The economy was really good. There were lots of jobs being created. Else specially compared to the republican years before him and after him. Eventually, he dug out a little bit before clinton took over. George w. Bush started out in the dumps, dug out a little bit over the first two, three years and then, at the end, just off the cliff. George bush was like roses every year. Spectacular job growth every year. Times were good. Times were great. When clinton does run for president , this is why theyre going to try to rewrite the Clinton Presidency because the only thing that happened was monica lewinsky. Thats why they have to rewrite the history of the Clinton Presidency to make it only about bad things. All right. Put the thing back up there. Okay. This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like if you add our current president. 2009 started out this the worst depth of financial can tast ri. But, in pretty short order, turned it around and has been putting up good jobs numbers ever since. Now, this year 2014 is set to be the best year for jobs in this country since bill clinton. Since 1999. More jobs have been created this year than two of the years under the boom of bill clinton. This is what a Real Recovery looks like. Merry christmas and happy hanukkah from your friends at the bureau of labor statistics. In one line, spectacular. And the new numbers that came out today, not just a blip. This is now the tenth straight month in a row that the economy has hadded at least 200 thousand jobs for the month. Ten straight months of job growth that strong. There has not been a run like that in our economy since 1995. But weve got it right now. So big picture . You want to take it even bigger than that . Like gloebl big picture . The latest evidence that the United States is outperforming other economies throughout the other developed world. The United States continues to outpace most of the world. Our last four years, we put more people back to work than europe japan and all other industrialized, advanced countries combine. And were going to keep at it. President obama crowing in his very somber way about the really really good jobs numbers that came out. Best jobs numbers in 15 years. Everybody watches those when it comes to the economy. The only number that anybody watches more is the economy is the price of gas. And at the same time we were goating these great numbers about job growth, sustained job growth at the same time we are seeing gas prices drop in some places below 2 a gallon. The National Average is still over 2 a gallon but some places have started to drop below the 2 benchmark. And the gas price analysts say prices are going to continue to drop around the country as Oil Prices Just stay really loyal. Low. And that is terrible news if your name is exxon. But its great news if youre the average family. If they stay where they are right now, the average American Family will save 600 over the next year on gas alone. Thats like giving a taxfree raise across the board to everybody in the country who drives a car. The recovery overall, has been getting better. Wages are still nowhere near where they ought to be given the rest of the economy. But amid all the economic numbers that came out today, the other piece of good news is that wages have started to turn north, as welt, finally. Look at the New York Times today. Front page headline. More jobs and higher wages. U. S. Recovery starts to hit home. The l. A. Times today, americans earnings are rising again. And a measure of the stock market going through the roof. The stock market is on fire right now. The dow jones brushed up against 18,000 today. The dow has been hitting records over and over and over again over the past few weeks. It looks like it is about to top 18,000 for the first time ever. On the day president obama was sworn into office, the dow closed at 7,949. The dow closed today at almost exactly 10,000 points higher. 10,010 are the number of points that have been added to the Dow Jones Industrial average since president obama. You look at numbers like these. You look at the basics. Its kind of hard to swear that information. Yes, the president s party always does poorly in midterms. In 2014, you double it. They got destroyed in the midterm elections last month. The election was last month. Where are we now since the election . The good Economic Data has gotten even better. This is the best economic portrait of the economy since the boom years of the 1990s. Gas prices have fall everyone sfurter. Nobody likes to think of health care as an economic issue. Last Year Health Care spending grew slower than atfully time in the last 50 years. A huge economic inspiration. The white house has been able to pull off political since the election. President obama ne gauche yating this historic totally unexpected huge climate deal too with china. They said it couldnt be done. He did it. Tlvgs a secret mission to go to north korea and negotiate the rast american who was being held prisoner in north korea. It was a secret mission. We didnt know it was happening until James Clapper brought him home. All year before the republicans were trying to make benghazi a terrible fighting scandal of the obama administration. Well, right after the election the friday before thanksgiving, the republicans very quietly released their own House Intelligence Committee report on benghazi which said actually everything