>> eliot. >> eliot: i'm waiting for an answer. >> what was your question. >> eliot: have you read thist to read. >> eliot: does this opinion say that he's a conspirator who's actions began the conspiracy which. >> let's get back to the facts eliot. step out of the hr and let's talk oaths. >> eliot: you're under oath. >> i'm not under oath for you and i'm not in your courtroom. you're on my show. and thank you very much for joining us, eliot spitzer. >> eliot: i'm asking you a question. >> what's the question. >> eliot: you said you read the opinion. does it say that language greenberg's actions led to fraud. >> no, it does not say that hank greenberg committed fraud. you say it. you say it all the time. i want to get to the facts. >> eliot: here is the problem. you want to repeat ad nauseam things that are coming outment pr machine of hank agreeberg. >> i'm not doing that. >> eliot: i'm asking to you give deference to a guest whos were cuted this. there is an inability on the leadership's part of wall street to acknowledge what happened. >> eliot: it was a spirited conversation, and i

"viewpoint" is next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer "viewpoint."win in politics it is crucial to have a clear message and the ability to get it across. something that the g.o.p. is clearly lacking in the wake of the supreme court ruling on the affordable care act or how republicans like to call t obama-care. the latest poll, 48% of registered voters say that they support the affordable care act. but republican leaders could not be more direct. >> this has possible rips out by its roots. >> this is the worst legislation passed in modern times. >> eliot: senate minority leader mcconnell said there had was a massive deception when he described the healthcare act as individual mandate as a penalty. >> the president said it was not a tax. the supreme court said it is a tax. >> eliot: unfortunately for mcconnell's fellow republicans, their presidential standard-bearer is mudding their issue. mitt romney's massachusetts' healthcare plans will had an individual mandate. his spokesperson eric fehrnstrom insisted that he did not. >> the governor believes tha

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. >> eliot: good evening. i'm eliot spitzer. this is "viewpoint." it is almost been fun watching mitt romney's gymnastic twists and turns as he tries to find a label to slap on the obama healthcare plans' individual mandate. the supreme court ruled it was a tax. but romney insisted on calling it a penalty. anything but admit he might have raised taxes when he helped pass a nearly identical health plan as governor of massachusetts. but that set off screaming from g.o.p. leadership, desperate to push its anti-tax message so romney did what he does best. he etch-a-sketched his way into a flip-flop and suddenly, it was a tax. >> well, the supreme court has a final word and their final word is that obama care is a tax. so it's a tax. >> eliot: romney seems to have flipped on chief justice roberts. as president, mitt will nominate judges in the mold of chief justice roberts and justices scalia thomas and alito. seems roberts cast the deciding vote on the president's health plan and offered the opinion upholding it as a tax romney went

. >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." the usually understated ben bernanke is sounding a lot more like dr. doom athletes days. as today he once again traveled to capitol hill to make it clear that the fed has done everything it can do, and it's up to congress to avoid the upcoming fiscal cliff for the second day in a row the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is the before the congressional committee to discuss monetary policy and state of the economy. he tried to stress how disastrous it would for the economy and told congress only they could stop this fire from being lit. >> the best way to address this is to attack the long-run sustainability issue seriously and credibly, but to do it in a gradual way that does not have such negative effects on the recovery. i think both of those goals could be made to correct broad approach for addressing our fiscal situation. >> eliot: joining me now the ranking members of the house budget committee congressman chris van hollen. thank you for joining us. >> it's great to be here.

>>eliot spitzer takes on politics.nd republicans do not mix. online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: earlier this week treasury secretary timothy geithner as well as democrats in congress tried to make it seem like geithner had done everything he could while at the new york fed to curb libor manipulation. but as we continue to find out that is not the case. in an op-ed in today's financial times a former invest investment banker says that libor manipulation was a poorly held secret over 20 years ago. and i quote. simply put then, it seems that the misreporting of the libor rates may have been common practice since at least 1991. even worse is the fact that the federal reserve was may aware of the possible manipulation of libor as far as back as 1998. one person who can make sense of all this, the always incisive and metaphorical contributing editor for rolling stone magazine, matt taibbi. this cesspool, this quick stand of a scandal keeps getting wider and filthier. >> we have

