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nancy gibbs who has a great new book out and representative gerald connelly. and also i brought props. i'm not going to tell you what these are until we start the show. >> looks like wadded up pieces of paper. >> now that we are on tv i bring props. and i may make it into a cuddi catcher. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, earn. constructional job approval is up. the latest gallup poll has 70% of americans approving on what congress is doing. it hit a low of 10% in february. as for what congress is doing, privacy and online advocates are keeping a close line on legislation called the cyber

intelligence sharing and protection act and it's under consideration. opponents say it goes too far in letting tech companies and the government collect information on you online. google so far has not come out with a position. in other news, ron paul events are still drawing a crowd. 2,000 people showed up for a townhall at university of rhode island last night. and one fan is now creating ron paul the video game. programmer daniel williams is creating ron paul road to revolution. paul travels the 50 states collecting gold and delegates, ultimately ending the federal reserve and becomes president. he says the online version will be free and available come july. you can talk about this and everything else that you are interested in online

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stephaniemiller.com. okay. i -- as i told the current tv folks i brought props today. i actually brought visual aids for the presentation today. can i have my complaint music please. [ complaint music ] >> listen to me i'm talking to all of you passive aggressive note riders, stop leaving these on the trail. [ screaming ] >> because as i mentioned i am a dog owner, i pick up my dog's poo, i hate it too when i pick up my dog's poo. however, you are just adding to the problem when you leave a note on the sack of poo. it is also roses are red, violents are blue please carry out your bag of poo.

[ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and red construction paper. please do not litter in our park. and helpfully there is an arrow pointing to the garbage can. now there is poo, and paper, and construction paper on my trail. >> that is the irony that they leave a piece of paper on the ground that says please don't litter in our park. >> yes! i'm talking to all y'all out there! stop it! >> you just littered in the studio. >> i'll pick it up later. >> i'm leaving notes in my cat box. will you please learn to use the toilet. >> yeah. what is wrong with you? >> you can train them to use the toilet. >> i have heard you can. i don't know. >> i have seen it happen. >> what are the chances that the

person that left the poo there in the first place who does not care -- they are going to come back and see this helpful note and go oh well -- >> my life has changed. >> now that you have hoisted bad poetry on me, i'll be sure to pick that up. >> leave a filthy limerick. >> you always know it is going to be a roses are red poem. >> was that stuck in the poo? >> no. >> and you brought that in? >> no, the poo was in the bag. and they put the note with a rock on the note next to the bag. that is my major irritation in life, that and the fact that my pink berry is out of peanut butter. >> the problems of the elite. >> yes, the 1%. >> what do you mean you stopped making peanut butter!

[ screaming ] >> they flavors are seasonal. >> i have never been to a pink berry. >> awesome. all right. >> i have had pinkeye. >> first worlds problems. >> now my mood is only going to guess worse because it's time for right-wing and karl frisch. ♪ so inviting to me ♪ ♪ frisch ♪ >> karl frisch i bet when dexter vaughn frisch poops you do not leave it there. >> dearest stephanie please do not remove my notes from the park. [ laughter ] >> first of all i pride myself on my rhyming abilities and penmanship. >> yes. >> i never expected my notes to

actually make it to television. >> what kind of dork brings construction paper and mark worse them. >> the there are a lot of people with too much time on their hands -- >> including kurt cameron. >> we don't know that. >> i fell off that cliff above the tennis courts five years ago. >> wow. >> are you okay? >> i don't know if i am okay now. >> no -- i assume the person prepares these notes at home before they go to the park? >> oh, no i prepared them in my craft shack which is outside of my home. i like to have them separate. [ laughter ] >> you are a big dork. here is my favorite -- my favorite first line of a news story, today, karl ted nugent said he will meet with the secret service on thursday.

i will be polite and supportive as i possibly can be. ted nugent told glen beck. >> oh, my goodness. basically his temperament is what we saw. >> yes. >> and what we have seen in the past with what he said about hilary clinton and barack obama. >> yes. >> so i'm wondering what his polites look like. >> that's where you go to be polite, noted crazy person's glen beck's show. i wanted the glenn beck get off of my phone. ♪ get off my phone ♪ [ screaming ] >> there you go. there you go. >> this guy is a big time mitt romney backer, and he is a board member of the nra. >> yes and the other news is he

got paid a boat load of money for that nra speech. 50 grand i believe. >> those threats don't come for free these days. >> ted nugent on the aforementioned polite glenn beck show. >> we have heard from the secret service and they have a duty and i solute them and support them. i'm look forward to our meeting tomorrow. the bottom line is glenn, i have never threatened anybody's life in my life. i don't waste breath threatening. i just conduct myself as a dedicated we the people advocate. >> i'm sorry you pooed your own pants to get out of serving yourself. >> but he wanted to pollute the coffin --

>> i also conduct myself glenn with respect for the people who have served. except when it comes to the commander in chief and various members of the senate. it was only like two years ago -- or three years ago during the democratic primaries for president that he said that he wanted hilary clinton to ride his machine gun. >> right. and then senator barack obama would suck on his ak 47. did he mean that in a gay way or he would pull the trigger or what did he main? >> even it's extremely hyperbolic language is this the kind of guy we want mitt romney surrounding himself with? and he is a board member or at least was at the time of those remarks, was a board member of the national rifle association, by my family has been a part of for a very long time.

but should mitt romney be speaking at an organization where their board members say this kind of garbage. >> yeah, and mitt romney has issued his usual tepid -- that kind of statement always irritated the bejesus out of me. mitt romney thinks it's important for people on both sides to be civil. >> hilary rosen threatened my wife with a ak-47. >> right. and hilary rosen made that remark one time. this is ted nugent. this is his career. >> yes. >> he did not just say these things after mitt romney sought his endorsement. he said them well before mitt romney sought his endorsement. >> and by the way, rush limbaugh

to the tenth power on record is calling hillary clinton the c word, the b word. it is amazing. >> apparently mitt romney has a thing for pranks that he won't talk about on tv. >> oh, yeah. >> he likes to go in -- he lives for laughter. >> uh-huh. >> and the humor that people find sometimes to bring out laughter. so perhaps this is one of those pranks that he is pulling on america. >> yeah, we'll review some of mitt's greatest pranks a little later in the show. matt barber on the faith and freedom radio show. >> the bully on the playground intimidates people into silence fear, and avoiding the bully, and oftentimes the bully is the paper tiger, and when the

righteous individual depends his or herself and punches the bully in the mouth, the bully more times than not has a glass jaw, falls down on the play ground and everyone says woe. that's the left. they try to bully and push religious intolerance and big gotry own all of us. >> the lefts are bullies that need to be punched in the jaw. >> exactly. it's good that he said that around the national day of silence too. because we really want people to get beat up. what was the name of that show? >> the faith and freedom radio show. >> i just filed for a trademark on the name of that show. [ laughter ]

