that was acorn.ill: people can make up their own minds at home whether obama and acorn have an association that's worth -- smart enough to do that. but the big story, colmes, is that the right wing media, the conservative media in this country has found a way to marginalize the president of the united states. >> they need to be called out on that if it is unfair. if it's not fair to do it. bill: fair doesn't really cut it it's effective. it's working. >> it's important to point out the other side of the story. he was not community organizer for acorn. he was a community organizer. >> he trained their community organizers. >> that is not accurate according to what has been said. bill: i don't know why you care about this. >> i want the truth out there. let's not unfairly smear somebody. bill: i'm going to go back to my question which is a brilliant one, colmes. >> by your own admission. bill: try consider it the conservative media is winning now. they are damaging the president of the united states by

acorn. acorn. what does it mean to you?when wa few minutes ago, the acorn tax specialist said "don't worry about the illegal aliens that you're bringing into the country and going to have them be prostitutes. call them dependents." she adds the idea "especially if they're under 16." under 16, illegal aliens, 13 of them coming into the united states of america for the sex trade! well, you should get the mother of the year award. the couple made it clear that these girls were going to be prostitutes. this doesn't seem to bother the acorn worker, and neither does the fact that all of this is illegal. watch. >> so you're making money and you're underage, nobody needs to know anyway. >> what do we need to tell the bankers? >> i'm not hearing this, ok, i'm not hearing this. don't give us no information you're not asked. glenn: i don't know about you, but i am hearing this. america, are you hearing this? now, they spent a lot of time making sure that they have the story straight, trying to let the couple know, hey, it's legal. the

for acorn?> frankly, it's not really something i follow closely. i didn't even know that acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money. glenn: he wasn't following it? geez. does the white house not d.v.r. this network snim's just saying you should do that. a special one-hour one on one with the president of the united states right here. well, kind of. he's in the area. i have the questions that he should be asked, but i have to get his answers from, you know, other interviews. his own words, tonight, the president in his own words. but i'm going to ask tough questions. if you believe this country is great but the government is trying to silence dissent, stand up, come on, follow me. well, hello, america. we have so much to cover this week. i'm going to get into indoctrine inflammation this week, and we're -- indoctrination, and we're going to get into all these new special laws they're doing to help the media along. did you hear? we might bail out newspapers. wouldn't that be great? oh! governm

acorn. and from one acorn we know that many nuts can grow. now, as we think about and anticipate the work being done by acorn, we find out, well, they go out and help people to know what their rights are and sign up for different benefits. and as i have seen my good friend from iowa, mr. king, show the photograph he took down in new orleans that had a big 2008 obama sign in there. wait, charitable organizations, they are not supposed to be involved in politics. in fact any other group seems to have the federal government come down rather strongly against them if they start engaging in politics. but apparently that applies to others and not acorn. i'm also amazed, madam speaker, the responses of some within acorn saying you set us up. you came -- yeah, they came in with a camera and began to ask could they get help to set up a prostitution ring for underaged children with illegal immigrants coming in. at some point you would think people of morality, people of ethics who are organizing communities for the good and the upright -- the righteousn

he's the founder of acorn. oh, he's the real brain behind t these two, america, how much more do you need? look at them! they look like they're james bond bad guys. remember, all the james bond movies and that guy is clearly a bad guy? hello! ok. so here we have the pimp and hanna who played the girlfriend, the prostitute. you met them before. now we go into another city. we go into another acorn housing office. this time james and hanna try the other side of the country, san bernadino, california, where they meet theresa. >> do you know anything about acorn? >> yes. >> well, they were non-partisan -- >> well, wait. this has to do with my woman's unique line of work. >> ok. what is it? >> is it striping? >> no, it's not. >> is it exotic dancing? >> it's prostitution. >> oh, ok. >> is that ok? >> it's ok with me. i think it should be totally legalized. >> what what a surprise. this helpful acorn employee is just as inclusive as the others in baltimore, the washington, d.c. office and brooklyn, open-minded, diver

