talk about it couldn't get a single member. >> they are too busy preserving tax cuts for small businesseses like exxon mobil. >> yes, the 1% small businesses. >> exactly. let's talk about the student loans. obviously a lot of talk about that. that looks like republicans finally are going to cave on that, aren't they? >> not necessarily. they have said they support the concept, but they want to battle over where the funds come from. and right now they are talking about taking it out of preventative health care. which would be absolutely the wrong place to take it from. the house democrats have proposed basically using shutting down the oil loopholes in order to fund it which makes a lot of sense these are special interest loopholes that put more money in the already big bank accounts of the big

five. so the fight is yet to be fully waged. >> the president had this to say yesterday. >> this is the economy. this is about your future. [ cheers and applause ] >> if you do well, the economy does well! >> yeah, because the republicans are saying oh, well, you know the main problem is the economy. why isn't he working on this? and that seems like basic math. if you double student's interest rates, it is just not good for the economy. >> we are already becoming the generation of parents who's kids are getting less education than we got, because they can't afford the schools and tuition, and they can't save up the money with the service jobs they are able to get. doubling the interest rate on student loans, how many folks are going to not be able to continue their college education as a result. or be so burdened afterwards that they are just waited down

and unable to fully participate in the economy. it is a huge factor. and we are spending way too much money overseas and not enough on education and infrastructure. >> yep. the -- john boehner had this to say. >> today i'm pleased to announce on friday the house will vote on a bill to extend the current interest rate on federal student loans for one year. we will pay for this by taking money from one of the slush funds in the president's health care law. >> oh. >> there it is. >> yeah. >> tear it down. what happened to the ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? americans really get that. and we would all like to have our diseases caught early. and it's everything about being smart on health care and they want to tear it down. >> yeah. even the violence against women

act. is there nothing that just a no brainer that you should be for? >> the violence against women act is something that passed basically virtually unanimously. i think it was unanimous in 2000, and 2005 when it was reauthorized, and suddenly with this republican war on women it is being argued about that we shouldn't reauthorize these key grant programs that keep victims safe and hold perpetrators accountable. again, this kind of falls into that category of public safety and fairness that what is held broodly across the political spectrum previously. >> yeah, but nothing seems to be like it was previously. we're having on ron reagan next hour. and this is not even ronald

reagan's party, it is not even george bush's party anymore. >> yeah, i don't think he even begins to understand how far he went into that territory. it contributes to deep suspicion about who -- who he is because it's like a chameleon with completely different viewpoints depending on when you listen to him in the past. >> yes it's like looking at a confusing prism. senator thank you so much for taking time to be with us this morning. >> thank you. >> from the beautiful state of oregon. >> the bitch had it coming act. >> the "stephanie miller show" show would like to apologize there was no bitch had it coming

act. the "stephanie miller show" show would like to apologize again and distance itself from both of these carbon forms -- >> it was a cultural milestone. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] not only did romney set a record low. he didn't get to 60%. and the fun fact i forgot -- also record-low turn out. so of the very few people that are actually voting -- >> how is that mitt-mittdom going? >> yeah. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> "politico" has a piece on romney's post primary plan. >> oh. >> mitt romney has landed on a new strategy to keep him in the headlines, getting in president

obama's face. oh mittens you are so . . . bush. the campaign as asked the surrogates to bird dog the obama campaign events. and it makes it unlike that romney's supporters will be as effective at distracting the president. ann romney in particular have already begun courting women voters. and she is doing nicely on that all right. [ applause ] >> but that was kind of ill phrased yesterday, when she said i love the fact that some women don't have a choice and they have to work. [ affected laughter ] >> some mothers. not me. you. [ laughter ] >> wow! >> she may suddenly be available for all of those dressage events overseas. >> yeah. >> never mind just don't -- >> just don't talk. >> romney's state chair in wisconsin said he doesn't know if he'll be back to stump for

scott walker who romney called a hero. >> for what? >> they were unable to cite anything in romney's platform aimed specifically at young voters. other than quote, he is a younger more dynamic candidate that past [ applause ] >> okay. >> [ crickets chirping ] >> he's not as decrepted as john mccain. wow. that's it. >> his hair isn't completely gray. >> there's that. >> how about there -- there's that, yes we can enthusiasm. >> romney also needs to shore up support against hispanic voters.

[ applause ] [ bell chimes ] >> good luck with that. >> i can't talk to you people, i'm running for office for pete's sake. i might get brown on me. >> his -- he is opposed to the dream act, as he said. he said the arizona law should be the model for the country. >> wow. >> he sent a ground table in arizona and illustrated romney's difficulties with hispanics -- >> difficulties. >> por que? >> it's just he is awkward -- >> i'm the most awkward man in the world. >> he is awkward with everybody except for rich white men. >> yes. that he has locked down. >> all right. 17 minutes after the hour.

