bill maher made a one-time donation to president obama's super pac. he doesn't campaign for obama on his weekly hbo show. donald trump, on the other hand, has held press conferences to officially endorse mitt romney. he actively is campaigning on tv for mitt romney. he's hosting fund-raisers for mitt romney. he's robo calling voters for mitt romney. the list goes on and on. and yet romney won't stand up to the guy and show true leadership because he believes it's a sign of weakness. i'm joined tonight by msnbc political analyst krystal ball, new york one host errol lewis, and political commentator, abby huntsman. great to have you with us tonight. let's talking with krystal, about this bill maher/donald trump. is this a false equivalentsy? >> of course it is. and it's the same thing that they tried to pull when rush limbaugh came out and calmed sandra fluke a prostitute, they said, what about bill maher? as you pointed out, there is no comparison. and one thing you didn't mention is the difference between intentional comedy and unintentional comedy. d

let's start with bill maher. he has done it repeatedly.e presidential candidate sarah palin, attacked her children, attacked santorum's children, now attacking the children again. president said families are off-limits. do you remember the president saying this in 2008. this is what he said, don't attack the kids. >> i've heard some of the news on this and let me be as clear as possible. i have said before and i will repeat again, i think people's families are off-limits. people's children are especially off-limits. this shouldn't be part of our policy. it has no relevance to governor palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. so i would strongly urge people that to back off these kinds of stories. i hope that anybody who supporting me understands that is off-limits. >> sean: off-limits. isn't it time for have a moment and give the million dollars back to maher and ask his super pac to give it back. that is a yes or no question? >> no. he should repudiate. >> sean: he can take his money? >> but he s

bill maher has a political commentary show. almost 00% of bill maher's show is about politics.that off as politics any more than you could say, sean, i am a comedian. >> sean: rush limbaugh is funny. part of talk radio you have to be entertaining. serious commentary. >> but that wouldn't work for him. he wouldn't be able to use that as an excuse the same way that bill maher. >> sean: do we really believe that? no, he was making a point. he said for years he uses absurdity to illustrate the absurd. >> they get paid to make those points. a good point earlier is that it it is funny until it is not. they will say what they are going to do and i think their audience is going to make up their own mind. i think people do find jon stewart humorous at times but you will find people that think he crossed the line. >> the fact that he is say it and it is a free country is important. just like gay marriage thing with obama. it should be okay that we have those beliefs. >> sean: what about cher's comments about racist, homophobic. isn't this the origins starting from the white house with th

that was the question bill maher asked.nyone get a tax break for giving money to a house of worship. take a look. >> the real issue is when mitt romney gets a deduction for giving to charity, the rest of us taxpayers have to cover the loss. charitable deductions reduce coffers by $60 billion. it is fair to ask what should constitute a charity. i'm not saying the mormon church doesn't do some good things. they provide food during famines and wheelchairs for the lame. that's not their main concern, which is like any business growing the business. real charities only care about the charity. this is the hollywood sunset free clinic which provides health care to poor children. not much to look at. this is the mormon temple in san diego. either that or super man's fortress of sal solitude. >> i was there on friday night. we discussed topics. what really got me going was the republican argument that president obama is some kind of a left-wing radical extremist. >> this republican party is totally off the map compared to what ronal

you've not seen president obama appearing with bill maher. love the way the right tries to do the on the right hand, on the one hand. mitt romney is putting his brand on the line to stand next to donald trump. donald trump hosts a reality show. there's nothing about him that is serious that a politician should want to stand anywhere. >> president obama appeared with sean penn and lady gaga. >> last time i checked sean penn was doing charity in haiti. >> he's questioned president bush's involvement. >> sorry. michael, that's a completely false equivalency. >> jim, let me get you in here. does this turn off the page independent voters? >> the thing i have a problem with is not only will mitt romney not stand up to donald trump, but he wouldn't stand up to rush limbaugh when he made those disgraceful comments about sandra fluke which was a insult to every woman. >> this is pattern? >> he's got to stand up and lead. i think that includes rejecting this kind of stuff whether it's the birther stuff or the anti-women stuff. the ad that was going to

spoke about elevating the discourse and being civil and all this and it would be good to say to bill maherlike that let's have a civil discussion. >> sean: bill hammer, al sharpton. spike lee. >> the president president of the united states could come in and try to riel visit it. >> sean: he is not going to do it. >> don't forget the war on fox news. >> sean: the war on me. >> the way we going to win this is by focusing on the economy and obama's record. when throws the distractions and we are sitting here talking about hillary rosen who is a fine single mom, the situation is a real distraction. >> sean: you have got to respond but i agree the e >> good morning, everyone. it's saturday may 12th. i'm alisyn camerota. here is what is happening at this hour. president obama cashing in on same sex marriage stance. scheduling more celebrity fundraisers and even launching a line of merchandise on his campaign web site. so one ofhe

spoke about elevating the discourse and being civil and all this and it would be good to say to bill maherlike that let's have a civil discussion. >> sean: bill hammer, al sharpton. spike lee. >> the president president of the united states could come in and try to riel visit it. >> sean: he is not going to do it. >> don't forget the war on fox news. >> sean: the war on me. >> the way we going to win this is by focusing on the economy and obama's record. when throws the distractions and we are sitting here tki

spoke about elevating the discourse and being civil and all this and it would be good to say to bill maherve a civil discussion. >> sean: bill hammer, al sharpton. spike lee. >> the president president of the united states could come in and try to riel visit it. >> sean: he is not going to do it. >> don't forget the war on fox news. >> sean: the war on me. >> the way we going to win this is by focusing on the economy and obama's record. when throws the distractions and we are sitting her

