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me tonight. thats our show. over to lawrence odonnell with the last word. good evening. >> good evening alex. glen kirshner joins us. we will hear about that. >> front row seat to bannons departure for the big house. >> exactly. >> im eager to hear the color. >> i am, too. thanks alex. >> have a good show. >> thank you. he wasnt the most important person there. the president of the united states is usually the most important person in the room or the most important person in the stad...

Vote by lying about the bill. >> it was just a message you vote. it would have cleared the court, all schools including public schools to give contraception and condoms to six-year-olds. elementary school kids. its crazy. >> now you know what rick scott looks like when he is lying. that is a lie. the bill simply guarantees that contraception would remain legally available as it is today. joining us now, former democratic member of the house of representatives debbie powell of florida. she is run...

You dont back those big spending bills you are in effect voting to defund police whether you know it or not. >> if you oppose funding for the cops and you vote against a bill that has funding for the program, we can let other people evaluate what that means. >> the conclusion, it is republicans, not democrats who supported defunding the police. in other words, ignore your eyes and ears for the past year and a half. its republicans who took to the streets and in many cases got their way. cities f...

When they went after bain capital. its a very targeted and very deeply researched approach that the democrats are taking here. what they done is theyve gone into states with key senate races, arkansas, alaska, north carolina, and look to koch subsidiaries and found there are layoffs. at times layoffs that have coin sided with the purchase of millions of dollars worth of ads in a way to portray the brothers and their company as callous as they are trying to further their own political and busines...

Deeply researched approach that the democrats are taking here. what they done is theyve gone into states with key senate races, arkansas, alaska, north carolina, and look to koch subsidiaries and found there are layoffs. at times layoffs that have coin sided with the purchase of millions of dollars worth of ads in a way to portray the brothers and their company as callous as they are trying to further their own political and business agenda. now is this going to work? i think what the allies of ...

Ahead. bill: how has he had an advantage, steve? >> he has been able to raise money and they have been spending quite a bit of money in the primary states, general election money in the primary states trying to define voters for mitt romney. and after the republican spends most of his money he will have to try to rededine himself in a sense. bill: this interesting comment you made at the beginning about negative intensity against the president, how do you find that or where do you see that? >> w...

Tax extension with the clock running out. 160 million americans have a thousand dollar stake in this fight. eric cantor will join us with his reasons for standing firm. and chaos in egypt. women march in cairo outraged over the beating of women by soldiers last week. a million person march is planned for the end of this week. its wednesday, december 21st, 2011, and this is a special edition of "the daily rundown." im chuck todd coming to you from the stage here in keene, new hampshire. folks c...