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♪ >> oh, why hello, current tv fans. here we are getting ready for hour number 2, joshua hersh joining us live from afghanistan, reporting for the "huffington post," and then represent adam schiff will be right there live in studio hour number 3. we haven't even gotten to most memorable newt gingrich moments.

he got out of the race yesterday, and wow, was that a really, really enthusiastic mitt romney endorsement. >> ah. i guess he'll have to do frankly. >> and michele bachmann is going to endorse him. she is on record going he is not going to beat obama. it can't happen. >> now that's going to happen. >> now that's going to happen. in the meantime we have news with jacki schechner. >> good morning, everyone. the man who invented paul ryan's plan to reform medicare is now saying it won't work. according to the "huffington post" henry aaron was one of two guys who came up with the idea of letting people buy private insurance and then offering subsidies to help pay for it. in theory the competition would now drive down cost. he now says after 17 years

things like cost sharing and risk assessment some observations that he assumed would come to pass have not. and the medicare plans are actually more expensive than regular medicare is. he suggests trying out his premium support plan in the regular insurance market before applying it to medicare and that's exactly what the affordable care act will do. one of the ways we'll pay for national health care reform is by eliminating waste and fraud in medicare. federal authorities have now charged 107 doctors, and social workers with medicare fraud. the scams cost taxpayers $452 million which is the most in a single bust in medicare history. mitt romney may want to consider speeding up his outreach to hispanic voters. he has done very little to court

the spanish media. the pew research center's latest poll has president obama up over romney with hispanic voters by 40 points. we'll be right back. ♪

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sexy liberal comedy album. really? you are kidding. >> now have i to rush home feed my hour cats and watch a random hour of the "stephanie miller show" every day. >> it's not random. it's the least crappy hour. >> i have to see if i can get through this without crying. >> oh. >> i think we need love music for this. [ love music ] >> we really are a family. a little bit of a dysfunctional family, but we have people all over -- >> two are now in florida. >> they are running from the law. we have friends all over -- that go to all of the sexy liberal shows all over the world. see, i'm starting to cry a

little bit. chicago sexy liberal march 3rder, two of our favorite sponsors ray and bonnie this is a story in chicago who had become my good friends, and bonnie had been battling cancer for a long time. and ray sent many this letter part of her november goal is the march 3rd tour of the sexy liberal tour -- and she was there in a wheelchair and on oxygen. and bonnie died this week. [ applause ] >> we love you bonnie, and we love you ray. if you are in chicago go to the [ inaudible ] lakes and give ray a hug for me. when we were there at the show, talk about love -- he was kissing her head and they were making jokes, and just amazing,

amazing sexy liberals and great people. [ applause ] >> see i should haven't done that. >> great, great people. >> yes, and now on with the comedy. [ whacky comedy music ] >> yeah. awe. >> embrace them in a big sexy liberal hug today. and send them some love. all right. let's go -- who has to follow that now? [ laughter ] >> maureen in l.a. hi, maureen. >> hi, stephanie, hi mooks. >> hi. >> rush limbaugh and every other jibbering idiot on the right has been saying president obama doesn't deserve any credit because it was at miral -- >> the navy seals are more of an improve group. >> yeah, admiral mcraven back in

december said he would contend that president obama was the smartest guy in the room. >> yep. >> and he also said he showed leadership skills like a guy who had 35 years in the military. >> rush was probably just running out of time. >> yeah. never more will i vote republican! >> exactly. >> donald rumsfeld had some thoughts about this. >> jimmy christmas. >> and other old man phrases. the president's decision wasn't a tough call. he would be dumbfounded if any other president hadn't ordered

the raid. it is one of those unknowns and knowns. >> i want to make sure that he knows what they know that he may not know. >> he said we encourage -- we increased the special operation forces by about 50%. we increased our budget -- >> you shut down the bin laden -- >> we increased our equipment and developed the skill and intelligence, and when all of that comes together to not make that decision it seems to be would be dumbfounded. >> you don't have to imagine it. your boss did exactly that. >> yeah, it was still an unknown unknowable. >> make sure he knows that they know what he may not know. >> i don't know where he is. i don't care. >> it's an unknown known and i

don't care. >> not my mind a tough decision. no. >> cheese and chackers. my stars. he feels politicizing bin laden's death is unfortunate. he said a president has to run on his record -- >> yes. >> okay. okay. all right. [ somber music ] >> you and your president's record was not getting him. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> right. >> not getting him. and letting 9/11 happen. >> and politicizeing 9/11. >> and the patriot act -- >> yeah, and it still hasn't been repealed. >> yeah. >> welcome annette. hey, annette. >> huh oh. >> yes, maybe y'all can help me count. with scott walker, i know you

keep talking about the koch brothers, but if each brother gave obama $5 million that's $10 million that's a hell of a lot different than people giving obama $10. and the [ inaudible ] i'll let you guys listen for a few seconds. >> oh, she is d.j.ing for us. all right. annette. >> oh, man. >> yeah, what is up man. >> you hear the latest rumor? >> no, what are they talking about now? >> [ inaudible ]. >> okay. all right. annette. >> i don't know what i'm going to do, man. >> okay. all right. i don't really know what that was about -- [ applause ] >> we were at a hard break there. thanks annette.

