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nancy pelosi at a republican town meeting in oklahoma. were going to have that in the "sideshow." but let me finish tonight by playing you that voice mail. that racist voice mail was left for u.s. congressman john lewis. and michele bachmann has been denying exists. we start with a death threat against senator patry murray of the state of washington. pete williams is nbc news justice correspondent. this is a crime. how serious is it, pete? >> its very serious. a felony. threatening a...

respects if the media had ignored it, too, you would have to wonder if it would have gotten as big as it is. i think there may be aspects of this that movement-like. the risk for the republicans is that nobody is really trying to harness or control that movement. theres no indication whether anybody actually can. >> the republican party -- >> some -- >> they dont draw the line at all saying, hey, come on, knock off the signs. its about health care reform. this was dick armys thing. he ...

Against cnn, he feels hes entitled to two scoops. thats kind of how he seems to be looking at things these days. its rather sad, and hes only able to get away with this because republicans who claim to care about policy have enabled him and are not calling him out for ludicrous, absurd, and violent behavior. >> on that, david, i read "art of the deal," and he does delight in aspects of certain deal it is the topic interests him. he did make deals, and whether or not you like the way he gout out ...

Spoken up get drowned out by very shrill voices within the republican conference who dont want to do anything. >> i think its a really interesting moment that were looking at. speaker boehner and presumably kevin mccarthy, number two in the house, both seem to want some kind of reform and kevin mccarthy has a district that would seem to lend itself to reform, whether they actually do anything about it remains to be seen. always good to see you, thank you for your time. joining me now is nbc ne...

Federal funding for medical research and the short answer is a lot. >> john is managing director of science policy and david cornyn washington bureau chief for mother jones. everybody loves research. it means people can live to 90, healthy. if we dont do that, were just going to fall back. if you dont have verge keeping up with stress, were going to fall back. >> the most important investment that our company can make and thats whats so discouraging right now. when youre talking about the seques...

The outpouring of support for scott prouty captures the importance of what he did. people understand the courage it took to come forward. this is not the first time scott prouty put his neck on the line. heres another part of my interview with him. it sums up scott prouty, i think, pretty well. >> there was a story about you that you stopped on the side of the road of an accident and jumped in the everglades and saved a woman and her child. is that true? >> it was a single mom, the baby seat was...

Georgia. and john heilemann an msnbc political analyst. first of all, the iowa caucuses january 3rd. mitt romneys making a push in the hawkeye state. romney is now playing to win the iowa caucuses, television commercials are on the way, volunteers are arriving, and a stealth operation is ready to burst into view in the weeks leading up to the caucuses. lets go to david on that. is this going to happen out there? is he entering? >> well, yeah, hes entering, taking out ads. hes opening the campaig...

Did he jump or was he pushed? we will hear from media matters. let me finish tonight with the paranoid style of american politics. wait until you hear this one. lets begin with who gets the blame if the government shut downs this friday. david cornyn, mother jones and john feehery, always a good sport and a republican strategistville to be a good sport tonight, cause you are in the losing end of this titanic. 800,000 workers with would be furloughed, off the job, pay to troops halted, irs re...

Leadership. they are all saying the same thing which is we do not want the government to shut down which is far different than what happened in 1995 and 96 when they said they did want the government to shut down. this is my point. i believe that the whole -- both slides get the blame. i think is bad for president obama as well. >> but what they are saying, john, is if you dont really give us more -- more than half of what we want, we will see a government shutdown. they asked for $61 billion in...

Scenario. were not in a business cycle any more, its a dilution. its not an unemployment rate. were going to stay up there around 8% to 9% for the foreseeable future because we cannot create jobs for a lot of people right now who arent trained right now, the old industries are dying and theyre not going to get back to work for a long time, like four or five years, if they ever get back to work. >> its absolutely viable. this is called, as everybody is saying the so-called new normal. and it cert...