and dylan wearing the cowboy hat, and it helped dylan. he debuted with an album at the top of the charts because the ad slow introduced him to a new generation. >> you look skeptical about the questions. >> i'm not skeptical. my expression meant to say where do i start. i want to ask you one more question about the final chapter. you write, if reality did not comport with his will, he weigh nor it, as he had done with the birth of his daughter and would do a few years later when diagnosed with cancer. the question people wanted most to answer was why when he was firs diagnosed, kid he undertake all these natural nonmedical solutions. >> two sides to steve jobs at all times. whether it's his personal life, cancer, professional life, the products he makes. there's the counterculture alternative, romantic, sensibility of steve, and there's the hard core engineering scientific side of steve, and the cancer was no different. both sides kick in and he spends a lot of time wrestling with the two alternatives. wrestling with alternative treatment

dylan ratigan is here to take us forward. dylan? >> you know, that's true. that's true. it's all true. i have to pay tribute to two of our interns who helped us put that together, and, of course, i have to thank you, dylan, because without you that would not happen. this junction wouldn't be half the fun that it's been so happy holidays to you. >> i knew we were destined for greatness on the day that you were in london for the royal wedding, and you -- you proceeded to slay and humiliate and condescend to me and everyone on the set about our utter sort of broodish boorish lives and inability to comprehend how the level of sophistication one needs to have to live in buckingham pal air, as you put it. >> dial anger the reason for that was i was in london, and there's a five-hour time difference. >> that's right. >> so when i spoke to you, it was around 9:00 p.m., and i'd obviously had -- >> had a few pops. like they say back up in the adirondacks, have a few pops, you know. next thing you know -- >> do whatever you like in the adirondacks. have a great show. >> and they do

they do this, dylan, without disclosure. so somebody goes home to turn on their tv, there's an ad by citizens for a better america, or whatever, attacking a candidate or supporting another candidate. e richest people in this country, without any disclosure, bombarding the air waves, electing those people who support big money, trying to defeat those of us who support working class and middle class families. >> and if you look at a couple of the past amendments, one overwhelming success, one a very public piece of debate that certainly changed a lot of legislation, but failed. i'm referring to the era, which failed as an amendment, but did impact legislation, and changing of the voting age to 18 during the vietnam war, which was perhaps the fastest amendment and came on a justice narrative, not a partisan narrative. how do you cast this, not as a left or right issue, but as an issue of a breach of american justice, so that you can capture the same thing that was captured with the voting age at 18? >> well, dylan, your point i

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i am dylan ratigan. it's an absolute delight to be seeing you here from southern california in burbank. more on why we're actually here later in the show. i don't think that the closet surprise was really adequate. but first, a big story away from these rather silly issues. manufacturing jobs in america. as you surely know, we saw stagnant growth in the jobs market on friday, with only a net gain of 2,000 manufacturing jobs last month. that does nothing to offset the millions lost since the 1980s and the big reason, really, is china, of the nearly 3 million u.s. jobs that we've seen in china, during the past decade, more than two-thirds of those jobs or nearly 2 million were manufacturing jobs. that a direct result of american and chinese government policies, specifically tax and currency policy. even more disturbing, our tax dollars, yours and mine, are being used to buy cheap goods from china to hire chinese workers in the industry. here's a prime example. the $6 billion project in california to rebuil

dylan, what you got? >> i take a little bit of an issue with the logic of your argument, because it would seem if it's newt versus newt, it's guaranteed one of the winners will be newt. >> that's possible in mathematical terms, you know a plus and a plus equals a -- >> mitt romney. >> and a minus and a minus equals a -- >> okay, listen, the show startç now. >> you're not so good about math. >> i was starting to thinking about the insider trading on capitol hill. i was so pleased about my newt comment, i just tuned you out. >> ah, thank you. well tune us out now and let's start your show. >> okay, thank you. >>> well, developing now, our big story is the insiders, congressional insiders, to be precise. good thursday afternoon to you. my name is dylan ratigan. our senate, the u.s. senate at this hour is holding its first-ever hearing on so-called insider trading practices among members of our own congress. the fact is, and it has recently been highlighted, if you or i were to make trades, stock market trade

i am dylan ratigan with a candy cane pen, i might add.next hour, our house republicans, who could certainly be -- well, they're not festive, okay? they're forcing a vote on the payroll tax cut extension and long-term unemployment benefits, which are marginal benefits to those who are most desperately in need of assistance in the short-term in a country that's being extracted, okay? but the republicans have decided, even though this is an issue that we should try to help in the short-term with the people who are most desperately in need, the republicans have tied a completely unrelated issue to unemployment, to tax -- nothing. which is a pipeline rider to try to force the approval of a pipeline, something that has nothing to do with tax policy, nothing to do with unemployment benefits, not to mention that the votes aren't even there to do this, and even if the votes were there, the president has promised to veto this pipeline until further review. so once again, the politicians that we elect and pay are holding us and our fellow countrymen

