republicans put together a plan to destroy the obama presidency literally on the day it began as draper notes in his new book do not ask us what good we do inside the u.s. house of representatives quote the dinner lasted nearly four hours they parted company almost giddily the republicans had agreed on a way forward show united an unyielding opposition to all the president's economic policies begin attacking vulnerable democrats on the airwaves when the spear point of the house of representatives in two thousand and ten jab obama relentlessly in two thousand and eleven when the white house in the senate in two thousand and twelve. was there so too were most of the prominent republican members of congress including representatives eric cantor paul ryan and kevin mccarthy senators jon kyl jim de mint and tom coburn and frank luntz republican pollster and fox news employee was there as well they all sat around a square table perhaps that very one. and at the end of the obama at this was on the end of the and planning the end of the obama presidency on january twentieth two thousand and nin

draper? this is an unbelievable part." i went in to read, and they were very serious, and date were there, matt and others, but and you could tell, let's not screw around here. let's get going. and then i did my thing, and they gave me some notes, and i did it again. and then i was wondering why they kept having me do it. and then they said, "ok, here is the deal. we have that guy already." but i got it. there were only a couple of scenes in the pilot, so they assumed i would not come in and read for it, and they wanted me to. they certainly do have that guy. it was humbling actually. when i saw him. i am so not that guy, and i will never be him. and then matt said, "listen, i promise you," and i was a huge fan of "the sopranos," and he said, "this will be great," and it was. tavis: so we know what matt was doing prior to "mad men," but what were you doing? what was life like for you as an actor? where were you before? >> i was doing some theater. i was doing some television with varying degrees of success. i did some movi

i was listening to your show today regarding the robert draper book and. it's just so hopeless because of the citizens united money that can be dumped and this kind of thinking how do we get out from this i know voting is the thing but that didn't work in california r.j. van also came in two weeks before come fifty grand fifty million and kind the tide seems pretty hopeless thanks for your good help tom by. well i would give you two names meg whitman and carly fiorina and meg whitman is a billionaire carly fiorina here in a multimillionaire they ran for governor and senator from california respectively using their own millions while only outspent their opponents and they both lost now it may be that they're the exception that proves the rule i mean there's no disputing the fact that the supreme court has basically turn america into a banana republic when it comes to politics and you know whoever's got the most money and whoever's willing to be the most corrupt and frankly tell a biggest lies sometimes will win but i still have a lot of hope that america wi

coming up, paul ryan does his best don draper. next in what now.you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? >>> welcome back. time for what now? paul ryan headlined a mad men-themed gala hosted by the competitive enterprise institute. a free market think tank. which character do you think paul ryan most identifies with? >> he associates with the word mad. why do a thing like this. why have costumes. i don't know if i realized it's undignified or sad. the comparison will never step up and maybe if you are a bobbiyists and think of something glamorous the way you make and give money. they are just giving money. they will write the checks anyway. >> you are clearly not a fan of don draper. >> i am, i just don't want to watch it. >> i prefer to drink the martinas. mrs. obama got laughs last night doing a gardening-themed top ten list on the late show with david lette

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in draper, utah, a new high school is opening next and students were asked to choose a mascot.uture students took a vote and they decided they wanted to be the cougars. that's when the claws came out. the school district superintendent said he got a lot of e-mails and phone calls from parents with varied complaints about the new mascot including, quote, many have also commented on the negative double entendre of the word cougar. the negative double entendre of the word cougar. i take it they're not talking about john cougar melon camp. do you even know what jack and diane is? you don't know anything. they don't teach you anything these days. this is a little ditty about parents getting freaked out about their kids going to a high school where the mascot is a cougar, because it also happens to be a slang term for an older woman dating a younger man. the parents are not thinking about this kind of cougar but this kind of cougar. >> hi, i'm tony and welcome to the cougar den. i treated myself to a jonas brothers concert. >> you deserve it, tony. >> i was thrown out. >> tony? >> wh

the bay area and make the best cars in the world >> one of those customers taking delivery is tim draper >> one thing that we be very different is as i by, drive by the gas station and i waved. i will never see another gas station with that car. >> this is what the back parking lot of that tesla plant looks like. employees are celebrating their future. currently has 2000 employees in all, 800 of them here in fremont. you hear what government, governor brown says about this coming up at 6:00. >> ken bastida is in san francisco where in the city is gearing up for a gay pride weekend >> we are out here on market street staking out our spot for the 42nd annual san francisco pride celebration and parade. they are expecting 1 million people to visit the city this weekend. 200 parade contingents, 300 exhibitors, this is the largest gathering in the country. the executive director says is all started because of a police raid at the stonewall inn in greenwich village n.y. back in 1969 >> at the stonewall inn which was a bar in greenwich village, when police came in and were doing rates that were

