steps in a democrat looks the democrat party which for the nearest exit i hate to say it but sometimes it would be useful if democrats acted more like republicans. after the break i'll tell ya governor scott walker is shifted from his war on unions to a battle against small brewers. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through it if you've made who can you trust no one who is you know view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sections when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more.

many of those states have democratic governors and democratic legislatures.georgia, it is all republican. we are all suffering from the same problem. states cannot spend more money than they take in. so when that amount is cut or when the mandates for additional coverage such as was included in obamacare, the 15 million additional people that will be forced on to the medicaid rolls in the various states are going to cost trillions of dollars in state budgets. republican plan, irresponsible digit -- a responsible budget. it gives states the chance to be the incubators of new ideas and entrepreneurship so that you get better health care to more people. host: we have a tweet about the cost of war. guest: it is a good tweet. i appreciate the question. we should pay for the wars. will we first went into iraq -- when we first went into b iraq, i felt strongly that some of the money we were spending should be eventually pay back to us when they increased their oil revenues. i still feel that way today. that may be part of the way i was reluctant in including and ign

democrats. >> republicans were screaming from the rooftops about fannie mae. >> there was a republican president. why didn't he do something about it? >> he tried. >> for eight years? >> he did. but the point was it was democrats and barney frank and chris dodd. i haven't finished explaining. >> how can you blame the democrats for an eight-year regime which does nothing about it? >> push this politically or rather financially suicidal loans on the banks, literally allowing unemployment benefits to be used as collateral. those mortgages then get bundled into mortgage-backed securities by the big banks. they're spread throughout the economy. when the housing market tanks, that collapses, the entire economy. it is a fact -- >> why didn't your team do something about it? >> they did. greg man cue, the white house economic adviser, there is a long record, this is a boring subject. >> no, i like it. >> their eyes glaze over when you talk about mortgages. but i'll tell you, the republicans were screami

i am a registered democrat. i voted for independence, republican, and democrat depending on the person i liked. amtrak to me is a wonderful service for the entire country. i hope they go back to florida and try to get it all of the east coast, given that i am on the east coast. i consider amtrak to be a modern, up-to-date wagon train. it gives people a chance to go across the country or from place to place in a reasonable and a safe environment and for a reasonable price. i hope everybody starts circling the wagons like the old wagon trains did and get behind this. it is in everybody's interests. they call everything, people, cars, freight, and everything else. we all need to push the wagons in the same direction. host: will stop it there. thank you for the call. guest: we would like to be more up-to-date than we even are today. we have already ordered 17 new electric locomotives for the northeast corridor. we have also ordered one. 30 new single level -- ordered single level pieces for the east coast. we're pla

progressive democrats of america progress as first democrat second both inside and outside the democratic party the reality is we have achieved party system we're the insurgency we're not the democratic party where the progressives are the ones working with the progressive caucus eighty three members that are currently working right now to make sure that we get out of afghanistan are fighting for single payer who are pro the inside out so that's an important distinction we have to bring the street to work that many of the nurses have been doing in regards to single player house to come to the halls of congress that's why with bernie sanders today and the work that he's doing with his senate bill we have to work as progressives inside the party as an insurgency to get the party back to where you know it can be we're celebrating unfortunately a horrific anniversary forty three years since bobby kennedy was assassinated he symbolizes i think most of what progressive democrats america is about is to transform our party we're not celebrating about the kennedy today or remembering about the ken

should be democrats? want to see the democrats saying but maybe for different reasons. >> exactly. go ahead. >> i think to be honest about it, you can make an argument early on that intervention in the economy was necessary. i think you can make an equally valid objection that as this economy has progressed, the magnitude of our debt and magnitude of spending has become a potential or serious drag on the economy and threat to the financial markets. we're all worried about now we're going to find out the bond market collapsed because of the size of the debt. it's not really inkprensible that that was once a good short term policy has become a dangerous long-term policy. i think if you're going to be honest in facing it, there's no way of dealing with that other than looking at medicare, social security and entigtle programs. >> gloria, you just -- but he just failed one thing, he would not mention defense this is the problem with this whole discussion about the deficit, gloria. democrats want to talk about

republicans have agreed to send some aid money their way but only if democrats agree to go along with cuts elsewhere house majority leader eric cantor explained in their mans on c.b.s. is based the nation over the weekend. because families don't have unlimited money and really neither does the federal government there's no question there is a federal role here to play congress will find the money and will be off and until the president comes forward. this is coming off from the same party that threaten to raise taxes on all americans if millionaires and billionaires didn't get their tax cuts too this is the same party that nearly shut down the government over funding for planned parenthood and it's also the party that it's threatening to force the u.s. government into default if democrats don't agree to trillions of dollars in cuts in social safety nets and paul ryan's budget plan the privatizers medicare reminds me of an old national lampoon magazine cover from january seventy three that featured a dog with a gun to it said the red you know by this magazine will kill his dog today re

