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hump days with hal. it's very exciting to be here. we have tons to talk about. legit news and crazy pants darrell issa-ish super benghazi oh, my gosh scandal sauce to poor over everything. we have plenty of tremendous tend news from the room of darrell issa. any here is jacki schechner with some real news. >> good morning, everybody. president obama is going to nominate three people today. the first is patricia millet the second [ inaudible ]. all three are well qualified for the job.

now they take in to questioning for the need for 11 seats on the supreme court at all. it is important court. often considered second to the supreme court. it deals with congressional law and executive action. today we get a look at the inspector general's report on conference spending. the agency spent $60,000 producing campy dance and parity videos. >> gill ganged's island -- >> a total of $4 million for that conference. the irs also spent $135,000 on outside speakers including a

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>>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? [♪ theme music ♪] >> here we are -- there it is. i have a microphone. look at that. >> hey! all right if it isn't the most wonderful morning in the world. i'm hal sparks. i'm filling in for steph this -- i guess it's tuesday -- we'll call it tap dad tuesday. >> as the only woman in the room i approve. >> oh, thank you. and jacki schechner joining us today. and chris and jim are here adding i guess the

substance -- you know. >> substance? >> yeah, absolutely. >> that would be the first time. >> i was trying to get some sense of gra va tas. >> i have no grava tas. >> that's not what i heard. steph is giving a speech tonight called where the hell is darrell issa's brain? >> it was about michele bachmann. and she had to rewrite it. >> which is pretty easy because he -- it is the la jolla kind of area? is it just the -- that he's the rep for 49? >> no he's part of east county. >> east -- owe. >> yeah. which is very, very conservative out there. >> also known as nevada. >> yeah. the -- see the california's 49th

district 61.5% white, 6.9% asian. 25.8% hispanic, 2.3% black. >> i saw that coming. >> shoot fella. those numbers make sense to me that darrell issa has representative of that particular -- and i'm guessing when you walk around you can tell who owns the place by their car and their outfit. darrell issa -- >> [ inaudible ]ing don't sound american. >> exactly. darrell would probably push some kind of papers please law. he actually called jay carney a laid liar. we have audio of that. >> yes. >> their paid liar, their

spokesperson, he is still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. >> yeah and what proof does he have of that? they are getting it to? what testimony do they have that leads any credence to this? they are getting it. is so white water we hope this leads to a cigar, it's pathetic. but darrell issa is now like the walk into a rake congressman. they are irritating and a waste of taxpayer dollars. [ sound effects ] >> yeah, that's right. >> today would be the fifth hearing i believe we would have in congress on the irs scandal in quotes. >> it used to be called a fishing expedition. >> exactly. and who appointed the person that was running the irs during all of this including all of the

"gilligan's island" videos? that's the amazing part of this scandal, it has a permanent glass ceiling, because the republicans and -- i'm filling in for steph today. sorry a legal responsibility to misuse words and misquote movies, as sylvester stallone said in tootsy. >> how you feel about cleveland? >> right. [ laughter ] >> there's this glass ceiling on it, because had they let obama's appointees in, this would have gone right to him whether that person was involved or not. it was the very fact that they wouldn't let a president that ruined their own scandal hunt a couple of years later, and that

is fairly consistent to with all of the other scandals that are there. get used to that being a consistent thing -- >> there is a little bit of fascination with these hearings because the guy in charge said yeah, i don't remember i'm six months now i -- i don't remember. and there's a lot of that. i don't know. i don't remember. which lends itself to some suspicion of well then who does remember. >> right. i'm not the first person to bring this up but to me, the tea party groups that got sidelined and put in a special stack deserve it because they are clearly not 501(c)(4) organizations.

most of their applications were written with crayons and ma'amer hammers, we'll work forever to get the kenyan muslim out of office. >> and nobody didn't get what they were looking for. they were stalled -- >> right, and they deserved extra scrutiny and with the citizens united ruling, the rules were shifting. just because citizens united allows you to put unlimited dollars into things doesn't mean that the 501(c)(4) charter changes. >> and it's not that you didn't exist, you just didn't have official tax-exempt status until it was granted. it wasn't like they were thwart

thwarted from doing what they wanted to do -- >> bootstrap america capitolism was nonprofit. even our super pacs make money. [ laughter ] >> they really ayn rand the heck out of it. >> it's a little suspicious when you are for social education and you are not educated. i'm just saying. >> yeah. we have coredel on north carolina -- >> wait, he is being screened. see the little x. >> oh, okay. >> do you give a questionnaire to see if he is worthy of speaking on phone -- i just want

to know if he's worthy of tax-exempt call status. >> oh, have a check now. hi, coredel. how are ya? huh oh. he's being rescreened. oh, he went away. that's horrible. call back coredel -- clearly darrell issa is running the phones. he stole a car and came up here -- allegedly -- >> no, he admitted to stealing cars. >> that's true. the aledged one was when he stole it from the soldier -- >> it was alleged that he set his car on fire. >> oh, i thought that's what he was doing as congressman. >> to collect the insurance money. >> oh. great way to make money.

what is he in the top six most wealthy congress people. >> if not the wealthiest -- >> yeah he is super top five. >> issa is? >> yeah, he started the car alarm company. [ sound effects ] >> the one that we rush right out to see who is stealing the car. [ screaming ] [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] [ screaming ] [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> that's what mine would do because when happens -- [ sound effects ] . >> but if your car was suddenly going

[ screaming ] [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> you're fired! >> now that's a car alarm. >> yeah, get away from that car. >> i didn't even know i had a car alarm, it was going off and i was complaining about it and then i got to my car in the morning -- >> and it was you. >> yeah. >> that's kind of amazing. >> let's take a break and coredel isback. but i want to get to the republican party in their rebranding rebuilding outreach to minorities and women -- >> and youth. >> and the utes. their findings are kind of extraordinary and they don't bode well for them. we'll be back on the "stephanie miller show."

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ let the good times roll ♪ >> oh, yeah. that's how i like to think of it, let the good times roll as we watch the gop rebrand and rebuild itself. i'm hal sparks filling in for steph today. she is in san diego, walking around voter to voter in california district 49 saying do you realize darrell issa is your representative! do you realize what he is

spending your money on! think about the most important thing in the world to you that's what darrell issa is ignoring the most. i'm serious pick the crucial -- that's the further thing from what darrell issa is doing. >> hip hop barbecue. >> that's true. unless it's a hip hop barbecue, um, summit. then he is probably irritated by that. before the break we -- we had and then lost and then regained and then didn't have and then hoped to get coredel in north carolina. >> caller: hey, hal, i'm finally here. jacki it's an honor to finally get to talk to you. >> oh, my pleasure. >> caller: oh, my god. i don't even know where to start with darrell issa. first of all how is that whole republican outreach to minority thing going? as a minority myself i'm not

getting really warm and fuzzy feelings. if anything with your wanting to take away my right to marry the guy of my choice, my right to vote, take away my health care and then forget that i as a disabled person, i should be thrown under the bus for everybody else. so yeah, keep saying the same things that you are saying. i just want to sit back and enjoy it when you go the way of the wits in 2014. >> but you are missing one thing, benghazi. >> yes which is spelled with four exclamation points. is another thing that is going nowhere. it's super nowhere. and this is the stool sample that is the republican party right now. the three legs of this

stool -- every time i say stool now, people think i mean [ censor bleep ], which is clearlyclear clearly not what i mean. when i say [ censor bleep ] i mean [ censor bleep ] and maybe the number of sillyllables because i'm southernish. ap, the republican ts are more in defense of the right of the just disdepartment to get records -- i loved that foxes and friends tried to get their panties in a bunch about it a little bit, and then ended up getting called fairly quickly on the fact that they wanted the "new york times" investigated during the bush years. so it is a two-legged stool at this point. so two legs and what is left of

