[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. hello, current tv how number one. margaret cho on the big show today. jacki schechner guess who else? hot brie in the city. melissa fitzgerald. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> stephanie: james was at her wedding. >> was he really? >> stephanie: she has some amazing stories. >> yeah, that was really a shocker. >> stephanie: yeah, i was really sad. was like sopranos was the thing.

she has some great stories about him. >> yeah. >> stephanie: we'll talk about all of that as we continue, karl frisch right out of the box, but first jacki schechner. >> good morning, everybody. we're expecting an announcement from the gang of eight. the amendment they are going to announce would call for tighter border security. republicans republicans have been complaining that it doesn't do enough to bolster border security, and that would have to be in place before we start a path to citizenship. but the president has said that a bill with a contingency spat

not something he is be willing to sign. a tea party group is launching an ad against mitch mcconnell. >> i have lived on a government salary for 30 years. >> the ad goes on to say that he voted to bailout wall street while cutting medicare for seniors. they are spending about $250,000 to run the ad they say it is part of an extended effort to owes mcconnell in 2013. russia plans to deliver missiles to syria as promised. they are going ahead with delivers missiles to the president and his supporters. and would block all calls for assad's resignation at a planned

but yet scheduled peace conference in geneva. we're back with more show after the break. stay with us. ♪

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>> yeah he looks 51 ten years ago. >> yeah, loved him. loved the sopranos. >> i never really watched them. >> stephanie: really? we had a whole thing around. >> remember when we were working at the disney studios, and james scalafini walked right by us? >> stephanie: no. >> really? you were drunk >> stephanie: i would have been scared. oh, paula dean paula dean. she had some thoughts, jim -- thank you, travis -- she had some thoughts about -- oh heaven, certain racial -- >> people of a certain decent

from a certain continent. >> stephanie: yeah bad black guys. >> right. and she decides which are the bad ones. >> i heard that a lot when i lived in the south. >> stephanie: really? >> yes. >> i was told there is a difference between black people and n word. >> stephanie: oh, good. just in case you would like the fun facts, paula dean -- [♪ fun-facts music ♪] >> stephanie: she's a butter fan. not so much a fan of the n word. >> and she also got clocked in the head with a frozen ham. >> frozen hand? >> ham. >> oh, i thought you said hand. >> stephanie: paula dean has taken an interesting tactic in defending herself against a lawsuit filed by a former employee. she admitted that yes, of course, she throws around racial

slurs at work. who doesn't? we're all americans here right. this is from gawker. the inquirer reports to have obtained a video from the legal deposition. she said they are just jokes. i can't determine what is going to defend another person. the staffer brother bubba, brother bubba's wedding with black men pretending to be slaves. the wait staff reminded her of slaves, and she thought -- [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the whole entire waiter staff were middle-aged black men. that restaurant represented a certain era in america. it was not only black men it

was -- she is not a big fan of history, because after the civil war probably -- it was not only black men it was black women. i would say they are slaves. the chef specifically expressed our desire for tap dancing little n words. fortunately dean decided against the idea. she said what i would really like is a bunch of little n words to wear black bow ties and in the shirley temple days they used to tap dance. but the media would be on me for that. >> is this some sort of hoax?

>> stephanie: i know, right. she said she wanted a bunch of bad black guys. >> so she wanted a bunch of bad black guys to tap dance at her brother's wedding. that makes even more sense. >> let's talk to karl frisch about this. ♪ >> stephanie: good morning karl frisch. >> yow! i picked a horrible time to go on a diet when butter is looking for a new spokesperson. >> stephanie: yeah. i'm glad she clarified. >> i think she is getting ready to run for congress as a republican. >> stephanie: i do too. blah blah blah. i can't find it here.

i'll get it to. >> it doesn't get any better? in fact she is starting a video series entitled it doesn't get better. karl frisch lisa [ inaudible ] becomes the third gop senator to support same-sex marriage. >> yeah i think that makes 53 or 54 senator overall. and 54 senator supporting something doesn't really make for legislation. >> stephanie: right. >> we also found out 51 senators are cosponsoring the employment non-discrimination act. and that means it can sit around forever. >> stephan: exactly. are you hearing anything about when the marriage equality rulings might come down? >> we're giving announcements at

10:00 about some of the decisions, and i have every reason to believe we will be waiting until next monday. >> that's what i heard too. >> stephanie: of course. >> there's like 20 cases left. there's four really big ones one of which was argued in octobe so months and months before they even talked about doma or prop eight. so my expectation is maybe we'll hear about the fisher affirmative rights act and the voting right's act before we hear about doma or prop 8. >> stephanie: gop congress protects masturbating fetuses. hashtag good luck with lady vote. [ laughter ] >> i don't know what strategy they seem to be pursuing. you have these dueling rallies of abolish the irs, and the

crazy anti-immigrant folks, the bill to protect masturbating fetuses -- >> which would be a great name for a band. >> stephanie: yeah. >> it is just ridiculous. this one guy -- i can't remember the name of the congressman. she was a republican obviously -- was saying one of the reasons you have to do this is because male fetuses masturbate in the womb. >> stephanie: yeah the rapy caucus has said some incredible things, but that one was like -- did he just say what i think he said. >> at some point you have to question where they are coming up with this bs.

it is obviously not tested with sane people to see how people would react, but, you know, just another example of congress doing something the senate not even going to touch. >> stephanie: literally you can't write this stuff. and he is an obgyn. >> of course he is that's what makes it great. >> stephanie: the baby is kicking. oh, no he is just whacking off, don't worry about it. really? that's somebody's doctor? >> yeah now that we know this, i think we're going to have a bunch of blind fetuses. now for catholics is this a new original sin? >> apparently. >> stephanie: chris did we post this, the deepening schism on the left -- yes, i sent it to

you. it is causing once again -- we saw this during the primaries, i among other liberals are getting letters. you are not the right kind of liberal. you suck. it is one of those subjects that is designed to divide the left don't you think? >> i happen to look at the president on any range of issues. am i completely happy with this nsa stuff? no. at the end of the day is this what i want the president doing? no, because i don't want a potential republican president having this power either. but i'm looking at all of the other issues on the table and am i happy about that one issue? no. but i don't tend to get consumed by one-issue politics. >> stephanie: i don't understand

why it has to be the you suck you are not the right kind of liberal. i got a letter bob seska has been having the right approach. we just posted it. but it's that herding cats thing among liberals that is like i'm allow to have a different opinion than tom hartman or whatever, right? >> yeah. and i think that's what makes it great. when you hear the right-wing talk about it, they actually mean a giant tinfoil hat. when we talk about a big tent we really mean it. we have a lot of diversity in this party. we as a party overall know when

we have gone too far overall. think back to 2004 when they were voting for tax cuts and no child left behind and the iraq war, the party was pretty unified in saying we do not like this, stop it. and so i think it's healthy for the party to have a difference of opinion on certain issues and there's a lot more commonality in terms of not wanting what is happening to happen. it's just a matter of degrees of how angry somebody might be. >> stephanie: right. and what to do about it. i had alan grayson on last week and i love alan grayson, but his amendment he was trying to pass it is not going to pass. you are not going to get them to stop screening everything. i think there's a debate about security and privacy --

>> but i think the congressman knew that when he offered the amendment, but at least it started a conversation. >> stephanie: yes. >> and i think it's important to have those conversations and if liberals had not been there to push back there would be no fisa courts. >> stephanie: right. and this article, i'll read some of it next. but i think there's a way to do it constructively. and say screw you, obama i'm not going to vote. all right. karl frisch great stuff as always, honey, we'll see you the week after next. >> have a good one. i have to go take care of my

masturbating fetus. [ applause ] >> stephanie: thank you. nineteen minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: call the political party line now, 1-800-steph-1-2. ♪

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[ laughter ] [ applause ] >> she laughed with an evil -- >> stephanie: can i get a what is the accompanying part to can i get a whoop whoop? >> that's all there was. >> stephanie: no there wasn't. we'll have to go back and listen. >> no. >> or you can hit yourself in the head with a hammer. >> stephanie: go work for paula dean instead. that would be more pleasant than having to listen to that again. we posted this yes? >> yes, we did. >> stephanie: i'm barking orders at you left and right. >> i posted them yesterday, i just didn't remember posting it. i was drunk. i had are brain damage for putting that together.