i don't really understand what that was. but she put some time and thought into the pop for the big show today. let's go to sue in rockville, maryland. >> good morning. i don't have any music. >> then what is the point of you! >> seriously. with amendment one in north carolina we all have to get very active and say if they pass this homophobe thing, we should not be having a convention in charlotte, pouring millions of dollars into a state that could pass that. we need to use the power of all of us, i just sent a bunch of queries out and posted it on facebook. when lincoln had his convention in 1964. it was in baltimore not atlanta -- >> did you say 1964? >> i mean 18 -- >> i was like my dad ran with

abraham lincoln. >> you know how much money is going to pour in. >> yeah, that's a good point. i just suddenly realized i was so old -- >> i know, seriously. no. but the convention to reelect president lincoln was an involved one. we didn't go to atlanta and say let's give you money and help you rebuild while you promote slavery. >> that's a good point. however, i have to weigh that moral issue on the fact that my 89-year-old republican mother is already making me vegetable soup, which is amazing. should i give that up? >> she is mail it to me. >> fedex it to me. >> put some dry ice in there. it will be fine. >> 17 minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> it is a happening spot. >> announcer: it's the

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1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. >> she can do one-armed pushups with her bony finger. >> maria in chicago. go ahead. >> hey stephanie. the first one with willard mitt romney. >> yeah. >> if he keeps saying about how taxes are too high on him and the job creators why doesn't he release his tax returns. >> exactly. he can show how adversely that impacted him. >> exactly. and also on the shrill o'reilly show. he talks about extremes on the left and right, and i keep thinking if there are extremes on the right, and they are not in government, the tea partiers -- >> yes. he did another addition of false

equivalency theater? >> i don't understand that. if you get raped and pregnant by your rapist you can't have an abortion? that's not extreme? then what is? >> exactly. thank you. >> bobby in california. hi, bobby, welcome. >> hi, how are you doing? >> good. >> i had a dream -- a weird dream about obama. >> really? >> yeah, i was in a bar and it was you. out was rachel maddou. david stewart, and -- what his name. lawrence o'donnell. >> uh-huh. >> and i walk right up to you guys because you guys are like the group that i count on for my information, right? >> sure. sure. >> i'm like you guys need to

make a movie, and then you say -- you say, well john -- no, it's jon stewart. >> right. okay. >> yeah. >> so you are like well, jon should we? and he goes i don't know. i'm going to call michael moore. so he calls michael moore, right? and i'm like what are you calling michael moore for? >> oh. >> and then that was the end of the dream. >> wow. >> that's a sexy liberal dream. was there any sexy liberal sex at any point or no? >> no, i kind of heard some funny noises in the bathroom. it was just some crazy thing and stuff. and then i wanted to say to the country. >> oh, boy. >> is that all of this stuff -- i know there's a lot of americans that are in fear because there's always that possibility that mitt romney could get, you know, elected and stuff like that.

>> uh-huh. >> so let's just channel that fear into voting for obama. >> all right. good. thank you for that incredibly strange call. >> wow. >> that was almost like a kid joke. >> yeah. and then and then -- oh wait a minute, no. >> i'm the sexy liberal -- that was probably randy rhodes that was probably her in the bathroom doing the nasty with somebody. fidel castro or something. [ applause ] >> wow, that's a really weird dream. hum. okay. joe in long beach, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, joe. >> hey stephanie, good morning. i have to agree with mitt romney to fire richard grenell, but it really didn't have anything to do with anything but those catty comments that he posted all over twitter. >> yes they were catty -- sort

of anti-female. but they were all about women. so he is a non-partisan catty gay. >> and i was really glad to see rachel come out and defend herself. and i could tell that the string of pearls that she had were genuine. unlike the string i saw michele bachmann wearing this weekend. those were totally fake. >> oh, my god! >> oh my god! >> okay. >> let it go. high road. okay. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> michele bachmann has decided to endorse mitt romney. she said there was no way romney could beat obama. he cannot beat obama that is not