>> exactly right, dylan.ying to game the system, and in fact there's been studies by the imf, university of minnesota, harvard law school that say when companies put money into lobbying they are moving away from making a best product, trying to gain the system rather than focusing on the quality what have they do. that's what happened to the auto industry in detroit for decades. they have finally gotten their act together now and we've got to make clear, this is being shareholders, and i'm on a $40 billion pension board, and when we see companies trend into politics and lobbying, that's a red flag that something is wrong. >> bill, i thank you on many fronts, both for educating us and also making it clear that i need to buy toothpaste for the staff this christmas from colgate palmolive. >> you're a good man, dylan. >> i'm a generous guy. dental hygiene is important. happy holidays to all. >> buy the right things. >> exactly. we'll pit your stuff up on the web and i hope we can continue the conversation about a

dylan?rtain that your interpretation is 100% correct, word for word, straight from ben franklin's mouth. i'm encouraged, even with the accent, i'm encouraged by the john yarmuth amendment, which i think is perhaps the most aggressive yet and the most pinpoint accurate in saying money is not speech, at going beyond the corporations are not people narrative. are you encouraged by the -- by at least the escalation of this debate the past few months? >> i totally am. and listen, dylan, if we get the process of constitutional amendment started, it may not have to go that far. after all, the supreme court has changed course when it sees political tea leaves moving. it happened during the new deal, it could happen again. the supreme court made some very anti-freedom decisions in its course and it changed cou

keli, take it away. >> thanks, dylan.tra-crowded airports, there are a few other sure things we can expect each holiday season. for one, some people will get offended whether we say merry christmas or happy holidays. also, for every one-hit wonder that releases bad covers of christmas classics, such as a hard rock version of "silent night" and a rap version of "away in a manger," there will be just as many bad christmas movies. before any of you accuse me of being a scrooge, let me say for the record i actually love christmas movies, good ones, from the classic "it's a wonderful life" to the dark comedy "the ref," and even "die hard," which people often forget is a christmas movie. but for every "it's a wonderful life" and "die hard," there is a "silent night, deadly night," a slasher film in which a man dressed as santa delivers murder and mayhem instead of presents. for some reason, this film has managed to spawn four sequels. even more annoying, though, are what i like to call the four christmas movies, as in "a mom fo

dylan? >> first of all, first of all, 's not a bunker. >> i apologize. same thing. >> it is a closet, by the way, that was built for maria shriver, thank you very much, originally, for "dateline." this is a closet that has recently occupied illustrious names like larry flynt, for instance. >> i think he's closer to you no terms of character. >> i want you to respect the closet. i feel like you don't take it seriously. >> i take it seriously. enjoy your bunker. enjoy your closet. >> all right. the show starts right now. >>> a beautiful and lovely tuesday afternoon to you. i am dylan ratigan. nice to see you. live from this prestigious closet here on the third floor of nbc's studios in burbank, california. our big story today, cut it out. we're talking about the political pro wrestling on capitol hill. we're up against another possible government shutdown, not to mention unemployment benefits being cut and the separation of major tax cuts that could end up costing you and i $1,000 a pop if con

dylan? you're going to have 11th hour agreement between john boehner and harry reid and most likely president obama where the payroll tax cut extension will be coupled with other things that need to be to get done before the end of the year, which are unemployment benefits, as well as a fix as to how medicare doctors are reimbursed, so they don't lose 23% of their salaries, so the government pace them for carrying out physician benefits. right now we're still on the posturing side. next week proves to be a very intense week. but it could go all the way to december 23rd and right into christmas, dylan. >> if you were to look at the context of what we've been through in the recent past, how does this compare to the super committee dysfunction? how does this compare to last summer? >> it's all very similar. the one difference between, i would say, the debt limit, which would have terrible ramifications for the economy, which almost everybody agreed on, there is still some argument between repub

