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deconcession by a democrat who previously thought he had lost in a big important u.s. senate race. that's all ahead. but we have to begin with breaking news out of washington. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that president obama is considering massachusetts senator john kerry as his new secretary of defense. that's right, defense. putting the decorated veteran and former presidential candidate in charge at the pentagon and not at the state department, as had been widely speculated. "the washington post" is sourcing its reporting to unnamed senior administration officials...

It has that in it. so where are we? >> well, i'll tell you what, ed. if i was speaker boehner, if i were a republican congressman or senator and my phone lines were bouncing off the hooks, because people were saying stop protecting billionaires, i would get a bit nervous. i am already working with a number of senior groups, veterans groups who are very clear on this issue. there's a petition out there. we have one on my website. there are other petitions. millions of people have got to get involved in this fight. we have the people on our side. they have got to stand up and fight back and take...

Republicans in the electorate. let's bring in michael, special correspond for the dal "the daily beast" and wrote a theory on conservative crapola. i love it. this election is a great example how the republican party thinks one thing and the conservative media re gurgitates it out and pays no attention to the truth. what about it? >> their point, they don't exist to assess the facts, they exist to rebut the facts. they exist to try and challenge the existing reality and try and create a new reality. that's what they do and tried to do for the several weeks leading up to the campaign. i was str...

He won reelection? what do you think the president should do with this capital? >> i think on this issue, ed, on this issue of whether we do deficit reduction in a way that is fair or whether we give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires as john boehner wants. whether we cut programs that struggling people desperately depend upon, i think we have the overwhelming majority of the people on our side. i think if we cannot reach an great in d.c., which is very likely, because the republicans will continue to obstruct, i think the president's got to go around this country and say to thos...

0 generation. period. people working the subway system and in the construction industry in the state said they have never seen damage like this, period. it's a new reality for us. and i think it's one we're going to have to deal with. we're not going to give up. we're going to cam back and we will. this city will rebuild and the state will rebuild and i believe we will be the better for it. >> you can hear in that discussion that there are really three different time frames here. there's the storm hitting, which is now done on the coast, which created an immediate crisis. the drama of which ca...