going to happen. she had been slipping badly in the polls, but she expected divine intervention. we know i know the one who gives miracles. jehovah god. the end is almost near. >> lord, the day is at hand. we are in the last days jehovah god. >> and please let my husband [ censor bleep ] me. okay. his policy is the basis for obamacare. it's two identicals. not going to happen. we need a bold distinct candidate. and now she is going to endorse him today. >> uh-huh. >> 29 minutes after the hour. joshua hersh from the "huffington post" next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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now. reporter for the "huffington post." good morning, josh. >> hi, how are you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thank so much for coming on this morning. >> my pleasure. >> the president's speech was very well received among the afghan people. >> yeah kabul functions in a different state than the rest of afghanistan. the taliban did not react that well, but they had a surprising level of warm feelings to the fact that the president came and showed himself even though it was the middle of the night and established a partnership to stay here in afghanistan. >> this is ryan parker. >> this is a long war, and it requires long-term commitment.

>> josh, obviously all polling shows the american people have grown weary of this war as well as iraq. do you feel like this was partially a political calculation, so he wasn't going to get this complaint that if you signal a date certain to the taliban that they are just going to wait it out. >> yes, there is a lot of mixed messaging coming from the white house i think in part to make everyone confused. but there is this date 2014 and by that date, the united states will have removed -- and this isn't change at all -- will have removed the vast majority of the troops out here. and wound down combat operations. what does that really mean and this is something that afghans have been concerned about for a

while. and even though i think for political reasons the president would have preferred to leave that out there but afghans want to hear more about what we were trying to do in terms of staying. and that's one of the things he did when he came. >> one of the things you were talking about is the obvious need for confidentiality because of security concerns. >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> no, i sort of inadvertently caught up in that story. because i was staring at twitter, arrean was on twitter -- >> he is always listening. >> i'm sure he is. there was a pretty reputable afghan news agency that said

obama is here. and i tweeted could this be true? because i have a lot of followers in washington. and the white house and the state department were in a little bit of a frenzy to try to get us to not tweet about it. so they had to blur the line. >> which is so shocking in politics. >> yeah, isn't it? we were talking to the press people about whatever they say is up is down and whatever they say is good is bad from now on. >> right. josh what do you make of this whole debate back here that the president is politicizing the death of bin laden and yada yada yada. >> yeah. >> the republican party

politicized 9/11 over and over and over again. and this is what the president ran on. we're getting out of iraq, and double down on bin laden, and he has done what he promised to. >> yeah. the point has been made -- obama's speech here was the eve of the anniversary of 9/11 and the date of george bush with the mission accomplished banner. it's taboo, but it happens all the time. >> i think politically and practically speaking, josh what is i think helpful to the president was people like mitt romney and john mccain were saying this was the wrong path

to follow to go into pakistan. >> yeah. there's a million things to say. amy davidson who is a very good blogger and editor at the new yorker said why not politicize it? how come politicizing is becoming a bad word? >> i think -- >> oh, sorry. >> go ahead. josh, i was going to say -- yeah. >> sorry. this connection is a little -- i don't know why. maybe kabul is not the best -- [ laughter ] >> but josh, i think it also highlights the original lie that romney and mccain -- they both used the word bomb pakistan. president obama said if we have actionable intelligence we're going to go in and take bin laden out with or without their help. and that's exactly what he did,

right? >> yeah. it will be interesting how the politics progress. on some level obama had ideal logical reason to down play our presence here. it will be interesting if it really becomes a big political debate. >> absolutely. josh it was great stuff. and thanks for taking time with us all the way from kabul. we'll talk to you again soon. >> my pleasure. [ applause ] >> joshua hersh. ariana is always watching. [ mysterious music ] >> all right. 1-800-steph-1-2. let's go to jeff in orange county. hi, jeff. >> good morning, stephanie.

i wanted to mention something you said a couple of weeks ago. you said you didn't like the word progressive. >> it's a weanny world. say it liberal. >> that's exactly my point. and it annoys me that liberals don't have the guts to call themselves liberal. >> that's why we started the sexy liberal tour. it means you empathetic and sexy. >> it's like a surrender to frank lund. the job-killing health care bill, the job creators the pro-life people who believe that abortion should be legal even when necessary to save the life of the mother, and ardent supporters of the death penalty. >> you are exactly right. jim in florida. welcome, jim. >> hey steph.