>> it's like liberty freedom america -- >> the secular left bully show. >> right. >> karl frisch remains the side car. we have to take a quick break. kids the grease that runs this joint, it's go to meeting, because we are all over the country. you have go to meeting with hd faces. one click, a webcam, a click, and you are all in the same meeting. the hd video quality is amazing. you can see people's disappointment register immediately on their faces when you present your latest idea. and that way you are better connected to the people in your group. it takes just a webcam. that's it. you can even do it on the go from your ipad. >> a web clam? >> that's different. [ laughter ] >> that is what jim is looking at accidentally gets on go to

meeting. >> you are use your ipad which is the greatest thing for me. most your own meetings today -- we never let jim take control -- >> wetcam.com -- woe! [ laughter ] >> don't way for this special offer. go to gotomeeting.com, and use the promo code stephanie. a day of silence for you, jim. [ laughter ] >> a bag of shhhh. 19 hours after the hour, right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> see that wasn't so bad, was it? >> i got to say that was fantastic! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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♪ we're the kids in america, woe ho we're the kids in america, everybody -- >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ -- now, now, now ♪ >> hum huh. it is the "stephanie miller show," welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. karl frisch, bullfight strategies remains in the side car for right-wing. todd on fox news. >> i feel compelled to talk to you about hooters this morning. and this smells like something debbie wasserman schultz would cook up. can you imagine her as a hooter's waitress. hello, my name is debbie would you like some wings? the rumor is debbie used to

work at hooters. that's the rumor. i'm joking here of course. >> this is comedy. >> i'm glad he explained that. >> -- the management will pick up the tab. >> that's right. [ laughter ] >> you see what i'm doing is comedy. >> i'm joking of course. >> i love first of all two things, one that his first pronunciation of hooters is this one is about hoot-ers. >> hoot-ers. >> and second where on earth do yo freaking libs get the idea that liberal radio is bullying and fascist? >> i don't know. >> you can -- you can say mean things about people but as long

as the audience knows sitcoming from a place of loving and endearment they'll find it funny. but these wingers it is just black and mean. >> every time we say that mitch mcconnell looks like a turtle we always suggest that someone lift him up off of his back and set imup right. we're helpers. >> and it's an example that anyone in the sphere can get a radio show. but not everyone can be in the top 100. [ applause ] >> there you go! >> yeah that was quite a helping of radio crap. i don't know what karl frisch has ever done to you why you must voice 37 seconds of sarah pail listen on him. >> it's only 36. it just feels like 37.

>> here we go. >> unleashing domestic production, aka, drill baby, drill, and frac baby frac, but when you look at what barack obama is actually doing with killing the keystone pipeline, he part he has authority over and his -- his mission of bankrupting the coal companies the things he is actually doing are burdening our american energy opportunities and making us more reliant on foreign forces. >> is there less oxygen in alaska? >> i think that was remarkably cruel of you guys that. wasn't a real palin clip was it? >> yes. oh, frac baby, frac. that's a new catch phrase.

>> i hear words very similar to that whenever i hear her on television. >> brian susman. >> the environmentals have never liked progress or capitalism this is a run-longing plot use the environment to hammer capitolism, use capitolism's pollution to hammer free markets, and that's what they are doing. steve, the environmental movement isn't about clean air and water, we all want that. this is about changing our economy. >> idiot! >> they have people who claim that mercury isn't poisonous. >> yes. we all want that. >> we just don't want to eat our air. >> exactly. we'll finish with rush limbaugh. >> why does a guy who has no experience at anything obama, pass himself off as an expert and believe it.

you find something and make him likable, and then the key to that is you have to hope that voters didn't notice that their elected representatives are governing entirely against their wishes because the candidate is such a nice guy. such an engaging guy. he wouldn't possibly want to take away your freedom or change the way the country was founded. [ sighs ] >> when rush limbaugh has stumpy finger pointing at he president, he has four stumpy fingers facing back to himself. for him to say what does this guy know about health care what does rush limbaugh know about his career. >> obviously more about health and fitness than the president could ever know. all right. karl frisch see you next week.

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>>this is outrageous! [[vo]]cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal." we've have no choice, we've lost

our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> you don't even like wine, do you? >> yes, i do. i just have never had it after brushing my teeth. >> i have had it while brushing my teeth. [ laughter ] >> i rinse with it. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. looky here, it is thursday, you know what happens? >> what. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> the buffet rule was voted

down. representative peter welch joining us now. good morning, representative. >> good morning. >> let's talk about why it's still important the buffet rule and where we go from here. >> well, i think there is two things, one, there is a basic element of fairness, and when people know the fix is in, and they are getting ripped off on the tax system, it creates a lot of bitterness and rightfully so. the buffet rule says if you make over a million dollars you pay 30%. but the second point -- and this is something that the president is making. the income inequality we have in this country is the worst it has been since the depression, and you can't have a strong economy if you don't have brood-based income distribution. it's about opportunity and about a stronger economy. and the more we have people

struggling unable to pay their bills, kids getting out of college with $30,000 in debt that's going to weaken the economy, so this is just bad for the long-term health of the u.s. economy to have this income inequality that is so perpetuated and intentfyied by the republican policies. >> we just finished our right-wing feature, and a couple of days ago they were demonizing buffet. he has been diagnosed with prostate candor but they literally saying for him to allow himself to be used like this -- >> they said he was un-american. >> yeah. >> well, i mean -- when you don't have the facts on your side, you begin attacks. and you -- you attack the

messenger and that is happening a lot. but let's contrast with what we're going to take up in the house floor today. eric cantor is bringing a bill on the floor which will lower taxes for the very wealthy people by $46 billion each year. that's in contrast to the buffet rule approach where we raise $47 billion. so there's just a radical approach here to basically saying that wealthy people shouldn't pay taxes and it's based on this i would say crazy theory that the more you give to people who have plenty already, the stronger the economy will be, and there's no evidence for that. >> i love when we play that

sound bite that when has a billionaire let themselves be used like this politically. oh i don't know let's ask donald trump. >> yeah. >> when you look at the policies for basically squeezing the middle class, and then look at citizens united where we have given enormous political powers to corporations and these loopy billion ayers like adelson from las vegas, you are talking and democracy and political democracy where every person's vote really should be relevant. >> yeah. well, i mean, and once again, it's speaking of hypocrisy, didn't they use this deem and pass thing that they were screaming about it? the democrats didn't -- but the republicans passed this ridiculous budget using this technique, right? >> that's exactly right.

it's kind of a [ inaudible ] conception. they redeem and pass which you don't actually vote on what it is that will become law because you vote on something else and saying the doing of something -- by voting on it you make it happen. you can't even explain that to the american people. >> yeah it was attached to something really relevant, trophy polar bears. >> well, you have to have more imagination to keep up with mr. cantor's maneuvers, and there was some consideration to do that around the health care bill, and when nancy pelosi was speaker. my view rightly so, because when i think when congress is going to vote on x, it ought to be on x. so we backed off. and now the republicans on their

signature issue, namely, the budget, are on the deem and pass. >> yeah, i give you credit for your will to just keep in the trenches and keep fighting. and thank for checking in with us again, representative welch. we appreciate it. and we talk again real soon. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> did you no vermont has the smallest capitol in america. >> i heard that. >> not as teeny tiny as rhode island. >> that's right. >> they attach it to the -- importing trophy polar bears, something we can all agree on slaughtering endangered species. [ bell chimes ] >> okay. all right. hey, speaking of slaughtering

innocent animals ted nugent as we said -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> he interviewing with the secret service today. >> yep. >> i bet ya he could tell them where to get good hookers. >> how old do you want them to be? does it matter? >> it doesn't have to be legal, right? so three secret service employees are out of the agency. the agency says the investigation continues about the misconduct by 11 agents. the remaining 8 are on administrative leave. meaning they have time to do more -- >> blow and hookers. i heard this is par for the course. it bothers me that the secret service are drinking on duty. >> not the best idea for a sniper. >> and one of the here did an interview with the "new york times," and she said she asked

for an $800 gift. that seems like a lot for a hooker. [ laughter ] >> while we're discussing amongst ourselves how much hookers should cost? how cheap are they i don't know? ♪ it's just a cheap hooker in paradise, it's very mean and it's not very nice if you try it, it will make you think twice, because it's a cheap hooker in paradise ♪ >> michelle in texas. hey, michelle. >> i told your secretary -- >> my secretary. >> the lady -- [ inaudible ] he is a coward. he said that about [ inaudible ] and the president a couple of years ago. if you are any kind of a man, you go face-to-face with him or

