President politically and economically. Surging Approval Ratings, a surging stock market a plummetting Unemployment Rate. This is the Fourth Quarter of Barack Obamas presidency. President obama will unveil his new tax plan. We have to play the game. Middle class tax relief and higher taxes on the president. The president has been very aggressive lately very bold. Raising taxes on people who are successful. Youre already seeing republicans start to object. Its not going to make people who are struggling more successful. Is it a political legacy . Mitt romney may be back and hes got a new platform to prove it. Very problematic for mitt romney who has others to run a campaign on poverty. He choked like a dog. We cannot allow that to happen again. Who in their right mind would listen to someone who keeps getting whupped. Charlie brown keeps kicking that football. A new poll from the Washington Post and abc news shows president obamas Approval Rating hitting the 50 mark since may of 2013. Among all adults polled 50 approve of the way president obama is handling his job while 44 disapprove. In the october poll same poll president obamas Approval Rating was 10 points layer, at 40 . President obama will announce a package of state cuts paid for by an increase in the Capital Gains tax. A video released by the white house today, president obama gave a preview of tomorrows state of the Union Address. Last year was the best job growth we had seen since the 1990s. The Unemployment Rate has now dropped to 5. 6 . We have seen manufacturing come back. We have cut our deficits gas prices have dropped, so we are well positioned for the future. Joining me now, david coren, and an msnbc analyst. David coren, at the state of the Union Address tomorrow night, do you think the white house will be able to use that same soundtrack music for comments . It really helps. It sounded really good. I think we all do better with a soundtrack, lawrence. Yeah. These speeches usually need some kind of external energy boost. Seriously, you raise a good point. The soundtrack hes going into the state of the union with is with that approval number being high, gas prices being incredibly low i feel like im in high school again and the federal deficit is as low as its been since 2007 and i think democrats probably in some ways are pulling their hair out saying, why couldnt this happen in november . But yet the president does seem to have picked um somep some momentum and hes actually going to put it to good use tomorrow night. I mentioned that same poll had him at 40 in october which is relevant to the congressional campaigns. What has happened, david, between then and now to push him up 10 points and why couldnt he have gotten those 10 points back in october when he needed them . Ive been saying all along the president is smart in a lot of ways. I dont think hes done a good job of telling an overarching political narrative that includes the rest of his party in it in these offyear elections. He did it going into 2014. The economy has gotten better in the last couple months. I think taking charge in immigration, the cuban policy he looked strong again. I think the republicans got off to a rocky start. So all politics is relevant. He looks very strong and decisive compared to them these days. The more people hear about ted cruz, i think its good for the president. Maybe even for mitt romney its good for the president. He has some good balances. People tend to like him overall, so when he does well the numbers move quickly for him. Describe the tax cuts and tax benefits the president is going to propose tomorrow night and how he will try to convince republicans to pay for that with an increase in the Capital Gains rate. Well Neither Party is probably going to work too hard on it because theyre not going to listen to that. The increase in the Capital Gains rate is from 24 to 28 which, by the way, they will tell you in assess incessantly is the rate that was approved biron ald reegy Ronald Reagan. This is the deal where if youre a rich person and you pass on you can leave your Capital Gains to your heirs, and they go out and sell all that stock that appreciated over the years, they dont have to pay a tax on it. Even if its a 40 million Capital Gains, that goes untaxed. Its called stepping up basis and they plan to get rid of it. Even some republicans i know think this is a loophole that ought to go. Then they raise another 100 billion, by the way, by increasing a fee on 100 of the largest Financial Institutions all of which have assets of 50 billion to the extent those Financial Institutions are leveraged, which is one of the things that got us into this mess in the first place. What do they use it for . Basically more opportunity for folks to get an education, for folks to pay for child care tax credit for a second earner. There is some college benefits. There is an automatic enrollment into retirement plan. Youll hear him tick through all these tomorrow night. I think they come under the rubric of kind of enhancing opportunity for the middle class. David coren, what are the politics of this . Well i think the president is talking in a way that most democrats are going to like if they go and swing voters and moderates will find very appealing when talking about opportunity in terms