you were talking about tom harkin. the it's something progressives hated, this idea of social security changes being on the table. they won on that. >> i have to tell you i'm having some audio problems but i think you asked about social security. so i'm going to go with that. that was a potential issue yesterday. it seems to have been resolved. republicans, we were told by democrats, this was a clear tactic to tell us about this. republicans had put that on the table. the idea of so-called chained cpi which would have an effect on social security recipients. republicans backed off on that after a meeting yesterday. that doesn't seem to be on the table. but forgive me, i thought mitch mcconnell was on the floor. the other thing i wanted to tell you about is mcconnell and the vice president have been in intense negotiations up until 12:45 in the morning and 6:30 in the morning and the negotiations are continuing. that's why we're getting from both sides of the aisle despite some grumbling on the flanks of the left and th

>> stephanie: senator tom harkin, democrat of iowa yesterday. >> all of you negotiators who are now negotiating on this so-called fiscal cliff and stuff. keep your hands off medicare and keep your hands off medicaid. >> stephanie: that's what i was just saying in the article on the hill. it warms the cockles of my liberal heart.

some liberal democrats in the senate, maybe senator tom harkin, for example. some conservatives will reject it because the top 2% see those earning more than $450,000 see their taxes go up. they might reject it. i think there will be a significant bipartisan majority in the senate that will pass it. if the president comes out and says he can live with this, and this is a compromise but he's not getting 100% of what he wants, the president says if the republican and the democratic leaders in the senate, harry reid and mitch mcconnell, if they say that, there will be a significant bipartisan majority in the senate. the house speaker john boehner suggested at the white house meeting the other day that whatever passes the senate he would allow to come up for an up or down vote in the house of representatives. if he allows that to happen and the democrats are on board, there will be a need for some republicans to join those democrats in the house and pass it, and then the president would sign it into law. my expectation is that that would probably happen and there

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joining me now is senator tom harkin for iowa and champion for the middle class. senator, it's a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> good to be back with you, al. >> this new plan is picking up steam. how can you and the democrats fight back if they give in on tacks? >> well, i'll tell you, al, what we're seeing is number one, medicare shouldn't be a part of this whole debate at all and neither should social security. let's take care of that later on. the most important thing we can do right now is to let people know, let the middle class know that we passed a bill last -- this last summer. it's 3412. s-3412. if the house passes it, president obama said that he would sign it tomorrow. that would extend the tax cuts for the middle class. that means the middle class can go out and do christmas shopping and buy thing for their families because they would know that their tacks are not going up. it's being held hostage by the house of representatives. that would be the best thing that we can do right now. >> now, if they, in fact, allow the tax cut across the board a

joining me now is senator tom harkin for iowa and champion for the middleç class. senator, it's a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> good to be back with you, al. >> this new plan is picking up steam. how can you and the democrats fight back if they give in on tacks? >> well, i'll tell you, al, what we're seeing is number one, medicare shouldn't be a part of this whole debate at all and neither should social security. let's take care of that later on. the most important thing we can do right now is to let people know, let the middle class know that we passed a bill last -- this last summer. it's 3412. s-3412. if the house passes it, president obama said that he would sign it tomorrow. that would extend the tax cuts for the middle class. that means the middle class can go out and do christmas shopping and buy thing for their families because they would know that their tacks are not going up. it's being held hostage by the house of representatives. that would be the best thing that we can do right now. >> now, if they, in fact, allow the tax cut across the board a

that senator is democratic senator tom harkin from the great state of iowa, and he very kindly joins us tonight to explain his proposal. senator, thank you very much for being here. >> hey, ezra, nice to be with you. thanks. >> so tell me, how does your proposed reform work? >> well, basically, my proposal is, again, as you said, it would still allow the senate to slow things down a little bit. but it would not permit the minority to actually stop something. my proposal is very simple. that on the first vote you would need 60 votes. if you didn't get 60 votes, you would have to wait three days. you could offer it again. then you would need 57 votes. if you didn't get that, you'd have to wait three more days, during which time you could be filibusters. and then after that, you need 54 votes. and then you could continue to filibuster. and after three more days, you just need 51 votes. so that after say about eight or nine days, 51 votes gets to decide what goes on the senate floor. and that's really the essence of it. that it can slow it down, but the minority can't just stop something