i went to the sexy liberal in asheville, and sat two rows behind your mother and lisa. >> oh boy. and fortunately my mom couldn't hear a thing. >> that was it. i heard it all and enjoyed it. >> good. >> i want to congratulate you guys on current, and i'm watching you as i'm talking to you, which is kind of funny. i have started a group in tallahassee of the drinking liberally group i thought it would go well with your talking liberally show. >> i thought of it as a hobby, drinking liberally. >> yeah. but a shout out to all of you, and hopefully we can help the president keep his job. >> awesome. [ applause ] >> speaking of war zones --

[ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> -- we were just talking about the convention in tampa. >> guess what? rick scott allows concealed weapons at the convention. >> oh great. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> florida governor rick scott has rejected a petition to limit firearm sales outside of tampa this year. they have ordered ban on things like pieces of wood sling spots, containers of bodily fluids -- >> ewh. >> and even skirt guns. a so-called clean zone would prohibit string longer than six inches.

>> what so you can't trip your opponent? >> glass containers light bulbs, and smaller protest area would present campers fromming a bottle et cetera. a council member told the governor given the nature of this event i think i would make since that you would not want firearms introduced except for law enforcement. because of something that has nothing to do with us or our ability to control the situation that is elevated by trayvon martin obviously. legal experts said in the protest environment another tragedy could take place that was covered by the stand your ground law.

so, wow -- [ applause ] >> humidity and now we'll have to wear kevlar. >> should we be rethinking our trip to tampa. >> yeah. you really take your life into your hands going to florida. >> yes, and i will be wearing my sexy liberal gear. >> oh. [ somber music ] >> yeah. >> you'll make a great target. >> i'm kind of known for having a clever sense of humor. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ you'll find us. >>weeknights on current tv.

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white, the whole world moves upon the site, a beautiful site ♪ >> it is the "stephanie miller show." get it, go on. 50 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. let's go to danny in phoenix. hi, dan. >> good morning, steph. >> good morning. >> hey, i was just wanting to speak to the gop. they have criticized president obama pointed fingers in his face that he hasn't done anything, but i want them to close their eyes for just a minute and imagine if he was white. >> yeah, thank you. exactly. talking to you, jan, with your bony old white-lady finger. >> and saddle bag face. >> ryan in chicago.

hi, ryan. >> hi, stephanie. i'm driving my wife to the hospital, we're going to give birth -- or she is going to give birth tonight. >> congratulations. >> thank you. we're cranking the stephanie miller there. it is going to be a baby boy, so i was wondering if you had any name ideas. >> i think the romneys took off up all of the names. >> how about jim ward. >> all right. well, listen we're betting than an epidural. thanks for listening. [ applause ] >> wow! [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> this gets more and more confusetaiting. we have been playing the preacher who says you can punch your kid to get the gay out of them. and here this is necessary to preserve the causation race. >> yeah, because the gays are

breeding left and right. >> rate a minute you are getting your homophobia in my racism. >> yeah. >> a poll worker heard her say her husband was the architect of amendment one, and one of the reasons he wrote it was to protect the caucasian race. she said caucasians or whites created this country, and we wrote the constitution. this is about protecting the constitution. this protects the constitution from activist judges. from activist black gay judges. the same thank stalled george w. bush in 2000. >> she is a little confuse-ed. >> that makes no sense. >> sherry in california. hi, sherry. >> you have been talking about the mission accomplished the

last couple of days and i don't think anybody has mentioned that dana, george bush's wind up body press secretary said -- >> if she was george washington's wind up -- >> george bush i need more coffee. >> and apparently my bad ran with abraham lincoln. yikes. what america really needs is more income inequality. [ applause ] [ bell chimes ] >> he is writing a become that calls for more income inequality in the us. his book takes views not shared by many analysts quote unquote one of the economist is one working for romney glenn

hubbard, who takes conrad's brood economic ideas seriously according to the economic times. [ applause ] >> and that is we do not have enough income inequality. >> the word [ inaudible ] in french means jerk, idiot schmuck. >> wow. mittens. >> i say look at what the president has done and do the opposite to get the economy going. [ applause ] >> hah, hah, hah, hah. wow, there is a low bar for humor among those rich folk. >> he is not giving us anything specific that he would do. the president would go forward. he would put it in reverse. >> my whole candidacy is a joke. hah, hah hah. >> it's always the small business thing. >> what the president did was one item after another make it harder and harder for small

business to thrive and grow. it was the most anti-small business administration i have seen probably since carter. >> uh-huh. >> who would have guessed we would look back at the carter days as the good old days. >> in other good news chrysler is fighting to keep up its demand for the new cars. [ applause ] >> the "stephanie miller show" is a small business. >> yes, indeed. he is referring to companies like exxon mobil. >> yeah. >> the economy is made up of nothing but businesses. i will make america a great place for entrepreneurs again. for small business.

