bill lawrence, the guy who created "scrubs" also created "cougartown" reached out through social media these showing parties where fans can come out and see a screening of the show. >> o. >> that's cool. >> we wanted to find out more. so we have one of the stars of the show, visi phillips via skype. welcome to the show! >> thanks for having me. >> tell me how bill lawrence decided to go around the networks. >> he felt really strongly this was the way we were going to connect to people. we have so many loyal fans, but our fan base should be bigger. and people still, you know, unfortunately, think the show is about old ladies trying to get with younger dudes. and that's just not what the show is about at all. >> you're premiering again on february the 14th, which is exciting. do you think that social media played a part in abc setting that date for you guys? >> the response to these viewing parties has been so overwhelming. and you know, having all of these super critical entertainment sites making a lot of noise for our return, i think that abc got the message. >> how are you going to c

bill lawrence is an avid coupon user who faithfully clips the sunday newspaper and then grabs whatever is on sale. but he's noticed himself having to buy more and more products in recent months. >> last year the cheeros 50 cents off on one box. well, that went to $1 off on two boxes. then i in thed the first coupons that -- and then i noticed the first coupons that came out this year, it's $1 off three boxes. reporter: it's not just cereal. bob says many programs are requiring him to buy two, three or four items at once. the latest coffee. >> $1 off on one and then shortly thereafter it's $1 off on two. reporter: some coupon websites blame the show "extreme couponing" which has spawned armies of coupon hoarders. others say it's a way for merchants to sell more product while still offering coupons. so what can you do? coupon blogger heather tinney suggests trying online coupons from coupons.com or smartsource.com. they tend to have bigger values like $1 or $2. >> you tend to get higher value coupons online because they can control how many come out and where they go. reporter: bill says

lawrence's ad says that critics of the gi bill called it welfare. politifact finds that they did call it welfare. politifact fact checks historical claim "a," finds it to be true, and therefore rates the claim mostly false! they found it to be true, but they rate it mostly false. they print the evidence that it's true, "the bain of the british empire has been the dole system," and right under that they say, "we found no evidence of critics referring to the gi bill as welfare." dudes, you just published the evidence of critics referring to the gi bill as welfare! it is right there, on the same page. you wrote it, in your same article. what do you think the british dole system is? do you think it's a pineapple program of some kind? maybe something having to do with bananas? everybody gets a little sticker? did you seriously print this piece without once googling "the dole" to see what that meant? "british the dole." you don't even have to use quotes. did you check to see if maybe it meant welfare, which is what you were supposedly fact checking. in sp

lawrence. >> this bill, as we talked about, trades, as we see it going in to affect in certain ways trades old problems for now problems. i don't think that anyone anticipated this. i certainly didn't see it coming. i want to stipulate at the top here, this country is completely in favor of birth control. members of the catholic church are. i don't know a single catholic, not one that ever observed catholic teachings on this matter. rick santorum claims he's the one. if he is he's the one. how did it come to bethat in the discussions in the white house that we ended up at this particular highly politicized intersection that we see now? was the president, in effect, warned this kind of argument would be coming? >> i'm not going to get in to discussions with the president and what he was or wasn't told. how this protection for women came in to being is because the health care law required for the first time ever preventative services for women to be covered by insurance companies. according to, you know, medical experts and scientists, cotra sepgs was a critical piece of those preventative servi

time, criticized the gi bill by saying "thebane of the british empire has been the doll system. >> the dole is welfare, a slang term for welfare. so case closed, right? lawrence'sitics called it welfare. they found indeed critics of the gi bill did call it welfare. this is an easy one. politifact fact checks, find historical claim a to be true, they therefore rates the claim mostly false. they found it to be true but rate it mostly false. they print the evidence it's true. the bane of the british empire has been the dole system. we found no evidence of critics referring to it as well fare. dudes you published the evidence of critics referring to the gi bill as well fair, it's right there on the same page, you wrote it in your same article. what do you think the british do lfre system is? a pine apple? maybe bananas, everybody gets a sticker? did you seriously print this piece without once googling the dole to see what that meant? british, the dole. did you check to see if maybe it meant welfare? which is what you were supposedly fact checking. in space no one can hear you scream. this is why they have to go away or need to stop using "fact" as part of their nam

