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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. karl frisch coming up right out of the box. hello, tv land. jacki schechner i see ed snowden has given another interview to talk about how he does not want to be the point of the story. >> yeah, he is laying low. >> stephanie: in fact he said that very thing in his latest interview, how he really does not want to be in the story, he said in his latest story. >> yeah, give an exclusive
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interview, lay low, and not make yourself the center of attention. >> stephanie: and talking about hacking the chinese not going to be helpful. and pleasing don't let them extradite me. maybe that. maybe that. all right. here she is with all of the latest, jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. back in january, gop pollster kelly ann conway gave a presentation. and she had pretty clear advice. stop talking about rape. yesterday arizona congressman had this little gem on his abortion bill that would make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks. >> my friends on the left side of the aisle here try to make rape and incest the subject, because the incidents of rape
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resulting in pregnancy are very low. >> really? because more than 30,000 pregnancies result from rape each year. according to nbc, he tried to walk back his ridiculous assertions. which the cases in which someone tried to seek an abortion of rape is rare. which is not true. speaking of snowden, he told the south china morning post that u.s. intelligence has been hacking other nation's computer networks for years. and claims the u.s. has some 61,000 targets. he allegedly turned over documentation to prove allegations, but nothing has
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been dentally confirmed. he said he want the people and the courts of hong kong to decide his fate. he'll see how that goes. we're back after the break. stay with us. 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
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gets, "this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out for us." only on current tv! [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right . it is the "stephanie miller show." now songs of music, our computer is still being pesky. >> you know i can't do that. >> stephanie: it's the nsa. >> there it started. >> there we go. >> stephanie: you know the most important thing in comedy. >> errrrrr -- timing! timing. >> stephanie: thank you. it's too late. >> without your space helmet
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you are going to find that rather difficult. ♪ ♪ ♪ meet the steph stones they are the sexy liberal family from the town of burbank, it's the greatest show in history ♪ ♪ let's fly through the courtesy of some box wine ♪ ♪ the most important time ♪ [ applause ] >> stephanie: thank you, rocky mountain mike. >> i think i would have rather heard that than silence. ♪ silence ♪ >> stephanie: yeah jim, in case you hadn't noticed. ed snowden has given another interview to say he doesn't want to be the focus of the story.
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>> maybe you shouldn't have inserted yourself into the story. >> stephanie: perhaps. also nick-nay with the hacker-a. >> the chinese make a lot of our computer chips. >> stephanie: wa-woe. he said i'm not here to hide from justice. i'm here to reveal criminality. and then he went on to talk about how he hopes they don't extradite him -- and i have some more information you might find helpful if you decide not to extradite me. the reality is i have acted at great personal risk to help the public of the world, regardless of whether it's american european, or asia. >> he thinks a little highly of
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himself. >> stephanie: can we get the naked interview with his girlfriend. she has lit cupcakes where her bra -- brasiere might be. hey, guess who is here everybody? ♪ karl ♪ >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com. good morning karl frisch. >> good morning, how are you. >> stephanie: oh, isn't he cute? he's on a train. who is on a choo choo? you are. >> amtrak has a no dog's policy it's discriminatory and i'm here
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to change it. >> stephanie: have you smuggled dexter on board with you? >> there is a very small gentlemen seated next me with a mustache and a hat. [ laughter ] >> he works for a no-named financial institution. >> stephanie: he is wearing a red cape over his head like ed snowden. >> right. >> stephanie: what is your take on all of this? i'm going really? stop giving interviews if you don't want to be the focus. >> it's twofold, right? i think this guy is a goof ball. but as the story has been out there, it has not had a very good shelf life. he facts of the case have devolved over time. >> stephanie: right. >> i am of the opinion that you just wait a day when things like
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this come out, but if you compare the original "washington post" version of the story to what it is today, it is markedly different. >> stephanie: how so? >> they have made all kinds of edit -- the big glaring thing -- i think everybody knew that the white house in the bush years had some kind of surveillance program, the shocking tidbits might have been tracking people's activity on facebook, twitter, google and other social media, and the original story said the nsa through this program called pris pris -- prism, and that is turned out to be not true.
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and whether or not the tech companies occasionally give information able for the government to download, those two things are extremely different. >> stephanie: right. right. and the latest ed snowden interview. he says i'm here not -- what did i say -- justice, but to reveal criminality, and then in the same breath he says i'm going to stay here until i have to leave. i have faith in hk's and hong kong's rule of law. >> i have no problem with him making apple products at some point in the future. >> stephanie: exactly. >> this whole hero complex. this is not to poo-poo whistleblowers. i think the fact that somebody can come forward in the corporate world, expose criminal wrongdoing and not --
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>> stephanie: huh oh. we lost him. dexter has -- >> i'm reading an article by tom hartman who is wondering who the guardian's source is for all of this stuff. he is betting on wikileaks, and exposing the nsa could be the pay back for the trial of bradley manning, which started this week. >> stephanie: wow. a lot of snausages this week. he said i'm neither a traitor, nor a hero i'm an american. adding that he is proud to be an american. okay. you are an american that is leaking -- i mean this is the largest leak in our history -- >> [ inaudible ] greenwood is what you are saying. interesting. >> stephanie: right. and are the same liberals going to be defending him if he find out we have blown the cover of a lot of our cia agents around the
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world? we don't know. that's what i -- i don't know. >> i don't think we know enough about this -- >> stephanie: yeah dianne feinstein is the one that is committing treason -- >> that's insane. >> stephanie: you can disagree with what she is saying but it's not treason. >> i don't think he has done anything yet that would get people killed but he has said stuff will be coming out in the next weeks and months. >> stephanie: yeah, and isn't it more about the story and putting the focus on yourself. why wouldn't you tell us now if this is such a huge breach of -- either way, right? social security or civil liberties. >> exactly. >> stephanie: hello, karl, you are back. i think i have been too critical of the nsa on twitter apparently. [ laughter ] >> maybe i have spoken too much about them, but i don't know if
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you have heard the news wrinkle, but glen beck says he has a fact that will take down the government in this case. >> stephanie: well, isn't that interesting. karl, some tweets this week from you, you said about -- one of them about time. u.s. to aplow plan b access for all ages to which i say also hooray. >> i say hooray but the right-wing is saying it is giving carte blanche to rapists and pedophiles. rapists and pedophiles will now force women to take plan b to destroy evidence. >> stephanie: oh right. >> isn't it interesting in the
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right-wing mindset when it comes to human sexuality there is maybe a two degree turn between missionary position and rape and pedophilia. >> stephanie: yeah, like this thing yesterday, women hardly ever get pregnant from rape. >> i think you are confusing that remark with insensitively, when obviously he is just arguing gop 2.0 viewpoint. >> well that is an evangelical view. >> well couple his comments about rape and abortion, with comments of sexual assault in the military being the result of don't ask don't well or women being [ inaudible ]. i have seen polling released that say sex is better when you
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are in a committed marriage and you are both christian. i'm now beginning to wonder what they define sex as because it doesn't sound too money to me. >> stephanie: so men raping women in the military is because of don't ask don't tell. >> yeah, don't ask don't tell being repealed and the presence of women in the military -- >> because it provides for a more permissive sexual environment? >> stephanie: yeah, it's just a rave now, the military. >> it must just be the fervor they get whipped up into very similar to the fervor that we have on the battlefield. >> stephanie: speaking of family values, by percentage i follow more members of the clinton family on twitter than my own
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family. hashtag creepy. >> i follow socks the cat on twitter. >> stephanie: that is creepy. >> yeah it's remarkable watching the right-wing lose it as the left takes well to technology. they said it was the game of dems, but the maps and the fonts that they used were from the hobbit and lord of the rings movies. which, fine, very clever to show you are hip and with it but if you want to appeal to dorkdom, get your fonts and maps right. they are available on a tool called goggle.
