[talking over each other] [inaudible conversations] >> arianna huffington. you were on the show today. tell us what you think. >> a standard fare for doing anything that is happening. you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or to do. the book is incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way we are running the company but also compliment you for using the energy and criticism which is very valid to get a path towards a solution as opposed to just using it to channel anger which is disruptive to the country. >> how did that come about? >> when i wrote the book, under the title find your own calcutta people who volunteer with that, talking about that. got time to help out. that brought them together. [inaudible conversations] >> i am not here -- i am here to deal with reality. i am going to give you a little bit of reality. i start with my own reality and we will talk about yours. based on most of the polling, myself and -- where is chris matthews? i saw him somewhere. they don't like the media. the unemployment problem is about to get wors

. >> up next, book tv attended a reception for arianna huffington, editor and chief for the "huffington post" on her book "third world america: how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and destroying the american dream." the program runs just over 30 minutes. >> how are you? >> you don't even -- >> john. >> aisle -- i'm dylan. >> i have to warn everybody that i'm wired. everything that you say -- >> she was doing all of the stuff for you. you weren't noticing. >> this is a lifestyle. >> yeah, it's a lifestyle thing. it's surrounding her. >> i figure you need to warn people. anything that -- maybe i should be wearing a thing. >> you should wear a sign around your neck, i'm wired, be careful, i'll put it on the front of the "huffington post." >> thank you. >> if you are greek, you are in. [laughter] >> that's great. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> he thought for a second about some of the things that you are going to ask? >> well, i've been around the country. "the huffington post" as the third world america section. people having sharing stories, stories of struggles,

post run by our mutual friend. >> arianna huffington? >> bill: yeah. >> i didn't know -- >> bill: she likes you. >> hello, darling. she loves fox avenue. the huffington post is getting money from the tide center. they are a project of the tide center. george soros is one of the main funders. >> bill: 5 million a year? >> he has got a lot of money into the tides. the tides center is this inseenous thing that is basically a store front. if somebody comes to him and says i have an idea. i want to run an investigative report with huffington post. aryana says i have an idea, darling, i want to do some investigative reporting. what the tides center says that is fantastic. you come on in here and we will make sure you have all the irs things done and we will run it like a store front. we will run all of the stuff in the back room. do you your little investigation thing. we will make sure your taxes, we will make sure your attorneys, we will make you're everything is run completely right in exchange for everything that you raise we get .5% back

. >> arianna huffington, dylan. dylan, arianna was on the show today. >> yeah. >> how's she's doing on the book? >> she has a standard fair of doing anything that can happen. truly, you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or a way to do. i think what the book represents is that. because the book, while it's incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way we are running the country, the book ultimately uses, and compliments to you for using the energy and criticism to try to cart a path towards solution, as opposed using it as a way to foster undeveloped anger or unchanneled anger in the country. >> how did that come about? >> well, i wrote about susie in the book. find your own target. which is what mother used to tell the volunteer. we have been talking about her and about seth green. he has time to help out. he loves his job. it's great that dylan brought the two of them together. >> i don't care. whatever it takes for him to get there. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] >> so i'm ac

with the man who broke the story, sam stein of "the huffington post." dr. harris doubles down. the anti-government health care congressman-elect again demands he gets his government health care now. and the insurance industry plan b from 2007 against the movie "sicko" is revealed. >> push michael moore off a cliff -- >> our guest wendell potter explains they didn't mean that literally. policy ostriches. >> i'll fight every day to keep washington politicians from mortgaging our children's future. >> but congressman steve king and bauchmann won't serve on the house appropriations committee because they would then get blamed for the actual budget cuts. the return of worsts, not really. and another inevitable result of islamaphobia. >>> and -- a senate hearing on junk. a leak of 400 body scans, an apple video on the fiasco, and a man who designs security saying none of this is necessary nor even useful. the tsa versus the usa over tna. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >>> good evening from new york, this is wednesday, november 17th, 720 days until the 2012 presidenti