tax the rich. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this is view point.was the first of many days in court for james holmes. the 24-year-old former grad student stands accused of friday's assault that killed at least 1221 moviegoers and wounded 58 more in colorado, and with a nation still reeling from that heinous attack both presidential candidates went on the record against closing loopholes in gun laws that at least might have mitigated the violence. holmes seems numbed when he was informed of his rights. in francisco, president obama shared the nation's sorrow. >> obama: i stand before you as our hearts still ache over the tragedy in aurora colorado. yesterday i was in aurora with families whose loss is hard to imagine. >> eliot: it's hard to imagine a democratic president so cowed by the nra that his spokesman would say, i quote the president's view is that we can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law. the president's views were shared by his republican rival mitt romney. >> romney: i still bel

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer, and this"viewpoint." mitt romney's whirlwind introduction to the world of diplomacy is almost over. and while all be grateful for that it would be nice if his campaign would cut back on the lies it tells about president obama. more on that in a moment. after offending the british and trampling culture sensitivities in the middle east, romney landed in poland and an opportunity to connect with swing state voters of polish descend. he met with the poland's president who said, i wish you to be successful because this success is needed to the united states, of course, but to europe and the rest of the world too. since he left the u.s. romney has succeeded in mostly making himself a laughing stock of london and raising $1 million at an israeli fundraiser. sheldon adelson were among others in attendance. quote, you see the gross domestic product per capita and compare that to the palestinianan authority which is more like $10,000 culture makes all the difference. actually the numbers are $31,000 for

>>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer.">questions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >> eliot: big brother is spying on us, and it's about time we started spying back. we see that in an amazing statistic brought to us by congressman ed markie. law enforcement asked cell phone carriers 1.3 million sometimes last year for subscriber information, caller information and other data. 1.3 million requests in one year alone. sometimes officials had court authorization for the request. sometimes they didn't. sometimes the request was an emergency. many times it wasn't. most of the time the cell carriers complied with these requests some of which related to more than one person. investigators often got for and got a list of all the phone calls routed to a particular cell tower during a specific time. even though they ask cell phone carriers for more and more information, they went to court 14 more fewer times for formal authorization. why go to all the trouble of showing probable cause when yo

it's totally with eliot ext. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this isw point. treasury secretary timothy geithner was on capitol hill playing defense for his apparently too passive role responding to the libor scandal. geithner was president of the federal reserve back in 2007-08 when they were told expressly when the barclays bank and other big banks were manipulating libor. throughout the house financial services committee hearing geithner stuck to a script insisting he had behaved appropriately passing on both to u.s. regulators and bank bank of england suggestion of the way libor was contemplated. but record remains clear that geithner did nothing to stop the manipulations. a bombshell dropped by sandy wild chairman and architect of bank concentration and deregulation who now wants all of that work reversed. >> i think what we should probably do is go and split up investment banking and banking have banks be deposit takers, have banks make commercial loans and real estate loans and have banks do something that is not going to risk the tax pair dolla

it's really, really ugly. >> eliot: john mccain stepped up.ain, hate to be serious when you're making me laugh on a very somber day but john mccain of old came out and said. >> john boehner did when john boehner is your moral super that's like taxing wesley snipes. a very rich businessman is running for her seat in minnesota, this kind of gaffe may make conservative folks over there donate to someone else. she's there-- >> eliot: you love her. >> i want her to be president. i would eye a yacht if she was president. i'm a comedian. she makes others look sane and relevant. >> eliot: and gw, did it bring back good memories. >> as a comedy, yes. the first non-buffoon in a generation. i love george w. bush, you never knew what was going to come out of his mouth when they let the free world leader speak on his own. when he promotes the book he never really didn't write. >> eliot: how do you know that? >> whoa whoa, first off it's called "the decider": then he said parts of it were lifted from other peoples, his aide's books. he plagiarized the book.