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i took french in high school. i can count to nine. >> weren't you a smarty pants. >> my friend was there in the library when the shootings happened, and were part of the evacuations. >> stephanie: isn't part of what is sad there has been so much other us in, we're just like -- oh another -- only five people killed. and again, it's the same mentally disturbed 20-something guy, that had literally over a thousand rounds. and thank god for the police response time. >> and the second part of that is it's getting such little coverage. nationally, i talked to people in d.c. who had not even heard about it.
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>> stephanie: yeah, and by the way. >> let alone where santa monica college is. i was afraid that he had reached this point following newtown, where we had become numb to it again. i'm afraid we're entering that territory. >> stephanie: speaking of the gun debate i saw something eerily odd the mother said the shooter's father had threatened to kill her at least twice during the turmoil of the marriage. he said if i had a gun it would be over. >> well, if it were up to the nra, he would have a gun regardless of a restraining order. it's sick that we don't hear more about these -- you know, what could be considered smaller cases, which is just so sad and
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sick. >> stephanie: yeah, someone who has had a history of mental problems that was able to amass an arsenal is just another day in america, i guess right? >> unfortunately, and it may be another for the media elites or political elites that don't want to talk about this. but it's never going to be another day in the life for any of the families that lost a loved one. >> stephanie: karl frisch thanks, honey. and good luck to you and dexter. >> all right. >> bye-bye. >> stephanie: twenty-one minutes after the hour, right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: there is a tea party in her pants and you are invited. call now, 1-800-steph-1-2. >> "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" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter).
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>> i went to get a heel for my shoe. >> stephanie: michelle in baltimore. >> caller: hey, steph, chris, jim, everybody is looking gorgeous this morning. >> thank you. >> caller: you are very welcome. i am calling about the whole snowden thing, and oh, my god, our privacy and what not. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: and what is stunning to me is we have spent a week on the government collecting information on us yet every time you type a key stroke into your computer corporate america is gathering every last inch of data on you they possibly can. >> uh-huh. >> do they ask your permission? no, they do not. do they keep it for 10 days, 15 days, a hundred days? no, they keep it forever and
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sell it to other people. >> stephanie: right. all of these republicans that voted against the background check thing, saying isn't that a little hypocritical that you were too concerned because of this government tracking people and the gun registry, and they are like, oh no no that's apples and oranges. that's what richard shelby said hypocritical apples and oranges. >> caller: exactly. i'm tired of the double standard, and corporate america could basically -- i -- i'm trying to think of words i could use on the air -- >> yeah. >> caller: basically have the fun part at the end of the date without giving us the date. >> stephanie: very nicely done michelle. and family friendly. twenty-nine minutes after the hour.
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"stephanie miller show." hi, mary. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i just wanted to make a comment about this fellow that allegedly leaked all of the -- you know -- nsa nonsense. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: and i think what -- i think what you are missing here is he went through the proper channels. he went through a very reputable -- >> stephanie: the proper channels to break the law? he still broke the law. >> caller: he went through jack greenwald and the guardian -- >> stephanie: glenn greenwald. >> yeah, and it was published through the guardian. he just didn't come out, you know? and the point is yes, you could say technically that he broke the law if you were a constitutional law professor, but sometimes conscience breaks
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through -- >> stephanie: right, mary, i agree with you in terms of a classic whistleblower, but you can disagree with this program and the patriot act, but it is the law. it's not -- he didn't blow the whistle on something legal. >> but that's what they said about daniel ellsberg back in the '70s. >> stephanie: but that's a bad analogy. >> caller: so sometimes your conscious has to break through. look at all of the laws that were broken by wall street, and none of those people have gone to jail. >> but 8,000 people who were protesting wall street has gone to jail. >> caller: yeah, i think jim is kind of on my side of this action, but i think sooner or later, you don't have people of conscience that have the guts to break through, then we're never going to see any
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future -- [overlapping speakers] >> i don't know what information he has revealed that has been so detrimental to national security. >> caller: yeah, nothing. >> stephanie: that's the problem -- >> caller: and the same thing with bradley manning. everything he revealed was seven years old before -- >> stephanie: but mary how do we have a country where we just say it's okay. it's okay to reveal any national -- >> not any national security -- >> caller: that's why we have the [ inaudible ] so we can investigate -- >> stephanie: but what wrongdoing did he expose? this is -- and jim, by the way, because i said this is what we agreed to. and you said not me. unless you live in wisconsin, yes, you did. unless you voted for russ finegold you voted for whoever voted for this. >> you voted for the
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representatives in our government. i don't know if you voted or not -- >> well, i voted. >> stephanie: okay it's not treason, but had i known that we were going to vote for this thing -- >> have you done anything to vote these people out of office that voted for it? >> i guess i probably voted for dianne feinstein since then. >> okay. then you rubber stamped her vote. but the alternative is not voting. >> stephanie: as my friend says shut your pie hole. >> but the alternative is not to vote which is arguably worse. >> stephanie: i agree. >> no, you don't. >> that's her job on this show. >> stephanie: mike tomasky writes a piece about this and he mentions greenwald in there. he says my hat is off to
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greenwald, he hasn't been my favorite over the years, but what he cease is obama apologetics on my part, is a different view. he took a swipe at me most recently, when i wrote that yes, i think citizens who join armies and groups do give up some of their civil rights. we don't agree on much but i am glad he is making the points he is making. >> you should read tom hartman's article. >> stephanie: you should talk to michael tomasky articles. harump. michael greenwald. >> he said once he made the decision to inform the public that all of his options are bad options. and he won't be living a free and unrestrained life.
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>> stephanie: nor should he. he said i didn't come here to hide from justice. i came here to reveal criminality. >> okay and -- >> stephanie: he is saying he broke the law. >> revealing criminality is breaking the law? >> stephanie: he -- well, okay. i assumed he meant myself. because he said people think picking hong kong was a mistake misunderstood my actions. i'm not trying to hide from just a advertise. obviously he is. and even glenn greenwald, why are you going to wait weeks and months -- >> yeah. >> stephanie: oh, gee, it seems like it's just more attention for glenn greenwald and edward snowden if this is so important to the future of the public -- just a question. that's all. jake in eureka.
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>> caller: unfortunately i think the only criminality revealed by snowden so far is his own personal criminality. these comparisons to ellsburg are offensive. it would only be the same in ellsburg ran off to north vietnam. but that's not what daniel ellsberg did. >> stephanie: and jake -- i'm sorry, jim, one second. it is up to this one guy? he is more important than the president and the congress ann the supreme court? somebody made the analogy yesterday, what if somebody decided they thought the norm mandy invasion was wrong? >> but ellsburg said had he done the pentagon papers now, he would be put in jail forever under obama much like bradley manning is. >> caller: well, i would just like to caution everyone not to run to the barricade for this
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snowden guy, because his actions do not indicate he is patriot on hero. >> stephanie: yeah someone made the lee miserables yesterday. >> yeah something is weird. it's almost like a limited hangout or something. >> something is going to come out, and it will fall into place, but until then -- >> stephanie: something doesn't smell right. exactly. mary in texas. hi mary. >> caller: listen, spying isn't new in america. they have been doing this for years, anybody they want to check on. all they have to do is issue an order, and you can hear everything. >> right. >> stephanie: yep. yep. >> caller: and it's not about -- the guy is clearly wrong for what he did, and no, he's not a patriot. he doesn't love his country so much he wants the people to know.