>> they voted to totally defund acorn, to totally ban all federal funds to acorn.s a stunning turnaround. the house leadership didn't have to allow a vote at all. they did it. it was 345-75. in that number, 172 democrats voted to totally defund acorn. now, this is a group that has worked on behalf of democrats for decades, and in the course of a few days, support for acorn across capitol hill has just totally collapsed. glenn: ok. i'm not convinced -- by the way, don't miss tomorrow's show. there's more. i'm not convinced that this is all -- i'm so cynical now for the republicans and democrats. i don't believe any of them. how much of this is actually real? remember, you know this byron, as good as anybody else, as well as anybody else. it's a shell game. acorn could completely shut down and open up as jim's happy nursery rhyme store and it will be the same group of people. how much of this is really real? >> that's true. one senate aide told me today they have tentacles everywhere. you really have to work to do this, but these are real votes. you have 172 democrat

attention acorn. here is one of your low level employees talking about how she killed her husband. >> ex-husband, you know. that just beat hell out of me, you know, a few times and then, you know, i killed him. i didn't think that's a nice thing. >> you killed him emotionally? >> no. i shot him. he came at me and i let him throw me around a little bit. i just sticked up the gun and i [bleep] shot him. he died right there. but before that, i had done some -- laid some groundwork. brian: they did their same act. steve: routine. >> brian: they go in and say i need a house. she is a prostitute. then she used that line where she says i have about a dozen girls ready to come between 12 and 16 from el salvador, that's when she, this woman you just saw springs into action. well, they need a place to stay. gretchen: before she killed her husband allegedly. i think he is still alive in california. steve: barstow. gretchen: a sad back story if she was a victim of domestic violence. a lot of questions here. but,

for instance, acorn. acorn, community action reform now or whatever it is. this thing, all you have to remember is acorn is a seed. don't get discouraged. be patient. stay focused. we have planted the seed and some day that seed will grow into something e enormous, massive, a mighty oak. the apollo alliance. these are the people -- these people are all interchangeable. the apollo alliance where van jones came from, they're the ones who wrote the stimulus package, ok? the apollo alliance is the one that got their name after the apollo moon shots, why? because the apollo moon shot was big, bold and it was fast. once it launched, you're not going to stop it. make you feel better? seiu, i don't have any props or anything. seiu is just -- i thought about bringing in a baseball bat, what are you talking about, you know what i'm saying? they are the union involved. they don't really need a fancy name. i'm just saying. the president sees these groups as a vehicle to achieve his goals. that's why he has surrounded himself with them. now, what are his goals? i think t

and it seems to me as we go acorn office to acorn office. they seem to be experts at facilitating crime. and they -- their knowledge of that crime and helping bring the underclass, you know, to -- how to work the system as best as they can. sean: so, in other words, when you go to baltimore and d.c. and new york and san bernardino and san diego and this all happened, were there any cities you went to where you just didn't get any videotape, not worthy to air? >> we are airing it. it's pretty worthy. sean: you didn't go into one office and they said we are not going to help you do anything like that? >> no. sean: every place you went they thend you or were willing to help you either not report you for an underaged prostitution ring, evade taxes as we have -- >> -- right. it is interesting. there is no place has acorn tried a state kicked them out based upon the premise that they were doing something nefarious. sean: let's go through this whole thing. what we just showed our viewers. and we saw this in other cities, perhaps not as even blatant

[chanting] >> we are acorn. mighty, mighty acorn. bill: the "the washington post" reporting a massive fraud, acorn diverting tax dollars for political purposes. geraldo has been investigating. >> chanting. >> thousands of muslims gather to pray in washington even as more muslim-generated terror plots are uncovered in the u.s.a. we will have the very latest. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. iran's lies exposed, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as the factor has been reporting all week iran's nuclear weapons program has now reached critical mass and worldwide conflict is very possible. today president obama, british prime minister brown and sarkozy revealed a secret weapons facility located inside iran. that violates every u.n. mandate and proves the mullahs have been lying for years. >> iran i

