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coffee. i need that caffeine. you've got so much. i love you to death. >> stephanie: i love you too. >> we're coming to see you in august. >> in columbus. >> you switch to decaf, we'll switch to john now. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning john. >> good morning. hey, you know, the thing is like what pam is saying, we've got our guns here in the house. well i got a .45t holds five shots in the clip. why do i need another clip that holds 30? >> stephanie: yep. >> i mean when i was in the military and that and everything when i was in the service when i stood guard duty or when i was -- sergeant of the guard i had a .45. it held five bullets in the clip. if i couldn't hit my target within that time, you know, something's wrong. >> stephanie: yep. well john, you know what i get tired of is this debate becomes the same every time. somebody on cue is going to go if everybody was armed -- is

there any -- >> then everyone would be dead. >> stephanie: is there any reasonable person thinks that would have been a good idea. you're in a darkened theatre with tear gas. really? what's his name, former l.a. police chief bill bratton on "meet the press." >> congressman who made the comment about people in the theatre had been -- may have been able to stop this individual. he was armed to the teeth with all types of bullet protection materials. the ability of a citizen to try and shake that individual down equipped the way he was would have been diminimus. fortunately for the responding officers, it seems that his automatic weapon -- semi-automatic rifle jammed. otherwise, they would have been outgunned, the initial respondinger ifs who probably would have nine millimeter and a shotgun. the way he was equipped, he would have been able to take them on. first responding officers weren't s.w.a.t. officers. so this issue of arm everybody i'm sorry, in this circumstance, i don't know that that would

have made a difference. >> in other words, that's wicked retarded. from boston. >> stephanie: exactly. you know, carolyn mccarthy was asked about this, too. her husband was killed on the long island railway. you know, she said the same way. talk to the police about whether they think that would have been a good idea if everybody on that train was armed. seriously. all right. let's go to kordell in kentucky. hey, kordell. >> caller: good morning, stephanie. good morning guys. stephanie, i'm so glad max is feeling better. i was praying for you all over the weekend. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: stephanie, this gun debate is really frustrating me. i'm very anti-gun. i don't like shooting guns. i was a corrections officer in the late '90s. i had to fire guns as part of my training. i didn't like shooting them back then. i don't like shooting them now. and it angers me that a kid would go on my facebook page and

post anti-gun images or anti-gun statements without you know, people who are gun supporters or gun nuts. >> stephanie: i hate the idea that this debate is over, i guess. i think the president in the 2008 campaign, kordell proposed the assault weapons ban. but you've got a congress full of louie gohmerts. you don't even have democrats that are going to vote for that at this point. >> i no he some democrats are beginning to take president obama to task for not going after -- >> stephanie: i would love to talk -- we'll see if we can get mayor bloomberg on today or tomorrow. i thought but that's the thing on both sides. if we have the same debate every time. if everyone gets into their position, we'll never solve this. immediately, the right wing blames hollywood. we blame guns. roger ebert had an interesting take. didn't he? he said i'm not -- he wrote an op-ed in "the new york times."

i'm not there is an easy link between movies and gun violence. i think the link is between the violence and the publicity. i don't know in james holmes cared deeply about batman. i suspect he cared deeply about seeing himself on the news. someone like holmes who was able to acquire guns, ammunition and criticized the gun lobby while calling on washington to address gun control in a meaningful way. the endless debate will begin and the op-ed thinkers will their thoughts. this would be an excellent time for our political parties to come together. that's unlikely because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a takeover that many politicians feel they cannot afford to advocate gun control. that is sad. i hate violence. i don't even go to violent movies. i get it. but i think that he makes a good point. we talked about this. we grew up watching -- what do you call it? roadrunner and i never dropped

and an vill on anybody's head. >> i've seen pulp fiction. aye anever stab -- i've never stabbed anybody in the heart with a needle. >> acme portable hole. >> stephanie: ann in washington d.c. hey, ann. >> caller: hey, how are you? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: first of all, i think your point about that because the case in columbine they wanted to go out in a blaze of glory and they got so much publicity from this. it was ridiculous. >> stephanie: in that case, they were blaming the mitt rim of. -- the matrix. the same trench coats. >> caller: i don't know if you saw the weekend programs, the guy that wrote the book about columbine, it came up everything about columbine was wrong. but that's a whole different point. you know, i mean i lived in aurora. i went through every one of these tragedies. i mean -- but i also, you know,

stood out there in front of the capital steps after columbine and protested the nra, you know. you can't say a word about this kind of stuff. i was asked by someone if i started protesting fertilizer after the kansas city bombing. it is just crazy. >> stephanie: didn't they lift -- you're in d.c. didn't they lift the handgun ban? >> caller: yes, they did. i'm in d.c. now. i lived in aurora for 18 years. >> stephanie: you know, it is incredible. in virginia, both candidates, democratic and republican, nobody can take any stance on this. tim kaine says i'm against mentally deranged people being able to get guns. really? we're reduced to like the duh action. really? we can't agree? >> pyromaniacs start fires so we should ban matches. not the same thing at all. >> stephanie: ron in denver. you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi.

it made me so mad every time you would see that. i was trying to call you guys. i actually watched your show on friday and then i was doing the local stuff. i was flipping channels. >> stephanie: eric boehlert will join us next hour to cohost right-wing world. as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." "stephanie miller show."

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> stephanie: okay, here we go. >> stephanie: here we go. hour number two. jacki schechner current news superstar. breaking news superstar crisis counselor, fashion consultant. we had a concern, of course, you brought a sticky bra to seattle to wear with your gown. we were concerned there would be an epic failure. >> a what? [ ding ding ] >> i had a backless dress. and so i had to get one of those undergarments that doesn't -- it doesn't show and i had never done that before. >> this is something dude have no idea about. >> terribly concerned. >> stephanie: good luck with the sticky bra. >> it was going to be a major

international crisis if that thing didn't hold. >> dudes were hoping for a frontless dress. >> stephanie: rockin' the blue dress. go to jacki's twitter and you can see her and her smokin' hot friends. >> my friends we're umph number of years out of college and my friends get hotter as the year goes on. >> one of every nationality. united colors of benetton hotness. here she is, my fashion consultant current news superstar, jacki schechner. >> house that open front thing never catch on? good morning everybody. let's switch to some serious news. james holmes is going to appear in court this morning. his first time we get a look at the man who is accused of killing 12 people, injuring 58 others in a movie theatre shooting early friday morning. investigators believe holmes spent months planning the attacks and building his arsenal. the 24-year-old reportedly used the internet to stockpile more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition and didn't have to submit to any

federal background checks. holmes may have used his graduate project stipend in order to pay for the gear. he received about $26,000 in monthly installments of about $2200. officers still looking for a motive. today's hearing is at 9:30 colorado time. it will be broadcast live on television and also on the internet. even president obama has had something to say about the penn state sex abuse scandal through the white house spokesman jay carney. president said that removing the statue of joe paterno from the penn state campus was the right thing to do. now this morning the ncaa has ruled. there are steep penalties. it will pay a $60 million fine. be banned from post-season play for four years have to cut ten scholarships, 20 over the nix four years. it will be on five years of probation and have to give up all victories from '98 until 2011. it is a total of 112 wins. we're back with more after the break. stay with us.

