we go on to elizabeth warren.ns have been attacking her saying she has been getting money from hollywood. >> scott brown puts out this ad. >> how old has a new "it" girl. >> this is per debutante ball in how old. >> elizabeth warren is taking credit for the occupied wall street demonstrations stretching from coast to coast. >> in an interview with the occupy movement, warren said, i created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. i support what they do. >> tonight, norman lear is hosting a fundraising dinner for elizabeth warren at his estate in los angeles which is co-hosted by barbra streisand. >> i love the irony of scott brown's campaign doing an ad that is so hollywood. saying can you believe how hollywood elizabeth warren is? that's rich. okay now first of all elizabeth warren has collected more money than scott brown. $5.7 million to $3.2 million for scott brown in that race in massachusetts. for the senate seat, of course. now where is the money coming from? that's what scott brown is complai

bizarrely karl rove was able to paint elizabeth warren someone who's going to champion for the middle class all her life as an agent of wall street warren responded to the ad by saying i can't find the right words to describe how wrong it is factually wrong and morally wrong despite the ad being morally and factually wrong it worked and it worked immediately warren's poll numbers tanked right after that ad you just saw it ran in just one month from those of over to december of last year rose super pacs spent over four hundred thousand dollars targeting warren in just the city of boston alone and after the damage was done and had brown pulled ahead of warren with rove's help he reached out to warren of the energy to make a pact with her to bar outside money from their race by then brown it opened up a ten point lead on warren thanks to rove's attack that's a political hit jobs work in our post citizens united nation and it should have been the lead in all of those stories that is mentioned about the broader war and race messengers it's a super pac flies and it sound aired airdrops tons

he could've appointed elizabeth warren by recess appointment.m sorry that he didn't, but to have elizabeth warren is the next united states senator from massachusetts i will forgive barack obama. it's not going to be easy. scott brown is a good candidate and a tough candidate. she is now a little bit behind. i have faith in the people of massachusetts and icy but elizabeth warren would be in the united states senate and that is my prayer as was my hope. and you should, too. thank you so much. [applause] >> is very nonfiction author of book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweaked us at twitter.com/booktv. >> jim blakely is the communications director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute. >> the heartland institute is a premarket think tank based in chicago, illinois recovered domestic policy in her mission is to discover, promote and say no to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we've been doing that for 28 years. >> who founded you quick

he could've appointed elizabeth warren by recess appointment.m sorry that he didn't, but to have elizabeth warren is the next united states senator from massachusetts i will forgive barack obama. it's not going to be easy. scott brown is a good candidate and a tough candidate. she is now a little bit behind. i have faith in the people of massachusetts and icy but elizabeth warren would be in the united states senate and that is my prayer as was my hope. and you should, too. thank you so much. i would not predict who is going to win in 2012, but i will say that what makes bipartisan -- obsessive bipartisan disorder a disorder is priya in the discussion of the book in a way, what makes it a disorder is that it becomes the driving factor in every dinky dink sin does. so he ends up, obama and that negotiating with himself before he even negotiates with republicans. that is one reason it is a problem. and the second reason is that he thinks and we'll get into this a little bit later today. he thinks he can reason with people who actually are not inte

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it was elizabeth warren's idea initially, with the white house's blessing, i might add.and frankly, i listened to elizabeth warren up in new york once upon a time and my wife was sitting in the audience and i said, what did you think of what i said to her? and my wife said, never cross that woman's pathogen. ever. so that is as far as i was concerned. that said, i did write a letter to your counterparts on the financial services committee and i will not say that i got the cold shoulder, and i basically have said the same thing that you have said which is that we're lay yeering another layer bureaucracy on top of the ftc. the question now is what we do do about it?

