emily, what do you make of david vitter's durability?essional sex workers, they are called now, everybody knows about it. all his voters knew about it. he's back and they are talking about him for governor. >> it's truly amazing, it really is. i think it shows how much we are willing to forgive. i mean, david vitter was put out to the woodshed for a while here in washington. you would see him down on the floor and the senate and nobody would be standing around him. he would be loan knee and off td closed doors. maybe they were a little friendlier and didn't and warmer and didn't ostracize him. but he's put that behind him and a couple years later he's a-okay. and he's completed his rehabilitation. he's out of the woodshed, so clearly there's a template for this. and i think what he did is sort of stuck around and kept his head down, which is one strategy, but there are plenty of others. there are plenty of ways for men -- we don't really have women with sex scandals. >> hold on, gene, what about -- i would have never marked him, mark san

in this case senator david vitter is more progressive on the banks than the obama administration. obama administration with time geithner and now with jack lew and treasury saying we have to protect the banks. our beloved cherished banks not break them up. now you have republicans saying this is a free market principle. comeing to a position that is more progressive than the obama administration. you wonder why i think obama is a right-winger. i talked to sherrod brown more about the grand bargaining and medicare. listen to the details here. where is the red line and what is the president going to do. >> alan grayson's letter on the house, the house side, he said he wants progressives to sign on saying no cuts for social security medicare, medicaid under any deal. do you agree with that, or do you think that that's putting too harsh of a red line. >> i want to trust the president mostly on this, but i also draw the lines, too. for instance, i was in youngstown in a town hall maybe two years ago and a woman stood up, she said, i'm 63 years old. i just want to stay alive for another

however carlson was quoted speaking about david vitter's prostitution scandal.he really did hire one. back then, tucker said... >> john: richard you have be in politics for a long time. have you been seen a more blatant example of be careful what you wish for. >> didn't the woman say she was making it up? >> john: the woman in question said she had never seen menendez. >> she was making it up. >> john: accused "the washington post" of lying. >> this whole thing with men endez is crazy. it is a vendetta. i don't know where -- who found this but good for them. >> john: tina, does this prove tucker carlson is to journalism what he is to "dancing with the stars"? >> yes. he's not a journalist. he's an agitator. completely different. like to call him a journalist is inaccurate and something he would say about someone who was also an agitator. >> john: you're right. >> clearly, i would have to say if it would be more like europe. i don't care what david vitter did or eliot spitzer or anthony weiner or bill clinton. i think we need to focus on policy. >> john: they car

reaction now from republican senator david vitter. >> yeah.been working with democratic senator sherrod brown on a bill to make sure the taxpayers never have to bail out the big banks again. that too big to fail issue. we'll get to that in a moment. first you just heard eamon's report on the too big to jail issue in washington. what's your reaction to that? >> i think it's yet another aspect of too big to fail. more evidence that this is, indeed, a continuing problem. and we need to do something to solve it. i think dodd-frank has obviously not solved it. i think it has made it worse because they give advantages. >> do you just want to boost the capital that banks have? or do you want to break these banks up? when you look at the legislation you have been working on, you're requiring banks to hold much more higher capital levels. we all know there are unintended consequences. even the fdic would say the banking capital is at or near record levels. if this is going to hamper the banks' abilities to lend to small businesses, how is that a good i

. >> the republican david vitter from louisiana has a bill out and would allow drakes bay to stay open for ten more years. what do you make of all of that? >> well, it's, again, the idea that if we can set a precedent, the republicans, can set a precedent of allowing a private property owner to have extra rights that they don't currently have or recognized by the federal government or the courts, if they can set a precedent through court or congress, it could help private businesses throughout the united states who are trying to get more rights on public land. >> these creatures are floater feeders. they actually clean the water. >> yes. >> how can that be bad for the environment? >> they are not bad for the environment necessarily. the oyster farm is debatable. the end of the day, the question was, are we going to set this precedent and allow this lease to continue on just because this oyster farm is not necessarily bad for the environment. >> what is interesting, kevin, the owner of the oyster farm is backed by the non-profit group cause of action. that is giving him free legal repre

david vitter and bill clinton both held on to power and the media gets over it pretty quickly if youontinue to exercise power, do your job, and move forward. the people who weren't in power, edwards was out. eliot spitzer had a legislature and potential indictment hanging over him. people forced out, then are in the wilderness. and it is easy to beat up on them. other pieces so different about petraeus that has gotten lost is he is in charge of surveillance and was brought down by, i think, excessive surveillance. if you look at what the nsa does nowadays, they take 1.7 billion communications a day. that is an astounding amount of information that is gathered on all of us. and i think if we take a standard in this country or in our political system of the worse e-mail or text you've ever written, and put that in the hand of government or in the case of petraeus, fbi investigation, that started with cyber crime and turned into the highest levels of espionage, which i don't think was overseen properly, we have an investigation because people were interested in the sex and potential abu

