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you said that about bill burton. >> bill burton y are better than what you yust did. believe they would defend the things that bill maeur said by saying he is a comedian. you can call a woman the c word and all of the other words because it is a comedy what is the joke, greta? >> bill burton makes that whatever he's say david axel rod who is going to appear on bill maeur's show in the near future. he doesn't care either? >> they are making all of these distinctions that you can be masogist if you are a comedian and a public person. this is another argument you are making and the same group of women who stand up for women? yet when women are attacked and horrible things are said about them there is always an excuse for why it is okay. >> you mentioned one of the most political reporters in the city and has more stripes than any of these people. she got attacked viciously. >> she wrote this week after i wrote my arcticle. she agreed that the left was quiet on this stuff . how who is at rolling stone and highly respected left wing writer and he just wrote a forward for r

. >> joe walsh and bill burton are here. democrats in wisconsin are fighting fire with fire. we will have the major announcement from a new candidate for high office in the badger state. >>> and peyton manning to denver means tebow mania could land anywhere. we will tell you if tim tebow is coming to your city. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thank you for watching. the death of a teenager in florida captured the attention of the nation and it should. the 911 tapes were released today and they are absolutely chilling. this is a story of a 17-year-old african-american teenager with a bag of skittles and a can of iced tea shot dead by a 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer with a nine millimeter handgun. trayvon martin and his father were visiting friends in a gated community the night of february 26th. the 17-year-old trayvon had gone to 7-eleven store during halftime of the nba all-star game. he was walking back when neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman spotted him. zimmerman was inside of his suv and called 911. >> we have had some break ins in my ne

bill burton, we have to go to you first on this. million in february for both his campaign and the dnc. compared to $29.1 million in january. let's -- why this surge in fun raising? i have my theories. i'd like to know what yours are. >> a couple of things. number one, rufus gifford and juliana smoot on the campaign. democrats are starting to wake up to the fact this is a close, tough election and unless the president has the resources he needs he's not going to be able to get re-elected, it's as simple as that. with the outside money pouring into the race, finances are very important part of being able to remain competitive. >> i -- my theory, in case you'd like to hear it -- >> i would. >> -- the rhetoric around contraception and reproductive rights and the gop supposed war on women. i know people who have been sitting on the sidelines saying he's got it, he's got it and that stuff happened and said i got to write him a check. >> there's a threat. when the choice is laid out there's a threat of what could possibly happen. mitt rom

then yesterday, bill burton, the guy who runs the super pac said look, there's a big difference betweenher and rush limbaugh. what's the difference? here's bill burton. >> the notion that there's an equivalence between what a comedian has said over the course of his career and what the de facto leader of the republican party said to sexually degrade a woman who engaged in an important debate of our time is crazy. there's no similarity between what rush limbaugh said lying about the argument that miss fluke was making a law student at georgetown and what -- and what a comedian has said in the past. >> comedian. >> this gets old after a while, the idea that you can hide behind your comedic talent. i mean, we have seen over the last couple of years a lot of late night comics get into the business of politics. if you're going to do that, you have to own the statements that you make. i'm sorry, you do. remember what happened with david letterman? he said vulgar things about one of sarah palin's daughters. he had to call and apologize to her. did the president call then -- you're giving dange

george will, haley barbour, bill burton, nia-malika henderson and david ignatius. >>> good morning, everyone. george stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off. >>> it's been a wild week on the campaign trail with voters in alabama and mississippi giving rick santorum's campaign a lifeline. yet in the all-important delegate race, mitt romney still holds a big lead with 496 delegates. romney has twice than rick santorum and is almost at the magic number. but our headliner this morning has been on a roll, former senator rick santorum joins us now, good morning, senator. >> good morning, jonathan. >> senator, front page of the "new york times" this morning, the republicans are girding for a floor fight. you have been saying, basically that nobody can get a majority of the delegates before the convention, are you saying that your best chance of winning this nomination is a fight on the convention floor? >> well, we still believe that there are plenty of delegates out there to do what we have been doing which is actually going out and winning the tough states and battles. with pretty overwhel