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everything that is done these days is done to make the president look bad. >> i don't know that he is doing that. i don't think snowden is involved in that. >> stephanie: it is certainly not helpful. after the president just met with the chinese president. it -- is it different than john mccain trying to undermine the president and talking about how his policy sucks when he sneaks into syria to hang out with kidnappers. >> caller: oh, wow. >> stephanie: see, mary is with me. bill in new mexico however is not. he is with jim. hi, bill. >> caller: good morning, yeah, i'm just -- and i have no salient points to make but jim is right, and i was appalled shocked i tell you shocked! when this first started, and -- you all were scuttling away from jim and his correct viewpoint like -- like a bunch
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of crabs scuttling backwards from your liberal beliefs. >> we have crabs? >> stephanie: jim is right in what sense? >> caller: all of this should be questioned. >> stephanie: i have never said it shouldn't be questioned. >> caller: i am not equipped to due due -- dual with you with words. but, come on jim is right. >> stephanie: is senator al franken running from the left. i got a letter yesterday saying i'm not really a liberal. al franken sees intelligence he didn't see before. >> intelligence that would make your hair stand on end -- >> caller: oh, come on, you guys, stop it. >> stephanie: do you trust al franken as a liberal? he said if america sees what i
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see, then the bad guys are seeing it too. >> caller: can i answer your question? >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: no i don't think franken is enough. i'm a democratic socialist, so -- >> stephanie: but isn't this just american at some point? given what he's seeing this is justified for national security. >> which i think america is pretty much american, isn't it? >> caller: i just can't buy it, you guys. this is outrageous. >> stephanie: do you also agree with jim that something smells funny here? >> yeah, i don't know what to make of the snowden thing. >> caller: i do agree with jim on that point, but -- i think the funny smell is going to surprise us when we see it all. anyway -- have a good day. >> stephanie: you too honey. >> ellsberg had an article recently and talked about how osama bin laden was downloading
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the "new york times" and getting the same information that we're getting. that's not the same as revealing classified secrets. >> stephanie: he had access to the stuff that bradley manning leaked obviously, because bradley manning leaked it. again, i'm -- i detected a whiff of sexism in that call. >> what? >> so chris is a chick. >> you called me chick. >> stephanie: i did not whatever. who cares if you get caught in the cross fire! i'm like i said that too. >> that's not sexism that's just jim worship. >> stephanie: whatever. forty-six minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, my god this is amazing. it's all anybody in my class is talking about. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show."
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♪ hey kids rock and roll, rock on smooth my soul ♪ ♪ see her shake on the movie screen -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ rock on ♪ >> stephanie: yeah. yeah. >> filling that david essex void on the radio. >> stephanie: yes. elaine in albuquerque. you are on with a very cogent point that michael tomasky makes as well. hello, elaine. >> caller: i haven't read michael tomasky but i want to bring up the big picture thing.
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you were just talking about how the previous caller basically said you guys are being more conservative and he wants al franken to be more liberal and you said it's about protecting america. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: but the big picture is that there have been studies done that say when people are scared and afraid they tend to get more conservative. you want to move forward, and when they feel safe and secure, then they become more liberal. >> stephanie: right. and your point is we all moved a little more right after 9/11 -- >> i didn't. >> caller: there was a huge attack on the country, and the entire country made a huge rightward shift, and the right-wing has totally gone off of the rails, but the democrats are also moving right. and we have to look at the big picture, and it is a partisan thing, because republicans
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actually are authoratarian. and they want to remove everything. >> stephanie: right. this would be going on i think even if 9/11 hadn't happened michael tomasky writes. he said but 9/11 did happen so the state has to cover its needs as long as the memory lingers. >> caller: right. but that's why we have to be aware of this right-ward shift among everybody and fight against it. because progressives want to maintain liberty and they want to -- that's why progressives are against stop and frisk, because you can't just stop and harass everybody to try to prevent crime. i want to progressives to be aware -- >> stephanie: i said new jersey
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wants to pass a law where the cops can snag your cell phone -- because that's his bugaboo, is texting. >> no, people crashing into your car the -- >> stephanie: see, there goes his liberal streak. there goes whatever jim said. >> stephanie's dad's palisade if you keep people terrified enough -- >> stephanie: his pal in the sense that he interrogated him when he prosecuted him at nuremberg -- >> your pal -- >> was there an interrogation -- >> stephanie: did he just accuse my father of being a nazi sympathizer. >> pretty much.
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>> exaggeration. >> stephanie: you took that exaggeration a little too far. >> yeah that's -- >> stephanie: wow. i'm glad my mom can't watch anymore. oh, dear. >> oh goodness gracious. >> stephanie: gill in wisconsin. >> caller: hi benjamin franklin said people who sacrifice liberty to gain security deserve neither. when thurgood marshall was advising martin luther king not to protest within the law -- not to break the law in his civil rights protests martin luther king quoted that sometimes a good man must break up unjust law. and thurgood said but martin when therou wrote that he was in
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jail. >> stephanie: but is this civil disobesence -- >> but we don't know. >> caller: i'm saying it is two different arguments. is it illegal? or it is wrong. sometimes illegal is right. >> stephanie: but is it up to this guy. >> was it up to martin luther king -- >> stephanie: you are comparing ed snowden to martin luther king and my father to [ inaudible ] pal! [ explosion ] >> he's so sensitive when being compared to the nazis. >> stephanie: you are thinking of another republican family the bush family. [♪ circus music ♪] >> well bush was aiding the nazis during -- i was thinking
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of prescott bush. >> stephanie: that's who you were thinking of. cindy in michigan hi cindy. >> caller: i was brought up in a neighborhood with a party line. so i got used to people listening in on your phone calls. so to me it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. it's interesting the debate is now. >> stephanie: i'm on the phone. hang up! i can hear you breathing! >> it's not within the house. it was the whole neighborhood could hear everything. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: in the iran contra hearings, oliver north described a program they already had planned in case of a dire emergency. and in 2001 we get the patriot act. and it was almost the same thing -- >> right. this was planned before it
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happened. >> caller: it should have happened then. and i'm hearing a lot of the right-wingers saying obama expanded the program. this was the program. george bush and chenny were using warrantless wiretapping. wiretapping was happening, and listening in and all of that was already happening, and this is actually a step backwards. a step back from an abuse of power, saying we're going to collect the numbers and data and then we have to get a warrant to use the data -- >> stephanie: right. and cindy, you know, discussing whether the fisa is too much of a rubber stamp and discussing whether there are ways of amending this patriot act, is different than saying this administration broke the law. fifty-eight minutes after the hour. >> i am the law! >> stephanie: we'll be right
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: oh, jacki schechner help me. i need some estrogen in the clubhouse. someone just tweeted -- >> steph is being over sensitive, you know like a broad. >> stephanie: jim called my dad a nazi sympathizer. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] >> stephanie: getting all hysterical again. >> really, cavemen? >> boo ga boo ga. >> i thought we were a progressive show. >> sometimes not. >> stephanie: apparently not
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anymore. i'm right-wing nazi sympathizer now. >> good to know. >> stephanie: make a note of it won't you? here she is jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. senate debate over immigration reform continues today we have got about three weeks of this ahead, and if yesterday is any indication, don't expect smooth sailing. senators are having trouble agrees on how they should be voting on amendments. harry reid wants a series of early quick votes. republicans don't want those votes to happen to quickly and they want them to be subject to 50 votes, not the 60-vote supermajority in order to pass. their compromise is if you give us the 50-vote threshold, we'll hold the vote more quickly, but senator reid points out that perhaps they should be a little more even handed because up until now they have been asking for 60 votes of everything on
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importance. texas senator bill says the government has to stop 90% of border crossing before any reform kicks in. and in other news this one is sad, the man who inspected the philadelphia building that collapsed last week has killed himself. that building collapse killed six people. the 52-year-old man was with the department of licenses and inspections and inspected that building on may 14th. he was found last night with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. city officials had a press conference last hour calling his death painful and shocking. a heavy equipment operator had a long rap sheet and was high on marijuana when the downtown building collapsed. that man faces 20 charges, including six counts of involunteer manslaughter.
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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
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minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? ♪ ♪ a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." michael tomasky who i want to date and kiss and mary from "the daily beast" coming up at the bottom of the hour. he has a great piece on the snowden thing and also on the non-exist important irs thing. which we have heard very little about lately. >> hum, interesting. >> stephanie: stephaniemiller.com, you can
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email all there. he called [ inaudible ] my dad's pal. his pal in that he was trying to get him executed. >> actually someone smuggled in a pen, and the pen had the cyanide in it. >> stephanie: oh, i see. what is that? yes, we are trying out various theme songs. and rocky mountain mike reminds us we already have some. ♪ baby if you ever wondered wondered whatever became of me ♪ ♪ i'm living on the air, it's not so crappy not so crappy radio stephanie ♪ ♪ got tired of radio right-wing
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domination ♪ ♪ town to town they seem to own the dial ♪ ♪ maybe you were meant to listen to hannity, just maybe tune me in once in a while ♪ ♪ i'm at stephanie miller show it's not so crappy ♪ >> i believe that's called [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: right. [ applause ] >> sure. >> stephanie: not so crappy. not always. oh, i love this story that somebody sent me because as you know i am -- ♪ a [ inaudible ] stephanie miller ♪ >> stephanie: how much do i love it when science stack meets party stack. ♪ science ♪ >> stephanie: you drink a lot because you super smart, the study says. >> what? >> who orders this study? >> you know what -- >> franzia.