draper wrote about the night of the inauguration. there was a meeting at a hotel into are the inaugural ball. about a mile away. in which that night, there was a group of republicans, you among them, that was committed to the defeat of president obama. this is before any of this. he writes about that night the plan was to show united and unyielding opposition to the president's economic policies. attacking vulnerable democrats on the airwaves. when the spear point of the house in 2010, jabbed obama marine leaptlessly, win the white house and senate. draper writes you told a group, you, newt gingrich, you will remember this day, you will remember this day the seeds of 2012 were sown. you said he hasn't done anything. if there was a commitment from day one before he ever took a seat behind the desk of the oval office, that everyone was going to obstruct him, then what he has done has been almost unbelievable against those kind of odds, speaker gingrich. >> there are three different things in this, al. reverend sharpton. if we are going

i wonder what don draper of "mad men" would say about car sharing. he would say "no way. c-- "no way." >> we are going to break out. this is a huge space. we're covering cars, people, entrepreneurship. it is breaking into meaningful pieces. then having working groups around the smaller pieces, car sharing, parking, entrepreneurship, then inviting you and the companies to understand the challenges we face and how we should manage -- modernize our regulatory system to reflect this greatness that is happening. >> i get e-mails about people wanting to be on the working group. >> i wish i had an answer. i think we need to get more -- we just announced it last week. it will take some time. " you could always do a rock launch page. molly, let's chat with you. there was a city hearing about applying hotel tax to your rentals. tell us about what happened. >> last wednesday, the tax collector called a hearing to discuss the applicability of the transient occupancy tax to short-term rentals and operators. we were concerned about this tax and its applicability to airbnb and our commu

robert draper has a book called do not ask what good we do. he talks about a meeting that happened immediately after president obama's inauguration where the republicans said: >> that's really interesting. not to the president politically, but to his economic policies so that they don't work so that we can damage him so we can rewin the white house. but there's a problem in that. that means that you're going to hurt the country for four straight years. tom heartman came out on that his program and had very strong words. >> this was not the president's idea. it's the austerity program that the men who were in that meeting have forced us all into so they can crash the economy or at least keep it back. the question is what do you call it when a small group of republicans gather to sabotage an entire nation just so their party can win political power off the pain of americans? is it treason, or the most corrupt evil and petty politics seen since newt gingrich? >> i like tom hartman a lot but treason is a very strong word. does it go too far? >> i

. >> reporter: when her bosses first pulled these mid century draper looms out of storage, 77-year-olded brolen thought it was a fad. but ten years later the machines are still running and so is bolen. >> my daughter said mamma, you made out of better stuff than i am. >> reporter: it's that better stuff that keeps it this 107-year-old plant in business. >> you can see that it's an authentic fabric made on an old machine. >> it is, however, a struggle. manager brad johnson oversees about 200 employees now, down from nearly 3,000 in the 1970s. >> we've got to continue to adapt, continue to perform in order for to us maintain our presence in the u.s. and textile industry. >> reporter: part of the larger trend that has seen the u.s. lose almost 70% of its textile manufacturing jobs it in the past 20 years. >> we have downsized on more than one occasion but you never get used to it. >> reporter: stael vincent is director of human resource and second generation employee. >> a lot of people have come through this plant, had their families, built homes and provide an excellent source of income

to fill the position and hopefully they can they can do the job and draper and save each is another doubt after he was taken to hospital with a spine injury earlier this week but despite these problems the team speirs a high and everybody feels passionate to fulfill the task and book a place for london games it's great you know people happy to be here you know it's been a training camp so we're excited will still for us i guess you could say just excited to go to them so precious for. opponents in qualification will be south korea followed by the dominican republic while the final game so scheduled for july of zero eight and with the women's team already qualified for the olympics the man who will certainly try to do their best to make them. or see moscow. as your sport for this our poll scott is here in just under two hours time with more but not here in twenty four are t. it is the world weather. president vladimir putin brushes off the notion of military intervention in syria saying the u.n. peace plan is the only way forward comments made during a european tour of which he meant the l

to fill the position and hopefully they can they can do the job and draper and save each is another day after he was taken to hospital with a spine injury earlier this week but despite these problems the team spears a high and everybody feels passionate to fulfill the task and book a place for london games is great you know people are happy to be here you know some. training camp so we're excited will still for us i guess you could say i'm just excited to go to them so russia's first opponents in qualification will be south korea followed by the dominican republic while the final games for july of zero eight and with the women's team already qualified for the olympics the man will certainly try to do their best to make them. party mosco. a busy sporting summer awaits all rhonda not your sport whether it's next. led mission free liquid intake should free transport chargers free. range month three. free studio time free pearl jam mold free blog video for your media projects a free media.