"the huffington post" as the third world america section. people having sharing stories, stories of struggles, and overcoming obstacles. that encouraging people to show their own story. >> i want to talk to you and get your thoughts on elections. we're less than a month away. there's a lot of talk is the gop is going to take over the house. what is your thoughts? do you see it happening? >> well, everything can change between now and the election. that's the amazing thing about politics. who would have predicted who would be now two years ago; right? it seems incredible. so right now what matters is to try and have a debate that goes beyond demonizing particular groups and immigrants and muslims. because that's extremely un-american. >> also, what are your hopes for this election? >> well, i really -- what is happening? i feel very great to already start the debate. people are coming together to really look at ways that we can right now at least alleviate some of the pain out there. >> he was saying we can't interrupt you, you gorgeous girl.

the huffington post reporter who broke the story tonight sam stein standing by to join us. a top adviser telling the huffington post he did not dispute the accuracy, but they should not be read as a primary challenge to mr. obama. the hungarian-american financier giving tens of millions to election-oriented groups on the left as well as to a new universe of think tanks and media matters. in the course of of this week's annual meeting of the democracy alliance, which matches well-off donors with progressive groups, he reportedly met with a handful of other donors yesterday and said he is "used to fighting losing battles but doesn't like to lose without fighting." quoting again, we have just lost this election, we need to draw a line, and if this president can't do what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else. some at the meeting, which attracts between 100 and 150 rich democratic donors. it also seems possible he is instead talking about something obama himself has given the green light to. after having discouraged spending by and donations to third-party democra

. >> arianna huffington, dylan ratigan. tell us what you think of the book and i do think she's doing? >> arianna is a standard for every day for watching anything that's happening truly. you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or way to do. i think what the book represents is the book, while it's incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way were running the country come in the ultimately uses and complements you for using the energy and criticism which is very valid to try to start a path toward solution, towards bridge building as opposed to just using it as a way to foster undeveloped anger, on channeled anger that is ultimately destructive to the country. [inaudible] >> -- how did that come about? >> i would about siouxsie and the book under the title sandra -- [inaudible] and have been talking about her and about seth reams. so it was great that dylan put them together. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. though, i'm actually not tear to confront, but i am here to deal wi

arianna huffington, as you were about to say? >> i just want to defend really the state in which so many of my fellow americans, immigrants and not, find themselves. there is a lot of legitimate anger out there. the sense that somehow the game is rigged, that if you are powerful enough, if you are running institutions that are too big to fail, you can get away with anything. we never had the equivalent of a... in the 1930s who could actually run an investigation on what happened. how we got to be where we are, how we got to be in a place where millions of homes are being foreclosed and millions of people are losing their jobs without any real sense of recovery around the corner. and that lack of accountability, that lack of identifying what needs to fundamentally change and how we're going to go about turning our lives and our communities around is, i think, what is perpetuating that anger and putting us in that state. that edmund described, which is a very unamerican state in very profound ways. >> schieffer: bob woodward. >> ye

he's also a blogger for the huffington post, which is interesting because the huffington post gets money from george soros. and he is also a fellow with the george soros open society institute. violent radicals. by the way, it's just not that phrase that came. george soros has been following him as he funded the ella baker society. or the center for human rights. then, of course, he was on the apollo alliance. then, when he got fired from the white house, he went to center for american progress, which is also funded by george soros. radicals. radicals. the open society institute, in case you don't know what this is. don't worry, you will in the next couple of days. the open society institute is george soros' most important group. it's really spectacular. it's his philanthropist arm. this is where he looks for mother teresa to give out his precious money. boy, did he find mother teresa. well, not actually. he found the founder of the sds, students of democratic society. you don't know what they did in the '60s? you will. one string, $425 million every single year. the springs that are bei

the unnamed democratic source to "the huffington post" after the chairs of the obama debt commission recommend cutting social security, cutting medicare, cutting student loan subsidies, cutting the commerce department, cutting the small business administration, cutting bone. oh, increasing one thing -- the retirement age. first to 68, then to 69. the madness of the deficit reduction committee with congressman anthony weiner and howard fineman. >>> the hallucinations of the house energy committee. is this your new chairman, mr. bp. >> i apologize amounts to a shake don. so i apologize. >> or is this your new chairman, mr. bible authority. >> never again will i curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood and never again will i destroy all living creatures, as i have done. >> do we need a missile defense system against god in case he changes his mind, congressman? >>> gop secure firing squad, senator collins attacks palin. senator-elect paul attacks earmarks. senator mcconnell defends them. congressman elects wes new chief of staff.