of College Costs to kids and if you have a second earner in your family being able to keep a little bit more of that money. And going after the top 10 of the top 1 will get a lot of republicans very ticked off. Youve seen it already. Now, theres no i think, any deal here on how this can go forward, as jerrod just says wisely, but i think its about setting up this overarching fight. The president wants to at least leave behind winning in some debate points, that the republicans stand for trickledown economics and he wants to share the benefits of this recovery which havent been shared widely enough yet. And jerrod it seems to me that isolating the payfor side of this tax package on the Capital Gains rate is a way of saying in effect look what the republicans are willing to deny us just to hold onto this Capital Gains rate for the highest income earners. I think thats right. And by the way, when you talk about this loophole basically, the trust Fund Loophole i mentioned where you can bequeath all those gazillions to your heirs without taxation there arent a lot of republicans that will move on it. They do go around talking about how they have to close these loop holes. I think what i like about how the president is structuring this and you and david have been getting at it is it goes to this problem of untaxed inheritances while the middle class have been falling behind. While weve been hearing this rhetoric from jeb bush from mitt romney now, what weve yet to see is anything more than rhetoric. What kind of policy kind of architecture do they have in mind. Historically its just been trickled down and we just know that wont do it. And david, theres something remarkably bold although there shouldnt be. But im proproposing an increase in the Capital Gains tax in this environment with this Republican Congress is, in and of itself bold. I think what the president is doing here is saying im not going to play on your territory. I still can try to set the debate, i can still set the ground. I dont expect you to comment and expect you to win this but its a longterm fight about the political themes the political values that will drive what happens in the future. And i think hes always been very interested in vaghaving in sort of having the debate over values. This is what this is going to boil down to. Were going to see this play out for the next two years. Hopefully into 2016. Jerrod a point you made earlier, this was the Capital Gains rate under Ronald Reagan so the country survived the increase the president is proposing, the country survived it. It was under president lincoln, the country survived it, to put it mildly in both of those decades. Economic analysis ive done some of this myself but bipartisan analysis has shown that the linkages between where you set the Capital Gains rate and things like investments in kmets the economys capital goods are not correlated at all. So, really having a Capital Gains tax rate at the reagan rate im sure will be fine for the economy. And david, were going to hear about governor norquists pledge that you can never raise taxes in any way. Virtually all these republicans have signed that. Well thats right, and thats why its really hard to envision a scenario in which john boehner and Mitch Mcconnell will cut a deal that gives the president a lot of what hes asking for. And i think the president knows that and, you know maybe on immigration, though i doubt it but there may be other things patent reform and other places where there will be an outburst of bipartisan cooperation between the white house and the Republican Congress. But i think in all the big picture items, and thats what the president is doing here hes drawing a big picture, there wont be. It will be a healthy debate and it will be something the president has a chance of defining terms for the 2016 election and onward. Thank you both for joining me tonight. Coming up when a tv series runs as long as mitt romney has been running for president , youve got to do something to keep it fresh, which is why mitt romney has decided to kill off one of the characters in the romney for president show. And in the rewrite tonight when Lyndon Johnson and the New York Times turned against Martin Luther king jr. Go go go hes challenging the very fabric of society. In a post cannonball world was it Grilled Cheese . Guilty the aquatic delinquency is a larger issue to this you did it again, didnt you . Yup. The director and the stars of the Oscarnominated Selma marked the 50th anniversary of the protest march from selma to montgomery by marching across the edmonton bridge. Before the march, oprah winfrey, who plays in selma, says this. Im so proud that once again i get to walk across the bridge not portraying annie cooper but in following in the shoes and on the shoulders of everyone who came before us. Up next who does mitt romney have to get rid of to succeed in his next president ial campaign . Grand prix race car made history when it sold for a record price of just under 30 million. And now, another mercedesbenz makes history selling at just over 30,000. And to think this one actually has a surroundsound stereo. The 2015 cla. See your authorized mercedesbenz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz financial services. Let me state unequivocally