. >>> phil donahue, president of the catholic league and chad griffin, incoming president of the human rights campaign. welcome to you both. let me start with you, chad, if i may. what is your reaction to what happened today? >> it's astonishing what president obama did today. a lot of people out of washington are giving the political reaction. but to lbgt people across the country, it was a very personal and emotional reaction. the president today didn't just say that he supports gay marriage, he did it in a way by describing what brought him to that point. his two daughters, his wife, people in the military who don't have the same rights as their colleagues, marines, navy officers. but he's already impacted the lives of millions of people across this country, piers. every single light lbgt people get in their beds, turn out the light and instead of going to sleep like their friends and colleagues, they stay awake and stare at the ceiling fearing the next day. what the president of the united states said today is that he cares for them. he is their president, he is standing up for the

donahue is even more ridiculous. >> stephanie: the machine only goes to 9.rtnership benefits. >> just like as a company they're pretty good on green issues. but it doesn't always transfer on air. >> stephanie: sean hannity hasn't gotten the memo yet. >> it is snowing in the winter. it is al gore joke here. rush limbaugh on the president. >> see how easy people get played? see how easy the media narrative or template to create and have everybody fuss. all of these people writing checks today. do not know he's been all over the ballpark on this. for the most part, 2006, he said he's for it. he's nothing but a john kerry, i was for it before i was against it. >> stephanie: nice try. your candidate mitt romney, not a flip-flopper at all. >> not exactly all over the place. he had a position i think he articulated in 1996. this is different than that. it is not like he's gone back and forth odd years, even years. limbaugh didn't unload on the issue itself. it was again obama has been lying to us. he hasn't been telling the truth. it is all about money and things l

. >> let me turn to bill donahue. you don't agree with this. what was your reaction to what the president did today? >> well, it all started with our friend, mr. joseph biden, from delaware on "meet the press." he brought the guy out and asked to come clean. as you said obama has always liked the idea of two men getting married. he had to change because he wanted to become president and he said he invoked his christian moorings. he said he was a christian, and christians don't believe in two men getting married. now today he had to wiggle with that, didn't he? so he said well, i'm going to invoke the golden rule. the problem with the golden rule idea is that it covers the marriage of patricia and alan muth. they are brothers and sisters. they went into the courts and argued that they have a right to get married. now, i want to ask this gentleman here, does he have a problem with that? >> okay. well, do you have a problem with that? >> look, the gentleman brings up the golden rule, and the golden rule really is something that most of us were tau

so meet tom donahue he's the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce and the latest high stakes bitter hoop to walk away from this year's election with his very own bought and paid for politician this morning donahue announced that the chamber of commerce fully intends to take advantage of the supreme court citizens united decision that lets corporations and rich people swim in unlimited amounts of money in our elections and he plans to dump more than fifty million bucks into defeating president obama and democrats this year sure if you corporatists democrats will collect some of the chambers campaign spending but if two thousand and ten was any indication when the chamber spent thirty three million bucks on the midterm elections the republicans will overwhelmingly benefit most from the chambers electioneering blitzkrieg so when we had the chambers two thousand and twelve election spending commitment to the hundreds of millions of dollars promised by karl rove and his super pacs plus the hundreds of millions more pledged by the koch

please. >> tom donahue, the head of the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> nick, good to see you again.ery briefly, i hope that this report, and perhaps i missed something, can say more about the fact that nato is fundamentally a political alliance of the military arm, and not a military alliance of the political arm. i have worked with future orientation and training. the two functions are not well integrated, the diplomatic and military. my question to you is -- what can be done in chicago? not only for the potential cuts in the u.s. budget, but equally draconian foreign service u.s. that can do more -- as much good as harm. >> thank you for offering up the soft ball. i would very much agree with you. as we think about military power, it is just as important to sustain the health and strength of our foreign service and diplomacy in general. i would say that you have been a leader on this, bob. the last decade was unusual in american history. we have never fought two land wars simultaneously in our history except for between 1941 and 45. in a way, we lead with the military in a diploma

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dan donahue, traitor. good night.ng, everybody. >>> when i was asked to be a part of this documentary, i absolutely said yes right off the bat. because it's important to raise awareness about guys coming home and how difficult it is for them to be able to find employment. >> do you have a plan for employment?