roy sekoff, founding editor of "the huffington post." take all of that in, buddy. what do you make of it? >> well, you said the right thing, what he was upset about was the lack of fight. he wasn't looking for another candidate, ed. what he was saying was you know we have to be more aggressive, democrats and progressives need to be more aggressive countering this phony narrative that the republicans keep putting out. and what he's saying is that if the white house is not going to do it, which they haven't seemed really willing do is that money the money should go to the institutions that would. >> roy, what is, look elsewhere mean? >> i mean, look elsewhere. look elsewhere to other organizations? look elsewhere to other leadership? what does look elsewhere mean to? >> look elsewhere to other organizations that are going to be willing to be putting up that fight. ed, we saw in 2010 the midterms the big money came back taken came back on the other side. >> yeah. >> with nease outside parties. you know with karl rove and how he's able to raise the money. you know, cit

roy sekoff, founding editor of "the huffington post." take all of that in, buddy. what do you make of it? >> well, you said the right thing, what he was upset about was the lack of fight. he wasn't looking for another candidate, ed. what he was saying was you know we have to be more aggressive, democrats and progressives need to be more aggressive countering this phony narrative that the republicans keep putting out. and what he's saying is that if the white house is not going to do it, which they haven't seemed really willing do is that money the money should go to the institutions that would. >> roy, what is, look elsewhereç mean? >> i mean, look elsewhere. look elsewhere to other organizations? look elsewhere to other leadership? what does look elsewhere mean to? >> look elsewhere to other organizations that are going to be willing to be putting up that fight. ed, we saw in 2010 the midterms the big money came back taken came back on the other side. >> yeah. >> with nease outside parties. you know with karl rove and how he's able to raise the money. you know, c

such is the motto of the new divorce section on the huffington post. famously divorced huffington has added the pro divorcc section3 with headlines like "divorce is good for the children." well, %-things divorceetion for all@ headed up by the famous writer, nora efron ddvorced three times. @% well it looks like we saw noisy conditions through the overnight into early morning hours this morning. but that stormy weather has pushed north. we saw unshine. aad just a bit of wind out there today. in fact,,downtown hd skycam shows relatively quiet evening. cleering skies. 46 degrees. wind is out of the west at seven. our humidity level is sitting at 63%. temperatures nice through the afternoon.@ then the temperatures fall as the cold front pushed in from the west. we will continue to see the cooler temperatures moving in from the northwest. wrapping around the back edge of the area of low pressure that tracked through tte other day, giving us the severe storms and also that rain. anywhere from about a 10th of an inch to quarter of an inch over some spots and

the white house response to axelrod's story in "the huffington post." "this story is overwritten, nothing's changed from at what president said last week. we believe that we need to extend the middle-class tax cuts. we cannot afford toboro $700 billion to pay for extending the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. full stop, period, end of sentence. does this -- >> now, ed -- >> does this clear up the issue, bill? >> no, no. i don't think that it does. i think what it means is that david axelrod mistakenly, he got out a little ahead of the story. he realized that he shouldn't have said everything that he said to "the huffington post." but ed, this is the big difference, the president was saying a week ago, no way, no how. we're going to extend the tax cuts for the middle class and not extend the tax cuts for the wealthy people. >> okay. >> because right now it's changed. we're open to extending. ed, they've given up on this thing. >> all right so, the headline on "huffington post" this morning was "white house gives in on bush tax cuts." >> sam stein g