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receiving deliveries by mail that armed him for battle. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] the semi-automatic rifle used -- as we've been talking about jammed which forced him to switch to another weapon. i mean it is amazing the number of shots he got off in the amount of time he did. this is the whole issue to me. the assault weapons and the magazines that are available. he ordered -- jacki told us this, i believe. he ordered 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet. the high-volume -- high capacity magazines. >> fbi was warning about assaults in theatres in may of this year. and that was not -- >> stephanie: i believe as we said, this is the most number -- obviously not the highest death toll but the most number of people hit by gunfire. let's see. the police have said that 100 round drum magazine was recovered at the scene. it would fire 50 to 60 rounds a minute. we've learned obviously that he just -- brilliant guy i guess. in the neuroscience program. he had just withdrawn from a

program at the university of colorado. neighbors, former classmates, the same thing. loner. it is -- they described him as whip smart. but a loner. >> he was a camp counselor for underprivileged kids here in glendale california. >> stephanie: you think what happened? >> yeah. >> well, some people say next k ultra. >> stephanie: the 6-year-old broke my heart. her mother, did you hear? she's drifting into unconsciousness, severely injured, her relative said no one can tell her about it. she's in critical but all she's asking about is her daughter. another victim, 27-year-old matt mcquin was killed after diving in front of his girlfriend. the president talked about some stories of heroism yesterday. the president yesterday -- >> obama: i had a chance to visit with each family and most

of the conversation was filled with memory. it was an opportunity for families to describe how wonderful their brother or their son or daughter was. and the lives that they had touched and the dreams that they held for the future. >> stephanie: okay. you know, and again, i know we always get into this oh, let's not make it political. you know what? let's! [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] a ban would have been covered. if that's not worthy of discussion, i don't know what kind of country we're living in. one of the principle weapons used in the shooting would have been subject to a series of sharp restrictions. which by the way, bill clinton just -- it is not like this was passed in 1927 or something. it was passed in 1994 when we were still apparently able to get some bipartisan things done. >> even with newt gingrich as

speaker of the house. >> stephanie: the ar-15 rifle he carried civilian version of the m-16. tell me why you need an m-16. >> well, if you're a really bad shot. >> stephanie: semi-automatic assault weapons would have been outright banned. both congressman ed who represents aurora and president obama proposed assault weapons bans during their campaigns. we can't even get stuff done. we couldn't get bob dole's healthcare plan passed with any republican help. i mean the chances -- you know, anyway so i thought bloomberg said really great stuff. he called on the president and romney saying it is time the two people who want to be president of the united states stand up and tell us what they're going to do about it. it is a problem around the country. the action r-15 used by holmes had a high capacity clip banned as large capacity ammunition feeding devices in the '94 legislation as well. i keep quoting i guess it

was -- o'donnell who said i blame the shooter for the first however many bullets. i blame the gun. >> the magazine. >> stephanie: exactly. david in connecticut says the aks are getting a bad rap. hi david. >> caller: yes, stephanie, how are you? thanks for having me on your show. i hope i can do justice to the other side here. >> stephanie: okay. >> caller: personally, i think it is really -- it is an ugly versus pretty -- and it is a bad gun, good gun. the fault weapon is a popular term that is really -- a semi-automatic, i think you explained that already. it is still one pull of the trigger. it is hard to get aim shots at that kind of rate that the police mentioned. >> stephanie: david, tell me because i'm not a gun person obviously. do people -- that's not what you would use for obviously hunting or home protection, is it? >> or the animal that you're hunting. >> caller: i don't want to -- it

is just -- i'm just trying to be honest with you. i don't use it but yeah, it is still a hunting weapon because you're only using one shot at a time. and in connecticut, i think you have to have a block magazine for shotguns but i think rifles, they don't care how many you have. but you're not going to get more than one or two shots. the mechanism is still semi-automatic, one pull of the trigger. it is like -- think about an automatic like an m-16, you're spraying a water hose. you can control it. because after the initial jerk, the water going through the line, you can get accurate. and the same thing with a pull, the first time you fire, it will pull it. >> stephanie: david, let me ask you something as a gun lover, does it not bother you that all of these recent mass murders in american history -- these are the weapons they choose. they choose the weapons because they can kill the most amount of

people in the shortest amount of time right? >> caller: stephanie, i understand your point. i even self-examine my views. that's why i'm listening to your show. you know if you put up a good argument, i'll go for banning guns, i'll hate it but if it's true and the facts are there fine. but i think the facts aren't out. but i think you used an a-70. >> stephanie: dade, let's take a for instance. the gun show loophole. so anybody can buy a gun without a background check. wouldn't it seem like there is something we can agree on that mentally deranged people shouldn't be able to walk into a gun show and buy a gun? >> well, i'm not sure -- what exactly the rules are. i thought of a few myself but i had to sign papers. i think it is only a private individual. >> but you can take the gun away that day. there's no waiting period.

there's no background check. >> is that really happening? >> yes, it is. >> caller: we're talking about a crazy guy. >> stephanie: the nra has made it such that no politician, democratic or republican can propose any kind of gun control of any kind. >> caller: because stephanie be honest, i'm a life member since 1980. first thing i could do. i had to pay like $300 on a payment plan. the nra, i know it is villainized but it is really people. i think they've had four million members. if it wasn't for the people supporting next ra, it wouldn't be there. and i think the real issue here is -- >> stephanie: nobody is saying most people in the nra are not responsible gun owners. that's not my point. >> the leadership has made it into such a toxic political organization. >> stephanie: how is in it in 1994 we could get a bipartisan bill passed to ban assault weapons and now it is unheard

of. it is probably -- you know what? particularly now chris this is a thing that's worse for mitt romney than the healthcare pill that he passed on the assault weapons ban. >> now he's completely ignoring the fact that he did that. >> stephanie: i'm sure he'll again be something that's something he's flip-flopped on. one more with the president in colorado. >> obama: while we will never know fully what causes somebody to take the life of another we do know what makes life worth living. and the people we lost in aurora loved and they were loved. >> stephanie: then he talked to -- he said he was there more as a husband and father. >> obama: michelle and i will be fortunate to hug our girls a little tighter tonight and i'm sure you'll do the same with your children. >> stephanie: all right. much more and a lot of people have thoughts on all of this. 17 minutes after the hour. we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> it's really weird but it's also the coolest thing i've ever heard in my whole life.

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earth. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12. the phone number. toll free from anywhere. mitt romney on the colorado tragedy. >> romney: i stand before you today not as a man running for office but as a father and grandfather, a husband and an american. this is a time for each of us to look into our hearts and remember how much we love one another. >> yeah and keep running attack ads. >> jacki schechner did make a point. the traffic department of tv stations, they're not there over the weekend so sometimes it does take a little bit of time to pull the ads. >> stephanie: this was someone from denver saying they saw the anti-obama ads. i don't know if there's any word. did obama get his ads down? >> i don't know. >> stephanie: they both said they were suspending ads in colorado. >> over the weekend it might be tough to pull some ads. >> stephanie: new york mayor michael bloomberg obviously

talked about -- what's his name? louie gohmert republican of texas, he was condemning him for suggesting that the massacre could have been averted if movie-goers had been armed. >> idiot. >> stephanie: he had said -- >> shooting in the dark randomly at everyone else. >> stephanie: it does make me wonder with all of the people in the theatre was there no one that was carrying, it could have stopped this guy. >> he's wearing full body armor. no one else in the theatre was. >> stephanie: mayor bloomberg. >> the bottom line is if we had fewer guns, we would have a lot fewer murders. it is time for both of them to be held accountable. >> stephanie: to arm everybody and have the wild west is one of the more nonsensical things. >> even in tombstone they banned people carrying guns into saloons. >> stephanie: guns and alcohol, when has that been a bad idea? >> in arizona they reinstated that. you can take a gun into a bar. >> stephanie: along with your baby. >> look at you! you have a baby!