stool -- and i don't mean [ censor bleep ] when i say that. >> of course not. >> i don't know what they are doing is a bench of -- >> they are any stool party. >> that's right. >> and in boner's case it's a barstool. >> yeah, by the way, did you know that -- that john boehner was saved by the jesus. john boehner when he was -- they were about to kick him to the curve, and apparently -- i guess this is from -- this is a good time -- the -- i want to say this is from way poe as well but -- 36 hours after the caustic vote boehner faced a coup attempt from renegade conservatives. you mean men who received

education on ssi, and they want to deny poor people food stamps like jesus would, yeah it fell apart when several republicans after a night of prayer today god told them to spare the speaker. >> right. gentlemen we have gathered here to determine the future of john leslie boehner, i don't know if that is his middle name but i'll call him that now because of how much he tears up in the courtroom. let everyone take a knee like the most manly way we do in team

sports although we have never do that, can i get a high five? let's say a prayer for -- dear lord, should we allow john boehner to continue being the speaker? [ explosion ] >> please! was that -- was that god or was that john yelling from the men's room again. [ thunder claps ] >> whoever let's just let him in. we'll keep him in. john leslie boehner returns to the speakership. [ applause ] >> yes. john leslie boehner. i mean it is -- >> come here leslie. >> i don't care what your religious beliefs are really and i certainly don't care if at work you take a moment to go i hope this deal comes through, i

totally need this porsche, dear jesus, i need this big order this afternoon -- i don't care if that's how you do it but it is a bit concerning to me that the republican caucus took a knee to decide their speaker -- >> uh-huh. >> -- and believes really believes -- not that -- gentlemen let's make -- i think when we have a prayer we all realized we should come from the most loving space because that's what the reflection about god's openness does, we'll make our own decision about what that means, that's totally cool. but to believe that there is literally like, is this on? it's the lord listen up. get up off one knee and let boehner back in there.

i think he is adorable. he is the only orange person in the world and deserves a shot. this is god speaking and not someone in the next room messing with you guys. >> and you should start building an arc. >> yes. >> right. >> right. >> woo ka woo ka woo ka. >> it's the sound of a saw. >> yeah it's amissing to me that god picks favors in that regard and even care in that regard to their own little caucus meeting and that john boehner is the best that god can do. >> uh-huh. >> i would have somebody walk across the pond, that guy, the glowing guy, he can be speaker. we'll be right back with more on

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[ farting sounds ] >> we got a solution that i bet the best car alarm sound would be an ice cream truck because no one ignores them. >> that's true. i had the best anti-theft device back in the '90s on my car. everybody was using the club or getting the viper, i always kept my car on empty. i thought that was an accident of not having any money and being a struggling actor, but no, it was a choice because i knew if they stole the car they would have to stop at a gas station where someone would spot them or they would run out of gas and have to push it like i always did. >> i was going to say that didn't serve you very well. >> it worked until it didn't. that car was actually stolen. i was on my way to a date and the break lights failed and the power staring started to go out, and i was literally like i can't

turn this wheel, and i pulled in front of her house, i went to see the movie "howard's end," and i was like thanks for going out with me. this is going to be awesome. do you mind driving. and i parked my car in front of her house, and when i came back there was a little puddle of glass where the car used to be. >> how did they get away? >> i don't know that they did. >> do you remember what it was? >> yeah a bmw 320i my dad bought it as a yuppy vehicle, but he bought it with like 140,000 miles on it it was an '81, '83 -- yeah -- >> eventually you were in a fred

flint stone car. >> yeah, my mittsbyshi, you could actually see the pavement rolling by underneath. all right. let's go to pam in missouri. >> caller: hi how are you? >> spectacular. >> caller: i was curious, does anyone know how much these hearings are costing the taxpayers? i know the monica lewinsky thing cost us about $80 million. >> i will call dips on the 70 to $75 million that was outwardly paid before they even found the monica lewinsky line.

because as a comedian i got more out of that than the average tax payers. but it's a continuing thing, and everybody should keep that in mind, as we project, all of the things they are shutting down because of the sequester, to darrell issa can tap dance around something that he knows full well is going nowhere. he has interviewed his people already. the people that will have stuff that will directly contradict the story line that he is trying to do. he wants to subpoena them and then interview them in private before they go before congress. so he knows exactly what they are going to say so he can ask questions around it. it's a manipulative focused waste of our money.

it's not even an accidental -- >> hello he lied. >> yeah, right. let's go to dale in sacramento. >> hi i'm the official gas passer. [ farting sounds ] . >> caller: hello, everybody. ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> if i heard somebody tell me god was talking to them, i would order them a psych consult. and this is -- this is incredibly prevalent in mental illness, which really makes me wonder about the hill. if you really have auditory hallucinations hallucinations, part of this has to do with institutional bias and christianity when you don't have a thought, but a revelation, this is crammed into people all the time. i mean god forbid we have thoughts and critical thought process. no, we have revelations. god talked to me. this is how i made this

decision, but you hear this all the time in disasters. the doctors and nurses were lead my god. i'm there every day, and have been for 37 years. god is not talking in the room. science is. >> right. i don't mind the kind of -- kind of emotional version of that. where you feel just god pointed me in the right direction. kind of this doorway glowed more than that doorway did. because i think people of faith can have the room to believe that. but the part where -- >> caller: but what i have found out, irregardless of what my brain thinks, my body responds to science. >> sure. >> but your heart belongs to daddy. >> yeah, but it's the voice that worries me and thanks for the call -- it's the auditory voice

that concerns me the most. where you here the -- ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> david it's -- it's god. listen i'm having a really hard time to kill this one person. i know i have the power to create earthquakes, or i would just make somebody evaporate, there is always that spontaneous combustion -- [ explosion ] >> yeah sorry dave. but this one is tough. so as the chubby redneck in the middle of nowhere, i need you to pick up that rifle and -- that has always struck me as strong. you know what poor people need to learn an important lesson

darrell -- a religious candidate, and yet all of their stuff is disenfranchisement and judgment based. >> hey you, put down that pork and shrimp sandwich. >> yeah, that is a sentence you will never here in the congressional calffeteriacafeteria. i'm starving and i don't want my stomach grumbling during the morning prayer. let's go to kelly. >> caller: hi, how are you doing? >> i'm great. >> caller: i know you are just so gay. i love you. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> caller: i saw the show that you did. >> i was pretending sorry. >> caller: i know you were pretending, of course you were -- >> not of courses. there were people on the show who weren't pretending. >> caller: i know. i'm actually from brooklyn new york, i had to wind up here

because of my son in minnesota. here is the thing. i live in bachmann land. >> soon formally bachmann land. >> still water, minnesota and people here act just like her. but they don't like her. they can't stand her. what she did was in order to ensure that she would be back this year, she gerrymandered out to st. cloud, so we haven't heard about her here. >> part of it is that she -- in her weird dismissal video, where she pulled the rip chord and then turned out to be in russia with stephen segal. >> uh-huh. >> in that she says eight years is long enough for serving in one district, which means she is going to move to a much more

christiany district, because the tide of the area is moving against her. >> yeah, we not only moved against her, all of the democrats like myself just came out of the closet and started just signing petitions to get rid of her -- >> right. >> caller: you came out of the closet? that is so gay. >> caller: i am. not sexually, but -- maybe next year, who knows. [ laughter ] >> it works like that. >> yeah. >> caller: i -- i always wanted to know how the -- the republican congress could do this for so long without experiencing the people that they are cutting. so my thing was -- >> well, you have got to understand -- the wealth that it entails to get into congress and the senate -- and thanks for the call, because we're right up against the bottom of it. the wealth that is entailed and the people that you need to know to get the kind of donors especially in the senate but

