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economy overall. don t even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress live pictures right now what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? reporter: it s a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve chairman can t come out right and say anything ahead of the federal reserve meeting which takes place at the end of june, june 19th and 20th. so it s interesting that the expectation was that the stock market would actually rally in yesterday s session on the fact they were expecting to hear something. what he s been doing though is basically sort of admitting there has been slower than desirable growth in the marketplace and there could be room and the fed has left the door open for furth ....
how are you feeling besides wiped out there, richard? reporter: i think the next thing i ll be having is a prescription for some form of antibiotics. no, it s been amazing. look, the rain is still pouring, my suit is drenched. but we have seen over four days a carefully choreographed, constructed routine from the spectacle of the river to the ceremony of today, right through the way to the balcony at the end and the fly-past by the world war ii planes. if that isn t really showing with 1.5 million people standing outside your front doorstep, if that isn t showing an element of appreciation, i don t know what is, kyra. i m just curious, can you mix antibiotics with pims? reporter: the pims are over there. and i assure you there s plenty of them. i think what we have there were an enormous numbers of levels you could have taken over the last few days. at its most basic, a tourist attraction for people to come to london ahead of the olympics. go up a notch and you ....
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitte ....
smith, who s leaving politico for buzzfeed. what is that? and a look back at our most provocative interviews of 2011. i m howard kurtz, and this is the christmas day edition of reliable sources. it s been a better year for scandal. some sleazy, some superficial, all devoured by the media. perhaps the most chilling came from the world of sports. first at penn state, then at syracuse university with popular coaches accused of horrendous acts. in retrospect, i you know, i shouldn t have showered with these kids. what s it? yeah, well, that s what hits me the most. are you a pedophile? no. another major scandal involved a global media corporation, the one run by rupert murdoch with a slew of top executives arrested in a massive phone hacking operation. did you close the paper down because of the criminality? yes, we felt ashamed at what had happened and wanted to bring it to a close. and there were the inevitable political sex scandals. one toppi ....