i know this stuff and i love it and i try to bring that to the show. >> hot mic, hot mic hot mic.

♪ the kind you can find in a secondhand store raspberry beret, i love her ♪ >> it's "the stephanie miller show," welcome to it, 23 minutes after the hour. we were saying the only thing that is disconcerting for us in this television show it's 100% less swearing than normal. >> got to watch ourselves. >> the conversation during that last break is we're up on current in 30 seconds, jim was like i better watch my [beep] language. playing russian roulette.

>> they appreciate that in the control room. >> karl frisch, we're like a friars' roast meeting a loading dock. >> i want to be clear, we're still on current? >> as far as we know. how would we know if we weren't? i don't know, that could be a fake camera at this point, i don't know. >> al gore, well, if you're a hologram. presses layia. >> vice president on the lido deck, vice president on the lido deck. >> we continue right wing world. a caller on the dana show. >> american people want a race war? >> i think some progressives, well, the panther party that you heard sounds kind of like they do but i hopefully and brian and i appreciate your call, i think they -- progressive need it as a tool, they need it as a distraction. these are the people that scream loudest about injustices to

minority communities, these people pass policies that are the greatest offense to minority communities. >> such as? name one. >> we don't need this as a tool stephanie we've got dana losch is eye tool. >> i can confess this, for our first week on tv, we said, hey guys, you want to start a race war. >> let's choose the new black panther party. >> the old black panther party said this is good. >> dick morris is old friends on fox. >> what could happen to the healthcare deal, what would his second term look like should he have another four years? >> i'm glad this is a morning show. if it were a late-night show my answer would give everybody nightmares. the whole legacy of the bush 43 and the administration, which is

to put us on the route to energy independence will be derailed. >> idiot. >> he had his tongue in the saudi prince's ear and holding his hand, that kind of energy. >> speaking of tongues dick morris talking about giving us nightmares in late-night television, all it makes me do is think about, you know, what he likes to do with prostitutes. >> oh, now. >> sucking their toes. >> toe-sucking. >> i was going to say toe-sucking. >> i think we know what it is. >> yeah, it's called athlete's foot. >> last time i was on tv i had a foot fetish fan club. just for dick morris i ought to slip my ugg off. >> he can give stephanie miller my money through dickmorris.com. >> check out this hammertoe, dick. >> don't want to give people nightmares. >> we finish with rush limbaugh.

>> this legislation is going to fundamentally foundationally destroy this country if it gets implemented and that ought to be the focus of the debate here. i've never, by the way believed 42 million uninsured, 50 million uninsured, emergency room, they make these arguments, all these people in insurance incumbent in the argument is they don't get health treatment. b.s., everybody gets medical treatment, what, even the illegals get it when they show up. to the e.r. >> oh. >> c'mon, is he being deliberately obtuse? i mean -- >> chicken egg is he deliberately obtuse or obtuse. we go to the emergency room, and we end up paying more for it way more than we had medical care. >> that's proving my point. i heard him say that live.

everybody who needs medical care can get it. that's the point. then we all have to pay for it. >> he unveiled the truth, most of obama care has not been implemented yet but if you listen to the media, the rest of the right wing media they keep saying the economy is on the ropes because of obama care. if that were true then you're basically saying obama care is fully implemented it's not absolutely and going to save us money. rush limbaugh doesn't want it because he doesn't care about little people. >> individual mandate say republican idea. >> i think i heard him say that once about i just paid cash for my healthcare, why can't -- it's like you make -- >> you make a wheelbarrow full of thousands. >> $30 million a year. >> in fairness, rush might as well just say doesn't everybody have a housekeeper to get their illegal pharmaceuticals? >> i had mine removed paid

cash. >> i had 15 million doctors willing to write my prescriptions, why can't people find one. >> we're losers. karl frisch, you were delightful,y nervous for your big television debut? >> very nervous. i put make-up on and everything because james o'keefe came to my door this morning and said they were there to put cameras in my bathroom for current and i said hang on a second. >> he answered coordinate with curlers. >> congratulations stephanie well deserved. >> thank you, honey, thanks for the tweeting, all right, and don't forget to do more man scaping for next week. >> appreciate it. >> you, too, honey. there he goes. [applause] >> what's that? you know we say where there's smoke there's kathleen madigan. i see smoke she's comedienne extraordinaire as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." shall we?

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>>politically direct means no bs, cutting through the clutter. >>bill press and stephanie miller, current's new morning news block. weekdays six to noon. 1(800)steph-12 is the phone number. who's the pretty girl in the window there? she's kathleen madigan live in studio. >> this is where i could come in my pajamas with my cigarettes and hide from the world. wow, there's the world. i have to put in contacts and try to look under the age of 70. it's exhausting.

david called earlier and left messages for rebecca saying just i don't understand what's -- is this real tv, just put your hat on, if she has her hat on it's not that serious. it's a hybrid serious. >> kathleen, you know i have reached the honey badger phase of my career. i'm not getting up earlier i'm not not bearing my basketball cap, i go to spin class after the show. >> i tried to find the channel on my tv. i'll just look at them. i'm flipping there and i'm like they're not there yet. >> everybody asks are you changing the show? no, not at all. if anything it's less serious. we just had al gore on, you know who owns the network. you have to do your bit you did a few weeks ago you don't care about global warming because your circulation is so bad.

>> i forgot what i said, you say it. >> you frequently wear a parka in here because you smoke. >> i didn't wear the parka because i thought you'd make fun of me. i was going to grab it and i was late. >> i'm freezing and i don't have children. you know what, the warm weather, it is like getting super weird. i was in grand rapids, michigan, two weekends ago. there should be two feet of snow. this lady comes up and said there's like tornados in kalamazoo and if they make it up this far you're going to have to stay on stage there's tornados, you'll hear the sirens, and the evacuation plan. i said ma'am, this is a benefit i'm not making money if i hear tornado sirens i'm leaving, i don't care, they can run downtown, in the basement, they can do whatever, i'm not the marshal. >> that's when we started our

comedy when you're emceeing could you announce that your pinto is double parked. you love lovely, beautiful. >> can i it happened to ted kennedy. i went out to, i don't know some community college in l.a. like way out the 10 and he was giving a speech and i never saw ted kennedy give a speech and i wanted to see it, he's at this college doing a speech, it's outside and this lady walks up in the middle of his speech and hands him a piece of paper and he's like, oh, ok, yeah, i can do that, sure, sure, sure, and he goes hold on a second. so the lunch specials -- >> no! >> yes. and he reads -- and he's laughing. roast beef on tuesday, a man like me an irish president wouldn't turn down a good roast beef sandwich. >> as long as he has no roast beef on friday. >> love the accent. >> there was this mexican lady

i'm sure she thought, i don't know, just give it to the fat white guy. he's at the microphone. i need my lunch specials to get out there. i don't care who you are. and he actually did it. >> i would have eaten more of the crappy food at my catholic school if ted kennedy did the announcements. >> right in the middle of healthcare and i think that if senators have healthcare and excuse me, excuse me, oh, spaghetti on friday. >> wow! you're putting me on. >> i wonder if mitt romney handed him that when working on healthcare in mast. >> kathleen, are you following the trayvon martin case. this is breaking news, the surveillance video, he said trayvon attacked him and his nose was bleeding, the surveillance cameras shows nothing, nothing on the back of

his head. >> speaking from experience, if you have a head wound it bleeds like crazy, if he had a broken nose his shirt would be covered with blood. >> do you have a head wound story? >> it was something dumb in high school, i needed four stitches in the top of my scalp. >> what were you doing? >> it was so dumb. we were bored during rehearsal and we were leapfrogging over chairs. >> theater rehearsal? >> yeah. and somehow i failed to notice that one of the chairs was in a doorway, i was so focused on what i was jumping on and i hit my head, the door jamb. >> theater injury. >> and this is why straight guys in theater don't go together. because you were doing your particular macho straight guy stuff. let's see how many chairs we can jump over. ow! should have been blood all over. right?