even in the congress where every two years you are running. after a while you are not going to be rubbing elbows unless you take direct effort to do so with your average voter, your 17 to $30,000 a year salaried voter. you just are not going to. unless you are the kind of person where i take the train to work, the biden groups. but the paul ryans of the world, they don't want anything to do with that crowd because they think part of bootstrapping is getting away from those people. leave them trying to climb out of the crab bucket. we're going to take a break. next hour we are eric boehlert media matters for america >> yes, we do. >> and charlie pierce. >> that's a lot of men in one hour. >> i have been taking a lot of

female callers. >> all right. >> it's streaked on that side. >> just because you are so gay. >> yeah, that's what it is. when we come back, i want to play jay carney's response to darrell issa calling him a liar. >> announcer: join the party 1-800-steph-1-2. honest. i think the audience gets that i actually mean it. michael shure: this show is about being up to date so a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. joy behar: you can say anything here. jerry springer: i spent a couple of hours with a hooker joy behar: your mistake was writing a check jerry springer: she never cashed it (vo) the day's events. four very unique points of view. tonight starting at 6 eastern.

you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking?

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♪ sings the song that's how she's singing blooudz >> welcome back to the "stephanie miller show." i'm hal sparks filling in just for today. i'll be back at the end of the month, though. >> yes, the last full week of june. and jacki will be there most of those days. >> because i don't vacate. [ laughter ] >> neither do i. i will go swimming or go to a beach, but i can't be out there all day. >> you are like a stay-cation guy. >> have you ever gone somewhere exotic for a vacation? >> of course. but it's almost like extreme vacationing. >> you are like stephanie, you have to climb a 10,000 foot peak in order to feel like you are on

vacation. >> culturally. by buddy chris bonno, by the way we're holding a bonno benefit because he needs his hip replace replaced from a car accident. but in response to darrell issa and everything he is doing, my only recourse of course as a comedian and musician is to take my metal band down and perform close to his district. so we'll be playing down at brick by brick. >> maybe i'll drive to san diego. >> or take the train. >> it is so easy to tag the train. >> yeah, it goes right downtown. it's one of the only places in california where that works. the sad part is like let's go to

san francisco -- >> i'm in stockton. exactly. it smells like manure. it's like hey, open a window -- [ farting sounds ] >> close the window. >> and you have to go downtown and get on a bus to bus you to bakersfield to take the train. >> yeah, it's awful. and it's just so much like the politicians at the time. because this was ages ago when they set this up. it was like san francisco, who wants to go there, people need to go business in sacrament toe. >> fresno is where it's happening. >> we'll wave out the back of our train, fellow people of fairfield, i'm ready to be your

senator. >> did you see what fresno native travis bone put on your screen, leave fresno out of this. >> oh, i'm sorry. my band is playing in fresno. how about that. you never go wrong playing on the i hate this place dollar in any given place, because there are -- in baltimore i literally opened my show, i came out and said i would say it is nice to be here, but you live here so you know that's not true. >> everybody except for john waters cheered. >> that's right. and kevin spacey came to the show. >> how cool is that. >> wow. >> high school drama festivals

in the '70s. >> yes. so darrell issa we're coming to rock your block off, and so is jay carney. this is jay carney's response. >> perhaps there are issues that the chairman had with the ig. it was citing the findings of the independent inspector general. >> yeah. >> he is a liar! the inspector general is a liar. >> and even fox news took darrell issa to task for calling him a lie -- liar. >> yeah. if you are a pot shooting -- taking pot shots and you nobody, and you are just trying to earn your bones to work your way through the ranges

of the tea party, you would almost have a past like you lie back in the background you get a puff of appreciation, in this case, though darrell issa actually has a platform to -- if he believes jay carney to be a liar to prove those statements are lies. the reason he has to go on the show and say that he is a liar, is because he can't prove it. >> you would think the journalist would say prove it. >> candy crowley actually did. she said this goes nowhere. and he goes well this one wasn't but we have ones that will. >> what are you saving them for? >> yeah. it's just a fishing expedition. >> it totally is and they have

18 other people that they are going to depose. many of whom know less than the people involved, and as soon as she cornered him on that he went to this little nugget track five. yeah -- >> this attorney general maliciously covered up and will not give us the fact as to when congress was lied to in the fast and furious case. >> what lie was that? that you actually called charges on for surgery? or charged somebody with lying to congress? >> no. >> and these members are coming down and speaking to the committee. i thought it was particularly galling that cheney is saying they should subpoena hillary clinton to talk about benghazi, when, she already had. >> yeah. >> and the fact that this guy was -- they literally gave

marching orders to everyone ignore any subpoenas from congress the last two years we are in office. and we have eric boehlert at the top of next hour. >> yeah. >> we're going to talk a little bit more about fox and the media machine of the right trying to milk these scandaling, just to find anything. >> it is exsuhsing. at some point it would really be nice if they worked on something that actually mattered. >> ending the sequester! >> yeah. right? but again, i think -- we look at it from our point of view. you don't want a broken system. you want to fix that system. they don't believe the system should exist in the first place. so they want to defund break down, sever it so looking to them to actually do their normal job is against their policy.

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on the line with us now eric boehlert. ♪ come on baby ♪ >> i don't know what that means. >> eric boehlert from media matters for america, who we love. ♪ >> welcome to the show eric. how are you? >> i'm spectacular but i'll get better to borrow a phrase from tom hartman. these three scandals i'm sure you have been tracking how hard they have been trying to crowbar some validity into this nonsense. to me the most shocking nonsense is most of the things they are crying is horrible are either things they participated in at one point or would support if it were there side. >> if you take a look at the leak investigation, you

know -- and i have written about -- i have written about how -- what an awful idea it was to go after these journalists, and particularly not to give media companies a chance for judicial relief a head's up which has always been the doj guidelines, this was just a bad idea from beginning to end. that being said watching roger ailes beating his chest about the first amendment, and how no one is going to criminalize journalism while he is in charge. a, this is fox news that just absolutely hammered obama for years for not going after leak -- pursuing leak investigations, and the same fox news that when the valley plain leak investigation was underway said the whole thing was a waste of time. we don't care who leaked it. the journalist didn't do anything wrong, and things like

that. >> right. >> and then the third layer of weird hypocrisy is in 2006 when the "new york times" did this scoop on international banking, and the right-wing went crazy saying they are helping al qaeda. and fox news said they should go to jail. so fox new's position is completely interchangeable with the partisan calculus. >> yeah, it's a weather vain that no matter which way the wind blows always points right. >> exactly. >> but they have such a willing accomplish in darrell issa, issa -- it's funny that the five distanced themselves from darrell issa --

>> the five on fox news. >> yeah. fox news calling jay carney was a paid liar was a bit much for them, it's amazing because the rest of the time it wouldn't. >> yeah i mean -- i don't know if that's because dana used to be the white house spokesperson and she doesn't like the idea of calling whoever has that tough job a liar every day, folks on the five don't think anything is out of balance, but the whole darrell issa -- the press is being used by darrell issa where he cherry picks these transcripts, and he claims he has the smoking gun, and if you look at it it's like well you don't. there's two degrees of separation that is missing between your claim that obama picked up the phone and said go get them.