the democrats have to actually be democrats.have to say, yeah, you know what, to rescue this economy, we believe you need some government spending. we believe the stimulus was the right thing. and the only problem with the stimulus was it was too small. but you're not hearing that from the white house. i think that part of the problem that the democrats face politically is they're not being very xlexplicit about what thei plan is. >> chrystia and i agree on what we want the democrats to say. to be honest about it, you can make an argument early on in this process that intervention in the economy was necessary. but you can make an equally valid argument that the magnitude of our debt and the magnitude of our spending has become a potential or serious drag on the economy and a threat to the financial markets. we're all worried about now that we're going to get up someday and find out that the bond market has collapsed because of the size of this debt. it's not really incomprehensible that what was once a good short-term policy has

it was true the democrats held staggering majorities in both houses of congress, but that huge democratic majority was deceptive. because conservative democrats, many of whom were from the south, were allying themselves with republicans and voting together to strike down key new deal bills. and yet when those conservative democrats were up for re-election, they ran on fdr's coat tails and milked the magical name roosevelt for all it was worth. but when it came to voting, they were happy to knock down new deal programs. and so fdr made a tough decision. well, it was an impulsive decision, an emotional decision and would turn out to be a poorly-managed plan. he decided to spend much of the summer of 1938 traveling across the country and intervening in democratic primary races. he decided to go to rallies and speak out against conservative incumbents and in favor of liberal challengers. he was one angry guy. he was frustrated and deeply resentful at being blocked by member of his own party who had the nerve, the chutzpah, to exploit his own name and his own popularity when it was to their ad

so democrat versus democrat, versus democrat. stay tuned. >> all right, john. can see you won't be getting much sleep, maybe. that is if there's anything left to talk about up there. >> it's every summer like that. thanks, john, for being with us tonight. josh richman, you were here covering the prop 8 stories that stays in the courts and keep making headlines. >> yep. >> this week it was a judge himself sort of on trial. judge vaughn walker. >> last august he had ruled against proposition 8 which was the november 2008 voter approved ballot initiative that wrote the same-sex marriage ban into the state constitution. sponsors of prop 8 had challenged after -- after he had nullified prop 8, challenged his standing to have issued that ruling because he himself is gay and has had a long-term relationship with his partner. and they made the argument that he was biased and should have recused himself. a lot of constitutional and judicial scholars do not think very much of this argument and indeed, one of judge walker's colleagues this week shot down that argument in

democrats don't have his back either. even nancy pelosi threw him under the bus, calling for an ethics investigation.today, harry reid also declined to throw wiener a lifeline. here is what was said when asked if weiner should resign. >> i know congressman wiener. i wish there was some way i can defend him, but i can't. >> why? because, oh, my god, it's a sex scandal. everyone run for the hills. look, i, on the other hand, have been consistent on this i don't give a damn about their sex lives, unless they broke a law, abused their power or somehow affect third jobs. i didn't think the other shirtless wonder, chris lee, who was a republican, by the way, should have stepped down either. neither one of them broke any laws. they just got caught in embarrassing sexual situations. there they are. the shirtless wonder. there is no reason that their sex lives is our business. look, i get it. it is a fun story. i'm also guilty. i also have fun with these stories, especially when it comes to hypocritical family value republicans. i

-- democrat family values. he is the epitome of a democrat culture of corruption, the democrat culture of erection. he is wrong on policy. he is an admitted liar. he used his orifice in congress to conduct his lurid e-messages. he's got it all. >> as usual he is wrong but he has handed him the gun on the smut talk. none of the democrats are running to the cameras even tonight to defend congressman weiner. harry reid did the opposite. >> i know congressman weiner. i wish there was some way i can defend him but i can't. >> what advice would you give if he asked you? >> call somebody else. >> call somebody else. the evidence of weiner's honky tonk actions will keep on growing until he steps aside. that was my position last night. it's my position again tonight. this story is going to continue to drip. on monday weiner gave i thought a very weak answer when asked about phone sex. >> did you have phone sex with these women? did you ever have an affair with one of these women? >> i've never as i said in my statement