in a bar! >> stephanie: do you really think you would be safe if anyone in the audience could pull out a gun and start shooting? i don't think so. he called on both of the candidates to talk about more concretely, what are you going to do? what are they going to do about guns? >> it is not going to happen. >> that's the sad thing. so we were talking about what kind of weapon it was and this would have been banned under the assault weapon ban that passed. it was let to expire. tom in florida you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi tom. >> hi, thanks for taking my call. >> thank you. >> i work in a factory where we make components for ar-15s, 308s as well as handguns and basically, the management after this happened said we have to come out and make more of these before they try to ban them even though we're running 24/7 and basically we make components for every major manufacturer out there and if you knew how many

ar-15s were being made in a year, you would be scared out of your mind. >> stephanie: yeah. the fact that he can order 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the internet. >> caller: we've got guys where i work that do that all the time. that doesn't seem to frighten anybody. >> stephanie: it should. >> it frightens me. >> stephanie: virginia in virginia. >> caller: greetings. fellow american citizens, so scary sometimes. listen, we all have to go and get licensed to drive our lethal weapons on the road. how much more is a gun a lethal weapon and every single person who wants to buy a gun -- >> stephanie: at least a car has another purpose. >> caller: ostensibly but there are people on the road who want to use it as a weapon. gun safety courses should be a requirement of anyone licensed to have a gun. just to put it in your house. i have a story for you a friend of mine was living in an old carriage house out in the

countryside of virginia. and the ground floor was the kitchen area and upstairs was the bedroom and so they had an attack dog who was trained on command to attack anybody they were in front of. they were upstairs in the bedroom and people -- they cut the phone lines break into the downstairs and the dog is downstairs and upstairs, the only thing they had was a shotgun so they were calling downstairs, you know, just if you don't get out of here, we're going to attack. we're going to send the dog and the dog was doing everything he could legally without getting the attack signal. and the bandits said we're going to shoot your dog if you have him attack us and the people upstairs said well, we're going to shoot you if you come upstairs. we've got weapons. well, they had exactly two shots in this shotgun because normally they went hunting for birds. but they held them off with this one shotgun with two shots and

fortunately the guys figured out they didn't have a lot of money so they left. and the dog was fine. but it was that shotgun that potentially would have been the only thing between them and god o knows what. so i'm not saying that you know, guns are all wrong and everything but i'm saying that every single person who's going to use a gun needs to go through the process just like getting a driver's license. >> stephanie: virginia, that's another component of it. people have their own guns used against them. how much more likely. there can be bad consequences from having a gun. it is not as easy as it sounds. you were going to say something jim? >> there is another aspect that hasn't been talked about too much. the columbine kids were on anti-depressants which are known to cause suicidal and homicidal behaviors. i wonder if this guy -- >> this guy downed vicodin. >> well, vicodin is very different. >> but there is speculation as to why he downed the vicodin

because heath ledger was on vicodin when he died and this guy styled himself. >> but also the fact he withdrew suddenly from the ph.d. program, i wonder if he was on anti-depressants and had the opposite effect. >> stephanie: again, it is all of the same issues that keep coming up. drugs, mental illness access to guns. 29 minutes after the hour. eric boehlert as always. he tweets exactly what i'm thinking. he's got some great stuff on this and then we'll dive into the right-wing world as we continue on "the stephanie miller show."

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drinking boxed wine and reading your tweets, yes, i was just saying that. that's what i think! you know, your series of tweets is exactly what i was thinking. the democratic party's advocation may be it most egregious failing of the last decade. flash back to obama calls for permanent assault weapons ban. guy walked into a movie theatre and shot 70 people. we're not supposed to talk about gun control. only in america are gun massacres routine expectable and certain to continue. >> i was quoting a great piece from the new yorker that went up i think on friday or saturday. and i wrote about this in 2009 for media matters. headline i think was rampage nation and it was about how the press -- how i felt like when these events happen, if you go back to columbine, it was a weeks, month-long debate on gun control after columbine. laws were passed.

i remember the virginia tech shooting and some of the ones after that, the topic isn't really discussed. it is not on the table. it is not part of the media debate and obviously a lot of people point the finger at democrats. they're not going to talk about it so the media is not going to talk about it. there's some truth to that. since when does the d.c. press wait for democrats to tell them what to talk about and analyze and what to discuss. they don't. they've done -- they cover lots of things that democrats don't care about and things like that. i think one of the larger problems is you know, the right wing freakout since led by the nra regarding obama's position on guns from inauguration day was he's taking your guns, glenn beck started it from day one. they've all done this lunacy about how obama and holder are coming after your guns. people who follow this and people who are concerned about it are actually -- will tell you

that obama and holder don't even talk about guns. i think it has been a conscious decision. my point is i think the right wing noise machine has dictated this debate. and there is a fear among democrats that even if you talk about gun control the right wing crazies have defined the debate -- to talk about it, that means you want to take their guns. >> stephanie: eric, i agree with mayor bloomberg. as you say the president proposed the assault weapons ban during the campaign. he's got a tea party congress full of louie gohmerts. it really is -- go ahead sorry. >> it is not only oh, the republicans oppose gun control so we can't pass anything. the right wing media position is you know, if you don't lock your guns up at night the department of justice and the fbi will eventually, with obama's orders come and take your guns. i mean it has been so beyond the

massive disconnect between anything this administration has said or done about guns. it goes back to the nra. they've been using this obama is going to take your guns since day one. it is how they rake in money. he gets up behind his podium and he says it every time he can. in front of the microphone. obama is going to take your guns. again, if you take a step back, this administration doesn't even talk about, let alone suggest curbing guns in america. i think fox and the nra talking points has completely curbed what democrats and legislature -- legislators will do about gun control. >> stephanie: let's dive into right-wing world. i saved this one for you from "meet the press" because this is what we always talk about it. it is not the right wing media it is the mainstream media.

david gregories of the world. >> and chuck todd. >> stephanie: i don't know if you saw this yesterday, he was talking to representative carolyn mccarthy and brings up the rhetoric. you know, of course, like you could tell she was trying to be nonpartisan but she's obviously referring to michele bachmann talking -- and the things she was saying about huma abedin. that's been condemned by john mccain and john boehner. well, that is both sides. it is bipartisan. >> president clinton's words back in 1995 could be true today, couldn't they, about how some of the public discourse can fall on more vulnerable ears. >> i absolutely agree. since i've been in congress, i've seen over the last several years the deterioration of working with each other. what's really a shame because many of us, republican and democrat do work together. we actually get legislation passed working together. we still go by the old way of compromise. but when you listen to the words of some of my colleagues that

are inflammatory, i mean it is something that goes out there look at these politicians! i mean just in the last past week, a few of my colleagues came out with statements on other people. which are absolutely not true. >> it is -- unfortunately, it is a bipartisan deterioration. >> stephanie: no, it's not! >> did you hear the reaction? ugh! >> i mean -- it is not bipartisan. there is only this obstructionism on one side and there was never this kind of obstructionism when george bush was first elected by the supreme court. it was democrats who helped him pass reform and education reform. the idea that there are now democrats in any position of power making these crazy baseless smear attacks on you know, members of the administration like michele

bachmann are doing. they're this close to calling this woman an alien. they're making up anything they can to the point where john mccain, as you said, went to the floor of the senate and said this is crazy! >> stephanie: can i just say -- >> there are right wing nut jobs on one side. liberals and democrats simply do not deal in this kind of hate mongering in a public or private way. >> stephanie: can i just saw the look on caroline mccarth yesy's face was worth the price of admission alone. >> please, david gregory give me one example. he would have sat there in silence for 30 seconds. >> hum nahum na, hum na. >> on msnbc the democrats are swift voting romney. the swit voting. >> stephanie: bill crystal on fox news sunday. >> people have a right to handguns and hunting rifles. i don't think we have a right to