>> he has a half printed liberator. that just kind of ma ma and ran out of plastic. >> yeah. that was sunday, but the next day, the "new york times," darrell issa is turning up the heat, you know without pointing out the 20-second paragraph, oh by the way he doesn't have any proof, so the press plays along with the hearing charade, we saw the same charade, the build up to the benghazi hearings. and it turns out when you read the whole transcript nothing here. >> right. apparently turning up the heat really just means slinging bull [ censor bleep ]. >> yeah, it is. >> it is rhetoric. >> and if you go back it's sort of the white water model -- >> we were saying that last hour. it's a fishing expedition. >> yeah, you make up these crazy allegations, and the press excitedly prints them because

what do they like better than republicans calling democrats criminals. >> right with no foundation whatsoever. >> the reason darrell issa has to go on candy crawly's show and call jay carney a liar is because he can't prove anything in a meeting. >> that's right. he is calling him a liar and he has the truth -- >> yeah. >> -- just two or three weeks ago, obama was the one saying this is wrong, it -- it has to stop. we're going to do an investigation. i want to work with congress. obama is saying basically i totally agree with you. let's work together. and who weeks later, what is his reward? the head of the committee is calling his spokesperson a liar. >> yeah, darrell issa is taking his cues from alex jones.

we have the documents right here. take a look at it. there's a plan coming and we know this plan exists because i have these two pieces of paper that are totally unrelated and i will use my corpus colosum to build a bridge between the two. i want to ask you about erick erickson. >> he has been a horrific human being all along. >> right. i know. but now there's like -- it's interesting that this was his one step too far. >> he has been stepping way too far for a very long time. >> yeah. >> you are right. as i pointed out last week, cnn must be happy he decided to go to fox. why would you want that caveman

mentality. >> but he had that mentality before he joined cnn. >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. >> he was writing that stuff on red state years ago. >> oh yeah cnn was just craving for the tea party movement. let's put him on tv and that will quiet the barking dogs on the right for a year or two, and then he decided to go to fox news, and he has sort of been invisible, but he did at least manage to carve out a niche with his insane ramblings about women, women in the workplace, and how kids who have moms who work are inferior and they are never going to be the same. and megyn kelly last week, just completely -- >> oh, my god -- >> i'm trying to think of a nice way -- >> yeah exactly.

and lou dobbs to see the both of them jabbering away but going back to the original part of it -- and the fox program rounds up a bunch of middle-aged white men to discuss what it means to have more women in the workplace. that was the tail tail red flag that this is the -- their perspective is what matters on everything. >> absolutely. they type up what lou dobbs is saying both with him and for him on his show and then have erick erickson on to punt it a little bit higher. and be like i'll go one step further. i'll bring in this weird, oh science and biology prove that because most animals in his

perception males are violent -- and actually there's a ton of -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> right. mate rearcall structures in the animal kingdom that are extraordinary. so the idea that this is his baseline now. >> this is science. >> science man! >> yeah, when megyn kelly sort of smacked him down he said there has been 60-plus studies on women who work and there's no evidence that shows that kids who's mom worked -- she said what about these 60-plus studies? >> and he said a lot of those studies have preexisting bias. so he is basically ignoring half a century worth of research and science because -- >> i don't know megyn kelly's

relationship, background or any of that kind of stuff. does she have children at home? >> i'm not sure. i think she does. >> yeah. >> i guarantee you there are certainly women on air at fox news who are in that position. so it clearly struck a nerve. and i'm sure that roger ailes loved it. and megyn kelly was able to be the heroine for a day, so i'm sure he is still happy. but they are still stuck with erick erickson. >> he is not that far of the legitimate rape, bioeth schism they make up on the far right -- it's one thing to have loud mouths in media, but it's

another thing when those loud mouths are directly reflective of the intellect of the conservatives they are mouthpiecing for. >> yeah, and with increasingly radical legislation introduced all across the country. >> yeah. thanks so much eric boehlert media matters, indispensable. >> talk to you soon. >> we'll be right back. >> holy cow. you just blew my mind. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. joy behar: you can say anything here. jerry springer: i spent a couple of hours with a hooker joy behar: your mistake was writing a check jerry springer: she never cashed it (vo) the day's events. four very unique points of view. tonight starting at 6 eastern.

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>> caller: hey hall chris jim, jacki. >> hi. >> caller: i have a bone to pick with you here. i grew up in new york lived in chicago, l.a., san francisco, sacramento, i love baltimore, and i choose to live here. [ laughter ] >> okay. >> caller: how -- how can you disus? what do you watch the wire? >> nope. didn't watch the wire at all. i heard great things about it but i did not, it was made based on the statements of being there, and hearing the reflection of the people there, and being out at thursday night at 1:00 in the morning, downtown where everywhere there is a general store, there are 60 people walking in the street and there are cops herding them liked to liked to -- like toddlers.

>> every city has a part like that. >> but they don't put it right in the middle. >> caller: they have pockets of ghetto, not huge sections of ghetto. >> i don't know that that is any better. it has a lot of pockets. it's like the cargo pants of -- i appreciate where you are coming from, and i'm glad you love baltimore, there are certainly adorable parts of it -- >> caller: sound garden? have you gone to sound garden? >> no i'm a big fan though -- >> no it's a record store. it's awesome. >> yes, it sounds like pockets

of awesome surrounded by seas of scary zoomby world. >> caller: it is totally reversed. >> you have to say that because you to live there. >> caller: i choose to live there. >> right. but i'm sure you made a lot of bad choices in your life. >> there's a lot of architecture here -- >> that's true there are a lot of abandoned buildings there. >> caller: if you were nice i would have invited you to my home for dinner. i am a retired chef. >> oh. >> with old bay seasoning.

>> caller: i said i grew up in new york. i have some class. >> i grew up along the chesapeake bay. you have to love old bay. >> caller: i hate old bay. >> let me just say this before i hang up on you that i was right and i win. thank you for being the official mom of baltimore. >> and the official retired chef. >> does a chef really ever retire? >> they just stop making money for it. >> it depends on whether or not -- >> whether you went to jail for it. >> what is that? it's a rat turd. >> it's a caper. >> if it's a caper, eat it. donald sutherland.

let's go to john in chicago. >> caller: hi, you guys. love the show. huge fan. this isn't what i called to say, but in defense of baltimore, it gave us both john waters and frank zappa. >> that's true. >> but as far as artists go a lot of crappy environments create great artists just the act of escaping. i'm dead serious. sometimes the worst neighborhood, the most repressive horrible part -- would john waters -- >> he still lives there. >> i know because he needs the pressure to create. if he lived in san francisco it would be over. there are a dozen men walking around with pencil thin mustaches -- >> being vaguely creepy. >> yes. >> anyway john called in to talk about the irs.

>> yeah i had heard senator ron johnson be a little bit more responsible than darrell issa in that he didn't say there was a direct connection between obama and the irs, he said it was obama's fault because he sets the tone. and i didn't know if he psychically controls the irs or what. >> yeah, sure. >> caller: but last night a guy on the rush limbaugh show a guy named doug was subbing for rush and he went as far as to spend hours saying of course obama directed the irs to go after these groups. this guy said the irs scandal eclipsed the abugrey scanning.

>> is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right?