now contrast that with what we now know from another brook, robert drapers about the meeting that took place with top republican leaders on inaugural eve in 2009, a president who came in with a 70% approval rating in the worst economy since the great depression, vote against everything and make the victories look so ugly it will delegitimize it all. i think that's a difference and you look at things like blocking nominations that are widely acceptable because you don't want bills to be implemented, that's a difference. now let me address for just a second the argument that you made to our colleague peter w walhisson made tom and i lost our marbles and how could it be extreme if it continues to win elections? let's think of some examples in history of parties that were very extreme and won elections. peter is old enough to remember the 1930s. in fact he's very, very old. [ laughter ] he's perhaps our oldest colleague, but i could give you some examples from the '30s. parties win elections when people are unhappy. in our system, especially, elections get won and lost far more often becau

. >> silicon valley venture capitolist tim draper was here to take delivery for model 7. >> it's smooth as silk. smoothest car i've ever driven n i don't think there is anything like it on the road. >> there is plenty of enthusiasm. and there but what about the average car buyer? >> this sort of relegates a car like the tesla or other fully-electric cars to second or third car status in the household. >> range anxiety, the release are upgrades to signature series with a range of 300 miles, research continue was material that's could extend range in time. i asked if tesla is a car company or a tech company. he said tesla has investors and this will help spread electric car technology. >> we have, i think great investors and supporters and i think it's unlikely to be acquired. >> the cars found themselves on the test track. just watch that car go. and the extended car that you saw has a price tag of $88,000. regular model, $50,000 after rebates. you heard him say there are hundreds of workers but we checked with the job centers and they say the number is cleser to 20 or 25. what is fe. fo

we learned this week when roberts what's his name robert draper's new book came out that on an auger all day january twentieth two thousand. the two thousand and nine yeah that fourteen republicans met and and including eric cantor and they and five senators and they agreed that they would block everything that obama was going to try and do as a way of crashing his presidency and mitch mcconnell basically announced that the next day or cantor bragged about it one of them talked about how we were going to become the taliban with regard to obama and this is. the news. obama now mitt romney in response to what obama just said is is saying well here's what mitt romney has. he wants to add more to government he wants to know the stimulus he wants to hire more government workers he says we need more firemen more policemen more teachers did do you not get the message of wisconsin the american people did congress to. help the american people so we need fewer teachers fewer firemen fira police officers this is the campaign the mitt romney is going to win on adam well let's just address exactl

and one of the things that happened on january 20th, 2009, as pointed out in martha draper's book which was discussed her recently was the famous dinner -- >> that's right. >> which you know and have written about put together with eric cantor and other people but not john baner in which the group -- john boehner in which the group really came together to be the disloyal opposition and to make sure that nothing happened constructive in the obama administration particularly domestically. if president obama is reelected and the house remains republican and the senate stays democratic, um, what are the chances of creating majorities to get something done domestically? >> limited. [laughter] which is in part why presidents in a second term often turn to foreign policy, although i think this president has been remarkably successful in foreign policy in his first term. bill galston at brookings said every day the romney campaign talks about foreign policy is a wasted day. but i think you have to wait and see what the results of the election are. even if the republicans maintain their hold on

behind the wheel, jim draper.-year wait. >> i put my check down the first i heard about it. i've been waiting quite a while. >> i am feeding money into an oil machine but it's really exciting to switch everything over to electricity. >> he collected his new car, one of the first ten to roll out of tesla planted. for the people that built the machines, it's the latest step in a larger vision. >>. >> these new cars are the first of 5,000 teslas they plan on delivering. goal next year is 20,000. hope for this plant is employ more when it closed down in 2010. this is luxury car and priced out of the mass zblashlgt we have a few traditions but if we get a little more money the price comes down, you can be sure this will be the fleet in california. >> as me roll out plans are already in the works for the next generation tesla. >> after tax rebates of around 50-k and try to get it under 30-k. >> they didn't have the specific number of employees who were retired when tesla reopened but they do say when work lets up they p