>> eliot: first of all >> thank you eliot.cp is being hosted in my hometown in houston texas and i had the privilege of speaking earlier in the week. these are people who have been through the valleys of despair, discrimination for 103 years. no other civic organization has the historic history of naacp. and governor romney did what they have done for years. but voters in that hall are thinking voters, and voters who themselves have experienced discrimination and hardship and also victory by standing their ground. his speech, of course, was a message, i believe to the larger audience of independent voters. i remember his father, governor romney and he is okay. that is the only reason and message that governor romney appeared. when you ask an audience if you want what is best for the african-american community for president, you're looking at him. and then shortly before that you say you're going to repeal obama-care when we recognize one of the hardships of our community has often been access to healthcare opportunities to eng

see you monday. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer, and this "viewpoint."t romney is struggling as the tide of critics question his claims to have left his private equity firm bain capital in 1999 despite records to suggest that he did active work as late as 2003. at issue whether romney bears responsibility for bain's outsourcing of american jobs and shuttering of american companies in that period. romney insists he's not. and that his business background makes him the best choice for president. this morning president obama led a fresh assault on that claim. >> obama: if you're a head of a large private equity firm or hedge fund your job is to make money. it's not to create jobs. it's not even to create a successful business. it's to make sure that you're maximizing returns for your investor. but that does not necessarily make you qualified to think about the economy as a whole because as president my job is to think about the workers. my job is to think about communities where jobs have been outsourced. >> eliot: and former president clinton piled on tell

. >> eliot: good evening. i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." mitt romney made a quarter billion dollars or more when he ran private equity firm bain capital. but with outsourcing jobs, a major issue in the race for the white house, the political cost of his success may be rising. from the start of his political career in 2002, romney's insisted and i quote "i left bain capital in 1999 and have had no authority or responsibility for managing that enterprise since then." but a story in "the boston globe" claims s.e.c. filings show that from 1999 to 2002, romney remained bain's and i quote "sole stockholder chairman of the board chief executive officer and president." bain investments in that three-year period included firms that shipped american jobs to companies overseas. and with today's story suggesting romney could have been involved, obama deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter made these damming comments to reporters. >> either mitt romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at bain to the s.e.c.

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. great show! keep >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer. this is "viewpoint." it was a fun week for democrats. mitt romney struggled with charges he's obscuring his record as a private equity chief and maybe hiding something by refusing to release more than two years of tax returns. but democrats aren't laughing any longer. new poll numbers show that the tax attacks may be fodder for washington's chattering class, the ailing economy remains the number one issue and president obama's biggest burden. according to the latest "washington post" abc news poll, if the election were held today registered voters would split evenly at 47% between romney and the president. while adults in a "new york times" poll gave a 2% edge to former massachusetts governor romney. when it comes to the economy just 39% approve of the job mr. obama is doing. down 5 points from the same poll last april. and the president's personal favorability, one of his strengths has dropped to just 36%. all this while romney continues to stonewall on his tax returns. sending his w

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have a great weekend. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer this is vie point anotherth and another lousy jobs report just what president obama and nearly 13 million unemployed americans don't want to hear the employers added a paul try 80,000 jobs in union leaving the unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2%. that adds up to fewer jobs needed to manage the population growth let alone work for millions who desperately need it. an average of 75,000 new jobs a month created in the quarter just ended. the weakest performance since 2010. especially compared to a monthly average of 226,000 jobs created in the first quarter of 2010. campaigning in poland, ohio, president obama tries to spin the numbers as best he could. >> obama: we learned this morning that our business created 84,000 new jobs last month. that means businesses credit evaluated 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. that's a step in the right direction. [applause] that's a step in the right direction. >> cenk: but a baby step at best compared to what we need, and a

funny enonononononononononononononononononononononononononononono eliot spitzer is next. >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." the latest attempt by democrats to stem the flood of secret donations, polluting our political campaigns has gone down to defeat in the senate. twice. once monday and once this afternoon. the disclose act they championed would have simply required nonprofit groups to disclose the names of donors contributing $10,000 or more. business lobbies including the u.s. chamber of commerce fought back claiming disclosing their contributions could expose them to and i quote retaliation against unpopular or unfavorable political views which also infringes constitutional rights. in other words the rights of corporations to make secret donations to secure influence ranks above the rights of citizens in our democracy to know who's influencing the people they put in office. or in the words of majority leader harry reid before monday's vote -- >> if this flood of outside money continues, the day after the election, 17 angry old white men will wake up