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stephaniemiller.com stephaniemiller.com. as rob did. zimmerman said he didn't know trayvon was so young. but the operator asked him what age he was, and zimmerman said he looks like he is in his late teens. [ dramatic music ] >> lying? >> oh, chris this is for you. angela in phoenix. because i asked -- that's the snoopy current microphone. >> the pzm mic. >> and pzm stands for pressure zone microphone. we frequently smash into each other getting to the same joke. and there you go. it is commonly used to record full room sound by being mounted

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[ applause ] >> what the happens. >> yeah, whatever the kids are saying. >> back in 1954. [ laughter ] >> as they were playing their bongos. >> sharon in portland. >> hi, steph. i have a quick question which i hope you can look into if you don't know the answer like i don't. i have a really vivid memory burnt into my mind of a guy on tv in the 2008 election, he was a computer hacker and hacked into the voting machine in about a minute. what is the update on what machines will be used -- >> jim who is it? i was a big story. into a d-boll machine. >> yes. >> it is somebody we have had on. i forget. >> fred freedman. >> no it was a computer expert.

but there has been a lot of really troubling stuff with machines. >> and you may not have noticed even though we have an ink dot thing, it is going into a scanner now. >> right. >> it's not going into a box anymore. >> if mitt romney suddenly becomes really overwhelmingly popular, that will be suspect. >> yes. >> joe courtney joins us next on the show. ♪ >>now let's get some real news. (vo) first, news and analysis

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> oh blast you and your estrogencall [ inaudible ]! >> i apologize for my estrogencall [ mumbling ] >> go to solar world.com to find out more about the solar leader. [ mumbling ] >> i have a eye doctor appointment because i'm having floaters. >> it's like a portion of your nerve detacking. it comes with age. >> oh, perfect thanks. >> pretty soon all you'll see is

floaters. it will be like your personal macy's parade. [ laughter ] >> it will be like a ticker take parade for you every day. >> oh, my life gets a little tiny bit sadder every day. >> i'm getting a lot more of them too. >> oh great. thanks for that. representative joe courtney -- oh he is not with % us. he'll be with us -- >> top of the hour. >> oh, i'm sorry, i can't see -- >> because of the floaters. [ laughter ] >> and coming up . . . >> is that now -- >> what is that? is that a smudge or a word? [ laughter ] >> oh, bless your heart. >> oh, bless my heart. [ somber music ] >> richard in texas has a crush on jacki schechner. >> who doesn't. >> right? she is hot. >> hi richard in texas. >> how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i just wanted to make a

compliment to y'all because when people magazine voted beyonce as the most beautiful person in the world, evidently they have never seen you or jacki schechner. [ romantic music ] >> he is look for a little hot girl on girl. >> charles welcome. >> you people are great. i love this show. >> thank you. >> why don't the liberals come out and tell the truth about the economy. the reason the economy is bad the republicans have sabotaged it. they block everything in the senate. and the congress won't even bring up the good bills. >> yeah. >> even ones that they agree with. nope. because they don't want to give obama a single victory. >> mitch mcconnell failed that -- >> i will do everything in my

power to keep -- make sure nothing gets done that help american people in any way. >> nonetheless -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> they are still turning on mitchell mitchell turtle soup is the lead line. vocal conservatives blame mitch mcconnell. >> wow. >> at least according to a small but vocal band of conservatives. lead by red state.com eric ericsson. >> the guy who douchy they named his twice. >> exactly. he said he's not willing to engage in the fight. he is a consummate washington guy. he lost his testicles, and we need to second mitch some balls. that's what eric ericsson wrote.

>> can he say that? >> apparently. he is going to tip him on his back and leave him there. >> we keep our junk inside the shell. exactly eric that's not fair. low ret ta welcome. >> hi, there. the people calling in saying they are worried about the election. they can google organizing for america and then volunteer and help out. right now we're making phone calls for people to come and help do a photo registration because there are a lot of people that need to update their voter registration and it can be done. >> yeah, don't let that get you discouraged because a lot of times they put stuff like that anyway, they are going to steal it anyway, so don't bother to vote. >> yeah, and overwhelming

numbers said they can't steel it. >> christian in brooklyn is having floater sympathy for me. >> hi, stephanie. i just wanted to let you know i got floaters when i was 19 years old, and i was panicked that i was going blind. and my mother took me to like three opthamologist so calm my slightly neurotic side. >> i feel your pain. >> so you'll be okay. >> what did you do for them? >> what you do is you follow what the opthamologist to make sure there is no retinal detachment. normally it is totally fine -- >> but there's nothing you can

