79 years ago today, on december 5th, 1933, prohibition in the united states officially came to an end. what you see here before you are people who seem pretty psyched to have a legal drink to celebrate the fact. prohibition was a long time in the making and a long time in the unmaking. and both the path to prohibition and the path out of prohibition were pioneered in the states. states began prohibiting alcohol before the federal government passed the constitutional amendment to do so. and once prohibition was the law of the land, through that constitutional amendment, it was actually states that first began breaking that consensus by basically, in opposition to the federal government, essentially legalizing alcohol. there is a similar movement happening now, happening tomorrow, actually. and 50 years from now or 80 years from now, we may look back on december 6th, 2012, on tomorrow, as an equally epoch ral moment, as the end of
going to the business roundtable tomorrow and increasingly the republicans are being pushed farther and farther into a corner and isolated. the business community says the president is being pretty reasonable. we agree with this. the president is meeting with all different people from all different parts of the economy. the majority of americans agree with him. we ve got grover norquist and john boehner and a couple of the bat crap crazies, as you like to call them, holding the rest us hostage. they will all vote for this. do we go off the curb or the cliff and do you have to go back when someone asks you, why did not you vote for this on december 5th when you could have done it? why did you wait into january? let the markets crash. take that uncertainty out and cause the stress to the american families. i had democratic senators tell me months ago that they were hearing from a couple of republican senators in the cloak room that they actually need us to go off the cliff so they ca
republicans are being pushed farther and farther into a corner and isolated. the business community says the president is being pretty reasonable. we agree with this. the president is meeting with all different people from all different parts of the economy. the majority of americans agree with him. we ve got grover norquist and john boehner and a couple of the bat crap crazies, as you like to call them, holding the rest us hostage. they will all vote for this. do we go off the curb or the cliff and do you have to go back when someone asks you, why did not you vote for this on december 5th when you could have done it? why did you wait into january? let the markets crash. take that uncertainty out and cause the stress to the american families. i had democratic senators tell me months ago that they were hearing from a couple of republican senators in the cloak room that they actually need us to go off the cliff so they can then cast a vote that is purely interpreted as a tax cut no m
bit who makes up the voters there. reporter: well the republican party is lot more spread out throughout the state and it has the folks in western iowa a little pouty these days. normally they get a lot of campaign visits. but let s take a look at the video at last campaign visit in sioux city on december 5th. for the rich republican, red dirt area, this was the last campaign visit in the last eight days. it was the first campaign visit in 14 days. one visit in 20 two days. unheard of out here with such rock solid republican turf. the state party chairman says the campaigns may be making a mistake not paying close attention to western iowa. that may be a mistake. because one thing we know, the rock-ribbed republicans they turn out on caucus night. even though there are more republicans across the state the one thing you do know in northwest iowa those republicans will turn out and do whatever it takes to start the process to replace barack obama. reporter: it s believed the campa
somber, very somber ceremony. and was trying to hurry us up and at one point, he said please, be quiet, we re rolling. it was the ultimate disrespect. cbs says it s investigating but a lot of people feel kind of dissed by the events of last friday. steffan, you also quantify, too, that the president was in the area on december 5th and it could have been nice if he could have stopped by and the interior secretary was supposed to be at the december 7th ceremony. he did not show up. he was just a flat out no show. and they told you repeatedly, first move 25 yards away and then 75 yards away and then 300 yards away with these pearl harbor veterans was not enough. right. and, you know, even if if they think my story is made up, guys or if they think they don t believe these 24 world war ii veterans and 23 of them pearl harbor survivor as you indicated, the bottom line is you ve been showing these pictures, is this how during pearl harbor week, the national cemetery of the pacific shou