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What? and at whose expense? because the problem is this that the congressional representatives are not really the contestants, we are. join ming me today from america university and journalist mark steiner who is host of the mark steiner show on pbs, and founder of the center for emerging media, and also from huffpo live, an msnbc contributor and editor, and thegrio.com, and a woman who gave me a holiday and vacation, joy reid, and nice to have you all here. and thank you so much for coming back, joy. i wanted to start with you this morning, what are they holding out for? at this point, three ...

Rent or keep your child in day care? that is what is happening in washington. the law employment project estimates that 200,000 americans will stop getting benefits after today, because they have not been authorized and it could cost us more jobs by the end of 2013 if benefits are not restored. marc, this is a real life consequences. yes, it is a fiscal curve, and yes, tax rates are only going to go up a little bit, but for some people, it is a cliff. >> most americans have not benefitted from this economy at all. people are struggling and most people i know are kind of, can i make the mortgag...

Most of the stuff in the food and everything else that you have comes via a ship, and somebody has to take it off of the ship and put it on the railway or the truck, and this is the old-fashioned way of doing business. is there something that we learned in this narrower version of the longshoreman strike this week, marc? >> well, it is a good question. i was talking simply as a joke with one of the producers when i had the inside fact that there was going to be a strike and it didn't happen. but no strike. i think that there was, because it is a powerful union, and that union has some strength...

Incarceration affects families, and more families have been separated by incarceration than any time since the end of slavery, and prison populations are starting to come down, but the kids are still affected. we work with whole families. we work with about 8,000 kids and family members and people coming out of prison a year. and i think that you do need the small hands on and the large. there is a lot of interest now in thinking about alternatives to jail and prisons and families are important. >> grace, the kind of systemic problem that you are facing around sexual assault is very different ...

Right? is part of it though alycia, is part of it, part of the problem, that talking about having a talk talking head in the space that is from the community, and we are for the most part not unionized. some of the writers are wga, but some of the fact that some of the folks reporting on it are not themselves members of unions that keeps this from being the driving story, except for a few people like my colleague ed and other folks? >> well, i think that there are plenty of us who come from union households. my mom is a teacher, and that influences the way i cover unions, and that is part of i...