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>> joining me now to decode that riddle, "the washington post" jonathan cape part and julian epstein,er house judiciary committee council. jonathan capehart, i don't know if any of that made sense to you. the six foot dunking thing, i don't get it. but what's fascinating is to watch all of these arguments that these guys have been using for many years get served up at the supreme court this week and swatted down. where does that leave them? >> it leaves them in a world of misery. they can't quite figure out how to talk about this. i'll say this for them. the leaders in the party know what's happening, they know where the country is going, they even know where their party is going. i keep bringing this number up, 51% of republicans age 18 to 45 in the latest "the washington post" poll support marriage equality. those folks will get older and become leaders in the republican party and the revolution that's happening now among democrats in the senate will find its way to the republican party, but it's not going to happen this month, this week, probably not before the next presidential el

also joining us, julian epstein, chief democratic counsel to the house judiciary committee. lance black, as a dramatist sitting in that roomful of drama, what were you struck by? >> being in the courtroom, it is story telling at its most epic. i think what i learned most in the process, four year process, is that the courts are such a wonderful place for gay and lesbian people to tell our stories, because unlike ballot initiatives, the opposition actually have to come to court and testify under oath, and if caught lying, they're called out for those lies. it is a great place for gay and lesbian people to tell our truth. that's how we made all of this progress quickly, telling our personal stories so people get to know us, that they know they know us. it was the ultimate and beautiful liberating story telling. >> chad griffin for those of us not in the courtroom with that honor today, it was quite striking to see your lawyers come out and tell us that there really was no defense offered that they heard on the notion of forbidding them from marrying. >> there never has been. f

jillian epstein and david sirota, thank you, gentlemen. >>> coming up, billow roars again.th us. >>> another question i had for you is -- chuck, how many have you got? do you guys do this in the israeli press? you say you get one question and then you add like five? see how the young lady from channel 1, she had one question? it was -- she was very well behaved, chuck? >> this is not a kosher question, but don't hog it. ♪ ♪ looking for a litter with natural ingredients that helps neutralize odors. discover tidy cats pure nature. uniquely formulated with cedar, pine, and corn. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ but first you've got to get him to say, "hello." new crest 3d white arctic fresh toothpaste. use it with these 3d white products, and whiten your teeth in just 2 days. new crest 3d white toothpaste. life opens up when you do. bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an a

. >>> let's get right to our panel, julian epstein is a good old democratic strategist.a is a good old nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. welcome, both of you. >> good afternoon, jonathan. >> julian, marco rubio joined rand paul and three other gop senators on a -- does that make the filibuster a little more appealing for the rest of the republican -- 45 republican senators? >> well, it's hard to say, because as we've discussed before on the show, there's an enormous amount of public support for these measures. think it's a clear sign marco rubio is running for president, wants to send cat nip to the base and shield other republicans having from having to take an unpopular vote on gun safety measures. on the other side, look at what's happening with vice president biden, hillary clinton who's been good on this issue since 1994 in the assault weapons ban. if the change doesn't happen in the congress this year, it will happen in the streets. we've spoken this week about doma and same-sex marriage and change happening quickly there. more quickly than the institution

bulls and bears this week, we've got gary b smith, jonas max ferris, john lay field along with julian epstein. welcome to everybody. okay, john, boom or bust? >> unfortunately, brenda, i believe a bust. and i wish that wasn't the case. there are a few positive things going on in the economy, but with long-term structural unemployment, not cyclical unemployment and anemic growth, what gary b brought up weeks ago, the market is detached what's going on in the united states. it's on a run. i don't think that anybody would argue that the enomy is on an incredible run so an obvious detachment. i don't think that's going to change. >> brenda: julian, sometimes people consider wall street to be a leading indicator, like it's a crystal ball for the economy. do you see the economy starting to boom, too? >> john makes a good point. in some ways, it's a tale of two cities. on unemployment between 150 to 200,000 new jobs a month on a six-month average and gdp, looking at 2.3% growth in the first quarter which is pretty good. and the stock market, as you pointed out. we're at 14, we were at 7 some years a

