Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111221:00:09:00
Some schizophrenic legislation making going on here. >> congress has reached an all-time low in the latest gallup poll. listen to this, an approval rate of just 11%. >> ouch. >> that's the lowest number ever recorded. 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 caucu...