. >> brett, you got to know him 25 years ago. tell me how you met and about this art collection. >> we first met about 1979 through mayor bradley of los angeles. two different occasions. and the first time i had a chance to talk to michael, he says now, you're a sculptor. i said yes. i said i build monuments. he said wow, i never met a monument builder before. i knew who he was but i said what do you do? he said i love life. i'll always remember that. i said wow that's a great job. i love life too. and he says, i'm an artist too. and i like to draw things that inspire my life. >> and this collection, how many pieces are there in it? >> well, i have -- we have 98 pieces. other people have some. and there's about -- maybe there's about 20 of these pieces i draw he did artwork on the other side. i made special paper so if anybody got it they couldn't counterfeit it. so he ran out of the paper. that's why he did artwork on the reverse side. >> some here, the martin luther king picture, abraham lincoln. he loved former presidents. >>

for some more we go to brett ehrlich.ad day, sarkozy will no longer be president of france. hold me. he lost an election with 81% voter turnout. that is impressive involvement from a country who's national pass time is going uuuh. this is the worst face of france going along with germany since the last time france went along with germany. even their language is wasteful every word has like six letters you don't even pronounce. i'm not happy to see sarkozy, gosy. this guy is what i need in a french president. a 4 foot tall man who looks at butts or grope people in photo ops or better yet get completely wasted at lunch with vladimir pewten and then hold a press conference. yes, the only thing he is not doing here is going ah-ha hah, this is really the only collection of stereo types that is okay for me to make fun of and he is gone now. and there is nothing left to do. i'm done talking now. ♪ >> we want to hear from you. someone is always in your war room check out online at current.com/thewarroom. it's also where you can l

brett's talking now. >> politics is a game.s, you wish you were the coach of that game so you could take the idiots who are playing bad, sit them down on the bench next to you and say you know what? you are done. dick cheney, you are holding a fundraiser for mit romney? no you are not. you are done. if you are going to raise money, why not use it to pay off the war you and your buddy bushie started. until that's done, you are done. chris christie, you are done eating. you can't be that fat and that angry. it's going to kill you. pick one. the other one, you are done. >> north carolina pastor charles workey. you are done. >> a great, big large if he knew11n- 50 orr100 mil00 ng ng t altlof of thth lesbiania s in there, fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homeo homosexuals and have that fenced electrified. >> i hate to break this to you but lesbian s are queers and homosexual did. i want to say, dancing with the starts, you are done. congrats donald driver. kansas says it's okay for pharmacists t

brett erlich found love letters from other long-long political letters. shh!ing now. >> this week someone leaked the hot steamy diary of one of one of paymentpom's long last girlfriends. i have a diary of those who dated republicans. >> love notes of the g.o.p. chris christie dear diary, today, he took me to an all you can eat buff ate until they ran out of food. he ordered a milk shake with two straws and used them both. i reached for a crouton, and he said the nicest this inc. to me. he told me to get my own. >> mitt romney. >> the food took forever probably because mitt kept changing his mind about what he wanted. halfway through the meal he made up half the wait staff. >> paul ryan. >> paul is so dreamy. he instead of a tip he left a 500 page proposal on how to replace tips with a coupon program. he didn't pay for my dinner but he gave me a copy of ayn rand's "fountain head. >> newt gingrich. >> most guys give you a romantic evening looking at the stars and the moon. he promised me looking at the stars from the i almost choked on my food thinking i was sic

mary brett? >> yes, it must be given in evidence. and my particular concern is cannabis. there's been quite a lot of discussion already about cannabis. and the facts and figures being given out about cannabis are inaccurate, they're misleading. if i talk about frank giving out things, the information, there are grave omission in this the cannabis information. and the scientific evidence is there but a lot of it's being ignored. i'd like the opportunity later in the meeting to tell you -- >> we do have other questions for you. quickly, do you think frank was a success or a failure? the government's initiative? frank? >> frank? oh. there are some very good bits about frank. but no, it's -- im, there was a survey in 2010 by a faction which found only 10% of children would phone frank, would look to frank. this is the sort of thing that's coming through. and i've had personally very negative vibes about frank from all sorts of people. >> very good. we will come and ask you further questions on education. michael ellis, a quick supplementary. >> just if i could ask, miss hitch