that we thought was a scandal wasnt really a scandal. Never mind. Up until then, they were reporting the end of the world. The fox news whipped themselves into a frenzy that president obama would have to be impeached if he did anything on immigration. Senators like tom coburn said there would be anarchy. There could be violence across the country in response. President obama did it anyway. The first announcement showed that 50 of americans showed what president obama did was about right. Another 22 thought he didnt do quite enough. You combine those numbers, that 72 of the country either digging it or wanting the president to do etch more. Republicans were sure. He would be impeached. One action would unify the whole country. It has not worked out that way. Republicans, turns out, have no idea what they want to do in response or if they want to do anything in response. Actually, to be more precise, there are some republicans who know for sure that they want to do nothing in response. And there are other republicans who want to know that they definitely have to do something in response chl and now theyre at war. And have no idea how to move for it. John boehner hates your guts, people. Youre neither a lobby isz nor a cigarette. You have no use to him except for one day in november. A campaign to get toy balls, like superballs like you might play with in the yard to buy balls online and have the balls mailed to John Boehners office. Because he needs some. Racket balls, basketballs, any kind of balls. Ship balls to the speaker. Speaker of the house john boehner has announced his plans to do nothing over president obamas executive overreach. Weve got news. He can keep his symbolic gestures. Conservatives who want a real action. There are six days left before the federal government of the United States of america shuts down. Unless the republicans can figure out a way to pass some legislation to keep the government funded. Their con receivabletive members do not want to keep the government funded. Conservatives have enough. Its all they need and then some to keep the government open even though he wants to. Look at this the hill newspaper reporting that the Republican Leadership has now officially asked the democrats, theyre asking Nancy Pelossi and the democrats to please help them out. And provide enough democratic votes to pass a bill to keep the government going because they cant do it among their own members. So far, the answer from the democrats is no. You guys have to sort them out yourselves. Everybody will have a great kumbaya weekend. Because theyre divided with each other and at war, they may bring a Government Shutdown on thursday, this upcoming thursday. And so, yeah theres a lot going on in the news right now. The protests about eric garner right now continue for a Third Straight night. Protests continue for a Third Straight week about Police Brutality overall and Police Killings overall. Protests going on tonight as they happen intensely for the last three nights and e and as they happen on and off for the past three weeks. Well have more on that coming up in the show. Theres also these two very big nominations for two of the most important jobs in the government, the new attorney general and the new defense secretary have both been nominated and need to get confirmed. These are the kinds of jobs that are about as high profile as you get. Those no, maam nations are out there and pending right now. Nobody knows exactly how theyre going to go. The torture report. This is the report about u. S. Officials and what kind of accountability there ought to be for americans torturing people. That report may be due to come out next week. Thats going to be a huge deal. This time next week it is more likely than not that we will have a government shut down gen. It is all happening in the context. Inside the frame of really good Economic News in the country. Nobody is thinking about it that way. That is the framework in which we are operating. The economy is great. Its finally working. All systems go. This is new. It is likely to change just about everything. Stay with us. Weve got lots ahead. Alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours. And aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. So why am i still thinking about this . How are you . Aleve, proven better on pain. When youve only have one hand youre not doing anything as fast as you used to. Do you need help . What is that . Swiffer dusters. I can extend it so i dont have to get on the step stool. Its like a dirt magnet just like my kids. I think swiffer definitely gave me some of that time back. Quick calendar note for you. Tomorrow, and, yes, its weird, an election on a saturday. But tomorrow in louisiana, the runoff for the u. S. Senate seat thats held by democratic mary landrieu. Heres how she favorired the last five polls in the race. Almost all of the odds in louisiana have been probill kas day and aebt mary landriue. Turnout is expected to be microscopic microscopic, which always helps the republican candidates. So, yeah, anything is possible. But mary landriues tenure looks like it may be about to end with a short, sharp shock tomorrow. The polls open at 7 00 a. M. Her smile is so white. I was pretty stunned myself. Removes fourteen years of stains. See . Crest whitestrips work on a deeper level than paste. Whitening toothpaste only removes surface stains, but whitestrips