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>> i . . . >> stephanie: go ahead, order that second beer you deserve it because you so smart. according to the greatest study in the history of science smarter people tend to drink more. children's intelligence was measured and scat goreized ranging from very dull to very bright. later in life, the brighter kids emptied more glasses more often. no one is exactly sure. >> i think as the brain cells die they have a burst of nova -- >> like a super nova -- just before a star collapses it -- kaboom. and collapses in on it's a and becomes a black hole. >> stephanie: right. >> just like brain cells. >> stephanie: just before it
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goes totally black. >> just before it goes supernova. >> and takes out everything. >> stephanie: there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it's a train. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: and you know what i live my life by sometimes when god shuts a door, he shuts a window somewhere else too, and you are screwed. [ applause ] >> and nothing ever good comes from -- >> stephanie: drinking games with brown liquor or phone calls after 3:00 a.m. hey, jim and i realize that this snowden case is making john boehner's lisp much more pronounced. he was talking about how despicable -- we'll find the sound bite from yesterday when he says terrorists threat --
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>> it thruppled. sorry, what? thruppled. >> stephanie: like at the salad garden. >> a salad garden? >> stephanie: i don't know what i meant. >> salad bar. >> as the president outlined last peek, these are important national security programs to help keep americans safe and give us tools to fight the terrorist threats. the disclosure of this information -- >> stephanie: that's all i needed. the terrorist threat -- >> it gave us tools all right. >> stephanie: looky here it's a love letter and i could use one, since i have no credibility unless jim said it.
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>> i think it's just jim worship. >> stephanie: nick writes hi momma -- holy smokes -- hi momma i wanted to let you know a little somebody happened to me. i went to get some repairs done and when i walked into the office of my dealer, i could not help but notice that fox news was on. since no one was there, i switched the channel. two people came in and remarked that it was a shock to find a liberal channel on. they commented on how smart you are. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: we soon discussed other places where they could see you. now we are all friends and i
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told them since -- detroit's wttw was silenced where to tune their sirius xm stations for you. [ applause ] >> stephanie: would you like some fun facts speaking of stations that have flipped? lawrence in massachusetts says steph -- [♪ fun-facts music ♪] >> stephanie: cbs thought it would be a good idea to expunge progressive talk. the latest ratings just came out -- do you have a that little -- oh dear blah blah -- [ explosion ] >> stephanie: is it now invisible. >> oh. >> stephanie: mr. taylor points out that am 1090 is nowhere to be found. [ crickets chirping ] >> stephanie: which is easier to sell i'm told.
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that's a zero that means there's probably nobody listening. >> computer says yes. >> hard to get a zero rating. >> stephanie: stephanie miller had four or five times the ratings. would you like to? no. no. meanwhile, the wilber theater which was sold out they are also at the bottom of the heap. >> republicans are really bad for business. [ applause ] >> stephanie: they need a little more dollopof socialism it seems. there is another interview talking about how ed snowden does not want to be the focus of the story. >> this guy right here! not the focus of the story! >> stephanie: right here. don't make it about me
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s-n-o-w-d-e-n. make sure you spell it right. he told post reporter lana lamb -- is that a real name? if only she had been a reporter for nbc nightly news oh come on -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> and her lover [ mumbling ] >> stephanie: this just in lola palona -- >> lola palona resin from -- never mind. >> stephanie: i'm not here to hide from justice. and then he immediately asked not to be extradited. he vowed to fight any extradition attempt. that seems like hiding from justice, doesn't it? >> little bit.
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>> stephanie: my intention is to ask the courts and people of hong kong to decide my fate. i have been given to reason to doubt your system. he very strongly believes in the system of the chinese -- >> well, he is just there for the chinese food. you can't get that anywhere else in the world. >> stephanie: no, you cannot. general keith alexander, nsa director. >> it's dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent. >> stephanie: all right. i get it. >> how do you prove a negative though? >> think of all of the stuff that didn't happen. >> stephanie: okay. but -- look back at -- under clinton we knew things -- the lax thing -- we knew that that had been foiled. >> this is not us doing something under the covers. this is what we're doing on behalf of all of us for the good
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of this country. >> stephanie: and then he talked about the oversight process. >> we do have to go back and look at these processes. the oversight. we have those. where they went wrong, and how we fix those. >> stephanie: michael in l.a. hi, michael. >> caller: oh hi steph. i'm so glad to speak with you. i have been listening to you on ktalk for years. chris just mentioned you did vote for dianne feinstein so you did vote for this process. >> i guess i did then. >> caller: remember when this story first broke about the telecom companies giving all of our information to congress without a warrant. and dianne feinstein was the big supporter of that and i stopped supporting dianne feinstein then. i'm not voting for her anymore.
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and it's over this issue. >> yeah. >> caller: so i think -- >> stephanie: but then we get a republican senate? >> yeah, the problem is the only other alternative is to not vote -- >> the only other alternative is to primary her out with someone a little more on the left. that's what you thought. >> stephanie: whoever thought that al franken -- anyway eighteen minutes afterthe hour. we continue the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, come on you have got to admit this is cool! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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hearing. >> i saw an interview in which mr. snowden claimed that due to his position at nsa, he could tap into virtually any american's phone calls or emails. true or false? >> i know of no way to do that. >> stephanie: and then she turned him into a newt not gingrich. >> no. >> stephanie: al in buffalo. hi al. >> caller: good morning. did edward snowden really have good intentions? i don't think he did. if he wanted to expose corruption with these private contractors, he could have done the right thing. he could have gone to the senate intelligence committee but he didn't do that. he went to hong kong. and china has already been
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hacking u.s. servers -- they already stole information from the department of defense -- >> stephanie: al that's why i was saying this story just feels off to me, and i don't -- it's hard to know whether to believe everything he says -- he is talk about we're hacking china as much as they are hack us. is that connected to him trying to get them not to extradite them. whether or not it's true it is certainly not good for america. >> and china is our number one threat to cyber security. and china has been manipulating its currency. and he goes to china? that doesn't make sense. >> hong kong i was was taken over by the people's republic of china. >> stephanie: yeah. he revealed that he will stay in the city to likely fight
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attempts to have him extradited for leaking secrets. i don't understand how in one sentence you are saying he is not hiding and then says don't extradite me. >> and whatever you do don't make me the focus of the story, the snowden story. >> stephanie: by the way, yes, s-n-o -- >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: america has been hacking into china for years. he said i have had many opportunities to flee hong kong. but i would rather stay because i have faith in hong kong's law. he is neither a hero nor a traitor, just an american. an american that is not i think that good for america, but that's just my opinion.
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he said the nsa's controversial prison program extents to china, and the u.s. is bullying diplomatic pressure on china to extradite me. is that diplomatic pressure or the law. he is in fear for himself and his family -- he didn't take his family into account -- he hasn't even mentioned his girlfriend as anything he regrets. they lived together for i think eight years -- that's a weird part of the story as well i think. >> yeah. >> stephanie: blah blah blah he said according to una verified documents the nsa has been hawking into computers in hong kong and the mainland since
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1999. one of the targets in the sar, was chinese university and public officials businesses and students in the city. stone believed there had been more than 61,000 nsa hacking operations globally. he said we hack network backbones to give us access to communication to hundreds of thousands of computers. every level of society is depending accountable andty oversight. the reality i have acted at great personal risk to help the public of the world, whether it american, european or asian. all right. michael tomasky is next on the "stephanie miller show."
