eliot spitzer is up with "viewpoint" next. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer ands is "viewpoint." it's a point of pride for many conservatives to claim that climate change is a hoax and the human contribution to climate change is a fantasy. the harm done that's go to our very survival is getting more and more serious. according to figures out today last month was the hottest july in the 48 states with average temperature of 77-point dress. .2 degrees oh above the record saturday during the dust bowl of 1936. the numbers show the hottest 12 months on record were recorded between august of last year and july which all goes to support a frightening new analysis published monday that shows .2 of the land surface was hit by extreme summer heat between 1951 to 1980 those figures grew to be between 4% to 13% of the land between 2006 and 2011. my guest in a few moments a coauthor of that study. i quote, it is no longer enough to say that the global warming there is virtually no explanation other than climate change which means that events like the brutal drought effecting

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint"."l ryan admits that when it comes to asking for federal stimulus dollars constituent services trumped fiscal purity. the obama administration makes a modest reduction from ten to five in their demands that mitt romney release more tax returns. and the latest poll numbers show romney got a modest bump at best for putting ryan on the ticket. and while romney was puttered around for funds at the southampton, new york, golf club today. >> undoubtedly president obama inherited a difficult situation when he came into office. the president obama is he made things much worse. >> eliot: the question for ryan. did he make things worse for the g.o.p. ticket when he denied knowing he had requested federal stimulus funds for his district? the wall street journal published four of the letters on tuesday. which led ryan to admit today that while he condemned the stimulus as a failure he forgotten the letters because, and i quote, they were treated as a constituent service requests, but they should hav

vow with eliot"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good evening, this is eliottzer and this is "viewpoint." 16 days after the movie massacre in colorado, we're witnessing another horrendous incident by a man who purchased a handgun. the shooter moved through the sikh temple shooting as he went. when it was over, six people were dead, three more wounded including a police officer in critical condition. the suspect, wade michael page, also dead. page was 40-year-old old an army veteran who served between 1992 and 1998. first as a hawk missile repairman. page had been demoted for getting drunk on duty and going absent without leave before getting a general discharge that maid him ineligible for re-enlistment. he was also a member of a white supremacist white core band called apathy. wade's victims including temple president whose niece said he tried to fight back. >> witnesses said that he took him in a grip to kind of wrestle him hoping that the gun would fall. but in the end he got wounded. he got shot. >> eliot: both local police and the fbi were at page's home

when fdr was president up in the 90s. >> eliot: yes. >> eliot: people forget, the rates being down inthe 30s for the rich americans is a modern-- >> derivative. it's herbert hoover numbers, and eisenhower had such a rosy glow in the 50s because of the high tax rate on the wealthy and those gi bills and the interstate highway plan. >> eliot: general eisenhower spent money on building things. >> infrastructure, what a concept. >> eliot: oh my goodness, shocking. >> this is why i think that the president's burden is to wake up our republican friends to the fact that the romney agenda does not help them. tea party is an acronym for total economic amnesia prevents republican trick trickle down y'all. >> eliot: that's something we never learned. i don't think most folks ever appreciated how much government involvement there was. wasn't it said once, you didn't build that. >> yes, elizabeth warren said that and the president tried to. >> eliot: chick-fil-a, you a big fan of chicken sandwiches. >> i'm half southern, so i can enjoy a chicken sandwich. i won't be eating there again. >> eliot: n

heel. >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is jew. this may be the republican's last chance to redefine itself. but first, tod akin despite pleas from every corner of republican leadership refused to go away. and secondly they have been taken over the far right refusing to permit exceptions for abortion even in cases of rape or insist. this morning representative akin released a video apologizing for what he said was a poor choice of words when he referred to legitimate rape and said women could prevent pregnancy. he said shutting down the whole thing. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words and the wrong way and for that i apologize. the mistake i made was in the words i said. not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness. >> eliot: a speculation continues to swirl about akin's intention. he returns to mike huckabee's radio show to dispel any doubt. >> i want to make things absolutely clear, and that is we're going to continue with this race for the u.s. senate. i misspoke one word in one sentence in one day and all of a

