the middle of a bitter custody battle between two parents at the end of a rocky marriage. >> my daughter, she's my sparkle. she's everything for me. >> i believe i will never see her again. >> reporter: it's a complicated legal fight dealing with international borders and treaties and important muff that the u.s. supreme court has taken the case. the last team she was in the u.s., her father shot this video of her, but now she lives in scotland where her mother lynn is from. a federal judge ruled that lynn could legally take aris back to scotland despite her father's objection. jeff is a u.s. army sergeant that served in afghanistan. he says aris shouldn't be with her mother because lynn has a drinking problem. >> personally i don't think that somebody with an issue, an alcohol issue like that, can take care of a child. you know, definitely on their own. >

i am going to bring ari melber in. it is the point about the big family that is president obama and the fact that he said we gotta stay in the conversation. he is keeping everyone together. that's the don's challenge, how he will do it next. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> the role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. america has never been about what can be done for us. it is about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. that's the principle we were founded on. >> that was president obama in chicago on th

the president is going to be somewhat successful. >> i don't know if i agree with you 100% on this, ari. i think the american people are pretty smart about this. i think if you look at where the american people are, it used to be a while ago people were afraid to say the word tax in america because grover norquist kind of had the whole country afraid to say the word. i think americans now are saying, listen. we want to be, to coin a phrase, conservative. if you have a war, you have to pay for that war. if you're going to do stuff like the republicans did with the medicare prescriptions, you have to pay for it. i think the republicans now look like a something for nothing party almost. i think americans -- >> van? >> we have to pay for this stuff that we actually are on the hook for now. >> to be consistent, you should raise the rates on everybody back to the clinton rates. what you're doing with that theory is making 2% of the country pay all of the nation's bills. >> no, no. that's not exactly right. >> hold on a second. if you were consistent and principled about what you said, the 10

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ari, if i can begin with you. why not replace one comic actor with another. >> what i love what stephen colbert does, he reminds us of the many absurdityiies we matakr granted. >> well, colbert brings star power. a go p lobbyist telling roll call that demiemint will have t star power of ben affleck. is that right. is he now the ben affleck of the tea party? another insider said demint is the ceo of conservatism. >> it's hollywood for ugly people in washington. that's the old saying. >> it is. >> i think there is sort of -- it's sort of insane to me the way we've been talking about jim demint leaving the senate. for one thing this idea of him as a star. he's not a star legislator. he didn't pass any bills. >> i believe he's 0 for 35. >> exactly. so he may be a star of other things and there are people who use the senate as a platform to do sort of broader advocacy rather than legislation, but he's not a star there. he doesn't have a legislative record there. it makes perfect sense to me he would go elsewhere. >> pr

i'm ari in for alex wagner. with me today, ben stein. steve cornaki is joining us, as well. president obama returned to washington moments ago, cutting short his christmas vacation. the president has now spoken with all four congressional leaders, according to the white house communications director he. the house remains on vacation, but there are a few signs of life in the capital. gop leaders have released a new statement with an old message to the senate. the ball is in your court. the statement says the house will take action on whatever the senate can pass, but the senate first must act. well, this morning, senate majority leader reid slammed the house republicans not not even showing up. >> if we go over the cliff, and it looks like that's where we are headed, the house of representatives as we speak with four days left after today before the first of the year aren't here with the speaker having told them they will give them 48 hours inside. i can't imagine their conscious. >> well, senator reid is expected to hold a news conference about the talks this afternoon. so h

ari, that's the problem. the big scary thing president obama is talking about is having the big scary top tax rate be the same as it was under president clinton when people in the top tax bracket had a great time. >> exactly. everyone remembers that. everyone understands that. there isn't a big principle here left for the republicans. that's why the fallback position i think shows a great weakness. it also shows a top of economic nighalism that they don't care about the cred imrating of the united states of america. we already knew that. the other difference that is going to hurt them, we are seeing it in the bloomberg news poll and the views. this should be a compromise time and obama should get the tax hike on the upper 2%. people talk about a teachable moment. this is a teachable month. this is taking a long time. it hurts republicans because people are seeing the entrance yents and seeing who is in the way of recovery. >> there is a new theory about the pace of things. chris van hollen thinks it has somet

. >> joining me now, msnbc's ari melber and "the huffington post's" ryan grim. ryan, you can't -- these guys can't just go quietly into the night there has to be a little zinger, a little fork in the eye to john boehner on the way out. i wonder what you make of demint's departure from the senate. is it better for democrats or for the republican party? >> well, it's certainly better for jim demint. his salary increased something like six-fold. plus, he can start making income on the side that would have been unseemly for a senator. and meanwhile, let's give jim demint serious credit. a lot of senators come to washington middle class or upper middle class. then they live in the $170,000 salary, and somehow 12 years later, they're worth $20 million. and you don't really know quite how that happened. jim demint didn't do that. his net worth was listed at something like $65,000, which has to make him one of the poorest people in the united states senate. 10 certainly he's better off. you know, he is an activist at heart. so going back into the movement purely is good

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