to do with president obama than with acorn, itself.ean? >> well, here's what i think. i think that the president then senator candidate obama received most garishly positive effusively praising coverage of any candidate i've ever seen for any office from outlets like "the times" and "the post." it was astonishing. so in this environment in which they were pushing so hard for president obama not just during the primary but during the general election, in both halves of the contest last year, you go through this phase bringing up problems with a community organizing a group that had, to which senator obama had connections in the past, doing legal work for them, and that was found to have colluded or tried to with elements of the obama campaign to try to get him elected. that was a story that would have brought a very negative look to what senator obama -- to his campaign. i think that's a big part of the reason why they suppressed that story and didn't want to talk about it at the time when they should have when the voter fraud was going

acorn calls them a smear. you hear from activist behind the undercover investigation you are seeing on tape. the girl who played the prostitute and the film-maker they both join us next. egúx he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody. - phew! - announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. >> eric: now to to the acorn tapes. four employees have been fired and new calls for hearings in acorn and acorn has been dropped from participating in the census next year. acorn this weekend is firing back saying the ta

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julie kirtz has the story. >> the acorn cea says she has completely overhauled all of the acorn finances and controls in the last year since she has been in charge. she called the video indefensible and says the conservative activists that shot the video did acorn a favor by uncovering improper behavior. the group has received more than $50 million in federal funding in recent years. the house committee on oversight and government reform issued an 88-page report which charges that acorn has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services and engaged in rack car racketeerig enterprise. she would not commit to testify before the committee. >> there are people every day that we are saving their homes and making sure that they have decent wages. >> could you answer the congressman? >> my job, my job is to serve our 500,000 members. >> could you answer the question directly? >> as you mentioned, shannon, the president was asked about the acorn controversy today and votes in the house and senate to cut off funding this past week in an interview with abc news. he

unfunding acorn. we know what our duty is. our duty is oversight. it's our constitutional responsibility, mr. speaker. and we need to use all of the tools that we have in this congress to drill into acorn, to get to the bottom of it, to bring the truth and the facts out. that will require with all of these resources we have in the house alone, and i call upon the senate as well to engage in this, but in the house alone we must have full committee investigation and hearings on the judiciary committee taking a look at the voter registration fraud that we know exists and look at it on a national scale. and from this we need to drill into acorn and pull out of the rotten aprilles that are in there -- apples that are in there. and if there's anything left that has integrity, and i don't know any company that's not stained by this, but the judiciary committee has an obligation to investigate where there are violations of the law. and whether violations of voter registration and election fraud. that's our re

we're talking about acorn.e're here talking about what we saw this past week the chain of events that happened in the past week. sean: didn't you find those tapes despicable? >> i thought they were terrible but you'll find that in any organization of thousands of people. sean: you won't find organizations where people go in offices and you support the idea of importing young, underaged girls for prostitution. >> you're just saying that and left the impression with your audience acorn supports imtore station. sean: the people that works for them obviously -- >> have you had anyone that worked for you that was a fruitcake? yes. you answered my question. that's all you've got to say. >> not like this. sean: we'll take a break and have more with our great, great american panel straight ahead. . . . prilosec otc. dominates heartburn. 24/7... including the eight hours you spend with your eyes closed. prilosec otc. heartburn gone. power on. sean: we continue with our great american panel. this will draw bob nuts, the

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did people at acorn do? they blamed fox. entrapment, and they got set up. then what did they do? they fired some of the workers and still said that they were going to sue fox as a result. and now, five, six, seven days later bertha lewis is saying, we're going to clean up our act, we're not going take any new clients until we can be assured that we have the fruft back from the public. that is so disingenuous. why weren't they look into their own programs themselves a long time ago? >> right. we need to conduct an investigation and can't let up on this. peter: this is the tip of the iceberg. a student aid bill. now you're talking about handing out smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. they have the capacity to receive billions of dollars under federal and state law. how do we get at all of these different nooks and cranny that they're involved with? >> the house bill is all encompassing. i read the house bill, that particular legislation so we've got to push for that to be signed. brian: a column today, as ear