>> it softens the blow. >> stephanie: right. yeah, i was reading to karl chris in san diego sent me this we were talking about this -- and we'll talk to melissa fitzgerald because she perhaps may run for congress. the deepening schism on the left. he mentions our masturbating fetus congressman, and he said what has become popular is a portion of the left has grown unhinged -- >> who is this guy? >> stephanie: this is the problem. now you are going to shoot at this guy. now you are going to go bob

sesca is an idiot -- >> i didn't say that. >> stephanie: but this is the problem, any time someone expresses an opinion they go he is an idiot. okay. he is nothing, jim. >> the germans are not terribly happy with obama now. because they have had some experience with this stuff. >> stephanie: i'm going to have one of those days i can tell -- didn't jim just exemplify exactly what this is all about. >> why not be open to hearing all points of view. >> okay. >> stephanie: al frin -- franken -- >> i'm not arguing with you

about that. >> a left-wing schism -- >> on this show. >> stephanie: a fault line has just opened up between jim and i. both exposed and exacerbated by the nsa issue. there is a tea party emerging on the left. 9/11 was caused by the bush administration nonsense. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: this is a perfect example. this is like a skit we preplanned. there is a tea party emerging on the left. some people are calling it the green tea party because of glenn greenwald. >> i get it. >> stephanie: uh-huh.

for now it is orbiting around the binary greenwald snowden system ready to hurl in the direction of anyone who dares to examine the voracity of edward snowden's -- >> that's kind of insulting the way he said that. >> stephanie: what is disturbing is the recklessness of this subgroup it's willingness to embrace an it hacker -- >> i'm not endorsing him at all. >> stephanie: they just happen to be the ringleaders this week. remember when the republican party embraced james o'keefe when he reported to have evidence of systematic abuses of acorn and planned parenthood, it turned out he was a fraud. while it is possible that snowden's story is 100% true it

is also true that he is a better spoken o'keefe. just as soon as the ship had begun to turn slowly leftward, the slept in danger of running face first into a credibility trap. okay. >> i had lots of questions about snowden -- >> stephanie: even if he turns out to be 100% on the level -- >> it's because of the way he has gone about it yeah. >> stephanie: the left wing thinks if you think this leak was a bad idea, you are a mindless supporter of the establishment. >> he could have a little less inductive in there -- >> stephanie: so could some other people on the left that called me a c word. see i have stirred it up now.

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> i feel like we're in a woody allen movie, except i have laughed a few times in the last hour. sniet >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. thirty-four minutes after the hour. just warning you the paula dean story does get better. >> yeah, it does. >> stephanie: eric in georgia on the nsa thing and the schism on the left as they say.

>> caller: steph, i love you, but look it seems like to me lately that you are picking up these right-wing issues, you know, and you are arguing them, you know, two and three days rand paul, the drone issue. it seems like you liberals are so quick to pick up these right-wing issues and run with them. i told you on the show why rand paul was doing what he was doing. he was trying to protect people like snowden. the fbi come on and said they are using these drones for surveillance surveillance, this is what he's doing, and this person also gave to rand paul's campaign to -- >> stephanie: oh, snowden did, yeah. >> i would like somebody to question rand paul and find out if they are actually in cahoots,

and been talking with snowden before this happened. he is also the one who exposed the drone and things. this guy -- he is the leaker. >> stephanie: yeah, i got it eric. jim, that's all we're saying. and hal sparks expressed skepticism too. >> i have skeptical too. i have said that over and over again, but you don't listen to me. >> stephanie: i'm sorry, what? he hates me. >> and then you shut me down -- >> you have say stop being a nay-sayer on my show. >> you have the right to agree with me. >> stephanie: i'm not talking to you now. [ ♪ patriotic music ♪ ] >> stephanie: debra writes you are either with snowden or you

are with cheney. >> that is so untrue. >> stephanie: i thought how strange to me they seem like flip sides of the same coin. snowden believed he can sabotage policies enacted by a government just because he doesn't like them. either way neither man seems to have respect for democracy -- >> comparing him to cheney though -- that's insane. >> stephanie: i know. >> we all agree on that. good. >> stephanie: opinions are like [ censor bleep ] holes, everyone has got one and they all stink. the u.s. should disassemble most if not all surveillance operations, based on what we have been reading it appears the goal is to shrink the u.s.

intelligence community small enough to drown it in a bathtub. i'm not interested in being part of a movement that seeks to [ inaudible ] i suppose i'm just [ inaudible ] for questioning a word view that demands we only surveil nations who have gone to war with us. if i'm understanding this correctly, we're not supposed to use drones or engage in intelligence of any kind. how the hell are we supposed to learn anything about friends or foes? ask them nicely? but if i'm wrong where is the line? what is an acceptable level of intelligence gathering. >> that's a good question to

ask. but he is not asking that question. he is calling people like daniel ellsberg a -- >> stephanie: that is a totally different case -- >> he mentioned quaint idealism like ending the vietnam war -- >> stephanie: it is totally different than snowden -- >> i'm not talking about that -- >> if you would like to join the argument, call 1-800-steph-1-2. >> stephanie: please won't you. reality dictates there is an acceptable level of government intrusion into our personal lives. the irs also has direct access to your bank account, it can demand to see your shopping receipts during an audit. so while any nsa overreach ought to be checked, it ought to be

kept in perspective. the left abandoned al gore because among other things he was just like the republican nominee, george w. bush. i voted for nader because i believed that two parties are the same and the only way to break the paradigm is to vote for the third-party. we should have supported al gore while smartly and pragmatically applying left-wing pressure. instead we violently choked in the process. flailing indiscriminate activism is -- >> that's a great phrase. >> stephanie: yes -- >> but al gore didn't lose because of ralph nader. he lost because they stole it.

>> stephanie: a sure fire way to be marginalized is to act like fire eating paranoid crack pots and defying unvetted heros. [ applause ] >> stephanie: i just thought there was some good points in that. and the piece that you read and even hal said he has a healthy skepticism about this -- >> i just don't want the left to become like the right and everything is black and white. there are shades of gray -- >> stephanie: that's what i mean, how do you dismiss al franken's whole life and career -- >> i don't. >> stephanie: not you. but i have seen it on line and wherever. >> sure. >> stephanie: let's go to judeth in california. >> caller: hello. thank you. i love your show. >> stephanie: thank you.

>> caller: yes, he complexity of the issues. the more we talk about these issues, the more complex they get, and we have to have all of these opinions from crack pots as well because they bring up teeny little pieces that we think about, also when things come out originally they don't contain all of the information. people have their opinions and push on it then politicians start bringing things to the floor and we start learning more, and we see how complex these issues are. >> stephanie: right. that's what i'm saying we're supposed to be the ones that allow a bigger tent. >> caller: exactly. so even us idealists or utopians, our voice is also needed, because if there is nobody out there to say i want peace, if there's no one to fight that then there would be no peace.

some utopian thought that ireland and england could get along. >> stephanie: yeah, exactly. we'll talk about with to melissa fitzgerald next hour. a group asked her to sign this nsa thing. and she said i can't put my name on this. and we should allow for different points of view on this whole thing. let's go to john in minneapolis. >> caller: hi, steph i think this is a fantastic conversation you guys are having. it's something i miss dearly -- >> stephanie: jim and i are going to have the best makeup sex, we always do after shows like. >> caller: whatever it takes. but this is the kind of thing we used to be able to have with the republicans when they were sane. we had good debates about issues that were important instead of getting sidetracked on the bs.