>> yes. >> yeah. >> and he had a light colored shirt on. he would have had blood stains on it. >> yeah, exactly. and, obviously, it starts with this stand your ground law which is so ridiculous. mike in raleigh has graced us with -- ok. ♪, well it stands my ground ♪ ♪ in this one-horse town ♪ ♪ i keep waiting or a fight and my here row's barney fife ♪ ♪ and i stand my ground ♪ ♪, well, i know what's right, haven't got a fight ♪ ♪ you can call me a but i've got a gun and i stand my ground ♪ ♪ in this one-horse town ♪

>> oy. thank you! there are so many parts of the story. there's obviously the racial aspect, this doofus vigilante aspect, the stupid gun law. >> i say let's start with neighborhood watch captains, always the weirdos because they always want to be cops, bt dog killer, he was a dog catcher. the neighborhood watch neighborhood watch means you're supposed to watch, not shoot. >> observe and report. that's right. >> you shouldn't have to have guns like my parents have old neighborhood watch people. there are these two old people riding around in a golf cart and yell at people. if they had a gun they would have shot my parents. your wave runner trailer is not supposed to be parked there, these people have no problem shooting people. missouri -- i don't understand people run around with a gun. everywhere you walk around,

please leave your gun in the car. why does everybody have a firearm. >> kathleen madigan's parents were sadly shot earlier today in a wave runner incident. >> wave runner trailer. >> wave runner trailer incident which was clearly parked too far out on the sidewalk. >> and it wasn't even there but the old people can't tell property lines anymore. the neighborhood watch captains in my parents' neighborhood are 100 and my parents are in their 70s. >> i served in the peloponesian war. >> ww1. >> the madigan property. if you're worried about my wave runner, what about that duck sunday that runs wild every day. really, the dachshund? but what about the beagle. there's no leash laws but everybody's got a problem with the trailer.

there's something wrong with a guy in our neighborhood. he's overzealous about nothing. i can't understand why nobody's reporting. maybe it's something that isn't true which happens a lot in a day to me. there was a big thing he called the cops 150 times in the years and it was usually involving a black guy, oddly enough it was always a suspicious black guy. i didn't see that story mentioned. i don't know the exact number, i think it was 49 or something. >> 49 or 50. >> a lot. and people are suspicious. >> the operator knew him hiss name, like hi, george. >> apparent i there there are a lot of f'ing goons around. >> the 911 operators the should never know your name by how many times you've called. >> he wanted to chat. >> the taco bell drive-through lady knows my own. it's a friendly h1n1 we don't tell a lot of people about. >> do you order extra pink slime? >> let's go to rené in

california. you're on with kathleen. hey, rené. >> hi, good morning. >> good morning. >> i just wanted -- good morning to you. to make a couple points. and it didn't come up until after a subsequent interview with lawrence o'donnell and the gentleman from the "new york times" but the so-called convenient black friend joe oliver. when i first saw him i kept thinking why do i know his face, do i know him personally? then i googled his name and realized i lived in the barrio at one point in my life he used to be the anchor for the local cbs affiliate and he was a cnn reporter or anchor at one point. and there needs to be an investigative strain with this whole process of people who know good legwork to find out, you know, follow the money who is he -- >> seems convenient, oh, he has a black friend that can vouch for him. his character. >> and the conjecture that he

made goon versus coon, a term of endearment in louisiana. i've got family in louisiana i've never heard people use that pejorative word. >> they call him the n word, no, you're disqualified, sorry. >> again in relation to your talking about the video of him of zimmerman after the so-called arrest, detainment, whatever you want to call it. my spouse is in law enforcement. that is shoddy, how he was allowed to get out of the car by himself, there was an issue of officer safety laxity, they turned their backs on them. >> everyone who owns a tv is doing better investigative work there's something wrong. >> even conservatives are saying that's shoddy policeman work. >> they're always tough on law and order folks. you know what, she's definitely write rite, you've been saying.

by the way, we're on al gore's network inconvenient truth fabulous documentary, he needs to do a convenient black friend. >> he admitted he hadn't talked to to him in a month but -- >> best friends. >> he never stops crying. where -- huh? get your story straight before you're on tv. >> exactly. 45 minutes after the hour. kathleen madigan is here in make-up. >> yay. >> whee! as we continue on "the stephanie miller show" is on the new news network. >>welcome to the war room. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two-term governor. >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all,

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>>just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. ♪ ♪ dancing and swinging and

moving to the greenin' and when it hit me somebody turned around and said play that funky music. ♪ ♪ till you die ♪ >> it is "the stephanie miller show," welcome to it. 51 minutes to the hour, everybody is so excited kathleen madigan is here. kathleen madigan. hi. >> hi, stephanie. this is so cool. i'm talking to you on the phone and watching you on tv. >> hi. >> coolest thing ever. >> hello. >> hi. >> hi. >> yeah, we're all excited. we're like people who have never or a fight and my he ow's barnendfife ♪ ♪ and i stand my ground ♪ ♪, s,ll, i know whs,'s right @ haven't got a fight ♪ ♪ you crd call me a but i've got y gun and i stand my ground ♪ ♪ in this one-horse town ♪

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so that goes without saying. number two -- >> let me say my 89-year-old republican mom she would throw me under the bus in a moment. >> my mother used to say i'll call 911, i'll call you then call 911. >> nice. bill cosby, i brought you into this world, i can take you out. we -- we were mentioned this the sanford police department at the conclusion of the trayvon martin investigation recommended the prosecutor file charges against george zimmerman. state attorney failed to act on the information on charges. it directly contradicts statements by police chief lee who temporarily stepped down what's that about? he claimed there was not not enough evidence to charge zimmerman. the story is falling apart every day. >> since some people are offended i'll temporarily step down until this all blows over. >> even jeb bush they say what about this law, he's the one who

signed it the way it exists, that law, you can walk around the gun. he said it's not supposed to work like that. well what? what is it supposed to work like? >> the legislators, this is probably going to lead to racially motivated killings and vigilante -- and -- >> maybe not even. let's just say i particularly hate you. there's nothing racial, all i've got to do is get you alone somewhere where you think it's not going to happen and i shoot you. >> it's just one white comedienne. >> she stole one might have jokes. i had to kill her. >> on the tour, bang. >> i'll playing the wilbur theater in june in boston, you're playing the wilbur theater. >> when are you playing the wilbur theater. >> i had to look. that's how old i am i bought a plane ticket there yesterday. i bought a ticket, i'm going

early for the clam chowder i'm staying an extra day. the 20th. april 20th at the wilbur theater. >> all right, now i'm going to have to kill you. now you went ahead and -- >> seriously, as long as i can get you alone apparently anywhere in florida. >> you never will now that you said that. >> now you'll be thinking about it so i'll have to go for a different white comedian. >> it's a long list, trust me, i would have no problem taking out. it's a matter of getting them alone, dark out, dusky out morning. >> want to name names? >> no, i don't but -- sleep with one eye open. >> she's nice to the animals, we can't take her out, not elaine. there's other people. >> somewhere she's going -- we'll be right back on the