dylan? >> all right. a man among midgets. i'm not sure if it's a compliment or not, but i'll take it, as far as political analysis. >> is that a reference to me or to yourself? >> that was a reference to the president relative to the republicans? >> i think that's a fair judgment. >> i'm not sure it's an achievement to be tall in a room full of midgets, considering our problems. >> but you're pretty tall. >> and you're rather short. so it's easy to misinterpret my comments. >> and the show starts now. and the show starts now. >>> well, good afternoon to you. i am dylan ratigan. and today's big story is the beginning of the end. that's the headline out of iraq. the president meeting with iraqi prime minister -- the iraqi prime minister to reflect on a decade of war by us on them in their country. >> so this is an historic moment. a war is ending, a new day is upon us, and let us never forget those who gave us this chance. >> certainly a shift in relationship, from wartime enemies in pursuit o

my name is dylan ratigan. our senate, the u.s.senate at this hour is holding its first-ever hearing on so-called insider trading practices among members of our own congress. the fact is, and it has recently been highlighted, if you or i were to make trades, stock market trades based on non-public material information that altered the prices of those stocks, and we knew it, we'd be thrown in jail. but members of our congress are 100% excluded from precisely such laws. >> the american people need to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by. >> we should be held to the same, and quite frankly, i think a higher standard than the members of the general public and should not be able to profit based on non-public information. >> so, not only are our elected officials above the laws they write, they're turning a profit in the process at the expense of every other major capital market participant, and in the process, breaching the very trust in america's once-vital capital markets. senator scott brown,

visiting today, martin bashir and dylan ratigan, host of "the dylan ratigan show."c. it is a moment in "now" television history and as such, we will ring a ceremonial gone in celebration of it. we will not hesitate to use that gong if necessary later in the show. what do you think is the impact of kim jong-il's death in the region and globally? >> nobody knows who the inher inheriter is. the son, we know he's in his mid 20s. he was educated in switzerland. he was the son of the favorite wife, preferred successor. we don't know anything about what his plans are. we know he's got a great affection for the military. the rumor though is that it's actually his uncle who's the mainstay of this country because we know that kim jong-il has been unwell for about 18 months. >> that is according to strat for and has a resergeanty has been the most reliable i've seen in terms of foreign intelligence on stuff like this. meaning pour transitions and nation states and specifically in this case, you have a guy who is a michael jordan fan, who is a james bond fan, i am both by the w

>> yeah, i do disagree with you, dylan. i think the problem -- you're treeing symptoms of the problem and the problem's much bigger than that. the problem is is if you can buy me, no matter what rules you -- if there's any way you can buy me, they be i'm of no value to the people of oklahoma or this country. so how do you fix that problem? what you do is you -- first of all, you eliminate long-term service, by term limits, and let the american people decide what that is. number two is the voters have the ability to fix this in the next few elections. don't keep re-electing career politicians. our problem is, these are great people, but the vast majority of them have no real-world experience outside of politics, and their goal is the next election, not the problems of the country. >> yeah. >> so if our focus is fixing the problem, no matter what happens to us, we're going to get a lot of problems solved. if our focus is who's going to be in power and who's going to be here the next election, the problems take short shrift. t

dylan ratigan is here to take us forward. dylan, i'm sorry to encroach on a few seconds of your time. forgive me. >> guess who is here today? >> i have absolutely no idea today. >> the sheriff of wall street himself, eliot spitzer, and we're going to be talking about your favorite subject, though it is one that is remarkably somber and important, not nearly discussed enough, and that is the reconciliation between the extractive banking policies and the consequence of social unrest to the risk of potential actual global conflict. that is where this ends if we don't reconcile it, and i'm excited to talk to the governor about it. >> sounds interesting, dylan. take it away. >> here we go. show starts right now. ♪ so this is christ mass >> well, the big story, war is over. good wednesday afternoon to you, i'm dylan ratigan. nice to see you. note the question mark in the statement behind me. the remaining 5,500 u.s. troops in iraq are packing up. good news. ready to hand full control over to the iraqis by christmas of this year, ni