it's just a shame we have to split the left to do it. >> stephanie: we used to have more republican guests on the show, but now -- no fetuses don't masturbate come on! >> caller: yeah, if we have to argue amongst ourselves to still have good debate, i guess that's what we have to do. >> stephanie: all right. thank you, john appreciate it. let's go to tracy in atlanta. welcome. >> caller: hi, thank you so much. hi stephanie. i wholeheartedly 100% agree with you. and the problem is the difference between the left and the right is the left when they get pissy, they don't vote. >> stephanie: right. that's what i'm saying. that is partially why -- >> caller: and then people like jim don't want to be blamed

for -- because you have a platform and everybody do not have this platform, and i think that you have to use it responsibly, so when people say, well, you have were doing this and saying these things and people didn't vote because da da, da then he'll say that's not my fault i never told anybody to vote. it's just the left thinks differently than the right. the left thinks if you think different than i think then i'm just not going to vote. >> stephanie: this is designed to disspirit the president's base for the midterms. >> caller: right. >> stephanie: it sure seems custom made for that. >> caller: and it is a fact that glen greenwald does not like president obama. that is a fact. >> stephanie: yeah. and tracy, that's not to dismiss a lot of glen greenwald's good

work. i'm not sure to shoot at glen greenwald -- >> caller: but when you are associated with the kato institute, i have question marks over everything you say -- >> is he with the kato institute? >> stephanie: yeah. all right. i hear ya honey. lots of people have thoughts on this. normally at this time in the summer, we're just asking is it raining where you are? >> or what toy killed you as a child. >> stephanie: what is your favorite '70's song. >> ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for a shock. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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devil's advocate of the "stephanie miller show." [ bell chimes ] >> stephanie: all right. then. >> caller: make this snowden thing, we're looking at the wrong thing. all he did was tell us things we basically already know. we knew the nsa was scooping up everything they could get on every american that ever lived. we also know that they spy on foreigners, but what is it they are doing they want us to be distracted from? could it have something to do with that utah building they are building? could it be that what they are doing is creating dossiers on every american and every person in the world. and isn't creating dossiers forbidden --

>> that's just quaint idealism. >> stephanie: well, you are asking the question. and we don't know. >> caller: that's what i mean. only a handful of us are asking these questions. and nobody in the media are asking these questions. >> stephanie: we brought it up on the show several times. >> caller: do you not realize the nsa is actually a military unit? that it is run by the military? and it is being used for law enforcement activity. >> that's why the general is in charge of it. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: there is a law that goes back even further called the [ inaudible ], which forbids the use of military assets -- >> that is a problem. you are absolutely right. >> caller: so the nsa is right now committing ongoing felony crime that general alexander is engaged in criminal activity. the idea of creatings the

dossier dossiers should be the most disgusting act of whatever secret police you can think of -- >> stephanie: all right. angela merkel said this yesterday. >> people have concerns precisely concerns that there may be some sort of blanket across the board gathering of information. >> stephanie: the president has told germans that washington is not spying on the emails of private citizens and is stepping up ways to close gin on the mow. and new talks with russia on -- >> putin doesn't want to talk.

>> stephanie: do not try to make me relax with these jokes. >> we don't joke? russia. >> they are not famous for their comedians. >> stephanie: charles, go ahead. >> caller: yeah, anything could happen. but the nsa is doing a good job. they prevented a subway bombing. i understand 50 terrorist attacks have been blocked by this service. i think had it been in place, it would have been easier to catch the hijackers. they could have cross teched phone numbers and seen where hey this group of guys is calling this same flight school -- >> stephanie: yeah you can't say none have been foiled. nothing has ever been foiled by this. i'm sure it has. >> caller: yeah, i would rather have this discussion than one

about a successful subway bombing or other mass killing of americans. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: so that's the thing we got to look at. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and if you are concerned about privacy, let's look at that stop and frisk and collect dna going on in new york. >> stephanie: yeah, this nsa thing, here is my nda. >> caller: yeah. >> stephanie: the president has thwarted at least 50 attacks, and lives have been saved. and the encroachment on privacy has been strictly limited. so do you disbelieve him? >> do you trust him more than bush and cheney, jim? >> yes. >> at least we got that out of the way. >> that's kind of a low bar.

>> stephanie: sal you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: i have seen this my whole life where there is the [ inaudible ] magazine people gene green party people, and these could all be together. stephanie you have got to understand -- and i know you sympathize with the fact that there is such a thing as the line to cross or overreach, for instance you wouldn't want this kind of program under the bush administration. >> stephanie: well, we did have it. >> caller: yeah and in that case you would have more concerns -- >> and what if we get another republican administration that will go back to that. >> stephanie: i understand that. the good news is more paula dean stuff. what time is it? has she called anyone else the n word.

we'll be back with all of that on the "stephanie miller show."

[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. hour number 2. current tv land, activist melissa fitzgerald on her way in. jacki schechner -- >> did you see twitter annihilate paula dean yesterday. the hashtag was paula dean recipes. and she was destroyed. >> stephanie: join our fistfight over the nsa.

>> yeah i have some very deep thoughts on that one. >> stephanie: we'll have you on during a regular segment, because there's a lot to say. i have gotten hate mail for you too because we mentioned he's a high school dropout. and i'm saying how does that guy get access to our national intelligence -- >> i get hate mail too? >> stephanie: oh yeah i just don't tell you, because you are too sensitive. [ laughter ] >> a christian ministry peaching against the gay community now says it is closing down, and it is sorry. allan chambers is the president, and has posted a letter online apologizing for the pain his ministry and affiliates over the years. he said he has never publicly

acknowledged his organizations wrongdoing. now he is saying that not only is he sorry he accepted religious rejection as god's rejection, but he is sorry he never admitted to his own ongoing same-sex attractions. they will close down and start up as a separate ministry with the goal of promoting the church as a safe and welcoming community. president obama spoke in berlin yesterday. >> i have determined that we can ensure the security of america and our a allies while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one third. >> the question now is whether or not the president needs senate approval. the secretary of state says he will consult with congress, but

the administration has not decided yet whether or not it will codify arms reduction with any sort of binding agreement. we're back after the break.

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. are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the

minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> what is going on in the world? six minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. hot brie in the city coming up this hour. she has some amazing james scandalfini stories, and we'll talk about that and fight more. >> great. >> stephanie: in the meantime what did jacki just report?

exodus international is shutting down. they are the ex-gay christian ministry. >> they have given up. >> no, they admitted they are wrong. >> stephanie: our bad. good night. number hit the lights. exodus international a large christian ministry that claims to offer a cure for homosexuality shut down. didn't the original guys that founded that run off -- >> they got married. >> stephanie: in a gay way. >> christian heal thy self. >> stephanie: they apologized. we cease to be a living breathing organism. we are not honoring our fellow

human beings. >> oh, my god! >> stephanie: and the italian press has uncovered a hookup site for gay priests. >> oh my god! >> stephanie: we were all so wrong. is it me or at some point is marcus bachmann and [ inaudible ] going to come out and get gay married. or am i getting ahead of myself >> if the catholic church shut down, they could spread the wealth out to help the pour. >> stephanie: how about this spanking for jesus movement lets husband feel good about punishing their wives. >> oh, my god! >> did jesus spank mary

magdalen. >> you have to understand, barbarians need to be educated. they need to be disciplined. >> stephanie: right. right. right. okay. we'll get to all of that a little later, but first -- oh paula deen -- paula dean clarifies she used the n word to describe a bad black guy. so there. we covered this story last hour. apparently in a deposition she was very chatty about the use of racial slurs. they asked her if she has ever personally used the slur? and she said yes, of course. [♪ fun-facts music ♪] >> stephanie: she noted she was the victim of a crime and he

happened to be a black man. the gun was dancing all around my temple. i didn't feel favorable towards him. the lawyer asked if she used the n word to address him? she clarified that she used the word later when talking to her husband. has she used it since then? i'm sure i have but it has been a very long time. maybe i have heard it. and then landing with the meditation about how the south has changed a lot since the 60s. lawyer, tell me the other context. paula, i don't know, maybe in repeating something that was said to me. lawyer, like a joke? paula, no, probably conversation

between blacks. i don't know but that's just not a word we use as time has gone by thanks have changed since the 60s in the south. if you don't mean it in a mean way, maybe you mean it in -- >> a loving way. >> stephanie: ms. dean does not find the use acceptable -- >> blah blah blah. >> stephanie: the oversensitive cracker apologizes. >> hah-rump. >> stephanie: thank you, paula, thank you. moving on now. >> stephanie: alan in maryland would rather hear jim talk. jim, it's for you.

