joining us now co-sponsor of the bill illinois state representative greg harris. sir, it's great to have you here. you said that you have this on the fast track and that it will pass, so what is the latest on the efforts and how quickly will the people of illinois see this come to fruition through a vote? >> there will be thousands of very happy loving couples across the state of illinois who will be celebrating their weddings very soon. >> it's very interesting to point out that this does have a support across the aisle there in illinois from republicans, the chair of the state's republican party, pat brady, that has written that giving gay and lesbian couples. however, pat brady is really getting some blowback from people on the right.

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working families in illinois will continue to receive the earned income tax credit, over 230,000 illinois families benefited from that tax credit last year. more than a million illinois taxpayers are protected from an increase in taxes under the alternative minimum tax, which i mentioned to you earlier. thousands of illinois children will continue to have access to school readiness programs like head start. low-income families will continue to benefit from low-income energy programs, lie liheap. it protects nutrition assistance, prenatal care so we can have more healthy babies, and healthy moms. the elderly, disabled, low-income familieses and veterans will continue to receive housing assistance. over 88,000 illinoisans will continue to receive the unemployment benefits. and illinois businesses will benefit from more than $8.5 billion spending of consumer spending in a time when we desperately need this in our economy. let me say one last word. i have been involved in this deficit discussion fo discussiog period of time. this is not a deficit-reduction measure. it does reduce it. but the

next, the stunning number of the illinois presidents in or close to poverty. why illinois? we do have an answer for you and to exactly is in or close? stuart: stock alerts, norwegian cruise lines haven't ipo where the stock started trading. the price was 19, it has moved up to 25 in the first few minutes of trading. up roughly 30%, 31%, 19 for norwegian cruise lines lose startling statistic from an insolvent state, 15% of illinois residents living in poverty, one in three are at or near poverty. joining the company from chicago, the illinois policy institute, first of all, could you define poverty? >> poverty means a family of four is making less than $24,000 in income. that is the definition of the federal poverty level. stuart: does that include all transfer payments they receive? all kinds of subsidies and what have you? >> that would include all the income that they make the big picture is a third of illinois at or near poverty and 15% at poverty is a release at number and what we need is how did we get there? stuart: why illinois? that is a higher level of policy that

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president, the certificate of the state of illinois seems to be regular and authentic. it appears that barack obama received 20 votes for president and joseph biden received 20 votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the state of indiana seems to be regular and authentic. it appears that mitt romney received 11 votes for president and paul ryan received 11 votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the state of iowa seems to be regular and authentic. it appears that barack obama received six votes for president and joseph biden received six votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the state of kansas seems regular and authentic. it appears that mitt romney received six votes for president and paul ryan received six votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the commonwealth of kentucky seems to be regular and authentic. it appears that mitt romney received 8 votes for president and paul ryan received 8 votes for vice president. >> mr. president, the certificate of the state of louisiana

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i will i -- illinois wins to make their big ten mark 1-1. notre dame old their big east schedule against seton hall and also were dominant. scott martin had a career high six three-pointers. and the number five notre dame women on the road against number one uconn. the upset was brewing in the second half. thee sealed the upset, the irish winning against number one, 73-72. oliver purnell and depaul meeting providence. depaul in command, they go on to win 87-73. and loyola losing to young stoun state earlier. and jabari parker scores in simeon game. just two days before the national title game in miami, things getting intense monday but kind of loose today. brian kelly and the staff doing the best they can to keep the irish nice and loose for the game. dan roan has a story on media day. >> walking into sun life stadium on media day was an irish eye-opener. >> to know that on monday i could be part of the team that hoists that crystal ball that's actually becoming real. >> a win for the irish monday could be the start of a new championship era

to close the facility ordering his attorney general and defense secretary to buy a state prison in illinois for three hundred fifty million dollars to replace good mo but a few months later the house armed services committee headed up by democrats blocked those funds again placing a giant roadblock in front of the president's plans to close gitmo at this point the lack of fight on the part of the obama administration was becoming apparent as the new york times reports and in an interview with democratic senator carl levin in june of two thousand and ten quote there is a lot of inertia against closing the prison and the administration is not putting a lot of energy behind their position that i can see said sen carl levin the michigan democrat who is chairman of the senate armed services committee and supports the illinois plan he added that the odds are that it will still be open by the next presidential inauguration. so with a little pressure coming from the white house congressional democrats decided it's not worth sticking their necks out to help close gitmo either when their final moves

