mark the democrat has never run a statewide race. scott brown is the overwhelming favorite to run on the republican side. it s that time of the year again, jib jab s year in review. big scandals everywhere we kept obama care a hard-fought election they kicked us in the year the end is here it s no yew pretending i m not going to let this trending 2012 the end is here that s just a taste. check out more on our facebook page at facebook/jans & co. president obama will sit down with top leaders to try to avoid the fiscal cliff deadline. senator chuck schumer says
fiscal cliff. i m not sure that s what s happening. i think they re giving john boehner a platform to have a strong arm on this. richard wolffe, by the way, licking his chops as you re speaking. i m not sure what he s up to. he s thinking. it s breakfast. he s thinking. also with us, we ve got sam, harold and richard at the table. also with us, mark halperin in washington and joining us also from d.c., contributor of the national review, jim garrity. and pulitzer prize-winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and analyst yew queen reugene robin. mark, we started talking about this last year. i ve been hearing from a lot of republicans who have always been against raising taxes but have understood that revenue is part of the deal this morning saying that they are actually very surprised that the president s opening offer has now put them in a position where they re thinking about walking away from it. are you are you surprised with the president s open
beatles language is the category. if the beatles song norwegian wood was written about norway s most common tree species, it would be called norway what? trees. all right. meredith, i m gonna have to go ahead and ask the audience on this one. that s no problem. audience, steve needs your help. on your keypads, vote now. [percussive music] 74% of the audience believes it is spruce. wow. i was between spruce and pine. i ve never heard of yew or juniper. i guess the audience likes spruce. and yeah, you guys looks very
understand something of their history. if politicians aren t telling us the truth in our school textbooks and recent textbooks show there is almost a process to get rid of all of the early history of the united states and act as if there was and the revolutionary war and wasn t even a civil war yew you have written a back to help kids understand who they are as americans. that s right. mike: why is that important? so important that our children understand who we are as americans and in my new book ellis the elephant discovers how our nation began as he learns about the 13 original colonies and the period of colonial america is vitally important. it is the period in which our characteristics and traits were shaped and when we became american and our kids need know about this. mike: what do kids not know about american exceptionalism that is the overriding thing that they grow up with a different perspective of the country than they need to have. and our kids really need to kno
understand something of their history. if politicians aren t telling us the truth in our school textbooks and recent textbooks show there is almost a process to get rid of all of the early history of the united states and act as if there was and the revolutionary war and wasn t even a civil war yew you have written a back to help kids understand who they are as americans. that s right. mike: why is that important? so important that our children understand who we are as americans and in my new book ellis the elephant discovers how our nation began as he learns about the 13 original colonies and the period of colonial america is vitally important. it is the period in which our characteristics and traits were shaped and when we became american and our kids need know about this. mike: what do kids not know about american exceptionalism that is the overriding thing that they grow up with a different perspective of the country than they need to have. and our kids really need to kno