democrats suck.rvatives to destroy a congressman that broke no laws, and constituents wanted him to stay. and this from joy, he's doing the right thing for his wife and family and constituents and seeking treatment for himself. and then this from scynthia. i find it offensive this decision has been taken away from his constituents, short of any legal violations. they elected him and they should be the sole influencers whether he stays or leaves. >> looks like he has support in new york as some of the voter constituents there say they believe he should be able to serve. we will have more information about the congressman from his early days in politics until now. that is after the break. aveeno has an oat formula, now proven to build a moisture reserve, so skin can replenish itself. that's healthy skin for life. only from aveeno. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for t

the democrats and not offering anything. andblicans have stepped anup offered up plan, and you can critique it, but it is essentially what was offered by a commission in 1999 headed by alice rivlin. >> it is completely and listed to think you will do with this -- completely unrealistic to think he will do this without tax increases. . >> democrats have not offered -- the republicans have offered to cut $6.60 trillion. in the end, it would obviously have to be a deal where taxes are included, but the democrats have done nothing but demagogue the plan and destroy it, leaving us with what? the obama administration budget, defeated 97-0 in the senate because it is so embarrassing. >> you are saying that republicans are going to face up to reality and raise taxes? >> the republicans are opening the debate by saying we start by cutting completely out of control spending -- >> endorsing higher taxes? >> of course i am endorsing higher taxes. i have done it for years and i did a month ago. we are historically much higher than we wer

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democrats have said just the opposite. do you see some areas that aren't getting talked about that are potential consensus areas? >> well, social security is an example you don't hear very much about. and we all remember 1983, or most of us do, when president reagan and tip o'neill got together and made decisions that made social security solvent for a long period of time. and nobody paid a political price for it. mr. reagan was re-elected in 1984. social security is an area where we should be able to agree pretty quickly. while it wouldn't save too much money, it would be a signal that we could deal with entitlements. you can look at the simpson-bowles debt commission and see where some democrats and rrps came to an agreement. and you can even look at the gang of six, now the gang of five centers, where they had some agreement. so you put any group of democrats-republicans together who are working in good faith, they ought to be able to figure out how to stop spending money that we don't have. >> democrats have been resis

democrats are a little more forgiving. but just a little. >> what anthony weiner did as far as i know up to now didn't hurt anybody other than himself and maybe his good wife. >> i wish there was some way i could defend him, but i can't. >> it's a loose rope around their ankle. >> republicans are going to keep this in the media as long as they can. >> last thing we need is emeshed in a discussion about congressman weiner and his twitter activities. >> what will the house democrats do? >> nancy pelosi has a desire to remove that rope. >> the next seven days are going to be hard for him. >> not if the new york tabloids are any indication. >> the most important story of the day. the naked truth. >> constituents in new york city love their guys. >> they're not easily shocked in new york. >> this story officially became sad. >> anthony wiener enough said. >> the actual part of men doing stupid things, we do stupid things sometimes. >> for a look at anthony wiener's future, we'll look to the past. >> no one wanted this president

picture after weeks of casting a dark dark shadow across america the winner is finally gone the democratic congressman announced his resignation today so can we as a country finally put this whole wiener must behind us here to bring you that discussion in just a bit and riots continue on the streets of athens with protesters furious over the government's austerity measures so could that financial unrest actually spread and what's next for greece. well you need to know this the scandal that has mesmerized washington as well as of course people news channels is finally coming to a close and new york congressman anthony weiner today gave in to mounting pressure mostly from his own party and the president and that announced resignation from office now if you're thinking of i guess i might be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do to fight for the middle class you know struggling to make it unfortunately the distraction that i have created has made that impossible. so today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. all right well if you happen to be one o

he's a democrat and here as well. be debating, but he's got some thoughts about what's going on. our live interview with robert gibbs coming up. meanwhile, stunning news about the so-called gay blogger said to have been kidnapped in syria. lisa sylvester is monitoring that and some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what's going on here, lisa? >> reporter: hi, wolf. well, a blog that drew worldwide attention has now been revealed as a hoax. perpetrated by this man, an american scholar living in scotland. tom mcmaster led readers to believe that the blog belonged to a young lesbian in syria and entries claiming she was abducted sparked an online campaign demanding her release. mcmaster said he was trying to draw attention to the dire situation in syria. cnn was among the many organizations reporting on the blog, and cnn has not been allowed into syria to comfort unrest. >>> fire crews are making some progress on that huge wildfire in arizona, the second largest on record in that state. they hav

