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don't want us funding the president's illegal amnesty. and i think that's what we need to do. we need to respect the american people -- martha: understood. >> this is insulting. martha: let me ask you this, you've been a very proud and outspoken spokeswoman in many ways for the tea party and the issues that they've stood for over the course of your term on capitol hill, and today's your last day on capitol hill -- >> this is. martha: how do you think your party's going to look in january and going forward in this next congress? >> well, i'm extremely excited with the election results. this would be the first time in a long time that the congress has been led by republicans both in the house and in the senate, and i am hopeful that they will be emboldened to do the right thing. because the values that people care about are these: they don't want the government to spend more money than what it takes in, they want the government to follow the laws that it passes, and they believe that people are taxed enough already. martha: but are you concerned,
martha: she rummages around the whole building, finally she puts everything in a big black trash bag, kind of like the grinch, and leaves. police are still looking for this thief. ♪ ♪ bill: the cost of president obama's executive action on immigration now going even higher. perhaps more than one million undocumented people can now receive benefits through two federal programses, both of which an irs watchdog group says is plagued by fraud. byron york writes about it, chief washington correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: this is the income earned tax credit which does what? how are you eligible? >> well, there are two programs. one is the earned income tax credit, one is the child tax credit. they're meant for working people, for low income people, and what they are is a tax refund that's bigger than your tax liability. so in other words, the government writes you a check. if you have a tax liability you
think it's good-natured ribbing. i think what they're saying is this guy, you know, he can't pick a good film, and he probably mimics a lot of what many conservative americans believe about his policies. martha: leslie, what do you think? >> oh, kevin. i feel like i have a single bullet, magic bullet theory going on here. [laughter] with all due respect, my friend, kevin, you're color blind on this issue, sir. this is clearly, first of all, the first two films they talk about in the e-mail, both are about slavery, african-american leads playing slaves. all four films have to do with african-american leads, an african-american cast, and i think it's completely offensive not only to the numerous african-americans who buy tickets that help to pay the salaries of these folks at sony, but to the talent, the many producers and directors, actors and actresses that are also african-american.
americans billions of dollars in tax fraud money. we'll explain that. martha: and a heartless thief breaks into a church, stealing christmas presents from under the tree. grinch-like. i would say. >> if you're stealing from a church at christmas time, and if you'll steal from a church at christmas time, you'll steal from anyone. i'm an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out there somewhere spreading the word about america's favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association's go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you'll let us know. always look for the grown in idaho seal.
minority associations took part in that. ♪ ♪ >> that means protect the constitution and the separation of powers. the president has claimed the authority to write laws out of the oval office of the white house. he has no such authority, and we've got to have a vote to prove that. martha: congressman steve king accusing the president of executive overreach on immigration. conservatives are pushing to use the power of the purse to block his deportation order including congresswoman michele bachmann, republican from minnesota. good to have you here on your last day in office. it's good to have you. let's jump into some of this, and then we'll get to that in just a moment. you're very unhappy, obviously, with the passage of this bill. why? >> it's the most consequential vote that i cast in eight years because not only is it an unconstitutional act that the president made by issuing millions of work permits or his
way, is making money of themselves -- making fun of themselves. they're the ones making these movies. it isn't tyler perry they're ridiculing, they're ridiculing themselves. martha: we're going to have to leave it there. interesting take, kevin, and good to have both of you with us, kevin and leslie. this one's not going away with bigger issues about our privacy we mails and health records and all of that as it gets bigger and bigger. thanks, you guys. >> thanks. bill: back to breaking news, london, west of london, anyway, this is what the air space looks like over central london. very few planes because a computer glitch apparently is preventing air space from being flown over in london. you imagine that in new york city? martha: no. bill: newark, jfk and laguardia, it would be a downright mess, and apparently it's a mess too for the folks in london. some are reporting that this will stay the way it is for, well, the foreseeable future. we're trying to figure out a time, whether that's minutes or hours from now, but we'll be
it's simple. even she could do it. whatever, janet. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. bill: and now yet another woman coming forward accusing comedian bill cosby of drugging her. model beverly johnson, the first black woman to appear on the cover of "vogue," says cosby invited her to audition for role on "the cosby show." she tells "vanity fair" that cosby had her over to his home, gave her a drugged cappuccino. despite being woozy slurring speech she managed to resist his advances. johnson said she was reluctant to come forward and go public but did so after seeing many alleged victims speak out. martha: this one, new fallout from the massive cyberattack on sony pictures. a pair of executives, including the co-chair of studio making apologies over released emails
referred to, to defeat it. i urge my members to vote for this crummy bus. >> while some -- "cromnibus". >> some members objected to this and that we did it in bipartisan fashion and it's a good bill. >> reporter: we should get a better sense of timing in the senate later this morning, mart. martha: thank you, mike. bill: the old "cromnibus." many conservative republicans are not happy with this. it delays the fight over executive action and immigration. utah senator mike lee argues that the spending bill contains breaks for big business but not everybody else. >> again we have special favors for wall street and for k street and no real special favors for main street or middle class americans. >> we'll talk with karl rove about that and what speaker boehner's grand strategy might be at work here and whether anything in wrong ton has
whole bunch of newspapers from 1795. goodness knows what condition they're in, but this was dug out and found in a cornerstone of the massachusetts statehouse. officials, as you can imagine, nerdy as they are very excited to open it because, as they say, the history of massachusetts is the history of the united states. listen here. >> it was a hard day's work, a long day's work, but, you know, it's an important part of our patrimony here in massachusetts, and we want to protect it and do it right, and we didn't want to make any mistakes. she did a terrific job, and all the men and women who worked on this project did a terrific job. >> reporter: interestingly, this was only discovered, martha, because of ongoing construction at the massachusetts statehouse. if they hadn't had to rebuild the water filtration system, we might never have known about it. martha: isn't it fascinating that they put that there all those years ago and no doubt lots of thought about what they put inside it, and it's the second capsule of this kind
i'll have a conversation with the president of the united states in my capacity as a member of congress, and i decided to have a substantive conversation. and i thought about what is the most important issue facing the united states today, and it's iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. so i asked the president to be very serious and to think about this because if iran obtains a nuclear weapon on his watch, the course of history will change. martha: what was his response? >> so i used that time. pardon? martha: what was his response? >> well, he was actually fairly condescending. he smiled and laughed and was fairly patron iizing and said, well, you know, it just isn't that easy, michelle, but that's okay. like i'm a little woman who doesn't know what i'm talking about. so i said, no, mr. president, this is quite serious, this will be on your watch, and you can't go backwards. this is the ultimate in high stakes bingo. we can't get it wrong. and if there's anything iran has proved, it's that they have blown through every requirement, and they have moved fully ahead to put together their nuclear