declared this a democratic victory. it was a democratic victory. but he basically had to go out and put on a brave face. he did. he said as he has said all along as the conservative groups that have been fueling this fight have said all along we re winning. we won. that s part of what i think contributed to an odd dynamic on capitol hill yesterday. here you have the first government shutdown in almost 20 years. and there s a vote to end it. it was almost like anti-climax because we knew exactly how this was going to end a month ago. everybody knew and everybody was warning i m not sure everybody knew. i m not sure the tea parttea p knew. i give this lit any that drive people crazy because i talk about myself like charles krauthammer and scott coburn we said this is how it s going to end. part of that, mika, is the fact
of those so many years ago. we are in the age of twitter. the great kate wait has been trending on twitter. i imagine it s another place where tradition will change a bit. they will have the easel outside the hospital and the palace announcing the birth of the baby. they are keen for the baby to be born during socialable hours. they have to let the queen know first. if it s from 10:30 at night until 8:00 in the morning, the queen will be asleep. nobody can know. don t wake up the queen. it s what i love about america, if it happened, the sirens would be extra loud. they said this is a future heir to the throne. they are keen to keep a sense of drama. it could be on twitter. it would be an anticlimax. pomp and ciance.
anti-climax friday. waiting all day expecting we d hear something from the supreme court on what they would take and an order s list that had just two cases on that had to do with patents and pan patenting n genes. it s impossible to know for sure. quite likely that the justices want more time to discuss these cases. so, they ll reschedule this for perhaps their next closed door conference which is this coming friday. that sometimes happens. the voting rights act case, for example, which was granted earlier in november. they put on several successive lists before they finally decided to grant it. so, that s one possibility. it s also possible that they re not going to take some of these cases. but on friday, all the supreme court announces is cases that it will grant, not cases it will deny. we ll get the denials list that s ready this coming monday. so, that will be the next place where we ll watch to the see whether they denied any of these cases and it s also not out of
lennox lewis. easy, man. and the extraordinary story of a soccer star whose heart stopped for 78 minutes and he lived. this is piers morgan the night. it is not just a good evening from london, but a great evening for america. gabby wins the team gold and the all-around gymnast to win gold and she is also the first african-american woman to achieve that honor. and make that 20 medals for michael phelps, the best of all time wins the 200 individual medley in some style with ryan lo lochte grabs the silver. and rebecca soni broke her own record in the 200 meter breaststroke. let s get all of the latest on the amazing day for the americans, and with me is christine brennan, sports columnist for the usa today. what a day for the americans. yes, i was at gymnastics, but with swimming you could have had the same headlines. watching michael phelps storming to the 20th medal and he wanted it badly. i got a look at a guy slightly bruised of not enough goals and i have to h
smith, who s leaving politico for buzzfeed. what is that? and a look back at our most provocative interviews of 2011. i m howard kurtz, and this is the christmas day edition of reliable sources. it s been a better year for scandal. some sleazy, some superficial, all devoured by the media. perhaps the most chilling came from the world of sports. first at penn state, then at syracuse university with popular coaches accused of horrendous acts. in retrospect, i you know, i shouldn t have showered with these kids. what s it? yeah, well, that s what hits me the most. are you a pedophile? no. another major scandal involved a global media corporation, the one run by rupert murdoch with a slew of top executives arrested in a massive phone hacking operation. did you close the paper down because of the criminality? yes, we felt ashamed at what had happened and wanted to bring it to a close. and there were the inevitable political sex scandals. one topping a c