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what's next in the fight for marriage equality in illinois? joining us now co-sponsor of the bill illinois state representative greg harris. sir, it's great to have you here. you said that you have this on the fast track and that it will pass, so what is the latest on the efforts and how quickly will the people of illinois see this come to fruition through a vote? >> there will be thousands of very happy loving couples across the state of illinois who will be celebrating their weddings very soon. >> it's very interesting to point out that this does have a support across the aisle there in illinois from republicans, the chair of the state's republican party, pat brady, that has written that giving gay and lesbian couples. however, pat brady is really getting some blowback from people on the right. has that tainted his standing on this at all, or something sd that make you fear that there will be a problem getting this through? >> no. i'm just very glad that not only our leading democrats, the governor, the mayor of the city of chicago are behin

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illinois has made a lot of cuts. a major cuts to medicaid in the past year as well as other programs. illinois right now is dealing with a $100 billion unfunded liability in the state pension system. that is really the one major budget issue. the more that illinois is giving to pay down the pension debt, the less it can go to other programs. you have already seen cuts to education, schools, and more of that is expected. host: tell us about taxes. the temporary tax cut is set to expire in a couple of years. is that already being talked about right now? caller: right now you have gov., a democrat who took over. he was the lieutenant governor and won the election by himself. he has been seen as a week governor. already are hearing potential democratic challengers as well as a very wide swath of republicans that went to run against pat quinn. part of that is the expiration of the income tax rate. it is set to expire in 2014. what will illinois do without the money? you hear calls from republicans say we have to cut. demo

there are a lot of similarities between northern illinois and notre dame. with plenty of fanfare in for a waterville the irish and brian kelly arrived this afternoon, brian knows the drill. it's been an incredible season for the nation's no. 1 team and if you ask these guys back in august if they thought it would be here today... >> with our schedule i don't think anybody did. >> the d c s championship notre dame and alabama, we will have more on the game tomorrow and we will see you then. the irish led miami and northwestern in jacksonville fla. when the cats won their first bowl game in 64 years taking care of mississippi state. the and i you football program is back also. >> it will go next to the head of the monkey we haven't won a ball game isn't like 12 hours.in like 12 hours. this shouldn'task for the huskies the heavily favored florida state. he blew away the huskies in the final period if i didn't make that for like we are talking about it gives a lot of us hope. it's really hard but i'm excited for the program and i'm excited for what they're goin

moody's downgraded illinois equal with botswana and africa. do you think maybe the people of illinois would wake up that this needs to be changed? the problem in illinois as in california they are both owned and operated the state labor unions. until we do something about those state labor sun ons nothing is going to change. we are going to have to do what california does is ultimately file bankruptcy to shut itseshe itself of the $400 million of liabilities. >> rahm emanuel was one of the key people behind obama care and he leaves the federal government to run the city of chicago. apparently he loves obama care so much there's reportedly some consideration about moving all of these retirees on to those rolls instead of paying them, giving them the benefit that they were promised. to me michael this goes to the heart of it's great to get these promises of huge funds relatively speaking upon retirement. they are meaningless if they are not worth the papers they are printed on. they have to be able to follow through. the to have the money. >> ab

ups a mini illinois? we have ups down, $79 a share there. look at facebook, stock down following an earnings report where the company said it would spend more money. investors do not like that even though it is bringing more money from mobile ads. facebook is down to 29. we are going to discuss that. is it cool? in just a moment. stuart: oh dear, some bad news for mr. brian kilmeade. i almost beat him in the poll we took yesterday over who had the better interview with emmitt smith. keep in mind i don't know much about football and kilmeade is a sportscaster. here's the results, brian kilmeade 50%. stuart varney 47%. 3% apparently undecided. i consider that a moral victory. i know nothing about football. that's as to who did the better interview with emmitt smith. a moral victory to varney. let's get to facebook, shall we? the stock drops below $30 a share, even though the company is making more money on mobile devices. joining us now is chris ruby, founder and ceo of ruby media group. welcome to the program. >> thank you. stuart: we asked t