john and bill burton joins us tonight. good to see all of you. let me start with you, john. mitt romney has to win 49% of all the remaining delegates. he got 100% in puerto rico. >> yeah. >> so can he do this 49? >> the point is, is that he's got to thread a pretty tight needle here. he can get the requisite number. even the romney camp will acknowledge this isn't going to be over until at least may, maybe even utah in june. the republican party needs to deal with the fact because of proportional delegates and super pacs, there is a long road ahead. >> bill burton, i remember asking you four months ago and you said i think it's reasonable to think mitt romney will be the nominee and here we are. >> i remember back in 2008 we thought the doom's day scenario was april 22nd. i know in the romney camp they're thinking we are far past the doom's day scenario. even though 90% of americans think that mitt romney will be the nominee, republicans aren't colessing behind him. >> i saw a really funny comic that had brackets and it had not mitt, not mitt, not mitt, not mitt, not mitt, a

. >> reporter: bill burton who runs the super pac acknowledged today that some of bill maher's commentslgar but they are not giving the money back, trying to equate maher's comments to limbaugh's is crazy. >> bret: mississippi supreme court has ruled that the controversial pardons by haley barber on his way out of door are valid. attorney general argued they did not meet the state's constitution requirement of advanced publication. the judges said that is only up to the governor to decide. >> many warren buffett doesn't want rich people pay more in taxes after all. and latest episode of hollywood politics. >> bret: fresh picking from the political grapevine. last year kennedy's mini series was slammed in part because the developer a conservative. liberals cried foul with one film maker creating a website stop kennedy smears calling the series politically motivated fiction and as historical fact. hollywood doesn't seem to be bothered that the top producers and stars hbo game change, about the mccain palin ticket. hollywood reporter puts the donations at more than $200,000. >>> millionair

. >> sean: unbelievable and bill burton chief strategist of pro obama pac says he will not return bill maher's one million dollar donation. president doesn't see the hypocritical nature of this. here is what he he had to say on international women's day. >> absolutely. >> what about the conservative women which he disagrees with. joining me now is one of the conservative women you saw being degraded by the not so funny bill maher. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. good to have you back. >> nice to be back on again. >> sean: let's get into the general issue here. >> this is small compilation that big maher has said. it's one commentator and they get away with this all the tie. comments were hypocritical. it showed bill maher for what he is. he a pig. when it comes to conservative women, he acts and speaks like a pig. this is ridiculous. i think we need to stand up for who we are, but this symptomatic those on the left are worried about. they know the big problem that barack obama has and in particular obamacare they are scared to death and they are doing everything they can to d

. >> sean: unbelievable and bill burton chief strategist of pro obama pac says he will not return bill maher's one million dollar donation. president doesn't see the hypocritical nature of this. here is what he he had to say on international women's day. >> absolutely. >> what about the conservative women which he disagrees with. joining me now is one of the conservative women you saw being degraded by the not so funny bill maher. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. good to have you back. >> nice to be back on again. >> sean: let's get into the general issue here. >> this is small compilation that big maher has said. it's one commentator and they get away with this all the tie. comments were hypocritical. it showed bill maher for what he is. he a pig. when it comes to conservative women, he acts and speaks like a pig. this is ridiculous. i think we need to stand up for who we are, but this symptomatic those on the left are worried about. they know the big problem that barack obama has and in particular obamacare they are scared to death and they are doing everything they can to d

fundraiser hosted by jeffrey katzenberg, can democrats compete with the republicans fundraising we have bill burton obama super pac, bill, thank you for being here. >> hey, how are you doing, luke? we were going to talk about the buffalo bills. >> some time we will be there but not today. i have to talk about the money. your colleague at american cross roads said this about how much they will raise yesterday. >> now, our goal for the cycle is $240 million to $300 million, i think we will hit it this cycle. >> to quote, that is a-rod money right there, are you going to get $300 million? can you compete with that? >> i'm not surprised that they will raise that money, it's a lot of money. but those that are investing in those campaigns would profit a lot from romney becoming president. that is not a huge investment for the billions that they would make when mitt romney deregulates the energy industry. >> and bill maher has had a lot of things to say about the republicans, and went after sarah palin with words that were much like rush limbaugh and sandra fluke, will you accept money from bill maher and

