- Video: Another Friday with Thurber
Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reads “The Peacelike Mongoose” by James Thurber. (Countdown)
- Video: Will the GOP slash the domestic budget?
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein explains how the proposed GOP budget cuts will adversely affect the economy. (Countdown)
- Video: Poll suggest Americans want health care reform
Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reports on top political headlines, including a new poll, in which only 20 percent of Americans want the Affordable Healthcare Act completely repealed. (Countdown)
- Video: Keith Olbermann signs off
Keith Olbermann announces that Friday's Countdown with Keith Olbermann will be the last. (Countdown)
- Video: Giffords leaves hospital, enters rehab
Neurosurgeon Jonathan Slotkin talks about the road to recovery for Rep. Gabby Giffords. (Countdown)
- Video: Cellists remember Michael Jackson
Watch as a pair of Croatian cellists use their talents to cover the song, “Smooth Criminal.” (Countdown)
- Video: What will Obama say in the SOTU?
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter discusses whether President Barack Obama will use part of his State of the Union address to advocate cuts in Social Security. (Countdown)
- Video: GOP in disagreement over the economy
TPM.com’s Josh Marshall’s talks about the infighting between the House GOP leadership and the Tea Party infused House Republicans over the country’s budget. (Countdown)
- Video: Lack of learning in college?
Comedian Frank Conniff shares his thoughts on a new study, which suggests that as freshmen and sophomores, 45 percent of college students make no significant improvement in reasoning or writing. (Countdown)
- Video: The end of the line for Joe Lieberman
Slate’s Dave Weigel talks about the retirement of the self-described “moderate Democrat” from the Senate. (Countdown)
- Video: GOP tries to spin repeal
Wendell Potter of the Center for Public Integrity talks with Keith Olbermann about the falsehoods Congressional Republicans are using to try to justify their effort to repeal health reform. (Countdown)
- Video: Lieberman expected to retire
On Wednesday, Sen. Joe Liebermann will speak about his political future at the Stamford Marriott. Countdown’s Keith Olbermann reports. (Countdown)
- Video: Flight attendant receives proposal mid-flight
At 30,000 feet above Portugal, flight attendant Vera Silva’s boyfriend asked for her hand in marriage on a loudspeaker. She happily accepted. (Countdown)
- Video: GOP begins attack on health care
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein discusses the GOP’s claims that the health care reform bill is a “job-killer.” (Countdown)
- Video: Democrats go on the offensive
Msnbc political analyst Richard Wolffe explains how Democrats will stall the GOP’s efforts to repeal health care reform. (Countdown)
- Video: Comment: What are we learning after Tucson?
Nine days ago, Keith Olbermann asked every politician and commentator to renounce violent rhetoric and apologize for any use of it. Sen. John McCain aside, Keith Olbermann thinks everybody else just got louder. (Countdown)
- Video: Debating mental health and involuntary commitment
Those who crossed paths with Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner say warning signs were accumulating. But were they enough to forcibly remove him from society, against his will? Dr. H. Clark Romans, the Executive Director of the Southern Arizona chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, joins Countdown (Countdown)
- Video: Splash! Dangers of texting while walking
A woman was too engrossed by texting while walking — and falls into a rather large fountain. (Countdown)
- Video: Poll: 13 percent of Tea Party thinks violence vs. government justified
David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, discusses politicians’ recent statements about violence and its relationship with political rhetoric. (Countdown)
- Video: GOP strategy? Waiting for Obama to propose spending cuts
Are Republicans trying a strategy to have the president propose spending cuts to avoid political fall-out from their constituents? Washington Editor of The Nation Chris Hayes joins Countdown. (Countdown)
- Video: Dean: GOP 'playing to base' on health care repeal
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean talks to Keith Olbermann about the week ahead in Congress: the likelihood of a health care repeal, what Republicans stand to gain by taking up the vote, and whether or not they are serious about reducing spending. (Countdown)
- Video: Back to work for Congress
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein shares his thoughts on Congress’ upcoming agenda, including the GOP groundwork for a health care repeal. (Countdown)
- Video: GOP takes credit for improving economy
Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., credited the GOP winning back the House as the cause for the economy’s “positive numbers.” (Countdown)
- Video: Clerk defends himself with sword
During a robbery in South Carolina, a clerk used a Samurai sword he kept behind the counter to chase the burglar out of the store and club him repeatedly. (Countdown)
- Video: Giffords lived in fear
In an interview, Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabby Giffords, revealed his wife’s fears about violence at one of her public events. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., talks about moving past that fear. (Countdown)
- Video: The politics of repeal
Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., comments on the House Republicans' decision to repeal health care reform even though the Senate refuses. (Countdown)
- Video: Poll: 77 percent happy with lame duck Congress
Although the lame duck session of Congress was supposed to be a terrible thing for the country, a new poll suggests most people thought it was very successful. The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne reports. (Countdown)
- Video: Home in crisis
Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute comments on the report that U.S. banks foreclosed on more than one million homes in 2010 and explains why that number will increase this year. (Countdown)
- Video: Public weighs in on Tucson shootings
According to a new Opinion Research/CNN poll, about half of Americans believe violent political rhetoric played a role leading up to the shootings in Tucson and over half think if that kind of talk isn’t stopped more violence may ensure. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum shares his thoughts. (Countdown)
- Video: Will gun-control bills be stalled?
Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign talks about calling on the White House for more support in a stricter gun campaign. (Countdown)
- Video: Facebook users suffer online privacy disaster
A recent Facebook flip-flop is pulling back the curtain on data miners who make mobile apps, such as the massively popular video game Angry Birds. David Carnoy of CNet.com discusses. (Countdown)
- Video: Did Obama steal a GOP talking point?
Arianna Huffington comments on an aspect of President Barack Obama’s plan to create more jobs – deregulation. (Countdown)
- Video: Alabama governor playing favorites
Comedian Maysoon Zayid comments on Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s remarks that non-Christian people are “not his brothers and sisters.” (Countdown)
- Video: Did Ohio elected a racially-minded governor?
Not only did Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, select an all-white Cabinet, the first in half a century, he also signed a resolution to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on St. Patrick’s Day. (Countdown)
- Video: Reforming the filibuster
The Nation’s Chris Hayes discusses how the Democrats plan to fix the filibuster. (Countdown)
- Video: Paul the Octopus, immortalized
The aquarium where Paul the Octopus rose to fame has unveiled a commemorative statue in his honor, made of plastic and containing a golden urn with his ashes. (Countdown)
- Video: Right-wing blogs demand Giffords’ resignation
The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson explains whether Congress should give Rep. Gabby Giffords’ more time to recover before forcing her to make a decision on her political future. (Countdown)
- Video: Repeal leaves bleak outlook on health care
Msnbc political analyst Howard Fineman talks about the Republicans’ lack of a plan to help those with pre-existing conditions if health care reform is repealed. (Countdown)
- Video: More death panels in Arizona
Gov. Jan Brewer, R-Ariz., proposed cutting Medicaid to 280,000 Arizonians and mental health aid to 5,000 more, to insure those who need transplants starting July 1, 2011. State Sen. David Schapira, D-Ariz., shares his opinion of the proposal. (Countdown)
- Video: Palin chooses to be ‘Hannitized’
Countdown guest host Chris Hayes talks about Sarah Palin’s choice of the Sean Hannity Show to mark her first television appearance since the shootings in Arizona. (Countdown)
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