do about it? you just continue to have the ticker take parade in your eye? >> you have a have it reous humor. >> actually you just get used of them. >> really. at least i can see less of the mooks. >> oh, floaters again. >> of course. you opened up the flood gates. >> call 1-800-i'm old.com. hi, mike. >> hi. i have had them in both eyes. >> really? >> yeah, a few months apart. they start off bad. they go away. it's the -- i don't know what the guy before me was saying but i was told that it's the -- the have it reous starts to contract with age and starts pulling pieces of the retinal

off, but nothing bad. >> oh, that sounds fine. >> maybe it comes with the change you just dry out. all of the liquid -- >> in addition to my eggs coming out sounding like that -- >> your eyes are callsify and call out. >> you lost your sense of vitreos humor. >> that call where the guy said hi stephanie, both of my eyes have calcified and been removed from my head. [ screaming ] >> you will be like a tom and jerry cartoon, we'll just paint

eyeballs on your eyelids. >> just when i get a tv show great. hello, current, both of my eyes have calcified and been removed from by head will that effect my tv show? [ dial tone ] >> hello? >> buddy welcome to the show. >> our president has major games. that thing with jimmy fallon the monster -- >> yeah. that's why it's making them crazy, because it was so good and they know it. they are like what are they talking about every president has gone on late night television shows. >> [ inaudible ]. >> he is a man. >> momma on voter machines. i have worked on it for years. we have gotten much, much better

at stopping it. if people are concerned, volunteer. get a hold of the party and do the voter protection work. we count the heads in the checks on the wall and the votes at the end of the day. you can get ahold of the party say you want to do voter protection work, and we have work for you. >> yep. exactly. be a poll watcher. >> that's right. >> did you see what obama said about his singing? >> what? >> he said yeah, i wasn't worried about hitting the high note in the al green song. i can sing. >> bring it mitt. >> he encourages mitt to try to keep up with obama and try to be funny and entertaining, and he is falling flat on his face. >> i don't know if you know this but mitt romney appears to be the candidate on the other side.

[ applause ] [ affected laughter ] >> what do we have to show for three and a half years of president obama? is it easier to make ends meet? >> oh, well. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> i think we posted this on our site, top 50 obama accomplishments. it's actually quite a bit against unprecedented obstruction. okay. mittens. >> this america is fundamentally fair -- >> for you and your friends. >> -- we have to stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice. [ cheers and applause ] >> we -- we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends' businesses. >> what? [ cheers and applause ] >> we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of

their choosing. [ cheers and applause ] >> union bashing, there we go. check. check. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> here little girl here is a $50 voucher. good luck. >> good luck. if you should become injured here is a paul ryan voucher. >> and if you don't get into a good school, blame yourself. >> oh newty, no. >> we will do everything we can to make sure he is effective, and we as a team are effective in winning this fall. >> what do you mean we? >> yeah. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> did you see rick perry endorsed -- that's not surprising because their relationship was so warm. [ laughter ] >> i told you it would end up like broke back mountain. that one debate was like the

angry scene. and now see. [ romantic music ] >> i can't wait to see that. of all the non-endorsing endorsements we have seen that has to be the best -- i want to see three things about mitt romney, oooooooooh oops. all right. 46 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: join the party, 1-800-steph-1-2. ♪ >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>bringing you exactly what's happening in politics today by people who know what they're talking about. >>d.c. columnist and four time emmy winner bill press joins current's morning news block. >>i know what i'm talking about and i love it and i try to bring that to the show.

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♪ steph, steph, baby ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 51 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. chris writes steph, ann romney merits a don't speak drop, doesn't she? >> yeah, after she said i love it that some working mothers don't have a choice and have to work. i think it's precious. >> no don't speak. silence! don't speak! >> and chris says and mittens would build the keystone pipeline himself with his soft dove-like hands? sure you would, mittens. sure you would. [ laughter ] >> dove-like hands. >> yeah, moistureized rich-man hands. oh, hang on, since i don't have time to go to the doctor there

is an opthamologist on the phone. hi. >> i want to be the official opthomop opthomop opthom ts. you had an accident right? >> yes. >> in the same eye? >> yeah. >> one big one or a whole bunch of little ones? >> a whole bunch -- >> a ticker take parade. >> just make sure you get seen soon, and if you start noticing more of them. you need to get in monday. >> what does the flashes of

light? >> the gel inside your eye, as you age it does sort of contract and little pieces of it can break off and you start to see those floating ash in your vision, but the problem is when it contracts and pulls away from the retina it can rip a little whole in any retina and usually that will call flashes, because it is sort of electrical tissue. >> dr. mike things for all of this great news. [ electrical buzzing ] >> and in addition to that i can look forward to dying alone and being eaten by my dogs. so thanks so much for calling. [ applause ] >> yeah, that eye injury thing. >> yeah, i thought about that. >> so it's just in one eye? because i have them in both eyes. >> really? >> let's diagnose stephanie's death. >> we'll have to get you a

