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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:00:41:00

i believe that we have 60 votes for the bill so we can block cloture, and our plea to senator kyl, we can't ask him to vote for it if he thinks it's the wrong thing to into and although i think if he read the bill thoroughly and studied it he would come to the same conclupgzs that we did. but not to filibuster needlessly. this is now a bipartisan bill, it passed with votes in the house, and we should not christmas eve in particular, turn our book these people who served us in a time of war, are no different than veterans. america has always honored veterans who risk their lives in a time of war voluntarily. we've said if you get injured on the battlefield, we're going to take care of you. it is no different with these firemen, cops, construction workers who did the same thing. >> take a minute for the advantage of the people who are skeptical to tell me that fund-raising or rather the financing plan for offsetting the cost of this measure. >> yes. the financing plans don't -- first, the bill does not cost any money.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:00:38:00

the towers can never forget the brave firefighters, construction workers who just rushed in. and remember in the first few days we thought there might be -- people that would be alive in the rubble. and so people are forgetting. people come up with excuses. some say this is a new york bill. this is not. first, there are victims in every state. and, second, we don't ask where our veterans come from. are they from texas? are they from iowa? we say, you've served america and we're going to remember that at a time of war you risked your life for us, we'll be there to help you. we should be doing the same for these people. >> tell the country now if you have a minute or two -- >> yes. >> what about the unique health hazards that arose from those who went in, those hundred thousand people, if you count them all, who had gotten involved one way or another in trying to deal with that horror. >> well, the -- they are coming down with cancers that are rare types of cancers. this is not typical. you know some people said someone who smokes say they got

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:07:09:00

crisis after crisis on extending spending bills, on the continuing resolution, which will probably only go until february, maybe march, only until february, at least. but we're going to see that over and over and over again. so it's not that obama's going to be running against the do-nothing congress. the president is going to be running against the sort of tear-down congress, because that's going to be the mode of the next two years. >> msnbc political analyst, howard fineman, thanks a lot for your time tonight. appreciate pinpoint >> thank you, chris. of course, as you might imagine, after two years of dragging out everything they could, blocking passage of literally hundreds of house bills, stonewalling uncontroversial nominees, denying straight up or down votes to build with majority support, you can imagine what impact bipartisan senate passage of bills supported by the american people has had on some of the most seasoned republican senate veterans. that's right, it hurt their fe-fes. republicans are angry that harry reid has packed the senate's final days of legislation,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101221:14:15:00

breaking news as it develops. bill: it's called wastebook 2010. republican senator tom coburn, his list on the most wasteful examples of government spending of the year. they include the following: $200,000 to study why political candidates make vague statements. the answer was a little vague. martha: we don't know. bill: $175 million for the department of veterans' atear fairs to maintain a monkey house in ohio. 60 grand for vidalia onion promotion for the movie, "schleck." shrek. how you doing, senator? >> merry christmas. bill: merry christmas to you as well, santa. some of this stuff is laughable, but you find that washington doesn't ever do anything on the cheap. i heard they printed that omnibus bill a week ago, and it was $70,000 n. just for the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:05:14:00

going through it. so i was about to make the decision, but that was a big concern for me and my family. i was sitting in my office one day and the phone rings and i picked it up and it was an older gentleman and he said he was in his 80s. he said he'd fought in the korean war, he'd been in the military for 20 years, and it was hard for him. and he spent all that time and it was just so difficult, and he said, what you're doing, you're helping people that you don't even realize. you're not just helping young people, you're helping veterans like me who have spent my whole life hiding and lying and in the shadows. so he said, you have to keep fighting, for me. and i was in tears in my office, i shut the door, and i called and i said, i'm in. we're doing this. i have to do this. so -- >> katie, let me ask you, as the youngest person here, and as the person who made this decision at the very beginning of your military career, at your time at west point, are you worried about the military's capacity to make this change? >> not in the slightest. i mean, we have to take into account that, you know, gay or

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:02:14:00

concern for me and my family. i was sitting in my office one day and the phone rings and i picked it up and it was an older gentleman and he said he was in his 80s. he said he'd fought in the korean war, he'd been in the military for 20 years, and it was hard for him. and he spent all that time and it was just so difficult, and he said, what you're doing, you're helping people that you don't even realize. you're not just helping young people, you're helping veterans like me who have spent my whole life hiding and lying and in the shadows. so he said, you have to keep fighting, for me. and i was in tears in my office, i shut the door, and i called and i said, i'm in. we're doing this. i have to do this. so. >> katie, let me ask you, as the youngest person here, and as the person who made this decision at the very beginning of your military career, at your time at west point, are you worried about the military's capacity to make this change? >> not in the slightest. i mean, we have to take into account that, you know, gay or lesbian, heterosexual or -- it

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101221:01:09:00

continuing resolution, which will probably only go until february, maybe march, only until february, at least. but we're going to see that over and over and over again. so it's not that obama's going to be running against the do-nothing congress. the president is going to be running against the sort of tear-down congress, because that's going to be the mode of the next two years. >> msnbc political analyst, howard fineman, thanks a lot for your time tonight. appreciate pinpoint >> thank you, chris. of course, as you might imagine, after two years of dragging out everything they could, blocking passage of literally hundreds of house bills, stonewalling uncontroversial nominees, denying straight up or down votes to build with majority support, you can imagine what impact bipartisan senate passage of bills supported by the american people has had on some of the most seasoned republican senate veterans. that's right, it hurt their fe-fes. republicans are angry that harry reid has packed the senate's final days of legislation, making them actually work on stuff instead of getting their holiday shopping done. senator john mccain, for one, reacted to reid's plan of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101220:22:32:00

confronting businesses, and senators and congressmen. state representatives. storming their offices. but then you put inside, inside the state legislature, inside the u.s. congress, you put someone who coordinates and doesn't use hardball tactic. advertising himself to listen to all point of view. someone who is the nice guy. so really, barack obama can be thought of as the ultimate alinskyte good corp. the good cop who coordinates with the bad cop. the midwested amy founded and run by veterans of the s.d.s. the organizers at the academy, funded obama. they trained obama. most important of all they sponsored barack obama's political career.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101220:07:57:00

>> chris: it's become a christmas tradition to share the story how one family found a new way to express the holiday spirit. it's a remarkable example of generosity and patriotism. once again, here is our power player of the week. >> he wouldn't have the opportunities if it wasn't for the people that fought for us. and gave their lives for us. >> chris: it's that wisdom that has driven him for years. on a mission that has touched america's heart. each december he places wreaths at arlington and thousands of volunteers are there to help him. >> i think a lot of people think like i do. they appreciate the veterans. they want to show it. >> this story begins back in 1962 when he was a 12-year-old paper boy in maine won a trip to washington. what impressed him most was the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101220:21:36:00

veterans and armed forces rather than a spending bill. >> i believe we are at war with islamic extremist terrorism. they are at war with us. these peopleresponded to an a war-like attack on this country at a time we were reeling the this city and the country was reeling. they didn't ask for assurances. they worked day in and out. i spent a lot of time there myself. a tremendous amount of time in ground zero. some of my good friends are sick. one of my deputy mayors is sick and needing treatment and help. >> for anyone who doesn't think it was a war zone. i remember walking home in central park with f-16s. >> there were times in the period of being mayor and i would see soldiers and marines

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