if you look on the internet you can see that she is also involved on the other side of acorn, acorn political side. so she is a community organizeer in the political sense as well. >> there is a political record for her if you look her up. sean: you are investigating that now. >> we are working on that. sean: she son the tape she plotted to kill and had her husband killed. >> she also threatened to kill someone else. sean: you both are being threatened with a lawsuit along with james o'keefe, who is the filmmaker, who we also had on the program. what is the status of that. >> well, interestingly today, baltimore, the baltimore charter, they were the ones that were threatening the lawsuit along with the baltimore city attorney. i believe it was the city attorney, who happened to run on the platform of helping children and abused children, great irony there. but we just found out that the baltimore chapter of acorn had lost its charter because it had lapsed in the last year. sean: last question. what are we going to have on the program? you are not going to air it until tomorrow night exclusive

discovery for acorn. this gives you a lot of latitude in terms of getting involved in this organization, their finances, their hiring, etc. your thoughts? >> well, certainly that's all going to be open. but to us, this is just clearly an attempt to bully a 20-year-old girl. i mean, it's an attempt to intimidate and to chill speech and freedom of the press. we haven't been heard -- haven't heard of this lawsuit yet, but to us it's a baseless lawsuit. not only is it baseless under their statute, but we live in a country with a first amendment that believes in freedom of the press. certainly citizen journalists like hannah have protection. and the idea that you now get sued if you expose corruption, that would be a pretty sad country we'd be turning into. >> what do you make of the statute? then we'll get back to hannah and some of the specifics. if you look at the statute and some of the precedence that have come out, if you have one party in the conversation, they must have had a reasonable expectation of

distributed the tape, so acorn has the right to do that in maryland, but i think that's acorn -- that acorn is done in the public arena. >> people say the sting is terrible. there is a great defense against being stung. do not do the kind of things that put you on television. bill: do you not admired these young people? rooting out corruption? >> bill, please. bill: i want you to admire them. >> i would like you to let me talk. is that too much to ask? you will have to get over it, because my job as an elected official is to deal with public policy. i did want to say this. i did regret the fact that it was legislature. my preference is, as i said in the statement, for the obama administration to cut them off, because they had been getting funds. congress has never earmarked funds for acorn. bill: is a good message. it is a good message. >> yes, and no, but the constitution is important. i do not like the idea of us by legislation doing this, because we cannot do it as appropriately, so i would have preferred it to be done by the administration. bill: do you not admire them? is this no

they go to the acorn offices to try and get an acorn loan to buy a house and they claim will be part of a prostitution business and they say underage girls are -- illegally brought in to the country from el salvador will work there and the tapes show an acorn worker willing to help and asking them to join it and attend a housing seminar and some are seen advising them how to skirt federal laws and hide the proceeds of the exposed prostitution business, from the authorities among other things, and one classified job, as a performance artist, and one -- someone else said, don't tell the truth to the police, basically. and the two tapes have been released by the web site, biggovernment.com and the housing office in baltimore and washington, d.c. and acorn claims the tapes are, quote, doctored, edited and in no way the resulted of the fabricated story portrayed by conservative filmmaker o'keefe and his partner in crime and believes the tapes are a felony and also say they are angry and appalled at the behavior of the acorn employees in the tapes and coming up later on this morning, we wi

the couple walked into the acorn office and talked to two acorn officials. it was unknown what the couple was seeking. >> dancing is considered an art form. >> sex is dancing too. >> there's going to be several women coming in the house, we don't want that to be a problem. >> reporter: acorn which stands for association of community organizations for reform now works on behalf of many low income family. acorn chairman says, after watching the video, the two employees were fired. >> that's nothing our association condones. >> reporter: sandra jones tells eyewitness news, she doesn't believe the acorn employees committed any crimes, but she says they acted unprofessionally and did not follow acorn policy. >> we have investigated and there's nothing we believe was illegal. >> reporter: so why dismiss them. >> because they acted outside of the acorn policy. acorn has always done business above board, we've always been transparent. and yes, we have done tax preparation, our books are open. >> reporter: similar investigations were done in new york, philadelphia, s

