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Doesnt want to see any legislation changed and members of congress who are districted in and theyre insulated from public opinion. unless you can get at those red state, lets face it, conservative republicans who are insulated from ever losing election by taking common sense positions like this, im not sure you can pass it. >> and yet the president has pledged himself to do something. >> he has, indeed. the president said he wants it this month. in the month of january. hes going to mention it i...

Days. we dont have any specific phone calls scheduled, but i am told they will continue throughout the weekend and in the coming days. ja lets hope so. thanks so much, kristin welker. >> reporter: thank you. >> well be right back. >> lets. thanks so much, kristin welker. >> reporter: thank you. >> well be right back. ♪

Look, i dont want you to take us along with you. were going to have to compromise. we dont want to be seen by the public as being shills for the super rich. we want 98% of americans to have a tax cut come next year. i mean, representative tom cole was one of them who was quite explicit in saying we need to be on the side of most americans and be seen as being in favor of a tax cut for 98% of americans. well, lets see what the republicans are going to do. i dont know who is going to come out on t...

That is to say, were putting revenue on the table, actual tax increases in the short term. whether or not youre talking about rates or loopholes, if you get money from the same people, theres no particular economic or fairness difference -- >> but, john, with the greatest respect, wasnt that what mitt romney suggested for a year on the campaign trail? >> reporter: no, because mitt romney was not -- he was talking about closing loopholes but not about raising revenue. he was proposing a revenue n...

Wing of the political party. >> tom ricks, thank you for joining us. >> as far as young women are concerned, i can state my position on abortion. other than that leave the issue alone. >> 20 hail marys, 20 our fathers. ja lets get to our fanl. ana marie cox is a correspondent for "the guardian," and msnbc political analyst karen finney. karen, we just heard senator john mccain a moment ago in "top lines" saying, okay, from now on we republicans should just leave the issue of abortion alone. does...

They talk about the upper midwest, they talk specifically about wisconsin, which you were just talking about. they dont -- they dont trump up michigan as much. theyre not showing any sign of really pulling out. its just that theyre not there. >> erin mcpike ann, cornblut, thank you. the season premiere of "saturday night live." ja lets check this out. >> so, america, i know youre not in love with me anymore. but i want you to know that my heart still beats for you. and i can prove it. ♪ i so...

Im joined by a journalist, author and msnb contributor, im glad to have you here to talk about this. lets talk about what happened with fridays "washington post." it has this terrific article. it is titled "why is the arab world so easily offended?" its written theres an arab pain and a volatility in the face of judgment by outsiders that stem from a deep and enduring sense of humiliation. a vast chasm separates the poor standing of arabs in the world today from their history of greatest. in thi...

That support. this is -- what we see that most of these kids that go to the streets and protest today are the people who were born, raised under those dictators. for them its very hard to grasp democracy. its very easy to vote to overthrow a deck at a tiictator. its hard to built citizenship. that takes time. it will take a lot of education and a lot of patience. from the west, especially, the investment that hillary clinton, president obama is doing is investing in citizens. they are giving ton...

Available in post-revolutionary libya, and it escalated into a much more violent episode. >> nbcs ayman mohyeldin is live in libya. lets talk about u.s. officials on the ground there. what do you know about people in custody in this incident? >> reporter: right now we know that libyan officials have rounded up anywhere between 30 to 40 -- as to who were the pre perpetrators behind this attack, perhaps some under the banner of foreign fighters that may have come in here. the libyan president is k...

United nations susan rice outlined the very latest on that investigation. >> our current assessment is that what happened in benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video. what we think then transpired in benghazi is that opportunistic extremist elements came to the consulate as this was unfolding. they came with heavy wea...