go below the enamel surface to safely remove deep stains. Dont miss our buy one get one free offer this Holiday Season these are live shots from new york city. This is the Third Straight in street protests after the new york grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer who killed him with choke hold. Were keeping an eye on protests underway right now. Of course, tonight, in new york as you sew right here also in places like washington, d. C. And boston. I should tell you, last nights protests in new york city went very late at night. I got caught up in one protest well passed mid night last night. There were reportedly 200 arrests last night. Tonight, on the street you can tell its colder and rainier. This is a shot of d. C. Well keep you update on these protests throughout the night chlgt. The grand jury in missouri decided not to indict a Police Officer on the shooting death of Michael Brown. Hay started a 135 mile march. The idea was when they reached the Missouri State capital, they called for a new leadership and called for a nationwide policing row e reforms. I should tell you the marching has also made the decision that they were going to walk these 135 miles without police, without any sort of police escort. Just their own small group out on the highway alone, for most of it. For the past week theyve averaged about 20 miles a day. Theyve held some rallies and sitins along the way. Theyve stayed in on local churches. Theyve rets e rested when they stopped on buss that followed them while they walked. It has been a small march. A cold one at times. It has been a very long march, 135 miles. It has also at times, been a pretty disturbing test. This is a little bit up setting. On wednesday of this week the marchers reached the small town of rosebud, missouri. Rosebud, missouri, has about 400 people. Its 97 white. At first, some people tried to block the buss until the police came and cleared the way. Even then the crowd made it clear that these marchers coming through their town were not welcome. Coming to st. Louis american said there were people on both sides of the streets. They led about 20 people through rosebud. The majority of people along the street. Yelled obscenities and held opposing signs. Someone put an empty bottle of beer a melon and Fried Chicken in the path of protesters. Fried chicken, melon, a big 40 ounce beer left out in the street for the civil rights marchers as they passed through the allwhite town. Local adults and children holding up signs and waving confederate flags. Yelling Michael Brown deserved what he got. Telling the protesters to go home. On wednesday, the back window of the marchers bus got shot out. Theyve been welcomed in a lot of places. This was a gauntlet they had to go through in parts of missouri. Today, the marnlchers walked the last miles of their journey. When they got there, Michael Browns mother was among them to meet them. Joining us now is cornell brooks. Mr. Brooks, thank you for being here. Obviously, those are very ugly pictures out of rose bud. How do you contextualize that . It was a very ugly experience running a gaunt lent of stereotypes. But the overwhelming majority of people we met were kind and gracious. The way i think about it 1 of the people were racist and mean spirited. But the other 99 were kind and gracious. The people in rosebud were more fearful. As a consequence, literally displayed a side of america that is rare. But has to be dealt with. I saw parents using racist epithets in front of their children. Will saw this band of marchers taking off time of work to march. This was a disturbing experience. Thats what this march was about, rachel. Think about it this way. Nearly 50 years ago marchers a small group of marchers 50 nearly 50 years later, invoking deep civil rights history trying to do something similar in terms of confronting a massive injustice in the country. Were one out of every four African American males reports in a given month that theyve been mistreated at the hands of the police. Where African American young men are 21 times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police. This is a serious and profound challenge. The point being here is profiling has to be grappled with. And were not going to be distracted by a few angry racists. Cornell brooks president of the naa contractioncp who led and took part in this 135 mile march. Thank you, sir. Thank you, rachel. Appreciate having you here. All right. 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Was the scandal came to light, governor christie cut ties with his Campaign Manager who had been slated to take over the republican party. For much of the past year there have been a whole slew of investigations. They subpoenaed hundreds of emails, texts, notes, a very public monthslong investigation started in january. And, today, until late last night, actually their first report was leaked to the press. This is it. Its about 130e pages long. Its a really detail chronology of events that led to and took place during and after the closures. It doesnt offer a lot in the way of details offered before. It does state that there is no conclusive evidence as to whether governor christie was or was not aware of the lane closures. The committee is also not in a position currently to conclude what governor christie hymn knew about the lane closures or when or how they developed. They say effectively, they cant