acorn showed me how to save the most at tax time. thank you, acorn, i owe you one, call me. >> the hidden videos reveal what appears outrageous conduct including employees con doaning child abuse, sex slavery and one shows a california woman braging that she murdered her former husband. >> i mean my husband, you know, just beat the hell out of me, you know, too many times. >> gerald >> geraldo: it turns out she was just pulling their legs and never killed her husband. a legal review of at least the tapes already broadcast shows no basis for criminal prosecution of the employees involved. some have justly been fired. others surely will be. but, however, sleazy they do not provide a legal basis for crimes to be charged. moreover, several of the video stings were carried out in states that specifically prohibit hidden camera reporting. california and maryland are among 12 states that make it illegal to tape someone without their consent. to whether you consider enterprising hannah gilles and james o'keefe heros, they need a criminal law

sean: acorn says that these tapes are slanted, but even when the filmmaker gives the acorn officials an opportunity to follow the law, he is pushed to evade the system even more. look at this. >> that is what america is based on. goods and services. >> not just any service, and that is why everyone else has denied as. they do not want to break the law. i do not want to be ineligible because i am breaking some wall -- law. >> you can have a business. >> she will not put it on there? that is the reason for us getting the house. >> she can be the sole proprietor. she is making money. whether she wants to sell goods, she is in marketing, she is a market here, anything -- sean: 29 tonight, i am -- tonight, i'm joined by james o'keefe, the independent filmmaker. with us also is the woman who portrayed the prostitute, and she is also with biggovernment.com. i have to give you a lot of credit. where is investigative journalism? tell us how you came up with this idea and how it got started. >> a friend message to me on facebook. she suggested -- she was walking by acorn, and she said, "what i

alito seven senators voted against funding acorn. -- bill: 7 senators voted against funding acorn. --voted against ending the funding for acorn. one of them is kirsten gillibrand. >> i did not think that it was right to punish the families most in need at the time because of the actions of a few. >> if i could follow up, senator schumer voted to cut off funding. you guys are on different pages? >> i guess so. i would speak to senator schumer, i am sure that he has his reasons. let's interesting, her voice was very breathy -- >> interesting, her voice was very breathy. she blinked 30 times in 20 seconds. bill: you mention chuck schumer, everyone starts blinking like mad. you kidding? >> [laughter] she puts on that smile, that masking smile. bill: i really hate him but i cannot say so? >> not necessarily, but she does not know what her next the motion is. bill: he is mad at us, he will not return our calls. that is stupid. she was nervous. anyone would be if they were talking to greg jenkins. do you know him? of vicious. all right, thank you. when we come back, bernie goldberg has been

acorn continues to get mashed. five actress megan fox did not have a happy time as a school girl. >> i was sort of -- not an outcast but i didn't have a ton of friends and i went to really small christian school. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry, too. i think i got picked on and i eat lunch in the bathroom because i was afraid of getting picked on in the cafeteria. it's ok. [bleep] them. i was a loner. and i think that's ok. like, you know, if i were -- give a message that's just lame. to anybody who is a loner, it's perfectly acceptable to be that. bill: whatever. miss fox's new film jennifer's body bombed at the box office over the weekend. we are sorry. check 6. so here is paula abdul spoofing her replacement on "american idol" ellen degeneres. ♪ i'm coming out ♪ so you better get this party started ♪ i'm coming out ♪ so you better get this party started ♪ get this party started on a saturday night ♪ everybody's waiting for me to arrive >> why are you all staring at me? can't a girl try out a new job? [cheers] >> all