brett er lick haslic has the scoop. shhs. bretts talking. >> campaign fundraising season. takes place in months that end. now, there are a lot of events. between democrats and republicans, i want to know: who is holding the event that you would rather go to? earlier this month, obama held an event at george clooney's house. would you rather attend that or the big romney event tonight at the hyatt? you will get the perks except instead of a continental breakfast for free you will get dinner and it will cost $20,000 a play. obama event attendees will rub elbows with jon bon jovi. romney's events' attendees will hang out with chris christie. >> you will be thrown in jail. >> that's him in a good mood. >> obama at jessica parker. she will give pony rides. would you rather go there or attend the romney event at the jackson hole wyoming home of former vice president dick cheney. jackson hole is a skiing town. so this is literally at his evil mountain hideout the before you make out your mind i figureheard he is giving out shirtstion saying "i survived the cheney fundraiser." i a

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>> yes. >> brett, you got to know michael 25 years ago. tell me how you met, and tell me about this art collection because it's something people really don't know much about. >> we first met about 1979, through mayor bradley of los angeles and also through lawrence welk. two different occasions. and the first time that i had a chance to talk to michael he says, now, you're a sculptor. and i says yes. what type of sculptor? i said i build monuments. he said wow, i've never met a monument builder before. and i said to him, thinking i know who michael is. i said what do you do, michael? and he says, oh, you love life. and i'll always remember that. he said i love life. and i said, wow, that's a great job. i love life, too. and he says i'm an artist too, and i like to draw things that inspire my life. and -- >> and this collection. how many pieces are there in it? >> well, i have -- we have 98 pieces. other people have some. and there's about -- maybe there's about 20 of those pieces he did artwork on the other side. i made the paper for micha

shhhh, brett's talking now. >> two quick things, one i can see the future, and two, i bought two rolesweek. this week, chris christie appeared in a viral video with new york mayor, cory booker. next week chris christie will eat cory booker. this week democratic activists concerned with the power of republican super pacs announced the name of their new fund-raising drive for obama. next week, hold the camera -- next week the guys who named the super-o-rama will simultaneously hit their heads and go owe obama-rama. this week a publishing book will release the life and times of the romney dog seamus. and next week they will announce the sales are, if not through the roof at least on the roof. this week obama sat down at a lunch lunch lunchon both sides of congress. next week they will finally decide what to eat. >> this is a big night at current, because the gavin newsom show premiers at 11:00 eastern. lance armstrong is going to bare all to gavin about doping acquisitions, and marissa meyer takes us inside googles b

brett ehrlich has a few ideas. shhhh, brett's talking now. >> happy monday! you look taller. slogan. >> i believe america is on the way up. >> so mitt romney what is your campaign slogan going to be? don't worry, i have tons of ideas. that were organized but we'll go with it. [ censor bleep ] >> okay. first you could take forward and go in another direction. so how about mitt romney backwards but in a good way. or how about this mitt romney upward like my car elevator. >> the real war on women is being waged by the president's failed economic policies. >> i have the perfect slogan with that. mitt romney, am i right ladies. and he also has a problem with hispanics hispanics. of course you may have seen thissed a by karl rove's superpack. so if obama is cool. then mitt romney totally not cool. finally there would be some truth in advertising. i'm done talking now. not again.

