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>> well, heres what i think. i think the senate, obviously, was going to hear harry reid take a strong leadership roll. obviously harder in the house, because we dont have control of the legislative levers to bring pieces to the floor, necessarily. but harry reid can do it. and we can ratchet up pressure. and 2014 is in the midterm elections are all about turning out your base. and if we can get the unions energized, if we can get people who are concerned about this and are more focused on deman...

Institute, increasing the minimum wage would affect almost 30 million workers in this country, and create around 85,000 new jobs by 2016. you believe these numbers, and how can the republicans be against it if its true? >> ed, not only do i believe those numbers. when i was in the wisconsin legislature and we were looking at raising minimum wage, we looked historically, and every time we raised the minimum wage in wisconsin, more people entered the work force. so i know it happens from practical...

Backyard from a business standpoint, must feel compelled he has to defend the local folks. but, i mean -- newt gingrich out there comparing robertson to the pope. whats the political up side of this? >> well, they dont want to talk. they dont want to talk at all, if you really consider, ed, about the idea that we have an economy thats improving, has improved for the last 45 months. that we have millions enrolled in obamacare. they dont want to talk about positive things, like 45 consecutive mont...

President asking him if this is the worst year hes ever had when its been nothing but a year of accomplishments. >> yeah. well, and reporters are supposed to have some sense of history. where were they in 2009, 2010, when we were getting battered, losing 700,000 jobs a month? just trying to plug holes in the economy. we werent sure what was going on in districts -- back in youngs town, we thought general motors was going under and a huge general motors plant throughout the industrial midwest. th...

Minimum wage goes. but what if boehner doesnt do it? i mean, how tough are the democrats going to get? i mean, if boehner doesnt go along with it, and the republicans bad mouth it, isnt it up to the democrats to come up you with probably one of the most aggressive strategies ever? >> i agree with you, ed. absolutely. this is important to middle class families across the country. this is who we need to be fighting for. the special interests have plenty of lobbyists in washington. theyre getting t...

Believing or not believing in the bible. its singling out a group, it could be any group and saying to that group, hey, youre going to be -- you are not worthy in the eye. >> well, bill. >> wait. you are not worthy in the eyes of the lord or in the eyes of god. you are not worthy because of how are. so once you get that personal, once you get down and into that kind of a realm problems arise. >> yeah. i had the lesbian writer camille on my radio show today she was interesting. she is a libertari...

>> you can take on the far left loons all day long but dont try to take on the libertarians or stossel. its a battle you cant win. chad, chico, california, the population of asia minor in the third century was greek. st. nicholas was from a greek home. that is correct. larry, im withholding his last name, new jersey. as a comcast employee, many of us are strongly against what our leadership is allowing to happen on msnbc. bob at florida, please explain why ed schultz is breaking the rules of jou...

>> so if you had not had this pre-funded mandate put on by government intervention, the government had stayed out of the postal service, youd have made $600 million last year. >> and its a mandate no business, no business agency ever faced in this country, solely based on the postal service. >> the mission is to repeal that law. >> the mission is to do away with the pre-funding, whether its repealed or changed and let us get back to the business of serving the people of this country. and let us ...

0 i tried to rock her, feed her, burp her. finally, i thought i need to call my pediatrician. thats the first point i want to make is we had health insurance which meant i had a really good relationship with our pediatrician. and he knew me. and he knew i wasnt the kind of mother to call up just because my baby was crying. so when i described the symptoms, the fact that she had a slight fever and she seemed to be in pain in a way id never seen in a baby he said get her to the emergency room. i d...

we need grown-ups running the house. >> this is ridiculous. >> how proud you must be. [ whistling ] >> its going to be a new year. theyre going to be a different crowd, those republicans. >> to candy and nuts for christmas. >> nothing has changed. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we begin the show with breaking news, just moments ago. the senate just voted 64-36 to pass the bipartisan budget bill. and let me tell you, theres a whole bunch of good news in...