with the secret service, then you can bring him face-to-face with obama and then let's see what you are going to say about obama. >> yeah, now what you got? >> and then with sarah palin, i don't understand this idiot. and as for mitt romney no pain, no gain, the peace [ inaudible ] -- >> all right. michelle let's -- great. you got that out of your system. >> wow. [ applause ] >> she is plucky. by if i called rebecca my secretary she would punch any the throat. >> yeah. >> hey secretary. >> go make me some coffee. you know how i like it. [ laughter ] >> bobby in california. welcome. >> hi, how are you doing steph? >> good. >> i was just going to say, you

know that one song by ted nugent "strangle hold." >> yes. >> i think he put himself in one. because he is an idiot for what he said at that one little convention he was at. and i want to tell everybody who is supporting barack obama let's just wait until he can get his second term so he can be more flexible. and when he is more flexible things will be better because then he has nothing to lose. >> yeah. >> and another thing i'm going to school to be -- >> people have a lot on their minds this morning. yes, bobby, you are going to school to be on radio? >> yes. i have dedicated my life to get the facts -- >> oh, boy. >> -- and pretty much spread it around. and i noticed you really have to trust yourself into finding the facts. because what you see in the facts is what you tend to believe. so i was wondering what steps i

needed to take. >> oh, boy. >> hum -- >> a lot of drinking. [ laughter ] >> first have failed at something else. when all of your dreams have died this is where you end up. i'm sorry to tell you. [ laughter ] >> i have no training to this. i stumbled into it because it's true. >> yeah. [ somber music ] >> i have a degree in broadcasting -- >> good for you. >> i'm one of the very, very few people who works in the industry for which i trained. >> yeah, people ask me how do you get in? and i'm like i don't know. >> how do i get into brain surgery? >> i'm just always like there's no more room but good luck. [ door slams ] [ laughter ] >> yeah, i sound that in my career every time god shuts a

door somewhere he shuts a window too, and i'm screwed. >> probably on your finger. [ screaming ] >> yeah. >> and radio is a bit of a shrinking industry, so -- >> we're getting smaller. dare i go further. >> yes. >> the door -- that was an inspirational segment, wasn't it. >> yeah, good luck to you. >> yeah, good luck. 46 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> that's the smartest thing i have ever heard anyone say about anything. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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>> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ isn't she lovely ♪ ♪ isn't she wonderful ♪ ♪ isn't she lovely ♪ ♪ make her mine ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." this hour brought to you by go to meeting. go to meeting the best way to host an online meeting. go to gotomeeting.com and type in the promo code stephanie. i loved that call how do you get into radio? >> how do you get out is the question? >> yeah, i'm trapped. i can't do anything else.

[ laughter ] >> now i'm doing television at this stage in my life where i have lost the will to live. i'm not taking off the baseball cap -- >> i thought you wore a dress and a tiara when you came to work. >> it's russian roulette day. i'm eating day-old sushi. kathy, welcome. >> hi you are just a ray of sunshine in this very depressive political season. >> i'm a delight. thank you very much. okay. >> i would like to know maybe if you guys know how these polls are taken. every day it is up and down. i don't answer my phone -- >> are you talking about the

secret service scandal? >> no, i'm talking about today obama's numbers are up, and tomorrow they are down, and romneys et cetera. >> here is a way to understand it, no one likes mitt romney and they never will. but the polls will always be up and down. >> different methodologies and different people they ask. it makes a huge difference if you ask likely voters -- >> buba -- but how do they reach these voters? >> i think cell phones. >> oh, cell phones. >> thank god, because my mom doesn't have one. >> may i ask you more one thing? >> yeah. >> i was surprised that ed schultz didn't mention you last night in the top -- >> because they only did the top

ten, and i'm 11. [ somber music ] >> i know. but thank you for your time. >> thank you. yes, he did the top ten radio hosts and i'm -- dammit -- 11. >> just inches away. >> inches from a clean get away. can i have chacky comedy music. [ whacky comedy music ] >> i had missed this. the real mitt. >> the real willard. >> sure mittens can be annoying as if playing a infuriating low tax rate and staffing money in the kaymen islands. but he is a prankster. pranks are the most juvenile. w was a prankster.

>> put an m-80 under your chair. boom. [ laughter ] >> step on ruggy. >> pull my finger. [ laughter ] >> oh, god this -- at the exclusive prep school in bloomfield hills, michigan mitt was slapstick to a fault. >> oh, he's a panic. >> this is prep school humor. he staged an elaborate formal dinner in the median strip of a busy thoroughfare. [ laughter ] >> that is pressure. [ cuckoo clock ] >> he dressed up similar to a police officer put a flashing

cherry light on the top of his car. he arrested his friends, leaving the flightened girls alone for a spell. [ laughter ] >> that's awful. >> yeah. >> oh my god. the author has chronicled his zany side. >> that's the last adjective i would use to describe mitt romney. >> as a missionary he sometimes assumed the voice of cartoon characters in a letter -- >> how do you assume a voice in a letter? >> here i come to save the day, i'm mighty mouse. [ laughter ] >> later -- >> what an ignoramous. >> i am now assuming a high

squeaky mickey mouse voice. later as a more month bishop. >> they have bishops? >> yes, he jumped up in a meeting and started singing "billie jean," and moon walking. mitt once swung at staffers creating an illusion he was on an end less bathroom stop pouring water in the toilet. [ laughter ] >> wow. >> i don't think our president enjoys the toilet humor. >> maybe it's the day-old sushi or maybe i really feel like i'm going to vomit. [ dial tone ] >> oh, i lost her. >> it was just a prank.

[ laughter ] >> say, sarah. >> finally i'm on. >> yes. >> long time caller, first time on current. >> oh, yeah. >> steph i want you to know i got to mete a sexy liberal, ben greenwold. and he loved his box of wine. >> and who doesn't. >> did you see that interview him and his wife anne had on nbc nightly us in. it shows she is as stiff as mitt. >> yeah. >> i love john but she is not a knockout. >> i think she is very attractive -- >> she. >> i mean, really? it's our turn? read a book on democracy. should we just cancel the election. really? just the sense that -- >> i have a sense of entitlement, it is just our

turn. >> it's our turn. for god's sake. all right. 58 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪[ theme music ]♪ oh, dear. morning, current tv fans. i was just swallowing a -- you know, the rest of my sausage. >> oh, my god! >> well, i was. we're just supposed to talk about what we're actually talk about now. >> yeah. >> we're getting ready to do hour two. jim, hot actress alert. kerry washington, she is on the

new series "scandal." >> it is really good. very interesting. >> yeah, if cenk didn't say it or governor grandholm or elliot i didn't see it. >> or gavin newsom. >> oh, my god. he is so handsome and exciting. he is disturbingly beautiful. tv newsroom. good morning, jacki.. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone.. the latest in the secret service scanned this will morning is three agents are done and eight remain on administrative leave. we don't know yet their identities but the official word is that one supervisor was fired another was forced to retire and a third officer resigned. one of the three already is

planning to sue nora oh donal for its source. the secret service says it is still early in its investigation. on the campaign front, gop leaders are going to gather in arizona this weekend, to map out their strategy for the months ahead. mitt romney will speak to the conference tomorrow. it's a three-day con and cnn reports it will cover infrastructure, new technology and how the gop plans to raise enough money to complete with president obama's campaign. today the president is up 4 points again. it still puts mitt romney ahead on specific issues like the economy and jobs. president obama is still very much out in front of women's issues, however, up 52% to 32%, and took a look at vice

president candidates. they had marco rubio, and condoleezza rise. so we don't know until we know for sure. we'll be right back. frosted in powerful cooling crystals. ice breakers frost. feel the frost.

