joining me tonight, former new york governor and former attorney general of new york, eliot spitzer. . spitzer, good to have you with us. >> ed, thank you for inviting me. >> this has got to be a clear indication of fraud as i see it. these are damaging e-mails. >> absolutely. remember, the defense of the banks has traditionally been we got it wrong, but we didn't lie. we made a mistake, but we didn't deceive. the beauty of e-mails is they give you a contemporaneous vision and understanding of what people knew. these e-mails make it very clear. and there are equally damning e-mails related to many other banks that at the time morgan, wamu, bear stearns securitized the debt, they knew the mortgages were bad. that is the essence of this, and it completely debunks their defense. >> where is the justice department? >> absent, missing in action. look, you and i think have the same frustration. we thought with a president obama, with the justice department unlike what we saw in the bush administration that embraced the banks and believed in self-regulation, believed in the mythology, wall s

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and eliot spitzer is with us tonight which is historic because you know conan's not going on jay. today is the birthday of carl bernstein, florence henderson is 79. also the birthday of keller and somewhere, somehow jimmy hoffa is celebrating his 100th birthday. we celebrate valentine's day to publicly demonstrate your affection with crap. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. coming up, another state moves a big step closer to approving american equality and another conservative moves a big step closer to having a heart attack over it. bp pays billions in fines for the gulf oil spill then gets billions more in government contracts. lindsey graham announce he will continue to block lady gaga's tour until she provides more answers about benefit -- benghazi. >>> starting with the senate and majority leader harry reid. >> republicans have made an unfortunate choice to ratchet up the level of destruction here in washington. just when you thought things couldn't get worse it gets worse. >> john: because today senate republicans blocked former republican senato

the other problem was the buy that forced you to leave, eliot spitzer. no fwons about, your feelings towards mr. spitzer. his suit against you largely evaporated. it is nowhere to be found. it is meaningless at this point. the question though that i get asked at every bar, as we know spitzer blew up in, you know, in a prostitution scandal. >> right. >> the question i get asked in every bar, they know i know you, they know i like you, they say, you know what? do you think hank did it? this is what they believe. they believe hank greenberg set up eliot spitzer or at least, not set up, blew the whistle on him. it is an urban legend. you can put it to rest right now. are you guy that blew the whistle on him? >> no, not at all. i had nothing to do about that. >> do you think anybody on wall street did. >> no, i don't think so. i think he brew himself up. he blew himself up. he violated the law apart from moving money imppoperly and with his dealing with prostitutes he blew himself up. >> he got caught. >> and he got caught. >> and he got caught. >> well, if yo

he left, he was forced out by eliot spitzer. there were accounting irregularities. and so knowing that, big-time urban legend for years, he became governor and he resigned involved in a prostitution scandal. everybody thinks hank greenberg basically blew the whistle, hired a private investigator, and serious it is hard to get caught from hiring a hooker from the high up escort service. he got a good chuckle. it is all one the air, all on foxbusiness.com. the story goes on further it was hank and others, all of these people. or they were involved in it. a crazy interview with cnbc that i helped set up suggesting he knew about the hookers before hand. in any event, he says no way, jose. he thinks he was drawing money out of the bank in certain quantities. the cops looked at it and traced the money trail. it was some name like that. it made careers for ashley dupree. ashley: of course, household name. >> what i have read about her, she is happily married now. ashley: good for her. how much detail does hank give away now? charlie: i did not read the whole book. if you a

and eliot spitzer live here with us tonight. please stay with us. >>> last night on this show investigative agent michael isikoff broke a story about obama and its policies. he broke the story ahead of the president's announcement for new choice of cia director, john brennan. john brennan was once the deputy cia director. he is now president obama's counterterrorism director at the white house. but if he is to run the cia for president obama, john brennan is first going to have to face questions on thursday about some of what michael isikoff turned up here on this program last night. a justice department white paper elaborating the administration's reasoning for why it thinks it is legal to kill american citizens on the president's say so. or actually, on the say so of an informed high level official of the u.s. government. so maybe that's the president, but maybe that's somebody else. michael isikoff's scoop ended up at "the new york times" today and "the washington post" and "the hill" and slate and salon and ap to name a few.