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. >> that's rand paul and tom harkin, the very opposite sides of the aisle, yet both denouncing even this potential deal. will it pass do you think? >> well, i think if you can get -- if they don't have to deal with the cloture vote and i know tom harkin has long been opposed to the cloture vote, if they just require a majority of votes to get the bill forward, i would imagine they will be able to get the bill through. that was the same provision in which they got the last tax bill through which currently sits on the floor of the house of representatives. so this would be yet another bill different. we don't know all the contours of the bill or what it contains, but it would be different, but we would have the opportunity to in the house to vote on two different options. obviously, we favor the president's option. >> right. congressman john larson, thank you very much. >> yke you're welcome. >>> stay with us. much more ahead as we continue the countdown to 2013. >> i know it was you. you broke my heart. president's option. >>> just a few hours ago president obama seemed to draw a lin

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tom harkin went on the senate floor earlier. we will ask for more revenue. remember this $600 billion is less than john boehner's last revenue offer. they are going for more at la later point. >> how is that going to play on the hill. >> it'll play well with democrats and not so well with republicans. the president said these tax increases will be permanent. the president is signalling there that whatever is in this agreement cooked up behind closed doors does include a permanent extension of tax decreases for the middle class. that's an important part of the news as well. >> it was

we're just listening to a democrat, tom harkin, criticizing the deal so far. the question -- we're speaking specifically of the concessions, perhaps the $450,000 offer we're aware of coming from vice president biden. are the president and democrats caving too much? tom harkin is expressing that frustration. >> well, i think we're all frustrated about that. i think the american people, 60% to 70% of the american people believe the president was correct in setting the limits at 250 and 200,000 for individuals as the cap on making sure that those taxes didn't go up for those americans making less than that. 70% of americans think that's about right. they voted in the presidential election and re-elected a president who said that was his criteria. but the president understands this is a process where compromise is necessary. the house of representatives, controlled by the republicans, clearly has indicated that a million dollars was not acceptable to it in the united states senate. clearly, mitch mcconnell controls the ability under the senate rules of the legisla

. >> holman: one of reid's key allies in the fight is democrat tom harkin of iowa, who has been pushing for filibuster reform for almost two decades. >> when i first broached the subject of changing the filibuster rule back in 1995, i warned at that time of an escalating arms race. i said that, if you look in the past, i said if we don't stop this, it's going to get to the point where the senate won't be able to function. i said that in 1995 when i first tried to get this change done. sadly enough, my predictions have come true. it's got to the point where we have to have a super-majority for everything. >> holman: with capitol hill on edge over the fiscal cliff negotiations, republican leader mcconnell has questioned the timing on reid's part. >> if i were the leader of the majority right now, i'd feel really good about the election. i kept my majority in the senate, the president was re-elected. boy, the first thing on my agenda would be, "now, how can i reach out to the minority? we've got big issues that can only be solved on a bipartisan basis. how can i be building bipartisan conf

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harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that many americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i missed the guy who cares an awful lot about my country you sir are a fool you know what kind of my terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to usa to feature isn't the only liberal the christian point you. can secure the beliefs of others because it's going to fall for you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. have you noticed the large number of c.e.o.'s going on t.v. to give their opinions on how to fix the debt we've heard the you know from goldman sachs c.e.o. lloyd bank blankfein about his suggestions for raising the retirement age for social security and medicare we've also heard from aetna c.e.o. mark burgle leni who also argued for raising the retirement age and means testing social security medicar

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harkin welcome to the big picture. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren mr here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday december seventh two thousand and twelve it's jobs day u.s. jobs numbers for november came in better than expected with the b.l.s. report showing one hundred forty six thousand jobs were added much more than expected and the unemployment rate fell to seven point seven percent but why did the rate went down because more people left the labor force and when you look at the lack of exciting increases in wages that also comes out in this report what should we really make of it all and what does it portend for housing which our guest barry habib mortgage exact thinks has been a bright spot for the economy we'll hear from a plus brace yourself the f one c meets next week and some are forecasting the fed may announce more bond purchases after they do so so what is the antidote to unhinge money printing and centrally planned price fixing could gold play a role john butler is her

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harkin welcomes a big. imax keyser welcome to the kaiser report first the good news is three bankers have been arrested in connection with rigging live or now the bad news is the arrests were made by the serious fraud office so down hold your breath for a successful prosecution and now the really bad news over at the new york times a headline reads h.s.b.c. to pay one point nine two billion dollars fine to settle charges over a laundering the first sentence of to start a call proceed to tell you all you need to know whether global financial and economic systems quote state and federal authorities decided against indicting h.s.b.c. in a money laundering case over concerns that criminal charges could jeopardize one of the world's largest banks and ultimately destabilize the global financial system too big to fail too big to jail stacey for. we've been warning about this for years now and it's happened they say openly in the first paragraph of the new york times article that they didn't want to destabilize the