right back to the greeks and i'm on the bills no one wins that war so they started off on the wrong foot to begin with and then it's occupation you know t. lawrence lawrence of arabia had a essay they wrote in one thousand nine hundred called the algebra of occupation and he said he has six months and after six months. you know lose well it's been ten years and we're losing you know let's pull this a little bit out of afghanistan and kind of talk about the deja vu aspect of this a whole lot of people pointing to vietnam and iraq and mistakes the u.s. has made it time and time again but doesn't seem to be learning from now on the other hand of course even some of the most hardcore critics of the war in iraq say afghanistan is different and was necessary to talk about these sort of conflicting points of view especially on the broader scale here well there's a tendency for generals not to read history i mean it's sort of standard and i think it's a part of their pay grade and that's why i generally should never make decisions about going to war how you wage work separate should be really may by civilians and what's happened is that the generals have

bill approving marriage equality and the governor actually signs it. here's the difference between chris christie and president obama. lawrence, you know this well.. we are not in a monarchy and we certainly are not in a dictatorship despite what republicans say. so unless congress sends the president of the united states a bill appealing doma or legalizing same-sex marriage, there is nothing the president can do, other than saying flat out, which is what governor christie wants, i support marriage equality. meanwhile, governor christie, when the duly elected representatives of the people of the state of new jersey passed in the house and the senate sent him a bill legalizing marriage equality when he, as governor, had the ability with the stroke of a pen to do exactly the thing he's criticizing president obama for not doing, he didn't do it. he vetoed it. and now he's putting the civil rights of a minority up for public referendum, which is reprehensible. >> and you got him to agree that in the south in the 1960s, he would not have wanted to put african-american civil rights up for a vote in alabama. he thought that would not be a good way to do

bill, coming up all new at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> foreclosure abuse. today, federal and state officials announce a $25 billion settlement between 49 states, including maryland and five major banks. edward lawrence reports for wjz. the signing means that some homeowners will get relief. >>> abel arredondo lost his home to foreclosure last year. he sold off his possessions and traded off his car for a motorcycle. but it wasn't enough. >> we tried. we did everything. but it just seemed as if the bank -- the bank didn't even want to cooperate. >> reporter: but some relief could be on the way for millions struggling to stay in their homes. they have agreed to help up to 1 million homeowners who are making payments but whose mortgages are under water. that means they owe more than their homes are worth. this comes after federal and state investigations found that banks used abusive processes. >> under the terms of this settlement, america's biggest banks, banks that were rescued by taxpayer dollars, will be required to right these wrongs. >> reporter: the housing collapses hit california especially hard. as many as 2 million homeowners here may be eligible for help under the new agreement. nationwide

lawrence. >>> next in the "rewrite," now that politifact is checking the accuracy of msnbc tv ads, i actually saw one today, on msnbc, the that just cries out for the politifact treatment. >>> and later, billy angry at the media for the way we covered whitney houston's death last week. he says no one was talking about drug addiction in the coverage. which is, of course, a lie. everyone was talking about it, except me, and i will explain to little billy something the nuns tried to teach him about respect for the dead. which helps keep his socks brilliantly white. bye mom. hold on. [ horn honks ] show 'em what you got!!! mom!! that's my tide. what's yours? [ male announcer ] we didn't have to make safety features like active head restraints, brake assist, and an enhanced accident-response system standard in every chrysler 200. no one would know if we didn't. but we would have. and for us, the things you do when no one is looking are the things that define you. ♪ online dating services can get kind of expensive. so to save-money, i found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my spinach dip. 5 foot ten. still doing a l

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lawrence o'donnell will join the conversation, as well. >>> and up next, mike allen with the top stories in the politico playbook, plus the week in review. but first, billarins with a check on the weekend forecast. >>> two days ago i said there was about a 20% chance of a nor'easter coming up into new england with a big snowstorm. that chance is down to about zero. the storm's going to pass to the south, still going to be a big storm, just not going to affect anyone north of areas of new york city. let's me break it down for you the weekend forecast. first things first, the storm is forming, already bringing heavy rains into texas. this is going to continue today and tomorrow. we're expecting 2 to 3 inches of rain from louisiana all the way in through areas of georgia. so it's going to be a big, huge rain event. but once again, not going to come up the east coast. the best chance of seeing any snow won't be today, won't be until saturday night to the mountains of tennessee could get some, also there in west virginia and virginia. and then by sunday as the storm heads off the eastern sea board, we could see the storm mixing in. d.c., richmond, and centra