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>> well, the executive director dan epstein is the former employee of the charles koch foundation. he was the head of the committee that launched a number of investigations on the obama administration. most notably the fast and furious. this whole issue is a darling on the right. it has been on fox news quite a bit and it is making waves. >> what do people who live in the neighborhood by drakes bay and that part of the coast -- it is beautiful -- what do people who live in the region think about the oyster farm? >> the community is deeply divided and has been for a long time. environmentalists are one side. they want the park to be the first marine wilderness on the west coast. locals, involved in sustainable agriculture, want the farm to stay. however, since the koch brothers group has gotten involved, it is my understanding that the oyster farm is losing support. >> who are the koch brothers? they have ties to oil and natural gas production. >> they are billionaires from natural gas and oil. they funded a lot of candidates and main funders of the tea party. >> has this lost suppo

. >> joining us now is democratic strategist julian epstein. julian, good afternoon.lar opinion do you think the nra and its apologists are having on this debate because the polls are not looking good for mr. wayne lapierre, are they? >> every time he opens his mouth, the numbers get worse for him. a gix of that and the other things we've been talking about, the president's leadership on this, the fact the media is focusing on this, the fact you have people on this network like the victims in newtown, the chief attending officer who we talk about yesterday, the noms are moving quickly. you cite the quinnipiac poll in ohio which has traditionally been a very pro-gun state and you are seeing majorities supporting the assault weapons ban, a restriction on clips and unbelievable majorities of 90% plus on background checks and that's kind of the point, martin. the point is you have to remember that congress is a lagging indicator. we've spoken about jobs being a lagging indicator on the economy and on gdp. the congress is a lagging indicator of public opinion. and this goe

. >> joinedmy my colleague, toure, co-host of the "cycle" and julian epstein, a democratic strategistnding what rob portman has said, eric cantor and speaker john boehner both said they don't agree, though they respect his view. do you think they would change their minds if one of their own children would decide to come out and say they were gay publicly? >> i suspect they would. i don't want to engage at hypothetic hypotheticals. look at somebody like dick cheney coming around an gay rights and gay marriage. this is what's happening in america. more and more people are seeing they have gay people in their family, in their friend circle. people they love though they disagree ideologically. they say, wait a minute, those two things don't fit. this is a human being who i love and ro respect. they're not a strange person. they're a normal human being who did something different with their heart. they're saying, wait a minutes this is not compatible. they're changing their mind on the issues. it's the explosion of people coming out of the closet making other straight people say, i need to

and in washington, democratic strategist julian epstein. welcome to you, both.n, i have to put this to you, and you have some experience of this kind of negotiation. what happens in the senate, whatever happens in the senate, the president meets with house republicans wednesday. is there a majority of republican votes in the house that are willing to support any kind of path to citizenship? >> i think at the end of the day, as a matter of political necessity, the house republicans will pass this. you'll get a lot that vote against it, but i think you will get this passed. i think we're getting close to this being a done deal at this point. the irony to me, martin, is this is almost exactly the same debate that we've been having since 2005 right after bush 43 was elected. but at that time, the extremist wing of the republican party, and until recently, forbid the republicans from moving on the path to citizenship. >> right. >> now they realize with mitt romney getting 28% of the hispanic vote, bush got 41%, this is kamikaze politics. and there is an important les

and epstein said in his commentary, great stuff there. [laughter] well, that is what i felt about witness. over the last ten days i have been reading it, every line of it, sitting a plate, reading it. if he passed by my house you concealer only light in the darkness of the house. that is my ipad that actually has "witness" on it now. it was a compelling. it really kept me up nights reading. end of as he says, there is great stuff there. just for example, the things embedded within it, men must do what they think right, and i yield to what seems probable. there is weight in eight. the multiple soviet spy apparatuses that operated in this country in the 1930's. well, the russians believed in bulk. there is faith reflected in it. without got it won only organizes the world against god. there is a this tension made about personalities in fundamental ways. there are differences in the pitch and purpose of life in the folds, the angles. and yet well before i got to the end of this long but i found myself wishing that whitaker chambers was himse