semi-automatic machine -- quasi-machine guns that can shoot 100 bullets at a time. i think the democrats are being foolish as they're being cowardly. it is more support for some moderate forms of gun control if they separate it clearly from a desire to take away handguns or hunting rifles. president obama is unwilling to take a strong stance. >> wow! >> stephanie: somehow it has become a world -- bill crystal's right. >> he was right last week on something, too! >> stephanie: twice! >> i know. >> well, yes he's right but he's also in a way setting a trap because you know, i'm playing devil's advocate. i'm faulting democrats and obama for not talking about this. but if they did fox news would absolutely go bonkers. and rush limbaugh and they would just say ah-ha he is coming to take your guns and people like bill crystal would sit on their hands. they would not come forward and say wait a minute, this is

fair-minded gun control. we don't need assault weapons or the 6,000 rounds of ammunition. so it is nice that he -- is taking a shot at obama and democrats. but if this debate ever took off, people like bill crystal would be common sense. >> i'm going to send the assault weapons ban to the floor. >> stephanie: i'm andrew shepherd. did i say this would happen like clockwork? >> i have to think that all of this, whether it is the hollywood movies, what we see on the internet, whether it is liberal bias in the media whether it is our politicians changing public policy, i think all of those somehow have fit together and i have to say also churches who are leaving the authority of scripture, all of those things have seemed to come together to give us these kinds of -- >> so the batman movie is what killed people not the bullets

being fired at people in the theatre. >> stephanie: louie gohmert said this, too. on-going attacks on christian beliefs when asked about the shootings. he blamed atf for violence. by the way his neighbors describe him as a shy presbyterian church-going teen. so you know -- yeah. >> we've seen this script over and over again. the loner someone who people didn't expect, someone who privately was stocking up the ammunition. the bulletproof armor suits and things like that. this is a -- this is an issue of mental health and gun control and really if you look at it, basically, these happen regularly, regularly regularly they don't always make the news like the aurora killing but people going out and killing three, four, five people usually at the workplace. it happens regularly. the defense seems to be cross your fingers and hope the nut job isn't --

>> stephanie: chief bratton made the point. 55 people a day. carolyn mccarthy was talking about that. these are the big highly publicized ones. 55 people a day are killed. >> two quick points that never get covered. 30,000 gun deaths in america. 17,000 are suicides! how many of those people would commit suicide if they didn't have easy access to guns. b, the massive healthcare costs to gun violence in america. >> stephanie: absolutely. >> study that showed people who carried guns are 4.5 times as likely to be shot as 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared to unarmed citizens. >> stephanie: eric boehlert remains in the sidecar. we continue with more right-wing world next on "the stephanie miller show." >> this is all very strange. >> i agree. something is not right. >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show."

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: stephanie miller ♪ i'm just burning doing the stephanie miller dance ♪ ♪ i'm just burning doing the stephanie miller dance ♪ ♪ woo-hoo ♪ ♪ woo-hoo ♪ ♪ i'm so happy ♪ >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 50 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number. eric boehlert from media matters rejoins us to continue right-wing world. here it is jim just for you. chuck todd on the chris matthews show. >> it feels right out of the 2004 karl wolf playbook. karl wolf ought to get royalties from the obama campaign on what they're doing that essentially they're swift voting romney. >> no, the swift vote thing was garbage. >> eric, you sounded like you

were in pain. >> i wrote a piece last week. it is not swift voting if it's true. asking candidates uncomfortable questions about their employment past is not swift voting. >> that's journalism. >> finding you know, a candidate who can't explain certain straightforward questions about his tax return, when he stopped being ceo of a company is not the same as republicans organizing a media campaign to lie about a veterans war record. it is not even in the same ballpark. >> stephanie: thank you. >> it drives me crazy. >> stephanie: this is your signature on the s.e.c. filings. you think that would be a legitimate question for someone running on their business record. >> i understand on a tiny fraction, they're saying okay, they're taking a positive and turning it into a negative. john kerry was running as this positive war record and they turned it into a negative. it is lazy and disengine use to say -- disingenuous to say this

is swift voting. they're saying they raised questions about kerry's record. wrong. they lied about all of it. everything they said was a lie so let's stop this false equivalency. >> stephanie: chris wallace on the mike gallagher show. >> the fact of the matter is what difference does it make -- i think you would want to have some sense of his finances. >> everybody knows he's a wealthy guy. big deal. >> if you're paying 15% taking care of every loophole, every foreign investment, swiss bank accounts that the law allows, every indication, the law allows it, it will have a political blowback. he's rich enough. pay more taxes. don't take advantage of every loophole and you know, it is a bogus issue in the first place but i think he could have been smarter about it politically. >> stephanie: it is a bogus issue suddenly when the first candidate in our history decides not to release taxes. >> he wants to release two years of tax returns.

>> i think wallace is saying is interesting saying look, this is what rich people do. they take advantage of every legal loophole they can find. the problem is mitt romney didn't have his eye on public office years ago so i think the reason he doesn't want to release it is it will show just what wallace is talking about. the super rich in this country get away with every conceivable loophole and it doesn't look very good and romney would have to be one of the few among that .001% who opened the books and said to america this is how we get away with it. he doesn't want to do that. >> stephanie: bill cunningham proving once again you can't be right, be loud. the radio host on hannity. >> our friend and yours, mitt romney has had about a 75% success rate in creating private sector jobs. he's created many more jobs. >> overseas. >> talk to jeffrey the job czar about overseas jobs. your guy sent billions of dollars from the stimulus package overseas. your guy is the one presiding

over the worst economic performance in 60 years. take responsibility and quit blaming someone else. >> stephanie: where do you want to start with that, eric? >> the point is -- the simple point is -- i just looked at the stat recently. i've got it pretty right. the last four months of bush's administration, america lost 2.4 million jobs. 800,000 jobs. so the idea that these right wing talkers are now saying you can't blame, you can't point to anything. this country was on the precipice of a great depression. the idea that -- >> before he was inaugurated. >> yeah, the day that obama was inaugurated, he took complete ownership of the economy is ridiculous. but you know, taking responsibility, wherever people take responsibility in the fall of 2008. >> stephanie: mike luckby on the radio to conclude right-wing world. mike huckabee. >> we're about the boy scouts and their policy.

they're going to continue in affirming their traditional practice and policy of saying that it is their private organization's decision to have people who are scout leaders who are not homosexual. >> i was molested by my scout leader in '58 '59 and '60. my dad wouldn't let me quit. >> the boy scouts made a decision i think was the right one. >> stephanie: wow! there you go. >> because all gays are child molesters. >> stephanie: it is the all gays are child molesters meem. >> most people understand like if the boy scouts want to be a private group that does this, they can. they're going to -- there is going to be pushback. i'm sure you saw the headlines. a lot of people are sending back their badges and things because they don't want to be associated with the boy scouts anymore and question what really always was public access to schools and

things like that. if you're going to ban people because you're a private group that's fine. you can't use taxpayer's schools to ban people. if they want to do this, that's their right but you know, this idea you can't have people opposed to it or you aren't going to have former boy scouts who are embarrassed, it is all part of it. and everyone sees republican opinion is going on gay marriage. huckabee is clinging to the past. >> stephanie: we need to have little pockets of pig try that we can -- of bigotry that we can still hold on to. talk to you next week. >> there he goes. rocky mountain mike with today's tribute to mittens. >> yes. >> stephanie: it is fabulous. here we go. rocky mountain mike. ♪ ♪ well we dino if he's winning this fight ♪ i have a feeling he don't ♪ ♪ i'm so scared ♪

♪ here he is, stuck up mittens that's who ♪ ♪ well he started out and he claimed he was a businessman ♪ ♪ with family on vacation ♪ ♪ ♪ strapped his dog on the roof ♪ ♪ [ laughter ] >> stephanie: thank you rocky mountain mike. dominic in chicago you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, mooks. i was like to be recognized as the official union steamfitter of "the stephanie miller show." the point i would like to make is you had this kid who was able to order thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition over the internet.

and yet when you walk into a drugstore, you want to buy a box of pseudoephedrine, you have to sign for it, you gotta give them a dna sample and god help if you want to buy two boxes. this didn't raise any red flags at all? >> stephanie: good point good point! it is the stuff in the fancy case! give me the good stuff! [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] all right. so lots to get to. 58 minutes after the hour. lots more audio goodness from the weekend in this whole issue as we continue on "the stephanie miller show." i'm going to be on with the governor tomorrow night. she is awesome. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show."

[ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello current tv fans! all right. breaking news superstar and clotheshorse jacki schechner steph, i love you but ask jacki where she shops. i love her clothes. >> i don't have one particular store. i should say a name of something and then they'll sponsor me, right? >> absolutely! >> say neiman marcus. >> something fancy and expensive. >> stephanie: tell the story real quick that you made me laugh while i was crying about max on the way to the emergency room because i was worried because i was wearing -- like ripped bulldog pajamas or something. >> i have a scar on my chin from when i fell out of the shower in

high school, stepped on the tile and slipped and cracked my chin. it was really unsexy but my mother dressed me at the time to take me to the hospital. i was 16 and she put me in sweat pants and bunny slippers but the pants were on backwards which i didn't notice until i went to use the restroom in the emergency room and i had these giant pink slippers on. so i basically told stephanie not to worry, it could be a lot worse. >> stephanie: she tells good stories! aunt jacki tell us another one. time for the news. here she is. jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. after an appropriately campaign campaign-free weekend president president obama and romney are back on the trail. the president will give a speech in reno, nevada at the national convention for veterans of foreign wars. later today he heads to california for three fund-raisers and campaign events. mitt romney meanwhile is hosting a roundtable, a business roundtable in costa mesa, california. tomorrow it is his turn to speak at the vfw convention.

after that he hits the international trail. he's going to head abroad for a six-day trip. he'll attend the opening ceremonies for the olympics in london. he goes to israel and poland. it is a trip designed to show that he can handle international affairs. james holmes meanwhile making his first appearance in court this morning. it is expected to be a brief one. the d.a. says it could be weeks or months before it decides whether or not to ask for the death penalty. holmes surrendered without incident to police or at least was arrested without incident but has since been uncooperative. colorado does have the death penalty but it is only executed one person since 19767. three people are -- 1977. three people are currently on death row. i'm sure all of the networks will be covering holmes arraignment. new york city mayor mike bloomberg is continuing his call for stricter gun control saying we should do things now like closing loopholes in current laws and fund them to be able to enforce them. back with more news after the

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i watched the show. you people -- the show is much better. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] without me. as ann romney would say. you people are good! wow, the show is not as irritating when i'm not there. >> well, it was a bit of a different mood than usual. >> stephanie: max had a seizure. i've never seen anything like it. it is like something out of aliens jim. he was laying his head -- first of all his head weighs the same as a giant boulder in the first place. as you know, i'm a 70 pound frail elderly shut-in. he started having a seizure and blood and urine. >> he needs to stop doing crack. >> stephanie: i think that's what it is. i'm doing more blood testing today. he's doing much better. i don't know -- we don't know if it was a toxin he ingested, neurological in nature. he's doing much better but he bit through his lip. >> black walnut can cause -- >> a listener wrote in and said

eating a black walnut -- that might do it. >> stephanie: dogs like nasty stuff. not since he rolled in a dead -- >> why did you allow that? >> stephanie: it was a slow motion carpet commercial like no! >> no! >> stephanie: oh, it is an unsolicited testimonial. keith in alabama five-year user of the steph cast. steph, random thoughts. could mittens simply have lost years of taxes in a computer crash because he didn't use carbonite? >> it is possible. >> stephanie: maybe he's too embarrassed to admit it. mitt, it's okay. >> we've all spilled wine on your computer. >> stephanie: it is unhealthy to watch the first on current and hour two on sirius then rewatch all three hours in the evening that i dvred from the show in the mornings. do i need professional help? >> no!

number three for years you have been my -- on my five women it is okay to boink list. >> wow. >> since you were gay on the radio, would never come to alabama, my wife visited your web site. you refer to yourself as looking like an armenian man as a child. >> you don't look like an armenian man now. >> thank you. >> she saw you on current and i can't have you on my list anymore. i have a sad and i blame al gore but i'm looking forward to current going to hd some day. high def steph. [ applause ] >> hd is a young man's game. >> that and soccer. >> stephanie: i'm still asking for lamps with -- >> antique shawls thrown over them. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> stephanie: get a little more magical. >> could be like blanch. throw chinese lanterns over the bare bulbs. >> let's get a good look at you! >> no! >> sorry.

>> stephanie: you're in your mode. you may as well do the line. >> i'm not going to tear down that bitch of a bearing wall and put a window where it ought not be. >> make me do joan crawford? >> stephanie: you people -- joan card was like ann romney. you people have seen all you need to see to understand our taxes. rocky mountain mike with a tribute. he did a video to this. >> he's given all you people need to know. he's given all you people need to know. ♪ power to you people ♪ >> he's given all you people need to know. ♪ power to you people ♪ >> yea! >> stephanie: yea for you people. >> john lennon reference. >> stephanie: mike writes steph, a friend of mine lives near san diego. i got to listen to your show.

she's hooked. also we got v.i.p. tickets to the show at the pantages this weekend. she's coming up for a birthday celebration. >> oh, my gosh! tickets almost gone. mike down in san diego way coming up. tickets almost gone. two giant celebrities on the panel. little surprises. go to sexyliberal.com. >> here is the story about the facebook by the way. nothing good, i don't think. except for sexy liberal on facebook. >> man says wife read his facebook page and stabbed him. >> that's a little rash. >> stephanie: central texas man, somebody doesn't like somebody's friends. >> that's defending. -- defriending. >> was he claims to be single? >> his wife stabbed him in the hand after reading his facebook page. [ screaming ] >> stephanie: she didn't care for something on there. some people are touchy. >> they certainly are. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ]