current eye patch. >> and a parrot. >> arg! >> every day will be national parrot day. >> chase says they need to take the steph-bot in for an overhaul. >> please stop. my mind is going. i can feel it. >> that was gone a long time ago. jay in orlando. hi jay. >> hi. the deal with eric ericsson? >> yes. >> the right-wing now their stance it has been an evolutionary stance but they fighting mode, they are not willing to compromise i follow a couple of gop on twitter, and with romney as the nominee the tone now is so much more

aggressive, and anyone that goes to congress that wants to compromise is going to be out of the party. it is amazing. >> yeah. >> no wonder we're screwed like we are. >> exactly. by the way we just had the obama guy from -- the national security advisor. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> and i was saying we have to get in the dee -- delorian. americans know we cannot go back to the future. shout out you are either with us or against us. isolate america instead of our enemies. thank you, exactly. [ applause ] >> according to chuck grassley the ruskys are the biggest

problem. [ applause ] >> speaking of the columbian prostitutes. senator mccain is getting to be a dirtier old man. he wants more details. >> i want more details. >> i'm very disappointed in the briefing from the military today. they had no details, didn't even know who was in charge at the time. >> they are dirty, dirty girls, aren't they? those prostitutes? >> the homeland security secretary -- >> this behavior is not part of the secret service way of doing business. they are very professional. >> really? oh, damn. that's going to hurt recruitment. not part of it. >> dagnab it. >> morning barry.

>> i just went through four weeks of driving my wife back and forth to work. because she had a floater in the right eye. went to the doctor they sent her to an eye specialist. they said it was age. 67 years old. >> yes i'm considerably younger! >> it can happen not only in old age. but it was good she reported it when she did, because hers tore right by a blood vessel. >> don't call me with your alarming stories. that's the good news chris, you'll be driving miss stephie for a couple of weeks. >> i already did that when you broke your foot. >> it's all downhill from here. bill in albany. >> hi, stephanie. it was interesting you got into

the ruskies, because i'm thinking of you on current like the 2003 radio europe where you are broadcasting behind the curtain. >> yes. >> said i paid $0.08 less for gasoline, that damn obama! and that oil companies won't be getting as much. have a good day. >> you too. 58 minutes after the hour representative joe courtney next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

♪ [ theme music ] ♪ well hello, current tv fans. here is what you have missed. chris and jim doing very inappropriate helen keller jokes because of the floaters in my eye. you guys didn't tell me i had all of these clumps of dog hair on my hat. can't somebody take care of momma. >> i don't like at y at least you're not sweating and pitting your shirt out. >> what is happening to me? >> menopause. >> i'm falling apart in front of america's eyes. we have joe courtney coming up, and ron reagan and jim is of course looking at porn. >> no, astronauts.

>> you are looking at conspiracy porn. >> and now some serious news with jacki schechner in the current anies-plex d so center. good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone. the kaiser foundation is just that says that businesses will own consumers $1.3 billion in rebates. national health reform mandate that insurance companies have to pay back the money they don't actually spent on health care. they have to pay at least 80 to 85% of your health plan. they failed at this miserably to the tune of this over a billion dollars. it will vary but all of the money is due by august.

just to keep you up to speed on who is endorsing whom. rick perry is throwing his support behind mitt romney. gingrich is going to drop out of the race, but not until tuesday, and drop out with the dubious honor of being the guy with the most debt of any gop candidate in recent history who did not win his party's nomination. and the center of new york is introducing a proposal to make it legal to round up and kill canadian geese. there have been birds hitting airlines, and he calls a public safety hazard. of course animal activists would like alternative methods. like repelling lights. we'll be right back.

attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up, thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now, the legislators are running scared. very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years, really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was shelved, idaho this proved to be political poison. women are paying attention and having their voices heard. >> thanks for coming in. >> the aclu considers a demand that to get a job you have to let an employer open your private

mail, the senate wants to make it illegal to hand over a password to your facebook account. >>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. we're keeping it real.