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he has the goofy face and darks like a dog. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> you know mr. winkle that dog who's tongue hangs out all the time? >> no. [ laughter ] >> i have lost my battle against cat allergies. so we had to move my girlfriend's cats back to her apartment. i did an allergy test in the past, a prick test -- which is the way a lot of people refer to the republican primaries. [ whacky comedy music ] >> results of the test you don't have one. >> no, it's pricky can each aller again on your back, and

i'm 4-d, unfortunately. [ applause ] >> we had an air cleaner attached to my face like this. >> what if you are allergic to air? >> then i'll have to be in a plastic bubble. a big show coming up. we have kerry washington representative jerry connolly, and then nancy gibbs. >> yeah. >> okay. so stephaniemiller.com and sexyliberal.com. check it out. steph, thank for being on tv. now i get absolutely nothing done at all. [ applause ] >> we are getting a lot of those reports. >> that's not helping the president. >> i don't care. >> all right. fine. >> how do i help me?

can't wait to see you again in july. >> oh the big july 28th show in l.a. i'm going to wear depends this time in case i pee. [ applause ] >> okay. >> all right. oh, speaking of reviews. my mom has dictated another letter to my brother for -- bill's machine, as he calls it his computer. because she doesn't have a computer. so she calls him and he is like her stenographer. from mom mom says stephanie hooray for your meteoric rise in your tv show. i'm one proud momma. [ applause ] >> why doesn't she just save a step and just call you and dictate to you directly? >> i don't know. >> that just seems like an extra step -- >> bill i -- i -- i have something to say to stephy.

could you write it on your machine and send it to her. i'm surprised i don't get carrier pigeons. she does not believe in technology at all. except tv. hi mom. okay. more fun ted nugent facts. >> i wonder if your mom likes ted nugent? >> oh, dear. >> didn't he play with lawrence well k. >> not since i came from high school one day, and she said stephie your geekwood flat tickets arrived. fleetwood mac. >> oh. >> steph and the mooks could you read alive from the personal and family section of ted nugent. his personal life is a train wreck. he has kids out wedlock, not

paying child support -- >> that's gross. >> yes, just a little. >> it's -- oh dear to the tenth power. in 1978 he began a relationship to a 17 year old. due to the age difference they couldn't marry so he joined with her parents to sign documents to make himself her legal guardian. he was named 63 on the 100 sleaziest moments in rock. >> apparently he is going to be polite with the secret service. >> yes exactly. the president on the campaign trial -- i wonder who he was talking about. he said i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn't, but somebody gave us a chance and then he

went on to say: >> right now we have two competing visions for our future. and the folks on the other side i'm sure they are patriots and sincere in terms of what they say, but their theory, i believe is wrong. >> mitt romney is not sincere, he will say whatever he needs to get elected. >> that's what you think -- >> but i believe it at the time. >> huh. >> should we settle for an economy where a few people do really well -- mitt -- and a growing number are struggling to get buy. mitt romney >> since he was sworn in more americans have lost jobs more homes have been lost. gas prices have doubled. >> no no and no. ♪ you lying sack of scat ♪ >> can you load the liar cannon

he went on and defended his decision to release only two years of tax returns. he said john kerry only released two years -- no john kerry released 20 years, he just dropped the zero. >> oh, you are a liar. >> the question is were you lying then, are you lying now, and are you not a chronic and habitual liar! >> what is with journalism? can't somebody say no, that is a big fat lie. >> you'll have to leave it there. >> i'm going to lecture hilary rosen, i don't have time to do basic research. >> hello mike. >> ted's words were incendiary and some people might find them

life threatening. is missouri a stand your ground state? and support the right of gun owners, tax titles and insured guns. >> yep, you are right. hi joanne. >> i'm so appreciative to have a show that finally supports the other side of the conservatives. >> thank you. >> i'm retired now 17 years, and when they took rush limbaugh off, i couldn't stand it. >> yes, we owe current a big thanks. it's awesome. >> yeah, i just -- i wish your television show was available to the mass public you know? >> if you call your cable provider and scream --

[ screaming ] . >> -- it may be. >> normal people who are middle class, they have been canceling their cable because of the price, you know? the economy can't afford that. but on your regular three stations. i wish -- because i stopped watching the news on those stations, and i'm just fortunate that i can afford to have the cable stations. >> yeah. i urge people to forgo groceries in order to get cable. >> really? [ laughter ] >> because those ladies that called earlier i'm with them. i -- i'm just so happy. you make my whole day now with you and bill press it's just wonderful and refreshing. >> thank you. >> i sit here and think about the republican party, i have worked 32 years in personnel and human resources, and i was there with the women's movement in the 60s, and we fought for every right -- >> you bra burner you. >> yeah. that's what we were called. >> yay!

>> when i had surgery a couple of monthsback i looked around the operator room and i saw all of these nurses and i said you are all female. and they looked at me like i was crazy. and i said you know we fought for you to be here. [ applause ] >> thank got you fought for us because i am not giving up my sports bra. [ laughter ] >> it's a lot of support. >> it's like a turn indicate. >> it makes you look like a boy. >> shut up. hi, linda. >> i want it to be moan and pay special attention to the debates that are forthcoming with barack obama, our president, and romney. >> yep. his doctrine under the mormon religion taught them to dispiez

blacks. >> yep. >> watch his arrogance. >> uh-huh. linda [ overlapping speakers ] >> that and that and polygamy obviously were in the early fiezs of the church, but you are right. that has been part of the mormon religion. they will say it is not now >> but it once was. >> mitt romney. >> unemployment has not been below 8% since. what you are not going to hear during his term median income in america has dropped by $3,000. >> okay. first of all, he created millions of jobs.

[ applause ] >> yeah. >> and stay tuned because it will drop below 8, and mittens will be like, oh, boy. the economy is getting better. what did i just say, oh no. oops. 17 minutes after the hour. much more to come. kids carbonite online backup why don't you have it? think of what you have on your computer right now, your pictures if you are working on anything. the guy that invented this is because his daughter lost his entire term paper at college. you can try it absolutely free. just set it up once it works automatically and continually. it backs up your files safely and securely. i certainly hope my brother has it. because if he has lost any of his mom's messages to me on his machine -- >> oh, dear. >> right?