> single, probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. >> stephanie: my new feature. weird [ bleep ] that happens at walmart. making crystal meth in the aisle. man on scooter faces dwi charge. a 24-year-old man accused of driving a shopping scooter while drunk. he got a call about a motorized scooter. the wheelchair occupant not charged in the weird [ bleep ] that happens at walmart. >> okay. oh, boy. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: more than 1,000 turtles, this a day for bipartisanship and i feel really really happy for mitch mcconnell's relatives. more than 1,000 turtles made a slow-speed escape -- is there any other kind? >> for a turtle, no! >> where are you going? >> stephanie: turtle farm in northwest georgia presumably

through -- >> turtle tunnel. >> stephanie: turtle farmer said he suggested vandals might be to blame for tearing down fences around his turtle ponds. >> it was me who started it. i'm proud of it. >> it is not hard to catch a turtle. >> stephanie: he wanted to have a little family reunion. >> i couldn't see them all. >> i like the slight whistle. >> stephanie: was that a nose whistle? >> because they don't have lips. >> they have a whistle. >> articulate certain -- [ laughter ] >> stephanie: like you swallowed a whistle. let's go to dan in chicago. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi dan. >> hi, dan. how are you guys doing? >> stephanie: you're dan. >> caller: i know. i've been waiting such a long time. i was listening earlier, a lot of talk about assault weapons and obama's assault weapon ban. just a distinction the rifle that the guy was using wouldn't

with have been covered under the assault weapons ban and is not considered an assault weapon. the distinction between the two is an assault weapon has the capability of being switched from semi-automatic to fully automatic so it would have to be some sort of different kind of ban on guns to eliminate them. >> stephanie: that's not what -- >> the ar-15 -- >> stephanie: that's not what i've heard. >> caller: his did not have the capability of being switched from semi-automatic to fully automatic. you can own an ar-15 rifle have it be semi-automatic, not covered under the assault weapon band and it did not considered -- >> stephanie: the magazines were banned in the 1994 assault weapons band. >> that was left to expire. >> stephanie: thank you. governor john higgin looper of colorado. >> this wasn't a colorado problem. this is a human problem. i worry that if we govern all of the guns, we have so many guns

in this country and gun violence but even if you don't have access to guns, this guy was diabolical. he would have found explosives or some sort of poisonous gas or something to create this horror. >> stephanie: he grew up in san diego, this guy james holmes. he was seen by his neighbors as an everyday guy smart kid who was unremarkable. went to westview high school in san diego. graduated in 2006. >> i just don't buy the argument that well, he could have had a low yield nuclear weapon. so we shouldn't ban guns of any kind. what? >> the reporters were shouting at james holmes' dad as he was flying off to denver to take care of things, i suppose. and i mean just the look of horror on the father's face and embarrassment. i mean -- >> stephanie: it will be interesting as it was reported friday, obviously that mother, when she was contacted said

you've got the right person. so you know, obviously more will i'm sure be revealed about all of that. representative carolyn mccarthy yesterday. >> members of congress, legislators across this country should not be afraid of the nra or the government and should be standing up to say we're going to do something. you still have the right to own a gun but we can help people. >> stephanie: as we said, we're trying to get mayor bloomberg on if not today maybe tomorrow i think he said it best and i thought boy he's an independent now. is that what we have to -- the only person that can say anything of political courage? because it seems like on either side, no one can stand up and say anything. maybe it is time the two people who want to be president of the united states stand up and tell us what they want to do about it. romney as we talked about signed a ban on assault weapons in massachusetts, you know. but now of course bills himself as the one that will protect your gun rights. obama as we talked about called for reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons during the

campaign but you know, we've got a houseful of louie gohmerts as i said earlier. >> could it be that new york city is the only place where it is politically advantageous to say let's do something? >> stephanie: in virginia, neither candidate for the senate george allen or tim kaine appeared to dodge questions about whether tougher gun restrictions could help prevent gun violence. >> virginia has some of the loosest gun control laws in the country. >> stephanie: why it can't be part of the discussion, i don't get. >> manhattan is a different story. tons of people living cheek by jowl stacked on top of each other and a history of gun violence there. >> stephanie: i've lived next to said jowls in new york. >> it is a little bit different if you're out -- >> it is easy to say okay, let's get rid of guns when you're in new york city. when you're the governor of a state like colorado where it is really spread out, it is not as politically advantageous to say so. >> stephanie: tom in california hey tom.

>> caller: hey, steph, there was a member of the nra who called in before and he said the nra is a collection of the common person and i would just ask him what else is the definition of a corruption of the common person coming together? >> corporations? >> caller: i would call it government. the people are the government. the thing is we need to really start taking back all of our government, start talking about government and actually saying this is ours. we keep on talking like it is something exterior and it's not. we the people are the government. >> stephanie: yep, good point. 18 minutes after the hour. we continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: it's her political party and she'll cry if she wants to it. is "the stephanie miller show." and who doesn't want 50% more cash?

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> this is a vintage arizona state university shirt. >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ make me lose my mind ♪ >> up and where? >> up in here. >> stephanie: "the stephanie miller show" up in here. 23 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number. toll free from anywhere. senator ron johnson republican of wisconsin on the colorado tragedy. >> he's a sick, demented, evil individual and unfortunately, i don't think society can keep sick demented individuals from obtaining any type of weapon to kill people. i mean somebody who wants to purposely harm another individual is going to find a method of doing it. this isn't an issue about guns.

it is a sick about sick, demented individuals and it is a tragedy. i don't think there is a solution here in washington to solve this problem. >> stephanie: really? >> shouldn't bother controlling any guns because there are crazy people. so just give up. >> stephanie: is there not a way to look at all of the gun tragedies and the body counts are going up and it is because in every instance, a assault weapon with the high compassionity magazines. there is a cause and effect. 1994 -- >> everything's fine. crazy people out there. >> stephanie: there's always been crazy people. somebody was saying, i believe we confirmed that, right, this was the highest number of people tragedy not obviously the death toll at this point but -- because i think carolyn mccarthy said it on "meet the press" yesterday and we'll have to ask her if we get her on but i think she said that police responded within 90 seconds and he had already gotten off 100 rounds. >> the gun jammed. luckily the gun jammed. >> stephanie: or it would have

been worse. >> unfortunately, the way the movie theatres are designed, people are arranged like a shooting gallery so that's the scary part. >> stephanie: angie in virginia beach. hey, angie. hey, angie? hello. >> caller: i hear you! i apologize. had you on head said. i'm upset this morning because i'm in virginia, i'm a gun owner and our state has very liberal gun laws. i go to gun shows which ironically is one of the only places in virginia you can go with a load weapon. you can't go with a load weapon right now. but i purchased my gun from a dealer. i had to fill out an application, background check, i went to a class and did the registration, the whole nine but reality is a criminal doesn't have to do that. they can go to a gun show and buy all of the guns. i get the argument you can't legislate crazy or dementia with gun control laws but you can reduce the criminal's odds of getting their hands on it. it is not protecting a criminal's second amendment

right, is it? >> stephanie: angie the other thing you bring up, there is something we can do about mental illness and about talking about the issue. that's part of, by the way healthcare. is being -- people being able to have -- you know, proper mental illness -- you know, healthcare. i think -- there are a lot of issues involved in this. to take one of them out preemptively and say none of that -- that doesn't have anything to do with it. i think it does a disafter to all of us. >> waiting periods don't hinder sane people's rights to get guns. it doesn't at all. >> stephanie: tony in l.a. >> a million rounds of ammunition immediately. don't ask why! >> stephanie: does that look suspicious? hey, tony in l.a. >> caller: hey, stephanie, how are you? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i've got the solution. you know my black self would not be order to order -- would not be able to order 6,000 rounds on the internet. i would have been on cnn somewhere. since it is going up, let's do

what the right-wingers say. why don't everybody who's been discriminated against women african-americans, latinos gay people, what if we all go get a gun and keep it and the next time one of the crazy crazies ready to pop a cap on one of them. that's what it looked like it. is crazy. like you said, it is insane for anybody to own a weapon, you know a semi-automatic. let's just be real. so okay since everybody should have a gun okay, why don't we? take them up on it and then the next time one of them gets crazy, pop a cap in one of them. >> stephanie: toni, now you're scaring them on purpose. gays with guns. [ screaming ] >> caller: that's okay. >> stephanie: dana in maryland. you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> is that a glock or are you just happy to see me? >> stephanie: did that go off in your hand?

dana in maryland, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, everybody. i sent you an e-mail, steph. i don't know if you got it. >> stephanie: sure. >> caller: a picture of my son and my dog petey. they were saying they hope max is okay. >> stephanie: i'll look for that. >> caller: i'm sure you were inundated with e-mails. it was a cute picture. we were sending our best. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: we had a dog who had seizures for years. could be he just needs to be on some phenobarb and hopefully he'll have them less often. don't worry too much. >> stephanie: i think he ingested something. >> caller: i'm so sorry. i sent you a super cute picture. >> stephanie: i'm going to that right away. >> don't let max drive when he's on the drugs. sorry, dana, go ahead. >> caller: it is too bad whoever is dealing with fighting the nra isn't as quick as penn state was. they just dropped the hammer

down today. and i love every second of it! i love it. people need to be punished and have them punished. it happened very quickly. >> stephanie: it did. by the way jim was saying -- somebody is saying wham i supposed to tell my kids about where the statue is? >> well, there are a lot of things you need to explain to your kids. >> they think max was hopped up on goofballs. >> stephanie: they had banned penn state from all post-season play four years and fined the program $60 million and vacated wins from 2008 to 2011 and the statue came down so she's right they did react quickly. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show."