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer this is "viewpoint." i almost feel sorry for mitt pit. just like michael corleone in "the godfather," every time he thinks he has pulled out he is pulled back in. every time he wants to talk about the economy he gets pulled back to talkings about the issues that the democrats want to talk about. like the g.o.p. war on women. it happened when todd akin had this to say on the subject of rape victims and presscy pregnancy. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. but let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. you know, i think there ought to be punishment. it ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. >> legitimate rape. he's kidding. claire mccaskill said, as a woman and former prosecutors who has handled hundreds of rape cases i'm stunned by a akin's comments. so was mitt romney. congressman akin's comments on rape are insulting inexcusable and frankly wrong. like millions of others americans we find them to be

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer ands is "viewpoint." the romney team muddles their medicare message, paul ryan flies to vegas to pitch himself to sheldon adelson and other republican donors. the g.o.p. standard fair in north carolina with another closed door fundraiser, but he was front and center with a withering attack aimed squarely at president obama and vice president joe biden. >> this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. mr. president, take your campaign the division, anger, and hate back to chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting american. >> eliot: those remarks triggered by vice president biden's claim that romney would undo wall street regulations if reelected. >> he would let them write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put y'all back in chains. >> eliot: an obama campaign called romney's comments, unhinged, but it did not stop romney from broadening his attack. when asked how his campaign was about hatred, he found it part of a political sin. >> divisive b

>> eliot: eisenhower. >> nixon.r was the last one with a surplus. >> eliot: john fugelsang, thanks so much as always. friday gives us what the week is all about. >> t

she could not do it. >> eliot: you're 2-for-2. do not stand by when people make accusations as she did. they're unfair, wrong and unamerican. your open spirit and kindness of heart to work with her. representative keith ellison as always, thank you so much for coming on the show. >> thanks, eliot. >> eliot: today is chick-fil-a appreciate today. more accurately, today is show your disdain for you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. hey joe? yeah? is this a bad time? no, i can talk. great -- it's the 9th inning and your hair still looks amazing. well, it starts with a healthy scalp. that's why i use head and shoulders for men. they're four shampoos for game-winning scalp protection and great looking hair... go on, please

>> hi, eliot. >> eliot: we'll post your site so people can get to it.us about jobs, what would the romney-ryan do to to our job job. >> they want to start major reduction. way before it started. we already has too much capacity underutilization capacity and too much unemployment. if you cut the budget already you'll have more unemployment. estimates by the institute says if we use the ryan budget we'll have 1.9 fewer jobs next year, and 2.8 million fewer jobs the year after. on the jobs front it's a disaster. >> eliot: it's almost as though we're talking about a fiscal cliff which is economic. he wants to push us over the cliff by shrinking federal spending. it's completely wrong based on any economy theorist that you speak to. economic distribution. what would he do to income distribution. >> remember, we now have almost the most unequal distribution we've had in the past 100 years. the top 1% is taking home 20% of total income and the top 400 families own more wealth than the bottom 150 million americans put together. now what ryan wants to do is make

that's a real mess, eliot. some purge of those leaders. if you take the iraq-type example which is essentially to start from scratch and wipe out all of that, you could end up with an ongoing civil war with neighboring nations controlling different factions for a generation for 15, 20 years. that could be a real disaster for the people of syria as well. we need to weigh what we do with what will come next. >> eliot: there is no question none of the options is either easy in what comes down the road is impossible to predict. you're right what happened in iraq is a disaster. on the other hand, in libya we got rid of gadhafi and there was some semblance of order. in egypt who knows where it takes us. there is some form of democracy and we don't know where that will take us either. is there a risk of radicalization of the rebel forces if they're not satisfied with what we provide them. and will this turn elsewhere and will that become an independent type of threat. >> i think there is a responsible core but i think

"viewpoint" is next [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening, i'm eliot spitzer, and this is "viewpointt's a phrase that could define mitt romney for the rest of the campaign. and it was delivered by president obama with relish, at a connecticut fundraiser last night. >> obama: he asks the middle class to pay more in taxes so he could give another 250,000-dollar cut to people making more than $3 million year. [ booing ] it's like robin hood in reverse. it's romney hood. [laughter] >> eliot: after the president smackdown, the g.o.p. tried to table a comeback on fox news. >> romney: if i could coin a term it would be obamaloney. he's serving a dish a which is a simply in contradiction to the truth. >> eliot: weak comeback, mitt. very weak. much tougher an ad from the american priorities super pac that supports the obama campaign ausing romney of ignoring the human cost at a kansas steel plant closed by his bain capital firm. >> i don't think mitt romney understands what he has done to people's lives by closing the plant. a short time after that my wife became ill. i don't know how long sh