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pierce esquire. i have always wanted to add that to my name. >> you have to be a lawyer don't you? >> yeah but rand paul -- liberty university they crank out lawyers in quotes. >> and they all work for the american center of law and justice. >> right. there are so many air quotes in that. >> sounds like marvel comics. >> and by that we mean biblical rule -- >> oh, look who we have on the line. >> charlie pierce. ♪ pierce ♪ ♪ he's a clean ♪ ♪ pierce ♪ >> stephanie: charlie pierce

political columnist for esquire.com. >> why is everybody always laughing with me. >> good morning, sir. >> good morning, gentlemen. how are yao? >> oh and jacki is here. if she wasn't here we would be able to talk abortion and a woman's place in the home. >> why do you need a women's voice on those things. >> right. that's what i mean. if we're following the role models in congress. charlie, the president is nominating three people for the district court today but the manning case is happening today, and -- it -- what do you think that -- that -- the air between manning and rosen is? and -- and this odd part of all things are whistle blowing or nothing is whistle blowing kind of thing? >> i -- i -- i have gone back

and forth on this a great -- a great deal. i'm stanchly in defense of my profession, and the freedom of speech. i recognize the rights of governments to have secrets and do what they need to do to function, but i really don't know. i think that -- that -- that the government is grossly overcharging bradley manning for the fact -- if he did -- osama bin laden got ahold of something on wiki leaks, therefore bradley manning was assisting osama bin laden. that's kind of a stretch. as to the rosen case it does seem to have eluded some people that rosen has not been charged, indicted or is he going to be. >> right. >> and whistle blowing can also

be providing information. it doesn't have to be about a crime. >> i think that's where it gets its name. >> okay. then it's a specific kind of leak. but not the only leak. >> i would say all whistle blowing is from a leak, not all leaking is whistle blowing, and the protections therein should not just be blanketly provided to everybody. especially in the case of rosen, he was meeting with an official that was indicted, and they left the building to talk and he came back in, and when he came up with was not something that was an indictment of the administration's policy in dealing with north korea. it was simply showing our cards to some degree. which is much more akin i think that to valerie plain, and the

novak leak. >> i think that the primary target here should be the person who leaked the information. when you get into the people who received the information then you get into a dodgy area. the plain case was clearly an act of political vengeance. >> sure but the motations to give apay -- like what are our -- our -- our point of negotiation with the north koreans was. does that guy believe we should be negotiating with them? or we're giving too much? or moves too fast? >> obviously i can't answer -- >> right. that's what i mean. we don't know that. and so i think they are completely tied together and we're not talking about a phone call to a reporter where you are just kind of going look they are doing this and somebody needs to know. this guy was meeting with this guy regularly. and he was feeding him

information about stuff like this, like you would give away -- you know, somebody is going to be on the injured list for a sports team. whether he wanted to cause some damage or not, he didn't seem to care either way. and insofar as the manning case why they have some legs is while 20% of what the leaked was i think clearly whistle blowing, and the kind of stuff that -- the american people needed to see to show what was being done in their name. >> right. >> that 80% of it wasn't. and he was -- he didn't take it to the "new york times" pentagon paper style, he took it to wikileaks, not part of our let's say internal news workings our protected first amendment crowd, you know what i mean? is that part of it? >> there's a lot in there. >> yeah. >> my understanding was he tried

to take it to the "new york times" and "washington post" first before he went to wikileaks. wikileaks is a whole new ball game. all of a suddenly enthusiastic first amendment warriors are jumping behind rosen and leaving manning alone. but it's a very naughty problem and it is going to get naughtier because of the technology. >> k-n-o-t. >> exactly. >> that's part of the stretch how manning was treated early on, has clouded the substance of whether or not the case has a state of what he leaked and to whom. rosen wasn't mistreated at all, if anything he is being touted as a first amendment warrior.

that imbalance i think is the biggest issue here. and whether or not we are going to get a shell shield law -- >> we are not going to get a shield law. no politician is going to vote for a shield law. >> well in this round. do you think in 2014 this is one of the reflective issues that people will think about when they go into the voting booth. >> no i think -- i don't think liberals are going go into the booth and pull a lever based on a shield law. >> you think if it weren't it would have aen effect? >> i don't know. i see the shield law as a very unlikely biproduct of this. >> right. and then again we're just -- i

guess we'll watch how this place out as far as him getting life -- whether they use the fact that he had intentions to give information about illegalalties in the sentencing part of it it apparently doesn't affect the charges against him inning whether or not he is guilty or not. >> i don't know. >> they are hoping that his motives effect once he is sentenced, but it doesn't matter why he gave those secrets away. he gave away state secrets en masse masse. and i don't think rosen falls under the whistleblower kind of protection. he had a buddy feeding him stuff, and he just wanted to get something nobody else had and released it, which endangered

people inside the korean government that we had that was feeding us information. the problem with manning's stuff is, again, 20% of it is straight up like the photographers being shot footage like that kind of stuff, and the rest of it was blanket stuff pulled in lump. it's just like a volume thing. and put up on a website to you guys vet it and you release it other than here is the seeds of the story. i hadn't heard that he had gone to these places and i find it very striking that he was able to go to a third place before he was caught in that regard. but the problem is the whistleblower protection act would even only cover a marginal amount of the material that he released. and he did it to a website that

wasn't a journalism website, or a story-telling website -- >> it was a document dump. >> yeah, it was all of this i'm taking hard drives and throwing it out on the internet. and there's no way you can say rogue governments or even governments we're supposed to be buddies with aren't going to get it and use that information against us. i think that's around the whole manage issue is that it wasn't about a story almost or a whistleblower, it was about just dumping this stuff. >> uh-huh. all right. well. okay. >> i'm asking you too -- >> no, it's okay. hal don't worry about it. it's a stuff story. it's a tough argument. >> right. i concur. all right. i appreciate it charlie thanks. >> all right. i guess we argued to a draw in some ways. i don't know. you know, i think these are deep

issues. >> and tough issues. >> and this is why we shouldn't close gitmo, and by doing that you totally undermine any possible legit argument you have later, or that you are dealing with for real. >> yeah. >> there's something to be said with keeping the higher ground. >> right. when you actually find a real terrorist, it's hard for me to take you seriously. it's hard to -- >> can you drone someone? >> you set such a low standard that it's hard to go -- yeah there are some governments

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on ♪ >> oh, the dancing in that video was just hilarious. >> yeah, it was awful. >> that they started out as a punk band is amazing. >> really? >> they were straight up british punk. >> well you had to be in the '70s. >> and then that's where they landed. >> they picked up a lot of reggae and then rush started trying to sound like them in the middle of the '80s. there you go. and knowing is half of the battle. richard in illinois has been holding for a long time. hey, richard. >> caller: good morning, hal. i don't mind progressives propaganda and the people that adhere it to it's -- it doesn't really effect my life. the way you are characterizing people praying in congress --

>> how was i characterizing them? >> that -- you were mocking them. >> so you weren't really listening. you are cherry picking what i said -- >> caller: i can speak. >> yeah, sure. i don't know if you can. but go ahead. >> caller: all i want to say is i think sometimes you cross the line in the christian bashing and it really doesn't have a place on a progressive radio station -- >> did you hear me say specifically, and i don't know if you were listening during this time, but specifically i said i have no problem when people pray and feel like they have a genuine guidance in feeling on how they should behave from their reflections on the teachings of the bible and how jesus would want them to

react, but when it goes into auditory voices of god directing you specifically, i find that sketchy, especially when it deals with politics. >> so you have picked up the dsm five and said that christians are now psychotic, because they believe the way that jesus and the apostles -- are now christians going to be excised out of the democracy -- >> i said you have the right to pray and believe deeply in your heart, but the minute you get a voice saying you, richard are right and she is wrong, that's a real voice from god telling you that you have special dispensation. >> and because of that you get paranoid thinking that -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> yeah. you throw these words around as if they are not important. and you foemeant a lot of hatred

towards christians. >> was defending their right to have a certain belief. i think certain people that think god is talking to just them in an auditory voice aren't necessarily christian or even telling you the truth. what does that have to do with every christian or foe meanting hatred towards christians. >> the way you characterized this -- >> i characterized that people have the right to their own belief. but the people who sell the idea of being a christian versus acting it out. and if you think there's no difference -- if you think that everybody who says they are

christian, who calls themselves christian and has every right to just behave anyway they want without criticism -- >> caller: hal -- >> is that what you are saying? then you are saying the ku klux klan has as much validity as any other christian. >> caller: what i'm saying [ inaudible ] spirits to make sure they are of god. there are all these ways of self examining, and you have a hundred percent right to say god told me to buy a $300,000 car and not pay my mortgage. but the woman who called in and said i believe in science -- >> that is her opinion. >> she has the right to it. >> absolutely. just as much as you have the right to believe whatever you