"the huffington post" announces that the white house will agree to continuation of all of the tax cuts. the president wanted the tax cuts to expire for the wealthy. >> it will add $700 million to the budget deficit, as drastic cuts to the national debt. >> we'll get reaction from the president in korea in a moment. but first, the plan and its opposition. here's jon karl. >> reporter: the draft proposal was unveiled with a dire warning. >> this debt is like a cancer that will truly destroy this country from within if we don't fix it. >> reporter: the solution from erskine bowles and simpson, lots of bitter medicine, including a 15-cent a gallon hike in the gas tax, cutting social security payments for high income seniors, raising the retirement age, cutting defense spending by $100 billion, including closing one-third of u.s. military bases abroad, eliminating the tax deduction for home mortgages over $500,000, slashing farm subsidies and eliminating 10% of the federal work force. and that's just for starters. would it fly? don't count on it. even members of the debt commission attacked

post and we'll use our joint flashlights, the tv show, and afnl the huffington post and other appearances to solicit people to look at the list of ideas and maybe they have time to work in the library or cook in the kitchen or sit on the phone to listen to your point, and we're going to ask people to adopt these ideas and push more ideas in so that we can get out of the business of feeling like we are powerless to deal with these problems and empowered to address these problems. can i ask you one question really quickly because one thing that has struck me not just in watching and getting to know you, seth, but others who made the decision to live outside their bubble is a choice. those that do that tend to become happier. it's not just those who live outside the bubble feel better or lord over their friend because they help and other people don't, but the actual satisfaction in any begin life for someone who makes that effort to breakthrough the i near sha of the mote to build a bridge or a stack of bridges actually leads to a greater sense of personal satisfaction, and i'm curious wheth

aryianna huffington, in middleton, connecticut, the co-founder and editor in chief of the huffington post. her latest book is "third world america," how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream. it's a best-seller. there you see its cover. we'll start with ben stein. can we quote james carville? it's the economy, stupid? >> well, it is the economy partly. partly that. it's partly just general dissatisfaction. look, we've got a long-lasting reception. we have two wars that don't seem to be going well at all. we have a health care debate in which the president blatantly went against what the people wanted. last night was an incredibly heartening night. a few guys with hand-made signs started a movement that took control of the house of representatives. that's an incredible sign of how young and how healthy and how vibrant our democracy is. these guys don't have all the answers by any means. this is a vibrant young democracy. it's a great night. >> larry: nicole, the next two years going to be negative, positive or status quo? >> well, i don't thi

, quote: we have to deal with the world as we find it and the huffington post writing this. the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board continuation of steep bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. today while addressing supporters in south korea suggested that's the wrong interpretation of axelrod's remarks. >> here is the right interpretation. i want to make sure that taxes don't go up for middle class families starting on january 1st. that's my number one priority. for those families and for our economy. i also believe that it would be fiscally irresponsible for us to permanently extend the high income tax cuts. >> jon: here is where things stand the president says he does not want to permanently extend tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year. but he did not say he oppose as temporary continuation of those cuts. wendell goler is traveling with the president who is now in japan. wendell, this has turned into an exercise in semantics, hasn't it? >> jon, the president plans to talk with democrat and republican congressional

arianna huffington, in middleton, connecticut, the co-founder and editor in chief of the huffington post. her latest book is "third world america," how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream. it's a best-seller. there you see its cover. we'll start with ben stein. can we quote james carville? it's the economy, stupid? >> well, it is the economy partly. partly that. it's partly just general dissatisfaction. look, we've got a long-lasting reception. we have two wars that don't seem to be going well at all. we have a health care debate in which the president blatantly went against what the people wanted. last night was an incredibly heartening night. a few guys with hand-made signs started a movement that took control of the house of representatives. that's an incredible sign of how young and how healthy and how vibrant our democracy is. these guys don't have all the answers by any means. this is a vibrant young democracy. it's a great night. >> larry: nicole, the next two years going to be negative, positive or status quo? >> well, i don't think th