you see the list of some of the power people that are backing elizabeth warren. barbara streisand, cher, their influence, will it really help her in massachusetts? or it mainly about the donations? >> it's about the donations. she needs every penny she can get. it's a tradeoff. she's going to get hit for this. it's going to hurt in some ways pliltically, but i think it's more important in her interest to get the money she gets out of these events on the west coast. she needs the money. he has a huge $12 million fund. that's quite a lot. she needs to be competitive. >> when we talk about the money that he has, most of that coming from inside the state. however, senator brown has been raising money out of the state. how is that playing? >> well, she has tried to point out in her campaign that while she goes out to the west coast and get this is kind of money, he's going to wall street and picking up large donations there from bankers and financers and going to washington and casting votes favorable to him. it's going to go back and forth like that. how it washes wi

was going to get before congress blocked her and they put someone if there like elizabeth warrenffice still has a big handle and that office all but prevented bank of america from passing through the debit card transfer fees last year. they were going to do there and they backed off. >>neil: but they will have to pay for it one way to say nothing of the $26 million north rework. >>reporter: they are in trouble because they have a lot of problems on the balance sheet that has nothing to do with the fell regulations. they bought country wide financial and that cost them a lot. >>neil: and they have to pay for this? >>reporter: and they have this so they are looking for ways to make money. this is a way to do it. >>neil: they deny they are going to do this. >>reporter: they denied the story appeared in the "wall street journal", and the way it appears it appears like it was absolute, they were going to increase all the fees but it looks like what they are saying now they are just looking at this in terms of new customers and even there, they seem, listen, they will be under incredib

good he has to battle against elizabeth warren, and both are good friends of this show. and we will see if he can win, but it is more difficult by the day to be a moderate republican. lot on1990's you have a the left to said, or get middle america up. -- for get middle america. i remember a chairman of the democratic national committee saying, we are throwing it back to the republicans. howard dean and rahm emmanuel say, we are going to do everything we can to win those areas back. democrats made that call. that is why barack obama got a lot of swing votes in 2008. democrats figured out finally that they could not be a national party without winning read state america. i do not think the republican party has figured that out yet. if we lose maine and some other states, i think a lot more republicans are going to start speaking out against the more extreme elements out there. if that takes place it is going to happen because conservatives tried to hang their hat on the social issues and that is where they lost it. you would agree or disagree? >> a month ago i would have d

. >> in the massachusetts senate race, elizabeth warren will go from being the darling of liberals tothe candidate for liberals want to forget. she's already done by a significant amount in the latest polls, and scott brown against expectations is doing quite well, opposing the hhs contraception mandate. >> that's an elizabeth won't makes it, right? what becomes senator from massachusetts. >> the economy will be affected in addition by the weakening of the chinese economy, which it's really on the verge of a serious downturn. which will affect the entire global economy, including the united states. >> interesting. i predict president obama will do an about-face and help arm the syrian rebels who are confronting the assad regime forces. bye-bye!

he's being opposed by elizabeth warren in that state, and he has -- he is supporting the blunt amendment that that's exactly the kind of state where the democrat's candidate will have a tremendous advantage because of this. >> well, i certainly think that elizabeth warren and many of our democrats who are running across the country realize that this is kind of intrusion into a woman's decision making, allowing an employer, whether it's your barber or the people who own a restaurant or a multi-national corporation can make the decisions about your ability on whether or not contraceptives are covered is really the wrong direction for this country. and we're standing up and we're speaking out and we're fighting back. and i certainly know, having worked with senator kennedy for many years here in the senate, that is something that he fought hard for, to make sure that access for health care was available for all americans, and women included. >> let's listen to what new york senator kirsten gillibrand said about this today. >> when will my colleagues understand this very non-debatable fact?

and one of the reasons that scott brown as a republican is making headway over elizabeth warren is over this contraception issue in massachusetts. >> what do you make of that? >> i think that we should make it very careful about broad assertions of how they cut, because they cut differently in different places, and overall obama has been nimble in using this rush issue. it is a campaign issue and one that comes up in a campaign, u and he has been fast on the trigger. >> and he wants to abolish title ten, and that is where scott brown has been more centrist. go but it is an issue of the role of government and how iter sta -- it started and if the republicans had continued down the road saying it is a role of government in the life and what is ensured, health care, health care mandates and the rest, they might be getting somewhere. and i want to bring in joe johns over at newt gingrich headquarters and you have been listening to this conversation, and where does newt gingrich play into this? >> well, i have to tell you that the most important thing that you have to say is not only