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>> stephanie miller. >> i don't like her. >> it is "the stephanie miller show." i'm here, what? >> what, what? >> nothing, 1(800)steph-12 toll-free from everyone, kathleen madigan comedian extraordinaire is with us. 1(800)steph-12 is the number toll-free from anywhere. we were talking about the

trayvon martin case. it's amazing he hasn't been arrested. the news came out, police surface tape shows his story is falling apart. no visible injuries, no grass stains on his back. >> at least for the sake of calming things down i would think -- i'm always suspect of any authority. >> wow. >> you are the foremost feel impersonator. >> for a year my brother and i talked to each other like that. to the point it got down to noises. hmm, huh-uh. >> michael and i had weird voices that we did as kids. >> they would even fake something. go get him and say we're bringing him in for questioning today.

at least to give the appearance of -- they're not even giving the appearance of, hey, sorry, man, that's the rule. that's what happened. >> take away his gun for a little while? >> yeah, for a second. yeah, and it came -- >> where there's one there's more. trust me, george has got a whole arsenal somewhere. gun enthusiasts don't just have one gun. no. >> it's like potato chips. >> he has 17 backups just in case. >> and that includes my mother. >> really? >> my mother -- well, she's thinking rape, i'm thinking 72 probably not happening. but, you know what, you can never be too safe. you can live in the middle of nowhere by a lake. it can happen. mom, nothing is going to happen. in cold blood, that's all she ever brings up. mom, that wasn't random. they thought they had money. nobody thinks jack and vicki has money.

you've a wave runner trailer that's causing a lot of problems. >> with the homeowners association. >> it's not even something somebody would want to steal. it's a trailer. in cold blood, it was random. they were in their pajamas they did nothing wrong. i said ok. >> all because of truman capote. >> yeah, thanks, truman. >> so we found a bunch of stuff already, this guy in charge of the sanford police, they didn't test him for drugs or alcohol they amended the report to bolster his defense of self-defense. he clearly has no injuries. so, love this, did you see the congressman on the house floor wearing a hoodie for trayvon. the horrible thing is not laws that unarmed teenagers get blown away. it's a hoodie on the house floor that's out of order. >> this is another thing i don't understand about the police. the police know there's a tape.

so why would you come out and say, oh, he was -- when you already ratted yourself out. you're going to end up -- you have to -- because there's the tape. they thought the tape wouldn't get out. >> bobby rush, democrat of illinois wore the hoodie to speak out against the murder of trayvon martin. he was shotted down and called for violating the rules of wearing hats. >> a hoodie is not a hat, is it? >> no, it's not a hat. >> it's a loud. i thought he looked super and he did look cute. >> you're not allowed to duel on the house floor either. ♪ thanks for asking, all things considered i could be better, i must say, i'm feeling super ♪ ♪ everything is super when you're don't you think i look cute in this hat ♪ >> he spoke about the murder, racial profiling, he revealed a

gray hoodie. saying just because he wears a hoodie does not make a hoodlum. and then he began reciting bible vers. can't talk about what jesus said. >> especially the bible verse about hoodies. >> this is a real bible. >> monks would be very expressive. >> i've seen plenty of pictures of jesus wearing a hoodie. >> exactly. >> sure. >> just saying. >> flip-flops everywhere. >> yeah. >> flip-flops everywhere for jesus, just saying. >> don in chicago you're on "the stephanie miller show" with kathleen. hi, don. >> good morning, congratulations on your new job. >> thank you. >> you know, i called in, just about every left wing show i could as a conservative saying i support justice for trayvon, i'm a gun owner and i have more than one gun. >> how many guns?

>> c'mon c'mon. >> firearms, probably four. and, by the way, i've never known one person that was on birth control that had one lover. just saying. >> i see so everyone on birth control is a slut. >> so married people on birth control? >> just having more than one gun doesn't mean you're a gun nut. i'm just saying. >> most people that take the pill are in a -- >> committed relationship. >> committed relationship because you see you can't take it when you want to have sex. >> that whole person, not one person a night. that's a joke, i'm a comedian. >> right wing comedy can be so elusive. all right. so you don't take -- never mind. >> i think there's a lot of men who don't understand that. i'm starting to realize how little -- >> and i'm a gay and i'm explaining it to them. 29 minutes after the hour, we'll

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>>driven to find the truth... >>what's really going on? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. >> stephanie miller. >> i find you pompous judgmental and completely self-abdomen scoreboard, would you be my friend. >> "the stephanie miller show," the 1(800)steph-12 our old friend senator byron dorgan joins us. how are you, senator. >> hi, stephanie it's been a long time. >> i know. my producer reminded me i think you invited me to capitol hill to talk about talk radio. >> that's right. >> that was brave of you. >> you took your show on the road, didn't you? >> exactly. i was -- but you have a new novel out called "blowout"

about, i love this, if we discovered a clean and renewable source of alternative energy how far would bill oil go to stop it? i'm guessing the answer is murder. >> it's the speculators, it's the countries who would discover that their life would be different if oil didn't have any value. this is a novel and it stretches from the badlands of north dakota to cuba to venezuela. it's a thriller. it's interesting and plus you can introduce some concepts into the public consciousness through fiction which i think this book does. >> yeah, it's called an eco thriller, but i love the way it's described. the united states is addicted to oil. bill oil has it in their interest to keep oil flowing and with no alternatives. what if we found a nearly inexhaustible source of energy, would big oil go to any lengths

to stop it? our friend rich overton has a thing about these people that have been as natured. >> i've got a car that runs on air. >> exactly. >> but, you know what, in many ways truth is stranger than fiction. we're working in our national laboratories on projects, for example, to produce liquid fuel out of thin air. >> wow. >> really breath-taking things. and i think we've been on this oil thing for about 100 years now and i think ultimately we're going to find this book has one of the ideas that the development of language for microbes under ground that chew through and leaves methane in their wake liquid fuel without the co2 left in the atmosphere. this book has an idea of how you might produce this and then what happens is people got to decide they've got to destroy the facility and destroy the people who are producing this and it's quite an interesting novel. >> well, you know, it's

interesting, i'm thinking of the movie "who killed the electric car," i guess what is -- it's sort of sad in a way about the theme of your book is what you're asking, the question is how far will big oil go and the problem is this has happened before, right, where we have technology and there's so much money in the oil industry that these things get squelched right? >> if you build a better mouse trap it's not a guarantee that somebody will beat a bath to your doorway. the fact is there are a lot of really good products that never make it to the marketplace because the incumbents are unbelievably strong and, for example, the drug industry, as you know, i mean, we've had major drug companies buy up generics in order to keep less expensive generic off the market. that goes on all the time. >> your book is fiction but you're saying there are real companies conducting these type of experiments, how close we are to making fossil fuel cleaner. as you know we're on al gore's

network as we speak. there are so many people that have done so much work on these issues. you're obviously out of politics because a lot of people these days are saying we've become ungovernable, gridlock, people in it for politics or money what do you think, any hope? >> i think it is. i'm out of politics not because i don't like politics, i did 30 years in congress and wanted to do other things. i'm doing a lot of work including a lot of work on energy now. i really think there's opportunities for a different kind of energy strategy going forward that will be successful for the country. i'm a big fan of renewable and clean energy. in fact, i do think the president's right, let's do it all. i call it totus porkus, class of nine, know nothing about latin i make up my own latin let's do everything and all well.