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[ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> we were actually looking for >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> i have a rule that every kiss must last at least three seconds. it is what the obamas do. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: kiss cam. jim, we're on the kiss cam. 34 minutes after the hour. it is 1-866-55-press. >> it is like sister kissing brother. >> stephanie: you don't know what happens in the elevator. >> gross. >> stephanie: it is not gross. it is hot. >> it is beautiful love. >> stephanie: wow. what's his name? the suspect? he looks totally -- he's either on something or off something. >> or he hasn't slept in prison very well. >> stephanie: bright red hair. he's sort of like struggling to keep his eyes open. >> he probably hasn't slept very well. >> stephanie: he looks completely -- crazy as he --

>> a little bit of sadness. look to him. now he's trying to stay awake. >> stephanie: all right. >> creepy. >> there may be something to the being on anti-depressants thing and maybe he's off his meds. >> stephanie: steve in madison, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, steph. we're the latest entries into the concealed carry arena. >> stephanie: yep. >> caller: the law was so ill-conceived and vague they had a training provision in it. it was so vague and they left it up to the attorney general to make the administrative rules for the training part. and he folded up like a cheap umbrella in a rainstorm when the nra came around. they put so much pressure on the governor and him j.b. van hollen that they totally dropped it. i guess there is some move to bring it back. >> stephanie: steve i remember -- my dad's running mate barry goldwater back in the '80s, chris talking about how the republican party was too

in the pocket of the gun lobbyists and that was then! it really is incredible how -- just the threat of them has gotten so powerful. >> yep. >> stephanie: matt in traverse city michigan. you're on "the stephanie miller show." welcome, matt. >> caller: good morning, stephanie. my poor baby sister lives in the great state of texas the state that at one time elected people like lyndon johnson and ann richardson. i don't know what the rules are -- i don't know what the rules are in colorado but if this killer had been in texas he could have shown up with a concealed carry permit or maybe an nra card as proof of his eligibility to vote. he couldn't show up there with a whole foods car or an aclu membership card but you can show up with an nra card to vote. that's how crazy that state is. i wish some liberal would step out of the woods and say any latino or african-american in the state of texas i'll finance

your concealed carry permit and we'll see how long that racist law lasts. >> stephanie: thank you, honey. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] we're going to start having screaming fights about the tax cuts. it will not put a damper on the economic recovery according to the research arm. >> what do they know? >> stephanie: allowing the rates to rise just for the wealthy would help reduce deficits without stifling the economic -- is what the report says. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] however, looky, the republicans got themselves a plan. senate g.o.p. tax plan would raise taxes on 20 million working families. they denounced president obama's plan to allow the tax cuts on income of over $250,000 to expire a new senate plan released by mitch mcconnell raises taxes nearly ten times as many americans by allowing tax breaks signed into law by president obama expire at the end of the year putting an end to the three tax breaks the tax rate on child tuition and the

more generous earned income tax credit would raise taxes on 20 million american families. doesn't matter because they would be poor folk. >> the story of the unions and put them all on minimum wage and destroy the minimum wage and then tax them more on top of that. >> stephanie: speaking of george w. bush guess who will be skipping the convention in tampa. >> george w. bush. >> i got -- >> stephanie: his spokesman says he supports governor romney which is probably why he's staying away. scat. cnn survey found bush to be the only living president with a fayeable rating below 50%. [ wah wah ] >> that takes some doing. >> stephanie: yeah. okay. all right. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] meanwhile, president obama and the -- warned mitt romney would be squeezing more money out of seniors by turning medicare into a voucher program. romney accused obama of putting his needs against those -- putting his needs above those of the nation.

what? huh? i don't understand most of romney's attack. what? president broadened his attack on support for the house plan that would change medicare from a fee for service program into one where future returns -- helpful vouchers. >> here's $20. go cure your cancer. >> caught rise your -- cauterize your wounds with coupons. >> stephanie: is that a gushing head wound? here is a band-aid. the president plans to turn medicare into a voucher program so it isn't worth enough to buy the insurance that's on the market, you're on your own. we shouldn't be squeezing more money out of seniors barely getting by right now. >> unbelievable. >> stephanie: this seems like -- >> even nixon wouldn't have done this. >> stephanie: it seems like an unnecessary headline i found in the "l.a. times." poll elderly left medicare.

actual study elderly americans on medicare are substantially happier with their insurance coverage than their younger counterparts. which is why former and future congressman alan grayson's plan on medicare for all makes so much sense doesn't it? [ applause ] >> get your government hands off my medicare. what? >> stephanie: help! only 8% of medicare beneficiaries -- >> help! help! >> stephanie: only 8% of medicare beneficiaries -- [cats meowing] >> stephanie: over 65 or over rated their coverage fair or poor. there are a lot of myths out there. it is important to remember how well medicare performs. republicans, including mitt romney the presumptive g.o.p. candidate want to convert medicare into what they call premium support. it seems like the kotex with wings. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] it is premium support. >> not just support. it is premium support. >> you always bring up these chick references that neither --

you know. >> stephanie: i have to explain to you what a sticky bra is. you wear a backless dress and you can't have a strap. >> you just went braless. >> no. girls need a little help. >> i didn't know they made strapless -- >> no idea. >> stephanie: oh please. maria in virginia. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi maria. >> caller: hello, miss stephanie. can i be the official full time mom and former law enforcement for "the stephanie miller show." >> stephanie: yes, please. >> caller: first off the very same thing keeps running through these shootings and that's the high capacity magazines. virginia has some of the most lax gun laws. i can strap my gun on my hip and walk straight downtown. >> that's right. >> not a thing you can do about it. >> stephanie: yep. we also have the concealed carry. we also make moonshine still in the mountains. >> stephanie: does not sound like a good combination.

moonshine and a gun strapped to your baste band. it doesn't sound like a good description. paul in mesa, arizona. hi paul, welcome. >> caller: good morning. i heard the nra guy. i'm a gun owner. i bought a high capacity rifle during the ban. i don't know how you could but -- bought it through a gun store legitimately. there is a loop store. i bought high capacity magazines for my pistol. and there's loopholes in it. i believe we do need to ban them. i bought them because i was -- in combat -- but you can span the trigger and get all of the rounds off in less than 60 seconds if the rifle doesn't jam. you might not hit a dinner plate but you can hit a crowd theatre every time you shoot it.