house democrats, say he has to resign. we'll bring in steny hoyer, the number two democrat in the house, and republican congressman paul ryan, the architect of the republican economic plan, to talk about that, and whether the country is headed into another recession. senator lindsey graham is just back from afghanistan. we'll ask him, is it going to be possible to bring our troops home from there on schedule? it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. the number two democrat in the house leadership, steny hoyer; the republican chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan, are in the studio with us. mr. hoyer, this thing with congressman weiner turned even worse, if that can be believed, overnight. now, new photos of weiner apparently which he apparently took of himself posing before a mirror in the house gym have shown up on the web site tmz. at l

other democrats in the past have had people defend them. but as david pointed out, the performance that he conducted, being abusive to dana and tom barrett and then being dishonest to wolf and the rest of the journalists, makes it impossible for anybody to defend him. >> david, how long do you think this will go on for, an investigation like this? >> the investigation could go on a while. i think the real question now is, how many legs does the story itself have? how many women come forward, what kind of pictures do they have to display. the next three or four days are crucial for this. if this storm passes, he could survive. i doubt it. i do think there is a political aspect. there are a lot of democrats who are mad at him because they thought they were on the offensive over medicare and the ryan plan. remember that? and this sort of blotted that out and they don't like to go into an election campaign with an albatross. >> dana, paul, go ahead. >> that's 17 months ahead. i don't think democrats are wore yesterday about it in the election.

democratic line. caller: i'm trying to figure out hy we can't deo what the reagan administration did because they got us out of the depression. host: thank you. congressman adam smith is the guest today marking the 100th day of u.s. efforts in libya. we want to share some of his comments in the program but i want to let you see the front page of the "washington post." no fast ends to the battle in libya. the piece points out as nato bombs rained on libya in march the president and others assumed the worried public that it would be over within weeks. now the springtime incursion has stretched into summer and gaddafi's resilience has caused them to struggle. calls are growing to end even as nato pleads for more time. as it enters the fourth months officials insist that the -- that they are succeeding and gaddafi will be the arab spring's third casualty. further in a couple of facts. first of all on america's military, part of the funding has been stripped in great britain. a top commander sang as it goe

, because it is a democratic president but not tempered all that much and democrats in congress have grown increasingly unhappy because guantanamo is still open. the president has adopted some of the techniques that president bush used to deal with terrorist threats. there's afghanistan and iraq. and now libya. and we saw that reflected a little bit, along with the strong congressional prerogative >> brown: todd you mentioned hillary clinton trying to sway some votes. were there others? was there a big effort by white house to try to get people on their side? >> there was an overt effort, which was the secretary of state. there was a more occult effort this morning, the national security advisor, tom donnelly, inviting a couple of democrats, some of them anti-war democrats, directly down to the situation room to try to convince them, ostensibly on a classified basis what's really going on in libya ask why the president needs their votes. i was not in the room. none of us was. but that seemed to be-- that seemed to be the point there. so a very public move by secretary, working on mem

ke ifn, democrat -- ken, democrat, california. what do you think? caller: i am 62 years old and i really do believe part of the problem our world has today is you have the second generation ownership taking over companies, their parents who built businesses. the reality is they have no compassion, nor do they have any understanding for the working individual. for them to go ahead and outsource their company's business is no big deal. and they look at it from the standpoint, well, i am still making the same money. the reality of the situation is, when you are talking about the republican party, they got to stop throwing obama out of the window and then complaining how he lands. this makes no sense at all. i don't know what did do to get these people to work with each other. host: thank you for calling in this one. republicans, of course, met with president obama yesterday and democrats are meeting with him today and in about 15 minutes, barbara lee, a democrat from california, will take your calls and talk about the democrat meeting with the presiden

they are getting his resignation according to one democratic source i spoke with. how this is going to come out and what exactly anthony weiner is going to say we are working our sources to get that information. the headline we do expect anthony weiner to resign his seat. this is nearly three weeks after he initially sent that lewd tweet and started this whole issue rolling and started this big scandal. for somebody who has had a very promising career in the democratic party and certainly has -- has been in a very, very bad place, according to many democratic sources who have been talking to him the past few

republican senators, democratic senators. republican house, democratic house. i met with the leaders multiple times. as a certain point, they need to do their job. host: that is what the president had to say at his news conference at the white house. we want to hear what you have to say to the president or congress or both. our first call comes from ohio on our line for republicans. carol, you are on "washington journal." go ahead, carol. caller: democrat. host: sorry about that. caller: when i hear the republican party, for 30 years they say tax cuts would do it -- make jobs. what did these tax cuts do the last 10 years? nothing. senator byrd was always saying we are your employees, you hire us. if you as an employees say to your employer i am having trouble paying my bills, i would like to have my pay cut. that is what the tax cuts mean to me. how many people out there who are employees are going to say to my employer i want you to cut my pay because i can't pay my bills. i think we need to get rid of these loopholes. we need to get rid of a lot of things, al