miss brett, you wish to add anything on this? >> no. i think the other two are much more -- >> can i say, on the bbc before christmas, that as long as people in the uk sniff coke here or in new york or paris we'll suffer here. we all know that at the moment 2% of people sniff coke here. people at russell brand would like to have us believe that this is common. it is not common, it's common in certain circles f. you decriminalize drugs the chances are the risk you take is greater usage would go up as the rate of smoking which is one fifth of the adult population. i wonder if any of the committee would stop to think how they would feel one fifth of the cabinet, one fifth of their children's school teachers, doctors or nurses possibly being able to sniff cocaine because it's not arrestable. >> the committee has actually met president santos last month and received the same message. it's good of you to remind us. >> i think president san stos being clear he would like to have discussions about decriminalization as we see this is as a way of

their efforts and the whole issue are two of the occupy wall street activists alexis goldstein and brett gold bergan now first i just want to touch on this j.p. morgan story because it is the biggest story in alexis you and i have talked number of times about the volcker rule so i just want to get your take on it because jamie diamond it's funny because you talked about unwinding this position that was something jamie dimon declined to talk about on the conference call yesterday one thing he did say is that this wouldn't have violated the volcker rule so my question to you is he right about that it does this expose some of those loopholes that you've been fighting to close in the volcker rule so technically they did this out of the treasury department and the treasury department is not covered by the volcker rule but the treasury department was never really meant to be the place for these multibillion dollar positions so it is still sort of the jury's still out on whether or not this was an attempt by j.p. morgan to sort of hide proprietary trading inside the treasury department to maybe

instead, we look up brett erlich. shhh!ay know that joe biden came out in favor of gay marriage unless you have been trapped in a losset for the last few days. >> men marrying men, women marrying women, they are entitled to the same rights, all of the civil liberties. >> this is huge for the movement. granted i kind of wish it came from someone who didn't also say this. >> you cannot go to a 7 eleven or a duncan donuts unless you have an indian accent. >> is it over? sorry i had to leave the room. i wish some high-ranking official could back him up. someone did. >> do you believe that will same-sex men and women should be able to get legally married in the united states. >> come on. are you going to start there? >> yes. i do. >> oh, hell yeah. you know who that is. >> that's education secretary arnie duncan. i totally would have known that except i have never heard of him before. just an education secretary telling tales out of school or biden being biden like he was when he told a guy in a wheelchair to do this. stand up s

>> bretts. >> have a seat at that table., so we're moving this inmate into a cell where he's compatible with a cell mate and he'll have his own cell and we're going to figure out where -- who to move where later on. >> in order to keep casper separated from cash, deputies decide to move big daddy to the upper tier. and big daddy is none too happy about the move. >> he disrupted me, got me bounced around, got me bounced out of my cell while i had my own program going and bounced me up here. it ain't cool. because he want to play shower games with fendi. he knows he's not supposed to be doing that. >> big daddy told us he's not gay but is in protective custody because of gang ties. he said he's anything but a gay basher but said he did have it out for casper. >> they did the right thing because i was going to beat the [ bleep ] out of him, seriously. i was going to beat his [ bleep ] in the cell. only me and him in there. you close the door, it is just me and you. you could scream, holler all you want to. by the time they get

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i thought it would end there but according to brett erlich, that's just the beginning. shhh!rate at mitt romney for taking credit for the auto industry bail-out. wait until they see the history channel segment: >> this sunday mitt romney: i will take a lot of credit. 1994, mitt romney runs for u.s. senate. three years later, barack obama rungs for state senate. copy cat. barack obama becoming a politician. >> i will take a lot of credit. >> 1991, a jogging mitt romney says, see. a decade later: >> i will take a lot of credit. >> 1986, romney, sure. >> i will take a lot of credit. 1879, the light bulb thomas edison, the idea for using a light bulb when someone has an idea? >> i will take a lot of credit. >> 1446, b.c., was it the burning bush that inspired moses? or was it? >> 0, that's right: >> i will take a lot of credit. >> this sunday at 9:00 p.m., when it comes to great ideas, history is 100% mitt. i will take a lot of

so, brett, serious question. would you buy french stocks? serious question. >> yes. yes, i would. look, i can't speak for the whole market. the whole market is cheap. a couple of these, the big names. they certainly look, to my eyes, pretty cheap. obviously you want to kick the tires in any individual stock before you buy. but there's some good quality names in there. they priced in an awful lot of bad news. when you look at one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, thinking about six times earnings. the yield is nearly 6%. >> thank you very much. i preernappreciate it. andy busch, you and i are going to go to a french restaurant in new york, that's where all the french people will be. tune in for larry summers tomorrow night, he was obama's chief economist until november 2010. thanks for watching this evening. i'm larry kudlow. [ male announcer ] citi turns 200 this year. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to