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stephanie maaa. >> hi, steve, welcome. >> hey steph. nugent, you give him enough rope, he will hang himself. anne and romney are the same. he won't even win the general here. last night our president was at the eliches. and the president knows if detroit gets rocking, the country will start rocking, and i think everybody in united states of america knows that -- >> the auto -- the auto -- >> what you are doing is just fabulous. it's just awesome. >> thank you. thank you. it's as marvellous as paul ryan's budget plan.

oh looky here. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> romney's campaign shakes the etch-a-sketch. >> oh, boy. >> he has been the biggest flip flopper. this is going to be pathetic. mitt romney distancing himself from the author of some of the toughest immigration laws in the country. >> yep. >> aimed at winning over crucial latino voters. >> as president obama said he should just play the republican debates on an endless loop on uni-vision. he has been denoted from advisor to supporter. >> who is this guy? >> he highlighted the roll of the author in states such az south carolina, and now romney

beginning to pivot towards latinos. >> oh, please. >> romney speaking at a fund raiser admitted his campaign is doomed. here go the hand-handed flip flops. >> yeah. >> david axelrod tweeted etch-a-sketch moment. mitt puts the kibosh on covack. he said if you were elected president -- he said as many as half of the undocumented immigrants here could be made to flee. >> wow. >> it was a joke. >> yeah. yeah. he was effusive welcoming this guy in his endorsement just in january. i look forward to working with

him to work on immigration -- >> back then he was on the team and now he is just like any other supporter out there. >> yeah. and they are talk about proposing a republican version of the dream act. what would that be? >> night mare. >> yes, make them into mulch maybe. >> i believe pour people should be turned into mulch. >> ashley in seattle. >> hey, stephanie. i'm so glad i found you. >> thank you. i have current now so i'm really glad. i'm going to get to the point really quick. >> okay. >> okay, first of all, just want to say the republican dream? >> yes. >> it's an aligarky. >> yeah. >> and the rest of us will all

be slaves. >> i don't know if slaves -- i'm sure they pay the dressage horse -- >> there's a fair wage where you can live and then there's a wage where you have to work three jobs. that's slavery. and when i was growing up in the 60s. >> uh-huh. >> i had an interest in politics in fourth grade because our teachers talked about civics. johnson had the war on one word that you don't hear him talk about. poverty. >> exactly. >> and now i am formally in the medical field -- formally. >> yep. >> i ended up disabled. i'm on disability and food stamps. they gave me 200, they cut it down to 100 -- >> i know everybody is going through this. all right. actress kerry washington next on the "stephanie miller show."

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good looking to be human. that happened to me when i saw kerry washington the famous smoking-sexing hot kerry washington. >> good morning, smoking-hot radio person. >> do you remember that rally? i remember looking around going, i'm not good looking enough to be here. >> i do remember. that was so fun. >> that was back in the day. i'm still a happy clappy democrat. i get called an obama apologist every day, and i say thank you. >> absolutely. >> kerry we posted top 50 obama

accomplishments, i think it was chris in washington monthly. [ explosions ] >> and he had trolls coming out of the woodwork going insane. >> absolutely. absolutely. and, yeah, in the face of people who are disturbed to things because they come from this administration, which is ridiculous. that's not the best interest of the american people to make politics a political disagreement, a personal disagreement. >> kerry have always been political, or did you just get more political during this last election cycle? >> i have always been really political. my parents are political people. and i have always been really involved. i volunteered during the kerry campaign. and i liked the posters that campaign for kerry looked like.

[ laughter ] >> i was pretty active during that campaign. and i guess i was just sort of more well-known in the campaign of late than i had been before. i don't participate because i'm a celebrity -- or so-called celebrity, anyway -- i participate because i'm an american. because we're so lucky enough to live in a representational democracy, and our representatives can't lead us if we don't let them know what we want and how we feel. so it's important for us to protest and participate, and show up on capitol hill. i have done advocacy work. so there are where my passions a lay. >> i remember you got .and smoke at that rally and i thought damn, she is smart and well-spoken too, i thought show

was just here to be eye candy. [ laughter ] >> oh, come on! coming from you. >> yeah. yeah. >> unbelievable. >> a lot of people remember you as ray charles wife in the movie "ray." your new series and chris's friend loves it -- >> yeah, love the show. >> oh, good. good. >> is it a coincidence that you happen to be really political as a person and this is a political thriller. >> we, the show is inspired by a real life woman named judy smith. and literally when people have a situation that they don't know where else to go, they can't go to the cops, they don't want the media to find out they go to judy. and that's what we play on

scandal. so it's not a political thriller, because the crisis that walks in our door every week is everything from entertainment to big business to labor, to -- >> right. >> -- sports. you never know who is going to walk in the door. but like the real judy smith, my character used to work at the white house. i always say the character is inspired by judy and not based on judy, however. because my character has a slightly more inappropriate relationship with the president of the united states. >> oh, please -- >> right. [ laughter ] >> oh please -- >> judy smith never ever kissed the first president bush i promise you. >> oh please, you played eddy

means wife. how much worse can i get. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> actually she was working for -- she was working in washington for the district attorney's office and the white house saw her on tv handling the whole marian barry crack-smoking thing, and that's when the white house was like who is that woman who is so amazingly dealing with the media around this mayor who is smoking crack. >> i think as we all recall the bitch set him up. [ laughter ] >> you have the greatest laugh. but it is a great premise for a series, because you think that really is a thing, crisis management, particularly in our news cycles these days. >> uh-huh. it's so funny because now on

twitter people are constantly tweeting me about real scandals like i know anything about what to do to them. i'm like you should probably be tweeting the writers of the show. they are like olivia what are you doing? >> i'm like olivia is not real. >> that's how good of an actress you are. [ laughter ] >> but thank you. kerry, so you are going to be active again in this next selection cycle, right? >> absolutely. i'm in the administration. i was appointed three years ago to the president's committee on arts and humanities. and we're an advisory committee to the white house dealing with issues on the arts --

>> wow. >> be out on the stump again for sure. >> what do you think the biggest challenge is going to be? >> honestly one of the things -- one of the things i think is that we have to make sure people know their voting rights; that people have the correct paperwork that everything is on the up and up, we have to be watching the polls, and really make sure that people are able to exercise their right to vote, so that's one of the things that i'm really committed to participating in and making sure happens in the right way. >> absolutely. you mentioned michelle obama, how awesome. >> oh! she's so fabulous -- >> i know. i -- i have never met her, but 30% of americans like michelle obama more than ann romney. ha ha, ne ener.

[ laughter ] >> i have never met ann romney so i can't say, but michelle obama is the real thing. she is just smart and gracious and elegant. when the two of them met she was his boss. >> awesome. >> that's so fabulous. >> that's so awesome. >> yeah. >> when the right-wing demonizes her, i literally think what are you talking about? she literally i think is one of the classiest -- and all of the ways you just described her. >> yeah, she is really an inspiration. we joke around a lot about being smart and political and beautiful. but she is really the embodiment of a woman who is unafraid to be and have it all. to be elegant and beautiful and not say if i'm beautiful i can't be smart or if i'm elegant, i can't be politically fierce and

powerful. it kind of redefined the women. you don't have to choose between being pretty or smart. you can be it all. >> of all of the letters i get from the white house daily, when it says michelle obama wants you to -- i do it. >> i'm the same way. >> i'm like i know she is just righting to me personally so i'm going to do it. the series a "scandal" on abc. >> and yes i'll be live tweeting during the show. and the show has a twitter too. but i will be live tweeting all through tonight's episode. and lots of [ inaudible ] numbers will be. so definitely tune in and log on. >> kerry you are an amazing about -- actress, you are smart,

you are political, and you don't have the decency to be a bitch. [ laughter ] >> thank you guys. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> don't you hate it when they are nice. i'm going to have another brain-related event now. >> next time we'll have her in studio. >> oh. >> see, that's what you can't because of squeezy mcpant over there. >> yes. >> she is all of that. >> i'm sure that jim is the one that made sure that microphone is that close to him. >> let me help you with that button missy -- >> oh god. >> no. >> chris crashes into my chair every time he comes -- around.

