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0 >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. it's five days until christmas, 12 till new years and the battle lines are drawn. the trenches have been dug. the president has made his promise and intends to keep it. that promise is fairness. he cannot go along with any republican deal that protects the wealthy. he will risk the cliff to keep his promise. if it comes to it, he'll leap right off of it. to do less would be a sign to his enemies a sign that they can beat him. well u they simply tried. the words out he wants former u.s. senator chuck hagel in nebraska ...

0 sleeve pinned to his shirt looking to get a haircut. >> this one barber approached me and he looked at me and he said are you a jap? and, you know, that was a strange welcome. and i said i'm an american. well, i'm asking you, are you a jap? i said my father was born in japan, my mother is japanese, i suppose that makes me one. >> we don't cut jap here. i was so tempted to strike him. but then i thought if i had done that, all the work that we had done would be for nil. so i just looked at him and i said i'm sorry you feel that way. and i walked out. >> he just walked out. sena the senator sh...

Ackerman is retiring and he had strong words for his fellow representatives, i think especially republicans, at today's house hearing on this matter. let's watch gary ackerman. >> of this might be my final six moments to speak in my 30-year career here, and i want to first start by apologizing to the deputy secretaries because you have been brought here as a ruse. you are being used as foils to the conflicting intentions of some people on our committee and others in washington for partisan, political purposes. >> i have always liked gary ackerman. i went to ethiopia with him. i like him even m...

Benghazi in the midst of the civil war advising the rebel group that became eventually the interim government and he was back in benghazi for the first time since he had been a special envoy there as ambassador. i mean, obviously i think you touched on it, chris. the miscalculation here was thinking that in a post-conflict environment like libya, the same normal rules of the vienna convention apply, that the host nation can provide for security. so i think much as the military learned where from experiences like beirut in 1983, co-bart towers in 1986 that when you deploy people in dangerous si...

good evening i'm chris matthews in washington. it's five days until christmas, 12 until new years and the battle lines are drawn. the trenches have been dug. the president has made his promise and intends to keep it. that promise is fairness. he cannot go along with any republican deal that protects the wealthy. he will risk the cliff to keep his promise. if it comes to it, he will leap right off it. to do less would be a sign to his enemies, a sign that they can beat him if they simply try. well, the president is being tested on another front tonight. the word is out he wants former...