shhhh, brett's talking now. >> when mitt romney speaks he tries to make age pact.e is sense. and it always leaves me asking mitt what the hell are you talking about? ♪ >> president obama tucked away the clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded things. >> if you put things in a drawer you didn't discard them. you just put them in a drawer. trash can of discarded ideas, yes. drawer of discarded ideas? >> it was enough to make you wonder if there was a personal beef with the clintons. >> who says i hate this woman so much i'm going to lavish her with prestige. that will show her. >> disappointment is the key in which the president's recollection is being played. >> the key of disappointment. it is right between f-sharp, and f-u. what the hell are you talking about. >> when the men and women saw fire in the distance they didn't wait for somebody else to save them go back to sleep. >> you cut funds for fire departments and, say, schools, so not only would they not call the fire department but that would be

and up next brett ehrlich has waited patiently for this moment. >> yesterday was supposed to be romney'seen a man named after a wild animal, and a man who insists on wearing a wild animal on top of his head. >>read my lips. no new taxes. >>this bill clinton commercial marked a new milestone in the "flip-flop" tv ads. now a days with video tapes, you can go and find a piece of footage of them saying one thing and then find another piece of footage of them contradicting themselves. >>we're never ever going to be able to totally control immigration. i promise you we can end illegal immigration. >>and, sometimes the candidate does the work for the commercial producers. >>i actually did vote for the $87 billion before i voted against it. >>he bragged about voting for the $87 billion to support our troops before he voted against it. >>in this new media age a flip-flop ad is just a verbal gaff away. >>current tv's look at campaign ads that changed history is brought to you by pradaxa. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. i was ta

brett andrews from positive resource center. [applause] >> thank you, rachel. if someone is so kind to take a couple of these. [laughter] good evening, everybody. i'm the executive director of positive resource center and the vice president of the hiv aids provider network. i see i have some colleagues and partners in crime here. bill hersch and courtney. thank you for being here, along with so many other community- based organization representatives. you did a great job. mr. mayor, you and i have been working closely together with supervisor chu and specifically with the leadership of supervisor wiener and supervisor campos. you've done an extraordinary job of helping us with the supplemental piece of legislation for $1.5 million around these ryan white cuts we were dealing with. that great work we have done, we know there's so much more to do. i handed out a presentation for you that's about six pages long that basically lays out the challenges that we face. over the last 11, 12 years, we've watched the hiv aids infection rates to continue to go up for those

. >>> up next brett ehrlich takes out his scalpel to dissect a campaigned a from mitt romney.n-class driving range of more than 550 miles per tank. so you can catch morning tee time in monterey and the afternoon meeting in los angeles, all without running out of gas. just make sure you don't run out of gas. ♪ ♪ hershey's chocolate syrup. stir up a smile. right by those who gave their lives to for this country nearly 70 years ago. >>> what do cute babies have to do with fuzzy math? everything in a presidential campaign. mitt romney mashed them up recently to make a point about the deficit. but brett ehrlich thought his message needed a little honing. >> it's time for an attitude adjustment. so this ad is about president obama and the deficit. >> but mr. president was just being modest. he's in fact america's best president, at piling on debt. so good that he has managed to pile on nearly as much debt as all of the previous presidents combined. >> all right. let me stop you there. you can't compare president obama's debt to people who were presidented in like the 1800s. in the l

shh, brett is talking now. >> happy monday, everybody.he first officialed official ad of his campaign. it's called "day one." >> what would a romney presidency be like? day one, president romney immediate approves the keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that obama blocked. he replaces obama care with sensible healthcare reform. i'm mitt romney, i approve this message. >> good, positive. do you know this is the first of a series of ads. here is the next one. >> what would a mitt romney presidency be like? day two. it's a flip flop of day one. president romney will unapprove the keystone pipeline. then that whole obama care thing, it can stay, i don't know, sleep on it. president romney will fire half of the workforce because it's fun. >> i like being able to fire people. >> then he'll take the money he saved, and then he'll eat it--yum. then he'll reveal the hairstyle with gray on the side is completely fake. president romney is a natural blond. that's what a romney presidency would be like. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this