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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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♪ >> no, it's a cool. it's like we got our own monster -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- is not a monster. now let's go in the basement until the circus comes to town. >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. all right. lots of thoughts on this whole nsa thing, and nobody's thoughts i love more than michael tomasky of "the daily beast." hello, michael. >> hey, there stephanie. great song one of my favorite songs.
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>> stephanie: thank you. thank you. you know i adore you. >> likewise. >> stephanie: a great piece, big brother is watching and people don't care. you were talking about the new pew poll, america assumed big brother was watching and they aren't particularly upset about it. and there's enough hypocrisy to go around. more republicans are expressing opposition now just as more democrats used to express opposition because bush was in charge. i guess none of that is surprising, right? >> no, of course not. but it's a pretty consistent majority that says we understand that this is how the world is these days and we can learn to live with it. >> stephanie: you know, you make a point that we were making before, and chris i think you first brought this up, we were talking about with reality tv and social media but as you put it, just technology in general,
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the amount of information we have access to is astonishing. so you are saying well, you just can't have that much information at your fingertips and assume no one is watching or tracking it. and you think -- you say this transcends political parties and even constitutions. >> i mean, i'm not defending it necessarily, so much as i'm just kind of explaining it. >> stephanie: yeah. >> i think there's just -- as i said there the -- the stuff that we have at our fingertips is just mind blowing. even ten years ago we never could have imagined it. and there's no way. it's not the karmic balance of the universe that we can have all of that without thinking that somebody is doing some kind of tracking of it somewhere and corporations have been tracking it for years as we know, because that's how -- they do marketing out of it. >> stephanie: and we often --
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>> and the government does it too. >> stephanie: and we also talk about the gun issue as well could the founding fathers have imagined, you know, assault weapons and all of that when they wrote the second amendment, and the fourth amendment, as you say, it's kind of quaint when it talks about papers. [ laughter ] >> right. >> stephanie: and chris it goes to your point, because we live -- as a society where everybody shares everything anyway, that's part of what you are saying about people don't seem to care that much right? >> yeah, that is part of what i'm saying and i think people also feel a little creeped out by it, but i think they -- you know, your average person whatever an average person is these days but i think your average person would say something like yeah it does bother me a little that they are keeping track -- or monitoring the phone numbers i'm calling, and how long i'm on the phone
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with these people, but if they are really not using that information. if it's just information that's being collected and sitting there, unless i start calling yemen eight times a week. >> stephanie: yeah. you say this would have been going on even if 9/11 had not happened. and the state has to cover as long as the memory of that day linkers. so you say, i at least accept it based on what we know so far. >> the last phrase being important, based on what we know so far. which is as i just said this information is being collected but nothing is being done unless some red flag is raised, and i assume -- we don't really know -- but i assume -- there's no way human beings can't be doing this. the federal government can't possibly employ that many human
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beings, so it must be a computer algorithm that is raising a red flag and then a human being gets involved at that point. but as long as there's not snoopy human beings sitting there monitoring every phone call. >> stephanie: yeah. you had some thoughts on glenn greenwald who you say has not been your favorite over the years. >> more the other way around actually. >> stephanie: i was going to say, because you get called an obama apologist as much as i do. but you say you are glad he is making the arguments he is making. >> i am. i absolutely am. he -- and i guess i gave short shift to laura poitres, but they earned this scoop. and i will say with regard to them and more with regard to
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snowden, that, you know, i'm glad -- and i'm sure you are, i'm glad this is out there because we're having this debate that we ought to be having that we ought to have been being for years now. and we wouldn't be having this debate if the guardian and "washington post" hadn't done the story and snowden didn't come forward. >> stephanie: yeah, our news woman, jacki schechner had the question, why is greenwald saying it is going to be weeks and months and more things are coming up. why wouldn't he break what the story is now then? i was joking about snowden giving yet another interview to say i don't want this story to be about me. >> that's a good question. usually as you know when people say there's more coming it's not -- it's not as big are -- it's not as juicy as the
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first bit. you are obviously going to lead with the juiciest thing. david corn got a few other videos after the 47% video, but obviously he lead with the biggest piece he had. but who knows. >> stephanie: yeah we'll see. speaking of missing testimony, you wrote about issa's missing testimony. interesting we haven't heard much on this whole irs thing, have we? >> yeah, it has been overshadowed for the last few days, and some interesting things have happened as i wrote in that piece, so issa -- this goes back to mid-last month when people started asking reporters up on capitol hill startered asking issa he was having these closed-door interviews with irs employees, and reporters started asking are you going to release the full transcripts? and he said yeah, yeah sure. and then he didn't.
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and then he started selectively leaking portions of the transcript, leaking, of course mostly the parts that made it seem all scary and ominous, and then i guess it was over the weekend cummings who is the ranking democrat counter leaked and he leaked out some stuff that -- where people were saying that no, i got no sense at all that the white house was involved or that there was anything political going on here including a 21-year veteran of the cincinnati office who identified himself as a conservative republican who said i see no sense that there is any white house involvement here. >> stephanie: oops i'm sure he just totally misplaced that. >> exactly. >> stephanie: republicans have been hoping to ride this horse into 2014 and beyond but it may
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be ready for the glue factory already. >> i suspect that's the reality of it. but the reality is not going to matter to darrell issa, he will keep this going for as long as he can. >> stephanie: but you put it perfectly, we have a chairman on a fishing expedition who has nothing on any white house person he says nothing that is true. he knows he needs to millment this nonsense as you say through 2014. but as you say, the scandal on a majority of the house oversight committee and in the house leadership who has nothing to offer america except for delusions and diversions. >> yeah. >> stephanie: and this sequester is really going to hurt and it's the last thing anybody is paying attention to now, right? >> in washington any way. i think around the country people are paying attention to
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it. because in a lot of towns and cities -- and most americans really don't understand the extent to which so many places depend on federal government money. anyplace where there's a university or college of any size, get so much federal money. >> stephanie: yeah. yeah. >> research money and infrastructure money and then highways and senior centers and all of the rest of it. but it's just not really impacting life inside the -- >> stephanie: right. and people aren't paying attention the deficit is coming down at record levels. the economy is going much better. jobs are up. the stock market is up. and austerity, exactly the wrong thing to do right now. >> yeah. and that brings us back to the house republicans who have no answers, solutions no nothing.
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i'm sure boehner is sitting there fervently hoping that the immigration bill dies in the senate so he doesn't have to make that decision of whether he'll bring it to the floor or not, knowing it will anger at least two-thirds of his caucus, and immigration is the only thing on the agenda that has any remote chance of passing and he is hoping it dies. >> stephanie: yeah and now they are in a bit of a sticky wicket on this nsa thing. because they blatantly were for it under the bush administration, now they are twisting into pretzels on how can this be bad for obama -- >> yeah, and i don't think they can do that much with this one. and the irony, of course is the most legitimate of the so-called scandals -- i call them matters
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in print, i can't quite use the word scandal, but the irony is the most legitimate of these is the one that involves the justice department. it is -- you know, this is -- this is -- the first amendment doesn't apply just to reporters. the citizens have a pretty big steak in the first amendment too. >> stephanie: yes, i said on my talk radio show. >> yeah. so it's not just about reporters, it's about what the public can and cannot know. and this seems a clear case of the justice department doing something really fishy, but the republican base doesn't care about it, so they are not going to really pursue it. >> stephanie: yeah interesting stuff. michael great stuff as always. thanks for taking time with us. >> thanks, always enjoy it. >> stephanie: were those children in the background?
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did he have children without me. >> it sounded like he was running a running a blender. >> stephanie: making margaritas for the children. >> you were made for each other. >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> look children. >> stephanie:um, um, oh who is sleepy? right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call stephanie now, she's easy 1-800-steph-1-2.