>> yes just borrow $150,000 from your parents. >> i live the headline newt gingrich gives up the race, but not the moon colony. he says he'll -- i'm already 68. i believe mitt romney will become president. i believe he'll do well enough to get reelected. and i don't think in 2020 i'll be a plausible candidate. like you were this year? >> after returning to native mars. [ laughter ] >> he has been surprised by the proposals for space by the elites. like rick santorum. and others that scoffed. put ine yesterday. >> today i'm suspending the

campaign. but that does not mean suspending citizenship. >> no. >> so he is not going to be a citizen of the moon. >> well, he is going to be president of the moon. >> i'm asked sometimes is mitt romney conservative enough. >> here comes the endorsement. >> and my answer is simple compared to barack obama you know, this is not a choice between mitt romney and ronald reagan. this is a choice between mitt romney and the most radical leftist president in american history. >> wow. >> that is not true. >> full throated. >> some historian he is. [ applause ] >> he is a mortgage historian. wow, that inspired me. i may vote for newt now. >> to the moon! >> i claim this planet in the name of mars.

>> 58 minutes after the hour. back with more on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [ theme music ] ♪ why hello current tv fans. here we are getting ready for hour number 3. the last hour of the "stephanie miller show" today. representative adam schiff of the great state of california joins us live in studio. i'm just browsing through my most memorable newt moments. he has dropped out thus leaving all of his sound bites to use against mitt romney. for instance when he called him a liar.

he told him to put the pieus baloney in one debate. >> that's tasty stuff. >> you know what chris, it may not be the least crappy hour. it may be the best hour we use for a repate. you may want to watch it twice it will be so nice. >> you can. >> i don't know. you know who really you need do watch more than twice, jacki schechner in the current news room. hello, jacki. >> >> good morning everyone. win or lois, strong democratic candidates will help bring voters to the polls, and that benefits the top of the ticket. the arcp singles out specific races in battleground states the president needs to win.

for their part democrats need 25 seats to retake control of the house. the obama campaign has spent six times more money online in advertising than television advertising. 19 million in on-line ads. the campaign is well aware of the power of the web having harvested it well the last time around. the gop is now playing catchup having just released its new facebook application, and while both campaigns are using things like cookies to gather personal information online it is president obama who not only has experience but the 13 million emails he collected last time. donations via text message would have to be $50 or less to comply with done for rules, but the potential is enormous.

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stitcher. >> i understand. >> you need every do hickey that you can get. jessica, steph, thank you. i'm so happy i got my mom flowers from pro flowers. she bawled. she needed that so badly. [ applause ] >> don't forget mother's day coming up. >> what people don't do is write me for advice like this. prudence -- do you read the advice column. >> dear prudence in slate.com. >> man asks for advice of excessive farting. [ flatulence sound effect ] >> all you would get here is jokes. >> we don't have a farting problem, we have a farting solution. >> exactly. [ flatulence sound effect ]

. >> i'm a relatively normal 28 year old man. i have an odd digesttive system -- [ flatulence sound effect ] >> so i have more problems with gas than the average. my problem comes in when i date. i can generally hide my problem for the first few dates, but when it begins to get more physical it is impossible to leave the room in the moment of things. [ flatulence sound effect ] >> maybe you have glutin sensitivity. >> i have a new girlfriend -- >> who can't breathe through her nose? >> who appears to be unconscience. prudence, i don't know what to do. >> answer see your doctor and gastrointerologist if necessary. you may have some sort of digestive disorder that needs

diagnosed. oddly he didn't sign his name. i guess he wanted to remain anonymous, although i think his friends know who he is. [ patriotic music ] [ flatulence sound effect ] >> everything i have eaten in the past 20 years. >> oh, boy. >> okay. and now a story about a bear. >> a bouncy bear. >> a story about a bear in bouncy houses. >> there's a bouncy bear. a black bear climbs into a tree in alaska and refused to come down, authorities turned to a local company that rents inflating bouncy houses for birthday parties. they set up the houses and then shot him with a tranquilizer,

and he was fine! [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> okay. >> didn't i ever tell you about bumbles? bumbling bounced! [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> this could have been an unhappy end. i'm not real bright and frequently at night i'm -- >> naked. >> -- i was going to say -- >> drunk. >> yeah. well, both. [ laughter ] >> a vermont there was a lesson in what not to do in bear country. one bear almost caught the governor while he was trying to shoo the bears away. [ applause ] >> bears don't like to be shooed. he said i figure i got to get the bird feeders out of there, or they are going to make this a habit. i would wait until the bears are gone. [ applause ] >> one of the bigger bears was