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loud and clear. ♪ you are a lying sack of crap ♪ ♪ you are lying sack of crap ♪ >>, jr. in miami. hi, jr welcome. >> how are you doing stephanie. i would like to say thank to current for having you on -- because this is the best way to start a day. >> thank you for waking up with me? >> whenever you want to come on down, but mitt romney is a liar. >> yep. >> and just what you said. okay. first of all, yes under obama administration, women have lost a lot of jobs, but don't forget the tea party when they lied and said they would bring jobs and they got all of these people that couldn't find work believing in them as soon as they took office they cut a lot of state jobs. >> yep. >> that's a good point. had public sector jobs kept up

with how many private sector jobs we have been gaining, the unemployment rate would be much lower. but they seem to root for firing cops and teachers. and the boner. >> the president checked out last labor day. >> it is impolite to be orange labor day. [ laughter ] >> because he is orange. [ whacky comedy music ] [ mumbling ] >> mike in seattle. hi, mike. >> hello. hey, love the show. >> thank you. >> it's pretty much my grief line, so big fan here. >> awe. >> i just heard you talk about how romney has obviously a big choice coming up for his vp pick, and i think president obama also has an important choice to make coming up, and

the team blue does too, and that's who will give the keynote address at the convention in charlotte. >> yeah, right. >> and i'm interested in your take on my personal favorite. that would be elizabeth warren. i would interested in what you would think about warren as the keynote speaker. >> i think that's a spectacular idea. because we were just in madison, and i'm telling you this was basically the birthplace of the 99%, but she has been articulating that almost before anyone. i think that's a bully idea. [ applause ] >> yes, bully. >> the president talking about the gop cuts -- >> if these cuts are spread out evenly, then 10 million college students including some of you would see your financial aide cut by an average more than a thousand dollars each. >> yes, and like representative peter welch was saying, those are the kind of cuts that

republicans want to make today. >> yeah. >> and we need to fight against. >> the president is right it couldn't be clearer. >> they know folks wouldn't like it. but you have got to cut a certain amount of money, you -- and they have already said they are not going to cut defense spending, and they are going with their tax cuts, then you got to go to all of the other stuff that's left over. >> uh-huh. >> senator mitch on this -- >> washington has been spending more than a trillion dollars a year more than it takes in and senate democrats don't even have the courage to put it all in black and white. [ sighs ] >> how many times must we go over the deficit was largely caused by tax cuts to the rich! [ screaming ] >> yes. and two unpaid for work. >> huh oh.

>> no, i'm fine. i'm fine. >> you have had a history this morning. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> in 2010 republicans accused democrats of rushing their massive government takeover of healthcare through congress considering an unconstitutional legislative trick. it was called deem and pass. >> yes. >> i thought it was demon pass but it's deem and pass. so democrats ultimately abandoned it. republicans now relying on this to advance paul ryan's ah-ah-awful budget. despite opposition in the democrat senate by using a relatively obscure procedural move tucking it along a bill that allow the deportation of

trophy polar bears. so in public opinion shows americans overwhelmingly opposed the paul ryan budget. >> the budget seems like it should be something a little more important than just a tack on to something like -- >> yeah and who wrote the polar bear bill? this is ted nugent's bill? >> yeah. >> hi, mike. >> yeah, just a little bit of truth, man, i got to tell you i don't think it matters what party is in power, if you look at the scandals coming down look at the gsa and the big blow out party in vegas, the secret service -- >> republicans and democrats are both pretty much equally furious -- >> look at the wars. obama bombed triply killing next

people, and they called it a malfunction. government is a huge corporation -- >> no it's not a corporation. >> the biggest corruption organization in america is the u.s. government. >> hum. all right. >> and we need to downsize it. >> all right. >> yeah, you are not an obama supporter -- >> hello stephanie i am an obama supporter, i just stumbled across your show. [ mysterious music ] >> that was like a pinball game. >> just get rid of the government and the people -- >> the head of secret service was a bush appointee. >> i like any conversation that starts where somebody calls me man. >> hey, man. >> the government is corrupt, man. if we get rid of the government man. everything would be okay man. dave's not here man. >> all right.

58 minutes after the hour we'll be back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [ theme music ] ♪ oh. what? i'm just fixing my hair. >> like girls do. >> well low current tv fans. we're getting ready to down hour number three of the "stephanie miller show." nancy gibbs is coming up. she is awesome. she has won a bunch of prizes and things. >> she is really smart. >> yeah, they have a great new book it's called presidents; club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." >> uh-huh.

>> about the relationships of ex-presidents with each other. >> a fraternity that mitt romney really wants to join. >> nobody wants to be in a fraternity with mitt romney. >> no. >> i'm a pinkster. >> and gerry connolly coming up. and lots to get to. we haven't talked to celebrity stack yet. >> right. we did talk to a celebrity though. >> kerry washington. >> jim hasn't recovered yet. >> i'm not looking anymore. jacki schechner in the current tv newsroom. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone.. record fund-raising numbers for the first quarter this year they brought in $17.7 million, which puts their total so far at $70 million. on the house side the dccc is putting aside its money to spend

big this fall. $32 million set aside for a tv advertising campaign in more than a dozen districts in 14 states. they say they are planning now because the rates are going to go up closer to the election in november, obviously the time will get gobbled up as well. this is the earliest ad buy in the committee's history. on the presidential campaign front, mitt romney tries to continue to court evangelicals. he just announced he is going to give the commencement speech at liberty university on may 12th. president george hw bush gave the commence address there back in 1990. president obama is back in d.c. today. and this afternoon he is going to welcome the alabama crimson football team to the white house, and honor their 14th

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i think i'm on governor grandholm's show tonight on current tv. >> you think? >> i think so. >> okay. >> and then tomorrow sexy liberal john fagelsang right here live in studio with us. he has been doing stuff over at current all week as well. so very exciting. it's not often that a book is cool and gossipy and also really smart. and only nancy gibbs could pull that off. it's called club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." good morning. >> good morning. >> what a great idea and what a great book i have to say. >> that's nice to hear. thank you. >> you sum it up best, these are men who have worked in the same desks, slept in the same beds and shaved in front of the same mirror, so it is an exclusive fraternity, right? >> what we found is we're so used to looking at presidents

individually, up there on the global stage. when you look at them in relationship to each other and how they got along in pairs in trios, in quartets, you suddenly see them completely differently. >> that's -- that's the part of it, the personal relationships which sometimes are surprising. because you think they hated each other but as you say it's like only they have such a unique understanding of that job, so it leads to surprising relationships. which one surprised you the most? >> the first one that we write about is herbert hoover and harry truman two presidents who could not be more politically opposite. truman said he is to the right of loui the 14th. it doesn't matter. we just talked about what it is like being president. >> a lot of people in more

recent times look at george hw bush and bill clinton. >> the bush family has become so close to president clinton, they have a nickname for him. they call him the brother from another mother. >> yes. >> he vacations with the father and does fundraisers for the son, and he has sort of become a member of the extended bush family. >> the bromance of all bromances him and the senior bush. >> right. >> and really those were politically hard-fought battles. >> one of the rituals of the club happens when even yes, bill clinton in the 1992 campaign but of clinton won president bush wrote him in a note and among the things he said is by

the time you read this you will be our president and i'll be routing hard for you. >> yeah. >> they want to see the president succeed. they know how important it is for the country. and his son had all of the presidents to meet the new guy. and the same thing happened. george w. bush said we want you to succeed. and that's really kind of the abiding philosophy of this group of men who however much they may have disagreed politically are united by, i think a larger cause. >> here is what i liked. sometimes it was as simple as quietly stopping by the white house and telling him jokes. george stops and tells barack obama jokes. >> yeah, he is a great story

teller. and he would come to town there was one visit where jeb was with him and they went by the white house. it isn't giving him advice it's sort of -- you know the real message is don't let the bastards get you down. >> hum. >> they know how hard it to sit in that chair. >> knock-knock jokes? what kind of jokes does he favor? >> i don't think they are of the knock-knock variety. >> you write that obama was cool to george w. bush has quietly wooed bush one since taking office -- >> didn't think i was going to do it. but i did it. >> yeah. >> yeah, i think he is -- he is closest to -- and really worked very hard to reach out to the senior president bush went down to his presidential library and gave a speech honoring him for

