December 2013 archive

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

Up with Steve Kornacki: Steve’s guests list for this Aunday was not published.

This Week with George Stephanopolis: On Sunday’s “This Week” the guests are: former Obama national security adviser Tom Donilon; and  U2 lead singer Bono.

Guests at the political roundtable are:  Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK); Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN); Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan;, and former Obama White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, now an ABC News and Bloomberg News contributor.

A special panel tackles the impact of concussions on the game of football. For that debate the guests are ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser; USA Today columnist and ABC News consultant Christine Brennan; ESPN investigative reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada; former Buffalo Bills offensive lineman and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Joe DeLamielleure.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ): Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN); Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker; William Kristol of The Weekly Standard; and former White House Chief of Staff under President Obama, Bill Daley.  

On a special holiday panel on Thanksgiving books and authors show. the author guests are: Doris Kearns Goodwin; A. Scott Bergand and Peter Baker.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: Te guests this Sunday on MTP are: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; former Healthcare Adviser to President Obama Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel; Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Ranking Member of the Budget Committee Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).

At the roundtable are New York Times Columnist David Brooks; Democratic Mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell; and Political Director & Chief White House Correspondent for NBC, Chuck Todd.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are  Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum; Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Mike Rogers.

Joing her on a discuaaion panel are: CNN Contributors Kevin Madden and Donna Brazile plus Corey Dade of TheRoot.com.

Despite changes to one-child policy, Chinese parents say having two kids is too expensive

 

By Le Li, NBC News Producer

BEIJING – Despite China announcing changes to its strict one-child policy, many young parents say they will not choose to have a second child due to the high cost of living in modern-day China.

“Giving birth to a second child is not difficult, but we do not have the energy anymore,” said Wang Tao, a 35-year-old native of Beijing, who is married and has a 5-year-old daughter.

“We lack a safe social net to support a family with two children,” Wang added. “China doesn’t provide a pension or free education,” he said while ticking off a list of things that make having a larger family a financial burden.

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for November 26, 2013

1. The only useful review of the Hunger Games;

2. a road you don’t want to be on;

3. and a sinister snowman scares everyone.