he is acorn. he coached acorn.e is an acorn alum and now hired them to recruit people to run the census. i know they will cut the ties but obama is tied up in this thing deeply. the more we learn, we understand how closely he is tied. >> gregg: you are suggesting here obstruction of justice by the president of the united states, calling off an investigation on capitol hill where there appears to be plenty of evidence of a criminal enterprise. >> they didn't have the investigation going. i'm calling for congressional hearing, that is what john conyers referenced when he said he thought there should be hearings on acorn. i wouldn't go as far as to say obstruction of justice but we know how the lines of power work. if he says to rahm emanuel or chicago political dialogue that they have inside the white house that he is not interested in acorn being brought under the spotlight of american media or congressional hearing, rahm emanuel has the ability to pass that message down through the grapevine to pelosi and nadler an

is acorn crumbling? >> i think federal funds for acorn is crumbling.ant to congratulate the press secretary for saying it the way in thit is. this is an organization -- they get voter registration funds. 70 acorn employees in 12 states have been convicted of voter fraud in the last few years. this is a corrupt organization that does not deserve a dime of taxpayer funds. martha: do you think we will see investigations by the doj and the fbi? >> i hope so. i sent a letter along with 129 colleagues yesterday to the president, asking him to make sure that no funding goes to acorn. we introduced a bill today that would do the legislative language, but it says the same thing. enough is enough with this operation. martha: have you received any response? >> not yet. martha: thank you very much. trace: a high-school football coach on trial in the death of one of these players. the teenager collapsed after what prosecutors call a brutal practice session. now the defense has the floor. their witnesses are changing the tone in the courtroom. >> he was like a broth

element, acorn.so these two kids take it upon themselves to go around -- the one thing that hill pointed out that's accurate is they went to a bunch of other acorn agencies that didn't do that kind of stuff. to be fair, we have to mention that, but my question is does this hurt president obama? obama has some ties to acorn because acorn supported him and he said nice things about them. but does it hurt him? >> sure it does. just the fact he's uttered the name acorn in a way that wasn't disparaging. somewhere, over the course of the campaign -- this looks really bad and mark lamont hill can talk about the ones who didn't do it. but i am talking that there is 3 now. there's rumored to be six or seven. if you prosecute these kids instead of acorn, the maryland a.g. is going to have a fecal storm come down on him he is not going to believe. bill: that's for sure. that is right. there will be tens of thousands of people demonstrating in maryland, and talking about demonstrating, in d.c. as you know, 75,00

acorn showed me how to save the most at tax time. thank you, acorn, i owe you one, call me. >> the hidden videos reveal what appears outrageous conduct including employees con doaning child abuse, sex slavery and one shows a california woman braging that she murdered her former husband. >> i mean my husband, you know, just beat the hell out of me, you know, too many times. >> gerald >> geraldo: it turns out she was just pulling their legs and never killed her husband. a legal review of at least the tapes already broadcast shows no basis for criminal prosecution of the employees involved. some have justly been fired. others surely will be. but, however, sleazy they do not provide a legal basis for crimes to be charged. moreover, several of the video stings were carried out in states that specifically prohibit hidden camera reporting. california and maryland are among 12 states that make it illegal to tape someone without their consent. to whether you consider enterprising hannah gilles and james o'keefe heros, they need a criminal law

it's an embarrassment for acorn. i don't know if it will go beyond that i would be interested if that is true what the spokesman said that the conservative filmmaker went around to three or four offices and were thrown out and found one office where they were given silly advice. it sounds like entrapment. let's go to various offices before we can entrap someone. >> it's not journalism until they report all that happened. it's propaganda. if you're a reporter doing this, you would report, yes, we went to the four offices and one said, you know, fell for -- took the bait. if you don't report that and if you act as if you went into one office and bait. and if they did t. that's dishonest. the other thing is, bill mentioned it's a two party state the film makers could be liable for civil action for taping people without telling them in the state of maryland. i have a reporter who works in the capital district that knows about this. it came up in the linda tripp affair whether she could be recording monica lewinsky. that