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the -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ dance ♪ ♪ oh oh ♪ ♪ i'm so happy, i'm just burning, i'm so happy ♪ >> stephanie: yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. fifty-one minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. also great to talk to michael tomasky of "the daily beast." i was looking at more of the latest interview that snowden did to make the story not about him. he said all i can do is rely on my training and hope that world governments won't be bullied by the american government. he said i'm glad there are governmenting that refuse to be intimidated by big power. >> the answer is da. >> stephanie: what? >> okay. >> stephanie: his revelation new attempts to build relations with
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china after a weekend summit between the president and the president of china, which by the way we elected him -- >> right. >> stephanie: that was my point about someone unelected deciding what he thinks is best for the us. us. if the allegation lends creedence to china's long-standing occasion that it is hacked as much as it is hacking. i have decided to help the publics of the world regardless of whether that is america, europe, or asia. although it is not about him! >> it's not about me! [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: would you like another picture of me and my giant mole. >> what do you think about me? >> stephanie: enough about me. what do you think about me. >> i have been talking about
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this tom hartman article, and he says as deep throat famously said follow the money who benefits from our nation's out of control security. the complex providing support and equipment to dhs has become a trillion dollar for-profit industry. this is not good for united states. it's time for a change because as jefferson's fellow founder said those who sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither. let's return to sanity. >> stephanie: yes, but politically do you think that is going to happen? and one -- i keep get emailing about people think the real scandal is the privatizing stuff. how did this happen? >> because of the bush
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administration -- or i would say the cheney administration. >> stephanie: all right. as we read dueling articles. [ banjo music ] >> stephanie: tom friedman in the [ "titanic" theme song ] names -- [ ♪ patriotic music ♪ ] >> stephanie: he said as i listen to the debate over the closure of two government programs designed to track suspected phone and people acts of terrorists i do wonder if some who which this didn't happen -- it is about those who gather in pakistan and plot how to bring down the u.s. with bombs. yes, i worry about potential abuse of privacy, but i worry more about another 9/11. i worry that -- about that even more, not because i don't care
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about civil liberties, but because what i cherish most about america is our open society. and i believe if there is one more 9/11 or worse, it could lead to the end of an open society as we know it. i believe 99% of americans would say what whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. so i don't believe ed snowden the leaker of this secret material is some heroic whistleblower. i believe he needed a whistleblower. he needed someone to challenge him with the argument that we don't live in a world any longer where the government can protejt it's a citizens without using big data it's not ideal, but if
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one more 9/11-scale attack gets through, the cost of freedom will be so much greater. >> that is now posted on your facebook page. >> stephanie: what? magic. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> blowback happens because of things that we have done. if we are keep killing terrorists, we are just going to increase it. >> stephanie: but how does that go to any of his points in there? >> there are things that we can change to try to prevent those from happening -- >> stephanie: but in addition -- >> but not solely by compromising civil liberties, but by -- you know stopping -- not killing people indiscriminately. >> stephanie: okay. walter in illinois. hi walter. >> caller: hi, steph. i just wanted to talk about the
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fact that the metadata that the nsa collects is not protected under the fourth amendment. according to a case smith v maryland, 1979 the supreme court ruled that the installation of a pen registered to record all phone numbers dialed by a specific number was not an unwarranted search because you give that information to a third-party anyway, the phone company. >> stephanie: yeah, that goes to thomas friedman's point in a sense. >> caller: yeah, and then that definition of a pin register was extended to software or hardware that performs similar functions. so all metadata associated with email, for example. >> stephanie: yeah, i hear ya. fifty-eight minutes after the hour, right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. hour number 3. jacki schechner? >> i think we're missing a big angle to this snowden story. he's single now. >> stephanie: oh, girls, that's the big news. get on it. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: so he's a little hard to get, but he's single tech savvy. >> stephanie: you need to learn to use pastry as a bra. if you look at the picture of her. >> and he makes some pretty nice
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scratch for having not graduated high school. >> yeah, right? >> stephanie: right. >> can't be worse than the guy with the calendar on head that worshipped the spaghetti monster. he likes to travel. look at the upside. >> stephanie: little fear of commitment, but you know -- >> who doesn't. >> stephanie: who doesn't. here she is jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. a gnu university poll out today shows that cory booker has a huge lead over both his democratic primary challenges and probable gop challenger as he looks to fill the late frank lotten lotten lautenberg lautenberg's seat. he gets 63% of the primary vote as of now. he also would go on to beat republican steve longan in the
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special election set for october. as for the gub thatter toal race, chris christie looks pretty solid too. and booker is going to get a public endorsement today from martin o'malley. he plans to campaign with booker later this summer and while an out of state governor's nod is not likely to do much with voters, cnn says this is just the latest in a series of indications that o'malley may be running for president in 2016. he has been doing a lot of fund-raising for fellow democrats lately. and speaking of potential 2016 candidates, chris christie and hillary clinton both scheduled to speak at the clinton global initiative america meeting in chicago. president clinton's foundation organizes the conference for business government, and nonprofit leaders, hillary clinton kicks off the event this
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morning, and then chris christie will speak tomorrow night. he is supposed to focus on jersey's economic recovery post superstorm sandy. we're back with more show after the break. stay with us. 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? (vo) next, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (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
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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
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minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? ♪ ♪ a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: all right. it is the "stephanie miller show." the stuff not for air -- >> what? >> stephanie: before -- we talk about really important issues on the big show, this whole nsa thing, fourth amendment, and jim mentioned yesterday that -- [ laughter ] >> that really was a pour choice of words. >> stephanie: jane hensell was
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decapitated in a car accident, and she was not, she was scalped. i heard they just found a wig on the road and they thought -- >> no. >> stephanie: but she was not. okay. and then we were saying her daughter is the actress. >> who went to ucla. >> and her father was mickey. >> stephanie: right. who also passed away not by decapitation -- >> maybe i'm thinking of [ inaudible ] van doeren. >> stephanie: no, that's not what you were thinking. any way we were talking about seat belt laws, and we didn't have a lot of laws. and she had the right to be decapitated -- >> scalped. >> stephanie: right. i think people are just losing their heads over -- >> stop it! stop it! >> stephanie: what? ♪
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headline -- >> a headline. >> stephanie: psychic cancels show due to unforeseen circumstances. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: really? really? >> i saw one of those psychic reading places in my neighborhood, and they were having a yard sale. i guess they couldn't see that coming. >> stephanie: hey! [♪ circus music ♪] >> hey! >> stephanie: i had dion warrick on my disastrous late night show, and she was talking about how startled she was when the earthquake happened out here and i'm like don't you have a whole network of psychics? >> a power crystal, clearly. >> stephanie: exactly. >> call now to get six free minutes, and while supplies last this per -- pu rooufian crystal.
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>> stephanie: [ inaudible ] craze is causing pinkeye in japan. >> radiation isn't enough? >> stephanie: oh. >> wow! >> stephanie: a rash of eyeball licking in japan at an elementary school reportedly lead to pinkeye epidemic -- >> they always wear the masks when they travel but then they lick eyeballs. >> yeah, it's a fishish thing. >> stephanie: a 29-year-old environmental student electra -- something -- my boyfriend started licking my eyeballs years ago -- >> i just think i'm going barf. >> why? >> stephanie: okay. i would be like what are you doing? what -- stop it!
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and i just loved it. >> why? why do you love that? why? >> stephanie: why electra, why? >> wyhyyyyyyy! >> stephanie: i'm not with her anymore. apparently he wasn't doing it right. left her a little cock eyed. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: but i still like to ask guys to lick my eyeballs. that might make a few of them skedaddle. i like it because it is like sucking on my toes. it makes me feel all tingling. >> there is this whole toe sucking thing -- >> stephanie: i have done it once or twice -- >> no, treat are gross. >> stephanie: i do not like
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licking eyeballs, however. >> they are cleaner than a foot. >> i do not like them sam i am. >> stephanie: get poison ivy in your eye. what happened to your eye! >> but then you have poison ivey in your mouth. >> stephanie: angie in chicago with a love letter. steph and my seven-month-old daughter chloe loves your show. she won't even look at me when your show is on. if you could have jim do a few more disney voices that would be very helpful. this leaker the true scandal is it is privatized. blah blah blah. [ applause ] >> stephanie: don't have that little girl --
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>> don't -- there will be an outbreak of eyeball licking. >> i'm not going anywhere near that song. >> stephanie: do not do it. [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: jim who said youl you would think the government was listening in to the secrets of 200 million americas and you would think as the result of a court order, something illegal had been discovered to the government's shame. nope. who said that. >> scott thorson. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: no. thomas friedman. [ applause ] [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: who said we really are in a continuing high-risk conflict with a motivated enemy, and if in the wake of tragedy,
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an american president had done what was possible to find the needles in the haystack. who said that? >> dick chainenny. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: no thomas friedman again. thomas friedman in the "new york times" -- ♪ let's hear it for the boys ♪ >> stephanie: all right. all right. also i guess not the right kind of -- >> contrary to popular belief listeners don't have to agree with everything that is said on the "stephanie miller show." >> stephanie: right, i know. >> if you do. then you are kind of -- >> stephanie: you are an idiot. and he said that if you agree with everything everyone says -- ♪ you are an idiot ♪ >> i don't agree. >> stephanie: well, then guess what.
