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whether this weeks good news on health care can turn the tide for democrats this fall. from nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. first, on this holiday morning, we wanted to get the latest from ukraine. theres been more bloodshed with at least two people killed in fighting this morning in eastern ukraine. armed pro-russian separatists there refusing to stand down, ignoring the terms of a deal broker in g...

debbie wasserman schultz, on whether this weeks good news on health care can turn the tide for democrats this fall. from nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. first, on this holiday morning, we wanted to get the latest from ukraine. theres been more bloodshed with at least two people killed in fighting this morning in eastern ukraine. armed pro-russian separatists there refusing to stand down, ignoring th...

On civil rights and by next tuesday he was included in meetings and the president, president kennedy went further than he thought he was going to go at the time. >> look, it was brazenly political what they did on how they handle gay marriage. they were worried about a floor fight at their own convention. i dont think the republican party 2016 will be able to be for same-sex marriage but i bet by 2020. >> all right. were going to leave it there. jo becker, good luck with the book. thanks for bei...

Springs: inside the fight for marriage equality" by jo becker who joins us here. its good to have you here. take us to the reaction in the white house. the white house said afterwards, no, no, the president was going to endorse gay marriage before the election anyway. >> sure. the president and his advisers had been debating this for month. there were two countervailing political forces going on. they were quite worried it would hurt him among latinos, catholic white voters, and depress turnout ...

the religious right has lost some of its potency. well also hear from the chair of the democratic party, debbie wasserman schultz, on whether this weeks good news on health care can turn the tide for democrats this fall. from nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. first, on this holiday morning, we wanted to get the latest from ukraine. theres been more bloodshed with at least two people killed in fighti...

Wants to. but ultimately if hes successful hell bring it to the president. and on the department of defense side in somalia and yemen, al qaeda operatives there come through this nominations process, which is an interagency process and people can essentially call out simple objections. well, what do you mean as the al qaeda facilitator? >> i know theres been a whole lot of controversy around this called the kill list in "the new york times." it was fascinating and a great read. jo becker, we are...

the president headlined three fund-raisers in chicago and spent the night at his home. he talked about how his policies helped the economy stabilize and grow. >> we have now seen over two years of the economy growing and jobs being produced. more than 4 million jobs being produced. over 800,000 produced just this year alone. now -- heres the thing, though. we are not where we need to be. we are not there yet. >> the new jobs report released earlier friday showed the u.s. adding just 69...

8.2%. meanwhile, mitt romney is in san diego today for a fund-raiser. on contraction, romney seized upon jobs numbers. >> the presidents policies and his handling of the economy has been dealt a harsh indictment this morning. and it continues. we have had 40 straight months with unemployment over 8%. their policies have not worked, and in many respects, they policies have made it harder for the economy to recover. >> late yesterday romney turned over a 13-page annual financial disclosu...

back. early this monday morning, december 5, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good monday morning, everyone. >> erica hill and chris wraggy are off this morning. kind of an ominous looking sky out there. coming up, the kennedy center honors on sunday. the president hosted a white house reception for this years honorees. singer barbara cook and neal diamond, and multioscar winner meryl streep were all there. they had a big party at the kennedy center in washington. a lot of great perfor...

and sonny rollins and merle streep were all there. we will have much more from last nights celebration coming up later in the program. >> with caroline kennedy there. good stuff. >> maybe we will even sing. >> i dont know about that. we begin with campaign 2012 where the republican presidential race is taking a new shape this morning after herman cain ended his run for the white house over the weekend. >> the latest polls show newt gingrich is still rising to the top. political corre...