let's go to the cme and ira epstein.as just looking, obviously, at the euro versus the dollar, what else are you watching? >> well, i'm watching the gold, and i'm watching the silver because they're both trying to, if anything, create a bigger trading range, in other words, break out to the upside of their trading ranges. silver yesterday tried the downside, failed miserably, reversed today almost a full dollar higher. so those markets are starting to pick up on the cyprus issue, and that's what they're looking at at this point. the stock market, also, if it's tiring here -- which i think it is as well, i think the momentum's losing some of its peak there -- i think it'll pull back. i'm not talking a bear market, folks, i'm talking a correction in the market, and sometimes you get rotation between currencies, the metals and the stock market, and going into cyprus, that's exactly what i think is going on. cheryl: all right, over to the nymex and jonathan. he was talking about gold, he was talking about oil but, of course,

my mom, joanne epstein. >> and my mom, sandy kotb.r favorite recipes. just in time to share recipes for easter because nobody cooks like our moms do. >> somebody, who shall remain nameless, forgot the wine. where are the little cups? >> what are we cooking, joanie? what are we cooking up? what are we making, mom? >> pork and sauerkraut. >> you're acting like you don't know. is it pork and sauerkraut or isn't it? >> it is pork and sauerkraut. >> pork down by you. >> here is the pork. excuse me. all right. so what do you do with -- >> i'm going to tell you. >> mom, we're on live television. >> she overpowers me. >> you're not alone, joanie. >> first, i have about a four-pound pork loin. >> uh-huh. >> and i braise it in some oil. >> yeah. >> all around. >> yeah. >> all around. >> all around. >> upside down. >> everything. >> get the hiney. okay. >> then -- what do i do? >> maybe in the oven to cook it? >> i haven't cooked it in a long time. but it's okay. i come back. i come back. >> mom, what do you do with it then? is that all you do?

reid epstein great to have you with us, as well. >> good evening. cenk: infames of gun control reid, the president came out seemed to be pushing for a lot more legislation than he is today right after sandy hook. is that an accurate portrayal? >> the key thing he said was sandy hook had to change the way the nation approaches gun control and the way he approaches gun control. what we have seen in the three and a half months six then is he's put forward these recommendations and he's now talked about today was really the first time he made a real big pitch on them sings the state of the union and he's not really gone out and hit the road pushing for this or having speeches in washington, demanding congress pass it. he's let the senate work through its process and in much the same way that we've approached gun control in the past. cenk: professor rose, if we can't get real gun control passed now is there any hope that it's ever going to get passed? >> sometimes you wonder about how many children have to be gunned down in a row, how many inner city you

richard epstein, the great university of chicago law professor. there's a real libertarian.nd these college libertarian are of a slightly different breed. it's more wanting a sense of belonging and they have an awful lot of liberal habits and accepting or one issue, but in terms of actual libertarian ideas, that's the republican party and frankly, we could use a little help. there's an awful light that could be privatized. the lesson of history is, everything run by the government over time becomes more expensive and worse. everything that is injected through competition on the private market becomes cheaper and better. look the at cell phones, flat screen tv's versus oh, the subway system, air traffic-- or tsa agents, the public school system. so we want to privatize as much as we possibly can. i don't think we need to get way down on legalizing-- >> there you see ann coulter, talking from the cpac conference. >> good to see you. >> uma: great to have you here. well, he may not be new to capitol hill, but he is new to the senate. and coming up after the break, tim scott tel