>> that's what kills me about the republican field. you've got to shake your head. they keep saying we've got to do all of the above, that's what the president has been doing hasn't he? >> what the republicans have been doing is blocking everything. that's their modus on per ran die. >> have you ever seen it as bad as it is now, particularly with this republican field right now particularly with the republican field in the primary. >> i have three, i can only remember two wasn't that governor -- [laughter] >> no, it's gotten much worse. i was elected to the u.s. house, i was hearing the speaker and the republican leader liked each other, fought like the dickens but would do what's best for the country in the end. that's no longer the case. it's too bad. by the way, i think the full flowering of the shame of what's going on in this country is now with -- and this is the first

time in this election, with citizens united which is almost the total corruption of the system. unlimited money from undisclosed sources for any purpose is just the complete corruption of the political system. >> yep. i've heard they're already gearing up against the president. they're obviously assuming this republican primary is a foregone conclusion here we go, probably the nastiest ever. >> the most expensive, the nastiest and the least information available to the people about who's behind all of this. what big casino operator or whatever they might be has put in 50 million or 100 million or a billion, who knows how much money it's worth for some of the biggest interests to have the person they want in the white house? >> yeah, and who knew we had so many crazy billionaires in this country? the book is "blowout." you're on a big book tour, senator dorgan so you have to go, i'm told. >> i'm fine, i don't remember what time is it? >> you've got to go.

your book is "blowout" and former senator byron dorgan, ails a pleasure. >> let's do it again. congratulations on the television, by the way. you're my favorite and i'm really really anxious to see the show. >> thanks, senator, appreciate it, talk to you soon. >> aw. >> that's so sweet. >> take that ed schultz. >> i'm just kidding. >> he's the first person from capitol hill who ever called up rebecca personally and said can i be on the show? >> she probably hung up. >> yeah, this is senator dorgan, and i'm the queen of england. >> well, you give me your cell phone and how about you, see if this is -- i'll call you back and see if this is really a number. give me your digits. i've got to go. >> let's go to eva in miami you're on "the stephanie miller show," hi, ivas. >> ivas. >> good ivas. >> i've been listening, this is

not the first time trying to make this call. >> rebecca's tough. >> well, i just wanted to call and make a few couple little points. i'm from miami and i feel for the trayvon martin thing but it's kind of like i've been living here all my life, i got to realize something. we live amongst people that still, i don't want to say it but they were descendants of slave owners and they still have the same mentality no matter what it is across the board. regarding healthcare. >> yes. >> i got hurt the other day stepping off the bus, broke my ankle. >> ooh. >> went -- yeah. yeah, went to the emergency room and i got x-rays, they put me in a split cast and the doctor said, well, we've got to send you to an orthopedic doctor because, you know, for whatever reason. >> right. >> i did have insurance, i guess -- i didn't have insurance so they couldn't follow through. so getting the different numbers to call from the hospital, the

references to go to different orthopedists. come to find out the cheapest one i could find here in miami lakes is $500. >> uh-huh. >> you know, and i don't have the money. and i didn't want to get rid of healthcare. and basically it's not that they don't like the democrats, they don't love obama, i really believe it's just the money. they want to get the profit, you know. >> having -- the whole fact that our system is for-profit is -- that's what i'm hoping, jim, i don't know what the chances are this gets throw out and we get single payor. ha ha. >> james carville said obama losing the supreme court case could be the best thing ever for democrats in the fall. >> god. because -- >> medicare for all. >> yeah. i broke my foot and i had to get a bone stimulator. >> hmm. what is that? >> i know it sounds dirty but it's not. >> it's like these electropads that stimulates bone growth. >> that's not what i thought it

was at all. >> at my age i can still stimulate bone growth. >> it could happen. >> really? >> i'm just trying to wake jim up. bone stimulator. hi, brandy, brandy in boston. >> liberal lynch mob, how you doing. >> yeah, bring it on. i have a comment on joe oliver. sending a shout out to mitt romney, that's the reason why i have healthcare in mast. so thank you mitt. >> thank you, mitt, thanks for the mandate. joe oliver kind of makes my skin crawl. i think he's the first racist in history to actually produce said black friend. and then, to be used as a pawn. like i saw a interview where he like got choked up. he was talking about he has an 18-year-old black son. but it's like you're defending this man who killed someone else's 17-year-old black son

what if that was your son laying in the streets? i don't think he would be so quick to defend his friend. if he's a real friend he's going to say you're a racist and you're wrong. >> every time the story -- there's something that smells bad. it's just -- let's go to, who is this, ken in florida on the trayvon case as well, hi, ken. >> it's jen from florida. >> yes, right. >> regarding the trayvon martin case, i think what's happen, because they work for cnn and possibly his father could have help. i wouldn't say help cover it up. but possibly helped him out a little bit. >> oh, i see. zimmerman's father. every day something new about his story unravels. you know. when we come back, heavens cnn president obama holds a double-digit lead over mitt romney, obama's approval rating

at 51% and let's see 48% favorable view of the democratic party, republican party dropped to 35%. 6-10 americans, that's almost 50%. >> almost. >> say they have an unfavorable view of republican party. >> 59.9999999999. >> more polling when we come back. not bone stimulating kind. >> different kind. >> no. >> stop it. >> what? 46 minutes after the hour. right back with kathleen madigan on "the stephanie miller show." that inspire them to develop these important skills. how can my car go faster? maybe your child will figure it out. find out more at connectamillionminds.com

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♪ there's something about you stephanie miller ♪ ♪ that makes me sweat ♪ >> it is "the stephanie miller show," welcome to it. 51 minutes after the hour. representative rosa delaura at the top of the hour. kathleen madigan comedienne extraordinaire. bill in michigan it's for you, kathleen. hi, bill. >> how you doing. >> good, go ahead. >> kathleen? >> yes? >> i've been waiting to have this chance for a long time. thank you for what you did on your u.s.o. tour to go over and take the time to entertain our troops, they'll never forget it. >> thank you. it's always nice when they said on twitter i'm coming to see your show, saw you in baghdad.