want. >> caller: can i speak? >> no, you apparently can't. he is just talking in circles. >> he is bashing -- i hate the word bashing being thrown around -- >> the plan to send all christians to concentration camps. >> doesn't he know that's what all of that fema tupperware -- >> you guys are giving away the war on christmas. >> dammit! >> you mean that pagan holiday that was usurped during the 11th century. with the big german tree. let's go to mike. hi, mike. >> caller: hi. just on the matter of darrell issa any time this guy says anybody else is a liar publicly that would be like my dog accusing somebody else of

urinating in public. [ laughter ] >> caller: darrell has a big chip on his shoulder every sense he spent half of his fortune to be governor of california, and everything he says projection. >> that's an excelling lent point. let's go to tom in albuquerque. >> you have 20 seconds. >> caller: the real target they are trying to get at in the manning case is julie asauj. and the only way they can get to him a through manning. they have to prove conspiracy to get asauj. >> that's a good point. well done. we'll be back with more of the "stephanie miller show." i'm hal sparks filling in.

[♪ theme music ♪] >> it's a been amazing the conversation this morning, it really has. we have gone over break i think twice. first i blame myself and then i blame eric boehlert and then i blame charlie pierce. >> but we haven't missed any hard breaks. soft breaks are a little squishy. >> it's not so much as a break or -- >> a suggestion to stop for a

little bit to pay some bills. >> it's like a bend. >> yeah, it's like you are turning hard. someone who will get us back on track -- >> have you met me? >> jacki schechner with the news. >> push me towards the edge. i'll jump. as expected president obama made his official nomination of three new candidates for the d.c. circuit court of appeals this morning, pointing out that all three are extremely qualified and there would be no reason to block their nominations besides political gamesmanship. harry reid says new jersey senator frank lautenberg will be buried and arlington cemetery on friday. he passed away yesterday at the age of 89. lautenberg's passing marks a

turning point in how the senate conducts business. sen twhors served in world war ii were more like to work together and put partisanship aside. casting a hard vote is not the toughest thing those guys would ever have to do. as for who fills lautenberg's seat, that is up to chris christie. his top choice looks to be former governor tom king senior. but he needs to decide when to hold the special election. this story could be be -- problematic. the ap reporting that some of the president's appointees use secret emails. they have yet to get answers from the request it submitted more than three months ago. the ap started asking questions

after it was reported that lisa jackson used separate email accounts. i'm sure fox is going crazy over this. we're back after the break. and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership"

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this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but

somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? [♪ theme music ♪] >> welcome back to the "stephanie miller show." i'm hal sparks, filling in today as steph is down in san diego. >> yep. >> torturing darrell issa. >> yeah, running around screaming at darrell issa's constituents just yelling, what are you thinking? [ screaming ] >> there's a -- there really is something to their -- the republican fixation on this. meanwhile, the passing of frank lautenberg i think reminds everybody what congress people

and senators and presidents and vice presidents and school board members and -- everybody in public service is supposed to be doing, try to find ways to better people's lives, and save their lives -- >> uh-huh. >> -- and protect their lives. i mean those three areas, i think are the big push you are really doing. >> there should be a dignity to the office. respect and dignity. >> some sort of a corporate launch pad. >> have you at long last no sense of decency left? >> they don't. >> really they don't. >> lautenberg helped write the bill banning smokes on airplanes. he worked for jews to come into

the united states from russian. >> [ inaudible ]. >> he wrote, the law banning smoking in federally funded places that served children -- [ inaudible ]. >> that's true. but same performance. >> also was instrumental in getting the drinking age raised to 21. >> yeah and the blood alcohol limit down to .8. he wrote the life act which provides funding for comprehensive sex education. which shockingly since our earlier, i'm a biblical barber caller, illinois just passed an amendment, i guess or a law in the state that abstinence only education is a waste of money -- >> it's worst than a waistste of money. >> yeah, it's dangerous. he helped secure funding for the

ryan white care act. the community right to no law act to make sure that communities are informed about toxins that companies are releasing into the air. when they talk about regulations -- you hear about the complaint from the right about -- the government just wants to regulate businesses out of existence. >> yeah, we killed some people but hey you are cutting into our profits. >> you can't make an omelet without shooting -- >> giving somebody cancer. >> and now we have that zombie wheat thing happening -- >> why don't you fill people in as to what this is. >> monantoe has this wheat that is round up ready. they korea this nerve toxin that is so awful that it starts to

kill the wheat that you are used to protect it with. >> right. >> and basically they had to create their own form of wheat. >> to be resistant to round up. >> yeah. and there was a lot of blowback about using it. they pulled it voluntarily a few years ago, which is really sketchy, because you know -- >> yeah, they know how -- >> yeah. it's -- like i don't want to go all darrell issa but it's always sketchy when a chemical company voluntarily pulls something. >> there were all kinds of problems with the corn that showed that rats had these horrendous tumors. >> exactly and they got sued because some of the corn drifted into another guy's field, and they tried to sue him for

stealing their seed. so this round-up ready stuff that bought -- >> but they just won a big case against a small farmer who reused their seed for a second time. >> right. but this other guy didn't use their seed at all, at got -- you know, it drifted into his yard and it polluted his stuff, and they thought he was stealing seed when he didn't use it at all. and he won that says. >> so they are putting a trademark on an genetic code. >> yeah and now this zombie wheat that got lose is drifting everywhere. it is up in oregon and they believed they stopped it. and japan and other countries stopped buying white wheat from

us. we don't have the right to know where the gmos are. if you were a farmer you wouldn't have the right to know if the next farm over was agreeing it. as if wind doesn't occur in the plains states. [ laughter ] >> so that is particularly sketchy, so whenever you hear them go, they are trying to regulate business out of -- and these environmentalists and the epa and everybody that is anti-business -- a lot of us just want to know that we have the right to differentiate. >> it's just pro consumer. >> exactly. >> [ inaudible ]. >> to some degree they are line -- okay i have got coke and cherry coke, but i don't have to tell you in which can. and it is that simple.

if i don't want gmos, it's my right not to consume them. >> even without the gmo stuff, wheat has been manipulated for so many years it is virtually inedible for some people. >> that's true of a lot of things. corn wasn't as sweet -- it is all sugar now. bananas used to taste like a potato, basically. >> and plantians still do. >> exactly. >> quick kurt cameron bashing. >> i can't because alan thick is

selling reverse mortgages on the radio, i had to teach the kids about money. let's take a couple of calls -- before we take a break, let's grab a couple. let's go to patricia in jacksonville. >> caller: hello. >> hi-ia. >> caller: good to see all of you today. >> nice to be seen and heard depending on where people are. >> caller: i was wanting to get your input on whether you start the drum roll was starting already against women since we might have a presidential candidate in 2016, fox is going crazy. they are very anti-woman all of a sudden. >> you are absolutely right. i have never believed that there isn't a broader agenda when you start talking about minority rights or women's rights in a lot of areas, because the idea is if they start encroaching on your dominance, you need to pull

back early -- are you all right? were you attacked by a dog? >> caller: it was my dog, and he loves me. >> yeah, hillary clinton, many people believe she is far and away the most popular choice for 2016. is the undercutting of women working, women in politics, women in control of their own bodies, that a way to cut that off in the future? >> caller: absolutely. >> because he emasculate men it's totally our fault. >> yeah but some people pay good money for that. didn't vitter wear a diaper at some point. >> he did? >> oh, yeah. [ baby crying ] >> yeah! >> mommy -- >> i'm a big boy. >> spank me.