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either. >> no. sadly for all of us. >> i'm certainly not a night person. i can't stay up past 7:00. >> me either. mine is going back and back. it is at 6:00 now. >> at this time of year, it blazing bright. >> right. good morning representative. >> thank you for having me back. >> you have been talking about student loans. this would seem like a no-brainer. >> of course it is, and, you know, all of the data out there about student loan yesterday exceeds credit card debt, car loan debt, but i think it's important as we're starting to see some really frantic butt covering, in the republican leadership. the president challenged

congress back at the time of the state of the union to do this. my bill which i introduced that night believe it or not, has been steadily accumulating cosponsors. there was a petition with 130,000 signatures from college campuses around the country. speaker boehner and his folks on the education committee have been totally dismissing this issue, up until the president to his credit took this thing on the road and really elevated the noise on it. and now, again, last night, we heard speaker boehner saying, oh, we always -- you know, we're going to do this. >> sure. >> and it's really -- and the other point i think is important for your listeners to know. the ryan budget, which that produced and voted on -- >> and mitt romney thinks is marvellous. >> locked in the higher rate and doubled down in terms of hitting

needy students by cutting the pell grant program which is the work horse for families that can't cover the cost of college. 9 million students use pell. and these guys were cutting the award which the democrats had raised to 6 thousand dollars, back down to $5,000. these are crocodile tears of olympic proportion. >> here is speaker boehner. >> to pay this with taxpayer funds is inventing an issue that just does not exist. [ laughter ] >> wow. >> it's staggering to hear it. the education committee controlled by the republicans after the president's state of the union address did not introduce a bill, hold a hearing, do a mark up. virginia fox who the president quoted was on the g jordan liddy

show. i guess she doesn't go on your show. >> yeah, doesn't return my call. >> said she had no tolerance for students who graduated with $80,000 worth of debt. and the chairman of the committee said it was bad policy to protect the lower rate. now these guys are scrambling. >> she has a point. the president said he just paid his owns off eight years ago and what has he made of himself? >> right. it has been impressive to have people come up to me some of them stanch republicans, who pull me aside and say the stafford loan program immediate it possible for me to go to college and transform my life.

stafford was a republican by the way. >> right. >> and these guys were once again sort of breaking faith with their own party's -- >> yeah. and once again as with everything i think their priorities are also misplaced. president yesterday. >> some suggest that students like you should pay more so we can reduce the deficit. and these are the folks who ran up the deficit. >> right. and want to pay for these priorities. >> i think they need a lot of uneducated people to vote republican. >> the pay for that speaker boehner has just introduced last night was to use a fund created in the affordable care act to

provide access to ovarian cancer screenings, and all of this stuff that creates smart savings in the health care system which they have just been obsessed with wiping out. and they is suggested that is dead on arrival. there is tax loopholes for oil companies and hedge fund managers. there's lots of ways that you can offset the cost of protecting student loans, but going after healthcare programs that will provide life-saving access to care and oh by the way reduce health care costs is not the way to go. >> uh-huh. just the priorities in terms of -- we all think we should have to cut in certain places but it seems in every instance their priorities are just wrong. >> right. and the true you know, i think tail of the tape is what they did with the ryan budget. >> right. >> the -- higher education just got hit by a chain saw in that

thing. >> right. i don't think it's an accident that rick santorum says you are snobby and elitist if you want your kids to go to college. >> that's right. and when you think about what is the end game of that type of policy it really reduces higher ed to the haves versus the very knots, and as a nation our graduation rates which have already been declining at an alarming rate, we were number 1 in the world in the 80s, and we're down to 12 today. >> yeah. and i think the president said it best yid. take a listen. >> we want everyone american to succeed. but we all thes understand we're in this thing together and america is not just about a few people doing well. it's about everybody having a chance to do well. >> that couldn't be in starker contrast to mitt romney saying, gee, i hope you are shopping for

a cheaper school. >> and obviously another olympic-sized flip flop when they realized that this thing was danger zone. not just for young voters but for middle class and independent voters. people get this to make sure they are not just going to get buried in debt. >> right. >> to do something that is almost essential now. >> it's like let's see my kids -- the college loan doubles or it doesn't. >> yes. >> it's pretty simple. represent thank for your work on this. [ applause ] >> thanks, stephanie. we'll be in touch. >> with positive news on floaters. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> i can use that. hi, bruce in california. or as i read it here on my screen, bruce in mum

[ mumbling ] >> yeah my hometown. i love it here and i love you guys. my floater news is that i had floaters too. i have had them for a while, and i had a flash. that's the bad thing. so i went to the eye doctor and said i can fix that. so he put a laser kind of a gun on my eyeball and shot like a weld all the way around my retina. >> wow. i'm going to have my eyeball welded back into my head. >> you might. >> and that's the positive news. >> that's the positive news. they can fix, no surgery. and your eyeball is shot for a couple of hours, but comes back perfectly. >> your eyeball becomes googly for a couple of hours but then settles downs. >> it is also a flotation device.