his public service and has really been very sol i wills advertise of him. >> you write about his relationship with bill clinton how would you describe that. >> one senior advisor said three words no love lost. obviously the 2008 campaign was tough and the fact that obama defeated clinton's wife for the nomination was obviously going to leave scar tissue behind. but once obama was in office he had sort of suggested that he felt clinton's presidency was a missed opportunity. too many small initiatives. too much compromise didn't seize the moment he had, and obama was going to be the transformational figure. you get into office and start having to cut the deals, and make the compromises, and all of a sudden you realize this is all

a lot harder than it looks. so he has reached out to clinton much more. he has consult with him. and now clinton is starring in one of obama's campaign videos. so that relationship, i think has become closer. >> it also seems that he and hilary have genuinely gotten closer. how do you view that? >> i think there's a pretty wide-spread feeling that hilary clinton has served effectively as secretary of state. and that too helps put any residual bitterness into the past. >> yep. >> let's go back one before that. you talk about the secret pointers that reagan gave to clinton, including teaching him to salute properly.

>> again, these are just the handoffs. clinton goes out to l.a. to pay a visit -- just a courtesy call on ronald reagan. and they end up in re -- ronald reagan's office. and he said i noticed you don't know how to perform a proper solute. and that's a problem. and reagan of course the actor understands the performance of literally performing the role of president. >> right. >> that's kind of cute. [ laughter ] >> i got to say that's the cutest story in there. let's go back to -- here we go with reagan -- you talk about the extrordanaire correspondence of letters that reagan and nixon wrote back and forth to each other. >> some of these letters had never been out before, but that

relationship goes back decades, and they are corresponding with nixon praising some of reagins speeches. and in 1986 now that correspondence gets to be a little bit tricky because nixon now realizes he could have a problem with this guy. so there are a lot of passive aggressive mind games that go on between them. he assures him he has no intention of seeking the election. >> yeah. reagan spoke at my dad and goldwater's convention. >> yes. >> so this stuff -- i was particularly interested in with johnson too about nixon threatened to tell the whole world that johnson has bugged

him which is hilarious. [ laughter ] >> yeah, this was -- this is one of those beautiful karma ik studies. johnson found about this because he was wiretapping people around nixon. and so when nixon is in trouble with water gate he calls johnson and said you need to call up your democratic senate friends and get them to back off of this investigation, or i'll reveal the fact that you bugged us in 1968, to which johnson replies, well, if you do that i'll let everyone know what i learned during that time. so it's a game of mutual blackmail. >> you can hear nixon. >> i would never resort to that. >> we have the tapes now, and

you hear nixon and his men talking about all the time. what is the big deal? everyone does this. johnson was the one during that transaction who showed nixon where the tape recorders were kept. >> yeah, there you go. nancy it is fascinating stuff. thanks so much for taking time to be with us. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> that is an awesome book. >> yeah. >> sometimes people are very intimidated -- >> here is how i learned how to solute during hell cats of the navy. and here is how i learned to salute during -- oh that wasn't me. >> yeah, and dear, dick well, there you go again. >> may i call you dick? >> everyone else does. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> kids if you are not selling your business online you are

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>> and he's loving all of the promotion he is getting. >> yeah. >> he is just being a blow hard and getting all of the promotion for his ranch, where he can go wusesy hunting. >> exactly. that's what it is. wusesy hunting. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> i'm hunting wusesies. [ laughter ] >> hi, jeff. >> good morning, stephanie. you were talking earlier about willard romney and his wife anne and everything, and i was trying to think about what i could say about this and all of his money that he made, i guess was from bain capital and his wife and everything and his house was being bought by him robbing pension funds from these companies that went bankrupt. >> yep. >> and his company right now -- he still gets a redid wall from bain company.

>> yeah. >> and it is in the mix in the american airlines bankruptcy right now. and they are the ones trying to indisrate the pension funds and everything else. i think people should see he has taken this off of the sweat of somebody else's brow -- >> yeah. >> his firm -- just to give you an idea, his firm is getting $600,000 a month by american airlines. they -- paying 900 to $1,500 an hour to go after these pension funds. >> yeah, it's vulture capitalism. caroline says it's romneyism.

[ applause ] >> gene in cleveland. welcome. >> hi, stephanie. >> hi. >> i have been trying to figure out who romney reminds me of and every time that republicans get offended by the truth they always come back with, we know we did but so did you. >> pee wee. yes. >> i'm trying to use the phone! >> yeah. >> it's sort of like pee wee romney's big election. [ laughter ] >> exactly. there we go. let's go to judy in california. welcome, judy. >> trying to use the phone! >> judy you need to turn your radio off. bunny in north carolina welcome. >> thanks, stephanie. like you i'm a liberal, proud of it. but unlike you i'm not a happy clappy, and here is why. >> okay. >> even if every single poll

says obama ahead by 99 points and that holds all the way up until the election we have voter suppression in 32 states and citizens united -- >> yeah listen bunny, i am not -- i am not unconcerned. i know what you are talking about. you can't look at these polls and go oh, it's in the bag. >> and the republican voting machines are still there. the ones that flip votes mysteriously. >> welcome, janet. >> good morning, steph chris, and jim. >> hello. >> i'm calling to give a huge shout outto al gore. he continues to promote intelligence honesty and current tv is just another example. >> and clap. >> maybe that aside. and that aside too. yay, you steph. >> yay me, and yay for al gore!

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>> yeah. which i never saw -- >> people watching current are like, you wouldn't believe what you hear during the break. the columbian secret service hooker scandal, now is a hooker and blow scandal. "new york post" reports that cocaine and several bottles of whiskey in columbia. what isn't fuelled by cocaine and several bottles of liquor -- >> that's my question. >> there is a pick up line huh? >> you can get anything you want at elsia's restaurante -- >> what do they have the

president's signature written in magic marker. >> oh, god. >> mittens on the schedule. >> i would clean house. the right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the trust, and put their lay time and their personal interest ahead of the nation. >> i like firing people who provide services to me -- >> or services to hookers. >> yes, the boner on this. >> i think we need to get to the bottom of it. from all of the press reports i have read, it certainly sounds like behavior that was inappropriate, and again let's deal with what the facts are. >> facts are. >> wow, that's really -- [ mumbling ] >> and chris, you pointed out that you think the hookers were entirely too expensive -- >> i don't know. the only thing i know about the cost of hookers is from

movies -- >> of course is that your story. >> $800 for a columbian hooker sounds a little high. >> well, we haven't seen them. >> they could all look like gloria from "modern family." >> it's just a cheap hooker in paradise, it's not very mean and it's not very nice, if you try it, it will make you think of everything twice because it's a cheap hooker in paradise ♪ >> the clum bee -- columbian hooker to fran drescher impersonation. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> here is a story. looking up porn for the first time on the internet, and you find your wife. >> oh, don't you hate when that happens. >> an egypt man claims that what

happened. he found not one, not two, but 11 films with his wife -- that will teach him to look at porn. that probably taught him a thing or two. >> yeah. >> judy in california. hi, judy. >> hi darling you are my bowl of corn flakes with strawberries in the morning. >> thank you. >> i have been a bleeding heart liberal since 61. >> bleed on. >> the conservatives are so full of hate but i'm stunned by their ignorance, their literal ignorance, that a rick perry who runs the state that is texas -- who runs the state and did not know you had to be 18 to vote. >> yes, and had the wrong day.

