taxes. free enterprise is at stake. this man, after selling t-shirts here for 30 years, was told, you must stop. this is just the rules from friday, december 16th. it s tiny fine print. yep. every day is a another book, and you have to know everything in here or you can go to jail? that s right. and i m a constitutional lawyer, and i have absolutely no idea what is in these books. each and every one of this is incomprehendible to me. and unnecessary. i m flipping open this book. this is the department of energy regulation on the formula for determining the energy efficiency of a commercial icemaker. somebody who runs a bar or a restaurant can just good to the manufacturer and say, give me an it smaker. if it works the market will figure out what is the best
this morning on world news now the final stand. candidates for the republican nomination went toe to toe thursday night in the last debate before the all-important iowa caucuses. could the other presidential hopefuls knock the front-runner off his game and make a lasting impression on voters? it s friday, december 16th. good morning, everybody. happy friday. i m rob nelson. i m sunny hostin. well, in what may be the last chance to sway voters in iowa, candidates for the gop nomination took part in the final debate before january s caucuses. the closing arguments made by presidential hopefuls including which one compared himself to
because it s a gsc, government sponsored enterprise. it s a government agency, they get the money and get mixed up. he would not only support, but he would campaign for republicans who are in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial birth abortion. george will asked the question of speaker gingrich. he said this, he said is it a virtue to tolerate in fantasied? this is a seminal issue. it s something that we can t get wrong. all right. top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 16th. with us onset, we have the chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch, being very nice today. what a great guy. great american. yes. humble, soft spoken. he s the director of the earth institute at columbia university, economist dr.
love. vladimir putin is suggesting john mccain is nuts. mccain responds on twitter saying, dear vlad, was is something that i said? on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. it is friday, december 16th. nine days left before christmas. can you believe it? have you finished your shopping? i have two gifts bought. and that means no. good morning, everybody. i am alina cho. welcome to american morning. the last critical debate before the iowa caucus, the front-runner, newt gingrich playing defense on his conservative values and electability. mitt romney stood by his business background playing it safe and texas governor rick perry realizing it may be the fourth down threw this hail mary pass. there are a lot of folk whose said tim tebow wasn t going to be a good nfl quarterback. that looked print good. am i ready for the next level? let me tell you i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. best line of the night.
harry reid at the behest of president obama has said that he will not move a bill to fund the entire united states government which runs out of funding on friday, december 16th, until they figure out what to do with the payroll tax cut holiday. that is a real issue here on capitol hill that s going to be interesting to see how voters decide which side comes out on top. republicans are now saying, look, democrats have accused us for the last six months of trying to hold the government hostage. they are now doing the same thing. republicans are now emboldened after their vote, chuck. honestly the first real win that the gop leadership has had all year on a substantial budget bill where they didn t have massive defections and even picked up ten democrats. right. they are now thinking because of the keystone pipeline provision, idea to build the pipeline all the way from canada down to the gulf for oil, has split democrats and environmental labor unions, they now can change the narrati