we only had to spend two weeks at a time there. when our soldier flipped out not long ago i was surprised it took this long. i flipped out day two. i didn't have any guns but i laid on the ground and fly flap jacket. it was jamming into my back. and i thought i don't know how these people do this. it's the hardest job. i will always support the military because i clearly cannot be in the military. so anyone else who's willing to do it i will do anything you ask me to do. i will do free shows, i will send you dvds, whatever it takes to keep you on board. because somebody's got to do it. >> do you stay in tents when you go on u.s.o. tours? >> yeah, tents and -- well and sometimes like in baghdad we did stay in one -- they put all of us because we were with mike mullins, he's fancy, we can't just be like, sometimes we were in tents but we were in bunk

beds in saddam's palace. >> oh. >> wow. >> they said, but it's not -- it's a palace but everything's gone. >> i'm picturing you kicking lewis black's bunk. >> they said that's the guys' room and here's the girls' room. and it was just me and kelly pickler and our room was freezing. she literal, kathleen, i'm freezing, do you think the guys would mind if we would come and sleep with them. i certainly don't think they'd mind if you went over there. let me shimmy out of my reading glasses and put on my sweatpants and i'll go down and ask them. so we went down, flap jacket over my negatively shay, it was

me, kellie pickler, and the zach brown band and kid rock. >> sounds like a setup for a great joke. >> i go this is like a dream when you took percocet after a weird dental procedure. weird, it was kid rock was there and chad bowman and lewis was in the big bed. >> wow. >> it was -- those troops were a lot of fun. >> cool. >> and nice to be able to go over there. >> good for you. all right, this is shocking news. romney far behind obama on a test of popularity. i'm shocked. half of all americans express i ever favorable views of mitt romney. abc news polling, "washington post," the deteriorating republican pressure of former mast governor significant obstacle as he shifts into a campaign against president obama. the overall pattern similar to his trajectory is people don't

like him. as he becomes better known negative impressions are eight percentage points just in the last week. let's see romney and obama 53% of americans favorable for mitt romney that slides to 40%. >> he should literally i'm not even kidding, he should go away until november. >> not the children either, i don't want tag or mittens or whatever their names are furniture, no, all of you and romney is allowed to talk, she's like a bull and seems like a nice lady. if you send her out and every time they go where's mitt, i don't know, but you know what i'm here to talk about today and start talking. he every time he opens his mouth it's another -- his idea of a hilarious joke, is there anything funny about wisconsin or -- even if she drives one

cadillac towing her other cadillac she seems more real. >> even though she's a billionaire and go ok are you ok ms. romney, seems like a nice lady. >> joe biden. >> our tax dollars go to create jobs over there. the romney plan creates jobs overseas. >> this is more significant. obama on a roll in three swing states. president obama leads romney and santorum in crucial swing states, florida, ohio, pennsylvania, a poll in florida obama is romney 49 over romney 49-42% over rick santorum 50-30% in ohio, obama 47-40 47-40 over rick santorum. pennsylvania in which rick santorum represented them 48-40% obama. romney better than rick santorum in pennsylvania. trailing obama by three points.

>> what are you doing, man? >> problem, kathleen they always say if the election were held today -- it never is right, as i've said if my aunt had a [beep] she'd be my uncle. i don't know if it's this significant that far out there's a trend the more people get to know mitt romney. >> and the more time he has to talk. he doesn't -- he should have -- he's like data from "star trek" * he has no normal human emotions. something that was very humorous, when my father was running for office he had to close one factory and move a different factory and then he got back to running that state and that was very uncomfortable. very uncomfortable. >> nothing humorous about that nothing funny. >> a lot of people were put out of work. isn't that humorous, i'm told by earth that's considered humorous. >> i'm going to employ humor now. >> yes. >> are you ready? someone has written me a joke. >> here is mitt. >> i don't think that what you see is america's destiny. i think this is more of a dd

tour. i will work very hard to make america the best place, once again, for entrepreneurs and innovators and small businesses. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. he's like max headroom, he's like -- he's a rumbot. >> i told my brother if i was one of those romney kids i'd do drugs just to get a reaction. >> look at him drinking a pepsi. >> check this out, i'm having apply third beer and you can't stop me, mittens. what? i just don't get -- she seems like she has normal oh, she can get it. yes, i know he was raised rich, there are a lot of rich people that can connect. there's a disconnect. i don't know, his kids should start saying funny stories about him or something. >> he's reduced to naming objects now. 58 minutes after the hour, we're back with more, kathleen madigan on "the stephanie miller show."

>> hello, current tv audience, you missed him eat tuna from a can like a little kitten. kathleen madigan is on the roof smoking now. >> she'll be there for a little while. >> yes. >> we have representative rosa delaura coming up. she did a panel on women's healthcare. one of the many things that are going to be affected adversely if the supreme court decision goes the other way, we're hoping it won't, she's quite the expert on the subject. we'll talk with her. obviously talking more trayvon martin and the 2012 race which

is really so -- momentum i think is what's really kind of -- we just did recent polling, and not so much. not so much. >> not the right height. >> according to mitt they're not the right height at all. they're -- yeah, not the right height is a treason, where was it michigan? >> michigan. >> we have a news update now with current anchor jacki schechner. >> hello, stephanie. hello, everyone. president obama speaking to lawmakers urging them to stop giving handouts, taxpayer money to oil and gas companies. he will point out that the oil companies are making record profit and that money would be better spent on clean energy and innovation. the senate is expected to vote on legislation later today. on the campaign front the associated press reporting that president obama's reelection campaign is outspending his republican competitors by a lot. records show that he spent

$135 million on operations through february. that's $3 million more than all of his gop competitors combined. the big expenses so far this year seem to be fund-raising and payroll and because they've got offices in every state they're also spending things on things like computer equipment and rent. mitt romney, in spite of all the gaffs seems to be doing on well on the enforcement. picked up support on mark arubio of florida. he's expected to get the endorsement of george h.w. bush. the rest of the republican field, rick santorum is in florida today, he's at the jelly belly company, he's channeling his inner reagan there and newt gingrich is having another rough one today. it looks like sheldon edlefsens, his big donor is giving $50 million to his super pac thinks glitch is at the end of the line -- gingrich is at the end of the line.

coming up stephanie miller we'll see you there.

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her pajamas, she's actually in clothes with make-up on. >> and scarves. she's a hot soccer mom. >> stephaniemiller.com. sexy liberal on facebook. we'll see you in albuquerque very knew tickets left, less than 20. sexy liberal albuquerque, new mexico, this saturday night. join us. >> you're going to take a left turn at albuquerque. >> i am. intern in albuquerque. >> apparently. one-way streets, i guess. >> by the way, blake writes five reasons -- i'm not going to do all of them, she's our new official stalker. awesome, love your baseball cap. thank you. and brussels sprouts diet. i love brussels sprouts too. my coworkers not so much. i'm determined to know what you have under your desk, do you have a dwarf under there? >> that's where the trash can is, blake. >> do you twist your head cord,

maybe be with. >> that's it. >> that's why it gets that way. >> ok. waiting for the moment when you guys do a closeup of jim, why do you hide him over in the corner. there you go, there's a closeup. >> hello, hello, hello. >> all right. and let's see, mary beth, the official pearl jam barn-loving mom in connecticut writes steph anyone who missed your wonder woman impression, you were adorable imaginary bullet cuffs under your backdrop, that theater degree has finally paid off. it does look a little like the -- yeah, it does. yeah, the backdrop. where's my golden lasso currents? >> you do a lot like lynda carter in her heyday. >> oh, erika in ohio, steph, i'd like to request sean connery

brambles bit. >> i wrote that three years ago so that might be -- >> it's something that sticks in the memory, sean connery. >> tracking my amshack through the brambles. >> that's all you need to know. >> and i was three years ago. >> you had to be there. >> a representative, let's go to gene in minneapolis meantime, hi, jean. >> congratulations on your show, good morning. >> thank you. >> i'm the original and official steph head in minneapolis. >> yay. all right, go ahead. i'm calling about the mandates. i think we should start making a list of republican mandates. you've got the transvaginal probe. republicans, with their voter suppression laws are requiring voter id which is a mandate. so i think we should start a list. >> there you go, exactly. thank you for that.

