bill: impact segment tonight intently how long has he worked here, 20 minutes? hello. okay, colmes, any quibble with the interview. you asked good questions and he gave you good answers. bill: do you think he will become a democrat? no. bill: do you think he will leave the republican party. i think the republican party needs a bigger tent. he is an example of why it is necessary. bill: he seemed to me during that interview to be more democrat than republican. did he seem that way to you. he wasn t really making republican arguments about how the republican party can improve their position. vis-a-vis minorities. vits is a v black. he was making mostly democrat he doesn t want the voter i.d. which i think is ridiculous. he seems, colmes, to like the big spending entitlement culture that is rising in this country. he doesn t object to it. i think the key point here is that he talked about working for nixon and reagan.
bill: impact segment tonight intently how long has he worked here, 20 minutes? hello. okay, colmes, any quibble with the interview. you asked good questions and he gave you good answers. bill: do you think he will become a democrat? no. bill: do you think he will leave the republican party. i think the republican party needs a bigger tent. he is an example of why it is necessary. bill: he seemed to me during that interview to be more democrat than republican. did he seem that way to you. he wasn t really making republican arguments about how the republican party can improve their position. vis-a-vis minorities. vits is a v black. he was making mostly democrat he doesn t want the voter i.d. which i think is ridiculous. he seems, colmes, to like the big spending entitlement culture that is rising in this country. he doesn t object to it. i think the key point here is that he talked about working for nixon and reagan.
and he was able to fulfill a promise that said higher taxes on the wealthy. it s not generating any income at all. to the extent that something did get done, who gets the credit? is it the vits president who went on capitol hill or leader mcconnell or someone else? a lot of credit goes to even vice president biden and other republicans and democrats both in the house and the senate who i think came to terms with the reality that it was better to pass something than let the country go over the cliff. the problem is the winners and losers are a nice debate to have, but we will be right back at the game in about two months with far greater consequences than the fiscal cliff had because we are talking at that point the debt ceiling and sequestration and the continuing resolution that keeps the government functioning. when you add that together and the politics we have seen, it
today s verdict is an important milestone. the community owes a measure of gratitude to the jurors for their dill yent service. our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the victims and their families. the accusations of sex abuse led to the firing of joe paterno. he passed away of lung cancer in january. let s take a look at the front page headlines about the sandusky verdict. the tribune review in greensburg, with a picture of san dugsky in handcuffs. and the front page of the pittsburgh post gazette, guilty on 45 counts. similar headlines tops the altoona mirror, child sex abuser faces life in prison. you can log on to msnbc.com for more. mitt romney is in park city, utah, for the first day of his donor weekend retreat. invits were given to contributors who raised tens of millions of dollars for romney and the rnc.
chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we haven t heard much information about. soledad i really can t give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at no time did the bomb ever make it on to the plane but as far as even the country it originated from, all of that for various reasons is not being disclosed but it is ongoing, involved sophisticated intelligence and it s something where i don t think the government expected it to be coming out yesterday because it s ongoing and the device is being tested by the fbi, and as you raise the issue about whether or not our current level of detection is enough to be able to find this type of device. t