>>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: there may be hope for new gun control laws afterall. new jersey senator lautenberg would restrict access to high capacity ammunition clips. both were acquired and used by james holmes charged monday with 23 counts of first-degree murder and amendmented murder. for the shooting at the aurora, colorado shooting. holmes opened fire on the crowd watching batman, the dark knight rises. that drum would be banned under amendment to the senate cybersecurity law proposed by lautenberg along with any clip that holds more than ten rounds. the conservative heritage foundation attacked his proposal saying... but while a congress coired by the national rifle association hasn't passed new gun control laws since 1999, no less a conservative than supreme court justice antonin scalia told fox news they're allowed under the constitution sometimes. >> there are some limitations that can be imposed. what they

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

starting off the day on current tv, leading up to the big prime-timeline-up with "viewpoint" with eliot spitzer again for his wednesday morning visit, and eliot, the land sketch in this presidential campaign has changed dramatically since you and i talked last wednesday. right? >> it has indeed, bill. it wasis great to chat with you early, those of us who work until 9:00 o'clock at night. you know, unless i am missing something, it veered harvard right over the past couple of days with the addition of paul ryan to the ticket. and, you know, i was 13ing yesterday, mitt romney, whatever we think of him, navigated through the primary system without tacking so far right that the public lost its sense that he could be a moderate. then usually, after the primaries, you tack back more to the middle. he did the opposite. he went so hard right with this election of paul ryan, i don't know a single republican who isn't deeply worried about this. >> the other thing, mitt romney skipped through the primaries without getting really specific about anything. right? he is mr. vague when it comes to public poli

>>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix.> eliot: the civilian casualties continue to mount at syria sinks deeper and deeper into civil war. throw syrian president bashar al-assad appears hell bent on clinging to power the obama administration insists his days at the helm are numbered. earlier in the week the regime suffered it's highest defection with the sunny y prime minister riad hijab across the jordannen broader. and they've become frustrated with the united states offering more than moral support. america will pay a price for this america is going to lose the friendship of syrians and no one will trust them any more. already we don't trust them. meanwhile, assad's coastest closest ally, iran sending one of its top diplomats. here steve clemens, he had right at large the washington note and senior fell low and founder of the american strategy program at the new america foundation. steve, thanks for joining us and explain this fraught region of the world. are we doing enough to help the rebels? are their frustration legi

"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

"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

eliot: sound awesome. jeff sacks is perhaps the smartest economist i know. he gets this it. that's coming up. spitzer." estions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: the hot issue right now, medicare. who is doing what to it and why. according to the recent tracking poll 73% of american adults think medicare is extremely or very important. ranking it highest among the healthcare issues. there is another issue out there that we should be talking about just as much, if not more, medicaid. because unlike the medicare reforms in paul ryan's budget which kick in years from now the all the on medicaid start immediately and could have devastating affects. ryan's budget starting in 2013, that's right. next year, would cut $1.4 trillion from medicaid. the government's health insurance company that primarily serves low income individuals. it would block grant dollars to the states, consequently leading to the measure of nonpartisan universally respected budget office a minimum of 14 million people being dropped from the program. this does not inc

"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

. [♪ 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

"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

"viewpoint" with eliot spitzer is excellent and it's next. 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. sen

>>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." 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 sacrifices. these changes successfully eliminated much of the waste and left a leaner, more efficient industry. mr. romney those this. tha

[ ♪ 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 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 for s

>>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix.ow it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: every four years the eyes of the nation turn to the eyes of the president. while that race captures the majority of the headlines in donations the outcome of the legislative races could have an equally significant impact on the direction of the country. after republicans won control of the house of representatives in 2011, the democratically controlled senate remained the last line of defense from hyper partisan bills passed by house republicans. which is why this year the republicans are making a big push to take four seats in the senate to take control of that chamber as well. leading the push is karl rove who will be spending $4.2 million on ads in five states. missouri montana north doc missouri and washington and nevada. for more on the push, let's bring back reed wilson, editor and chief of the hotline. welcome back. these five races i just listed, $4.2 million will cr