. >> one of those customers is tim draper >> one thing that will be very different is when i drive by the gas station and wave. i will never see another gas station with that car. >> the model s is being manufactured at the former plant that was purchased by tesla in may of 2010. with the economic shape the state is in at the moment having any manufacturing is a big step >> it is a seed that will grow, it is beginning but it is very bold and it represents the future. a lot of states are living in the past and california is building for the future so i think we owe a debt of gratitude to tesla >> the celebration is continuing, bar-b-q companies are here and employees are celebrating their future. tesla has about 2000 employees, about 800 of them here and the ceo of the company says he has nothing but growth plans here in the bay area and in california, hiring more people in the years ahead. >> they're kind of creepy looking and boring but that is a cool looking car. it is very stylish >> obviously it is a very partial crowd here today. the ceo says is one of the best looking vehicles h

we get this out of draper's book. right on this program newt gingrich admitted to me there was a meeting that night that he participated in and some of the language that was discussed. he admitted that here on "politicsnation." >> reverend al, it's a serious charge to say the republican leadership wants the economy to do badly in order to win an election, but their actions say that very clearly. there is nothing this president has tried to do to bring about job creation that they've been willing to cooperate to work with them and achieve. that's the fact. and i'm convinced that between now and the election we're going to see more of this obstruction and this unwillingness to cooperate. the president to his great credit has reached out. he's made suggestions. he's proposed solutions. he has a jobs plan that they will not move forward. and so very soon in just a few months, the american people will have a chance to bring an end to this kind of unacceptable gridlock. and they will have a chance to say they want actions,

but then came the book from robert draper, detailing how the effort to block obama began on the very night of his inauguration with a bevy of lawmakers. but wait, republicans cry foul. they say it's only their principled differences that led them to vote against the president again and again. but here's the catch -- when republicans vote against their own ideas, you know something stinks. when they were for it before they were against it. the republican party used to support infrastructure spending but not when president obama asks for it. more on that in a moment. republicans used to allow deficit spending to get us out of recessions. they did it under their hero ronald reagan. under president george w. bush alone, they allowed massive tax cuts toward medicare part d, all unpaid for, all of those items ballooning the deficit. before president obama, republicans rarely voiced opposition to the federal reserve using monetary policy to help the economy. under president obama, the federal reserve chief ben bernanke is called every name in the book. but you know republicans are trying to

. >> this summer i want to read the book, do not ask what did we do which is by robert draper.side look at the way he manages tea party freshman in congress. there are some great lines that i've heard and read in the book that showed just how crazy it can get in there with some of these freshmen who are put in by the tea party who arguably are controlling the way that the house is running. even though they are freshmen. there is one line i have right here. apparently in a meeting, in his conference, boehner told people, yet you're asked in line and i think this is how congress has been so polarizing and a book like this would be great for summer reading just to kick back and figure out some of the dramas that are actually going on behind the scenes as we watch nothing happened. another book i would like to read is called love is a mixed tape. it is written by someone who worked for "rolling stone" but it's a personal story about how he fell in love with someone and also fell in love with him. they were very unlikely pair. and from what i understand, she died and he was devastat

and i think the downfall of kodak was after draper left the camp because the carousel campaign was fantasticuld never have lost that account, but they lost lucky strike, too. let's go to dan in california. >> caller: hello, oh, hi, jim. this is dan from north hollywood, california. h . >> how are you? >> caller: oh, pretty good. i've been trying to get in with the brown shoe company. i was in business with it for many year. i'd like to know is it now the chance to buy from them? >> i got no real catalyst there. and we know that the shoe bull market has been bifurcated. decker's, the brown shoe has been tough to figure. wolverine is still doing well, nike's doing well. those are the two that i'm going to stick by, particularly nike. all right. nw? let's just say it wore out and i am owning it. it was up to me to get this right. and i didn't take into account the big macro factors that were obvious to everyone. my bad. after the break, i'll try to make you -- i'll save you a little money. stay with cramer. er. if you made a list of countries from around the world... ...with the best math score

. >> meanwhile, in the visitors' room deep in a prison in draper, utah, we sat down for a chat with theowens. you killed her. >> yeah. but he's the one who wanted her dead. i know. i don't have any proof of that, you know, but if i'm going to go down, why not take the other person involved, you know? >> whether he was actually involved or not -- >> if he wasn't involved, i wouldn't say this. like i said, that's what he wanted me to do. he wanted me to kill her for half the insurance money. >> and then the story gets a little convoluted. did he ever pay you any money? >> nope. i wouldn't have taken it. wasn't the idea. i had no plans of killing her. none. none at all. >> when we were out drinking, he would bring it up, you know. i never really thought anything of it, you know, drinking and whatnot. people get saying stupid crap. i said, yeah, yeah, no problem, we can take care of it, you know. and didn't figure anything would ever come of it. then this night when i come in, he was mad, you know, upset at her and what not and he wanted her killed that night. so when i left there, when i s