that's the worst ever. >> eliot: good thing it's fry.rd what romney can do in israel. >> this court has proven to be the knowing, delighted accomplice in the billionaires' purchase of our nation. >> and you think it doesn't affect you? think again. >> eliot: chaos and carnage continues to spread in syria. fierce clashes between rebels and forces to president bashar al-assad have engulfed the country's largest city of aleppo. activists say the army helicopter fire has killed at least a dozen people. in rebels are bracing for an amplified assault amid reports that the regime is reading columns of tanks just outside of the city in preparation for battle. expressing fears of mass caution ultimate an u.s. state department spokeswoman told reporters today there was concern. that we were going to see a massacre in aleppo and that's what the regime appears to be lining up for: ambassador, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you governor. >> eliot: you've been traveling in europe and the middle east recently, you hear this news. how do y

all right have a good weekend. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer. this is "viewpoint." an unspeakable tragedy at the colorado movie theater last night saw at least 12 people shot dead and another 59 wounded. fans of the new batman movie "the dark knight rises," were watching a midnight show when they were assaulted by a suspect dressed in a helmet, gas mask and black body armor who threw two gas canisters and then open fired. the. ing crowd tried to flee as the shooter reportedly walked calmly up the aisle firing his weapons. >> we heard oh like two big loud--like bam-bam--i saw a gentleman right next to me getting shot. >> you saw injured people. there was one guy on all fours crawling. there was one girl spitting up blood. there were bullet holes in some people's backs, arms. >> someone said to me, my best friend just got shot. i don't know what to do. you can see she just wants help and needs help. >> eliot: the police arrested 24-year-old james holmes in the parking lot outside of the theater. they're confident that he acted alone. he found a sm

thanks for your time as always tonight, bill. >> great to be here, eliot. >> eliot: did the libor stuffs one push you over the edge? >> it is hard to know which one really pushes me over the edge. you could hear the despair in buzz bissinger's voice when he was talking about the penn state scandal. i'm so distraught. i cannot believe this continues to happen. this didn't happen before 2007. this has been going on for a decade. you know, you've prosecuted this. spinning laddering. this is just -- it just keeps going on time and time again. i don't know when is enough. i think there's literally no shame anymore. >> eliot: i think you've hit on the problem. it is a cultural issue and it spans every part of human life and every endeserve no accountability and i think that's the issue we're beginning to confront. this when it comes to libor. which is the interest that dictates all other interest rates. significant mortgage, credit card loan, auto loan, it all comes back to libor. i marvel at the fact we let the bankers set this themselves. >> that's amazing, too. there's a group of 15. same

and keep at it. >> thanks, eliot. >> eliot: that's "viewpoint" for tonight.

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. >> eliot: you can't blame the man. no one likes to be told that they're waging hostilities against half the population, some might say the better half. if republicans don't want us to think that there is a war why oh why do they keep attacking. in mississippi where the state's only remaining abortion clinic was barely allowed to stay open today. a federal judge extended a temporary order that keeps open the jackson women's health organization. mississippi said that the abortion providers must have certain requirement that they know cannot be done. just listen to mississippi representatives, lester carpenter as he bragged about the law to a g.o.p. meeting in alcorn county. this is the attitude about the damage that it might do to women. >> and of course there you have% the other side. well the poor pitiful woman that can't afford to go out of the state are just gonna start doing them at home with a coat hanger. >> that's his answer. you have to start somewhere. he has decided to start not with education not with better

thank you eliot. when we come back, we'll talk about the fight that eliot had with maria.ther criticism about the news media and how she handled it when we return. eliot spitzer joins the new news network. >>we don't stop until we get answers that are truthful, serious and not based on simplistic answers. 38 >> cenk: back in the day governor eliot spitter was the attorney general for new york. he used to be known as the sheriff of wall street. why? because he actually went after people who committed financial fraud. now apparently cnbc hates this. and he was recently on with maria bartiromo and they got into a debate about how he went after the former ceo of aig hank greenberg. i want to show you the clip and talk about her general attitude toward her job. so watch the clip first. >> hank greenberg's accounting was fraudulent. his company -- >> come on, you can't say fraudulent because there's no indictment. you can't just throw around the word fraud. >> here is the federal judge's opinion that says he was a conspirator. here are the headlines. his company -- >> why no cha

eliot spitzer joins the new news network. drill down on the day's top stories in search of facts that inform. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: now i told you before how full of crap rush limbaugh is when it comes to rating his audience. he don't have 20 million. he don't have 15 million. we caught him in another lie. after the controversy rush bragged about rush for america. i got this facebook page and so many people like it. how many people like it? well almost 73,000. here's what rush noticed and sent us to an e-mail. the most popular city for those likes, new delhi india. really? all those women in india who likes rush limbaugh's program? or perhaps you fixed it. you're so sad stop, rush limbaugh is in the middle of the ring, what is happening?