arianna huffington, in middleton, connecticut, the co-founder and editor in chief of "the huffington post." her latest book is "third world america, " how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream." it's a best-seller. there you see its cover. we'll start with ben stein. can we quote james carville? it's the economy, stupid? >> well, it is the economy partly. partly that. it's partly just general dissatisfaction. look, we've got a long-lasting reception. we have two wars that don't seem to be going well at all. we have a health care debate in which the president blatantly went against what the people wanted. last night was an incredibly heartening night. a few guys with hand-made signs started a movement that took control of the house of representatives. that's an incredible sign of how young and how healthy and how vibrant our democracy is. these guys don't have all the answers by any means. this is a vibrant young democracy. it's a great night. >> larry: nicolle, the next two years going to be negative, positive or status quo? >> well, i don't

interview with the huffington post, headline "white house gives in on bush tax cut." and david axelrod added i don't want to trade away security for the middle class to make that point. we have to deal with the world as we find it, axelrod sighed. >> my own take is that axelrod let go of a negotiating position that the administration wanted to hold over boehner and the g.o.p. it's possible he was signalling the progressive community this wasn't going to happen and let them know that the administration would support temporary tax cuts again. >> only before the great shellacking of november 2, president obama was opposed to the extension of tax cuts across the board. i refuse to think it makes sense to pay for $700 billion tax cut, for millionaires and billionaires. but then he was professing himself willing to cut a deal. >> how the negotiation works itself out is too early to say. >> axelrod told fox news today president obama still opposes a permanent extension for top earners. spokesman for house republican leader john boehner replied we hope he and the president wi

one of the organizers of the shadow convention was adrianna huffington who is now getting the huffington post money from george soros. to be able to hire reporters. isn't that great? she was introducing here in 2000 at the shadow convention, she was introducing somebody else. another guest speaker. coorganizer of the event. watch. >> when i'm moving to the second issue of the shadow convention, but covernty in the middle of our portion perty and gives me -- prosperity and gives me please sure to welcome jim wallis, new coalition of churches and the editor of sojourners magazine. he's been a mentor and inspiration to me. get ready to be inspired. jim wallis. >> glenn: praise jesus, jim wallis. sojourners. that's right. didn't he get money to help boycott me? that's right! i remember him now. another group funded by o.s.i. george soros, an athnest, dumping a bunch of money in christian organization. that almost doesn't make sense. oh, but it's humanitarian. it makes you question the motives, doesn't it? it doesn't take long to see the attraction to jim wallis is because he is a big governm

booktv attended a reception for arianna huffington editor-in-chief of the dignity and post for third world america how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and destroying the american dream. the party is hosted a private residence in washington, d.c. and the program runs just over 30 minutes.-- >> >> how are you? have t [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> you can wear a sign aroundo your neck.he be careful i'm a lawyer and you can find it in thenk y. huffingtonpost.com. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> i've been around the countryn and huffington post "third world america" section and people have been sharing overcoming obstacles. that encouraging people to show their own story. >> i want to talk to you and get your thoughts on elections. we're less than a month away. there's a lot of talk is the gop is going to take over the house. what is your thoughts? do you see it happening? >> well, everything can change between now and the election. that's the amazing thing about politics. who would have predicted who would be now two years ago; right? i

. >> reporter: right, in the huffington post. virtually since the time the polls closed on november 2nd, the white house has let it be know from the podium and robert gibbs, and now this interview with top counselor david axelrod and the huffington post that they would be open to perhaps a temporary extension of the tax cuts for the wealthy. you remember in the time leading up to the election the president campaigning time and time again, hitting republicans on wanting to extend the bush era tax cuts. they expire on december 31st. wanting to extend them for everyone including couples making more than $250,000 a year and individuals making more than $200,000 a year. well, the republicans all along. and since the election administration officials have hinted they would be open to a temporary increase. the question becomes will the republicans in the house be willing to deal on the issue and both sides from the republican side of the aisle is they are going to draw a hard line, they feel they have the advantage politically and tacti

according to the huffington post, david axelrod says the white house might negotiate with republicans on a temporary extension of the bush-era tax cuts, bout the white house is stepping back from that story. axelrod says they see a need just to extend the middle-class tax cuts. >>> 15 people killed, dozens injured in a suicide car bombing outside of a police facility in karachi, pakistan. the taliban was behind the attack. the blast happened in a high-security area near government buildings. the u.s. consulate and major hotels. the bombing happened after gunmen fired on a security checkpoint. >>> also, taking a picture here out of florida, this is ft. myers in familiar. you see this here. this is a gas line that ruptured. two people have been injured here. this was the result of construction in the area. it appears possibly some of that work hit a gas line. one person had to be transported to the hospital with burns over 50% of his body. officials do tell us right now, though, that there's no threat of an explosion or anything going any further than what you're seeing in this picture,