thank you for your insights tonight. >> thank you eliot. >> eliot: we'll look at mitt romney's economic you'll recognize it. it didn't work last time either. >> 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. with lysol kitchen soap hands are healthy. with lysol kitchen soap, washing dishes is easy. with lysol kitchen soap surfaces are clean. hands. dishes. surfaces. the lysol no-touch kitchen system: the only all-in-one kitchen soap. try it for yourself. lysol. mission for health. [ male announcer ] peppermint that cools as you chew. stimulate your senses. 5 gum. now in micro pack. >> eliot: let's check in with jennifer granholm in "the war room." good evening governor. what have you got for us tonight? >> jennifer: eliot, mitt romney is looking battered a bruised. we'll go inside "the war room" with rick tyler. we've also got larry from of course the university of virginia. he's going to be looking at something you've been looking at, what is going on with the tea party and

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening, i'mpitzer, and this is "viewpoint." president obama is edging up in the polls with a boost from women voters. while the far right is pushing mitt romney to name wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his run running mate. we start with the numbers. the latest poll has president leading romney by 7% and it also among registered voters nationwide. a three-point pick up since july. breaking the cnn numbers down by gender. men prefer the president romney by six points while women gave the president a nine. point edge over his republican opponent. in colorado, where roadside bomb campaign the past two days has obama leading romney by eight points. mr. obama was in pueblo, colorado where he told supporters to get ready for an advertising onslaught boone on. >> obama: over the next three months you'll see more negative ads more money spent than you've ever seen in your life. >> eliot: including the latest ad from the romney campaign attacking president obama's requiring contraception services in emp

stay right here. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and thiswpoint." live from chicago. i'm in the windy city to talk with judge richard pose near from failed corporate governance to the constitution later in this program. first, ever since paul ryan was selected as mitt romney's running mate republicans have been attacking the president over one big issue--medicare. but the new polling out today shows that their attacks are failing miserably. the main attack of wildly debunked claim that president obama is cutting $716 billion from medicare in order to pay for his healthcare bill. that attack apparently has not swayed the public. recent polling in the three big swing states, florida, ohio, and wisconsin, shows the people trust the president on medicare by an 8-to-20 point margin. the overall head to head match up tracks medicare results as the president continues to hold a slight lead in all three states. but mr. romney continues to look for a message that will stick. he has apparently found one and it involves no message at all. in an intervi

[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer, and this "viewpoint."t romney jokes like a borne-again birther. while tax records appear to show his family trusts used exotic strategies to avoid paying some taxes. with romney's energy strategy now public, you'll be shocked to learn that top members of his energy team are a whose whoa of oil, coal gas industry insiders starting with romney the comedian. just days before he's nominated as the g.o.p. candidate for president, romney cracked this joke for a cheering michigan crowd. >> romney: no one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place where we were born and raised. >> eliot: now for anyone who has followed politics for the past four years that seems like an obvious reference to the utterly discredited notion that president obama was not born in the u.s. but romney's adviser kevin madden insists that, i quote, he was only referencing that michigan where he was campaigning today is the state where himself was born and raised. right. if you bleach that, i have a bridge f

>> eliot: if you're saying that theology does not lead to good legislation. >> i don't think so. >> eliot: luis guttoris gutierrez thank you for joining us from your home city. >> thank you. >> eliot: judge richard pose near talks about why ceos so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry™. better. [ male announcer ] snickers satisfies. >> eliot: judge richard pose near laid the intellectual foundation for an era of deregulation but he has widely (vo) every news network will cover the convention. but only current coverage will put you at the collision of tv and social media. we'll provide unsurpassed insight into the most buzz worthy tweets, posts and pontifications, from the entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of our on-air and online coverage. >>now that is pol