it will be a great converse. >> cenk: thank you eliot. >> eliot: thank you. >> cenk: when we come backgressive progressive segment on another set of lice that the romney campaign is telling us. don't miss it. >> that's what ticks me off more than anything. >> mr. president, unfortunately you have no idea. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >>(narrator) the sheriff of wall street. >>the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) the former governor of new york, eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>somebody somewhere can listen, record, track, gather this data. >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things. how can you say you're in love with her? she gives me snickers peanut butter squared and i eat it. it's snickers with creamy peanut butter, would you like one? let's just keep an open mind. [ groans ] [ male announcer ] if you like peanut butter and chocolate, you'll love peanut butter and snickers. try snickers p

eliot spitzer is going to talk more about libor. >> good evening. i am eliot spiritser. what did he know and when did he know it? the question aimed at president richard nix on during senate waterer gait hearings may be turned on treasury secretary timothy geithner. britain's bark can barclay's bank has paid you for manipulating libor which acts the pricing of $800 trillion in loans and financial instruments and at least 10 other too-big-to-fail banks including j.p. morgan, hsbc citibank and ubs to the suit their specifics. did us and uk regulators know barclay's and other banks were twisting libor to their own ends as early as 2007. in late 2007, we received occasional anecdotal reports from barclay's with problems about libor. the new york fed said at the time geitner was the new york fed's president, according to the huffington post. his california shows he met repeatedly with barclay's officials in 2007 and '8 and on april 28th, 2008, to discuss, and i quote, fixing libor. on october 10, 2008, geithner sat with robert dimond a meeting barclay claims setting libor was

thanks eliot. >> eliot: thanks. >> cenk: i normally do the aggressive progressive segment but today we darcy. wait until you find out about her. you want to talk aggressive progressive? that's darcy. we'll talk to her when we cococococococococococococococococococococococococo ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles aren't interesting? the lexus ct hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our eliot spitzer joins the new news >>we will drill down on the day's top stories in search of facts that inform. >> cenk: i love this aggressive progressive segment and usually i do it but i've got an even more aggressive progressive for you. you think come on, really? it is darcy burner. you know what she advocates for? let me show you. quick little list here. first, suing the bejesus out of corporations for wage discrimination. then targeting boycotts against conservative funders and a campaign t

it will be great. >> thanks, eliot.versation is with you the viewer because we're independent. >>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." >>questions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >> between barclays, libor scam, glaxo's $3 billion settlement and one story we haven't yet covered today allegations that jpmorgan chase sold its own inferior mutual funds over better products, today's headlines just beg for outrage. until recently, jamie diamond was the good guy banker. his bank was so well-managed, we were told and he just oozed charm. but suddenly, there are three serious scandals looming and as they say three strikes and you're out! first, chase may be at the fulcrum of the libor scandal something we just talked about with the always fascinating matt taibbi and dennis kelleher. it might be the biggest of them all. libor rates sit at the foundation of the $800 trillion debt market. simply put, this is huge. second, chase is now accused by its own brokers

i am confused. >> i notice, also eliot, eliot spitzer, host of current tv "viewpoint."magazine. your latest blog was on libor. we talked about this last week. >> yes. >> you mentioned tim geithner's role. he came out and said he knew what was going on and he warned them, you better clean this mess up. >> right. >> how do you read it now? >> first of all, i voiced my opinions on slate and i feel bad. i have been writing for slate for a couple of years and now what i have done is transformed what was a bi-weekly column into a daily blog which kind of mirrors one of the segments we do on the show every night. >> great. great. >> tim geithner is a little bit of a pickle here because he wanted to get out ahead of the libor stuff saying, look, we were good. we sent a memo over to the bank of eaching land saying this is a problem. there is corruption. clean it up. the problem is bank of england said that's not what you said. they said he sent a memo that said there are some ideas that might improve on libor. that was word for word what the banks wrote for tim geithner. it wasn