>> caller: hi, steph i'm watching you read these articles by third-party people, and when jim wants to make a criticism of it you say shut up and blow past it. >> stephanie: i don't believe i have said oh shut up to jim. >> caller: well in any event i think it's become beat up the messenger week again. if you recall during the big gun debate when they were trying to pass that legislation, republicans were flying all over themselves to put somethings in the regulations to say it will be a felony if anybody uses any of this for something other than what it is intended to do. why don't they put some of that in there. >> stephanie: right. they are screaming because it looks bad for obama, but they don't want any tracking of any kind of any mentally ill

criminal that gets a gun. right? >> caller: but they are being tracked. >> stephanie: plus they won that one on a lie on saying they are going to make a gun registry when it specifically says there cannot be a gun registry. ross in san diego. >> caller: i was dosing off about that guy whining about the kamo- mo. whatever. liberals, i swear that's all they do is whine. they will find anything to whine about, it's incredible. >> whining about possy comatatus? >> no, jim, you are another one

that is constantly whining you and the chris with the ya buts. >> i am trying to bring these two together -- >> you don't know what possy comtay is and yet you -- >> that was a law enacted -- >> caller: you are totally missing the point. >> no, i'm educating you on what it is -- >> caller: i could careless. >> you should care because it was designed to protect you from the military taking over the country. >> caller: oh, my god, that's something we have to worry about. >> without it, yes. >> caller: i'm sick of all of this stuff. so it goes back to the drones -- >> stephanie: i don't think the military is taking over the country either.

but he kind of hurt our case there. let me find another ally there -- >> he was kind of an ass. >> stephanie: leave my friend alone. bonnie in new jersey. >> caller: hello, i think he should take the meds he paid for and wash them down with the next six pack. how did someone like snowden get that level of security clearance when he is working for a multinational corporation. >> stephanie: yep. yep. and that's what i meant -- >> caller: no one that is not a federal employee should have that kind of clearance. and this information is being collected for possible motive. >> right. >> caller: they are going after not only the people -- i don't know who the hell they caught because they gather too much

information to be able to disseminate it, but they have gone after the environmentalists, they went after occupy wall street -- >> and the people protesting the keystone pipeline, they are now deemed terrorist. >> caller: exactly. and when they have more information than the government, it's not a good thing. >> stephanie: right. and people write me hate mail because they think i'm disparaging edward snowden, i'm just saying how does someone like him get this level of clearance? i don't know him but it seems a little suspect to me. >> i think you should be careful about using the pejorative of him not graduating from high school because a lot of really smart computer hackers didn't

graduate from high school because they were too smart. >> stephanie: you graduated from high school and you are a moron. >> we love you, denver city by the bay! >> caller: even going to be [ inaudible ] this morning, and believe me i read him a lot, the whole issue that i see is that we're missing the issue. the country is divided. it is divided worse than i have ever seen it and i have been around for-60 years. fbi dossiers that went on in the 60s, we are now technologically more advanced and we have a country that is severely divided and fighting among themselves. >> stephanie: right. and that is something we have said, that is part of this is

technology has always advanced to a degree, even since the bush administration has started this program, the technology is so -- we were talking about new gadgets for cars -- >> caller: exactly. they drive for you. but my issue is as much as anything is that we continue to divide. now the left is writing the left. the right is righting the right. the libertarians are fighting everybody. and the government sitting back and saying -- and there's a manipulation -- there are people in the government using this divisiveness to smoke screen everything, but one of the biggest issues that i think also needs to be addressed is the reason why snowden got this stuff is because the nsa has been privatized. everything is being privatized and we know how well that went black water. >> stephanie: yeah exactly. >> caller: and that

privatization breeds corruption. >> stephanie: i agree. jim, you were saying something? oh, we were talk about the gadgets in cars -- >> things like on star as good of tool as it is can be abused because they can actually remotely shut off your engine which in some cases is desirable, but that sort of thing can be abused. >> stephanie: exactly. >> a lot of things can be abused. >> stephanie: can't we all agree that rand paul is kind of a douche. >> i think so. >> stephanie: see. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> we all know what is going on in this bubble. the kids don't know, but we do. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ (vo)and on the next vanguard: >> one of the things that we seek for, is to die as a martyr. (vo) what drove a small town kid to the arms of radical islam?

>> it was so preposterous. if you would ever know a person that would become an international terrorist. >> when you see him you don't see the terrorist. you're like, oh hey thats my friend that i haven't seen in a couple years. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking?

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>> caller: god you look hot when the camera focuses on you fixing your face. >> stephanie: oh thank you. >> caller: you have got to -- >> stephanie: you agree with glen beck on this one? >> caller: exactly. you guys have got to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time. we have two binary situation. the technology was out before obama came in. so since it was there, it's not going anywhere, so we need to secure the party -- it's not just one topic we have to deal with, so many issues that democrat -- >> stephanie: tiny masturbating fetuses -- >> caller: precisely. so i get it. no one is happy with this. but we can work to remove it and make sure that the party that is for what we're for is kept in power. didn't we just learn from losing -- and jim i have to tell

you, it's not just that the election was stolen but it is also true that if ralph nader hadn't have run it wouldn't have been stolen. >> right. >> stephanie: and [ inaudible ] is a nader voter. is his opinion not valid on this because it doesn't agree with yours. >> caller: exactly. and the obama hilary thing where you and randy and ed schultz, and keith [ inaudible ] they were god and the next day because you are for obama you are scum. we have to shut that out. >> stephanie: yeah and it very nearly shut down progressive radio, because people boycotted sponsors -- >> we are still smarting from it. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: we can do both people. the civil rights movement would

have been halted in its tracks if because of one thing we're just not going to fight for our rights. it's crazy. >> caller: i remember early in the primary, you know how many black people called and said you stupid little naive white woman. and guess who is on the -- >> you are off the biden bus now? [ farting sounds ] >> caller: i forgot the comedian's name that was on that was for hilary but if she ends up winning, i'm with that. >> stephanie: right. and did you see chris trying to divide us already over joe biden. >> you were all for joe biden before hilary was giving hints -- >> stephanie: that's only when i was having my picture taken with him. no, that would be another

horrible choice, because i love joe biden. but i don't think he will run if hilary runs. how dare you? do you have to start dividing us now. >> yeah, he's the one dividing. >> stephanie: i'm just firing indiscriminately this morning. hello, charlotte. >> caller: hey enjoying the show. thank you all for giving us a forum to hear more than one point of view. you allow other people to speak and say what they want to. you don't savage and brutalize them like they do on rush limbaugh and o'reilly. you have civilized, intelligent individuals, and you are a hoot to listen to i love it. >> intelligent? >> stephanie: what do you two idiots think about that? >> bite me. >> stephanie: screw you. you don't even deserve to have hot brie next, but you are going to get it anyway jim. melissa fitzgerald next on the "stephanie miller show."