he pushed for it along with elizabeth warren. how do you push for an independent agency along with all the policy? >> the path is pretty clearly marked. yeah the federal trade commission, securities and exchange commission, the banking agencies, the cftc, a number of them. the fact of the matter is the weirdest thing from the administration. they may be interested in a lot of things we're doing and supportive of a lot of things, but we're happy to work with anybody and everybody, whether their elected officials or appointed officials -- whether they are elected officials or appointed officials. members of the congress and the senate, we want them to have the opportunity to understand and appreciate what we're doing. we will work with members from both parties and across the country. they respond to the same constituents we hear from with the very same kind of problems, losing their houses, drowning in credit-card debt, dealing with student loans. as we make progress on the issues, i think that is helpful in terms of building supp

from mazie hirono in hawaii who is a congresswoman out there running a great race to elizabeth warren in massachusetts, tammy baldwin in wisconsin, the list goes on and on. but i'll say to step back, it's this group of women, this historic number of women who are stepping up to make this a historic year for democratic women. it's really a narrative about how important it is to get women in the house of representatives and in the united states senate. and right now today, women only represent 17% of congress. just think about that. that is one in six members of congress are women today. we feel that that must change, that we have a great opportunity in 2012 to make that change, and we know that when we do, when we get more women in there, in fact some day when we really truly have an equal number of women and men sitting at the decision-making tables, it's that day that we're going to get the best policies for a progressive america. >> jim tweets in this question. are any of the women you're endorsing republicans? if not, why not. >> emily's list mission is clear. we support pro-choice

it's something that we should be doing and we talk politics a little bit ok ok in massachusetts elizabeth warren was on and then karl rove's pac came out with some money for the r. and c. came up with some money and they ran a whole bunch of real slasher ads taking the you know kind of the rock throwing tiny contingent of. the occupy movement conflating her with it and taking a quote from her that was surely a political metaphor yes i've thrown some rocks in my life and making that you know how they ended up in the and now she's down scott brown is back up it's like they're they're preparing for november and now in this post citizens united world i heard from another member of congress this was. three years ago it was right after citizens united he said that a lobbyist and come to him and said we've got about five hundred thousand dollars to spend in your district we can use it to build you up or destroy it which which would you prefer and i mean that kind of real hardball is his genuinely being played which are well and it's the inversion of meaning it's right is wrong wrong it's right true it'

he represents an indigo blue against a charismatic opponent in elizabeth warren. he vote for the blunt amendment and to vote for the contraceptive care. he's already on the defensive. this is a way to show how independent he is from the republican when he cast the vote that mattered the wrong way. so he's fighting for his political life. this has nothing to do with any real principle because he showed the way he believed on this issue. >> is he going to end up apologizing because anyone republicans who criticized limbaugh has ended up apologizing. is this the prospect tipping point. >> rush llimbaugh has gotten to where he has because he's not afraid to out loud, yell out lot what republicans really believe. they really believe this. they believe that, dirty who want to have sex and the only reason you would have birth control and he convinced himself that he's paying for the birth control which make no sense because it's employer insurance and has nothing to do with tax. is he going to apologize what they're all applauding him for saying. there are a couple of po

has grown i think it's important to sort of draw the connection but that's the sort of what elizabeth warren has been saying that the economy isn't coming back because the banks are holding it back that's right and government can play a role in making them behave like they used to right now absolutely and i and i think that's an important the important thing which is to start articulating why is it that in the deregulated world the effect is all these bad things with the banks would have you believe that the chamber of commerce we have you believe the regulators take regular action often things will be completely efficient in business a war under forty well in fact it didn't happen that way. and brought us this disaster yes wallace we're out of time thank you so much dr appreciate the great meeting you. in his eighteen eighty eight state of the union address then president grover cleveland told the nation that was then under the control of robber barons corporations which should be carefully restrained creatures of the law in the service of the people are fast becoming the people's masters w

emanuel discussing the various problems that the president inherited, the vice president and elizabeth warren who is running for a senate seat in massachusetts. >> yeah, and you know, what's so interestinging about this film that they're putting out is how they rolled it out. you were just playing some of the trailer of the film, right? and that they rolled out i guess it was a week ago. and then they will rolled out -- >> they gave exclusives to the "today" show. >> which of course made every other news organization very hungry to get a piece of it, as well. they rolled out a little bit more when they showed that bill clinton had sat for interviews on it discussing the killing of osama bin laden. how he hoped he would have made the same gut the president made had he been in his old job. now tonight -- they have gotten be about i would imagine tons more free media play than they would have if they had just rolled out their traditional here's our first big 30-second spot of the campaign going up in all of the battleground states. by doing it this way and having this film narrated by tom hanks