thanks eliot. >> eliot: thanks. >> cenk: i normally do the aggressive progressive segment but today weogressive hero darcy. wait until you find out about her. you want to talk aggressive progressive? that's darcy. we'll talk to her when we come back. >> cenk: i love this aggressive progressive segment and usually i do it but i've got an even more aggressive progressive for you. you think come on, really? it is darcy burner. you know what she advocates for? let me show you. quick little list here. first, suing the bejesus out of corporations for wage discrimination. then targeting boycotts against conservative funders and a campaign to cast off the shame and embarrassment of women who have had an abortion. to which i say about damn time. so darcy is going to join us now. not only is she running in washington's first district in the democratic primary for that seat. she also used to run progressives congress.org and the progressive action fund. so darcy what are you doing? i'm told the democrats aren't supposed to ruffle feathers. you're not supposed to be an actual progressive. >> i thi

now, "viewpoint" is next with eliot spitzer. i'm dying to find out what's in the show. >> eliot: you're dying. i can hear it in your voice. we're going to be doing an analysis of mitt romney's gymnastics. amazing stuff to watch. i want him there in london representing us on the floor exercises. he can't keep his stories straight. changes his mind on everything. he is, in my mind, an invertebrate, no backbones no ideas, unqualified to be president. we'll be talking about that with ben white and sam seder. dick blumenthal will be talking about the politics of the senate and healthcare and the supreme court. it will be great stuff. >> cenk: i like your editorial. >> eliot: i thought you might enjoy that one. >> cenk: we're looking forward to it, eliot. thank you. when we come back, we've got a story of an american hero. you know what happens to an american hero? they get fired. >> brian richie walked off his guard tower turning into his whistle and the shirt off his back. septic disasters are disgusting and costly, but avoidable. t

: thank you eliot.e and i'm agreeing with the president. look at that when we return. >> obama: playing video games. they're not watching "real housewives." i'm just saying >>(narrator) the sheriff of wall street. >>the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) the former governor of new york, eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>somebody somewhere can listen, record, track, gather this data. >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: last night president obama was speaking to the urban lesion in new orleans and he told african-american crowd you all need to hit the books. it was an interesting mention. >> obama: you're competing against young people in beijing and bangalore. you know, they're not hanging out. they're not getting over. they're not playing video games. they're not watc

eliot spitzer joins the new news network. >>this show will be unique because we will not settle for the easy answers. we're here because we're independent. >> cenk: we've got another american hero story for you today. it is about a young kid who is a lifeguard who helped save someone else's life. as matt from abc explains, paid the price for it. >> reporter: lifeguard tomas lopez had trained for this very moment. >> someone drowning. i'm looking. i don't see anyone. they're way down over there. they're way down over there. i started running. >> reporter: he saved a life on monday. >> he was coughing up water and he was blue when i got him. >> reporter: his reward tuesday, a pink slip. >> cenk: nicely done. oh, you're a lifeguard, you saved somebody. wait a minute, you weren't paid for that part of the beach. we told you not to go to that part of the beach. you're fired. jeff ellis and company had this to say "we have liability issues and can't go out of the protected area." oh, terrific so you're supposed to just watch him di

eliot, good to talk to you again. >> good morning.know the here is my big question. >> sure. >> do you know where your money is? mitt romney doesn't. >> you know, you had my worried there for a second. you made me pause. i checked my pockets. i hope so. i left some of it at the deli to get my first cup of coffee. >> do you believe his defense? he got the swiss bank account, an offshore tax haven in the cayman islands and an offshore hey haven in bermuda. >> bill, there is going to be a chicken in every pot and a swiss bank account for every house. >> and an elevator in every garage. >> twelve cars. there you go. >> now is he going to event, do you think, have to release more of his tax returns? >> i think it's he havetable. i was in politics. i know what it's like when the media begins to repeat from his perspective ad nauseam but won't give up. the only way to put it to rest is to answer the question. it won't go away of its own. it is having traction with swing voters which are are the states he cares most about. an an advisor will