how bad is it an illinois? just how bad is it? >> worst in the country. $96 billion, the normal discount rate that people in the private sector use, 200 billion. another 54 billion in unfunded health care benefits for retirees and 9 billion on top of all that in unpaid bills that have been taken on by the vendors to the state of illinois, so it is a big problem 263 billion in total. gerri: worst in the nation, and it is not the biggest state by a long shot. it's not california. governor pat quinn is office had this to say about what will happen in the future. by 2016, the state is on track to spend more on government pensions than on education. how can that be the case? that sounds crazy to me. >> it is amazing. in fact, we are the ones who put up that report and reported that $0.71 of every new dollar the state is putting into k-12 education is going into pensions and $0.80 per dollar is now going to pensions, and eventually that will crowd out all education spending for the pension payment. it is outrageous, and we have to refor

host: let's go to benton, illinois, good morning to you, democrats line. caller: yes. i want to make a comment about the payroll taxes that everybody is having such a fit about paying 6.2 now. yearsremember, i'm 74 old, i can remember paying 13% of payroll taxes for social security, which i'm on and they're talking about reducing? after i paid this kind of money. i get a little upset about it. another thing i wanted to comment about, this last bill that was paid, i didn't pay too much attention to the pork that was ended until it got to nascar. i'm a nascar fan from several years back but to subsidize nascar for improvement to their racetracks. give me a break. this is the kind of pork that we certainly do not need. these people make so much money, they don't know what to do with it half the time. host: thanks for the call. also related twitter comment from our viewer are you going to reject the pork in the sandy bill that's voted in the house today. guest: she made a couple points. first the payroll tax that you pay, that's the funding of social security so people pay

you can't fish for shark in illinois. that is a law. >> kimberly: you can't sell the shark fin. >> dana: in concorde, massachusetts, you can't have the plastic bottles. >> greg: horrible for truckers. never mind. >> bob: first. a lot of laws are in response to things that change. the internet and other things that happen. >> dana: road kill? >> bob: there is more road kill. a lot more poor muskrats around. >> kimberly: this is the first time there is major preparation by bob to the trip club section. i'm thrilled. >> bob: there are a lot of things in here. ministers of california don't have to perform same-sex marriages. i think that is a step in the right direction. the kittens i like. to away with that. one would make me happy. cats are a pain. >> greg: that is why you like cat ladies. they're the rec center for farrell animals. instead of them being over the neighborhood they stay in one place. >> bob: wait until they get in heat and get all the kittens here. >> eric: the california law that ban dogs. >> kimberly: you

the war on i-74, illinois state at bradley and the redbirds were cruising early. upstairs they go to jackie carmichael, it was 25 to 9 at one point but the braves slowly reeled isu in, and in the second half after one of the birds' 23 turnovers, jake eastman gave bradley the lead and the braves win in peoria, 83-77. that hurt. northwestern gets number one michigan tomorrow. a-rod's among a group of baseball players reportedly dispensed p-e-ds from a florida clinic, and the yankees are trying to void his contract. and if it's tuesday of super bowl week it must be media day. the niners and the ravens at the superdome, they actually sold tickets to this, and a lot people actually bought 'em. the big news, ray lewis denying he used deer-antler spray to help recover from his biceps injury. i thought everybody used that stuff. there were thoughtful questions, stupid questions, and challenging questions. what do you say the race to the 50 yd line? 30 minutes. and also maybe i can get a team picture? hi think it is not good to drink anything blue here. carlos rogers said

