reporter: the significance isn t in any one, attack, dpreg, just how many we ve seen especially when comes to insider attacks. being members of the afghan security services turning weapons on members of nato forces. so far we ve seen 60 this year. that is more than three times, just about three times what we saw last year in 2011. keep in mind there are 66,000 plus american troops inside of afghanistan plus all the civilian contractors and that is what joseph griffin was. he was a civilian contractor who was an advisor to the afghan police force. he was shot and killed by an afghan police woman, the first time a woman has been involved in one of these insider attacks. she was an iranian by birth. got to afghanistan by forged documents. this really shows the holes in the vetting process of the afghan security services. remember those are the people who are going to take over trying to fight the taliban, trying to fight al qaeda come 2014 when all those u.s. troops leave
$250,000 and less, and not only that, i will consult with my top uniform military leaders and i m going to restore some of the defense cuts they say go just too far. in that quick time period, maybe a week or two, the president can position himself as, sort of the restorer of tax cuts for the middle class and of defense spending. gregg: right. thereby, i think, helping to ameliorate some of the problems that democrats faced over past three decades politically. gregg: what of john boehner though? steve latourette, who said, the same 50 or 60 chuckle heads who always screw things up, speaking of the tea party group. yeah. gregg: he said it is not really the speaker s fault. is it the speaker s fault? well, look, i think boehner was, he is in a bad spot. there are no good outcomes here for republicans. there have been no good policy outcomes for republicans. i watched the steven
left behind when this same storm tore through parts of alabama. it forced some people like our next guest to get up from their holiday dinners at the sound of tornado sirens, only to find the location where they were seeking shelter was the place where the tornado actually hit. joining us by phone, rick cally of mobile, alabama. thanks for joining us, rick. thank you. patti ann: i see you have family there as well. you heard the sirens. you had family dinner. but you want to keep the family safe. you went to local high school, turned out not to be the best call? i work at the high school. i live across the stream. usually if there s a storm, one. coaches will go there and stay and they will put someone there and this happened to be the place that it hit. patti ann: you re all there huddled in the high school in this one building and what did you see and feel? well, the building i m in has no windows. and it is solid concrete, we
the highway. i would like to get it back to him and he can in turn pay it forward later in life. patti ann: he doesn t know their names but is hoping the owner will see the story and contact him, doug benedetti, about claiming this ring. gregg: i hope so. the world sadly is a different place now than it was a week ago. the people of newtown, connecticut, that includes christmas, one act of kindness though from a little boy in texas, could not think of a better way to spend the holiday than honoring those who, whose lives were lost at sandy hook. one by one, all by himself cooper carlisle put down cards for the children of newtown, connecticut, at this churchside memorial. it is how the fifth grader wanted to spend his christmas. when i heard about sandy hook i felt really bad for all the kids who had died. reporter: cooper, coming all the way from houston,
boss and editor at the weekly standard and one of most handsome and well-regarded editors in the country as everybody knows. look, i think he was making what was, in effect a practical case. there are people who are making this case behind the scenes. you have seen, he said, get it over with. move beyond this. there are others saying absolutely not. republicans can t cave on the principle of raising tacks. i think interesting thing in what happened last week that you have seen a turn, and it is first time i ve seen a sliver of potential good news for the republicans and that is this. the president is now going to have to work with senate democrats and craft a proposal, some kind of short-term deal that deals mostly with the tax side of things that won t require too much republican buy-in. so if republicans want contrast, i think is a good thing for republicans to want, i don t think this is likely to be a good deal, they re likely to get it with just a couple dozen house republicans