that i have no intention of running for u. S. Senator of massachusetts. Mitt romney who obviously has never once in his life stopped thinking about running for president , said on friday at the Republican National committees winter meeting that he is quote, giving some serious consideration to the future. Romney pre viewed his new president ial Campaign Style on friday, taking on the likely democratic president ial nominee. I used to joke during the campaign that president obama didnt have a Foreign Policy. And, of course that was a joke because he did have a Foreign Policy, and the Foreign Policy was one that was crafted by he and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and their Foreign Policy was based in part on the premise that if were friendly enough to other people and if we smile broadly enough and press the reset button peace is going to break out around the world. And the results of the Hillary Clinton barack obama Foreign Policy have been devastating. In his last president ial campaign, this is all mitt romney had to say about poverty in america. Im in this race because i care about americans. Im not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair ill fix it. Mitt romney who is in effect, the showrunner in what is now a nineyear tv series about mitt romney running for president has apparently decided to breathe through life into the series the way many tv writers before him have done by killing off a character and introducing a new one. Romney has decided to kill off the ultra rich president ial candidate who doesnt care about the poor and replace him with a republican president ial candidate who is concerned about income equality and pulling people out of poverty. As a matter of fact under president obama, the rich have gotten richer income inequality has gotten worse and there are more poor people than ever before under this president. Their liberal policies are good for four years after a campaign but they dont get the job done. The only policies that will reach into the hearts of American People and pull people out of poverty and break the cycle of poverty are republican principles conservative principles. 13 want to see mitt romney one again, 50 want to see jeb bush 40 for Mike Huckabee 30 for sarah palin, 20 for Chris Christie and 27 for rand paul. David, i think one of the challenges that remain in your party is that 30 who really want to see sarah palin run for president. Well, they said run, they dont necessarily say be nominated. So theyre like me they want the entertainment. The more the merrier. With all this ridicule that mitt romney is facing about running for president a third time we have to notice he does come in at the top of the polls of republicans. Why shouldnt the guy at the top of these polls run . You know im not going to defend mitt romney on much but he is not alone. Hes been seeking the presidency at least three times. Ronald reagan did it, tom dewey did it. Once this bug grabs hold it never lets go. Obviously the opinions have been from people who voted for him last time. I was thinking he could run these great political ads where the slogan is mitt romney for president. Hell stand up for the 47 . It would be really interesting. Well you know david, he has kind of built a political career on not worrying about what he has said in the past about giving political issues including changing his position on abortion over the years as a political candidate. And so his career seems to be based on the idea that four years is plenty of time to completely change what youre saying about any given subject. You know an old friend of mine who was an observer of american politics said the key to understanding american politics is that americans love underdogs but hate losers. So the moment youve lost the bombay is open and the whole barrage of ridicule falls on you. Heres the thing to keep in mind about romneys candidacy. Again, im not encouraging him to make a decision one way or the other. In 2012 he ran about half a point behind where george w. Bush ran in the year 2000. The Republican Party is not a very effective president ialwinning machine anymore. It hasnt been since 1998. This deal about putting things on mitt romneys shoulders and blame him and him alone is going to prevent the problem being solved. Mitt romneys famous gaffe wasnt a gaffe at all, it was a doctrine. If hes going to lead the party away from that that would be a very welcome thing from someone who got a lot of votes in 2012. I would love to see a president ial campaign where the candidates are fighting over who has the better idea for getting people out of poverty. Well i would love that and i think something very important is happening in politics right now. Youre seeing all the republicans Start Talking about wage stagnation and income inequality. Youve got john boehner, youve got mitt romney youve got marco rubio and youve got jeb bush. When one side starts talking, the other sides talk because those are democratic issues. Thats a real sign that something is changing. Back when reagan won, democrats fell all over themselves to talk about markets and entrepreneurship, and one democrat told me in that period we used to talk about immunizing little children. Now we talk about investments in human capital. Well, youve got