luckily brett ehrlich is here to give myth a reality check.rett's talking now. ♪ >> mitt romney, you have got to pick a running mate, because it is just getting pathetic. if i have to watch another hopeful dodge the question by saying, i already have the job i want i'm going to lose it. >> i have got the job i want. >> i'm enjoying my time here in the senate. >> i want to be governor of new jersey. >> come on. you want to be vice president, admit id. it is the best job. at least try to make it sound like you don't want the job. watch mitch daniels. >> if i thought that call was coming i would disconnect the phone. >> that's awesome. it's like an estranged lover. instead of like a romantic midnight rendezvous it's like a speech at a plywood factory. and there is no elimination ceremony. so i spent to the supermarket, and brought roses and spent them to your campaign headquarters. at the end of every week, just hold a rose ceremony and eliminate one candidate. i know it will be rough and you will have fewer people jockeying hard to tear down bar

shhhh, brett's talking now. >> happy monday, everyone. of his general election campaign. it's called day one. and here it is. >> what would a romney presidency be like? day one, president romney immediately recruits the keystone pipeline. president romney issues orders to begin replacing obamacare with common sense healthcare reform. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> good, positive but this is the actually the first in a series of ads. here is any next one. >> what would a romney presidency be like. day two, it's pretty much a flip flop of day one, president romney will immediately unapprove the keystone pipeline. then the whole obamacare thing, that can stay well you know. president romney will fire after of the workforce. and then he'll reveal that president romney is a natural blond. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> i can't wait to see what will happen on day three. i'm done talking now. >> thanks everybody for joining us here on "the war room." on thursday night you'll have to

brett is talking. >> my favorite potato person karl rove, obama's promise.>> promise broken. one in five mortgages are under water. >> this is an attack ad or worst ipad commercial ever made. in response, the obama campaign: >> karl rove's group is spending $25 million fromjet donors to tear out the president in a new ad. time to tear this apart. >> the deputy campaign manager delivering cogent straightforward factual rebulthsz to each lie in the rove video. the obama video is treating people like they are smart. big mistake you think turd blossom treats people like they are smart. this keeps playing obama videos even though each video breaks his ipad. don't do it, man. wait. there is no button there. so it's not an ipad. this is worse than i thought. they are scaring republicans with an obama america so poor we will have to buy an off-brand tablet. obama people soup it up and dumb it down. don't use facts. use buzz words. don't take three minutes. take three seconds. and take these bullet points and

shhhh, brett's talking now >> so this weekend was mother's day.ot their mom flowers and a card the romney campaign got their mom a superproduced campaign video. >> we loved it. it was fun. i remember my mom would always say please when are we going to have quiet in this house. >> geez there are a lot of romney boys. >> she left my brother in charge. and i think that was the first time. i was up on the counter, and there was marshmallow flush and i was eating it and my brothers found me and they encouraged me to get even more on my face. >> that's just irresponsible. sure this kid looks cute but imagine if she were first lady she would turn her head for a second, and the whole country would be covered by nutella. >> one time for our

here is jared levy, dan greenhouse, and brett ahrens. good to see you.tt, how possible is it that we see greece leave and europe fall apart? how big a deal for the u.s. economy? >> two separate questions. i mean, i think, look, greece has to leave, i mean, these guys need to call dr. laura. this is a relationship problem. a doomed relationship. it's been clearly doomed for many years, like most doomed relationships, they seem to be spending an enormous amount of time trying to avoid the inevitable. greece has to leave. no intention of paying back the money they received. the germans can't understand this, because they are not greek. >> what does that mean for the u.s. economy? >> it doesn't mean a lot for the u.s. economy, doesn't mean a lot for europe. the only problem is when they basically tie everything to that. i mean, european union has foolishly risked its credibility, drawn a line in the sand in the wrong place. tried to defend greece. >> how should american investors at home think about the situation? >> you can't ignore it everything about head

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