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Three times they've said no. >> ah, there's 2012 in a nutshell. just leaders of goodwill coming together to move the country forward, right? republicans blocked every idea to help the economy in order to keep obama on the ropes. and the president along with democrats acting timid and clueless. no wonder the public is sick of the whole bunch. with congressional approval falling off the table and the president's approval not far behind. but if america's down on d.c., there's one intriguing thing at year end that people have a positive view of. apparently the president's take on progressivism is ...

Evil plans to cut public employee pensions. but my next guest is a democratic official who said rhode island had to do exactly that or else the runaway system would go bust, and along the way, snuff out spending on schools, roads, and bridges. the stunning thing is that her progressive case for facing facts and fixing the problem, including politically toxic steps like raising the retirement age and flatlining current pensions passed by huge margin last month with the support of union allies. joining us now to explain the progressive case for public pension reform and how she pulled it off is ...

Remember frigid temperatures. the lows on january 3rd average about 14 degrees. this time around, the high is expected to reach up to about 40 degrees. des moines forecasting 36 degrees. no precipitation. that's good news for mitt romney, who may benefit by the more moderate republicans coming out. likely bad news, as it has been the conventional wisdom, for ron paul, whose supporters are the strongest and will likely show up no matter what the weather looks like. >> peter alexander, on the ground, thanks for keeping tabs on all of this for us. i know we'll be talking to you again. now to our ...

To create doubt in the other candidate. but that's disingenuous. >> karen, a nanosecond from sin city. >> hey! >> isn't that part -- i mean, i can say from a political context, that's why part of honest and trustworthiness on a poll is one of the things that we look at the most carefully, because it is one of the things, even if somebody disagrees with you, if they believe that you share their values, they would actually still vote for you, potentially. >> brief last word? >> i think we have to start to discern trust much for carefully in these elections and start to build trustworthiness into...

That's -- that's ludicrous. >> professor, it is always a pleasure. nice to see you. >> good to see you all. >> you bear some fairly stark and startling commentary i think for a lot of folks who are really not ready to have a conversation on the scale that you're asserting it, but like so many other things, whether it's in the banking system or energy issues, it is only by even beginning to acknowledge, ending the denial of these things and acknowledging the scale that we have a chance to solve them and i thank you for your courage. >> and i thank you for talking about them and you're out there...