tom donahue, head of the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> good to see you again. very briefly.d something, can say more about the fact that nato is fundamentally a political alliance with the military arm and not a military alliance. i spent much of the last two years working on a report on the future of the foreign service and particularly education and training and that has a direct bearing on what germac does. these are not integrated into our own government. diplomatic and military. what can be done in chicago not only to reflect the concern about potential cuts in the u.s. defense budget but diplomatic budgets that can do just as much if not more harm? >> never a problem to have a question where i appreciate the choir and try to hit the soft ball that my good friend bob c. crawford -- thank you for that. i would agree with you. as we think about sustaining u.s. military power, just as important to sustain the health and strength of our foreign service, diplomatic corps. you have been a leader on this. the last decade was unusual in our industry. we fought two major land wa

dan donahue, traitor. good night. thanks for watching, everybody. >>> when i was asked to be a part of this documentary, i absolutely said yes right off the bat. >> welcome home. >> thank you. >> because it's important to raise awareness about guys coming home. >> welcome home. >> and how difficult it is for them to be able to find employment. >> do you have a plan for employment? >> it's great to see our families. it's been a really long time. >> good to see you, man. >> who's going to put me to work so i can take care of them? >> who knows. it could be a month. could be a year before i can find a job. >> right, left. >> i applied to a lot of places. the reason they didn't hire me is because i was in the national guard. >> i don't think that a lot of people are aware of the fact that what our veterans and our families go through when they come home. >> just give us a chance to prove that we're actually more than just soldiers. we might be the best workers you've ever seen in a long time. >> when they come home is act

dan donahue, traitor. good night. thanks for watching, everybody. >>> good morning.art," i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm ali

dan donahue, traitor. good night.ody. >>> when i was asked to be a part of this documentary, i absolutely said yes right off the bat. >> welcome home. >> thank you. >> because it's important to

please. >> tom donahue, the head of the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> nick, good to see you again. very briefly, i hope that this report, and perhaps i missed something, can say more about the fact that nato is fundamentally a political alliance of the military arm, and not a military alliance of the political arm. i have worked with future orientation and training. the two functions are not well integrated, the diplomatic and military. my question to you is -- what can be done in chicago? not only for the potential cuts in the u.s. budget, but equally draconian foreign service u.s. that can do more -- as much good as harm. >> thank you for offering up the soft ball. i would very much agree with you. as we think about military power, it is just as important to sustain the health and strength of our foreign service and diplomacy in general. i would say that you have been a leader on this, bob. the last decade was unusual in american history. we have never fought two land wars simultaneously in our history except for between 1941 and 45. in a way, we lead with the military in a diplo

bill donahue is president of the catholic league and he's here to tell us more. how are you doing, carol? >> i'm good. so, bill, what's the big concern by the bishops? >> well, i think the bishops have a moral responsibility to be responsive to the mothers who have come forward over the years to parish priests and the bishops saying we're concerned about the politicalization of the girl scouts. what do they mean by that? well, the global group, the world group of the girl scouts is in favor of abortion inducing drugs, is in favor of condemn use. does that mean the girl scouts of the united states are? we don't know. we do know one thing, in 2004 the ceo of the girl scouts of america went on broadcast television bragging about the close relationship between the girl scouts and planned parenthood. so those are just some of the concerns, and all they're doing is looking into it and being responsive to the mothers who have come forward. >> one of the concerns, as i understand it, is some object to these materials given to the girl scouts about organizations like doct

get caught up in the rapture of her voice and you listen to her performing like on this track, the donahueounds amazing. ♪ oh, when should we be bright >> she took off time to raise a family and now she's an empty nester. nice to have you. sorry i'm not in new york. let me ask you a question, ms. baker, longevity in your business is a rare, rare thing and yet there are clips that i can show people over the years that show your many, many hits. what do you think has made you successful over all that time? >> well, you know, i wish i had an answer. first i just want to say good morning to you, young lady. it's so great to be here and thanks for the invitation. you know, music is not really work for me, and i'm just always trying to create something, and you know, you look up, and ten years has gone by. you look up and today is my youngest son's 18th birthday. happy birthday, eddie! and you look up and your oldest son is, you know, coming into town from boston university, you know, and -- >> goes by that fast, huh? >> it's gone, but you know, it's just for the love of the music. any day that

dan donahue, traitor. good night. thanks for watching, everybody. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start," i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm ali velshi, in for ashleigh banfield. i said lighting really changes a place. it looks yellow. >> it was painted. >> i had no idea it was painted. it's all new. that's our beautiful new studio. what a pleasure to work with you. >> i'm so excited to have you here. you are wired, dude, you are wired. >> that's okay because there's lots of news this morning. >> up first this morning, heads about to roll. at jp morgan chase. according to bloomberg, the firm's entire london staff could be dismissed. the banking giant also expected to accept the resignation of this woman, ina drew. pulling down a salary of over $15 million a year. drew and two other company executives being held accountable for a stunning $2 billion loss. ceo jamie dimon doing damage control on sunday talk shows is. >> it was a stupid thing that, you know, we should never have done but we're still going to earn a lot of money this quarter. it isn't like this company is