filters on that to protect the public from the radiation and they were little it was a letter from david vitter in the senate and fred upton. in the house telling the n.r.c. to back off regulations that would protect the public from getting dosed by radiation now that's not exactly the role that senators and congressmen are supposed to play when they're doing oversight of the nuclear issue they're supposed to enforce the laws not try to downplay the significance of problems and make them go away and we see this time and time again with different regulatory agencies the f.d.a. michael x. vice president month and the now running food safety i mean is there someone in the industry that's preventing this kind of regulation from happening or is it just a revolving door and conflicts of interest with taking the money they're going. history at the n.r.c. of regulatory capture. back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight there was a an article written on inner cities coziness with industry written by oversight committees and threads history the n.r.c. has had a habit of siding with the regulated rat

south carolina and by all accounts will win it and make of this year and philandering senator david vitter who cheated on his wife with a prostitute he has rehabilitated his image so well he's running for governor all three went public with an apology. i. have been faced with what i want for my deep apologies to. and disappointed with these actions from mark. so it's like saying sorry goes a long way it appears that these politicians are made of tough one when it comes to bouncing back after scandals. well still ahead here on r t when you hear about the border drug smuggling you probably don't think of a u.s. citizen a newly released report is shedding light on the smugglers from within our country's borders more of that after the break. the same story doesn't make it news. no puff pieces some tough questions. securing our borders remains a hot topic as the u.s. struggles to keep the bloody drug war in mexico from spilling into the u.s. but you'd be surprised to find out who exactly is caught in these drug busts it turns out it's not the drug lords or members of the infamous drug cartels f

in south carolina and by all accounts will win it in may of this year and philandering senator david vitter who cheated on his wife with a prostitute he has rehabilitated his image so well he's running for governor all three went public with an apology. i. i've been unfaithful i want to again offer my deep sincere apologies to all. and disappointed with these actions from my past. so it looks like saying sorry goes a long way but it appears these politicians are made of teflon when it comes to balancing back after scandals. so that here on araa to you when you hear about border drug smuggling you probably don't think of a us citizen a newly released report shedding light on the smugglers from within our country's borders more on that after the break. the same story doesn't make it news no softball interviews no puff pieces some tough questions. let me let me we're going to let me ask you a question. here. is what we're having a debate we have very nice. to be with you it's not it was just about staying there again you're going to be i don't want me to talk about the agreement we. securing o

banks is now bipartisan sherrod brown but as progressive as you can get on the democratic side david vitter about as conservative as you can get on the republican side are teaming up to work on breaking up the big banks the six largest banks the united states have combined assets equal to sixty five percent of the g.d.p. of the united states two tenths of one percent of all the banks in america which is basically five banks control seventy percent of all banking assets is this not you know the essence of the kind of an op of the stuff that you know both republicans and democrats have fought against from teddy roosevelt to the day since the gilded age horace absolutely not i think this is a terrible idea and i think it's going to have serious consequences for investors as well as people on the bottom end of the table having a good wells fargo bank of america and elderly wise and everybody and you end up with want to take away too big to fail and monopoly that's what's going on here. so how domino effect on them is we're going to tell you that the only way you can have a monopoly is for the g

. >> michael: they are being lead by david vitter who himself does not have that clean of a slate. >> some stuff at him, but ultimately he will get through. he has been vetted nationally before, but they will throw some blows at him. the thing to watch for is how mean are they going to get? as a count think supervisor perez supported driver licenses for undocumented workers. we'll hear about that. >> michael: at a certain point it just becomes annoying to listen to them do all of this stuff, too. in the autopsy report we heard that they want to embrace some sort of immigration reform. i'm going to play you two different perspectivesish perspectivesish -- perspectives on this issue. first from donald trump. >> you know the 11 million illegals, even if given the right to vote, you are going to have to do what is right, but the fact is 11 million people will be voting democratic. >> we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons, and we have got to understand that. >> michael: okay. trump is a class a buffoon, he is totally insignifica

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. >> there is this bipartisan bill, from senators david vitter, a louisiana rather, and sherrod browng banks. the measure has changed from bill to bill, i haven't looked at them recently. but do you think we have the ability to do that without actually roiling the big banks, it is better than what we have now? >> yes, i think banks can be broken up, it is not something we have a lot of experience doing. and so you would get a lot of wailing and nashing of teeth from wall street. but if you have the will, they are half doing it in the uk with this thing called vickers, where they're basically telling the banks to break themselves in half and run themselves as two corporations, citybank broke itself in half, banks do this all the time. we could force them to do this. >> felix and eliot spitzer, i would love to keep talking about it. thank you for joining us. >>> the first for the united nations is simply admitting they do have a problem. and they do have a problem. coming up. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you

david vitter, to become talking about breaking up the big banks and say what we have now is uncompetitive the president of the -- had a great op-ed in the "wall street journal" saying break them up. he is a conservative voice. a strain of populism. it resides in both parties. i think that is where you see the convergence between a vitter and brown or elizabeth warren and i think all are correct. there is that populism. >> what do you think needs to be and what do you think needs to be done about too big to fail? >> i think we should end it. i think the policies that are articulated by fisher in the op-ed today saying you must raise your capital there will not be a guarantee and say to every customer of your banks you must sign a statement knowing you will not be bailed out. so that if your deposit, anything above $2506,000 or you've bought a credit to fail swap you will not be guaranteed. customers know that they will not be guaranteed. the banks will have to pay more for capital and force them over time to slim down and do you what we did for 50 years, set numerical limits on the size of