spoke about elevating the discourse and being civil and all this and it would be good to say to bill maherve a civil discussion. >> sean: bill hammer, al sharpton. spike lee. >> the president president of the united states could come in and try to riel visit it. >> sean: he is not going to do it. >> don't forget the war on fox news. >> sean: the war on me. >> the way we going to win this is by focusing on the economy and obama's record. when throws the distractions and we are sitting here talng about hillary rosen who is a fine single mom, the situation is a real distraction. >> sean: you have got to respond but i agree the is the number one issue. guys great to see you. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> what a bomb shell about president bill clinton and secretary of state hillary clinton. did president clinton urge his wife to quit her job now and run against president obama this november? plus, is the obama campaign using threats

war on women and then becomes about bill maher.ing. >> shay musshamus the dog and e ate dog. >> sean: dog was a little tough. grasshoppers are crunchy. >> it all backfires but this is even worse. pushed around a woman in the book. i'm shocked. >> i think what he did on the coming out with the gay marriage acceptance i think he did this because you guys tonight as we are sit here there is a george clooney fundraiser and he will have a very liberal audience at the fundraiser. does he want to phase the liberal audience when has to fess up to the fact that joe biden has come out king gaffe and says i support this and barack obama is like you know what, i do, too. >> sean: obviously this was coordinated with the washington post. they are taking dictation and it backfires. as he points out even the dog story in the kennel backfires. >> i think it is important to note when was in high school he was in in a daze and drinking heavily and now the country is in a daze and most people are drinking heavily. >> a hangover right now. >> sean: all

do you think that president obama would do an event with bill maher? >> bob: no. not sure that he is reflective of american because we don't have four cars and elevators in our garage. >> brian: we want it. >> bob: but we predicted romney early on, on the show. a lot of reasons for that. one, running before is a big advantage. he learned from that run. he had a weak field against him. despite they were nasty toward him, he handled it well. he didn't lose step. he did well in the debates and he learned a lot about the debates. on top of that, he had a message on jobs that fit in the environment he is in. romney was the right choice for the republicans at the right time, right place with experience. now he is up against a pro, not against the ron paul and gingrich and other folks. what you said about romney he is engaging right away. he doesn't let obama get away with saying anything. obama does the same with him. i will be a slugfest. >> dana: talk about donald trump for another second. he's a lightning rod for attention. george will, columnist, had something to sa

>> sean: bill maher. i am not a fan. do you like bill maher?right there, no. >> sean: he's on conan o'brian last night. let this speak for itself. this is barack obama's million-dollar guy. watch this. >> as far as this bullying, you know, this made me think of the michael jackson situation because, you know, he was accused of being a child molester -- we will never know because he's gone. but even his worst accuser said he never did anything like have sex with him. he was grabby, grabby under the covers, which is terribly wrong. however, when i was 12 years old, i was beat oant playground, like the mitt romney thing, i was held down and somebody punched me in the face while other kids watched. if i could go back to 1968 that experience to being gently masturbated by a pop star... i would do it in a second! >> well, bill -- [bleep]... [laughter] >> the almond brothers. y could go back in time. marvin gay. >> sean: i don't think that's funny. but it does explain a lot about him. that's why he bullies the kids of sarah palin and rick santorum. th

. >> -- supports president obama who received money from bill maher who said very ugly things about women. >> candidates can't control anybody that says something ugly, but when asked about this says, you know, i've got to get to 50.1%. he wasn't talking about donald trump's vote. he was talking about the money that donald trump is going to raise him. >> should the obama, pro-obama super pac return that $1 million that bill maher gave them? >> this was a fund-raiser directly for the romney campaign. >> i know, this is a super pac that's supposedly not affiliated at all, although we know there are individuals who support the super pac are obviously former employees or people very close to -- >> you know, i don't want to find hairs about who said what and that it's worse because what bill maher said about many people has been offensive and i've been on record on that a long time. i don't think this is about returning the money or not returning the money. i think this is about really substantively disavowing where the birther movement comes from and saying to donald trump, stop it. the count

and donald trump, though, is the president is not sharing a stage with bill maher. >> he's taken plentymoney from him which he could turn away if he wanted to. again, you know, this week we're talking about how president obama's hostile to job creators. i think that's an important message to get out. when you look at what he's done over the past four years, whether it be obamacare with his adding extra costs on to businesses so they can't hire employers. whether it be something like solyndra where he's rewarding campaign donors to make -- >> let me ask you this, because on solyndra. you talk about, you say the obama administration's hostile to job creators. at the same time solyndra was a part of a solar energy industry that the administration chose to help invest in. can you be both hostile to business and invest in a potential growing business? >> here's the difference. i'm glad you brought that up. the difference is that president obama thinks that politicians can make a better decision of how to grow our economy than people in the private sector and in the real-world economy. you kn

i mean, why are you demonizing president obama for something for things that bill maher. >> bill: because they don't like him. that's why. they want him out of there. come on, leslie. what are you little bo peep tonight? all right. >> who what wip don't they come out and say we don't like the guy and ann romney would be a better first lady so what if she has a $900 blouse. >> bill: ann romney be a better president than mr. obama. >> bill: get both of you to weigh in on this. this is an article about how children are being mothered in a different way. and obviously you can see the ad. it's very controversial. what do you say michelle? is this acceptable time magazine cover? >> i mean, this is completely disgusting. this woman is exploiting her child for 15 minutes of fame. >> bill: it's a model. it's not a real woman here. this is a model. >> no, it is a mother and that is her son. >> bill: is that right? i didn't know that. is that true? >> she was exploiting. she was on the news today talking about this. she is exploiting her child for 15 minutes of fame. i understand if you want to intr

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