interested in me. >> yeah. >> and he said i'm not a big pa jam ma person and they could have done some real damage. [ screaming ] >> those pink things look tasty. >> he sees you as a big steak. >> is that a sausage. >> hey. [ laughter ] >> okay. all right. oh, give me music for most adorable newt moments, because we're missing him already. newt gingrich yesterday dropping out of the presidential race. >> i'm not totally certain i will get to the moon colony. i am certainly maggie and robert will have that opportunity if they want to take it. >> his grandchildren. he is a family man. he paid $500,000 at tiffanies. go talk to tiffany's and they

did. and turns out he did. after going to the crews in turkey, next day staffers quit in mass. pledges to run a positive campaign and not attacks on republicans -- [ laughter ] >> calls mitt romney a liar in a tense interview. tells romney to cut the pias baloney. the moderator when he asked if it was insensitive to -- ex-wife reveals he wanted an open marriage. when asked about it. gingrich applied i'm appalled that you would bring that up at

a presidential debate. and hamgate, scheduled a ham gate at a ham house. romney shows up early, and gingrich wins the south carolina primary, which apparently south carolina likes ham and racism. [ applause ] [ bell chimes ] >> um, um, um. ham and racists. okay. there's a green eggs and ham joke in there, jim, but i can't get it to. [ buzzer sounds ] >> black eggs and ham -- >> i do not like that sam i am. newt i am. >> by the end of my second term we'll have a permanent base on the moon. >> oh. >> visits to the san diego jew -- [ buzzer sounds ] >> what? >> there is only one jew in san diego and he has visited them. >> he did not knowingly visit

any jews except for sheldon adelson. and i apologize to the san diego jew. oh, my goodness that was a foe pay. >> sadie that smidrig is here again. >> aye! >> oh do we have a mushcop in here. >> i'm the san diego jew. what do you want to know? [ laughter ] >> oh, dear sometimes i barely recover from my mischief, and sometimes we turn it into gold. the san diego zoo, and makes three jokes referencing anchor

man, beginning charges $50 for supporters to take a photo with him, and a penguin bites his finger at the st. louis zoo. >> i bet a jew would bite his finger. >> yeah. [ applause ] >> big classy, and jewy san diego. [ laughter ] >> kids 17 minutes after the hour. go to my pc.com. what forced you to come to my house? i had you put go to my pc on my iphone and ipad. and it was so easy but why do it myself when i can force understanding links. chris uses it to print to my printer from his computer at home. [ magical music ] >> because she doesn't know how to use the computer. >> yes it's all about my

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bean bag chair. step two, home-cooked dinner seduction. i think maybe he cooked me dinner and then we talked in his bedroom. >> i bet. >> step three [ censor bleep ]. and then i spent the night. it all felt very -- inevitable. >> she remembered how he would sit around reading the paper bare chested. there was a mixture of his presence, running sweat, and brute deodorant, sleeping and ating. >> brute and raisins. >> nothing says 1980 more than

brute. >> brute and the smell of ray sons. wow! [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> i did not need to know this. jane fonda said i'm quite flexible and i can kneel it's not quite as comfortable as it used-to-be before i had a fake knee. and he writes i can't get the image out of my mind so please excuse me as i go lay down in traffic. [ applause ] >> go jane! >> i did too many jane fonda's workouts in the '80s. there are a lot of those positions in the workout videos. 29 minutes after the hour. adam schiff joining us next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room. >> what should women be doing? >> electing women to office. (vo) she's a political trailblazer. >>republicans of course didn't let facts get in the way of spin.

>>do it, for america. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller -- >> you are coming up desperate, honey! >> it is the "stephanie miller show" -- this is what i smell like, i smell like brute and raisins, i smell like sweaty desperation. we have representative adam schiff traveling mere blocks to get here. [ laughter ] >> from where he lives in burbank, and as you said this is the best district -- >> in the history of the

republic. >> thank you. mr. -- you have some pretty serious committees. >> yes. >> obviously this is an -- in your area, this whole debate that has been going on with the anniversary of the killing of bin laden, and the republicans criticizing it. what are your thoughts? >> i think the president has done an remarkable job in the fight against al-qaeda and probably nothing demonstrates that more than the finding and killing of bin laden, and this had long been sought after, very difficult like a needle in a haystack, and when you fly over pakistan and afghanistan, and

you look down and see that endless mountainous person and you realize that was a monumental task, and thank to the ex -- extraordinary efforts we have him. >> do you think mitt romney criticizing the president, then candidate for saying if we have actionable intelligence to go in to pakistan with or without help? >> it is fair game. and you better believe if the operation hadn't been success, they would be attacking -- >> oh, i don't think they would have mentioned it congressman