just -- well currently, it's just for toll larry park from the 2012 bond, for the north side between illinois and 23rd street we had one $.5 million proposed for that improvement. >> okay and so most of those project are in the design phase? >>> none the projects from the 2012 are in the design phase but we have done conceptual bureau of landscape architects hands and detail design phase and work and go out to bid in the spring, i believe. >> so when will we have a concept of what is going to be there? >>> we have it today. >> oh, do we >>> for the bay view gateway. >> or for the 2012? >>> whatever we are going to whatever. >> we have for bay view gateway and toll larry park and gateway we have the concept and i can show then to you here right now if you would like >>> okay. >> so this is the concept for the bay view gateway and again it's location is between third street and illinois street and car go way the concept includes removing a dilapidated whof along the shore line's edge and taking what is currently today just an entirely paved area and creating some landscape areas which are ident

it lists nearly one dozen charities you can choose to donate part or all of your illinois refunds. she enlisted support from sheila quirk a local blocker who writes about her daughter's cancer. it's a story that she feels compelled to share her daughter fought a rear and elusive brain tumor until she passed away at age 4. we are focused >> i was able to go to my local illinois state representative and i went and i presented her with the facts so she agreed to sponsor the bill than next task is to climb the state capital. they're hoping that others will seize the moment and donate to the illinois childhood cancer research fund. this is an opportunity for average illinois taxpayers to make a difference, to really make a difference. they must raise $100,000 each year or they are removed from the list temperatures could get close to 50 this weekend. new season and new hope we will take you inside the beginning of the 28th annual cubs convention going on right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] with its rich, silky smooth taste there's magic in every piece of dove® dark chocolat

i know there is a majority within illinois across illinois, the chicago mayor rahm emanuel says there is a groundswell of support and he is leading the push to ban assault weapons and high- capacity magazines with mandatory background checks at gun shows or wherever guns are sold and he is confident that these new efforts can withstand the sort of legal challenges that stymie his predecessor former mayor richard m. daley. i can do certain things in this city we're going to take those steps. this is what we are talking about the weapon was a 9 mm with an extended magazine. across town at a meeting with u.s. senator dick durbin, he shows what gang units confiscated in the 25th district a military use tank gun capable of penetrating an engine block. everybody who owns a firearm should be subject to a background check into this will close the gun show loophole which a lot of people don't understand senator as you well know. straw purchases are a deadly problem he tells senator durban in the group of regional police chiefs, durbin says he wants to hear what the experts have to say before t

finally, justice, looks like we might have gay marriage in illinois. we're going to bring you the person that is making that happen. >> we all know people who are truly loving people and their sexual persuasions, but here's what's at issue is changing the nature of marriage. if it's just a civil right the state can change it. this is a natural right. >> cenk: that's the guy, of course trying to prevent it, but he's about to lose. go time. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> cenk: it's the "young turks." ana kasparian later in the show we'll have the rest of the crew. everybody's here. now, amazing story for you guys. michael hastings has a new book coming out "panic 2012" the story of obama's final campaign. it goes through lot in the book but one of the interesting parts is his confrontation with rahm emanuel. he had been listening to a speech that rahm emanuel gave and ramm said this is off the record, this is off the record, as you're about to see. then they had a significant confrontation. that let's watch the first part of this, a recording that has not been air

illinois, as i think, do have a little screen. they don't want too many outrageous things to go too much but we simply have such a good population mix. i always think of dupage county as the best example. everyone knows dupage is an extremely wealthy, prosperous, booming place of catholics and conservative protestants and every weekend, 40 or 50 non-judea christian worshipping groups are there. one of the most vitals are alaskan communities as in the suburbs of hillsdale, illinois. you go up the street from wilkins college, which is the flagship of the evangelican schools and a little bit north, you get theophosy and a little bit further there's an insurance shinshu temple.

so this is the concept for the bay view gateway and again it's location is between third street and illinois street and car go way the concept includes removing a dilapidated whof along the shore line's edge and taking what is currently today just an entirely paved area and creating some landscape areas which are identified in green with the trees creating a pathway that takes takes pedestrians andbicycle chlics in 34 story and context he he them with car go way which, is a natural direction that people would want to go and create a plaza along the water front, with interpretation throughout the site regarding the site's history and cargo and integrate through the plaza along the water front and along that railings and along creating a plaza calls the green way transition plaza because it's a place people will be traveling down the illinois street and heading towards car go lines and also enjoy the public art on the pier 92 grain silo and is there is a rail track that goes through the middle of the site that runs east and west and so we are consolid dating or down where people can work with