>> that's the main question, dylan.one here in the u.s., has jonathan was saying, corporations, for a very long time, under angelo-american law have been held equally liable for torts, contract violation, et cetera. the question is, when you go overseas and do a similar -- or not similar, but much more egregious act, such as torture, crimes against humanity, war crimes, either state actors are responsible or private individuals and corporations. now, the lower courts, three of them have held, according to american law and domestic law, that should hold. and that corporations and individuals, both natural and legal persons should be held liable for international human rights abuses. only one court, and that's the second circuit, has held otherwise. >> the big thing, obviously, for everybody involved in enlisting in this entire undertaking, the 28 debate, learning these things, john, is for us to educate ourselves. we are a group -- we are people who are now voracious for new information so we can be better contributors t

hi, toure. >> hi, dylan.field of battle march towards certain death with as much courage, character, and aplumb as christopher hitchens did. he died yesterday at age 62 after a battle with cancer. and while his heart may have stopped, his spirit was unbroken and unbowed by the big "c." hitchens was a great writer and a necessary public intellectual. one of his best books was called "god is not great." he was an atheist. and you might think the sudden proximity with death would shake that and make you suddenly need to believe in god, because what can be scarier is that the reaper is around the corner and realizing when death comes for you, you turn to meat, get stuffed in a box, and that's that. but hitchens did not find god because of cancer. he remained the man he had always been. the foothold of which was a great writer. his pieces on cancer were powerful. he wrote, "i want to do death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye." and he did. and i imagine that when the grim rea

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>> well, dylan, it's a pleasure to be on your show.ways about the inventi inventiveness of our faculty and their commitment to making a difference in the world. and they like to see their research out in the market and products out and jobs created. >> at the same time, there's lots of inventive and creative people, lots of very dynamic universities around the country. do you feel that your vascul advantages -- have you set this as a specific goal, where others have some other motivation? >> absolutely. i think that it starts with leadership at the top. we've had a lot of commitment from our administration to make this happen. but the other thing that we figured out is that as a university, this can be a huge enhancement to our program. and so we involved last year, for instance, 1,809 students in the various programs that we have. so it's not just about being outside the university, it's really being at the core and committed to the university mission of investigation, research, and then service to our community. so we, on purpose, ar

dylan? bunker. >> apologize. >> it's a closet, by the way, that was built for maria shriver. >> i'm happy to report that dylan is back from his travels. he went west. he went north, but he's finally back in his extremely large studio. >> so much space. i might play a little basketball at the next commercial break. listen, martin no, reason for you to be ashamed of your shortness. the fact of the matter is -- >> i'm not. >> no, clearly you are. we're proving that tall and short people around the world can get along. >> i don't think that's particularly revolutionary, but i'll tell you what, stretch, take it away. >> all the smart dudes come to this show, him, you, you're all the say. in mathematical terms you you in a plus and a plus equals a -- >> mitt romney. >> i am not your lover, dude. >> fine. >> do you carry

and dylan wearing the cowboy hat, and it helped dylan. he debuted with an album at the top of the charts because the ad slow introduced him to a new generation. >> you look skeptical about the questions. >> i'm not skeptical. my expression meant to say where do i start. i want to ask you one more question about the final chapter. you write, if reality did not comport with his will, he weigh nor it, as he had done with the birth of his daughter and would do a few years later when diagnosed with cancer. the question people wanted most to answer was why when he was firs diagnosed, kid he undertake all these natural nonmedical solutions. >> two sides to steve jobs at all times. whether it's his personal life, cancer, professional life, the products he makes. there's the counterculture alternative, romantic, sensibility of steve, and there's the hard core engineering scientific side of steve, and the cancer was no different. both sides kick in and he spends a lot of time wrestling with the two alternatives. wrestling with alternative treatment

dylan ratigan is here to take us forward. there you go, dylan. how are you? >> i'm very good.ding through my twitter feed, and i couldn't help but notice here martin, a peculiar sensibility developing. it is becoming increasingly clear that dylan ratigan and martin bashir hate each other. i don't know exactly -- >> did you write that, dylan? >> you know, it may be my mother. she's watching. "i think martin and dylan were lovers and have sincfallen out." again, is interesting.

