bill maher, it is nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> always good to see you, rachel. >> the occupy wall street protesters today, bill, they took a tour of wall street billionaires' homes in new york city. noting among other things that new york's special millionaires tax expires at the end of this year. there's been this surtax on millionaires in new york, but yet all these millionaires are still here. i wonder if you feel like the occupy wall street protests are resonating, have come up with at least a vague message that is speaking to people who may not be participating in those protests yet. >> absolutely. i think it's a great thing. on our show, we've talked for the longest time about how what the left needs is something to put the wind at the back of the president and other democrats who as you know have a tendency to falter toward the side of, shall we say centristism. this could be it. so what their message is a little vague. i like it they're sort of militantly vague at this point. because they are in a

hbo comedian and resident pot head bill maher has ridiculous advice -- shocking -- about drugs in yourt it there yourself. this is america. it would be the healthiest thing they eat all day. put drugs in the halloween candy. >> kimberly: that is irresponsible and not funny. >> andrea: that is a cry for help. pay attention to me. it is obnoxious. >> bob: he is having an acin flashback. >> eric: i bet both of his viewers are outraged about this. >> bob: what do you think? >> greg: he is obsessed with new ag age health. he is a quake. >> andrea: are you defending -- >> greg: no. do you think it's responsible for him to say that? kim serious case like razor blades and people poisoning halloween candy. >> greg: a joke. >> bob: what is this stuff? >> kimberly: makeup. you have seen it before. finally, a fun halloween poll for you? do you believe in ghosts? rasmussen poll shows 31% do believe in ghosts. 62% do not. 7% don't know what to believe. someone needs to tell them. maybe the obama administration will tell them they should believe in ghosts. bob, you do. >> bob: i do believe in ghosts.

. >> i was watching realtime with bill maher this weekend and he was willing to put up $1 million to her $1 that he not survive longer and get the nomination. others say he is romney's worst nightmare. how is he going to consince people that he is not the flavor of the month? >> it's a matter of longevity and doesn't have the organization that romney had. romney has been running for president for years and he has staffers all over the country. cain is playing catch up. he raised more money recently and will be hiring more people, but even then the totals are well behind several other candidates running behind him in the polls. he has a strug toll keep up all the way long. >> thank you very much. greatly appreciate your time, david. thank you. >> developing news in the search for baby lisa irwin. police are surrounding a home as we speak. we are expected to hear from her parents in a news conference. >> rick perry publicly distanced himself from the minster who made incendiary comments regarding mormonism. a string of e-mails obtained by the daily beast reveals perry's campaign may be

>> when i saw that clip on the "bill maher" show friday night and they moved the camera to ellis henican and he was going like this, i thought that was something the bill maher people put in there to be funny. no, that really happened. it's possible to extrapolate too much from herman cain on the abortion issue. there's inherent awkwardness in republicans advocating small government and government big enough to intervene in every pregnancy in america. there is an awkwardness there. herman cain being so awkward about it perfectly manifests the intrinsically oxymoronic nature of waning a small government, to force american women to give birth against their will. there's the political issue of whether the republican party would nominate someone who said abortion wasn't government's business, someone who's effectively pro choice. you can extrapolate it to those things. really i think the most important thing about herman cain on the abortion issue is the simplest thing about it. he does not seem to understand that if abortion is illegal, if there is a law against abortion then government is

on stage with bill maher, was former democratic congressman alan grayson of florida, former george w.h communications director nicolle wallace who you've seen on this show and on the right, p.j. o'rourke. after congressman grayson gave an eloquent description of the problems raised by occupy wall street, the critique they've been raising, things like wall street's financial grip over both political parties and what hasn't happened since the financial crisis caused by wall street in 2008, p.j. o'rourke tried not so much to denounce the movement as a whole but rather to just mock it. congressman grayson mercilessly, it was a move that did not end well for p.j. o'rourke and ended very well for congressman alan grayson. >> get the man a drum. they found their spokesman. >> well, if i -- >> get a bongo drum. forget where to go to the bathroom and it's yours. >> listen, if i am a spokesman for all the people who think we should not have 24 million people in this country who can't find a full-time job, that we should not have 50 million people in this country who can't see a doctor when they