elizabeth warren called upon the president to complete his evolution in his stance on gay marriage, ande the president evolve, because i believe that that is right, marriage equality is morally right. is that going to happen? >> no. next question? [ laughter ] >> you don't think so. stephanie what do you think? >> governor, i'm a gay woman, so i would like that to be the case, but i also want to say that we have had more progress on gay rights under this president than all of the previous presidents combined. so i think that it is a no-brainer on who to vote for -- for any kind of civil rights in this next election. >> i think it will be an interesting dance that is played. so many of us want to see that as part of the plank platform, and it will be interesting to see how they craft something -- >> i have a theory about the whole second term thing. >> just tell us -- >> yeah, keep it to yourselves, everybody. but the second term he is going to do all of this incredible stuff that he couldn't do in his first term because he was running for recollect. >> there you go. >> kamau bell, and s

just weeks ago relatively recent events right and about to be tossed out on his keester i mean elizabeth warren is just eating his lunch and boy he's not being primaried by republicans is the point so it's sort of eating their own you know one would think that he'd be the logical place to start and it hasn't happened so i'm not seeing it be a net new national trend but i do want to just point out that you know i. vince was right and met things like no child left behind or the work that it is you know it wasn't being primaried either well no amount of course but this talk about purging the party of moderates i think there's very little evidence that that's actually happening but they go back and look at the concord coalition the concord project they had all these videos up in two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten to tea party people telling them how to become how to become you know how to get inside the republican party and become the people who choose the primary candidates so in nearly a hundred congressional districts the united states all the primary republican primary candidates we

and elizabeth warren came out in massachusetts race saying not a single person in the country managedn their own because there are sidewalks, because there are street lights you owe a large chunk of your success and your fortune to everyone. in other words we are all in it together. you talk about his polls, scott brown is up dramatically against her and that will be great. if scott brown wins in massachusetts against the idea of class warfare that gives the country home. >>neil: but they are saying we stand with capitalism, with the private sector, but we are trying to distinguish, when it abused or when those who are benefiting from it, benefit unfairly, or disproportionally and you are either for it or against it. i don't you can split hairs. >>guest: everyone knows the benefit with the banks, who wants to buy a cup of coffee for $2 and be charged $2 over draft. that was egregious and should have been taken care of but now the average person says i would love to see my son or daughter to be wealthy and the definition of rich starting at $250,000, that is sort of going to the regula

but there are so many times, laura, elizabeth warren was nominating her.the republicans are blocking it, and then he does the employment any way. he, i can't get the public option because we can't get past the bill boast filibuster. he got past the filibuster. larry summers during that clip. i don't want the same old guy and here is larry summers who started the recession in a lot of ways. laurie, let me get your thoughts. >> obviously everyone wishes he had would have done all the things that he said he was going to do while campaigning. he was an idealist and he was really naive and he didn't understand the kind of congress he was going to be up against. this is not all the fault of congress. he's working with an obstruction obstructionist congress which makes things difficult. larry summers. no one said had a knife to his throat saying he had to appoint larry summers to that position. i think he's starting to realize now and for many voters i think it might be a little too late. >> yeah, dean, let me go back to you on that point. >> sure. >> i'm going t

. >> you've got elizabeth warren. >> baldwin in wisconsin nevada, we've got to keep people like clairefrom michigan. >> the only way we're going to sub seed at emily's lift is if women and men around this country who are ready to stop this war on women and get these women elected. this is how we're going to stop this. >> and contribute to emily's list. >> come on over to emily's list. >> thank you so much for coming. appreciate the work you do. >> still a lot more ahead on the war room. stick around, we will be right back. from keith olberman. >>that's what we're here for. a special edition. countdown, super tuesday, with keith olberman. only on current tv. cucurrenttv