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♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> how may i in all humble servitude be of assistance? >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. jim is making that weird sound. i wonder what it could be? >> what? >> stephanie: why -- >> oh that. >> stephanie: yeah. ♪ looking hot, looking sexy hot

brea on with stephfy ♪ >> stephanie: good morning, mel -- melissa fitzgerald. >> good morning. i'm so happy to be here. >> me too. >> stephanie: oh go ahead, jim. >> but you guys were fighting this morning. >> stephanie: mom and dad are fighting. you have heard jump into the fray. we have had this conversation, because you may run for congress. there is this schism on the left. >> yeah, i think we need both because i think we need to have a conversation, and having people with different points of view is really important. what i think is very dangerous is silencing people who disagree

with you -- >> oh shut up. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: you have gotten very comfortable with her now. that's when you know you are family. [ laughter ] >> but i do. and i think that's a problem. and i see the problem really clearly around this issue. >> stephanie: right. >> and, you know, i -- i heard you guys talking earlier about the organization free press that sent me a letter and asked me to put my name on it and it wasn't that i disagreed with what they were asking to do -- and in fact i encourage people to go on their website, because they have some great information, freepress.net. but i thought i'm happy they are voicing this particular opinion and asking for what they are asking for, it's just not my stance exactly. >> stephanie: right. >> i need more information.

they were asking to halt the surveillance right away -- and asking for an investigation, but halting -- it just seemed for me too much at this point. but that's how i read the letter, and perhaps other people would read it differently, so i could encourage people to read what they are asking themselves. >> stephanie: well alan grayson which there is a lovely picture of us book ending him at the inauguration, which i'm sure he has on his wall. but i love him, and it was this bill too that i think to me read like zero percent security, 100% privacy, and i think there has to be some balance and we should have the conversation. >> yeah, and i'm really happy there are people advocating for 100% privacy.

i don't think that's where we should land. and part of this argument i think is about technology. technology has changed so we have to change along with it. but at the same time am i comfortable with obama being in charge of this? yes. would i be comfortable with gorge bush? no. so i have to be comfortable with that. >> stephanie: are we all giant hypocrites? yes. what is your point. >> what do you mean all of us. >> stephanie: you too. >> and i don't think we should land in the middle. i want to gather the information across the spectrum and then decide -- i think each person needs to decide where we land. maybe that's a little towards the left or right, maybe it's in the middle, but when people say let's go to the middle i think

that's not a good idea. >> what they used to call a cop out. >> stephanie: you are a huge [ inaudible ] fan. >> huge. >> stephanie: he is the only one that voted against the patriot act. >> i love russ finegold i cried when he lost -- >> stephanie: i cried when he wouldn't marry me. >> yeah and we wouldn't come back on the show after that. the future mrs. finegold i think was his title -- >> stephanie: whatever. >> i missed that one. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying is we want to leave room for opinions on our side. because you just did a gun event -- >> yes, i did. >> stephanie: you have to tell us about this. >> oh, my gosh. i did for the first time get called a nazi, which i thought of you of course immediately --

>> stephanie: by a guy pointing a gun at her -- >> a woman, and not pointing, holding. it was a rally promoting universal background checks. pretty basic, innocuous, most people want it. i expected it to be a nice little rally, and i saw a lot of people with don't trade on my signs, and people with big guns and even before i got up on the stage, that's when that woman called me a nazi. >> stephanie: you are like thanks a lot governor rendell. this is a fun afternoon. [ laughter ] >> yeah, and they gave me the option to go home. i said i want to go home, i absolutely want to go home now. but i'm not going to, because i don't want to be intimidated.

and i think that was the idea was to stop people from speaking their truth. and i remember thinking what is so scary about me -- >> you are a nazi! liberal nazi! >> and you were wearing a flower dress, and i think that might away says swastika. >> yeah, i was wearing mom jeans, sensible shoes, and a little sweater -- >> stephanie: very much like the ss. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: so -- by the way -- we were also talking in other news, james scandalfini, very sad, and he was at your wedding. >> yeah, he was just a lovely person, and we did a play together in 1997, and we -- it was a play called "remembrance,"

and sean penn produced it so his parents would be in it together. his father was ill and he knew he didn't have that much longer to live so he wanted to give that as a gift. and jimmy was just such a beautiful, beautiful actor. and he was just a gifted artist and the play took place in northern ireland, well, he went there just for a couple of days because he was also shooting the pilot of the sopranos. and we had -- he said i have to go back because i'm shooting this hbo pilot. and i said oh, that's great. and then he finished the pilot, and we only had two days before we had rehearsals and he flew to

northern ireland just to get his accent down. and he was just wonderful, and i heard somebody say he treated everybody with the truest amount of respect no matter who they were, and that was absolutely true. i thought he was a really lovely guy, and at my wedding -- a bunch of my friends lived in new york. and a bunch of them were broke and he said does anyone need a ride back to new york? and he loaded up a bunch of my friends and drove them back to new york. and he hired a friend on mine who was out of work at the time -- >> wait a minute where are we driving to sacacus. >> stephanie: why is big pussy

here. [ laughter ] >> the funniest wedding night story, we stayed and just danced, and a core group of my friends and family did too. at the end of the night we were going back to the hotel, and my ex-husband and i were locked out of our hotel room and jimmy was there too, and he is like i got this. stay right there. and he ran really quickly -- he not the fastest, but he ran really quickly and came right back and had the key. >> stephanie: yeah, i bet he came up with that quick when tony soprano asked. >> yeah, that was before it was a big hit. >> stephanie: not everyone has a wedding night story that involves james scandalfini.

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nephew stories. her nephew mostly excited you are hear because i tell fart jokes. [ farting sounds ] >> yeah, we were going hiking and i put you guys on in the car driving to the hiking site and i said what do you think? you know? do you have any good fart jokes for me so i can tell them tomorrow? and he said what is a fart joke? and i said it's a joke about farts. and he thought for a second and he said why don't you just fart. and i said i don't think that would be very nice for those guys. and he listens for a second, and he said i think those guys can take it. >> like seymoru hoffman.

>> stephanie: here is the president. >> obama: one of the things you discover as a politician is that peopling don't always do exactly what you want. it's shocking. and then -- you have to keep on working at it. >> stephanie: that's what we have been talking about, right? political reality about what we would like to see accomplished. he said this is not a situation in which we are rifling through the ordinary emails of citizens or a situation where we go start searching anyway we want. this is us being able to protect our people and all of it is done under the oversight of the courts. so like you said it's good we are having this conversation. >> i'm not comfortable with them halting it at the moment. i am comfortable saying if you

go outside the very limited parameters that supposedly exist there, there should be serious jail time for that. >> stephanie: right. karl rove had some thoughts on this. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: he president obama and dick cheney are different. the president didn't have the guts to defend the nsa, which he did -- >> yeah, he kind of did to the detriment of the left. >> stephanie: he sought to distance himself from comparisons to cheney. he said dick cheney at least had the guts to stand up and defend those programs where the president has been sending out under under

under under-lings, and then fled the country -- >> please! and the other thing is yeah, how he differs from dick cheney. dick cheney says shut up. i know stuff you don't know. you don't have the right to have an opinion and nobody should have a conversation about this. >> stephanie: exactly. another issue on the left is gitmo. the president addressing that yesterday. >> obama: and in america that means doubling our efforts to close the prison at guantanamo. >> stephanie: there is another subject where i'm going you didn't just put the blame on the president. partially this has to do with democrats, right? >> yeah, and i think we can't put all of the blame on the president, and i'm getting a little bit tired of that and then you look at what is going on in the house and the senate and the president doesn't act alone -- >> stephanie: well, which is why

we need to get out and vote. clifford sloan is the new guy and there is an office of guantanamo closure, did you know that? >> i didn't. >> stephanie: vice president of the american center for progress said it certainly means they are back in the game here. [ inaudible ] said my first reaction was the president and secretary kerry were knew what they were doing. and i'm optimistic we'll get this done. our friend jim moreran said the people brought there before 2006 were mostly there because they were turned in for bounties and the vast majority have been approved for release, so it really is like past time we get something done. >> yeah. that's exactly then.