-- from illinois seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady from yim is recognized for one minute -- from illinois is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the southern illinois coal industry which had a record year last year, the best in decades. southern illinois is blessed with abundant natural resources like coal that provide good jobs and support our middle class. i'm proud to say that illinois is a leader in coal production and outpaced every other state in 2012. bucking national trends, illinois mines produced more than 40 million tons of coal in 2012. the most since 1995. this is in large part due to southern illinois mines and a talented and dedicated work force. folks in my district are worried about jobs. they want to have faith in the southern illinois way of life. mr. enyart: our coal industry in southern illinois has potential and judging by the record-setting production last year, we're well on our way to power good jobs and address energy needs. i look forward to

illinois trying to make a two straight over top-10 team. the first half later scoring brandon paul it was fun for a while but in the second half hollands from midcourt illinois made a run at him. too much for rodney williams. 63-49 in champagne. this is the second time in 40 years there has been a shutout the other superstars roger clemens got barely half of the votes they needed to get into cooperstown he had 762 career homers and he had one of the best right-handers in baseball history apparently he will be waiting for at least a few summers more. he was close to getting in but was still short of the number we put that question to the cubs beat writer paul sullivan of the tribune. there should probably be a wing devoted to this error to explain to kids and future generations what happened, that is the question there are a lot of people in the hall of fame right now that we know are cheaters not good people, morally and ethically it will the debate for ever. brien kellie reportedly for the fee philadelphia eagles' job they were talking to

gutierrez from illinois. i worked with senator kennedy when we were looking at a bicameral package as well. so, yes, we've got to have a bicameral, bipartisan package that moves through. as long as it includes meaningful border security, that's what we really need in arizona, then we've got to do all of it and obviously it will be a compromise bill, but it needs to happen. host: all right, first phone call here comes from thomas in blackville, south carolina. democratic caller. caller: good morning. i just want to say that i'm an avid c-span watcher and i want -- [inaudible] you were thought of yesterday by some right-wing nut -- i forget where it was. but you come close to getting it right straight down the middle as anybody in anyplace that i know of. and it is an honor to speak to senator-elect flake and from arizona. a great state. love it. love this whole country. but i am disturbed about some of the things that i see. i'm for filibuster reform and it's not a 00-year-old thing as the senator said. i'm a

it will hit illinois and is especially hard. >> is a double whammy. they're getting another tax hike, the 2 percent payroll tax. for a median house and come they might be saving 5000-ton thousand dollars a year. this is $2,100 less. while everybody is happy that the worst was avoided many are disgusted at how the entire ordeal turned up. the little guy is the ones suffering. >> i think it was really irresponsible by our government. both parties led us down. the issue of spending cuts still needs to be addressed within the next two months. they hope that goes a bit more smoothly. president obama asked lawmakers to do so with a little less trauma. no word yet on when a new law will be signed. he has left to return to his vacation in hawaii. victims of superstorm sandy will have to wait for the next session of congress to see if they'll get billions of dollars in federal aid. the house adjourned without voting on the 60-billion dollar relief legislation. the senate had already passed the bill. but with new members of congress being sworn in this month, t

the officer was taken to advocate illinois medical center in serious-critical condition. today the couple's daughter rai died from severe burns she suffered neighbors told police they heard the couple arguing before the flames broke out police say that he set the fire but his mother insists that his girlfriend is to blame. the couple's nine year-old son was critically injured in the fire more than one century-old institution closed its doors today on the far north suburbs after 128120 years they shut its doors today despite last minute efforts to save its. members are being referred by other ymca organizations. one of the city's most well-known companies will start the new year on battlebetter financial footing. the government approves medication to treat a deadly disease and the top stories of 2012 a look at the year that was in chicago. a hotly contested presidential race and prison terms those are just a few of the stories. 2012 full of headlines but it's also the year that saw its finale. the blagojevich story took years to wrap up so did the peterson story. drew pete