>> on one of those game shows, yes. or i'll end up with my teacher in high school. she had that one eye that looks across the room. so when i'm asking you for stuff, you will be what? who are you looking at? >> i said you -- you get that sound effect. >> you know what i'm talking about. [ mumbling ] >> there's nobody over there. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> who are you looking at. >> mike in delaware. i'll be the entity. [ laughter ] >> mike in delaware. >> all right. i love the show. and i can't believe people say like media, don't give coverage to the right-wing. current is the only liberal news that i know of. and "the war room" with jennifer grandholm says how did romney get his groove back? simple, lies misinformation and blaming obama for everything the

gop did or didn't do. >> yeah mike thanks for paying attention. because honestly that's why current is here. the main stream media, if you read this. we were just talking about this study, romney got twice as much positive coverage and obama did. >> we need to get the koch brothers on the air and boycott them. and for the vote [ inaudible ] the corporations are putting out positive ads for legislators that don't vote for them. and if they are putting out negative ads, these people just not support their agenda so vote for them. >> all right. mike. i thank you. and thanks for paying attention to what we're doing here. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> we were saying that that the main stream media is to have a story, a close race --

>> we'll have to leave it there. >> they'll always have to leave it there, hilary rosen would you like to look in the camera. >> i think you should apologize for world war i and the lindbergh baby. >> do you have something to say about the holocaust? i'm just saying they need a story. poor hilary rosen is going to have to pay for everything. >> sure. she will have to apologize for my great aunt's gout. >> yeah, hilary you want to look in the camera. >> what were you doing on the grassy knoll. >> we get to get a website. carbonite online back up do it get it. you are going to have a disaster. a power outage a virus. someone is going to steal your

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just dealing with a number of medical crises. >> oh. >> i'm just worried -- >> fingers are crossed. >> it's not floaters. i don't know. >> floaters of different kind? >> 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. let's go to gene in indianapolis. >> saudi arabia is paying for their students to come over here and get education full boat for free. they don't put more than 50 students in an individual institution. but there are thousands of saudi arabias getting a free education here. we aren't even looking -- we aren't even talking about free education. >> yeah, gene, i made this point yesterday. this is what annoys me the

republicans always make this ahandout. it's a fair rate of a loan that you are going to pay back. >> that's right. where is the problem? >> yeah. okay. i like would to today be the stephanie miller official footwear fashionista. and here is my tip. buy a pair of blue flip flops and a red pair of flip flops wear one of each and you will be a mitt flop. [ whacky comedy music ] >> more americans agree with witchcraft than citizens united.

>> that's interesting. >> people who give unlimited to super pacs lead to corruption. only 15% disagree. 19% of americans believe in spells or witchcraft. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> just saying this the sb10-70 is the legislation before the supreme court. governor crypt cooper. >> i felt like i had a right to protect the citizens of arizona. >> and put my bony white woman finger in the president of the united states face. oh. justice scalia is becoming more and more a politician and less than a judge. compares to immigration to cut down on robbers. can the government make you eat broccoli? what? scalia added to the strong

sentiments he was requesting he said there is a federal law against robbing federal banks can that be made a state crime. he says it unconstitutionally enforces to go f after people who are not dangerous. the analogy is obviously false. as a justice there are things that sometimes both can do. either the state or the feds can arrest and prosecute bank robbers. ho said so we have to enforce laws in a manner that pleases mexico? is that what you are saying? why doesn't he just hurry up and retire and get a job on fox news. >> i know. i wish he would take a cue from

thomas and just shut the f up. >> and watch porn for pete's sake. kenneth welcome. >> if corporations are people can somebody tell me the last time a corporation came back in a body bag? >> yeah, or got executed in texas. >> or went to jail. >> right. 29 minutes after the hour back with ron reagan next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >>now let's get some real news. (vo) first, news and analysis with a washington perspective from an emmy winning insider. >>you couldn't say it any more

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>> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> but it is in canada. that doesn't count. >> yeah, i count. ♪ >> what happens in canada, stays in canada. >> yeah, canada does unto count. >> it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. all right. >> are you okay over there? >> everything is fine. >> all right. >> little soldier on -- it's not even my floaters. [ applause ] >> they are better. no i'm just concerned about my dog. ron reagan who i get to see every now and again. >> uh-huh. >> on a panel or two and he is like a thousand times smarter than i am but i have him on the

show anyway. hello ron. >> hello stephanie. don't make fun of canada. >> your new book "my father at 100." i thought it was great. i don't know if you heard about jon huntsman saying ronald reagan couldn't make the republican primary today. your thoughts. >> that's possibly true after all he raised taxes about 11 times when he was president. and he signed one of these most liberal abortion laws in the country. on the other hand mitt romney has a, you know, healthcare plan from his days of governor of massachusetts that is a spitting image of president obama's plan.