not eliot spitzer money, visiting escorts, but a pretty fair amount of money. and the prostitute apparently charges lincoln five bucks. which was an enormous amount of money at the time. so lincoln says to her, ma'am, i have to tell you -- honest abe, right? he says, i can't afford it. i only have three. well, she knows speed, so there's a possibility that he could pay her when he gets the money. he doesn't have the money. what we know is either, a, because lincoln got embarrassed or, b, his honor got the best of him, but when she said to lincoln you can either pay me later, or maybe this one's on the house, lincoln ran out the door. so they say when you visit a prostitute there should be a happy ending -- this is not from perm experience, by the way -- but in this case it was not a happy ending, the it was a good ending. so what i thought i'd do for my main body of my remarks today is tell you just a couple of my favorite stories not just about mistresses in history, but more importantly about presidential character. but don't worry, there's some juicy stories

eliot spitzer joining us early this morning on our news line. ood morning. >> bill: it looks like the feeling in washington is, that congress feels they don't give a damn, they are just going to let it happen. >> nobody seems that terrified about it? >> bill: should they be? >> terrified may be an overstatement, the world is not going to come to an end, but it is going to hurt a lot of people, yes? is that par for the course for what congress does? yes. so maybe this is just the new norm. but this idea originated with let's put in place something so horrific, that nobody in their right mind will accept it. and now that horrific event now acceptable, because there is still an inability to do reasonable things to either deal with long-term debt issues which i think most of us think they are, or fiscal stimulus in the short-term. >> bill: and it's like nothing is too horrific for the tea partiers. >> no. >> bill: as long as there is a business open for business they still want to cut. >> the only thing they are worried about is we're cutting defense

you have one of the prostitutes coming forward, not exactly reliable witness but ask eliot spitzer howfeels about this. >> unnamed sources as well. >> jon: moving on another new jersey political figure getting big coverage this week. governor chris christie made an appearance on the late show, david letterman and expected putting the focus on christie's weight. he played along with the jokes and the media took the concern. and former white house physician a doctor said i worry he may have a heart attack. he may have a stroke. i worry about this man dying in office. the governor reacted. >> my children saw that last night. she sat there on tv and said, i'm afraid he is going die in office. this is irresponsible stuff. people who have a medical license, the privilege of having a medical license should be more responsible than that. if she wants to get on plane in new jersey and wants me to examine me and review my medical history, i'll have a conversation about that. until that time she should shut up. >> jon: more blunt speak from the governor. >> he added what was essentially a snooze

eliot spitzer, we love talking to you on wednesday mornings? >> this rain is getting to me. >> bill: no jog today for eliot spitzer. ahead. we will be right back to you on the full court press. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] people call me about this every day. my dishwasher must be broken. you know, it's not always the machine. it may be the detergent. add finish power up to boost your detergent and you'll see a huge difference. watch what it can do. look at that sparkle! now that's clean! cloudiness! spots! tough stains! even dishwasher build-up! gone! just like that! so don't give up. add finish power up. wow! see the difference! it's a must have! i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> taking your e-mails on any topic at any time, this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> in the next hour, the reverend jim

and eliot spitzer, arnold schwarzenegger, out these guys had nothing by alexander hamilton. we find is if you read, for example, letters written by it martha washington she was tough, like a soldier, did not complain about the weather, did not complain about the harsh conditions, but she did complain about one thing. there was a tomcat warm winter that was misbehaving with all the lady cats and it was noisy. she nickname the tomcat alexander hamilton. all the young roes that would come into town. a few years ago, life of the white house. the presidents at ease. hobbies. fears and hopes. fathers and husbands. another rate of assessing presidential character. we are also trying to figure out dick nixon. for example, i looked and said nixon liked to boulogne and some palms were blacks it to do it. here does this? so i guess all books in the being trilogies. here is the end. here is the trilogy. affairs of state to might try to take a different perspective. for example, we all love of george washington, but we started washington in yorktown. brilliance. we steady his courage and