>> stephanie: as you sid chris, there are events like that that are -- you know -- and that's the other thing that makes it so untenable what gohmert said about you know, having other people armed. seriously, in a darkened theatre when you don't even know what's happening or who's shooting and -- what was it? tear gas? >> it was tear gas. >> i think i heard a statistic. 40% of all guns purchased in america are done without a background check. wow. through the loopholes. >> stephanie: this is worth playing again. former l.a. police chief on "meet the press" yesterday. bill bratton. >> the congressman who made the comment the people in the theatre had been armed they may have been able to stop the individual. he was armed to the teeth with all kinds of bullet protection materials. the ability of a citizen to try and take that individual down the way he was would have been diminimus. fortunately for the responding officers, it seems that his automatic weapon, semi-automatic rifle jammed otherwise they

would have been outgunned the initial responding officers who probably would with have had nine millimeter, 40 millimeter and a shotgun. the way he was equipped, he would have been able to take them on. first responding officers weren't s.w.a.t. officers so this issue of arm everybody i'm sorry, in this circumstance, i don't know that that would have made a difference. >> youlouie gomez is wicked retarded. >> stephanie: that's what he wanted to say. brian from charlotte north carolina. >> caller: good morning, guys. i find it hard to believe that we can't take care of the crazies but we spend trillions to keep weapons out of the hands of people in other countries. okay. i'm right there with you jim. the heat on mitt romney and his taxes. right there with you with it. just to say that. >> stephanie: you know, speaking of things we shouldn't say, somebody e-mailed you earlier maybe because none of us have kids but is that wrong to say? what are kids doing? >> infants doing at a midnight

showing of batman? >> shouldn't have been in the theatre to begin with. a midnight showing a violent movie like batman? >> stephanie: one parents they brought an infant and toddler. they were okay thank god but they were like yeah, we thought she would sleep? >> at a midnight showing of a movie? >> stephanie: that was one thing. >> all three of us were like we can't say that, can't we? >> i think they ought to issue parenting licenses. >> stephanie: i was -- maybe becausegy to bed at -- >> stupid o'clock. >> and get up at. >> insane o'clock. >> that anyone would go out at midnight to me is baffling. >> if i go to a movie after 7:00 -- >> stephanie: i go to matinees. >> you just sleep. >> stephanie: i go to matinees with my werther's candies. >> i went to the premiere of the first transformers movie the loudest movie on the face of the earth, fell asleep. >> stephanie: all dvr and blu-ray.

>> stephanie: hello fred willard. >> oh! >> hello. >> my first thought -- >> my first thought they still have adult movie theatres? i mean, the internet is made for porn. >> stephanie: 45 minutes -- isn't that what guys do? don't the police have anything better to do? >> only people of fred willard's age go to -- >> cha-cha. >> stephanie: a picture of that. >> 46 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> swede lady gaga, that is good! >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show." "the gavin newsom show." this week: where will ken burns turn his lens next? find out on "the gavin newsom show." only on current tv.

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>> announcer: stephanie miller . [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ i kissed a girl and i liked it ♪ ♪ i kissed a girl ♪ >> and what else? >> stephanie: tell daddy what happened. >> oh, come on. >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show." oh boy. we're back to normal. 51 minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jim, who said [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] i'm so excited to be nominated for an emmy for 30 rock which is an incredible show but also for playing a deranged world dictator? i think that's what i would call iron curtain irony. >> louie gohmert. >> stephanie: marg etshow who snatched the role of kim jong il right out from under you. >> she's cheating because she speaks korean. >> she does a great job. she's not recognizable as kim

jong il. >> stephanie: she's hilarious. all right. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] oh, dear. fred willard. seriously, don't police have anything better to do? isn't that what dudes do in theatres like that? >> they should have been at a theatre in colorado. >> gawker headline. fred willard could avoid don't jerk it in public counseling. it is diversion program. oh, look over here. [ ♪ hypnotic ♪ ] >> oh, it is a euphemism program. >> don't look at my -- >> yeah, we're running a psa that plays during the local -- with fred willard. [ ♪ hypnotic ♪ ] >> stephanie: shiny keyes. drop it, drop it. >> what is that? a rash? >> stephanie: the program would involve counseling on decision making. don't whip it out in a public place. willard continues to maintain innocence telling tmz it was a misunderstanding.

>> what is he going to say? yeah, i was jacking it. >> stephanie: pants around your ankles and your [ bleep ] in your hand. >> still reporting on the queen. >> stephanie: oh boy. all right. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] this could be good. mariah carey could be our next "american idol" judge. >> oh, really? >> stephanie: i liked her 16 kinds of crazy period. that was awesome. she could be the next paula abdul. >> easily. >> stephanie: mtv reporting they're finalizing her contract. $17 million for one season. [ applause ] >> why can't you become a judge on "american idol"? >> stephanie: i don't know. i don't understand why i haven't been called. morgan freeman has donated $1 million to obama's campaign. >> $1 million. >> stephanie: he said in a statement he ended combat operations in iraq, saved the auto industry, protected the healthcare of every american and has led our nation to be more tolerant and placed competent

women on the supreme court. i'm proud to lend my voice in support to those who defend him. thank you morgan freeman. he was god. god says so. >> he was god in one movie. >> stephanie: i don't think god wears a white suit. i think that's ricardo man montell ban. >> stephanie: uh-oh. scientology picked out a new wife for tom cruise. meet the scientology princess who could be the fourth mrs. tom cruise. >> they want to make sure -- they want to get someone who doesn't run away. >> stephanie: run now! 27-year-old model/actress -- >> slash robot. >> stephanie: being programmed. considered by the church of scientology. >> this one grew up in scientology. she went to all of the scientology schools. >> vaccinated her. >> so she won't -- >> just like the hitlers. >> stephanie: what? oh jim.

[ buzzer ] >> you open and close the show with a nazi reference. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> stephanie: he brings it magically full circle. >> all roads lead to hitler. >> oh, boy. >> stephanie: okay. what is going on with the jackson family for god's sakes? jackson brothers, they played the greek theatre here? was that this weekend? paris jackson michael's daughter, will not be showing up for the gig. paris took a twitter to personally address randy jackson calling him a liar. there's trouble in jackson land. katherine jackson went missing then they found her. >> paris jackson whose official guardian is katherine jackson reported that she hadn't seen katherine jackson in a week so she was kind of missing. >> on her own. >> but apparently one of the jackson brothers had shipped off katherine jackson to rest and recuperate in arizona. >> okay. >> but nobody told paris or

blanket or prince. >> stephanie: okay. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] more importantly -- >> blanket needs to change his name clearly. >> he's also prince so you need a nickname. >> stephanie: pete townsend said mick jagger's -- [ bleep ] was huge. and extremely [ bleep ] steep. >> dusty? >> tasty. [ buzzer ] >> yikes. >> pete townsend. >> he was refuting keith's -- that it didn't taste good? >> no. jerry hall says otherwise. >> really? >> stephanie: i don't know what that was all about. >> i didn't send you that headline. >> stephanie: that poked me right in the eye.

nancy in buffalo you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi nancy. >> caller: hi, stephanie. well, i'm calling to disagree with an earlier caller. the nra is not the spokesperson for the common people. >> stephanie: yep, that's right. >> caller: it exists only to promote gun sales to the people and also to pay off congress to enact laws that are favorable to the gun manufacturers. >> stephanie: yep, yep absolutely. let's go to -- virginia in new york. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi virginia. >> caller: good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: the nra should be so proud. any way, my suggestion is the only people that could buy guns are women because as far as i'm concerned, none of the crimes have been committed by women. >> i think there may have been some gun crimes committed by women. >> proportionately -- >> not mass murders. >> stephanie: men like things to go off in their hands. it is all -- magically talk to

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