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♪ you are an idiot ♪ >> stephanie: dick burden and the nsa director. >> ask you if you are troubled that he was given that kind of opportunity to be so close to that kind of information that critical to the security of our nation? >> i have great concerns over that. the access he had the process that we did, and those are things i have to look into and fix from my end. >> stephanie: how about we stop giving tax breaks to the rich and start investing in our own technology so we don't have to privatize our most secure intelligence. everybody is like how did this guy have access to that? lisa in houston, you on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: hey, stephanie. number 1, i think it's ironic that somebody from the guardian in england -- i bet if you ask
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some of those english people if they have a database on people with big knives they would feel a little bit safer. their people can't even walk down the street without getting their heads cut off. >> stephanie: but, again, i don't think we have all of the information on this. but him complimenting china and russia as some sort of beacon of free speech -- >> caller: this guy, this is a bigger setup. the minute they bring him in he is going to squeal like a wet pig. i believe he was paid. because you are seeing more well obama did this. you got rand paul saying obama is going to drone them. it's gone from being security to now we can put the blame on him.
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i truly, truly believe, and the media is so obsessed on finding a scandal on this president for his second temp they are jumping on everything and i think this will have a whole different end it to. >> i think the guardian is a great paper, because it's -- yeah -- you read stuff there that you can't find anywhere else. >> stephanie: rick in illinois you are on the "stephanie miller show." hello, rick. >> caller: good morning, i was talking to t-bone a little while ago, and i was mentioning i wasn't kind of on the fence whether he did the right or wrong thing, because there are a lot of things that we do need to know, but what turned me against snowden was the fact that he says in a second interview the united states has been spying on russia for years now on their cyber net, spying on russia for years now. to me that turns him directly into a traitor.
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>> stephanie: yeah, i just said that earlier. i said -- whatever -- whether it's true or not, this is certainly not helpful to what the president was just trying to accomplish. he said i'm not a hero or traitor, just an american. you are an american that leaks american intelligence and says things directly contrary to the interests of the united states, while you are trying to avoid extradition and saying you are not trying to avoid justice. the whole thing -- as jim said it smells off. >> like that pizza salad. >> stephanie: or tammy winenet after her daughters dug her up. >> not everyone was listening to the show back in the '90s for that bit. >> stephanie: people know that tammy winenet died. and then her daughters exhumed
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little secret ♪ ♪ who has to know ♪ >> stephanie: i get it because of the secret and the spying -- >> yep. you see. i put thought into this show. >> stephanie: somebody has to. the rest of us just pull it directly from our ars. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: inside the q group has been chasing edward snowden since he disappeared in may. the intel community's internal police, and the agency is apparently in complete freakout mode. >> did they give him an ejection seat? ♪ gold finger ♪ >> stephanie: yes. michael hayden former director of the nsa it informs our adversaries and puts our country
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at risk and teaches practically everyone in the world that america can't keep secrets. there is complete freakout mode at the nsa. >> aren't they always in freakout mode. >> stephanie: well yeah. the free enterprise guy. >> i think it's a great example of a problem, and when you have someone at the status of mr. snowden, i don't want to put him down but for goodness sakes how many other snowdens do you have within a system? i don't know. >> stephanie: senator from nebraska yesterday. >> the american public is fearful that in this massive amount of data you get that there's the ability of the federal government to sensitize that data and -- and learn something more. >> stephanie: yeah.
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if they use sane think sizers. that would not be good. >> it would be like men with hats. >> men without hats. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: hello. i think you are the only show i watch love. you are my favorite. >> stephanie: oh thank you. >> caller: many people within the social networks were talking about conspiracy ideas. my husband has been saying, hey, let's look at the sources for these stories about the nsa and this and that, so we were looking at all of the glenn greenwald stuff. there are fans and haters but one of the things my husband found last night on one of the social network and he looked it
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up on google later, and glenn greenwald is a tribute for for the kato institute. and i think it's called katounbound.org. so i just thought this is the thing. we always allow the people on the right -- i can't even call them conservatives -- we always allow them to dictate everything that we talk about, and i think we should get back to talking about what was going on right when this story broke, which was that mr. obama was talking about getting high speed internet into all of the schools by 2015 and getting the congress to finally do something about voting on a jobs plan, and a national plan for economic security which would then give us jobs.
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you know, these are the things that happy clappy be-oches such as myself would love to talk about. we have more than enough to go around. we can't fall into their lies each time. >> stephanie: i don't hate anybody -- i don't hate either of them. i think it's just brought up a lot of issues that need to be talked about. >> yeah. >> john boehner >> there are also federal contractors that are used for certain programs. i think that's fair and appropriate, but i think it's up to the committees of the congress to provide that oversight and i think we will. >> assuming you ever do anything again in congress. >> stephanie: yes, get right on that right after all of the other things you doing. let's go to john in chicago. hi, john. >> caller: hey good morning. i love the show.
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i just want to say i think we can afford ourselves some healthy skepticism about this collection. it's not about the collection of data, it's about the methods of sifting and sorting and how those methods are set. the information is going to be collected, but if we can resist this freemanesque -- and ask this question. would this be different if this happened under an romney administration? >> stephanie: yes. i have admitted that was it different under the bush administration? and yes, i was. he also did it without warrants. twenty-nine minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show."
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♪ 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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eight-month erection. >> wow. >> that would be painful. >> yeah. >> stephanie: a truck driver from delaware is suing the doctor that gave him a penile implant four years ago, because the surgery left him with an erection that lasted eight months. >> the state of delaware is kind of shaped like an eject penis. >> yeah. >> ironically. >> you try having one for eight months. >> stephanie: well, that happened once in the '70s -- >> and then it fell off. and here you are today. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the surgery involved a three-piece inflatable penile implant with cylinders placed inside the
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penis's shaft -- >> kind of destroys the mood. >> stephanie: and a pump put in the scrotum. >> who-ka-who-ka-who-ka -- >> hold on! i'm just getting it ready here. hold on for a while. no i'm not happy to see you yet. >> almost happy to see you. >> wow! [ laughter ] >> ow! >> stephanie: his attorney -- said it made it difficult for him to complete a number of every day tasks, included getting the paper in the morning. >> sure if you are in your bathrobe it would be sticking out --
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>> stephanie: riding his motorcycle. attending regular family events. i would hardly dance with an erection poking my partner he told jurors. >> i guess he won't be going on dancing with the stars. >> stephanie: ow! stop it. i'm not electric sliding with you again. >> that's a solo dance. >> stephanie: what is a dance the kids are doing now? >> freaking. that's what they do. >> stephanie: there you go. that's really freakin'. all right. stop it [ sound effects ] >> stephanie: the procedure caused him to retreat from much of life including wearing long shirts and baggy pants to side his situation.