-- a culture problem at acorn. very much. let's bring in john fund of the "wall street journal." he has done an extraordinary about of research on these allegations of voter fraud with acorn. you said something very interesting at the end of this editorial, and that is that former board members of acorn have told you they were very confident that they would be protected. after the nevada indictment last may, acorn's chief organizer said, "you know, we have had bad publicity before. people always come forward in our defense." >> it is true. acorn has been protected for many years, no matter how many scandals hit it. house speaker nancy pelosi had six times blocked resolution or a bill blocking acorn from getting federal funds on the house floor. acorn has only got one vote for federal funding, and that was an accident. nancy pelosi will be confronted with a discharge petition, members of the house saying that it will force it on the floor for a vote. on the other hand, nancy pelosi said she has never heard about the

acorn is a racket. not the first piece of evidence it is good that the census is cutting its ties. what is worrisome is if you look at the stimulus package, there are all kinds of loopholes that could funnel millions into acorn and that ought to be looked at, audited and stopped. bret: all right. real lightning here. healthcare reform. democrats threatening again about wreck chron sill yation, the nuclear option. do they use it, charles? nina, bill? >> i think so. the president's speech was hyperpartisan. he made it clear he's going it alone. he showed no respect for the opposition or for any people who have raised objections t looks as if he wants to to reform a sixth of the u.s. economy on a straight party-line vote. >> well, if he does, i will just say that this is going to be a boon to republicans next year, because the sort of disdain he showed, for example, for the town halls where he called it political bickering, i think, only further angered people, and i think charlie cook, the non-partisan po

acorn said i owed nothing. thank you, acorn. [phone ringing] >> oh, i got to take this call.acorn. we'll help you get away with stuff. bret: wasn't us. we will see if chris asks about that. that

they defended acorn, the other senators voted not to fund acorn through acorn housing. then the whole list of things that are going on and we also know that the u.s. census bureau finally announced a couple, three days ago that they were not going to continue with their relationship with acorn that they'd already signed off of a month or two ago and don't believe them yet. but this is the news flsh that came while the gentleman from missouri was speaking and this is an article that tells about -- it says, days after the census bureau announced it would cut ties with the organizing group acorn and barely 24 hours after the senate voted to withdraw funding from the lightning rod activist group, the white house, which is speaking for the president of the united states, the white house expressed support for measures to hold the group accountable for unacceptable behavior. mr. speaker, listen to this. this is a jeremiah wright moment. white house press secretary robert gibbs alluded to -- illewded to vehicle -- alluded to a video showing acorn employees and sex traffickers.

the irs severed ties with acorn. how did the relationship begin with the irs and acorn? it's kind of ridiculous? >> the whole situation is ridiculous, greg. because what is happening to people like andrew breitbart is not an isolated incident. we have seen people in the tea parties be smeared and have seen that any return veteran, a report that they are a threat to the united states. what you are seeing is that this is a whistle blower operation. t is as per verse suing andrew breitbart as it is having a corrupted city mayor suing upton sinclair. >> greg: it is. who is upton sinclair? >> in chicago. i heard mountain movie there will be blood. >> greg: anthony, you seem like a right wing fanatic. what do you think of this? does acorn have a case? >> i don't know if they have a case or not. i think the most embarrassing thing is the hooker was much too pretty to be a hooker and the pimp was sent by hugy bear from starsky and hutch and the worst thing is if you are too scummy to work for the irs, wow, that is a problem. >> greg: i might add that i'm a huge fan of the irs. i

for instance, acorn and saying, well, this is just acorn. and look at these bad people in acorn.bout the higher ups that they have to start going after. bill: we have. >> i know you have. bill: i think you know that the beck program and the factor kind of joined forces and went down to new orleans and traced millions of dollars to an abandoned funeral home. >> you know what, bill? again. bill: i love that don't you love that though? new orleans abandoned funeral home. millions of dollars. i mean, you think somebody would go maybe we should look into this. >> and, if you look at who the president has surrounded himself, it's seiu. they are all over the oval office. bill: that's the union that's also in the funeral home. >> if you look at the cover or the front of the funeral home, you see acorn seiu. these are the people that you want to have in the oval office? bill: i said this the other day to dick morris. and by the way i just want to mention and i know you reported this, but the louisiana attorney general has now issued subpoenas to wade rathke the former president of acorn.