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. >> eliot: good evening. i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." mitt romney wrapped up his whirlwind foreign tour today but he may be coming home to an even bigger disaster than he created over there. in an interview with "the huffington post," senate majority leader harry reid dove head first into the discussion over mitt romney's tax returns. reid says about a month go, a former investor in bain capital called his office and said romney didn't pay any taxes for ten years. zero. i quote... i think everyone can agree that would not look good. but as much as romney's refusal to release more tax returns flies in the face of the president set by his own father, some still don't believe he needs to do it. >> if he had two years out then four. if he had four years out, they would want six. if he had six years out, they would want ten. >> what would you tell them? >> do what he feels like doing. this is his decision, fine, let's get on with it. >> eliot: in 2000 when cheney and then governor bush released ten y

now he's disowning it. >> eliot: i'll disavow it.h 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. >> eliot: mitt romney has an ad airing in ohio with a sympathetic car dealer. romney would be so cold hearted as to require job losses as part of a rescue plan. where to start with the utter hypocrisy of this ad. first, the raw baseline facts. romney opposed the bailout preferring the bailout for gm. the bailout under obama added more than a quarter million jobs. those facts are pretty he's den reputable. for romney to assert that he was some how the more sympathetic understanding voice is simply a distortion of fact and history. second the requirement that auto makers reorganized at many levels work rules pensions, dealership structure was accepted by everybody who examined the business and it would have been irresponsible to throw money at car companies without demanding these painful sacr

chew orbit. >> eliot: the verdict is in.s getting warmer and humans are largely to blame. this even according to former self proclaimed climate change skeptic berkeley physics professor richard muller who created the berkeley earth surface temperature project nearly three years ago to study and resolve any lingering doubts about global warming. last fall muller published his results concludeing that global warming is real. that must have been a disappointment to the koch brothers who opened their checkbook to donate $150,000 to the project. and muller now going a step further. humans are almost entirely the cause. i hope that the berkeley earth analysis will at the point settle the scientific debate regarding global warming and it's human causes. then comes the difficult part, agreeing across the political and diplomatic speck strum about what can and should be done. joining me, richard muller physics professor at uc berkeley and author of the new book "energy forture presidents: the science behind the headlines." we appreci

>> right. >> eliot: have we heard about it since then?all we heard was that they were drained of resources. they had fewer agents assigned to that task force than roger clemens. >> eliot: come on, which is more important. >> apparently they now have 200 people on that task force and they may have a case coming eventually down the pipe. but they've been starved for resources. >> eliot: to the getting late in terms of statute of limitations evidence is drying up. these are things that happened years ago and the justice department has not been there for the public so far. matt taibbi, thank you for your insights and you're a great writerererererererererererererererererererererererererererer so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry™. better. [ male announcer ] s

. >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." senate majority leader harry reid will never be known as a diplomat. maybe a loose cannon after claiming a bain capital investor told him mitt romney hadn't paid any taxes. reid went to the senate floor today to demand that romney show a decade's worth of returns. >> the word's out he hasn't paid any taxes for ten years. let him prove that he has paid taxes because he hasn't. >> eliot: reid backed up his claim sort of telling his hometown paper... reid added the burden should be on romney to prove his taxes have been paid. romney told reid to "put up or shut up" while his campaign adviser eric fehrnstrom hammered reid on fox news. >> harry reid's charges are baseless and they're untrue. and i would ask him one simple question. have you no sense of decency sir? is there nothing that you won't do to base yourself and the office you hold in the name of dirty politics? >> eliot: wow fehrnstrom's attack was an adaptation of attorney joe welch's legendary charge which helped take down repub

he was phenomenal in that is next with "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliottzer and this is "viewpoint." for months mitt romney said his campaign would focus on the economy. that was then. so far this week he has focused on the obama attacks medicare and today a likely loser his own taxes. >> romney: the fascinations for taxes i paid i find to be very small-minded compared to the broad issues that we face. but i did go back and look at thigh taxes. and over the past ten years i never paid less than 13%. the most recent years 13.6% or something like that. i pay taxes every single year. harry reid's charge is totally false. i'm still waiting for harry to put up who it was who told him. i don't believe it. >> eliot: while romney may not believe harry reid, smith said where romney taxes i quote has forfortified us from taking him at his word. quote, he never asked for stimulus money and opposed the stimulus because it dent doesn't work. however, in 2009 letters published by the wall street journal, ryan pushed for stimulus funds. he wrote i'm writeing to ex-pleas

evidence. >> eliot: baloney and i'm editing that for tv.that has to do with langone langone, greenberg or his buddies or me, that's hard to see. but if you would like to read the opinions, they're learned to our website. perhaps surprising, he claims that i'm a bully. believe me, i've heard this before. let me say this, most folks thought that i was david versus their goliath. i think the power is much more on their side of the field that it ever was on mine. fy use some tough language every now and again too bad ken. stop whining you and your colleagues destroyed the very fabric of our economy, and maybe it's about time that you heard someone tell you the truth. it's too bad that cnbc has lowered itself than having it's anchors to buy in the foolishness that langone spreads around. they support and perpetuate the charade. no checks, no facts, no balance. yet they call themselves a news network. finally let's put the specifics of these cases in langon, greenberg aside. the apologizists and deniers are trying to blind us to the massive probl