>> stephanie: and if we had a president romney he would have tripled the size of it isn't that what he said? >> yeah. >> stephanie: daryle in new jersey. hello, daryle. >> caller: hello, stephanie, love your show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i couldn't help thinking about a comment made about technology made by albert einstein in the 1950s. he said human beings have two opposite sides, love passion caring, or better side. and they also having a aggression, greed, and hatred. he finished up by saying which side dominates determines the fate of the species. what do you think of that? >> stephanie: i think he is very

smart. i'm not sure what his point was, but speaking of nephew stories -- well, it involves a bathing suit, jim. so you will enjoy this story. >> my one nephew is like -- well -- he did a little video of himself and he starts it well, we all know my aunt is chubby, and we're going to just follow her now and i was in the bathroom, and he goes i am the producer, and he has chocolate all over his chin, and i'm like oh, the producer i hear him coming towards the bathroom so i slam the door and lock it really quickly, and in his best philadelphia accident he goes she just locked the door on me. well, that's how the family goes. >> he's from the poconos? >> exactly. i was afraid the philly accent was disappearing but with my

nephew and chris matthews i think we're safe. but i'm in a bathing suit, and my other nephew gets in on the action, and he's like, you know, i think you are a little old to be wearing a bikini. and i'm like, okay but this is a one piece by the way, and he goes well, i think you need to be younger to wear that bathing suit. and i said really? what is wrong with this bathing suit. and he goes you are in it. >> oh. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> kids say the darnedest thing. >> maybe he meant the problem is you are in it and not out of it. >> i doubt it. he told me i would look better in a box or a paper bag. >> that tells me that is not what he meant. >> but it's good for my self-esteem. >> stephanie: good decision. >> i'll be the judge of that.

>> stephanie: jim will need to check that out. >> stephanie: chris in chicago. hi, chris. >> caller: hi, i was high school teacher for 35 years. i know really smart kids that are like this snowden character, and they go on and yeah they are smart but they don't have texture or the breadth of information, which i told the kids go to college because you get that universality. he is like one of those kids on the inner genius where they don't see the whole picture. >> stephanie: yeah. all right. margaret cho comes up at the bottom of the hour. fifty-eight minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪

[♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right. hour number three. jacki schechner, oh the trouple is reunited. >> i have to interrupt and say i have a very cute melissa story. we have a standing date and melissa said i'll see you tuesday. and i said that's not how tv works. just because we're on at the same time, it doesn't mean we really get to see you. >> stephanie: no we just have a vague creeping sense that we are

watching you all the time. >> hi jacki. >> hi, love how are you? >> i'm good. better now that i hear your voice. >> oh. >> stephanie: oh, lots of love. now it's a all about the news. >> good morning, everybody. vice president biden smoked -- smoked -- spoke this morning at the national hispanic prayer breakfast and spoke of immigration. it's an hispanic faith-based network. he spoke passionately of hope and promise as we talked about the role that immigration has played in our nation's history. we're all immigrants at one time or another. we all stand shoulder to shoulder with those who came before us, and stand on their shoulders. >> stephanie: biden had a great message this morning. he went on to explain it's not an easy decision for people to

pick up everything and move to a foreign country, and therefore we should ask ours why these people take this journey. it's part of the human spirit for people to want a better life for themselves and their children. an immigration reform bill will call for double the agents along the border and 700 miles offensing, and adding drones. senator have been willing now to discuss this new compromise. the goal is to get 70 votes in the senate, which would push the house to want to do something. of course today a group of female senator would set aside 30,000 residency cards for fields usually dominated by women.

the current bill is heavily weighted towards male immigrants, because they tend to be better educated especially in technical fields. we're back with more show after the break. 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? (vo) next, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> 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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♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ don't let it get away ♪ >> stephanie: uh-huh. it is the "stephanie miller show." six minutes after the hour. and even more beautiful today. why? because hot brie in the studio is here. jim on his best behavior so far. except for what you just said during the break. [ buzzer ] >> that was for off air. >> stephanie: stephaniemiller.com the website.

travis just brought this in. [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: officials question florida bra-shaking police search. jim if you were a police officer this would be you. the police officer who instructed a woman to shake out her bra during a drug search highly questionable. >> yes, the drug search. i'm an officer of the law. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: there were no drugs as it turned out. >> that's not good. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. >> wow. >> although i do stick money down there sometimes if i don't want to carry it. >> stephanie: jim will need some confirmation of that. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: in other chick news -- [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: hpv infections cut

in half after teens receive receive -- infections with the human -- exactly. let's just say hpv, shall we? >> yeah. >> stephanie: we're short on time. it cut the infection in half. michele bachmann suggested that it could cause mental retardation. >> any vaccine some people are going to have a bad reaction too. but they decided that -- >> stephanie: right. although she bases her science on -- some gal told me. >> i'm going to miss her so. >> you are not. >> i am. i am seriously going to miss her. >> the day is at hand. we are in the last days your

jehovah god. >> stephanie: get it. texas governor rick perry issued an executive order that all teenage girls get the vaccination, and then he had to recall it. even now about a third of teenage girls have had the vaccine. >> yeah. and it's not an innocuous thing. there are 12,000 cases of cervical cancer a year and 4,000 deaths. >> stephanie: and let's not even talk about the impact on michael douglas. >> proved he is not gay. >> stephanie: right. he was not having sex with matt damon. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: how about this guy -- [♪breaking news theme♪] >> stephanie: i saved all of the chick stories for you.

indiana teacher says women should become teachers and not mothers. it's like cheryl sanburg which said lean -- >> lean in. >> stephanie: yeah, or do you lean forward, but not too far into the blue berry pie. >> stephanie: teacher in greentown, indiana give a con controversial speech. i challenge you to recognize your body is a temple. finding beauty in modesty and self respect, i challenge you to devote yourself to your family and your children. if you choose to have a career god's blessing is upon you, but the greatest role of your life will be a wife and mother.

>> because you are a chick. >> stephanie: -- investment into the lives of your precious children. we don't need more women as ceos we need more women as invested mothers. >> that made me really angry. >> stephanie: and melissa and i both obviously failed human beings. [♪ somber music ♪] >> stephanie: it's too late for me, as you often have noticed. >> because your eggs are dusty. >> oh! that's horrible. >> well, it's true. >> stephanie: but accurate. >> it's like she spits out tumble weeds. >> the crypt keeper is up there. [ evil laughter ] >> stephanie: a couple of barroom doors swinging in the wind. tammy in pennsylvania.

>> caller: hello. i finally got through. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: all of these so-called scandals, benghazi was a true tragedy. >> stephanie: uh-huh. >> caller: but the real scandal for the irs is that all of those groups on the right need to be revisited and to adhere to the social content and not political. also snowden needs to come back and face the music, be let free for being a whistleblower, or face it for being a criminal one way or another. >> right. that's what everybody says. >> stephanie: all right. okay. she was -- she was -- >> she couldn't pick a side. he either needs to be saved or thrown in jail. >> stephanie: let's go to john

in austin. >> caller: i want to address this circular -- >> and you are sending a telegraph at the same time. john you are going to have to -- >> is he on ham radio? >> stephanie: no i believe a sneaker phone from "sports illustrated." >> beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. >> stephanie: speaking of obama barbers what is fox news going to do with this story? guess who says the president is a war criminal. bill ayers. sean hannity's head just exploded. >> i was watching bill o'reilly and he had kirsten powers on and he was like are you going align yourself with bill ayers? and he said no, bill.