. >> who is helping to fund the investigative arm of the huffington post? he is. >> bill: i don't see him as the power you see him. i think he is trying. the shadow government i don't know where they live. if you tell me where they live, i goal to their house. do they have a house? remember when you found -- wait, i have got to give you. >> 100 organizations. >> bill: you found out there was a place in new orleans where all this acorn money was going. >> yes. >> bill: then we went down there. remember, we sent guys down there. it was a boarded up funeral home where all this money went. and then two guys took the money and did whatever they wanted with the money. >> right. this stuff is all out in the open. this isn't a star chamber. he is out in the open. the shadow party convention was on c-span. >> bill: they were? >> yes. nobody pays attention to it hosted by arianna huffington, surprise, surprise. >> bill: you say to all these people i don't think they have as much power as you think they have. i could be wrong. soros actually got in touch with you, rig

but just after midnight, a glaring headline hit the front page of the huffington post. white house gives in on bush tax cuts. the article written by howard fineman and sam stein said obama's top adviser david axelrod suggested the administration is ready to accept a temporary continuation of the bush tax rates for everyone, including the rich. we have to deal with the world as we find it, axelrod said during an unusually candid and reflective 90-minute interview in his office. the world of what it takes to get this done. there are concerns, he added, that congress will continue to kick the can down the road in the future bypassing temporary extensions for the wealthy time and time again, but i don't want to trade away security for the middle class in order to make that point. joining me now, the co-author of that report, the huffington post's howard fineman, and from fire dog lake, a conscientious objector to many obama policies, jane hampshire. david axelrod sent an e-mail to "the washington post" this morning to your article and he said, there's not one bit of news he

so my antenna went up when "the huffington post" reported that new york mayor michael bloomberg could team up with msnbc's joe scarborough for an independent presidential run. howard fineman quoted scarborou scarborough's carefully quoted denial. here's scarborough describing the call with fineman. >> no. it's not going to -- i told him no! and we keep going and talking, no, no, no, like the song, right? >> why'd you keep talking? why? why do you have to talk on the record? >> it's a professional courtesy. mike bloomberg and i have not talked about this directly or indirectly or super super secret indirectly. >> so if they haven't even talked about it, even super secretly, it doesn't sound like much of a story, but it got a screaming headline at the top of "the huffington post." maybe it was a slow news day. here's what i call chutzpah. sam zell, the chicago mogul who bought the tribune company and drove it into bankruptcy, popped up on cnbc this week about the merger of "newsweek" and the daily beast, where i work. >> you know, like two ants mating under an ant pile. it's not exactly

they blinked when david axelrod gave an interview to the huffington post. if you know them, it reads like these liberal playbooks. we have to deal with the world as we find it. the world of what it takes to get this done. that's not the part. the part is when the headline on the huffington post says, white house gives in on bush tax cuts and then they further explain not just some of the bush tax cuts. all of the bush tax cuts. >> steve: temporarily. >> here, you have to do this. you have to pull up the card. forget geraldo, he's a great journalist, but he can't make a card worth you know what. $70 billion, that's the difference, that's what it would cost to extend the bush tax cuts per year for the upper level, less than 2% of the budget. less than 2% of the 2011 budget. you have to do this because these are the people that create jobs. >> steve: geraldo says, if you're making more than a million, they're rich. they can afford it. >> one half of the people making over 250,000 bucks a year are small business owners. 70% of the new jobs in the country come f