[ laughter ] [ sound effects ] >> now that there's anything wrong with that. it creeps me out, but it doesn't involve me. >> knock yourself out. >> yeah some people are involved in that. >> that is up there with cost play. >> yeah, there are a lot of things that i'm just like okay. okay. okay. i'm going to be okay. [ laughter ] >> i um -- good luck with that. let me -- [ screaming ] . >> you know, and then i just leave. and to it? happening in the next room and go oooooooooh. but do you think there's something -- is it a strategy do you think, jacki? >> what? >> the idea that -- the anti-woman push on a legislative level, women not controlling their own bodies pushing back against contraception, the idea

that they are not at home it is detrimental to society. >> yeah, i think there's a fundamental -- not all men -- i'm not lumping all men together -- >> thank you. >> i think there are a lot of men who -- who are very much in favor of promoting women in all sorts of aspects of society. but do i think that there is some sort of inherent fundamental fear in a lot of men -- >> no, there isn't! what are you talking about? >> of women gaining power. men feel like where is there room for me if women can do the things that i'm tasked to do traditionally. >> also blue collar jobs have started disappearing -- >> it's not my fault we're better at it. >> women for years were pushed

into what is considered feminineized jobs, and those jobs are growing. there's actually more of those by mass whereas, lifting heavy crap has been replaced by a machine a long time ago, and those were what the guys were thinking is a good job, that shows that's what a real's day's work is. and that's not a real day's work, that's lady's work. >> the real confusion for me is the female lawmaker who thinks he shouldn't have equal pay for equal work. >> marsha blackburn. >> yeah, those decisions shouldn't be made in washington. they should be made by my husband.

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i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ don't speak, i know just what you're saying, so please stop explaining, don't tell me because it hurts ♪ >> all right. all right. i won't tell you. >> isn't this a talk show? is that why we're -- >> no. it's ironic. >> i thought that was an atlantis more atlantis atlantis moreset.

that's the most ironic thing about the whole thing. do you really think she thought that far away -- >> i'm sorry, i lost consciousness. >> she was thinking about beating up david [ inaudible ]. >> what? >> let's go to judy in st. louis. hi, judy. >> caller: oh, i love the show. so glad to be on. chris lavoie has the best laugh on the air. >> thank you. >> caller: yeah, i love to hear it. i just wanted to call and say, because i remember like last fall in october that darrell issa posted like 160 pages of -- it wasn't classified but sensitive state department documents, put it up on the house oversight committee's website, and the obama administration said that it

compromised the identities of several people. so i want to say to all of my heros on the left go get em. >> and yet darrell issa isn't in solitary confinement. >> yeah. the date on this 2012, darrell issa releases classified inknow with names of people in foreign countries, so absolutely. he caught some hell because of that, but not clearly enough because he just seems to think, i guess spend our tax dollars on a circular firing squad about nothing. let's go to mike in madison. >> caller: hey, it offends me when somebody that calls themselves christians cries on

somebody for words. there is in no way shape or form that darrell issa or anyone in that congress is doing anything christian. if you go back to how we were all raised to care about people who are less fortunate us to to reach out, to share, that's exactly the opposite of what is going on in this world. it's all about piling up the most and crapping on the people underneath you. so you should be ware of what you are saying. >> yeah, it sounded more like a vacuum cleaner salesman in 1965 with his foot in the door before you hang up on me, i know you are going to say you are not interested, but you are really interested. it's that i'm selling this belief system regardless of how

it is used. >> caller: there is no reason for them doing any of this. it doesn't solve anything. and if you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. all of you guys that think you are walking the walk you are just doing the talk and there is a huge difference. if you do something, then people will be more likely to listen to you. >> right. i appreciate that point, mike. it's great of you to call in. >> also the paranoia about christians being persecuted. in ancient rome yeah. >> yeah, it is written in the bible like that you will always be persecuted, and obviously jesus had been treated relatively poorly in recent

times so that was fresh in their mind. but these people who find nemss constantly offended are the ones who use it as the arm of their own personal bigotry. they use it as a cover for the fact that they themselves are bigoted. and the unfortunate part of most religious documents, is there is enough contradiction that you can cover your butt for anything. if youing want to believe that you -- >> it's all open to internation. >> exactly. we had the right to push the indians out of the way, and how the tribes of israel were finding places and going god had send us to this land. well there were already people here. well they have got to go.

that's the big part of it. that's why everybody who is against gay people getting married, adopting children even existing in the first place, and blah blah blah has just had a shrimp cocktail and has no problem cutting their hair. let's go to billy in texas. >> oh, boy. >> do we no billy in texas. >> caller: listen, i'm always amazed and kind of amused every time obama -- [overlapping speakers] >> caller: and y'all fall back to these positions, oh golly ddt in the water, and the people came over from europe and disposed of the aboriginal americans. you don't -- you are not speaking to the issues of the day, you are sitting there raising against conservatives -- >> we spent two hours talking about the issues of the day. and i think the monantoe issue

is very current. cenk uygur: i think the number one thing viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. i think the audience gets that i actually mean it. michael shure: this show is about being up to date so a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. joy behar: you can say anything here. jerry springer: i spent a couple of hours with a hooker joy behar: your mistake was writing a check jerry springer: she never cashed it (vo) the day's events. four very unique points of view. tonight starting at 6 eastern.

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>> in 1987 they were actually going to go back to beta. >> who are you? >> i was just listening. over your shoulder. >> go away. >> let's go to sophia in kentucky just because it's my home state. hi sophia. >> caller: hey i didn't know you were from kentucky. i saw you last september in seattle, and you are one of the funniest men alive. >> ahhhhh. >> caller: you should have a disclaimer that says warning listening to me perform may require the use of depends. >> it's true. [ laughter ] >> caller: i just wanted to say if your listeners can goingel a documentary called genetic roulette it's about the gmos in the corn and soy and what they are doing primarily to children

to the bee population and i'm sure you have got a zillion calls so i'll believe it at that. thanks a lot. >> right. let's go to bill in madison that is pro gmo? >> no absolutely not. gmos are the bain of the universe. but round upis an herbicide that kills weeds. so it does that by not allowing the weeds to take up any water and so they genetically modified the corn and wheat so it has a gene that skips that and allows it to pick up water. >> is that why we're all retaining water. >> you too? >> totally. >> caller: but the factory farms that we have 75, 80% of all of

this acreage is going to feed livestock. so we have to get off of this treadmill of cramming beef into our face. >> if you look at our oil addiction and -- >> i don't eat red meat. so i'm in the clear. >> they were having looks at cramming meat in their face. >> that's why i clarified that. that's not what i thought you were going to say. >> but the point is -- and yeah did we lose him -- >> yes, we did. >> he had enough of the beef talk. >> they were talking about how much it takes -- because we use most of our grain to feed livestock and we eat the livestock. >> and they weren't designed to eat grain because why they have to give them all of these

anti-buy antibiotic antibiotics. >> right. and meanwhile because of all of the processing that it takes to get it to the animal takes 1800 calories of petroleum energy to get every fork full to your case. for every calory you consume. insofar as meat and how -- which means if -- just physically picture that it look 1800 units of energy for every one energy unit that you actually consumed how long would you be able to physically eat if that was how your body worked? it would burn out so quickly, and that's where we are. that's why we're in this mon monsanto nightmare.