>> stephanie: he absolutely believes the president was engaged in terrorism for his use in drone strikes. absolutely every president in this century should be put on trial for war crimes. absolutely. [ applause ] >> stephanie: is that going to be on fox at all do you think or -- >> crap i agree with bill ayers. what am i going to do? oh! >> stephanie: this is hilarious. speaking of that [ censor bleep ] bachmann. here she on immigration. >> amnesty costs a fortune. amnesty could also cost something more than just money. it could cost a nation. [ cheers ] >> yeah, cost a nation! >> did anybody tell ronald reagan that amnesty could cost the nation -- >> well there i go again. >> stephanie: this is the kind of reasoned thoughts one finds

at a michele bachmann rally. >> yeah! what! what am i yelling for? >> amnesty costs a fortune. amnesty could also cost something more than just money. it could cost a nation. >> yeah! >> bob don't like! >> stephanie: why are all people named mongo at rallies. the only thing that could make michele bachmann look smart, gohmert. >> we'll give you a chance to work but we should not be giving you a chance to be a taker. >> a taker! >> stephanie: did mongo move to

that rally? >> it's the same rally. >> the guys that talk about the takers, take more than any other states. >> stephanie: all right. dennis lynch. >> there are people who are coming here who want to cut your lawn and have a better life but there are people who want to cut your throat. [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> thousands! millions of them want to cut your throat! >> stephanie: that's what happened to all of the headless bodies in arizona. >> uh-huh. >> of course if we legalize marijuana then the drug lords wouldn't have a job. >> stephanie: exactly. >> you do find headless bodies in the desert. >> there's a lot of holes in the desert, some of them got bodies in them. >> stephanie: dave in

indianapolis. >> caller: good morning, momma, yesterday michele bachmann talking about how she wanted to work for the irs because she wanted to be on the inside and know how it worked. this gave me incite into her marriage. because she wanted to see what it was like to be a homosexual. >> stephanie: yes. as john fugelsang says she is both against homosexuality and married to one. >> she is a mole. >> i think the mole was on snowden -- >> stephanie: well that is an entirely different kind of mole. we all agree he should get that checked. >> it is big. >> it was like a brown pencil'

racer. ♪ hah hah, hah, hah ♪ >> stephanie: okay. he always comes unhinged around you, don't worry about it. >> it's also the day before the day before vacation. >> stephanie: he become like a bunch of michele bachmann rally members. hey! >> hey! mongo like! hulk smash! >> stephanie: right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> holy cow! you just blew my mind. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

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anything but loud and knitty gritty. ♪ >> so you can be dirty little freaks but you can't be dancy and fancy. >> stephanie: no. no. oh, john is on a better phone. >> caller: yeah, i got knocked off a while ago. i want to address the circular firing squad we have going this morning. we can be as idealistic about this as we want, but it has been going on since world war ii, and the only difference is occasionally people get caught and i would a whole lot rather somebody like obama and the democrat administration have this power than some others i can think of.

and to the degree we fight over this makes it less likely that we have somebody like this in office next time. i'm not saying we shouldn't talk about it but we should have a united front. >> that's easier said than done. >> caller: the patriot act needs to be tweaked, and this is a good opportunity to do it. >> another problem is that the corporate -- you know, corporate-ocracy for lack of a better word is overtaking the government. >> caller: has overtaken, probably. but we still have some power, but the degree to which we argue among ours, that dilutes

ourselves. they want us to fight. we can still do something about it. >> stephanie: yeah, i hear ya. all right. we were saying it is a technology thing, and as you say, the only reason your nephews like me is because you know how to do jib jabs. >> exactly. >> stephanie: they are all about bringing your enormous hollywood ego back into control. on mother's day you had another great story. >> i was laughing -- that guy's speech to the graduating ladies but reminded me of my nephew because we were having brunch on mother's day morning, and it was my nephews and me and there was an adult son and older woman sitting next to us, and she

thought they were my sons. and she says happy mother's day. and my nephew turns to her and says she is not a mother. she is just a worthless aunt. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: i don't know why i always hear a sitcom laugh track every time you tell a nephew story. oh kids they are hilarious. [ laughter ] >> they just started world war iii. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: darn it. also you wanted to give a shoutout to a friend. >> yes a friend of mine is dealing with health issues and he is a huge fan of the show, so i wanted to give a shout out to devin. stay strong.

>> stephanie: kevin you have exquisite taste. michael tomasky who i will kiss and date and mary. >> eventually. >> stephanie: he has a great piece that they may very well torpedo this, and the chances of ever winning the presidency again, because they have gerrymandered themselves into these snow white districts, and when they lost the hispanic vote 70-something to 20 but he is saying he thinks it may not get done. i don't know what is going to happen. the boner is looking a little drunker than usual. >> i think it's a huge problem. we talked about it with the gun legislation. i think that's partly what

happened there too. i mean not the gerrymandering but concern about people running to the right, that was part of it. >> stephanie: and well-known southern gram, lindsey graham -- >> oh, my stars. >> stephanie: he says the gop faces a geographic death spiral if this is not passed. and mike tomasky was saying he thought this was going to be a slam dunk getting this done, but the more and more you listen it looks like may it may not. he said boner told immigration, it doesn't have anything close to a majority, but there is a lot of guessing among insiders that it might not be the case. operators like karl rove may get to boner and help him break the has s hahser will rule.

>> but it is also reasonable and makes sense and a solution -- that everybody can agree on pretty much. >> stephanie: yeah. except the people in the -- the house republican party who are a bunch of lunatics. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] >> ass hats. >> stephanie: exactly. hot brie in the city what a delight as always. >> thank you very much. i had such a great time. >> stephanie: jim stay right there -- >> i will keep my hands and feet inside the studio at all times. >> stephanie: margaret cho next on the big show. ♪ vanguard: the documentary series that raised the bar for excellence. >> we dive deep into the topics that we cover. >> telling important stories that need to be told. (vo)and on the next vanguard: >> one of the things that we seek for, is to die as a martyr. (vo) what drove a small town kid to the arms of radical islam?

>> it was so preposterous. if you would ever know a person that would become an international terrorist. >> when you see him you don't see the terrorist. you're like, oh hey thats my friend that i haven't seen in a couple years. 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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>> announcer: stephanie miller. >> i respect this bitch. i love this bitch. >> oh, i'm a sucker for -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. looky there, "drop dead diva," it is back. as is our good friend margaret cho. hi, margaret cho. >> hi there. >> stephanie: good morning. >> good morning. >> stephanie: congratulations. the series came back from the dead. >> it's amazing isn't it? it is so cool. i have never seen that happen before. >> stephanie: i know. it was such a huge fan outcry, right? >> yeah, i think what is great about it is social media is giving a lot of power back into the fans' hands, you know.

and that's a great thing, and great for the show, for sure, and very exciting. >> stephanie: i was just reading a separate news piece about it and they were saying, it literally was canceled and now it returns this sunday right? >> yes it returns this sunday on lifetime and that is so great. it's our fifth season, and we love it so much. it's a lot of fun to do. and it's interesting to go back and play a character five years in a row. something i have never done, so it is awesome. >> stephanie: exactually. tell us about the series for those who haven't tuned in. because i love the premises of it. >> the whole thing is about whether -- women are kind -- we are sort of put into -- we decide whether we're going to be beautiful or smart in our lives, and we're never really able to do both. and this show is about what if

it could be both. >> stephanie: yeah, and she is described as a brilliant plus-sized attorney, right? >> uh-huh. and she is so involved? life and mind and never a thought about the physical or -- but then she sort of goes through this transformation where she's really somebody who has utilized the physical world the whole time so it's a very different kind of story. >> stephanie: and an interesting for you, because you are by the way cute as bought on the. >> cool. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: you talked about when you got your network series, what you had to go through to try to be physically what they wanted you to be right? >> yeah, it was weird because the show was created around me and then they demanded i lose weight to play myself.

[ laughter ] >> especially for somebody who is a comedian, i don't think that's fair. and it's very different standards for men and women too. men are allowed to be who they are, and women are constantly scrutinized for what they look like. so it is great to be on a show that celebrates women in every way, so that's great. >> stephanie: yeah. there are a lot of great guest stars coming up, and john rats ratsenberg is one of them. >> oh, he was great. somebody saw him in the bar at the hotel, and it was so cheers. >> stephanie: i didn't realize he was a conservative but he made news recently talk about spreading allen west's genetic material across the united states. do you ever get in conversations with him? >> i have never really seen him

except at the bar where everybody knows your name. >> stephanie: yeah, i have said that they would get a lot more done in washington if they did more drinking. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: margaret cho we are this close to the supreme court rulings. what do you think is going to happen? >> i think they have got to strike down doma and i think it is really an equal rights issue. it's not about relationships or an lgbt issue it's about equal rights for everyone. >> stephanie: i know i keep wanting to be really hopeful but it seems like all of the experts are saying prop 8 -- they are not going to make it legal across the entire country, it will be a narrow ruling in california. >> yeah, but it has to happen on a federal level.