that would be rude. [ laughter ] >> you are absolutely right. i think what we saw under the last administration was initially they put a very high priority on finding bin laden. that proved to be enormously difficult, and they decided to lower the priority. and under this president, president obama made the finding, the capturing the killing of bin laden, once again a very top priority and dedicated the team and resources to do it, and succeeded in doing something extraordinarily important and difficult. >> and also we were talking that donald rums feld said this wasn't a tough call, but when he brings up jimmy carter for instance -- when things as you say go disastrously wrong as something did under carter look at somalia, it tells you why

this is a tough call. this could have been a disaster had it gone wrong. >> if you have good actionable intelligence that bin laden is in a certain location. i think you have to act on that intelligence. what makes the call difficult is there are several different options you can take and the easiest option the safest option would have been to drop a big.com on that compound. >> which is what romney and mccain, at the time both completely deliberately misconstrued what the president said. said he would bomb our ally and the president never said he would bomb pakistan. >> he said if we couldn't get the okay, he would take the necessary action.

but i think the critical thing is there would have been so much less risk in simply dropping munition on that compound and then going back and if you are lucky finding dna. if we did that though there would always be the question did we get him. and it was important for al-qaeda and the world to know that he was captured and gone. and that's where the call really got difficult. rather how do we do it? and do we take the added risk? and i can only imagine the tension in that room when that helicopter went down. >> it would have been a puric victory, if we killed a lot of citizens in the process too, which we didn't. >> yeah. >> what is your reaction to some

republicans saying the reason we got him is torture. >> i think that is completely bogus. i have been on the intelligence committee now for four or five years, and i have never seen convincing evidence that torture got us good intelligence or better intelligence than we would have gotten through cooperative means, and if you talk with the cia and many in the fbi, they don't subscribe to this either. and it's not who we are. do we really want when an american soldier, marine sailor is captured, do we want them water boarded? >> we called it a war crime when the japanese did it to our soldiers, right? >> we -- this is not who we are. and i have never seen convincing evidence that it works or produces better leads.

it certainly produces a lot of red herrings and a lot of phony leads. other kinds of cooperative interrogation also provide a lot of phony leads, but there's no convincing evidence that i have seen that this is necessary. but one thing is irrefutable, and that is we paid an enormous price for using these techniques and that's a real cost. if we can't get countries to provide access to their detainees or -- >> right. and i think it's provable this latest trove of stuff that came out that osama bin laden had, even the president changing the rhetoric is helping. bin laden is on record saying this is hurting my recruiting. using this kind of terminology.

that's -- i think the way he has changed how we are viewed in the world has been important. >> absolutely. this is like most struggles an ideal logical struggle. i think this administration has been phenomenally successful. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> guess who is the most well thought of man in the world? president obama. people around the world fair favorite world leader 77% chose barack obama. how do you think that would have gone during the bush years? >> in albania, it would have gone very well. but it's enormously important to have a president who is well thought of around the world.

when we want cooperation on sanctions on iran or korea, having a president that is popular is a good thing. >> dalai lama number two, hilary clinton number 3. [ applause ] >> the dalai lama is going to be president? what? [ whacky comedy music ] >> what do you think of the race thus far? now that we're down to -- i think the president's campaign -- i already think they have made an amazing case and the general -- general election hasn't even started yet. >> first of all in terms of the gop primary, it has been the most interesting entertaining primary that i can remember in my lifetime, and i'm really sorry to see it go. the president, i think has thus

far run a really remarkable almost flawless campaign. and he needed to. it's a tough time. economically we're finally making progress but the economy is the paramount issue, and i think, you know, getting back to the topic we were just discussing, it is fascinating that national security which is always the push in the presidential race against the democrats, our president is now thought of -- this is one of the primary reasons to vote for the president. that hasn't been true of a democratic president since vietnam. >> yeah, how did he do on the 3:00 am phone call? pretty good. >> but because the economy is still struggling this is going to be a tough year for any elected official and certainly the president. the fact that he is doing so well is a tribute to his policy record but also the performance of his campaign. >> let's go to sandy in

pennsylvania. hey, sandy. >> hey steph here is your keystone connection. i want to know when shucky romney and bill o'reilly are going out on their comedy tour. >> i love adam schiff i wish i could vote for him. >> i wish you could do. >> nearer you don't. >> time after time the president gave credit to mccraven, and more than anybody, the navy seals. the rush limbaugh of course du, doesn't know what he is talking about. and aclu voter challenge in pennsylvania! woo-hoo! >> are you concerned about the voter suppression laws that -- the republicans have been trying to enfact a lot of states. >> very concerned. and just on the colors point. i just want to underscore something, because to me it