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer this is "viewpoint." it's two-for-two for goldman sacks. two investigations by two federal agencies, and in both cases no charges filed. and big changes may be ahead for corrupted interest rate used to benchmark hundreds of trillions of dollars in loans. goldman's twin victories first. the bank had been under a justice department investigation for more than a year, accused of betting against junk-filled subprime mortgage securities it sold to its clients. the probe followed a 2010 report by the senate permanent sub committee on investigations. it led to hearings where goldman chairman and coe lloyd blankfein tangled with the michigan democrat senator carl levin who accused the bank of wrongdoing. >> to go out and sell these securities to people and then bet against those same securities it seems to me is a fundamental conflict of interest and is raises a real ethical issue. >> he ethical, but apparently not criminal. at least for this justice department which announced thursday that i

and a new article eliot. >> eliot: this is an article from tim dick dickinson from the rolling stone. the hypocrisy with mitt romney saying we built it on our own. government does nothing for any of us. bain, if you credit this article, which i do, he's a great reporter, bain was teetering, and if bain had not gotten it's support it would have gone under. wait a minute. are you saying that the government should not have done that, and then the hypocrisy attacking government. >> cenk: would you like to give the money back. >> jennifer: mitt romney was the orchestrater of getting that support for pain bain so it wouldn't go under. >> cenk: even more interesting adelson was benefited by the bail out. many donors in the country enormously helped. many of these guys doubled their fortune under obama who might have gone under without the bush and obama bailouts. >> jennifer: 9 president, let's see what he does with his speech next week, i think he can make people feel so great about our american spirit helping one another, being one together that i think he can turn this whole "we built it"

eliot spitzer is next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer.l convention is not exactly going to plan. true national committee chair reince priebus got things rolling today more or less on schedule. >> my privilege to proclaim the the 2012 republican national convention in session and called to order. [ cheering ] >> eliot: but about 20 seconds later preibus wrapped it up. >> the 2012 republican national convention stands in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> eliot: if that isn't a picture of efficiency, i don't know what is. 20 seconds and they're done. tropical storm isaac has grazed the tampa convention site, and emergency management officials say they're prepared in case it comes to shore. but with isaac expected to hit wednesday morning the first wasn't was rescheduled for tomorrow giving mitt romney a chance to polish his acceptance speech in new hampshire. >> i hope that they're spared any major destruction. >> we have a great convention ahead. >> eliot: a convention without rick scott of florida, robert bentley of alabama, and

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eliot, what do you have for us. >> eliot: you almost forgot again. the show. we'll be discussing paul ryan. is he the intellectual leader of the republicans leaning hard right. the issues that people don't know that paul ryan has taken the hardest right he's the fringe of the fringe. they'll begin to understand him in a very different way shortly. it will start on this show. >> cenk: he smiles a lot oh, he seems like a friendly guy. no watch eliot's show and see what his proposals are. thank you eliot. >>> when we come back, we've been hitting paul ryan hard this time. and we'll show how president obama wants to cut your social security medicare and >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. they're doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>that's an understatement, eliot. [ beads rattling ] [ bass thudding ] [ beads rattling ] spearmint that tingles as you chew. stimulate your senses. 5 gum. now in micro pack. (vo) now, it's your turn. (vo) connect with the young turks with cenk uygur. >> it's go time.