figure out what happened. Some key Christie Administration officials have evoked their 50 amendment rights and other witnesses are not allowed to speak to the committee because of a much bigger committee that has taken precedents. That is where we have some late breaking news to report tonight. A federal, criminal investigation has been going on for months now. Thats why most of the key witnesses would not talk to the legislature. Theyve concluded that they dont know. And while the federal Prosecutors Office has been remarkably leakproof up until this point, there has been what appears to be one dramatic leak tonight. Nbcs local station is reporting that not only is that federal criminal investigation almost complete, but there may be some big news to come out of that investigation very soon. Watch this. This is from no, tonight. All sources tell us theres potential for indictments in this bridge scandal as early as january. At the Port Authority, at least six. If battle between republicans and democrats over this interim report at Mondays Committee meeting could get very heated. Thats just the opening act. The main event will be the u. S. Attorney and grand jury action something that could be just weeks away. That was the reporter brian thompson. According to his sources, there may be multiple criminal indictments within just the next few weeks. Let me ask you first, did i summarize correctly . You talked about this being the big event. It is. It is the main event that were waiting for. In terms of the expected expected possible diemts, obviously, inindictments dont exist until they exist. So the people that youre talking to are predicting what the grand jury and the u. S. Attorney are going to be able to do. That is absolutely correct. All we know is that through our sourcing there are expectations that will will be several people, as many as six, possibly seven, maybe even agt of those determinations will wait when the u. S. Attorney announces it. I can tell youre wording this very carefully. Your eve described what your sources are saying as these dimts potentially being some serving officials and some former officials. If you look at the Public Record of all of the people who have had some fingerprint, somewhere along the line in here some are big fish, some are little fish. Even the little fish are being drawn into the investigation to the extent where theyve lawyered up and they are in some cases, expected today, indeed, be indicted. You have people who used to work for the Port Authority or people who used to work in the Governors Office and who are no longer there. Theyre all part of the pool. And, again, the key part of your sourss could be as soon as january . That was a month that was specifically mentioned. Brian thompson, new jersey correspondent for wnbc. Well be right back. Stay with us. Well, did you know genies can be really literal . No. Blaeng blank. Heres something to keep an eye on over the weekend. This time last year almost exactly, a typhoon hit the philippines. Just devastated some parts of the philippine islefillphilippine islands. Tonight, right now, there is a similarlysized typhoon called typhoon hagupete. This is 150 mile an hour winds. Its the equivalent of a cat 4 hurricane. With the time difference for us it will be saturday morning in the United States. Evacuations are already underway in the philippines, but this could be a very, very big deal this weekend. This could so just a heads up to keep an eye on that. Well be right back. My name is tony sartorio. Im a lineman for pg e out of the Concord Service center. I have lived here pretty much my whole life. I have been married for twelve years. I have 3 kids. I love living here and i love working in my hometown. At pg e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. 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The texas contention is that this man is faking his Mental Illness in order to avoid execution. They thought he was faking it for 14 years before he was ever arrested as part of some master plan that wouldnt come to fruition until he was in his 50s. On tuesday night, we braught you that report. About that planned execution on wednesday. And we talked about the Texas Governor of rick perry to at least grant a temporary reprieve so this guy can have a mental competency exam to test his sanity. He hasnt had a mental competency exam in seven years. Even the state of texas should not kill someone this manifestly crazy. Rick perry, whos also been getting lobbyied to spare the guy by a bunch of notbleeding heartliberals. Emp even conservatives have been lobbying rick perry to stop this mental execution because of this mans Mental Illness. Now heres the update. On wednesday when this execution was scheduled, the court of appeals decided they would stop this execution so rick perry didnt have to. There will now be a delay while the courts consider his sanity, or lack thereof. Oral arguments should be scheduled soon in that case. It will be back in rick perrys lap to make a decision. Stay with us. How could a luminous protein in jellyfish impact Life Expectancy in the u. S. , real estate in hong kong and the optics industry in germany . At t. Rowe price we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. Its just one reason over 70 of our mutual funds beat their 10year lipper average. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. If you suffer from a dry mouth then youll know how uncomfortable it can be. But did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath . 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Helps relieve your ugliest nastiest roughest toughest cold symptoms. Vicks nyquil severe. With maximum symptom fighting ingredients. It is time to dump this weeks news all over one of our faithful viewers. Whos playing the friday night news dump tonight . Weve got christina wise with us tonight from boulder creek, california. Shes a second soprano in a church choir. Hi hey, me, too. She was a contest assistant super password. Super password thats like a tv game show for real . This was a real one back in i think 1987. I was 18 years old. Dont do the math. And i was the youngest person to ever get on the show. And i played with susan rutan. She was the one with the short red hair from l. A. Law. Oh, god, yeah 37 and ed winters. He was doing a series at the time with oh Sally Struthers i think it was. I won 1,000 in cash and prizes and most of that was nair hair removal products. So i hope i do better tonight. Nothing were going to give you tonight is going to remove your hair. I absolutely swear it. No matter what you do with it. In fact, nick if christina does get two questions right tonight, what does she win . She wins this mini Rachel Maddow drink cocktail shaker. Its only likely to give you more hair and not less. Im in. We also need to bring in the dis disembodied voice, steve say hello to christina. Good evening, christina. Good evening, steve. What a pleasure. This is very exciting. You have one republican watching your show tonight because shes a friend of mine. Oh, theres lots of them. They just dont tell each other. If they all came out, the world would stop on its axis. Question one. On mondays show, conservative congresswoman Michele Bachmann made a special guest appearance on video on our show while rapping a popular song. Whose rap song was Michele Bachmann rapping, was it a, jayz, b, the beastie boys c cmaclemore or d, waka flocka flame. It was c. Clearly we have no choice but to watch it again pop. I wear your grand dad clothes i look incredible i wear your grand dads clothes. I like in incredible yes, the horrifying answer is c, macklemore. Christina was right. And any excuse to hear Michele Bachmann talking in a low voice will be taken on this show. We spoke about the three nuclear Intercontinental Missile bases, 450 Nuclear Missiles between them. These three bases have been sharing something critical to maintaining those missiles. They have been fedexing it back and forth to each other every time somebody needed to make a missile repair. What exactly have these three bases been fedexing back and forth to each other. Is it a special screwdriver, b, a special wrench set. C, a drill bit, or d, a set of specialty protective goggles. It was b, and theres one, but now they have three. I think thats right. But steve, can you confirm . The correct answer is b. There is a special wrench set. And as she noted, secretary of defense hagel said they were going to have two wrenches from now on. So good news is christina is right and we have more wrenches. They already got more and were going to get even further. Amazing. All right but were going to go to question three. This is sort of a special credit question for you at this point. This was also from tuesdays show. We reported an announcement from one u. S. Senator who took the time that day to let the world know that he is not running for president in 2016. Which of these senators took himself out of the running this week for the presidency. Was it a, senator jack reed of rhode island was it b, senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. C, senator rand paul of kentucky and d, senator rob portman of wherever rob portman is from. It is d, portman. Who looks like your everyman. Do you have the answer for us . Lets check the section from tuesdays show. Its rob portman whos not going to be running for president. He has officially announced today. Honestly if that headline were not there and you were just looking at that picture of him and his family and his cute dogs, would you have any idea of what that was . Right. The correct answer is whats his name. I mean the correct answer is rob portman and christina is correct. Spectacular. You only needed two to win the prize. Nick, did christina win the prize . Yes. She did. She got three instead of two. We will send you the baby sized cocktail shaker. We will also find something in our cubicle farm to send you, even though you dont like it. Can i get the mushroom containers that were part of the commercial . Oh, no, those have now been bid up so far in our internal auction house at the staff. You would have to be a zillionaire. No withell kind you something much, much sketchier than that. Congratulations. It was nice to have you with us. Nice to meet you. It was an honor. Thank you, rachel. If any of you think you have what it takes including the possibility of winning a tiny cocktail shaker that doesnt even hold a seal you should go to maddow blog. Com to learn how to apply. By the time youre done doing that, though i should let you know that you are already going to be late for prison. Due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. With more than 130 prior stays hes been coming in here for a long time. Everybody knows randy hudson. A wellknown inmate is back in