moments later republican secretary david vitter said he would block that nomination.>> good to be with you. >> greta: why do you want to block tom perez from being the secretary of labor. >> and civil rights, i think he's completely politicized that office and running it like an extension of the national democratic party or even an extension of obama's reelection campaign and i'm very concerned about that. >> greta: what makes you say that? >> because they've sued louisiana and it's off base. >> greta: they've won. >> no, they haven't. >> greta: i thought they won in-- >> it's an ongoing litigation. >> greta: in january, didn't the judge have the trial in october and rule in january? >> no. >> greta: that the state of louisiana violated the federal law failing to offer an opportunity to vote for all applicants, that's wrong. >> it's ongoing, that part is under appeal, but it's a major, major effort to really intimidate louisiana, its offices to get personal information, personal voter i.d. information which is supposed to be confidential under state and federal law. l

accept bill clinton fooling around, that we'll accept what mark sanford has done, we'll accept what david vitter>> go tell the south carolinas they're becoming europeans. they won't understand that at all. >> well, and going back to anthony weiner, also his other problem is he could not have handled that whole thing in a worse way. less than the infidelity is the dishonesty initially about what was going on. once he came out with it, he seem very contrite. the american people are very forgiving. i thought of another politician who could offer some advice. one of my favorite moments from the republican 2012 primary. let's take a look. >> as you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to abc news and another interview with the "washington post" and this has gone viral on the internet. she said you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? >> no. but i will. [ cheers and applause ] i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it har

you've got louisiana senator david vitter surviving a prostitution scandal, bill clinton has never beenthe other side, john edwards and larry craig, of course, of the infamous bathroom footsies. what do you think separates someone who can come back from someone who doesn't? >> i think if you look at a lot of people who have come back. bill clinton being perhaps the best example. someone who was able to sort of get back to focusing on substance and allow that sort of salacious conversation to become a side conversation. for someone like mark sanford, in order to have a big rebound, he's going to have to focus on things like his record as governor, things that make him popular from a policy perspective so that the conversation isn't just one about personality. >> is it mostly about that, do you think, chris? or is the key you've got to apologize and look somewhat sincere? you've got to get punished and seem to suffer. more than just, say, get your name recognition up by being mocked by leno and letterman. >> you can never underestimate the ability of the american people to forgive someone

banks is now bipartisan sherrod brown but as progressive as you can get on the democratic side david vitter about as conservative as you can get on the republican side are teaming up to work on breaking up the big banks the six largest banks the united states have combined assets equal to sixty five percent of the g.d.p. of the united states two tenths of one percent of all the banks in america which is basically five banks control seventy percent of all banking assets is this not you know the absence of the kind of an op leaves stuff that you know both republicans and democrats have fought against from teddy roosevelt to the day since the gilded age horace absolutely not i think this is a terrible idea and i think it's going to have serious consequences for investors as well as people on the bottom end of the table how to get wells fargo bank of america and elderly wise and everybody that you end up with want to take away too big to fail and the monopoly that's what's going on here might not know how i'm going to eat anything if i live it will tell you that the only way you can have a mono

david vitter and other conservatives say perez is too partisan as head of the justice department's civilsion, but supporters say perez is a fierce defender of civil rights, who's been working to clean up his department. now that hillary clinton is a former cabinet member, she's publicly announcing for the first time that she supports same-sex marriage. that puts her in line with other leaders of the democratic party including president obama, and, yes, her husband. it's adding fuel to speculation she may be laying groundwork for a presidential bid in 2016. i know you think she will. >> if she's healthy. >> if her health stands, yes. >> i think she will. >> yeah. >>> tomorrow, pope francis will be formally installed as head of the roman catholic church. the president of the pope's native argentina will be there. christina hernandez kreshner met with him today. fernandez said she asked the pope to intervene with argentina's dispute over the falkland islands. >> joe biden is representing the united states as the pope's installation and is squeezing in diplomacy, meeting today with the itali

david vitter didn't pay that much for his?no this ish we started off this morning with such a washington story but, you know it has national implications because i think it says a lot about the media. here is what's going on. you probably heard about the bob woodward flap. he is a great journalist great investigative reporter. he will go do you know in history as one of the journalist who the has inspired thousands and thousands, tens of thousands, probably, of people to get into journalism because of the job that he and carl burn accident scene on watergate way, way back in the nexton years. right? since then, he is still at the washington post still writes good inside books. eats got sorted. he gets people to talk you would never belief and he has written the inside story, you know, the clinton white house and the bush white house and, of course one at least already on the obama white house but, you know, sometimes and they are all bestsellers and he is on all of the big shows. he is the star but sometimes all of that celebr