>>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix. it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now.cu >> eliot: some things really do confuse me. the dow has been on a tear, today hitting it's highest point since the number crisis before falling back slightly at the close. corporate profits as a percentage of gdp are at an all-time high. ceo compensation is the highest it's been since 2006. corporations are sitting on almost 2 trillion-dollar in retained earnings, and not a single major prosecution of a corporation or ceo has yet to occur for the enormous defalcations that led to the crisis of 2008. yet the corporate leadership expresses nothing but venom for president obama and nothing but admiration for the policies of former president george w. bush that led us to the crisis of of 2008. let's ask a different question. one that follows from the following equally if not more important data. the number of americans living in poverty is expected to reach an all-time high of 66 million

"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

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>>(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. >> 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. >> cenk: well, we have a really interesting moment on "the young turks" here where i'm going to totally agree with the republicans. they might be doing this for politics but what they're doing is true anyway. they say president obama has in essence a license to kill and he shouldn't show us that license. well, they're right about that. you know that we've killed three u.s. citizens in yemen alone in the last year? and have we shown evidence as to why we killed them? no. have we even shown a legal memo explaining our right to kill u.s. ci

>>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix. it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: things continue to deteriorate in syria today as at least 130 people were killed as fighting continues to escalate. as we told you last night earlier this year, president obama signed a secret order authorizing u.s. nonweapon support for syrian rebels. nonweapon being the key for the white house and i quote... but whether the white house likes it or not, bigger weapons are entering the fray. new reports of rebels using captured tanks in aleppo while the regime responds with fighter jets and helicopter gunships. the escalation comes on the same day that kofi annan stepped down as special u.n. syrian peace envoy. he chastised the u.n. security counsel for its inability to get any meaningful sanctions passed. >> at a time when we need -- when the syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger pointing and name-calling in the security council. >> for more on t

current tv's eliot spitzer, host of "viewpoint" tonight at 8:00 p.m.ining u.s. always a pleasure. >> that's eliot spitzer hear life on the full-court press. i am peter ogburn sitting in for bill. we have been talking about chick-fil-a. today is chick-fil-a appreciation day. should you go? chris in atlanta, georgia, down in the hotbed of chick-fil-a. i believe that's their home city. right, chris? >> honestly, i do not know. i'm sorry about that. >> i am pretty sure it is. what's your take on this? >> well, you know i am for whatever. if people want to, you know, i am, you know, not gay or anything or -- but if people want to get married and that's their choice i think this country gives us the right to do that. but what i was going to say is if we are going to -- or if people should boycott chick-fil-a, then shouldn't they also boycott companies like apple or any company that outsources? i agree, you know, kind of i see what you are saying, but, also i think that boycotting is a little too far because even if they do use their funds to -- for anti--gay

>>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." ons, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >> eliot: are there any sports heroes left? the unfortunate result of doping and steroids era might be that one day's his or her is the next day's disappointment. lance armstrong gave up his fight against the us anti-doping agency sacrificing his seven tour de france titles. won between 1999 and 2000. as well as the bronze medal he won in the 2000 olympic games. he also has been banned for life from competing in any sport that follows the world anti-doping code. after fighting the doping charges for more than a decade which was dropped in february armstrong was legend that he used performance-enhancing drugs since 199. as armstrong told gavin newsome earlier this year. the constant allegations were taking a toll. >> anybody would be sick and tired of it, not just the personal stress, the toll it takes on yourself, your friends on your community on your family, your business, on your foundation. on all of th

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

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. >>

a great panel lead by al gore and features jennifer grandholm, joy behar john fugelsang, and eliot spitzeris morning with us again. good morning eliot. >> yeah, it is a little early it seems after watching last night what they pretend is a convention. >> bill: indeed. good job by the way last night. i was ready for a real barn burning from chris christie, and i was really disappointed. he -- he didn't rise to the occasion, i thought. what was your take? >> i thought his speech was flat predictable pandering. there was nothing. it was in keeping with the rest of the evening in terms of its complete dilutional claims of economic theory and if chris christie is supposed to be some better orador completely missed me. >> bill: i have to tell you our ideas are right, their ideas are wrong. that's a good start. but then he didn't really say anything. >> nothing of substance, nothing to put your teeth into. no data no facts, nothing to support a case. i thought the best speech of the evening by far was ann romney's. i thought hers was a good speech. i thought the rest were absolutely abombedable.

