Good morning, everyone, on this tuesday, december 18, 2012, as senators say goodbye to their longtime colleague yesterday, they will be welcoming a new senator from the state of south carolina. And tim scott has been tapped to replace jim demint. And the papers reporting progress being made about the socalled fiscal cliff talk. First, we return to the tragedy to discuss Mental Health issue in this country. What should be the role of the federal and State Government if any in Mental Health . Also send us a tweet, twitter. Com cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan or send us an email. Let me begin with the hill newspaper this morning and this headline. Mass murders spark wide debate on violence. Congressional debate in newtown, connecticut has gone far beyond gun control to include a focus on Mental Health programs and pervasive violence in popular culture. Lawmakers calls for an examination of those issues echo president obama who want a comprehensive approach for violence prevention that woul
They havent said exactly why, but its pretty clear. Theres been a considerable amount of pressure on the boy scouts. You may remember that barack obama and mitt romney during the campaigns said that the scouts could change the policy. There have been very public expulsions of scouts that have caused something of a blowback, but i should also say the individual organizations say this is the wrong thing to do. The scouts have been pulled in both directions. This may well end up being a compromise that nobody likes. Weve heard tonight from the Southern Baptist convex that theyre very disappointed. Others have said this doesnt go far enough,. Kind of like dont ask dont tell, a compromise like that . Well, that would be for others to decide, but its definitely a compromise. All the scouts will formally say is this is serious ly week in texas. Do you have a sense of the time frame . Yes, next week. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Our Team Coverage continues in Montgomery County tonight. Jack
Up the middle. To the end zone. And a touchdown unstoppable. The new England Patriots leave little doubt tonight. They are the afc champions. Okay. Good morning. Its monday january 19th. Martin luther king day. Welcome to morning joe. With us onset, managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin, visiting professor at nyu, former Democratic Congressman, heard ford jr. Cnbc sarah iseman is with us this morning. And in atlanta, msnbc contributor and associate professor at Columbia University dorian warren. And in washington senior contributor for the daily columnist at the week matt lewis and columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, dave ignatius. My goodness. Thats a lot of you. Good morning, everybody. Anybody see the games . Sure. Yeah. Were going as a show so i started to read in. This seattle team if you walked out of the room you might not have known that they won. My daughter was freaking out. Some people wandered out. Five minutes of the game you would not this
President , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent willing to go there. Paul ri
People of hawaii went through yesterday. This was unacceptable that this happened but it really highlights the stark reality of the people of hawaii facing. Cnn newsroom starts now. Hello there. Im Martin Savidge in for fredricka whitfield. We begin with the argument over what the president did or did not say. The conflicting reports over use of vulgar language. A gross misrepresentation. Senator durbin has been very clear, senator graham has told others that the reports were basically accurate. Are you saying the president did not use the word so widely reported . Im telling you he did not youz the word. Im telling you it is a gross misrepresentation. I didnt hear that word either. So youre saying in that room you didnt hear any of this sort of lumping everybody together. I did not hear derogatory comments about individuals or persons, no. So this sentiment is totally phony, as well, that is attributed to him. I was in a meeting afterwards where those who presented to the president sp