oh, the iron. >> rick santorum very much against mandates. >> yes. yes. man on mandates. sure. all right. yes. yes. all right, rosa delaura from the great state of -- good morning congresswoman, how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. >> obviously, we have all this going on at the supreme court which is a little troubling to a lot of us. you just led a panel on the benefits to women's healthcare in particular. i mean, there's so many things that are troubling if this -- either the mandate is removed orb the entire thing is struck down. give us your -- i mean what you said at the panel is before we acted having a child -- or having had a c-section or even being a victim of domestic violence were often treated as preexisting conditions by insurance companies and men and women paid exactly practice of gender rating. women's healthcare equal footing with that of her son spouse or brother if the supreme court wants to repeal this act and

take away these benefits. what is your take so far in watching the supreme court? >> first of all, i think it would be amazing and it would be an amazing overreach by this conservative court if they declared any of the bill unconstitutional. i don't have a crystal ball, i don't know what they're going to do but i think it will truly be overreaching. you laid out -- i -- put it in this context it's the most comprehensive and far-reaching healthcare legislation we've seen in 50 years or so and to just hone in on the efforts for women, it's transformational and, you know, this is one of the proudest votes i've ever cast in the house of representatives, this is why we come here, to make changes and to provide opportunity. that's what this bill does. and in terms of that opportunity for women it's extraordinary. now, you ticked off, you know, several of the pieces about, you

know, ending of gender rating and, you know, this preexisting condition which, you know, was taken to a maybe absurd in terms of having a c-section or even having a child absurd, you know, being regarded as a preexisting condition. the generating condition, not in my numbers. the national law center estimated that's cost women and their families about a billion dollars a year. soon -- it's -- this is a pretty extraordinary, soon all women will enjoy maternity coverage. >> yeah. >> one would have thought we would have had maternity coverage. >> really, my opinion is it's a war on women. and i think what's sad is this has become such a political football and recollection went on record so early on as saying really -- it's hard for me to believe no matter what side of the partisan divide you're on do

you really think it's a bad thing to help people with preexisting conditions or have kids stay on their parents' insurance until age 26. >> right now, you know, right now if your kid has asthma -- i was with a gentleman just a few days ago and we were just talking about this, and he has a child who has had leukemia. and it's only now that he's been able to get the opportunity for insurance. >> yep. >> asthma. autism. you name it. they said if your child had this illness, i'm sorry, we can't cover you. that is over. so it's extraordinary. but there's one -- the -- so far, because of there's the allowance of preventive care that deals with screenings, colonoscopy, mammograms, pap

smears, screenings, no longer do people have to copay. seniors don't have to copay for those. so to date, we've seen 54 million americans who have had at least one preventive screening and that is about 21 million women and that is before we do anything in august about additional preventive health benefits for women. so for this court to overturn and to -- >> representative, you said something in the beginning of this i thought was interesting that i thought echoed what ruth bader ginsburg said yesterday and she's, of course, supposed to be a liberal just physical but this is what she said. >> the choice of -- which is what you're requesting or a salvage job and the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything. >> i mean -- yeah, right?

>> exactly. and, you know what, the nation does not want to relive this piece of legislation. they do want to -- they want to see, you know, it's benefiting them, it's already benefiting people. you can go down the list, you know as well as i do women small business, seniors, young people but the -- you know, the irony of all of this is that when social security was first put into law there was a challenge to social security and challenge to the supreme court whether or not it was social security was constitutional. as a matter of fact, the woman who wrote a majority of social security legislation was frances perkins, the labor secretary first woman labor secretary. she was pilloried that some wanted to try to impeach her because they viewed this as socialism, whatever they want to attach to it. do you believe today we would

overturn social security? >> yeah, no, i know. >> and this is the same kind of a transformative piece of legislation that provides people with the opportunity for healthcare. >> representative, what -- before you go, quickly, i guess the crux of where we're at now is what happens if they strike down the mandate, doesn't that automatically -- preexisting conditions are going to be discriminated against, aren't they? >> healthcare for all. >> my god, yes. first of all, we didn't talk about out of pocket spent are tapped. no more lifetime limits. the whole issue on drug costs. the whole -- as i said, the prevention part of it. look, i'm an ovarian cancer survivor. the prevention of these illnesses. i was discovered with that in the early stages and i would not speak to you presumably here. one has to go down that catalog of issues that would be

overturned. >> yeah, my mom fought the doughnut hole in medicare. my mom is a breast cancer survivor. so i think all of us know somebody that's fourth quartered by things. >> exactly. >> like i say, in my opinion people that have been helped by this bill. so it's just -- are you -- do you have a prediction or are you -- >> i don't, i really don't. and we're going to have to -- whatever the -- i don't -- whatever the decision is, we're going to have to, you know, to you know, to deal with it and see how we move forward. and as i -- i suppose i conclude where i started, i think it would just be an amazing overreach for what is a very conservative court, i think we have to acknowledge that. but, you know, really going beyond the scope about declaring this unconstitutional. >> yeah, let's hope we don't have a bunch of liberal activist on that conservative side of the court. representative rosa delauro the great state of connecticut. thanks so much. there she goes. kathleen madigan is back from her smoke break. >> everything's ok on the roof.

i see myself as the roof watch lady. i don't have a firearm but if things get weird i did see accuratey on tv. >> everything is a-ok. >> nobody called the fire department because of the plumes of smoke. >> no, just me and another man. >> oh, you had a friend. >> i did. >> a smoke pal. >> kathleen madigan, professional comedienne on our side and mitt romney when we come back. >> oh. >> jim will actually do the romney laughing what he calls his father's layoff. humorous. >> this joke is exactly the right height. >> we'll do that when we come back on "the stephanie miller show"." >> this is so funny in my head when i planned it. >> it's "the stephanie miller show"." >> are we still on current for 30 seconds so hello current. >> we're on current. >> we're currently on current, currently watch your language. >> i only tell you that just so you can watch your lang.

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>> "the stephanie miller show," 24 minutes after the hour, 1(800)steph-12 the phone number. kathleen madigan comedienne extraordinary in the studio with us. >> arlen specter tomorrow. >> arlen specter. the single bullet theory. >> oh, no. >> speaking of awkward, the most

awkward man in the world the funniest comedienne in america kathleen madigan with us, we have to do the story because this is republican comedy, compare and contrast, romney laughingly recalls his father's layoff, the frontrunner recalled a anecdote about house his father closed a auto factory in michigan. he went to great lengths to hide it from voters when he ran for governor the same state to hide the fact. >> most of the humorous anecdotes, you may have heard my father george romney. they make ramblers and jeeps and they had a factory in michigan and kenosha and milwaukee wisconsin and as the president he decided to close the factory in michigan. stay with me here. now, later he decided to run for governor of michigan. so you can imagine that he closed the factory and moved the

production to wisconsin it was a very sensitive issue for a campaign. >> hang on, hang on, i've got to set this up, then he recalled a parade in which the school band marching with his father's campaign only knew the wisconsin fight song and not the michigan fight song. >> so every time they would start playing on wisconsin on wisconsin, the political people would jump up and down and try to get them in stop because they didn't want people in michigan to be reminded. that's funny. >> lost their jobs. we all like to fire people. let's stop and wipe our eyes. >> these are pancakes. >> thank you, jim. these are pancakes. and the jokes apparently were not the right height. >> wow. kathleen, you're -- >> humorous anecdote, i don't know if you noticed.