i think it's really a constitutional issue that we have to uphold about equality. >> stephanie: i agree. i personally wish your mom could have argued the case at the supreme court, because the way you talk about your mom talking about your dad. >> they have to make legal, they have to legal. >> stephanie: that was my favorite story about your mom talk talking about your dad. [ laughter ] >> oh, yes. because he don't punch gays. it's an anti gay-bashing piece, be it's all about don't punch people that -- >> stephanie: yeah right. >> -- who are gay. chris lavoie is presently wearing a t-shirt that says where the bears are. >> yeah, we have something in common. we are both on an online web

show, where the bears are. >> oh. >> and your episode debuts today at wherethebearsare.tv. >> oh, okay. i haven't seen it yet. >> who do you play in it? >> i play a dominatrix that sort of terrorizes all of the guys, and they are pretty scared. >> stephanie: so typecasting pretty much? >> yeah, and they let me keep the cat suit, which was really great. >> stephanie: now you and i have something in common, i played a dominatrix in my one film. it allows you to work out some

issues. did you see exdouse, the ex-gay christian ministry they just announced they are shutting down and they apologized. >> they issued an apology for everything they have done. >> that's really great. they should be apologizing because it is a terrible thing, but i think that was always founded by people who were gay. >> stephanie: right and they ended up running off together in a gay way. so that kind of tends to hurt their cause. >> i think that's a really positive thing. i think those kinds of institutions are really harmful to young people and the world in general, so that's a good think that happened. >> stephanie: exactly. now i'm hoping marcus bachmann will come out. >> oh wouldn't that be great. >> stephanie: i'm hoping to hook him up with the senator that got caught in the bathroom. >> oh, that would be great.

>> stephanie: margaret cho "drop dead diva," is it back on lifetime this sunday. thank you honey, talk to you soon. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> dirty nasty little boy, and you are a barbarian who needs to be disciplined. >> stephanie: marcus could be the stylist for his own wedding. oh look at this -- >> wheel of right-wing conservatives! >> stephanie: john cornyn's three pensions make for an uncomfortable situation. daily beast asking is this outright hipypocrisyhypocrisy? >> yeah, little bit. >> stephanie: he likes to present himself as a deficit

hawk. and fiscal responsibility is the cornerstone for good governance. so the revelation in the national journal that he is collecting three federal state pensions while receiving a salary as a senator is a bit off message and tad inconvenient. and transvaginal bob another one. he and his wife send employees on ere rabds for their adult children. and charge for a detox cleanse. >> interesting. >> stephanie: they are under fbi and grand jury investigation for allegedly accepting a $15,000 indicatoring payment for their daughter's wedding. oh no. texas governor rick perry, yeah he is taking advantage of a law --

[♪ fun-facts music ♪] >> stephanie: he is taking advantage of a law that permits him to pocket his $92,000 annual early pension while continuing to cash his $150,000 salary checks. he is accepting retirement benefits from a job he has not retired from. [ applause ] >> you would think budget hawks like that would speak up against that sort of poppycock. >> stephanie: right. hey, speaking of -- >> wheel of right-wing hypocrites! ♪ >> stephanie: who brings us this one? gawker? there is a q&a of sean hannity. he wears only the [ censor bleep ] donald trump ties on his show, and he may run for office if that's what jesus has planned for him. can i just say i think that is

not what jesus wants. i think that would make baby jesus cry. playboy, trump was one of the most outspoken critics of obama's birthplace. hannity hannity, he did go to a muslim school. playboy. he did not grow up in kenya. he went to a muslim school in kenyan or wherever -- gawker writes kenyan indonesia what is the difference. for the record president obama lived in indonesia when he was a little boy. he never grew up in kenya. [ buzzer ]

>> what a dope. they pay that guy lots of money. >> lots of money. >> stephanie: some u.s. americans could use some maps. okay. 45 minutes after the hour. right back with the remaining moments of the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, my god this is so amazing! it's all anybody in my class is talking about. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪

>> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv. (vo) next on current tv. vanguard: the documentary series that raised the bar for excellence. >> we dive deep into the topics that we cover. >> telling important stories that need to be told. (vo)and on the next vanguard: >> one of the things that we seek for, is to die as a martyr. (vo) what drove a small town kid to the arms of radical islam? >> it was so preposterous. if you would ever know a person that would become an international terrorist. >> when you see him you don't see the terrorist. you're like,

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>> it's more like 6:00 to 9:00. >> 9:00 to 5:00. >> stephanie: good god. tomorrow is the last day before vacation, and it is going to be weird. >> and there will be some go goes. >> go goes? >> stephanie: oh that's right. wix.com, a simple way to get a professional-looking website. empower your business right now with a complete online stunning presence. are you ready, chris? >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: it's free. >> no way! >> stephanie: way. way. way. completely free and requires no design skills. hosting is included. it's all inclusive.

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beach he wasn't supposed to. >> stephanie: yeah, he had that on him here it is. he said he is being spat upon and hunted by psycho paths ever since he got married. my wife and i should be happy, instead we're getting spat upon by complete strangers. there are crazy people on facebook -- maybe you shouldn't have invented it if you didn't want crazy people on facebook. >> i think he funded it. >> stephanie: whatever. he said there are crazy people typing death threats, psycho paths are hunting me. >> okay. >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying. facebook -- because it was an environmental thing he did. >> he put a lot of stuff on the beach he wasn't supposed to.

>> stephanie: right. serena williams, huh oh. >> this was at little bad. >> stephanie: oh dear. she was talking about the subenville rape trial, she said when you start a sentence with i'm not blaming the girl, but -- she said they did something stupid and i'm not blaming the girl, but -- but if you are a 16 year old and you are drunk like that. she is 16. why is she drunk where she couldn't remember. maybe she wasn't a virgin but she shouldn't have put herself in that position unless they slipped her something then that's different. oh, dear. perhaps some people should stick to tennis. >> she has since apologized. >> stephanie: yes.

seth rogan -- can i have my marijuana music please. seth rogan says he is one of the very few celebrities who will open admit to smoking marijuana cigarette. he said he is a self confessed stoner, and there are other actors who use weed but are afraid to admit that they do. he said it shouldn't be illegal by any means. and i get why that's fascinating to people. marijuana moms it's a thing now jim. >> uh-huh. >> marijuana moms say smoking weeds makes them better parents. there's a buzz happening in beverly hills over a group of women who call themselves marijuana moms. they meet regularly for lavish

dinners where the herring is a key ingredient. she says the joint mission -- >> joint mission. does that mean they do macro may. >> stephanie: the mission is to show that smoking marijuana makes them better parents. january tokes not only up to five times a day, but she reads her child books like mommy's funny medicine. marijuana makes me a better and more creative parent. another one of his really stoned housewives of beverly hills credits gonja to saving her marriage to her husband who happens to be a cock.

she says mirn parents are far less impact than parents who use alcohol regularly. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: now you are barking up my tree. >> sergeant schultz. >> i didn't watch hogan's heros. >> what! [♪ dramatic music ♪] >> stephanie: speaking of the military, james toranto wrote that the campaign against sexual assault in the military has turned into a war on men that aims to criminalize male sexuality. >> if it's unwanted then it is criminal -- >> if you are raping somebody -- >> stephanie: right. >> how -- [ sighs ] >> stephanie: yeah. >> i don't like him. >> stephanie: i don't either. >> he makes me wrinkle my nose.

>> stephanie: here is my favorite excuse for a speeder, driver going 112 miles an hour i was drying my car. that's what the canadian told the mounties when they pulled him over. wow, the mounties are a lot faster than i used to be. >> they are not on horses anymore. >> stephanie: oh right. last day before vacation tomorrow, you don't want to miss it. >> it is going to be weird. >> stephanie: and friday fwrooid. we will see you then on the "stephanie miller show."

>> i'm jacki schechner. it's noon eastern, and here's what's current. last week there was a shot taken at joe man chin. >> as your senator, i'll protect our second amendment rights. >> that was joe manchin's commitment. but now he is working with president obama and new york mayor michael bloomberg. concerned? you should be. >> and now he is firing back. >> i won't walk lock and step with this administration or any special interest group. west virginia you know me.