tim donahue, head of the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> nick, good to see you again. very briefly, i hope that this report and perhaps i missed something, can say a little bit more that nato is fundamentally a political alliance with the military arm and not a military appliance with a political arm. as you know i spent much of the last two years of a report on the future of the foreign service, particularly education and training, and that, of course, has a direct bearing on what the neck does. the two are not well integrated in our own government, the diplomatic and the military. my question to you is, what can be done in chicago, about the potential cuts in the u.s. defense budget, but also the equally draconian cuts in the foreign service and diplomatic budgets which can do us proportionately speaking just as much if not more harm? >> it's never a problem where there is a question where i can preach to the choir and try to hit the softball that bob, my good friend, has offered up here. thank you for that. i would very much agree with you that as we think about sus

i remember on the phil donahue show years ago there was a guy on their, they mocked him and laughed at him. you can get yourself out of addiction and pornography and homosexuality. maybe i was not born that way. maybe there are people who are. i have met many good gay couples. >> are you against gay marriage? >> of course. most palma's sexual probably are, themselves. -- most homosexuals probably are. host: we will move onto and neck, a democrat in new york city -- to nick. >> i think politically it was wrong, but morally it was right. i am not a gay person, but the previous couple callers have the wrong. i live in new york city. lot of gay people are here. it's not only about sex for gay couples. it is about love and relationships and humanity. it is not only about sex. heterosexual couples can also just about sex. it is live and let live. i do want to say i think it was the wrong time. i don't know if the comments by the vice-president pushed president obama's hand. i wish the president would be as verbal about things like to big to fail -- too big to fail and high risk investments b

. >> and bill donahue of the catholic league points out the day "the times" did that they wrote a 4,000amming the catholic and protestant schools in this country. the question is why? is it part of a general narrative? >> i think that's right. some people think it's activism on the part of reporters. i think possibly a more innocent explanation exists for this. it's part of the narrative. the narrative so far among the mainstream media is it's republicans waging war on women and so what happens is if you -- if you cover the story and mention the lawsuit, that's all these 43 catholic groups making it, this then you have to realize that it's not the only issue. it's actually religious liberty that is part of the issue. i don't think the mainstream media wants to admit it. they look like they have egg on their face. >> catholics make up 25% of the electorate, it's something they ought to be paying attention to moving forward. it looked like up to this point, there had been somewhat balanced coverage of romney vs. obama. i say somewhat compared to 2008. moving forward, does this suggest tha

but no one really replaced him, the person in the bookers of phil donahue, "nightline." [inaudible] >> they had a friendship can usually get phraseology is. falwell is very suspicious. if there is a professor who is a charismatic at liberty university who was fired for holding prayer meetings. so father was suspicious. he had gone to yell. his father had had a senator. the falwell's were always for the wrong side of the tracks. there was that tension in the relationship. also, falwell's empire was never as successful as the christian brotherhood that robinson started. but they were friends. i think i was telling in 1988 when pat roberts and man, falwell endorsed george h.w. bush and clearly falwell understood establishment and mike establishment republican politics very much. he was going to the oval office the oval office and having his picture taken and even though he opposed bush been chosen as a running mate, he was always very solicited an understanding he had eight years to get them on board before he made his own run and he was successful. >> the worst kind of jou

but no one really replaced him, the person in the bookers of phil donahue, "nightline." [inaudible] >> they had a friendship can usually get phraseology is. falwell is very suspicious. if there is a professor who is a charismatic at liberty university who was fired for holding prayer meetings. so father was suspicious. he had gone to yell. his father had had a senator. the falwell's were always for the wrong side of the tracks. there was that tension in the relationship. also, falwell's empire was never as successful as the christian brotherhood that robinson started. but they were friends. i think i was telling in 1988 when pat roberts and man, falwell endorsed george h.w. bush and clearly falwell understood establishment and mike establishment republican politics very much. he was going to the oval office the oval office and having his picture taken and even though he opposed bush been chosen as a running mate, he was always very solicited an understanding he had eight years to get them on board before he made his own run and he was successful. >> the worst kind of jou

but no one really replaced him, the person in the bookers of phil donahue, "nightline." [inaudible] >> they had a friendship can usually get phraseology is. falwell is very suspicious. if there is a professor who is a charismatic at liberty university who was fired for holding prayer meetings. so father was suspicious. he had gone to yell. his father had had a senator. the falwell's were always for the wrong side of the tracks. there was that tension in the relationship. also, falwell's empire was never as successful as the christian brotherhood that robinson started. but they were friends. i think i was telling in 1988 when pat roberts and man, falwell endorsed george h.w. bush and clearly falwell understood establishment and mike establishment republican politics very much. he was going to the oval office the oval office and having his picture taken and even though he opposed bush been chosen as a running mate, he was always very solicited an understanding he had eight years to get them on board before he made his own run and he was successful. >> the worst kind of jou