>> let's say you're so much of a dork that you don't know what's funny or what's just boring and sad. like i would call that story boring and sad. but to not even have enough sense to not say that. there's -- nobody else in the country can relate to this. i remember it when my dad closed a factory and that was hilarious because he was running for the president of the united states. i remember that, it didn't work out but it was funny. there's nothing in the story that can relate to normal people. i don't understand why he doesn't have a team of people going, listen, mittens here's the thing. you need to shut up about anything that sounds -- because people don't find it funny. i know you love firing people but most people don't have people to fire, let's start with this. >> at some point this goes beyond making gaffs, this is just mitt romney, completely out of touch.

>> i remember my father counting the money and after the first 10 million -- humorous anecdote and then the dog trapped all over the vault so -- >> and when you say like gaffs or how he doesn't -- i think with emotion like -- the thing with shamus the dog should the dog be on the roof or not let's take that out, the whole, inc. he's running with is i'm a problem solver. you may be able to vote for him, he's a businessman, problem solver. five kids in the station wagon shamus the irish setter standing in the driveway, you're a billionaire, why are you going on a roof, going and buying a cage from pet and barrel and whatever and putting this irish setter on top -- that's not the way to solve the problem. get another car. you're a billionaire. give shamus his own car. >> let tag drive another car

drive a bus. >> and, by the way, he's getting very, very impatient with the coronation, mittens. >> i think we waited to the end of august to have a nomination it makes it a lot tougher to replacing the president. >> i should get the job now. that's what i'm saying. >> please give to me before. >> this is all him and sometimes he'll go quit apologizing for being rich. he's i -- he's real weird -- because he said i may inherit my money, he screams that he's been teased for that for years. the first two million -- the first two million your father gave you for bank capital that was just a loan. >> i'm back on "the stephanie miller show."

>> it towns to violence and poisesons us. >> that's pretty much our show. >> it's "the stephanie miller show," 34 minutes after the hour, 1(800)steph-12 the phone number. comedienne kathleen madigan here. by the bay, we've been covering the trayvon martin stuff all -- more and more stuff, every hour on hour, the funeral director who prepared trayvon's body for burial did not find any bruises on his body indicating a struggle. in addition zimmerman shows no injuries on him that he had

claimed. meanwhile, this joe oliver kathleen, you and i are friends in that shallow show biz kind of way. would you quit your job to defend me? >> do not count on that. i think you should go online and look at a list of comedians that are more giving and loving than i am. >> that's a bit of a short list. >> i can make a phone call but i can't promise that i would physically show up anywhere. would you just text she's an, all right person, i would go that far. >> sexy liberal, would she quit if, needed a convenient black best friend. >> episode of archer to record. >> sorry. >> i don't think wanda sykes, i don't think she would quit for me. what did you do, that's your fault, kathleen. i'm not ooh noo, yes, you're an, all right person, we know that, but you messed up.

>> joe oliver, he claims he quit his job to defend zimmerman based on a gut feeling he has about his friend's innocence. >> really? >> a lot of people saying because he was a television anchor and reporter, he's trying to get a television job is what the speculation is. it is indeed it's not uncommon for a performer for current media professionals to offer their services to families in the midst of major breaking news stories because obviously amidst the chatter he's being paid. >> does he have a job or used to be on tv. >> used to be i think. >> i don't know what job he supposedly quit. >> this comes into play too, were you working, you know -- what were you doing 'cause there's a lot of jobs a lot of people would like to quit. >> looking for a reason. >> were you a media consultant before you became my friend? >> exactly. all right, joe biden, we were just talking about mittens before the break.

>> as governor of mast he repeatedly slashed funding for workforce training in manufacturing, specifically. >> isn't that hilarious. humorous anecdote. >> isn't that funny one thing for a local company but for a state government to outsource a call center to deny people in mast for jobs and then surprised governor romney was losing manufacturing jobs twice as fast as the rest of the country. reason he was 47th in job creation. >> i'd call that progress. >> joe biden. >> governor romney has called the president of the united states out of touch. out of touch? romney? [laughter] i mean -- >> kathleen, you were saying you've worked a corporate gig. >> worst standup gig. >> recently, 120 of them, they were so rich they did a slide show of how they just raped and pillaged people and they have little tambourines they're like cheering, i'm like wow, nobody in this room thinks this is

weird. there's actual photographs of the people that no longer -- >> aw. >> yeah, right, well, blah blah. i thought, well, this is like the inside world of these people why did they hire me. then it got weirder because -- >> google kathleen madigan. >> kathleen madigan doesn't ask enough questions. corporate gig, tons of money sure, i'm there. >> you should have started a joke, so i was kicking this homeless guy ha, ha, ha. >> tambourines, woo! >> then they informed me half the people here, by the way, don't -- there's a problem with the english language. >> oh. >> yeah, they're -- and i thought well, they certainly understand these slides. we made tons and tons of money by doing a b c and d. the romney world exists and they don't -- like she doesn't see anything weird or uncomfortable

about anything she's saying. that's him. so either if you're his team just tell him go be you. >> if you've been a corporate whore, you need to open, i took away this woman's medicare and pushed her down the stairs. >> you should have told some jokes in german (german) ha ha. >> i realized i was a whore but picky. >> nobody likes a picky whore kathleen,. >> newt gingrich, he's downsizing, you know. >> that's exactly why we're downsizing to still stay in. >> kicking out wife number four? >> he has cash flow realities. >> that's what he called it. >> cash flow reality and then we

had cash flow isn't where we'd like it to be so we're doing the appropriate things to be able to campaign. >> dose of reality. >> i get it, newt, this is how i feel at harrah's at 4:00 in the morning when the atm says i can't have any more money. now, i know there's another 200 left if i go up to the room in the corner pocket of my suitcase but do you do it or say you lost today. don't do it, don't go back up to the room and get that 200. i'm not weird yet, the old people are down here as soon as you start seeing the old people you know it's breakfast time. >> get that quarterback? uh-oh it's breakfast. >> how gingrich could still wreak havoc on the republican convention. >> what could he do? >> he acknowledged it would be impossible for him through the traditional primary process he so he shifted his strategy to

convincing individual republican delegates to withhold support for romney. a lot of cell phones will be ringing. he's downsized his campaign obviously. the move after a string of primary losses nothing short of a fourth quarter hail mary pass, there are a lot of rules that would make it difficult for romney to stake his claim. >> you could call sarah. >> betcha, oh, ok. >> yeah, she's -- >> ready to serve. >> got nothing to do up here now. you tell me when and where. i'll get right on that jet. >> he appears to relish making romney sweat, the story reads. gingrich doesn't have much to lose by staying in as long as possible. >> someone asked him yesterday is it related to his personal dislike of romney. he said no, it has nothing to do that why do you reduce america to the smallest and pettiest questions? because you're the smallest and pettiest politician of our country, you could ask that. >> he seems to dislike him more