>> i felt the same way about eliot spitzer, though. this is not unique to fox. >> i would call it the former politicians full employment act, which is going to work for a cable channel or some place else. but in the case of herman cain and being serious about it it for a minute. what you look for when you bring somebody on board for a cuminitary. someone who has something interesting to say and different perspective on life and can bring something to the conversation. whether that's reality based or information based or real, we'll see. i kind of like herman cain. i kind of like the fact that he brings something unpredictable and real world to the conversation. >> i agree with that. i'm just mentioning the cloudy circumstances. >>> let me get a break. when we come back my fox news showdown with bill o'reilly. with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. all right that's a fifth-

politico reports that former governor eliot spitzer will hold a fundraiser for ed markey next month,epublicans are using that against him, the republicans are calling for him to withdraw. and the big story continues to be the one that got away. the republican who decided not to run. perhaps the earliest indication that recently ousted senator scott brown was not going to run in that special election to try to return to the senate was a series of tweets he posted after midnight one weekend in january. misspelled and pugnacious little tweets, including this recent classic. which the scholars believe is pronounced? and he decided there after to not run for senate again, the tweets probably would have been just the last thing to have happened in the public eye considering scott brown. the problem is he believes he may run for something else. and in the local interview in which scott brown said he would run for governor of massachusetts, he also had to talk to? >> how about that tweeting thing? >> anybody ever hear of a pocket tweet, a dial, i mean it was pretty simple. i have an iphone 5

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first eliot spitzer went up against merrill lynch and then against the other research firms. >> do theyave the same kind of damaging e-mails at moody's that they have at s&p? >> presumably they have at least as many e-mails, whether they are damaging or not will be up to courts to decide. they were able to get into all of these. remember, back in 2008, a big congressional hearing with all three of these firms on the hot seat, and all of them responding to e-mails of the same kind that wound up in this civil complaint against s&p so you can presume, that yes, they have a fair amount of e-mails from moody's, a fair amount from fitch's, and the question is when and how will they use them? >> now, is there a danger of putting these firms out of business, scott? >> that's the issue. >> again, if you keep comparing this to the analyst scandals, south side research is nothing like it was, and can you argue that gave rise to a lot of other unintended consequences like a lot of insider trading, so if we get rid of these ratings firms and all the important functions that they have, what will that

. >> eliot spitzer came on viewpoint, which was historic, we talked about the fact that this guy's jobry good at it. his job is not to represent the n.r.a. members only the gun owners so more guns get sold. he's very effective. stephanie: more fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> when i laugh i pee a little. [ laughter ] stephanie: 34 minutes. [ laughter ] stephanie: after the hour. >> that's from an actual commercial. [ laughter ] >> great song, chris. >> thank you. stephanie: we have john fugelsang in the washington bureau. they have identified doren's remains. it is him. in t

they would have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, compare it to the analysts lawsuits that eliot spitzerstreet analysts were misrepresenting the securities in order to gain investment banking business. that's the allegation here. it certainly does not matter if it ever does get to a court and you can expect that s&p is not going to be the last company likely named in this type of action, they need to force some sort of a settlement. clearly s&p is fighting, they're not willing to settle yet. they haven't gotten terms they are willing to swallow. david was talking about a billion dollar pound of flesh that the government wanted to collect. what they're look at is if this whole rating system needs to be reformed and potentially what came out of the analysts crisis which could be a global settlement. >> did it feel to you, david, like it was the billion dollars, the admission of guilt? why so reluctant to reach a deal? >> mcgraw hill -- the admission of guilt could conceivably and scott knows more about this than i do, open them up to other potential lawsuits in a more significant way, they

. >> you talk about eliot spitzer.thin governors that had issues, too. >> didn't work out. >> it didn't work out. >> and then you bring up william weld. this is the toughest job in the world. he was gone for a couple weeks and wouldn't even call in. >> if we're talking about senator -- >> senator, i'll see you in five years. >> we're talking, you know, new jersey, which has everything. we're talking about a guy 90 years old running for re-election. you can do it. you know, what does it take to be a senator? you just have to be presideent. >> what do you make of all the discussion all of a sudden about his weight and how he's handling it? >> he sort of did it. you go on letterman and eat a doughnut, that will start it off again. if he's running for governor, it is so totally not an issue. really, the governor's job is a job that, except for emergencies, obviously, like storms, you can pretty much put into it whatever you choose to put into it. it's not something that's going to kill you. >> but if you're running for pre