the alternative just requires even more energy than that. >> yeah. >> you know? but let's see chris in indiana -- he's not ready for us yet. we'll go to pat in georgia. hi, pat. >> caller: hi, love you guys. the woman who decided that other women don't want to get the pay that men do i wonder is she going to take a volunteer cut in pay? >> yeah, it's interesting that she works in a situation whereas a government employee she is guaranteed the protections of equal pay and that all congress people get the same paycheck, and if she worked in a corporate environment at the same kind of grade level, president to vice president, she would probably be making -- >> $0.70 on the dollar. >> yeah. which by the way that dip in women's pay, that 30% that women don't get is the exact same statistical element of people

who are highly religious who do not believe that women should be working at all. >> is it really? >> yeah in ceo's in the country. the number of businesses run when they say do you believe women should be running a business 70% of them say yeah women could and should work and have almost a google like attitude toward it. but 30% don't think so. 30% of business owners in this country go women shouldn't be working. they should be making babies running the family. they shouldn't be doing this. >> which i believe comes from an inherent inner insecurity. >> i totally agree. but i think the drop in women's pay is almost statistically

identical to the number that don't think they should be working at all. >> amazing. >> let's go to hersherry. >> caller: i'm a little nervous. >> oh don't be. i'll hold your hand. >> caller: and i'm a republican. >> oh, maybe i won't hold your hand. >> caller: it seems that y'all are the party gives back and we are the party that steals and i just want you to tell me if that's the way it is. >> that steals? >> caller: yeah. >> i would say insofar as the platform of your party and the people that have been vying to run it there is a distinct actual policy decision on their -- that they have been pushing that people who receive

either welfare or s-chip or americans with disability, all of these organizations don't deserve the support that i think we as democrats do believe they should; that the actual -- the republican party was against for example the un ratification of the disabilities act, basically the worldwide version of the americans for disabilities act, and were against the ada when it was first put up. that was the idea that just because you are in a wheel share doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to work in a building. and that has been a specific difference between the two parties for a very long time. and it's more aircute now. >> caller: i understand i don't understand what you just said about some of the un things, i'm

not educated enough to -- you know -- >> understood. what i'm trying to say if you are looking out for people who cannot look out for themselves or find themselves at a disadvantage -- and s-chip is a great example, and welfare for children -- preschool -- the president is pushing preschool for all children, respect. the republicans as a party are vehemently opposed to this. >> caller: i am somewhat politically informed. and i did see a lot of money laundering going on strongly on the democrat side in a lot of these so-called programs to help. >> laundering how? >> caller: well that is just my perception. >> money laundering specifically is a legal term dealing hiding the use of money for legal purposes --

>> caller: yeah, i have seen a lot of that on the democratic side -- >> like how? cm >> caller: well, i can't get specific -- >> then you haven't seen it. >> give us one example. >> caller: there are situations where i have seen -- there are things that i have definitely seen -- >> like what? >> caller: well, like -- okay. maybe laundering is not the right word in this instance but money for the stimulus going overseas, you know. gm for one -- >> what do you mean the auto bailout? it was actually the government used to bail out gm and then gm paid back -- >> with interest. >> caller: some of it and some of it went other places. >> where did it go in >> caller: i'm sorry, i can't

remember specifically. >> then you can't make an allegation if you don't know the specifics. >> caller: not all of the money that is supposedly going to help people is getting in to the hands of people. >> i totally agree with that statement. i think a great example of a lot of money going to military contractors for example, or no-bid contracts during the iraq war, and at $9 billion on a palate vanishing in the middle of the night in iraq because the bush administration and donald rumsfeld specifically said go to war with what you have and when the soldiers came back and they started giving a tax break to the wealthiest 2%. does that qualify? >> caller: in the context you

put it i suppose it would. but i don't know the whole story there -- >> it is very easy to find. that's very specific doneald donald rumsfeld they handed out no-bid contracts to haliburton, and that money vanished. and while it was spent supposedly building schools -- a $9 billion palette of money vanished. some of it paid to tribal leaders, some of it just went away. the point i'm trying to make is if you have a problem with money laundering, that is a specific example of what happens in government. >> caller: right. and that's wrong. that would be wrong if that's what happened. >> that's what happened.

>> caller: and i'm just saying -- that's all i'm trying to say is that type of thing goes on, you know, a lot -- >> it does you are right. when republicans are in charge a lot more of it happens -- >> caller: i think it's different, but that's my perception -- >> but there are facts and then perception -- >> caller: it's just that i don't have time to spend all day on it 24/7. >> but then you can't call a show and say you have evidence. >> caller: i can say from my perspective that's what i have seen. >> sherry what i will say, is that your perceptive is based largely on verbal drift that you are hearing from the right-wing media. >> caller: and how do i know you are not verbal drift. >> because you can look up everything i told you. >> caller: and there is a lot of

information i could look up -- >> then do it and call us back. >> when did we get into a universe that facts aren't facts. facts. >> yes, we'll be right back on the waning moments of the "stephanie miller show." (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current.

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♪ going take your time and dance with me ♪ ♪ ow ♪ >> welcome back to the show it is hal sparks filling in for the "stephanie miller show." although i'm only kind of filling in filling in because chris is here radio guy as you know him on twitter -- when is the new show coming out? >> oh, where the bears are, the episodes start coming out next week at where the bears are.tv. >> this section of the "stephanie miller show" is brought to you by -- >> and have you seen any of the promo photos? >> no, i haven't. >> you put some online. >> no i haven't. although i am in the trailer if you go to where the bears are.tv. >> he is looking good.

>> and of course jim is here and looking at -- >> porn and conspiracy theory. >> not porn. >> it's erotica. >> yeah. jacki schechner here adding a moment of stability and allowing us to speak about women's issues, like we even know. let's go to grant in oklahoma. >> caller: i live in tulsa, so you know who my two senators are. it was very nice that sherry called in, and i don't want to make fun of her, but i think she is a very good example of what is wrong with people who are republicans or claim to be republicans, they are sadly misinformed and they don't even care that they are misinformed. they don't want to know. i run into a lot of them on my

job. i work in the trucking world, and it's dominated by white males, and i have some people at home that rail against people on welfare and freeloaders, and their very children are raising their grandkids on food stamps and medicaid but they vote republican to cut them off, but they don't even have the money to make up the difference if they get cut off. >> do you think they believe that not everybody will get cut off, just the people that don't deserve it. and their family deserve it, but others don't? >> caller: to me they act like their kids aren't even on it, because when i point out hey, man, your kids are freeloaders too, and i don't like using that term, but i do it to them, they just look at me like i'm out of my freakin' find. i served in the army twice and i fought in the first gulf war,

and i have had people tell me to my face that i was unpatriotic because i didn't support w's war. >> wow. >> caller: and i remind people when i was in iraq my dad had to hire somebody to mow my lawn -- my wife had three kids. i am in iraq and you won't even mow milan. >> when you were talking about the americans are disabled act she said well i'm not educated on that. and on the a couple of moments later she said well i'm not really informed. they consider themselves informed because they are listening to a lot of chatter, but they are not educating themselves. >> it's like that word informal. we'll send you an informal

pamphlet pamphlet. that word is a legal dodge. informative would mean that it actually gives you information. it has facts in it. >> so this is information-ish. >> exactly. a little gooeyer -- >> a little chalkier taste. by the way tulsa, oklahoma is where oral roberts saw the jesus that told him he was going to die if he didn't make $900 million or whatever -- i don't know how his 900-foot jesus was going to kill him. oh, we only have a minute left. thanks to travis, chris, and jim

for being here to shore up -- >> oh, no problem. >> and jacki thank you for calling. >> my pleasure. >> end of the month i'm going to be filling in for the whole week. >> the last full week of june. >> right. when you guys are on vacation, where you guys are resting and i guess steph will be spelunking or something like that. >> we see lots of photos of her in pan spandex. >> right. but my brand will be at brick by brick this saturday night. look at my facebook page or feed for that kind of stuff. and then at the [ inaudible ] improv next week. >> when is that? >> it's on the weekend.

>> i can attend. >> thank you guys.

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