republicans talking about a fundamentally democratic issue, that opens up a lot of room and democrats are going to ask, okay what are you going to do about it . David, to look at the second tier of republican candidates these are the ones running well behind sarah palin. Thats marco rubio 26 , scott walker 22 ted cruz 21 ted benson tied with ted cruz, rick san soretorum at 19 bobby jindal 14 , only 14 of republicans want to see bobby jindal on a president ial campaign stage. How important are those polls, david, in republicans making up their minds about getting into this . Not very. I should think at this point in the 2008 cycle, barack obama is both behind Hillary Clinton and john edwards. Sarah walker and ted cruz will probably rise. He said something about the what, not the who of politics. It is not clear that wage stagnation is a democratic issue at all. And the president s state of the union is going to demonstrate how untrue that is. The president s ideas are all about transferring money around after its been earned. He doesnt have an answer to the question of why are wages stagnating he has a plan for reshuffling the cards after the wages have stag natured. Natedstagnated. And the thing that they can bring to this debate is the question of why what people actually earn is not going up. I want to thank david for what he said but i also hope that means that republicans will now turn around and endorse a strong Labor Movement so we can indeed raise wages before the government has to redistribute. David, how many of these republicans are looking at the joe biden model and running going to run in this president ial campaign to push themselves up for consideration for Vice President . Well i dont hear a lot of Vice President ial names there. If youre thinking who are the Vice President ial likelies, theyre not in that mix at all. Martinez mike portman, people who represent important mustrun states and are going to bring some type of ballast to where the top of the ticket is going to lead in probably a pretty conservative direction, so there needs to be someone on the ticket that leads more toward the center of the party. Thank you both for joining me tonight. Coming up what we know about that massacre in africa. 2,000 killed by boek oeko haran. And later, he had a lot of support until he started talking about vietnam. Then Lyndon Johnson turned against him and the New York Times turned against him. Thats in the rewrite. I dont want to think about the alternative. 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Its hard to confirm the exact number of fatalities but local Officials Say somewhere between hundreds and perhaps 2,000 people were massacred during these raids. They recently released salttellite images shows videos before and after the attack. The top one shows the village of duram baga before the attack. That last one is after. It shows trees and vegetation. Several hundred structures were damaged or destroyed. The atrocities continued following the attack when boko boko haram used girls in two suicide bombings. They shocked the world last spring when insurgents kidnapped over 200 girls from a high school in northeast nigeria. Joining me now is journalist china ocaci who was raised in nigeria and has written politics for nigeria. Com. Im not sure when i heard about boko haram, but it might have been when they kidnapped the girls. Thats when the world started paying attention. This might be a problem for Hillary Clinton. Boko haram has been around for a while. It became a stronger hold in 2009. When Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, she was a bit reluctant to put boko haram on the terrorist list because she did not want to give them that validation they were looking for. It wasnt until john kerry came in that they heard about that move. What did they do when 9 11 happened . They said, 9 11 never forget. What is the culture around that forgetting. Why do we not have a memory around that space. Why people not saying april 14 2014 we lost over 200 girls. Im guessing its 300something were kidnapped, so on and so forth. Were just going to stick with 276. Why are we not saying april 14 2014 . Why are we not even looking at what the significance of that date is . We look at 9 11 and we always remember what that is. So, you know what has been the nigerian governments response . Nothing. Silence. Why is that . Well heres the thing. They do not theyre not held to any sort of standards. People do not burn the fire underneath their feet, and a lot of people here talk about, well the president needs to make a statement, he needs to say something. I dont even ask that much. I just ask that he defines what is going on. Tell us what happened in the past, tell us what is happening now, tell us what will happen in the future. Define for us what we are looking at. Can he even do that much . The president good luck jonathan actually spoke about the terror attack in paris before he spoke about what happened in nigeria, didnt sne. Absolutely. I cannot make sense of that. The political meeting in nigeria doesnt have the type of strength and grit to get a comment out of the president after Something Like this . Its complex. I global searched for anyone any journalist in nigeria that would come out and say nigeria is at