really struck me as a really classy thing the president did, and that was after the killing of bin laden, calling former president bush to give him the news to let him know that this was the result of your work and mine and so many others. that was a real classy thing to do, but also i think an important thing to do, so, you know, tell the country through that conversation that this is a continuity of efforts that made this possible. i thought that was a very grand and important thing the president did. >> yeah, i wouldn't have had that class. i would have said thanks for shutting the bin laden campaign down and so i had to go open it up again. >> that's not in d.c. >> everyone in d.c. takes the high road. on the voter suppression, though, absolutely very concerned about this, and as we raise the bar in state after state to really make it more difficult for people to get to the polls, it's unquestionably

going to surpress voter participation. that's exactly the opposite direction. we can and must crack down on any kind of voter fraud, but we can have brood participation without fraud and we have to do both, and these measures unfortunately make it very difficult for the elderly. make it very difficult for people who don't have access to indication -- >> right we just got to work doubly hard to help people that need to vote. >> absolutely. >> all right. representative adam schiff who came yards -- [ laughter ] >> -- to be here, really really going the extra mile -- >> don't let it be said that i wouldn't cross the street to come here. i did and i would again. >> adam schiff going the extra three feet for us. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> this is the dirtiest show i have ever been on in all of my

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gore's network. here we are. [ magical music ] >> nice to see you in person. >> nice to see you too. speaking of networks, did you see rupert murdoch is not fit to run an international company. what do you think of that whole story? >> i think it's appalling, to hack into people's lines, just shocking. >> and he still runs the network, i understand. >> yeah. >> interesting. i was looking at a piece in "politico," because i love the stuff that you work on, i was reading this policeco peace. members of congress. this job sucks. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ]

>> they the public hates them as they head for the exiting this year, many say the prestigious job of being a congressman sucks now. there are a lot of people retiring this year. >> there are a lot of people retiring, and the environment is unfortunately become very poisonous and it's hard. the way i keep seeing it is instead of focusing on the large range of things that can't get done, i focus on the narrower range of things that can get done. within of the things that i enjoy frankly about the intelligence committee is it is the least partisan committee on the hill. and that's probably because they aren't public in part. so i enjoy the fact we get a lot done on the committee. we do a lot of important

oversight in a very non-partisan way. but it has gotten very tough to get things accomplished. >> yeah. >> if i wasn't -- i would be joining the rush for the exits like some of my colleagues. bill clinton once said is there is nothing wrong in america that can't be fixed in america. the budget and deficits energy health care, et cetera, all of these things are solvable fixable, resolvable, and -- >> right. you know my dad was in congress for 14 years, and ran with berry goldwater in 64 but back then -- he at least had friends on both sides of the aisle. there really was not this level of you are a bad american or level of rhetoric that there is now. >> that is very true. one of the things i try to keep in mind, i was a prosecutor and

we would go into the courtroom and fight it out, and after the case was over it was over and we would go have a beer. i try to do that in congress. >> my dad was an assistant prosecutor at neuroenberg. and just the world war ii mentality, maybe you are right. it was just sort of a different feeling about -- we're all still americans. >> right, and we need to find a way to capture that ethic again. because these problems aren't going to go away. we can fix them but we need a political environment in which people can get together and not get their headed lopped off. >> i'm reading this article, simply put the congress is not

living up to what was envisioned. between drier and frank the house is losing 64 years of legislative experience. >> it's very true, and one of the reasons we are where we are is you have a situation where stalemate, can be a winning political strategy. the gop decided the best way to beat obama is to make sure it was a failure, and that meant killing everything he proposed in the senate. >> that's exactly it. the tea party is against everything. obama, no. how about this? no. they have just been for blocking everything that he has proposed right? >> yes, and in the past we have had many people run for office as insurgents but once they got elected they had to find a way

to actually govern. this crowd has continued to campaign to tear down the government. >> congressman about 30 seconds. so in this cycle do you see it approximate being possible that the president gets a congress he can work with? >> it's unquestionably moving back in the right direction. the question is whether it will move back enough in the house for us to retake the majority. we need a bit of a tail wind and it's too early to tell. two years ago you could see it would be a rough year for democrats. this year it is tough to say what will happen. >> talking to you, listeners, viewers, tail winds. talking to you. >> adam schiff thanks so much and come back again and join us real soon. >> okay. thank you. >> we'll see you tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