than i do. i don't take to mitt, there's nothing -- if he spent a week with me he would think i was lindsay lohan. >> you're having two more beers? >> yes, mittens, might have a smoke too, how about that? what? there's nothing i can relate to -- mitt romney. >> what, what, what? oh, no. >> let's go to -- where are we, gary in pittsburgh, you're on "the stephanie miller show" with kathleen, hey, gary. >> good morning to you taken. >> good morning. >> really excited about your show, getting it here in pittsburgh, i really love what you do. >> thank you. >> and, you know what, i just want to talk like a little bit about the supreme court real quick. al gore, when he had the appeal during, you know, the last election, the previous election. >> right. >> and they met on a friday evening and they ruled against him one, two, three, it takes you months and years to get to the supreme court, they were

able to appear that same day and vote al gore out. >> didn't take them long to appoint george bush did it. >> according to scalia it was 7-2, when, in fact, it was 5-4. >> can you imagine if al gore was president? >> i wouldn't have a tv job. >> 911 wouldn't have happened. the constitution would still be intact. >> yeah. but the important thing is and i think it's all worked out fine. it really is true. >> you're on tv. >> yeah, exactly. by the way, there's something wrong when jay leno is doing the best journalism. >> hey. >> i'll be a journalist now. >> kathleen, did you see this? >> i'll be a journalist now. >> kathleen, did you see this? >> yes, i -- >> distance himself, kathleen did you see this? >> leno asked romney what he would do to help people with

preexisting medical conditions who are often denied coverage, obviously, romney's answer was essentially nothing, doesn't deserve to get health insurance because we can't play the game like that. >> i would have them killed that's the way i roll. >> preexisting conditions, as long as they've been insurance before they're allowed to continue to have insurance. maybe they don't have insurance. if they have heart disease, he said guys we can't play the game like that. what's a funny game, heart disease, what's funny about that, funny as a heart attack. >> all those people are going to die ha, ha. >> he said you've got to get insurance when you're well and then if you get ill you're going to be -- you're going to be covered. he said you know what everyone's saying i'm going to sit back and get insurance when i get sick, that doesn't make sense.

that's an argument for a mandate. >> you said mormon. >> i'm sorry. this is an affirmative why he had a mandate in mast and why we need one. >> that's right. >> the article goes on to explain, i think progress put this together, barring insurance companies, switch to people for preexisting conditions, is one of the most popular provision. the problem with romney can only function with individual mandate the way he did. >> just borrow a billion dollars from your dad. >> forgo one of your car dealerships, what's the problem. >> i'm sure mitt has never been on the phone fighting with blue cross like i have and on hold for 17 hours. >> what they consider to be a preexisting condition, like i'm sure to mitt he says, well, a guy walks in with heart disease. no, like one time i used flonase

and they were like whoa, crazy deviated septum lady we're not taking you back, i'm note kidding. first of all, why would -- they said clearly you've had a broken nose. well, no, i haven't. and if you believe that flonase cures a broken nose i don't think i should be with this insurance company anyway. >> that's probably what happened to george zimmerman. >> mitt, when they go preexisting condition they're picture every slacker who comes in with stage four cancer and say i need help so he's mad about that. he has no idea those conditions exit but people fight preexisting condition every day to the point of ridiculous. >> it's conceivable people born with preexisting conditions would be unable to ever get

insurance because they were never well. they don't start out perfect. so insurance companies obviously are going to have to go back to discriminating on preexisting conditions if the mandate is removed. romney himself seems to understand this telling leno you have to find rules to get people into the insurance markets so they don't free ride. former governor romney came up with the rule it's called a mandate but now that romney is running for president for pete's sake he hates mandate so he has nothing to offer people with preexisting condition except for a scolding about how they should have gotten insurance earlier. >> why don't we go back to before -- everybody keeps talking about insurance. insurance, insurance, insurance, insurance. before there was insurance, if the prices were reasonable like you could pay the bill. normal people. but now, because of insurance companies, the price are so ridiculous, we have -- please we're completely held up by them -- >> the one sick kid, when the mother in town hall with

santorum said he has a form of cancer, his medicine is a million dollars a year and santorum's like so, buy an ipad. people buy ipads. and she was -- and he literally defended the right of drug companies to charge whatever they want to. >> pick a number. >> because insurance will cover it. >> a billion dollars. >> 48 minutes after the hour back with kathleen madigan flonase abuser. >> completely. i love it. i love allegra. the things that will send you flying if you need it. >> be right back on the "the stephanie miller show." >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct.

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people think he's just crazy and he's not. well, he is that. >> my favorite the time you brought him in as a prop. >> he's not. >> you're like we're friends i thought, oh, my god you brought louis black. some right winger called, and he went off on the guy moor a moran. >> it was about global warming. i said lou, i hate science too maybe i should be a republican. i hate it in school, all invisible things, i don't understand it, i like history. what's wrong with you seas science? >> this is al gore's network scream at right wingers about global warming. >> that's the idea. the louis black rant power. >> let him yell. hilarious. >> we're saying he's so sweet you don't expect that about him.

he's such a kind person. >> and silly. very silly. en and goofy. i don't think people would picture him being -- especially on a golf course. wow. yeah. >> couple people would buy tickets just to hang around him. >> watch. because i know people -- then when we're really together we're really quite boring. we're sitting in a noodle shop that he found and obsessed where he was going to eat lunch every day and eating noddles for $8.95, truck pulled up with filipino gay guys,. >> we love you. they're so excited to see you much more excited than i am. look at you pulling in the hottie filipino gay men. he's shaking his head. i'm, wow, i wish more of them would come to the show, that would really shake things up. >> we've been talking about the supreme court -- ruth bader

ginsburg yesterday. >> a question of whether we say everything you do is no good now we start from scratch or to say, there are many things that have nothing to do, frankly, with this affordable healthcare and there are some that we think it's better to let congress whether it wants them in or out. >> yeah, i -- you know, a lot of people are saying they thought the mandate was safe and now it is freaking scary. >> why is it that the supreme court rules on this? why -- >> war the worlds said that today. it seems like overreach, judicial overreach. crazy judicial activism. >> never did that before. >> especially when they appointed george bush, by the way. >> i think there's chatter but i don't think they'll do anything, that's my bet. i don't. the conservative ones have to go rah-rah rah, barking dogs, so that everybody can hear that

they barked and barked and barked and barked but then i think -- think about it, this is the first time we've ever heard of them. i don't think i've heard ruth's voice. >> i've never heard dino the supreme court analysis. >> clarence thomas never says anything. >> because he's watching porn. >> we're giving you a boat load of money. no matching funds requirement, no extraneous conditions attached to it, it's just a boat load of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people's healthcare. it doesn't sound coercive to me, i have to tell you. >> good point. kinnear in kenosha wisconsin. >> kier. >> kier, kier, kier, kier, i'm sorry. >> that's ok. i am calling about the trayvon martin case and the new video

with zimmerman in the police station. the first thing i noticed before anyone said anything i don't see a physical altercation. to me that was kind of obvious. but the other thing i noticed as he hopped out of the back of the car and it looked like he kind of hopped out is he kind of had a bounce to his step. i didn't see any remorse or any emotional -- >> his convenient black friend said he was crying and crime seemed like he had a bounce to his step, pep in his step walking into -- the kathleen madigan, you are a delight. >> thank you so much. i had a lovely time as always. >> did you get to smoke enough this morning? >> well, you know, it's limited now that we're television stars. yes, i'm fine. >> kathleen madigan.com the funniest woman in america period. tomorrow friday with john fuglesang. we'll see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show"