helping of scrambled politics. george clooney, bill murray and other stars with were at the white house to show their film the monuments men to president obama. it tells a story of soldiers rescuing art during world war ii. california billionaire, tom styer, says he plans to spend as much as $100 million to help make quite a change, a defining issue in this year s elections. he plans to target senate races in key battleground states kansas stitt lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow teachers, caregivers and parents to spank children. it would allow children to be hit up to ten times for discipline, even though it leaves redness or bruising another law maker is retiring, democratic congressman, rush holt, of new jersey, says he will not seek re-election this year after losing the primary last year. paul ryan is still keeping his options open for the 2016
how dpo you do you keep anything oh, wait. how do i keep everything controlled? not so well sometimes. [ laughter ] it depends on the day, man. it depends on the day. how does chris christie, make wung of his few public appearances at an elementary school on thursday. i wanted to introduce our panel. a democrat who s a member of the joint super committee investigating all this. previously served at state democratic chairwoman. wnbc television reporter covering new jersey for the past 16 years. and a republican, member of the state assembly, also part of that investigative committee and congressman rush holt, a democrat actually from the great state of new jersey. noticing a pattern. news 12, msnbc edition. start with the two members of the committee. i want to follow-up on what john, the co-chair of the committee, said in the last
government policy can take it into their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will not be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy. president obama just a few moments ago at the justice department. congressman rush holt is a democrat from new jersey and frequent critic of the national security agency. a quick summary of what the president announced today, nsa analysts will not be able to get telephone metadata on their own, they ll need a judge s approval and calling on congress to establish this outside panel of experts to advise the fisa court on privacy concerns and there s going to be new protections to safeguard the privacy of foreigners as well, what are your initial reaction to the president s speech? well, that there s less than meets the eye. on that basic point, he keeps in
thought it would put this behind him, actually, it dug him in deeper, because as more things come out, he will look more responsible, if not directly culpable. congressman rush holt of new jersey, thank you for your time today. a reminder, governor christie s state of the state address happens later today at 3:00 a.m. eastern. we ll have live coverage on msnbc. that brings us to the big question, how much, if any lasting political damage has the bridgegate scandal done to new jersey governor chris christie? we re also following some breaking news right now on msnbc. we re just getting it into us. police investigating a shooting at a middle school in roswell, new mexico. police saying the suspect was arrested this morning at borendo middle school. the school is in lockdown at this moment and authorities are asking parents to pick up their children at a nearby mall, according to the associated press, roswell has been rocked
wage, without congressman, stand by. i apologize, the president making comments at a cabinet meeting. take a listen. official cabinet meeting of the year, and i want to wish everybody a wonderful new year. we ve got a lot to do in 2014. as i ve said before, this is going to be a year of action. we ve seen the economy improve. we want to maximize the pace of our recovery, but most importantly, we want to make sure that every american is able to benefit from that recovery, that we re not leaving everybody behind, and everybody is getting a fair shot. i was very pleased to see the house and the senate agree to a budget and to put forward a bill that will fund our government, as well as allow us to take some important steps to provide the services and the help that americans need and the american families need in order to get