>> president obama sought to contrast the republicans of today just with mccain. he cosponsored a cap in trade bill that got 43 years in the senate. thought torture was the right thing to do. that's the most recent republican candidate. >> no wonder he is not running again. >> yeah. yeah. >> but i mean so that's the thing i feel like it really is provable. when we say things like that. like this isn't my dad or your dad. >> republicans are actually saying this, you are right. so i'll take their word for it. >> exactly. from your perspective as his son, what do you think your dad would think? >> i -- i don't put words in his mouth. i don't pretend to know how he would feel about cap and trade or what to do about medicare and

what the tax rate should be on rich people now. i won't speak for him now. a lot of other people seem to put words in his mouth. people who never even met him seem to be speaking through him here, and that's a little frustrating, but who else are they going to use that way the republicans? richard nixon. [ laughter ] >> yeah, you must laugh. >> oh, it's true. i'm really the next ronald reagan. >> i'm the reaganyist. >> yeah. >> in our family too. my dad has been gone a long time, but we have a debate about what we think he would feel and we have somewhat of the same split you have in your family. >> i think he would feel -- he

would be very uncomfortable with the sort of animosity across the aisle. he disagreed with tip o'neill, with ted kennedy, but he liked both of them and got along just fine with both of them. in those days you actually could reach across the aisle and get something done, which seems to be the point of going to you know washington in the first place. >> you know, ron perfect story today speaking of my dad who was a big notre dame man, last week -- i don't know if you saw this catholic bishop sparked national outrage when he compared obama to hitler and stalin. and i think my dad would agree with him having designed. >> yeah. >> you don't use this kind of rhetoric. >> you don't say the president of the united states is like

hitler. so far i haven't seen the trains leaving heading east. an apology would certainly be in order. sincere apology. >> obviously your father's presidency remains relevant today. everybody is talking about it again, as someone who is provably more reagany, who should run for president? >> none of the people running for president shouldn't have been. newt gingrich was on a book tour. and herman cain why was he there at all? michele bachmann, you only need to say the name michele bachmann to conjure up all sorts of

insanity. romney is the only choice that is even remotably credible yet he spent the entire primary trying to make himself less credible. so i don't see anybody that is even remotely like my father out there. >> what would your dad have said to governor norquist? >> who are you funny little man? >> yeah, get out of my office. >> yeah i don't think he would have seeded to any demands. and i don't see him telling my father to sign anything. >> yeah. what is your favorite memory of your dad? >> my favorite memory -- there were a lot of memories of my dad. one of the ones in my book was the time he and i headed out to

his ranch in santa barbara to find these big stones he was going to used to build a porch for my mother. stones he had brought and planted in the ground, so we head out and fine these stones and load them in the back of this trailer, and he decides we're not going back the way we came, the low road we're taking the high road, which means going up this steep ridge while we're hauling tons of rocks. we get halfway up and now we're going backward but he won't give up. we barely survived the first trip up the ridge. and i'm thinking it is done now. oh, no, no. he is not going to be defeated by anything as meager as gravity. it was like some world war ii movie -- >> wow. >> up the ridge again, and back

down backwards until finally he won. >> oh, wow. [ laughter ] >> and that's the last time a republican has ever taken the high road. thank you. thank you. >> thank you for that set up there. >> the book is fabulous and heart warming, it is "my father at 100" out in paper back. thanks so much honey for taking time. >> listen, thanks for having me. it's always a pleasure. >> see you real soon on a panel somewhere. >> i think later in seattle. >> there you go. all right. honey thank you. there he goes. ron reagan. [ applause ] >> that's a hilarious story. >> i'm not going to be defeated by gravity. >> charlie in dallas you are on the "stephanie miller show." hey, charlie. >> hi, steph. >> hi. you are the sexiest liberal in america. >> oh, why, thank you. >> i recently saw a video of

newt gingrich pandering to the nra during a speech where he said if elected president he would make gun ownership a right -- >> yes, across the entire world. >> yeah, pretty bold. why is that so acceptable yet the republicans, conservatives specifically are fundamentally unable to have a discussion about making health care and education a basic right of citizenship in the united states. >> oh thank you. like giving everyone a chance to get shot. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> oh, we just did the story about a couple that shot themselves at a gun safety class. oh, here we go.

florida man mistakes girlfriend for hog and shoots her. >> oh. >> i'm guessing there will be up coming issues in the relationship. >> did she survive? >> yes. >> an weekend camping trip ended with a helicopter ride to the hospital. >> which is worse being shot or being mistaken for a hog? >> he heard her and thought she was a hog and just shot. a mistake not actually related to her appearance. >> oh sure. >> he earlier shot at a hog to continued to evaded him. he instructed her to stay at the camp however, she wandered away

searching for oranges. he heard her, and shot in her direction without making confirmation -- [ applause ] >> maybe some people should haven't guns. >> yeah, not really. >> oh son of a -- i just -- shot myself, i just -- myself ♪ ♪ i just -- shot myself ♪ ♪ i just -- shot myself ♪ >> jim, you know this because you are married that women never forget any little thing, so i'm guessing that will come ip again. remember that time you thought i was a hog and shot me. >> i said i was sorry. >> would you let him forget. >> that a little worse than forgetting a birthday. >> i know, okay. i thought you were a hog and i shot you. >> all right. >> talk about holding a grudge. >> by the way did you find any truffles in there? okay! i'm joking. 45 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie

