you can see why spending a couple hundred million dollars on a presidential candidate might look like an awfully good investment. we reached out to a spokesperson who declined our request for an interview with sheldon adelson. joining me, robert reich, former secretary of labor in the clinton administration, now professor at the university of california berkeley. all right. i want to play devils advocate. we think about big money. we think about big money as this monster that drives the agenda, but one could argue that in the 2012 primary, excentric billionaires actually were a kind of revolutionary presence in the republican primary. they kept the establishment from closing ranks, funded rick santorum, adelson funded gingrich. it kept them competing and kept things more open and democratic. what say you? i d agree with anything until the last words you used, more democratic. when you have a few billionaires keeping the republican primary going, keeping republicans going, and it look
murray doing the bipartisan deal with the senate. this will go the senate side. i want to ask you, what s the tone? we had our kasie hunt on earlier saying it s very tepid in moving forward. what are you hearing? i m hearing it s very tepid on the senate republican side. you ve had people like marco rubio, other tea party republican senators come out strongly against this. jeff sessions, who was the, one of the conferrees. he was the senate republican conferree to this budget negotiation. has stated that he s against it. so, i think the jury is still out with respect to senate republicans. i do think you ll find strong support among senate democrats because it does significantly reduce the very deep across the board cuts from the sequester. it will provide additional funds to invest in things like our education, scientific research, without this agreement those
senate has been voting on this marathon, they have been arguing about judges. i started keeping tabs talking to members, seeing where they stand and this is what i came up with. i would describe this more as a tone among these senators. i mean it s not that this is many of them are drawing a definitive line in the sand where we can say it s not going past. they need toe republican support to pass this. you need five people to back them on cloture. there s some rumblings on the democratic side. there s reasons why senate democrats could be unhappy with this. people like tom harkin from iowa who are focused to making sure the social safety net stays in place. democrats have concerns. while harry reid has shown he s extraordinarily good at keeping them in line there may be some
it? first time fully clothed and secondly, happy friday. thank you. is that what we re asking for, the first part. i don t think so. good to know. sometimes he s not. mike, you say president obama is making a left turn to strike a more liberal tone like senator elizabeth warren and new york mayor elect de blasio. de blasio will be meet with president obama and vice president joe biden and other 15 newly elected meyers. de blasio said he ll be aggressive about pushing the white house, pushing congress in a way that would help new york city to invest in infrastructure, education. we re told that at the white house the president is going to make rising inequality, the difficulty of people in achieving upward mobility, we ll hear more and more about that from him. we ll hear it in the state of
it s written for the heard. how do you listen to little drummer boy and not cry? it s okay to get sad sometimes? we have a ballad in our show that brings a tear to everyone. you see in the clip here a lot more emotion here than the film. the film had an excentric tone to go the line and not cross it. the only emotion of christmas. the musical captures it in what way? you have an opportunity to take the fantasy sequences of all of ralphy s dreams in the movies and who blow them into set pieces. when the dad wins the leg lamp, everything comes for their imagination. there tons of kids in the show and they sing and dance and it