thank you, eliot.have one more story for you that has made me an aggressive progressive. i thought the government count do anything right. we just landed a machine on mars. we'll talk about that when we come back. >> there is the wheel of the rover safely on the surface of mars. i can't believe it. this is unbelievable. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ air howling ] [ air howling ] peppermint that cools as you chew. stimulate your senses. 5 gum. now in micro pack. (vo) now, it's your turn. (vo) connect with the young turks with cenk uygur. >> it's go time. >> cenk: all right over the weekend i was talking to an acquaintance. they said, the governor can't do anything right. it's a big bureaucracy--they don't really speak like that. you know what we just did the government launched a rover that went 352 million miles at 13,000 miles per hour. and then slowed down enough to actually land on the surface of marchs. what happened, i thought the government count do anything right? what a ridiculous supply supposition that we

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first, "viewpoint" with eliot spitzer. what's going on. >> eliot: glad you remembered to check in.o grew up right wing. he's not a nice midwestern guy. he's a tea partyer through and there are. we'll look at that pennsylvania decision that permits the state a law that will disenfranchise a lot of voters. >> cenk: we're looking forward to it, see you soon. >> eliot: thank you. >> cenk: when we come back, aggressive progressive about a guy who may be the crazy republican. come on, really? wait until you see this guy. >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. they're doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>that's an understatement, eliot. >> cenk: if you thought michelle bachmann was crazy. wait until you get a load of alan quist. who turns out to be her mentor in minnesota. he believed that president obama's decision not to defend marriage act in court and even though he broke a record in the number of depour deportations, the fact that he's not deporting more is grounds for impeachment. >> yes, whoever the president is, i don't think they would

thank you, eliot. >> eliot: thank you. >> cenk: when we come back we'll have fun with progressive aggressiveeally? stick around. >> how long have you been a republican? >> well, about just after that last one i became-- >> oh, i see. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: kellsry grammar is the star of the hit show, and he has this theory. >> i think it's possible. >> what. >> i mean, i am a--i'm a declared out of the closet republican out in hollywood. >> aaah. [applause] >> so--do i believe it's possible that some young person, young voting or older voting member at the emmys would sit and go, that's a great performance. but to take everything that he stands for. >> you can't think that way. >> cenk: that's an interesting case for that theory. you heard that hollywood is liberal. a lot of actors are. but what about hollywood. walt disney went all the way to congress and said this. >> corporate taxes have to be looked at carefully. this country is a country that is charging among the highest rates in the world in terms of corporate taxes. in order for us to be competitive with the world we have got t

and i talked a little bit about this with eliot spitzer last night.s romney have to fire up the base? the base is fired up. you know who fires up the right wing extremist tea party base? barack obama. they hate him. again, the obama hate machine. by the way paperback is out now. not quite. comes out the end of the month. i got my first copy yesterday. there it is. they hate obama. they hate him so much. they can't stand the fact there is a black guy in the oval office. mitt romney did not have to go this extreme right to fire up the base in my opinion. jerry from liberty maine. what do you say jerry? >> caller: hey, bill. nice to talk to you. thank god for current tv. kudos to al gore and your show is great by the way. >> bill: thank you. >> caller: here's what i think about ryan. first, he was handpicked, groomed and indoctrinated by the heritage foundation. he's been pushing their agenda from day one. number one. number two look, this guy is against saving a woman's life in the cases of a medical necessary abortion. >> bill: right. doesn't care. >>

>>that's an understatement, eliot.michael: this is going to be the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan. [ cheering ] >> hey everybody great to be back. good to see you. >> michael: yeah, they're going into their convention a week from today. it begins in tampa florida, and the republicans are stumbling. they're talking about congressmen and abortion. they're talking about congressmen and skinny dipping in israel. they're talking about anything but what they have to talk about as they go into the convention. today the president started hitting back. mitt romney is up talking and making claims and ads about welfare and how they want to take the work requirement out of welfare, and the president had strong words for his opponent. >> governor romney, creating as a centerpiece of his campaign, this notion that we're taking the work requirement out of welfare, which every single person here who has looked at it says is patently false. everybody who has looked at this says what governor romney is absolutely wr

management here's a headline only from last week eliot management we make this recommendation to our friends if you own u.s. debt sell it now quote long term government debt of the u.s. u.k. europe and japan probably will be the worst performing asset class over the next ten to twenty years we make this recommendation to our friends if you own such debt sell it now you've had a great ride don't press your luck from here it is basically all risk with very little reward so that's paul ryan's investor right behind this of course is the idea to dump the u.s. dollar so paul ryan we're going to about that all right thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max don't go away much more coming your way right there . the lead. role started. going global. cooling fire. choose your place take your stand. to. make your statement. split the worst scandal straw poll. ballot. box. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. showing operation to rule the day. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to london a