war. I found one journalist holding the president to task. One. This is when you have your borders attacked by foreign wars. Its not just a foreign war, its a civil war. So we have a hybrid war happening for the first time in nigeria without the president actually defining it as such. What are the stated goals of boko haram . They have actually moved to isisstyle attacks where they actually want to claim occupancy. Theyre trying to convert the northeastern nigeriayeigeria into an islamic state. Its a Movement Without violence. They believe the region should become a counterfeit region in which the education is not western. They reject all western values and they believe in their god and their movement. Like i said theyre taking an isis style approach. This is very significant. And the president needs to actually come out, define it and say something. Because if he cannot define this now when were actually just dealing with terrorism on the ground, who knows . President ial election coming up there in february. What happens . Well in february you have president Goodluck Jonathan who is with the pdp party and you have an exmilitary official bohari, who is running against president jonathan. If elections are not rigged and if everything goes well we may actually have an outcome where it overtakes him because hes using this to his benefit. Hes using it as the crackdown on boko haram . Nobody is using boko haram for the elections, and its shocking. You would think they would considering they were taking 10yearold girls. We do not have as the case. In fact its deafening silence and thats what makes it so atrocious. China, thank you so much for keeping us up to date on this important story. Coming up why Martin Luther king jr. Refused to be silent about the war in vietnam. He explained it all in what else a sermon. And later, the north korea attack on sony. We now know why the president was so sure about who mounted that attack. Youre only young once. Unless you have a subaru. announcer the subaru xv crosstrek. 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The reverend dr. Martin loout luther king jr. Lost a lot of supporters and allies, including Lyndon Johnson when dr. King spoke emphatically against the vietnam war. Dr. Kings first comments about the vietnam war were in 1965 when he answer aid reporters question by saying the war in vietnam accomplished nothing. That didnt say much but it did get president johnsons attention. In a phone message lbj complained that some people were getting the impression that youre against me in vietnam. Lbjs words. Lbj was right to be worried that Martin Luther king was turning against him on vietnam. Over the next two years as Lyndon Johnson turned others to their deaths in vietnam, dr. King tried to steer clear. He worried that expanding his Civil Rights Campaign of injustice that turning it to the civil war would hurt the movement in the United States. Dr. King found it impossible to speak about Justice Without speaking about the vietnam war which he called quote, an unjust evil and futile war. He was, of course right about the futility of the war. The United States of america lost the war in vietnam after fighting the vietnam war more than twice as long as we fought world war ii. The United States was driven out of vietnam in defeat although the United States government never had to formally admit that because there were no surrender documents to be signed. Here is video of the last americans leading vietnam from the American Embassy in sighaigon. They were fleeing for their lives as the city fell to the north vietnamese. After praising Martin Luther king jr. Earlier in the 1960s for his work on civil rights and Voting Rights the New York Times ran this editorial on april 7, 1967 entitled dr. Kings error. In recent speeches and statements, the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Has linked his personal opposition to the war in vietnam with the cause of negative rowro inequality in the United States. He said the war, he argues should be stopped not only because it is a futile war waged for the wrong ends but also because it is a barrier to social progress in this country and therefore prevents negroes from achieving their just place in american life. This is a fusing of two public problems that are distinct and separate. By drawing them together dr. King has done a disservice to both. The moral issues in vietnam are less clearcut than he suggests. The political strategy of uniting the Peace Movement and the Civil Rights Movement could very well be disastrous for both causes. The New York Times told dr. King to stay in his lane. As one of the most respected leaders of the Civil Rights Movement he has an equally weighty obligation to direct that movements efforts in the most constructive and relevant way. In other words, dr. King had an obligation to know his place, according to editorials like that. Three weeks after that editorial in the New York Times, dr. King went to new york city to the Riverside Church and delivered a sermon entitled why i am opposed to the war in vietnam. Dr. King said that the war in vietnam was diverting resources from the antiPoverty Programs that president johnson supported, the socalled great society. Dr. King said that as spending on the hopeless vietnam