mr. ahmadinejad did against the u.s. people? nothing. he has done nothing against the american people. many americans, however, have been poisoned by the mainstream media. and they repeat, he is the devil, they now consider that chavis is ami. that fidel is an enemy, that ahmadinejad is an enemy. what did he do against the american people? nothing, nothing wrong. however, americans and the u.s. government have done a lot of fraud against the cuban people. tavis: what ever one thinks about chavez, nelson remember him giving ted koppel the business. he said you do not tell us who our friends are. we make those decisions. it is ok for nelson mandela, why is it not ok for hugo chavez to decide who is friends were? he did do things his own way, yes? >> there's no question about it. he has the charisma and he had the money to do that. money is important to understanding hugo chavez and he had the best aid program, cooperation program in venezuela. 19 countries get subsidized oil. they are grateful to him. he was generous -- a generous benefactor, the most generous benefactor that latin ameri

mr. ahmadinejad and the clerics back home. maybe he was caught in the clasp of a grieving mother, could do nothing about it. but this horrible attempt by his supporters to cover up the evidence of what happened and replace that nice lady with that man, this failing so spectacularly is a good thing for the world because when people lie and makeup stuff for political reasons get caught and become an international laughing stock, photo shopping does not advance you politically and instead makes you look ridiculous. then honestly, a small blow has been landed for truth, justice and the undoctored verifiable record of actual events. so to be really atroesh usually bad, iranian photo shopped doctors, i proclaim you the next thing, i want you to leave the first lady's sleeves alone. "first look" is up next. >> good wednesday morning. right now, the cardinals are meeting this very minute preparing a second vote on who lead the catholic church while 7,000 miles away, the roman catholic archdiocese in los angeles gets ready to shell out

mr. ahmadinejad and the clerics back home. maybe he was caught in the clasp of a grieving mother, could do nothing about it. but this horrible attempt by his supporters to cover up the evidence of what happened and replace that nice lady with that man, this failing so spectacularly is a good thing for the world because when people lie and makeup stuff for political reasons get caught and become an international laughing stock, photoshopping does not advance you politically and instead makes you look ridiculous. the past. >> like the 2012 election didn't happen. >> the election didn't go our way, that means we surrender principles? >> the plan assumes repeal of the president's health care law. >> something we're not giving up on. >> same old stuff. >> we're not giving up on destroying the health care system for the american people. >> what? >> we are not giving up o n destroying the health care system for the american people. >> we don't like this law. >> somehow magically maintains savings of obama care. >> please explain that

mr. ahmadinejad and the clerics back home. maybe he was caught in the clasp of a grieving mother, could do nothing about it. but this horrible attempt by his supporters to cover up the evidence of what happened and replace that nice lady with that man, this failing so spectacularly is a good thing for the world because when people lie and makeup stuff for political reasons get caught and become an international laughing stock, photo shopping does not advance you politically and instead makes you look ridiculous. then honestly, a small blow has been landed for truth, justice and the undoctored verifiable record of actual events. so to be really atroesh usually bad, iranian photo shopped doctors, i proclaim you the next thing, i want you to leave the first lady's sleeves alone. >>> time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." thanks for being with us. have a good one. >>> the most recent losing vice presidential candidate who will never be president has discovered it is hard out there for a budget hustler. >> house budget c

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ahmadinejad. what is your reaction? >> the ads are absurd and offensive. you are quoting a man who is a holocaust denier. he is not an american muslim. mrs.er has a track record of vilifying the muslim community and her most recent homophobic ads who are not only offensive to the muslim american community. >> this is not the first time ads have gone up. you know the similar ads in new york. your organization successfully sued the agency that tried to ban the ads. san francisco's transit authority is in the same boat. listen. >> this is again what we see. ad attacks and defamation against me. you have the prime minister of turkey saying the muslims are our soldiers. the quotes i am using are quotes from the leader of the phmuslim brotherhood in egypt. my calling attention to this makes me homophobic. not calling attention to the polite of gays under the sharia is -- we don't hear this at all. it's interesting and it speaks volumes to the motive -- >> i will say there has been plenty of condemnation of mahmoud ahmadinejad and for statements he said about homosexuals and homosexually, and many condemnation of him and others. there has been p

mr. danger out of nowhere. >> there's this counter agemini that chavez said he was building, very close to fidel castro, and more problematically from where -- close to ahmadinejadpictures of him holding the hand of gadhafi, he was had relationship with those in the arab spring, and it also seems like what -- does anything outlive chavez in terms to creating counterhagemini. >> the prime minister of brazil had an astonishing op-ed who said one of the major legacies of chavez was precisely to give impetus to give those known as the good left in the region. in terms of the relationship with these unsavory characters, and it's not just real politic, it's actual interest. the thing they have in common is they are all part of opec, right? and so, you know, in terms of this broader project of trying to give new teeth to opec, especially after the 1990s period of low oil prices, a lot of violations, et cetera, et cetera, this was a part of that policy. >> and also in terms of interest, right? the oil venezuela sold to the u.s. never stopped, right? no matter what he said -- >> stopped one time and stopped during the oil strike. >> right, right. but under chavez. >> i m

ahmadinejad is hitler. and we should, essentially, support preemptive war against iran. rand paul's big moment, 12 hours 51 minutes worth. why he and rubio stand above the crowd. and laura ingraham, mrpresident, it's not food poisoning. give me a break. >> wait a minute, there's nothing against grandstanding. barack obama does it. every politician does it. there's nothing wrong with it but what we've been trying to do for five years, at least, at the aclu, is to get the government to release the olc memos to tell us what the rationale is for targeting an american citizen. and his 16-year-old son. who was killed. who is not accused of any wrongdoing. what are the internal checks and balances. what is the policy based on. >> sure. and i'm supportive of that throughout. >> i know. but if rand paul didn't have that filibuster, we wouldn't be here having this conversation. >> first of all -- factually, i don't think that's true in so far as, the agreement came from d.o.j. to let the members of the senate intelligence committee see the memos heretofore released. that happened before the rand paul filibuster. zbrp b >> i know. but i'm saying the public awareness of that would not exist. >>