here's what the california democrat had to say.st: yes, we want to remove tax subsidies for big oil but we want to remove tax breaks to corporations that sent jobs overseas. the list goes on. i do not know if that's a reason to walk away from the table when we are trying to find a balanced approach. i have been encouraged in the last weeks by the reports of mr. van hollen and mr. cliburn. was at the talks -- was that the talks with the vice-president. in a spirit of goodwill and a constructive way. host: the comments of democratic leader nancy pelosi yesterday on capitol hill. this thed comment from oblivi vivianne, one of our regular tweeters. what is your take on all of this? caller: i think president obama has put our country in so much debt that the cities cannot get any money from the federal government for their roles or homes or nothing. this is worse than jimmy carter. we cannot even go grocery shopping without high prices at the grocery stores. gas prices have gone up. i do not understand this. we have to start getting out

he's not doing any favors to the democratic party. and every single day i wake up to find out that there are competing websites and competing, you know, media entities that are breaking new so sordid details in this thing. it comes down to whether pelosi and hoyer come up to him and say, come on, guy, you got to step down. >> look 5, i think it's fair to conclude at this point -- your conclusion is correct. i want to understand a little bit more. i think it's fair to conclude there's now been a crystallization of -- around the conclusion that he is, as you say, doing damage to the democratic party and there will be pressure brought to bear to have him resign. i want to understand your logic because you -- not that you will dictate the outcome but you're becoming a force in the media. that is what you do want to be. and hats off to you for succe succeedisuccee succeeding in that. but i want to understand your logic. is it because of the lies that he denied this behavior that he is so damaging to the democratic party? or is it because s

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yeltsin was a democrat in the early ninety's by the end of the ninety s. he was a different person talking about the political system it were it became very difficult to access him much more difficult than to access gorbachev in the end of vegas there were all kinds all weird people around him who had absolutely no legitimacy including on a political base was never elected by a. soul basically people when they made demonstrations in support of us in one thousand nine hundred one what they wanted was kind of where social democratic woke early this morning out of the router and radio continue our discussion of the legacy of boris led yeltsin they were going. to. be. to. blame. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world. told for a show the e.u. . more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctic dots and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean combs discovers fluff to make sounds article is so special and instructive for many wildlife in antarctica is the place

at least from democratic leaders.ple in his own party who has been pushing him to leave will be a sense of relief. they made a decision over the weekend inside the democratic leadership he is too much of a distraction and too much of a political problem and she decided to go public which is very rare to do with their own and say it is time to go. i will keep working my sources and try to get you more information but we have the headline right now. >> yes, you do. one more question, if you don't mind. there were a number of people coming forward there on the hill, even just americans responding to this story, saying what is the deal? what is taking him so long? why doesn't he just resign? all of these people calling for his resignation and her people coming forward. we got word he was waiting for his waive to get back. we got news they were expecting their first child. what is your take? do you think he was waiting for her to come back and them to have a discussion about this? >> that's a great question. yes. absolutel

if the democratic leaders and to expel him from the democratic caucus, what would be his purpose?ow could he continue to serve the members of the constituents in his district? guest: it would still be able the vote. they could not strip him of his ability to vote. the idea that he would be kicked out of the democratic caucus is such a strong concept. the last person was jim traficant, convicted of serious corruption and and didn't anthony weiner's case, he has not even been charged with a crime. this is a feeding frenzy going on around him because of the nature of what is going on and their revulsion with them, that is the only thing that could explain the idea that they could read -- that they want to get rid of the scandal because it is unpalatable. but what anthony weiner has done it is not something that he has been charged with anything, not corruption. if they kicked him out of that caucus, that would be setting quite a precedent for themselves about getting members -- writ of members of congress or punishing them. that would probably be a bad few others that would be kicked

democrats need to step up and really go after this issue. this sense of entitlement is where the top 2% is taking us in this country. leading the way, fighting back at this in my opinion is alabama state representative daniel bowman. mr. bowman entered the legislature as a republican last november but after alabama republicans went too far attacking teachers, he switched parties. great to have you with us tonight mr. bowman. what was the defining moment for you when you realized that this isn't going to work for me anymore. it's about the people. tell us what happened. >> well, ed, first i want to thank you for allowing me to be on your show. debt fining moment for me is when elected in november i realized that i was for the working class people. i was for the poor, the middle class, just your average day person. and when i got to montgomery i realized that the republican party just wasn't for that and after several bills that come out of the house and the senate, were picking on state workers and low class, socioeconomic class people. i jus