war increased, the anti Poverty Program was, quote, broken as if it was some idle political plaything of a Society Gone Mad on war. He also said i was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and attack it as such. Dr. King explained that when he spoke to younger civil rights protesters telling them that violence never solves anything, they would say to him, so what about vietnam . Dr. King said their questions about vietnam hit home and helped him see the connection. In an illusion to the New York Times lecturing him on staying in his place, he said that newspapers like the New York Times applauded him on freedom rides and praised him for leading the protest in selma and for urging protesters to be nonviolent toward the selma sheriff, jim clark. Dr. King said he found it strangely inconsistent that he could be placed for urging nonviolence toward jim clark but cursed when urging nonviolence toward vietnamese children. Dr. King told the congregation in the Riverside Church that day that the Nobel Peace Prize he had received three years earlier was a commission a commission to work harder than he had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. He said he opposed the war in vietnam because he loved america and that he spoke out against the war with sorrow in his heart and with quote, a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as the moral example of the war. Dr. King challenged president johnson directly in his sermon saying i call on washington today, i call on every man and woman of good will all over america today. I call on the young men of america who must make a choice today to take a stand on this issue. Tomorrow may be too late. The book may close. And dont let anybody make you think that god chose america as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. It was a sermon delivered by a clergyman in a church. It was full of religious references from beginning to end. 30 to 40 minutes of sermon rich in professions of faith. With this faith, we will be able to speed up the day when all over the world, we will be able to join hands and singing the words of the old negro spirits of free at last, free at last. Lord goddal al mitmighty, we are free at last. We get ready to sing it now. Men will be able to beat their shores into plow shares. Nations will not rise up against nations. Neither shall they study war anymore, and i dont know about you, i aint going to study war no more. Stamps. Com is the best. Guess which member of congress released this Statement Today on Martin Luther king day . As we reflect upon the life of reverend Martin Luther king jr. Today, we also recognize how our nation has been strengthened by his legacy. Dr. King challenged our country to fight the challenges of liberty, equality and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. He seeks the liberty of inequality and justice. That was Steve Scalese who voted against establishing Martin Luther kings birthday as a holiday in louisiana and may have voted against it as a federal holiday. We dont know because it was a voice vote in the house of representatives, and we have asked the congressmans office over a week ago how he voted on that, and hes refused to answer the question. Up next how the fbi knew it was north korea attacking sony. 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It says Something Interesting about north korea, that they decided to have the state mount an allout assault on a movie studio because of a satirical movie. [ audio difficulties ] the president throws down the gauntlet with republicans and gets an unusual response. Tonight mitt Romney Barack Obama and the growing state of the union fight against equal inequality. The latest on the backlash to american muslims in texas and North Carolina. Plus on mlk day, why wont this Alabama High School superintendent allow his students to see the movie selma . Its new england and indianapolis in the super bowl. But did the patriots have to cheat to get there . All in starts right now. Tomorrow night the president addresses his sixth state of the Union Address and he goes in a position he was in just a couple months ago. It was clear the vote was a rejection of president obama. It is clear your party rejected you in these midterms. By and large, they did not want you out on the campaign trail. This is a direct rejection of obamaism. More important, it was a rejection of his policies. They not only reputed his policies, but they rebuked him for his antagonistic rhetoric and his usually incompetent governance. Obamas Approval Rating has jumped to 50 , nine points higher. From his executive action to protect millions of americans to deportation and have given an impression of an em boldened president. Add to that list a set of proposals including and taken together what were witnessing is a tectonic shift in the presidency. Compare his numbers with bushs 34 in his presidency. Its really starting to seem like obama is reaganing. You may be witnessing history here. Making it a full 24 hours without a mistake is reaganing. Doesnt hurt the economy is on his side with gas the cheapest its been in six years and job creation on the rise. The overall economy growing at the strongest rate in 11 years. On top of that increasing consensus on holding the middle class