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ironically he is the guy with low t. >> yeah, just don't get the androgel on your duck. >> because then you will have a platy pus. >> stephanie: he said it is not something you break out at a party and show friends. well, you are not going to my kind of parties then. we would be like take it out. >> travis as informed me that popping is appropriate with the kids. they pop their asses in and out suggestively. >> stephanie: oh those kids. just stop it. >> stephanie: the doctor denies responsibility. he says that he should have realized something was wrong when his scrotum swelled to the
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size of a volleyball. >> that's not a good sign. unless he had a done to pick -- [ laughter ] >> stephanie: does this look infected to you? >> where do you buy pants? >> that's the main question. >> stephanie: is that a volleyball in your pants or -- oh! [ screaming ] >> stephanie: he not a replacement prosthesis but scarring has left him 50% smaller. he is half the man he used to be. [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: it's just a shadow. that was a big wow. representative brad sherman -- >> yes. he has to follow this. >> if you are going to build a -- this enormous intelligence infrastructure, and you are going to build a lot of high-tech knowledge weapon
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systems, you are going to have a lot of people with security clearances. >> stephanie: dick durbin. >> [ inaudible ] is collecting all of the information on telephone records that to me seems overly brood. >> stephanie: denise in chicago. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i had to call because there is another spin on this story that i don't think anybody has brought up, and i just want to mention that were it a high school individual making 200 grand, not appreciating the job he has is disgusting in it's a. but take fox news and joe moono he gets walked out in handcuffs,
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and he had to go to court and had federal charges coming against him. this guy knew who he was doing -- he signed a contract let's take the politics out of it the bottom line he was old enough to make $200,000 -- >> it was $122,000, which is considerably -- but still -- >> caller: okay. at thatting point that's no chump change. you know, high school students are -- graduates of high school are making $9 an hour at mcdonald's, but this guy was old enough to make 122,000, and he was old enough to find the document, in my mind just from the perspective of employing, he should be taken to jail. then he's in hong kong and talking treason-type language.
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>> stephanie: yeah it smells treasony to me. that's all i'm saying. the latest on snowden's hot girlfriend who likes to wear a cupcake bra sere. mediaite writes he abandoned her in a chilly fashion that lives up to his name. >> cold as ice. >> stephanie: yes, self grandizing jerk with a big mole. i always hated that mole! ♪ you're as cold as ice, you are willing to sacrifice our love ♪ >> stephanie: just looking at the girl-angle for a moment. and then the other one. ♪ no i can't take one more step towards you ♪ >> jar of hearts. >> stephanie: ice in his soul. >> oh god yes.
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[ laughter ] >> who is this? >> chris tina perry. ♪ i lost the love i loved the most ♪ ♪ i learned to live half alive ♪ >> stephanie: that's what she said. ♪ now you want me one more time ♪ >> stephanie: talk to the cupcake. >> who do you think you are! ♪ who do you think you are ♪ >> stephanie: right? ♪ running around leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts and tearing love apart ♪ ♪ you are going to catch a cold there the ice inside your soul ♪ >> stephanie: damn right! snowden. >> wow, she has a good voice. >> yeah it's not a bad song.
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>> stephanie: snowden, chilly ice. the guardian says he told her he would be away for a few weeks, and didn't list abandoning her among his regrets. yes, cnn reports that she took to her now suspended blog to comment about feeling lost at sea, but before the stories broke, the biblical upheaval floods deceit loss. her last blog was not all of that chipper. >> hum. >> stephanie: in a most -- i don't know what sort of music i need for this -- in a cryptic post from june 3rd, several days before the first story leaks mills writes did you miss me? i novi been missing my sanity. >> i don't know what she was saying. >> stephanie: i novi been
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missing my sanity the last few weeks have been a cluster jumble, a fun disaster, and adventure -- i think he's borderline, trust me. from pop up homes to stressful moments that would give gandhi indy just shun. [ farting sounds ] >> i'm not sure i meant for the universe to dump this stuff in my life at the same time. i feel alone lost, overwhelmed, desperate for reprieve. maybe he's bipolar, not borderline, i apologize. blah blah blah. my coping response in the past was to flee to foreign lands, but before i can sail away, i need to wipe my misguided tears listen to my core find zen or something like it, and breathe into what little patience i have
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left. >> she is also an awful writer. [ applause ] >> stephanie: yesterday something about the mermaids. >> oh, yeah. don't attempt poetry anymore. >> stephanie: maybe just flee bad poetry. [ screaming ] >> stephanie: no more haikus! forty-six minutes after the hour, right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> it is happening spot. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) it is mexico's largest cash crop, and as it heads north onto american soil, current tv follows the money. >> this industry is just huge.
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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 am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. 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? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern
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♪ i can feel my fire every time you call my name ♪ >> and sell it to the nsa. >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. fifty-one minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. i mentioned this one earlier -- senator who back nsa spying oppose gun background checks for infringing on people's rights. many of them standing behind the far more intrusive intelligence gathering practices of the government. many argues that background checks would infringe on privacy privacy. the background check compromise would be to a federal gun
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registry, even though it specifically did not allow for that. it also had prison sentences for anyone who tried. what is his name shelby the republican asked why americans should accept infringement on as they rights, but saw no comparison. i think you are talking about apples and oranges. as i said really really hypocritical apples and oranges. >> yes apples and guns. >> stephanie: exactly. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: oh another rapy republican. maybe they just should hush. just a big bag of sshush. incident of pregnancy from rape are very low.
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trent franks of arizona argued -- he said before when my friends on the left side of the aisle tried to make rape and incest a problem because the number of rapes from either are very low. [ inaudible ] said the idea that the men can tell a woman that they have to carry a product of rape to term is outrageous. a 2011 study from san francisco state university found in columbia, female youth report significantly higher levels of unintended pregnancy, and lower levels of current modern -- so
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another republican blinded by science. >> ahhhhh! >> stephanie: oh looky here. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: speaking of arizona senator. >> oh god. >> stephanie: isn't jeff blake a peach. he is the guy who had a bunch of racist, tweets. those twitter accounts they just bring that out in you. to the f word for gay man, who stole my bike from the church parking lot, i will find you and great the crap out of you. >> gawker writes that's the most arizona sentence ever. >> stephanie: the guy who calls himself the n-word killer when he plays video games. tanner flake doesn't he just sound like a --
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>> tanner. >> he flakes from all of the tanning. >> stephanie: the son of the senator -- there is an enormous weapon he is holding, and calls people jews and f words for gay hand. he tweeted say something hilarious, and i bet you someone fill in the blank, would say it louder, jew, and then he wrote about somebody i'm down to own some f words for a gay man. [ applause ] >> stephanie: his twitter account, as you can imagine, has been deleted. oh, boy, cnn is going to be crowded in hair and makeup today. women kills boyfriend with a stillet toe -- >> that's the very plot of single white female. >> stephanie: with a stilleto
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after a night in the bar. >> stephanie: it started out as a normal night. you know jim, where you are not killed with a stillelto, they enjoyed a couple of bottles of wine, and a couple shots of tequila. oh, boy. i guess as a public service -- >> it's long -- >> do you have feelings of inadequacy, do you suffer from shyness? do you sometimes wish you were more assertive? if you answered yes to any of these questions ask your doctor or formist about tequila. it's the safe and natural way to feel more confident about yourself and your actions. it can help ease you out of your shyness. you'll notice the benefits almost immediately, and with a regimen of regular doses you can overcome any on struck
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struck -- obstacles. shyness and awkwardness will be a thing of the past. stop hiding and start living with tequila. tequila may not be right for everyone. women who are pregnant or nursing should not use tequila, however, women who wouldn't mind getting pregnant or nursing should try it. warning the consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are knot. may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them. alcohol may make you think that exlovers are really in love with them -- >> stephanie: you get the idea. she is claiming self-defense. okay. >> right. >> stephanie: yeah, more on that tomorrow on the "stephanie miller show." ♪
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>> i'm jacki schechner. it's noon eastern, and here's what's current. fbi director is testifying before the house judiciary committee and lawmakers are asking him about edward snowden's exposure and the details of the data collection the government is maintaining. in response to john connier's inquiry, he gives a very specific example of where it could have lead to detaining 9/11 hijacker prior to 9/11. intelligence officials lost track of him in the middle east but knew of an al qaeda safe house in yemen with a phone number. they couldn't tell who was calling into the safe house because the program
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