. >> you've got elizabeth warren. >> baldwin in wisconsin nevada, we've got to keep people like claire from michigan. >> the only way we're going to sub seed at emily's lift is if women and men around this country who are ready to stop this war on women and get these women elected. this is how we're going to stop this. >> and contribute to emily's list. >> come on over to emily's list. >> thank you so much for coming. appreciate the work you do. >> still a lot more a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. ttv

someone who has been a strong story teller is elizabeth warren. >> perfect example. >> i think she hasiral spoken eloquently why people need a voice and a representative. the whole idea we're in this together and it's not yo-yo economics, you're on your own, jack, she tells the story why so many feel government is rigged against them and what these fights often eliminate. >> a perfect example was birthed with this idea you can't sell a toaster that has a 1 in 3 chance blowing up or catching fire, but you can sell a mortgage that has 1 in 3 chance of going under water. the one sentence is great story telling. and i literally think it was because of that one sentence we now have the -- because it was so tactile. >> i think the reason she has the attention is the kind of celebrate that she has and she can go into the senate campaign she has is because of her appearances on television where as a performer if you see her talking to jon stewart explaining the history of regulation and what happened after the depression and why regulation is in place and when it came up she told that story an

the chair loves elizabeth warren f. that doesn't get knew scott brown's camp. now she is a democratic candidate from massachusetts and warren told reporters the tax breaks accounted for 90% of aig profit. >> it's just not fair. it's not fair competitively. >> chair. formerly known as cher. that one. >> i was like who? >> she was married to sonny bono. and then there's the other guy, the lead singer, bono. he watches sometimes. sorry, bono. >> he does? >> yeah. remember when roger was in here? >> was i out that day? >> he was watching that day because roj earp was getting texts from him. >> oh, my gosh. i wasn't here that day. >> you weren't here that day? >> no. >> roger -- >> i know the partnership. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> i think he was only watching that day because roger was on. >> if he's at home in ireland we're on at perfect hours for him. >> he's probably never home, though. >> the perfect hours for him. >> that was quick with the music. >> they're good. >>> let's get a check on the markets this morning. yesterday the markets did end slightly higher, the d

the democrat, one of the democrats challenging elizabeth warren has been trying to make an issue of it. >> there's a sound bite i want to play. a man is going to be speaking at the convention, rising star in the democratic party. shows some of the possible mines the president could step on. this is los angeles mayor talking about something he thinks needs to go on to the democratic party platform in a formal way, which is not now. here it is. >> do you think ha that the democratic national platform should have a marriage equality plan? >> i do. i think it's basic to who we are. i don't think the government should be in that business and of denying people the mental right to marry. >> so, john avlon, putting it as a formal tentative is probably not something the president wants to do. >> the president has stayed away from this issue. he is not in favor of marriage equality. >> he's evolving. >> which is code for let's talk about it in my second term. it does potentially create a real problem. fascinating is how much this issue has evolved. 59% of independent voters now support marriage

massachusetts scott brown and elizabeth warren made a public agreement not to allow third party type money into the race and those two have insulated massachusetts into the decision. everywhere else, it's government plainly and boldly by and for the ultra rich. joining me now someone who knows how it's going down. senator brown, in the midst of his own campaign. >> good to be back. >> tell me about the state of play of this dark money, third party money in your senate race. >> you see karl rove conducting the orchestra. karl rove sends this group in for three weeks and they spend $400,000 a week and sends another group in. they don't ever seem to overlap. in my race since november, they spent more than any race in the country, they spent around $5 million. they're now spending, we think, about $600,000 a week. they're running in basically every ohio market, cleveland, columbus, cincinnati, youngstown, toledo and west virginia markets. they're flooding the air waves with attack ads. interestingly a national group could politte to fact does fact checking, nonpartisan plays it straight

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scott brown, the senator, supports the blunt amendment, faces tough reelection bid against elizabeth warrenhow is this support being received in massachusetts on this? how big a deal is it? >> well, i know that it's out of step with the american people and certainly the people the commonwealth of massachusetts and it's a losing strategy. i don't believe, given how draconian and far-sweeping this is, how extreme this legislation is, again, an employer would have carte blanche at their own whim, based upon moral conviction to deny access to treatment or services and i don't believe the women and families of massachusetts to deny an expectant mother access to pre natal care or genetic testing, to deny mental health issues service treatments treatments. >> it's not about religious freedom in your opinion? >> absolutely not. i consider myself to be a person of very deep faith. i am a christian. i am the granddaughter of a baptist preacher, i'm in church every sunday. and one of the tenets i cling to, in my faith, is that i am my brother's keeper, and it in if you're -- infuriates me that scott b