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♪ ♪ i don't know what you have done to me but i know this much is true ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- ♪ i want to do bad things to you ♪ >> okay. it is the "stephanie miller show." you don't have to ask me twice. 51 minutes after the hour. let's go to lisa in los angeles. hi, lisa welcome. >> oh, my god, i love you guys to death. >> thank you lisa. we love you back.

>> you know, i -- i -- i started -- a keith follower and when keith came over to current, i discovered current and i love it. and i lost him, of course, you know so -- so i'm dying inside. i'm dying inside. i died a little inside every day -- >> if i can tell you how many times people have said to me. >> until i met you. [ romantic music ] >> oh. >> but let me say this real quick. when the republicans -- the way they have been sabotaging the government which means they have not been doing what they were sent there to do isn't that treason? that's bad right? isn't that what that is? >> yes, i think the entire party should be executed for treason. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> what news busters.

>> join the magic. she was dead inside until she met us. [ suspense music ] >> just kidding news busters. i'm just telling you, i can't wait to get home. stephanie miller said the entire republican party should be killed for treason. i heard my friend say she made news busters for something. why do they keep calling me a drunk? no, you are thinking of me news busters. >> yeah, get it straight. >> left-wing drunk, randy miller -- [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> i'll go defender.

economists higher tax rates on the rich won't hurt growth. what? i thought the right-wing told us it would -- two prominent economistics, i know right, write in today's "wall street journal" and tie tax rates tend to go with higher growth. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> and they included a helpful start that shows that job growth has been the weakest when the top tax rate was at its -- [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> -- lowest. >> it's called a no-brainer so republicans should be able to get that. hey! >> hey! >> tlc is resurrecting lisa left-eye hologram. >> okay.

we need a moratorium on that. >> they are going to project her image and work her vocals into live performs. now it is raising the bar. who am i going to resurrect for sexy liberal? i think sam kenson. do you have to? is it a new rule for concerts? >> i guess so. >> seems a little creepy. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> chris i came in this morning, and you said to me -- >> oh, the white house called. >> the president made the cover of the rolling stone, jim. ♪ on the cover of the rolling stone ♪ >> and he said jon stewart is brilliant. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> whatever. he said i like the daily show if i'm home at night, i'll catch that. i think jon stewart is brilliant. >> whatever! >> you would think al gore would

say -- >> next time they call can stephanie get a wa wa? there? >> what's his name rick -- who is the white house crasher -- >> salohi. >> he is going to run for governor of virginia. >> he was also the white house party crasher. >> his wife left him to bang the guitarist from journey. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> which is not as bad, i grant you as the drummer from fog hat but still it's embarrassing f. >> i knew one of the base players for fog hat. >> all right. speaking of rock bands. ozzie osborne is going to be a grandfather. i wonder if he'll do the bedtime stories. >> so once upon a time [ mumbling ] the thing with the thing

[ mumbling ] >> grandpa, i don't understand the story. >> what are you going on about, grandpa. no bloody subtitles. >> tina faye loved sarah palin. no. tina faye said i thought she was so good, i hope i get invited to hand her an emmy. >> that would be fantastic. >> the kardashians will never ever go away. e as signed them to an unprecedented three year, $40 million contract. >> why? >> that doesn't cover product endorsements which means they stand to make much much more. >> i didn't think e paid that much. >> this is awesome. >> kids can't get student loans, but the kardashians can get

$40 million to act like asses on television. >> modern family sophia got carded at a club in new york city. i think it's a pity thing. she is 39 -- >> they know you by name and social security number at though wine barn. >> yeah, she had no idea to tell she was over 21. i'm telling you they pity card you. now they are like floaters we know you are old enough. >> it has been a while since i have been carded. >> they just do it to make elderly women like me feel better. hi, michelle. >> hi. one quick point about the school loans, it's not the students saddled with the debt and -- with the loans. in most cases the parents have

to cosign so, you know, your student grand waits 10s of thousands in debt, they get a job paying $9 an hour. they can't get a job, they move in, and mom and dad's house is on the line. >> exactly. it's a domino effect. all right. that's it for us. thanks to courtney and the gang in the current control room. >> and jacki schechner too. she's hot. >> see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