>> in front of the voters that were going to vote for him. a plethora of people on that stage that didn't condemn the audience for booing and -- active servicemen -- >> i think it's plethora. >> plethora. >> there you go. >> plethoria is my favorite -- >> you don't wear dentures like i do. >> judy has an excuse. what is your excuse, stephanie. >> what? >> plethoria. all right. >> hey mike welcome. >> good morning, love your show. >> thank you. >> i like that lady [ inaudible ] al gore a while ago, when al gore was running for congress many, many, many years ago, he came to my house and drink coffee with me several

times. >> really? >> yeah, my father-in-law was a big supporter of him and his father, still is. >> good. >> but another thing, i want to [ inaudible ] if i hadn't have said that what he said about the machine guns to barack obama and hilary clinton, they would have put me in jail. >> oh, yeah. >> and i know how to handle machine guns i fought two wars in the infantry. >> oh, boy. good for you. >> the secret service got a lot of labia plethoria, right? >> oh. [ whacky comedy music ] >> when she said that all of us went what >> >> she put the emphasis on the wrong sill-ab-able. >> oh, folks -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> corporations who spent the

most on lobbying see their taxes drop. >> huh. >> two-thirds of the largest corporations lobbies on at least one tax bill, and the majority of them ended up playing lower taxes. the eight major corporations -- oh, looks, exxon mobil -- >> awe. >> places are really hurting. >> yeah. >> they all saw their tax rates decrease magically. [ magical music ] >> our friend alan west is back. >> oh boy. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> he said 80% of congress are communists. on tuesday he explained that expansion of welfare programs constitutes communism and said

it is not a recent problem. president woodrow wilson -- [ bell chimes ] >> communist. >> right. [ applause ] >> that guy -- >> the communist party will be the first to tell you progressives are nowhere near as communist as they would like them to be. >> yeah, right? [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> speaking of -- please let this not be a congress person at some point. the republican who hosted the m-16 shooting event to remove gabrielle giffords from office? >> yes. >> he has received the republican nomination. jesse kelly won the republican nomination primary to fill the seat left vacant. he will face ron barber who is giffords district manager. he infamously hosted an m-16s

automatic weapons shooting campaign. >> oh. >> that guy. >> there's no connection. >> crazy. >> crazy. >> yeah. all right. it is wrong to put a catholic priest on my future husband list? >> pointless but -- >> wrong in so many ways. >> tim clark got a standing ovation for shunning for repealing the state's recently enacted marriage equality law. they give the reverend a standing ovation on sunday when he announced the parish would not be participating in the

effort. so gays you can play in therrian deer games in washington state. >> isn't that a pagan symbol -- >> no, was the lake of fire -- >> king arthur. >> okay. catholics reject the church's opposition to marriage equality according to recent polls. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> katherine bishop claims obama is following a path similar to hitler. >> yeah, hitler would have been a big fan of obama. >> he is in a mass proceeding a catholic's men's march -- >> oh there is so much wrong with that -- >> fill in your own joke. >> as part as a lengthy historical lecture, he claimed president obama following in the

footsteps of adolf hitler. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> hitler at stalin would not tolerate any competition with the state. in clear violation of our first amendment rights -- >> hitler wanted to be a priest -- >> doesn't he understand hitler and stalin were on the opposite on the political spectrum? >> no, he does not. president obama now seems intent to following a similar path to hitler and stalin. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> 45 minutes after the hour back with the celebrity stack and the latest on the trayvon martin case. >> announcer: she is your human prozac. it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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are you. >> i know you only have a couple of minutes. but the gsa scandal, the secret service scandal. first of all are they having overkill on how many hearings we have had on the gsa thing. it seems to me republicans and democrats are equally outraged about this correct? >> there is nothing that washington likes better than a good scandal. >> right. there were two hearings, and there are two more hearings. tell us what happened. >> with respect to the gsa, one region -- there are ten regions plus the district of columbia one leader in one region has been hosting for a number of years, for this motivational extravaganza -- can you hear me? >> uh-huh. >> it started at $200,000 and

then went to 4 and 6, and then $800,000. and they had all kinds of trinkets and awards, and it really got completely out of hand, and -- to her credit the head of gsa took the fall though she is the one who actually blew the whistle and gave the information to the inspector general, and it look the inspector general who has 300 staff members, nine months to do the report. it was actually management that found this out and reported to him to investigate. >> right. >> so i -- i really do think administrator johnson whatever the faults and defects in her judgment, she did the honorable thing, very rare in washington she resigned but not before she

instituted reforms and fired two deputies. and, you know, obviously everybody is interested. is this a culture of abuse or an isolated incident? i really think when you get over the histrionics of it, it is absolutely legitimate to be concerned about excess but i don't know this is a problem with the management. the regional structures have way too much autonomy and way too little accountability to headquarters, and that is absolutely one of the things that went wrong here with gsa. >> i doubt there's any president in history that hasn't had some scandal in some department.

what is your take on the secret service -- it seems like they are addressing that pretty quickly. >> first of all mitt romney is -- today he's blaming, and tomorrow he is exonerating. but the fact of the matter is even the [ inaudible ] chairman of our committee, a bipartisan admitted this is not something that can be pinned on any one administration because quite frankly it has been going on for a long time. it has to be rooted out and cleaned up, and people have to be held accountable, and that process is unfolding as we speak, and there may yet be some indictments or certainly criminal investigations of some individuals who clearly broke the rules. with respect to the secret service, i think what is most alarming about that is 11 individuals in the secret service decided that they were

somehow immune from the normal rules of engagement when you are overseas on a secret service mission, especially when you are anticipating the arrival of the president of the united states. that has the attention of everyone in washington, but we're all hoping it is an isolated incident, but a bad one, and it doesn't necessarily characterize the culture of the secret service. the secret service agents are some of the few people in the federal government who it's job it is to impose their bodies with those they are designed to protect, and take a bullet if they have to. so i think we want to be careful about brood generalizations, but clearly what happened is unacceptable, and i think it has to be vigorously pursued and the folks involved have to suffer severe penalty and discipline. it is unacceptable period for an

american official who travel aboard especially when their mission is to protect the president of the united states and to engage in any behavior that could bring dishonor upon their reputation, our country's reputation, and we don't know the answers yet. it needs to be thoroughly investigated. >> i know they are telling you have to go vote. thank you so much for your time. >> hello. >> thank you, sir. >> hello? >> okay. [ applause ] >> he lost his connection right at the same time. >> perfect timing. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> the judge quit the trayvon martin case. can i say one thing? she's hot. >> yes, i noticed that right away. >> oh, for the love of pete. >> this trial -- she removed

herself after the attorney for george zimmerman argued she has possible conflict of interest that related to her husband. her husband works for an attorney who was first approached to -- >> and the reason george zimmerman hired the guy he has now is because he saw him on tv. >> yeah, it sounds like zimmerman went to every lawyer in the state of florida. >> yeah. >> i know shawn henty is on tv. shawn can you help me? [ dial tone ] >> all right. >> why don't you talk to sean hannity about this case. >> i think he has blocked me. >> tell her i'm not talking to her! >> mittens might go on "saturday night live." don't you hate this because

they'll make him look good. >> no, they won't. >> it depends on the skit. it would have to be funny. >> here is a humorous story. >> yeah. >> his ability to name food really bit him in the ass -- >> these are pancakes -- >> these are apparently some cookies from 7/11 somewhere. and they were from a fancy bakery -- and they were very insulted. you can't let him wing it. >> yeah. [ applause ] >> we love you dick clark. >> yes. >> tomorrow john fagelsang. >> sex with friday john fagelsang? >> all right. that's it for us. we'll see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