Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111221:07:09:00
Making going on here. >> the congress has a an approval rate of 11%. it used to be if you were an incumbent, you had -- what did the data say, 90, 95% of odds of being re-elected. one wonders how incumbency plays in the cycle we're headed into right now. >> well, most of the incumbents, as always, will be fine. but something does seems to have fundamentally changed here and the whole place seems to have come unglued. last night in a private caucus meeting of the house republicans, you had ten members get up there and compare themselves to braveheart, the sort of mel gibson character fighting t...