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. stay right here. [♪ theme music ♪] >>> good evening i'm eliot spitzer, and this is "viewpoint." mitt romney may have hoped to show off his foreign policy expertise at as he started a week-long trip to britain, poland and israel. to put it gently, it's a good thing romney does want to secretary of state. an unnamed romney advisor got off to a rough start when he said, and i quote: obama campaign adviser david axelrod appreciated that comment enough to tweet mitt's trip off to a great start even before he lands. romney tried to take the comment back a bit, he told nbc -- >> i don't agree with whoever the advisor right be but do agree we have a common bond between ourselves and great britain. there were a few stories that were disturbing. supposed strike was caught up a but mitt romney wasn't done. he went on to question whether the british would really support the games. >> do they come together and celebrate the olympic moment? and that's something we only find out once the games begin

now eliot spitzer is trying to resurrect his career. he is spending a lot of time on his show talking about the rate rigging scandal on the heels of what we have been talking about. we'll talk about that in a moment and explosive new allegations facing mr. spitzer about the hank greenberg case. let's starths driving the news today. thank you for joining us, mr. spitzer. >> my pleasure to be on your show. jpmorgan and specifically revelations that traders basically lied to jamie dimon about the trading losses, i know you have talked a lot about this, what's your reaction? >> it's not surprising that su -- employees would try to cover it up. we need to know when he first had contact with the traders. what he knew and what they reported back to him. i don't the we have the complete story about what he was told about the magnitude of the risk. i want to get beyond the buy fair choice of jamie dimon there or not. does this frame a more important question which is our banks of this scale simply too big for anybody to manage. >> what do you th

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. great program. check it out. [♪ theme music ♪] >>> good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." after a brief high at it advertise out of respect for the colorado families but now we're getting an picture of how effective the attacks have been. according to a new reuter's poll over a third of the registered voters have heard of romney's time at bain as well as the argument over his tax returns. which reflects similar findings from the usa today poll which found a large majority surveyed felt his business background would help him build the economy. romney's new ad uses the president's you didn't build that speech to paint the president out of touch. even though it presents the line out of context, it apparently struck a chord with the president. >> what i said was together we build roads and we build bridges, and so if you have got a business you didn't build that, meaning the roads and the bridges, not your business. so this is just a bogus issue. >> today his campaign issued a nearly 3-

it will be a great converse. >> cenk: thank you eliot. >> eliot: thank you. >> cenk: when we come backsive progressive segment on another set of lice that the romney campaign is telling us. don't miss it. >> that's what ticks me off more than anything. >> mr. president, unfortunately you have no idea. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] how can you say you're in love with her? she gives me snickers peanut butter squared and i eat it. it's snickers with creamy peanut butter, would you like one? let's just keep an open mind. [ groans ] [ male announcer ] if you like peanut butter and chocolate, you'll love peanut butter and snickers. try snickers peanut butter squared. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] now the republicans have been repeating a lie about how president obama said you didn't build that refer to go small business when in fact he was referring to roads and bridges and how we built that together through the government. we've shown shown that over and over again. undeterred, here they go again. >> he was trying to say hey you didn't build that business on your own the government helped you build it. that's

eliot spitzer is up next for a viewpoint. what have you got for us? >> eliot: we're talking taxes. you going to fight for the 98% or the percent. voter suppression is going to be a hot issue all the way through november. will people be able to get to the ballot box. and a more theoretical issue. is technology destroying our job base. is it man versus machine and is technology eating away the middle class, something that the economists are beginning to discuss in a serious conversation. >> cenk: i think it's man versus corporate machine, but that's the theme of our show. >> eliot: that is true also. >> cenk: great, i look forward to it coming up in a bit. next on our program a ceo made only $44 million in just one day. we'll tell but that outrage and how that turned out when we come back. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> it's go time. (vo) at the only online forum with a direct line to cenk uygur. >>if you had to vote for a republican, which one would it be? (vo) join the debate now. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: welcome to the segment we call aggressive progressive. that would be me. now duke energ

eliot spitzer "viewpoint" next. what's going on, eliot?e is corruption breaking out all over the british corporate world from glaxo selling ugly farm suiting for things they don't even do to barclays which was rigging markets. we'll be delving into that. matt taibbi is bursting out of his skin waiting to be outraged. he will tell us exactly what's going on during that. one of my favorite members of congress talking to us about healthcare, the constitution, supreme court justice roberts is going to be a fascinating show. >> sounds terrific as usual. thank you, eliot. >> thank you. >> when we come back, we've got a congressman who specially gift wraps from the same brother from another mother guise. i don't want to give it away. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money, does win. this is a national crisis. >>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. >> if there's one thing congressman mick mulvaney from south carolina does not like, it is earmarks. here he is talking to conservative freedom works