tonight she's about to be a guest on "the bill maher show" so she can't host her own show. we're able to talk with her by phone for this moment. >> good evening, melissa. thank you for having me on "the rachel maddow show." i feel like it's a looking glass thing. it's great to be on the snow. >> you can always be a guest on my guest hosting of your show. >> deal. >> listen, back in 2005 and 2006, when americans were in the streets pushing back against this war, did you imagine that this is how it would end with the security agreement, with this kind of a slow, you know, movement out, this immunity, denial of immunity by the iraqi government? does american protesting about our own international entanglements matter at all? >> you know, it is, i think that the most i could have foreseen, the most i could have imagined was that the american people would elect a democratic president who was opposed to the war and that would be the person overseeing the end of it. i think that protest movements and the in-the-street kind of protests that we have about wars and that we certainly

. >> political cometator and sometime comedian bill maher, take ago shot at this news channel for coveragef occupy wall street protesters. some of those protesters part of a millionaire's march. and to an affluent community in new york city. all right. cal, has lower manhattan sort of become a campground for the liberal media? >> when has it not been. you know the song "i'll take manhattan", you can have it. look at the coverage, the nbc reporter ludicrously pronounced it our arab spring. isn't that wonderful? and brian williams called it a protest against economic and social inequality. well, as business commentators on this channel on this very day have properly noted. the media and demonstrators ought to be out in front of congress and outside of the white house and fannie mae and freddie mac. that's where the problem started and where it continues for the 14 trillion dollar debt. >> or up in washington d.c. in front of the white house or congress or above. and you've been listening to npr's coverage of the protesters and what do you hear? >> my particular spin and president is that i a

you know this this mocking the cynicism that's ridiculing by the likes of drugs by the likes of bill maher across the culture in america where it's ok to assassinate a us citizen because he's he's obviously a bad guy because the president doesn't like them or that this is ok for j.p. morgan a private corporation to pay your police department a huge sum of money the largest in the history of new york this is something that we saw in the mubarak regime it's not mubarak tried the same thing soon. hired more leg breakers and it didn't really help in the end you know but again max this notion that there's some sort of exceptionalism and that we can you know dance at the edge of of tyranny and not ever for some reason because we're superior americans fall over into a corrupt system whereas madonna dancing on the edge of tyranny that sounds like a dance if i ever heard it so again ok here's j.p. morgan and we're told by all our fellow americans to worry about them paying off the new york police department here's another headline regarding j.p. morgan the anglo american precious metals to rivet ha

and in case you are wondering why tom isn't here tonight make sure to tune into real time with bill maher on h.b.o. friday night at ten pm eastern time when tom will be featured on the desk and don't forget as tom always says democracy begins with you get out there get active you're it.

and bill maher makes an interesting point the other night on rachel maddow show check this out the tea party movement let's remember story sort of started out as protesting some of the same things met with the bailouts of the banks they didn't like the big banks it just shows how easily the people in the tea party could be herded to something else they were sort of on the same page as these folks started watch fox news and they know what they were really upset about was things like obamacare and taxing the job creators and somehow they were upon the wrong side of the issue again. all right it was an important point also important to remember that out of the tea party got co-opted by fox news by the koch brothers and various message machines it still grew in power and strength and pretty clearly helped shape the outcome of the two thousand and ten election where republicans swept into the majority of the house of representatives also change the direction of the national debate so the connection we think is fair but we want to take it a little deeper and to help us do that i want to brin