so small at this elementary school that 5-year-old dylan is the only child in kindergarten this year.> i really like that they get a lot of attention and individual attention. teaching can be specific to where they're at. the teacher can really meet them where their need is. they feel very safe and also very confident in asking questions. >> vermont has the smallest class sizes in the country. the product of an aging population and a low birthrate. they get home cooked meals. >> an extraordinary part of teaching is being able to listen to children, understand how they're thinking and constructing information. ♪ >> the state of vermont asked all of its communities, whether they can afford all these small schools and the hefty tax bill that comes with them. waybridge, a town of dairy farmers spends $17,000 per child when the national average is under $10,000. but the residents say they're school is more than just a costly building. >> once the school closes, there really isn't a center. there is no commercial district in waybridge. very few businesses at all. and so the center of activi

so me, dylan mcdonald, dave graham, the three partners here, we've been starting companies since our early 20's. we've had some really nice successes. we've had some failures and have learned from both. there's a lot of wisdom and knowledge that we want to help impart to the companies going through the program. it's not about us. we're here and full-time and all in on it, but there's another 35 mentors and growing that are breathing life into what we're doing. these are highly accomplished entrepreneurs that have started businesses. these are experts. these are investors. and they're committing time. they're coming in on a weekly basis and doing workshops and sitting down and dedicating time and attention to try and help the start-ups that go through the greenstart program thrive. third piece is we provide resources. start-ups, by definition, are resource constrained. we try to connect them with people and organizations to help them move faster and as part of all of that, the goal is, they get connections. they come out of the program and have a network of people that want to help th

he said you don't want dylan being all cheesy and grinning.t you want from bob dylan. >> good spin. >> thank you so much. this rock trivia rolling stone book is going to be available on newsstands starting i think next week. it's got a lot of great trivia in it. >>> coming up next, we have more music. you rooted for him during his days on "the voice." now javier colon debuts his first cd. he's in the house right after this. when a sore throat strikes, the pain can leave you feeling dreadful. and all you want is for it to go away. cepacol works fast and gives powerful sore throat relief. that's because the numbing medicine in cepacol is the maximum strength you can get without a prescription. and it stays there after the lozenge has gone. tame your painful sore throat with cepacol. is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain... two pills can last all day. ♪ on my journey across america, i've learned that when you ask someone in tex

and dylan wearing the cowboy hat, and it helped dylan.he debuted with an album at the top of the charts because the ad slow introduced him to a new generation. >> you look skeptical about the questions. >> i'm not skeptical. my expression meant to say where do i start. i want to ask you one more question about the final chapter. you write, if reality did not comport with his will, he weigh nor it, as he had done with the birth of his daughter and would do a few years later when diagnosed with cancer. the question people wanted most to answer was why when he was firs diagnosed, kid he undertake all these natural nonmedical solutions. >> two sides to steve jobs at all times. whether it's his personal life, cancer, professional life, the products he makes. there's the counterculture alternative, romantic, sensibility of steve, and there's the hard core engineering scientific side of steve, and the cancer was no different. both sides kick in and he spends a lot of time wrestling with the two alternatives. wrestling with alternative treatment

dylan ratigan's here to take us forward. dylan, what you got?tacular news for you, martin. >> spectacular news? >> yeah, oh, yeah. i'm going to show you something. so, listen, you know the holiday's coming up, i did not have a christmas card. as you know, i don't have a family, per se. i don't have a wife or children. so i can't put like a cute picture of myself with my wife and babies on the family card -- >> you're now appealing for sympathy unnecessarily, dylan. >> now i can say, look at my friend, really, my brilliant friend, martin bashir, who is perhaps one of the most esteemed intellects in the western world, who is with me here. the interesting thing about all of this -- >> the interesting thing about that picture, dylan, is the question, why were you standing on a platform to ecerbate the height differential. >> listen, martin. there's no reason for you to be

(hundley barking) it was dylan's toy. uh-oh! gnoccherina! what do you have there, a clown? oh, so cute! now, don't chew it all to pieces, okay? i must keep my basement tidy. (groaning) hundley had better rescue that clown fast. ♪ ten sacks of potatoes ♪ five wheels of parmigiano ♪ flour for linguini ♪ and fettuccine (hundley panting) ♪ all other 'inis, too now, where was that cat? (sniffing) (chattering, barking) (sniffing) (squeaking) (barking) (cheering) chef: holy prosciutto! i forgot to buy the garlic! (door shutting) (lock clicking) now, what kind of chef forgets his garlic?! gotta go back to the store. (whimpering) hundley might be a door dog, but he wasn't very good at doorknobs. (hooting) (whines) fortunately, monkeys are excellent door openers. (grunts) unless... the door is locked. (grunting) (truck engine starts) chef pisghetti: ♪ three cases of olive oil... uh-oh. (moans) (whimpering) hundley remembered that he didn't like basements. locked basements, especially. (whimpering) (meowing) (squeaks) (meowing continues) (