>>(narrator) the former governor of new york, eliot spitzer is on current tv., 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. vanguard: the documentary series that redefined tv journalism. >>we're going to places where few others are going. >>it doesn't get anymore real than this. >>occupy! >>we will have class warfare. >>i'm being violated by the health-care system. >>we're patrolling the area looking for guns, drugs, bodies. >>we go in and spend a considerable amount of time getting to know the people and the characters that are actually living these stories. >>the award winning series "vanguard" only on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: this was strike back day for conservative on chick-fil-a. we're having the chick-fil-a wars. are you or are you not in favor of gay marriage based on the chicken sandwich that you eat or don't eat. conservatives decided to

look back at the eliot spitzer situation.ow much fines he got without bringing anything and ultimately it was found that mostly nothing he thought happened happened. i'm not exxonerating anyone but these things have a dna, get out your checkbook. if that's the case the stock is very much has that reflected in it at the moment. >> what's extraordinary is the starting positions, and how far apart we are. they are talking about transaction, the figures are $250 billion. standard chartered comes out seriously rejects that, we've been talking about these transactions for a very long time, pre-cleared them all and if there's anything here that's not been pre-cleared it's down to about 14 million. you couldn't have the two sides further apart. >> but you know anyone that's been through an out of hand frat party at college know the cops come in and arrest everyone and sort out the details later. right now let's throw it up again the wall, say everything out there is wrong and then they have plenty of time to sift through it and in ma

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

>>here's how you can connect with "viewpoint with eliot spitzer." tions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers. >> eliot: boycott versus turnout. the battleground chick-fil-a heeding the call from former arkansas governor mike huckabee. thousands of thousands flocked to chick-fil-a restaurants to support the chicken chain in what huckabee called chick-fil-a appreciation day after the company's president dan cathy came underfire for saying he was guilty as charged for opposing gay marriage. chicken sandwich sales went through the roof according to megachurch pastor rick warren who apparently has a new role counting chickens and sandwiches who wrote in a tweet that cathy called him to say chick-fil-a has already set a world record today and that was with seven more hours to go in the west. while close mindedness may have been good for business at chick-fil-a yesterday tomorrow is slated to be same sex kissing day at chick-fil-a. you can be sure the restaurant chain is looking forward to that. supporters of same-sex m

i am eliot spitzer. this is "viewpoint." the big topic on the campaign trail today, energy and paul ryan's fiscal hypocracy made headlines in mitt romney's hometown newspaper. all four candidates worked the crowds in swing states that could prove crucial in november. president obama was in iowa for a second day in a row. vice president biden was in virginia, not north carolina despite what he said at one point. paul ryan, mitt romney's new running mate was in colorado and nevada and romney in ohio where the former massachusetts governor told coal miners that his energy policy included coal gas and oil while the president's did not. if you don't believe in coal or energy independence for america. if you believe the whole answer for our energy needs is wind and solar, say that. >> in fact mr. obama has said something a lot closer to a what paul ryan said to a g.o.p. crowd near denver. >> we have our own oil and gas. we have nuclear. we are all of the above, wind solar, coal. let's use it. >> mr. obama focused on wind which he

>>now it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer.n the debv >>> mitt romney is about to get the down side of having been an empathy vessel for the past year. the etch candidate has now embraced paul ryan and after the momentary excitement wears off, there will be one small of good news for romney. the good news is that we will finally have the intellectual intellectual engagement that the public returns. and good news for romney is because his taxes and work at bain capital will drop off of the table for some time. he will now be held accountable for the ryan perspective on the entire raft of issues on my the vp nominee has spoken. and romney will soon find out that the voters are nowhere near as radical as paul ryan. ryan is not the social moderate fiscal conservative, who might have appealed to the general public. the swing voters in the swing states will soon discovery that the new romney republican party has veered to the right, indeed to the fringes and is now irrelevant to the main stream. he believes life begins the moment a f

was phenomenal in that is next with "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer 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-please my por