eliot, who do you have for us? >> eliot: i'm in dressage. to the tv every night waiting for that event to come on the tube. i don't know. what is this thing? tonight, harry reid dives into the mitt romney tax debate. quite an accusation that he didn't pay taxes for ten years. i don't know what's going on there. this is going to be good fun. justice scalia saying the second amendment can permit us to ban guns as long as you can't carry them. a how witter can be banned. an ak-47 not. i'm not sure where this guy gets his juris prudent ins. fascinating conversation. steve gluckstern will be here discussing an important new idea. >> cenk: when we come back, let's tax the rich. i'll show you exactly why w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>(narrator) eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>you just have to conclude that the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) independent unflinching, and above all politically direct. >> cenk: in this version of aggressive progressive we talk about why we need to tax the rich m

first, "viewpoint" with eliot spitzer. what's going on. >> eliot: glad you remembered to check in. grew up right wing. he's not a nice midwestern guy. he's a tea partyer through and there are. we'll look at that pennsylvania decision that permits the state a law that will disenfranchise a lot of voters. >> cenk: we're looking forward to it, see you soon. >> eliot: thank you. >> cenk: when we come back, aggressive progressive about a guy who may be the crazy republican. come on, really? wait until you see this guy. nah, he's probably got... [ dennis' voice ] allstate. they can bundle all your policies together. lot of paperwork. [ doug's voice ] actually... [ dennis' voice ] an allstate agent can help do the switching and paperwork for you. well, it probably costs a lot. [ dennis' voice ] allstate can save you up to 30% more when you bundle. well, his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. ♪ ♪ bundle and save with an allstate agent. are you in good hands? it's like chicken and crunchy stuff got married! i only use french's french fried onions

thanks eliot. >> thanks.with you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ online coverage. >>now that is politically direct. ♪ >> announcer: taking your emails on any topic at anytime. this is the "bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: republicans for planned parenthood? sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn't it? but randy moody is the head of it, and joins us at any top of the hour. our comments from twitter, golly gee says i like the speech by chris christie's huge nastsy ass best on ann romney. nan blunt says no bill you are not being too hard on ann. her story rings false just like her [ inaudible ]. and we talked about holding back disaster relief funding. the money to fund these campaigns would more than pay for any damage the hurricane might do. >> bill: yeah it has been half a billion dollars so far. ed smith and republicans for planned parenthood in the next hour. [♪ theme music ♪] >> bill: good morning, everybody. good to see you today. it is wednesday august 29t

. [♪ theme music ♪] >>> good evening, i'm eliot spitzer, and this "viewpoint."er months of waiting, weeks of speculation, mitt romney has named a running mate. >> join me in welcoming the next president of the united states paul ryan. >> at least romney got the name right, but with marco rubio and several other on list. why paul ryan? >> we share the same values, and that i have the kinds of experiences that complement his skills, that complement his experience, to help him govern to execute a vision to get this country back on the right track. >> not to mention getting the tea party and other hard-right conservatives fired up for november. but who's vision will be executed if they get elected, ryan or romney? >> i have my budget plan that i -- i have put out, and that's the budget plan we are going to run on. >> it is a trojan horse. disguised as deficit reduction plans, it's really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. >> a vision that would see medicare drop by a third by mid-century and medicaid my even more. while ryan insists his medicare p

. >> thanks, eliot. today they share nothing but a wrapper and a driveway.oth and pick a side. get irresistibly clean and fresh carpets in your home with resolve deep clean powder. the moist powder removes three times more dirt than vacuuming alone while neutralizing odors for a clean you can see, smell and really enjoy. don't just vacuum clean. resolve clean. >>> the candidates will now finally have to debate something serious. i know that's hard to believe, but i'm talk about it in my view. first let's check in with jennifer grandholm in "the war room." >> , governor what have you got for us on this monday evening. >> like you and cenk we are going to be all over this ryan pick. what does it mean in florida pennsylvania, iowa wisconsin. what does it mean for young people and women? we have willie brown in the house, celinda lake, and we have our political round table to chew it up and spit it out. >> you have the all-stars there. let me ask you quick, does anybody think that mitt romney gained electoral votes based on this choice? >> that's what i want to