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harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor. i'm sorry i'm just a guy here's an awful lot of money for you sir are you know what kind of my terror cells in your neighborhood want to give us a defeat terrorism the only liberal and the christian. can you believe that it's. going to put you to distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that facials that garbage you call that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. is heard is be careful what you say next time you're on the bus microphone enabled surveillance systems are being installed on public buses in san francisco baltimore and several other cities at the behest of the department of homeland security they've been put there to eavesdrop on passengers private conversations transit officials say the recording devices are to keep passengers safe and resolve disputes privacy experts disagree and point out numerous civi

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harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call adult. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what that is my self but i don't want to give us a defeat terrorism a liberal and a christian. because you're really going to. get you know the corporate media distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that's facials that garbage because that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that it's. been screwed news we know republicans have never been fans of medicare it was ronald reagan awarded nine hundred sixty one that medicare allayed is socialism in america. one of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine it's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project most people are a little. to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it and behind it wi

harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about you sir are a fool you know what kind of my terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to give us a defeat terrorism a liberal and a christian. can secure the borders because. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sell the same facials to garbage because that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that it's. been screwed news where one goes think and to wish an feeds union is one of the last completely free universities left in america and as a century old tradition of offering a college education to all of its students at no charge at all that was scheduled to change when school officials decided to start charging to ation for their graduate students in response students at cooper union took to the streets organized and rebel. this

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harkin welcome to the big picture. thanks. and thanks. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max keyser time now to go to new york to talk with journalist and author matt taibbi of rolling stone magazine recently been writing about the banks are just can't can remember anything that's i mean welcome back to the kaiser report. how's it going max super live first of all i have to ask you something enough four years ago or so you came out with the giant vampire squid goldman sachs sucking the life blood out of america and he painted a fairly. not very flattering portrait of lloyd blankfein but the a lot has happened over the past four years so the question is is a lloyd blankfein still the biggest douche bag in america and on wall street that. you know i think it's it's a close race now if i had of i had to pick between him and jamie diamond i'd probably go for jamie done that at this point. you know goldman first of all goldman isn't as dangerous as chase because it's not a real commercial bank so. and then you know jami

harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about what you sir are a fool you know what kind of my terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to give us a feature isn't a liberal and the christian point you. can see your beliefs about it. if you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that sells of sensationalistic garbage because that breaking news i mean martin and we're going to break this that. it's the good the bad and the very very good dodgin asli ugly the good elizabeth warren was revealed yesterday. it's senator like warren will have a seat on the highly influential senate banking committee which is probably the worst nightmare of the wall street backyards in fact the finance industry is so afraid of warren for the spend a whopping six million dollars trying to defeat her in the election seat of the ba

harkin welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about what you. are you know what kind of cells he wants us to defeat terrorism the olympics and the current political. confusedly just because it's going to hurt you distracts us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage. that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that. bags of a picture of old johnny tonight are marc harrold vince colonies and there are indeed alexander bullock let's get back to it michigan is developing a reputation as the most anti-democratic as in small d democratic state in the nation following the passage of right to work for less legislation this week the law was passed undemocratically by surprise like both here it is through pressure from corporate corporate oligarchy as u.a.w. president bob king said in the end that d

the efforts that tom harkin is making as well. i will end on a down note. we have a chief information officer. it is a new office and they can do created things. we had a chief ethics officer and we had it for two years. once that office was bacon, -- was vacant, things slowed down. we need to think about the way our government is structured. only by doing backed an fighting -- that and for people to be in those spots can we do things that were exciting in 2010. i would like to think all of our panelists. like to thank the judiciary committee for this from. with that, more information is available at transparency caucus.org. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> explores the history and literary culture of all but the, new york this weekend on book tv on c-span 2. next, your calls and comments on "washington journal." eighth joint economic committee hears from analysts on the so- called fiscal cliff -- a economic committee hears from atlas on so-called fiscal

. >> democrat senator tom harkin as you look live at the senate floor. and well, i think that senator stabenow down there in the blue. other than that, it's pretty empty. we did get word moments ago there is a democratic caucus meeting around 7:00. maybe 7:30 where vice president biden will update the caucus on the state of the deal. senate democrats we're told have not signed off on the deal. after the caucus there is an expectation of votes around possibly 10:00 p.m. maybe later. as we get word about the senate action. and knowing about it. but it will be a while. 10:00 p.m. we're going to be back here at 8:00 p.m. you were saying about this deal, we rudely cut you off before. that the entitlement reform is not specific on the republican side. democratic side, frankly there is no spending cuts in this deal. no additional spending cuts. >> there this is the other part of this. obama doesn't -- obama believes in stimulating the economy through spending. he doesn't believe in making all the cuts. so again, like you are asking him to adopt a world view he