. >> the organ sag run by people who obviously support the president of the united states, bill burtonworked with him, our own paul begala a political contributor here. you want all of their donors, priorities usa, all of their names to be made public just like the koch brothers super pac should be made public. >> we think everybody's should be made public. that's why we make our bundlers public. we believe in full transparency, the president has been very concluder on that. >> has the president called bill burton -- >> he's not allowed to make a phone call based on the rules, but. >> he could say it in public ijts an important point. a couple weeks ago we made a change in our own strategy. >> you're talking about the reelection campaign. >> that would lend our support to -- or only doing events for the side of priorities that discloses their donors. so we feel very strongly about this. if the koch brothers are going to raise that money in seek yet from oil executives all over the country, why not tell the american people? what is it that they have to hide? >>> let's move on and talk a

i'm joined by bill burton, former white house deputy under president obama.o have you with us. tonight. joan, you first. now the republicans are going after privacy. is this a new war on privacy in what do you make of this? this is happening at state levels as if there's this concerted effort to go after women across america. >> we have all these person hood amendments which the to gop candidates for president have signed onto that would outlaw certain forms of birth control. i hear this whining from the right. rick santorum today, accused our friend joe scarborough of making too much of the contraception issue. it's people that are making too much of the contraception issue. they are the one who is have made this an issue from the very beginning. i have to say something about senator john mccain because i know all of us in the mainstream love to talk about what a statesman he is and it's great he spoke out. he voted for the blunt amendment several weeks ago that would have made it possible for employers to not cover any medical care that they disapproved of.

i work with bill burton in the past. i haven't talked to any of those guys.ke their own decision and i'm not going to comment on that. as a general rule, i don't think those words belong in the public space. i do think what limbaugh did was particularly egregious. >> greta: what do you think of the obama's campaign response to media attacks on women. post is going on our website. gretawire.com. now to the scene. contraception fight and this time the state of arizona, as we told you, arizona lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would permit employers to opt out of providing contraception coverage. now arizona republicans want that opt out extended to businesses not just religious organizations. last night we heard from republican state representative and tonight the other side. democratic state representative matt hines joins us. nice to see you? >> great to be here. >> greta: i understand you've described -- you are a doctor? >> i am. >> greta: so you call this ledges malpractice? >> any did legislation malpractice. >> ni time policymakers whether federal le

million dollars constitutes half of all the donations at priorities usa, the obama pac, run by bill burton, has earned over the last month. this is not just some two-bit comedian, unofficial. this is a heavy hitter in the democrat party who, had been scheduled to speak before the alabama democrats, down in the south that he maligned yesterday on twitter. we have the story. not only did he do that, he said something even fowler -- >> sean: viboth of those -- >> about newt gingrich and rick santorum. >> sean: you are talking about bill maher and the obama super pac. you know what? they won't give back the money. we can't be the speech police. toothless tuesday, too tight to tally and the magic box... >> sean: pretty sick stuff. the obamas associate with david letterman. they took bill maher's million dollars. babe maybe in the case of rush limbaugh, he ought to donate to the obama super pac and say anything he wants. >> give them full immunity. >> sean: here's chris matthews attacking mormons, talking about mitt romney. >> culturally, they are out to lunch for the president. i am going on vo

. >> team obama went big on the sound bite as well and the pro obama super pac chief bill burton saying in a statement this mission of governor romney's general elections strategy to mislead the american people does at least have the benefit of truth. there is no doubt governor romney is going to try to mask his right wing antimiddle class agenda in order to win the election, and unfortunately for the romney camp, there are reflection in the polls that voters view him as the etch-a-sketch candidate. look at this, among voter who is say strong moral character matters most, 62% went for rick santorum. just 18 for romney. those values voters could matter even more heading to saturday's primary down the values state, louisiana. let's get right to the panel with karen finny, now columnist for the hill and goldy tai tore, managing editor of the gold i tailor project and julian epstein. julian, start with you. did you get your etch-a-sketch yet? >> this is funny. you remember after the florida primary when mitt romney said he didn't care about the poor. this is the silver foot in the mouth syn

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