. [♪ theme music ♪] >>> good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." obama administration makes a modest reduction from 10 to 5. and romney god a modest bump at best for putting ryan on the ticket. ryan was in glenn alan virginia, attacking the president's handling of the financial crisis. >> undoubtedly, president obama inherited a difficult situation when he came into office, the problem is he made things much worse. >> the question for ryan did he make things worse for the gop ticket. when he denied knowing he accepted stimulus funds, claiming and i quote . . . meanwhile, mitt romney's attack on the president's cut for medicare providers triggered this response from the obama administration. >> the ryan plan aarp says it would undermine medicare and the voucher plan could cost retirees more than $6,000. >> and he tried to raise political costs for his refusal to release his tax returns, and i quote . . . >> but rhodes brushed him off, writing if governor romney's tax returns are the core message of your campaign, there will be ample time for preside

>>now it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: they'd rather agree to disagree, even on something they claim they agree on. despite both political parties stating desire to extend the bush tax cuts for all households that earn less than $250,000, today house republicans voted down a democrat-backed plan that had cleared the senate to do just that. instead, the house republicans passed their own plan that would extend the tax cuts for everyone, including those households over the $250,000. this plan, of course, has no chance of passing the senate, thus leaving all american households with continuing uncertainty. the tax cuts are set to ex-ings pier for all on january 1st, and congress wonders why its approval hovers in the low teens. meanwhile, the congressional progressive caucus announced a tax plan oh to ensure the richest 2% pay their fair share closeing high school hopes, and investing in american. frightening concepts to be far right. joining me now keith ellison. thank you for joining me on to

and financial statements shenanigans and there are e-mails by eliot spitzer the new york attorney general at the time who had prosecuted the case supposedly done by private email address that are coming to light and a judge is about to rule and these e-mails could exculpate hank greenberg. and this whole libel or thing could at least in part be kind of a push back because there's kind of a there's a shift occurring if i'm reading this correctly on wall street where we have a separation of the big banks from the administration they're not as tight as they used to be and you have warren buffett coming out kind of bearish on treasuries and talking down about the muni bond so things are a little bit different right now that's interesting so you think that this library scandal could be a bargaining chip for washington to use in and balancing out something like this a i.g. lawsuit that it makes wall street look bad never let a good crisis go to waste and never let it go crisis go to waste then i want to ask your opinion on this that timothy geithner said when he talked about the regulatory resp

maybe he's going rogue maybe he's the first guy willing to take on the big banks i don't know eliot spitzer when he did that years ago or maybe this is a case where someone else is going on i'm curious what your reaction is to this new york regulator well you know i only know what i'm reading yet and what i'm reading is that the bank had been cooperative since two thousand and ten and has been giving them all the information that they wanted and that it was in two hundred fifty billion dollars that was more you know in the in the tens of millions of dollars that is supposedly money laundering again only the facts that are being presented or whether or not they are facts but the information that's being presented and also left a little suspect. just in the sense of what the issue is and as i read about lawsky the the prosecutor they say he was born out of the military base and this issue has to do with money laundering for ron and then i read his statements and he says that this money laundering is quote a global threat to peace and stability now if you want to talk about a stretch i think t

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

. >> cenk: let's find out what is next with "viewpoint" with eliot spitzer. to chat with you and glad to know that nobody ever trips in a newsroom. >> cenk: not today. >> eliot: we're going to talk about this horror out in wisconsin. yor so after the last mass murder we have once again guns perpetrating this horrific event. yes, i know it's people who pull the trigger but where are we on gun control. and scams abundant in wall street all over the place. nothing, not enough being done about it. same 'ol story over and over again. we need to get to the root of these things. >> cenk: i couldn't agree with you more. go get 'em. thank you, eliot. when we come back, we're going 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. stimulat

this year and it is going on now economy minds me a little bit of going back a few years when eliot spitzer remember he was the sheriff of wall street and he was attacking wall street banks and then he and his career ended quite suddenly with events that some some considered a set up but you know it's clearly he had a role in his own demise but what do you see the perhaps that if the state continues down this path of taking a hard line against the banks hers that this will create some tension similar to what we've seen already and is that a possibility carl do you think well i hope this this gentleman number one doesn't like to frequent option number two you know very good at keeping his belt cinched around his waist unlike eliot. because clearly if there's anything that people can expose about him and try to discredit him i would expect him to try to do so the you know the first rule of being a law enforcement official is that you probably ought not to be smoking joints if you're boston drug dealers car let's talk about high frequency trading for a second is this free market capitalism or

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