remember, on wednesday, david axelrod made headlines essentially telling the huffington post, "obama has willing to give up on the cuts." not so, says the president as he flies home, but how far is obama willing to move on the real money issue for millions of americans? in washington, julie kirtz, fox news. >>> the white house chief-of- staff officially launched his campaign to become the next mayor of chicago. rahm emanuel spent six years in congress and was also an advisor too president clinton. he discussed the city's fiscal problems. remanual is a front-runner in the mayor's race. democrats have held the post since 1931. >> the islamic kingdom of saudi arabia defriended facebook. they say the social-networking site was temporarily blocked for the nation's 27 million people. they say the action was taken because facebook, "had crossed a line and offended the kingdom's conservative moral values." access to facebook was restored just a few hours later. pakistan and bangladesh took similar actions against facebook earlier this year. >>> here at home a wind advisory is in effect for t

. >>> let's turn to the senior editor at the "huffington post" howard fineman. good evening. >> hi, keith. >> temporarily extending the bush tax cuts is not a real compromise, it is as i suggested before a cave on the part of the democrats, just accepting a position that the republicans had advanced for a long time just for a shorter period of time. and they get nothing back. so why does it sound like the white house is very carefully giving itself room to arrive at this point in which it gives away the store for nothing? >> well, keith, i've been listening to you and ezra talk and i've been trying to figure out based on my reporting today what reasonable answer i can give to the question of why the democrats are doing this. and based on the people i talked to today, it's a couple of things. first of all, they have lost faith if they ever had any in the idea that they could control the narrative and control the debate. and they're afraid that if they get into some kind of real confrontation with the republicans over taxes -- in other words, the president maybe e

so you have david axelrod who floats these comments, the fact that he told the huffington post that, he knew exactly what he was saying. and so you're hearing people say, wait a minute, can you guys even have one consistent message? there is no doubt that you have to have some level of compromise. but when the president has been so adamant on this whole issue, saying to the republicans, you say you want to control the deficit, this contributed to the deficit, so therefore, how is it not going to contribute in the future? and so his base has been saying, hey, tow the line but don't give away the house right now before you even sit down and have negotiations. >> alex, do you concede that this contributes to the deficit? that $700 million that would not be coming as revenue for the government has to be made up somehow? >> well, i have a little bit of a problem with that. a couple of them. one is, the middle class tax cuts contributes $3.2 billion to -- $3.2 billion to the deficit. right? he's fine with that. the -- i'm sorry, $3.2 trillion. the $700 billion that the rich people, somehow

if the senate doesn't, even the house democrats aren't going to do it gwen either. >> "huffington post" senior editor howard fineman. as always, big thanks, howard. >> thank you. >>> richard wolf's new book "revival" describing competing groups inside the obama administration, idealists revivalists over survivalists. versus clinton leftover survivalists. some lyrics and a couple of numbers and you've got "west side story." richard wolf next on "countdown." ll make her holiday. that's why only zales is the diamond store. to stay fit, you might also want to try lifting one of these. a unique sea salt added to over 40 campbell's condensed soups. helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so do a few lifts. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™ you know, if we had let fedex office print our presentation, they could have shipped it too. saved ourselves the hassle. i'm not too sure about this. look at this. [ security agent ] right. you never kick off with sales figures. kicking off with sales figures! i'm yawning. i'm yawning some more. aaaaaaaand... [ snores ] i see your point. yeah

remember, on wednesday, david axelrod, a top obama adviser told the huffington post that obama was ready to give in on temporarily extending the cuts. not so says the president. the huge question at this point, how far is obama willing to move on a real money issue for millions of americans. in washington, julie kurtz, fox news. >>> senator john mccain fights the repeal of the don't-ask- don't-tell policy, his wife cindy is fighting for the other side. she is joining a slew of celebs for the no hate campaign. mccain makes a reference to the military policy saying it's an example of how the government treats the gay community like second class citizens. >>> the government is out with new flu shot recommendations. find out why one shot may not be enough to protect certain people this year. >>> we had a wonderful saturday today. no shortage of sunshine.  >>> a health alert. medical experts are recommending changes to the current flu vaccination schedule. they include giving children underage 9 two seasonal flu vaccines if they didn't get a swine flu vaccine last year. experts believe