have dedicated and fought on the battlefield, i will give you a quote from yesterday, last night's bill maher show. rick santorum is like a japanese soldier after world war ii did not know that the war was over when it comes to the abortion issue and marriage and homosexual marriage. ladies and gentlemen, are those issues lost in america? are they lost? >> no. >> no, but we need to have a leader my understanding in their heart. and that will go out and fight for those. i've done that. i did that when i was in the united states house and the senate. i did not always do it. when i came to the senate, i did something happen to make. and then we heard some stories here of people and how they came to christ. i went to the united states senate and i found the lord. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] and id i did it in the one of te most casual ways. ended up going to a bible study by an amazing creature by the name of lloyd josn. hn. karen and i became on fire with our faith. as a result of that, i decided that

have dedicated and fought on the battlefield, i will give you a quote from yesterday, last night's bill maher show. rick santorum is like a japanese soldier after world war ii did not know that the war was over when it comes to the abortion issue and marriage and homosexual marriage. ladies and gentlemen, are those issues lost in america? are they lost? >> no. >> no, but we need to ha a leader my understanding in their heart. and that will go out and fight for those. i've done that. i did that when i was in the united states house and the senate. i did not always do it. when i came to the senate, i did something happen to make. and then we heard some stories here of people and how they came to christ. i went to the united states senate and i found the lord. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] and id i did it in the one of te most casual ways. ended up going to a bible study by an amazing creature by the name of lloyd josn. . karen and i became on fire with our faith. as a result of that, i decided that i h

>> this came up on bill maher's show. the guest was nicole wallace.he is on msnbc a lot and worked for george w. bush as communication director. look at the exchange. >> jimmy carter is cochair, a voter fraud commission and 82% of the public happened to agree with former president jimmy carter and having an id to rent a movie or rent a car and having an id to vote are not unreasonable requirements. >> you got me there with jimmy carter. >> you got me there with jimmy carter. she pointed to one former president democrat who supported the idea of requiring id. >> what kind of an id are we going to accept? if the data is accurate, the 25% of african-americans do not have an updated photo form of id. then you have to say hold it, this has a disproportionate effect on the community and therefore there must be reasonable alternatives that must be pursued. you show up and you present something. what that something needs to be has to take into account the constituencies that we are serving. we want to encourage people to vote and not erect more roadblocks. >>

celebrity guests, including bill maher, survivor creator, mark burnett, and dog the bounty hunter, other witnessing the nuptials. shannon was glowing in her gown, timely making the walk -- finally making the walk down the aisle. her mom louise was her escort. the ceremony decked out with roses and hydrangeas, and ivory, white and pink, offset by red calla lilies. the pair made their own vows. and he stole the show with one unforgettable kiss. >> that was so much fun. we will have all of that later for you. plus, new information on the ashton-demi split rumors. and our new footloose exclusive. that s and more coming up on entertainment tonight. >> and you can see entertainment tonight at 7:30, here on wjz. >> still to come on eyewitness news tonight. despite a big win for the ravens. questions arise. ,,,,,,,,,, for a great vacation you can't beat mississippi. sure you can, it's called louisiana. hang on, florida's where folk's want to be. that's only until they get a taste of alabama hospitality. we can't agree on which state's best, but we can agree on one thing, wherever you vacation in

. >> reporter: celebrity guests including bill maher, survivor creator, mark burnett, and dog, the bountyr, were among those there for the nuptials. shannon was glowing. finally making that walk down the aisle in the area known as the crystal island. her mom, louise was her escort. >> reporter: the ceremony decked out with roses and hidrairchlias -- hydrangeas. they wrote their own vows. and the front man of kiss sealed the vows with an unforgettable kiss. >> that was so much fun. we will have all of that for you later tonight. plus, new information on the ashton, demi split. and our new footloose video exclusive. that and more coming up on entertainment tonight. >> bob is crying over that. he just loves weddings. [ laughter ] >>> dont miss entertainment tonight. you can see it here on wjz 13. >>> you can call it a sea lion shocker. imagine seeing a 150-pound sea lion on the side of the road. that's exactly what happened. it was caught on the highway 101 in california. looks like it came from the bay, managed to cross eight lanes of traffic. the sea lion was hurt when it was found. it is