. >> i'm going with reed epstein, with an interesting piece on politico, about the gun control crowdys have been silenced or guaranteed a seat at the table. >>> lets obama and biden do the talking for them. >> exactly. >>> that's it no this edition. up next, chris jansing. bye-bye. is it when you've when left work behind,ise? and only the waves remain? is it when stress is replaced by serenity? there's no one answer. but when the moment arrives... ...everything will be perfectly clear. behold...the islands of the bahamas. departure. hertz gold plus rewards also offers ereturn-- our fastest way to return your car. just note your mileage and zap ! you're outta there ! we'll e-mail your receipt in a flash, too. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm

people like david epstein that runs the pharmaceutical business at novartis, he knows the business andt area. so i will still watch for the top people. >> one last question, does it work for every industry? we've got turnarounds we're following, blackberry jc penney, these seem like really difficult turn arounds. could you get in there and change? >> this book is meant for all industries. >> right. >> it really does work. it always starts with people, comes up with culture and ends with execution. if you have these three legs of the stool, it's going to work. but the ceo has to make the people part work, the culture work and the execution. >> tougher than most people can handle, fred. >> it's tough. >> most people can't do it. >> and that's why looking for great ceos is critical. >> absolutely. that's fred hassan, a moneymaker, he's author of "reinvent: a leader's playbook for serial success" which is exactly what he had. and still has in business. thank you so much, fred. >> thank you, jim. >> stay with cramer. >>> jim cramer, you're one of my heroes. >> i look forward to your show ev

bob epstein poses, has washington waited too long.bama may still get a bill but not like the one he and his allies envisioned in december. what is going on there, mark? >> i disagree a little bit. getting legislation on the senate floor in april is pretty fast by senate standards. particularly given there is a priority that has just come up in this particular congress. the question is, will the gun measure pass senate to get 60 votes or more. that's a big, big question. it remains to be seen if chuck schumer and other democrats can bring on o republicans that compromise when it comes to having universal background checks. that's the key it look for. and if the deal does get done you can see how it can get 60 votes to pass. but again, it has to get through the house. so a lot of big hurdles but you do have legislation and that's notable. >> mark murray, greatly appreciate your time. see you tomorrow. >> thank. >>> coming up, fight over reward money tied to christopher dorner. the man who killed the four l.a. police officers. a million

. >> julian epstein is a democratic strategist and former chief minority council to the committee.w hard it was for gabby giffords to return to the scene of that horror. but her insistence may be paying off. jeff flake joined lindsey graham and democrats pryor and baggage to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. that's two bipartisan gun bills in two days. that's not small beer is it? >> no, it's not. and i think your first point is right. it's traumatic for any victim of a shooting to go back to the scene of a crime. anyone with experience in trauma will tell you that. she shouldn't have to go back to the scene of the crime to get congress to act. the good news, however, i had a breakfast conversation with senator blumenthal about this yesterday. the good news is the politics are shifting rapidly. you're seeing not just the two things you alluded to. not clear what will happen on the floor. if it doesn't get passed on the floor but it becomes a big game pain issue. if you look at the congressman who's running for re-election in aurora, this has become the single biggest issue

julian epstein is a democratic strategist and former chief minority counsel to the house judiciary committeealso says that black on black crime will not be solved by arming more people with guns. can i ask you, julian, does the nra have any other reaction to any challenge in this country aside from get more guns? i guess their answer to the recessi recession, sell more crimes. to crime, buy more guns. >> it's the argument that everyone in this country should be terrorized into having to buy a gun. and nowhere is that claim going to ring more hollow than in the african-american community. african-american males are 15 times nor likely to be killed with a gun than their white counterparts. 40% of all african-americans will tell you that according to surveys that gun violence has affected their lives. according to the pew research about 80% -- 79% to 80% of african-americans support the kind of gun legislation we have been talking about. you know, i think the nra and their front people would be taken a little more seriously if they didn't have people on their board, and there are at least two p

as michael epstein from credit suisse said, this was a beyond worst-case scenario quarterly result. whether the turn is working but how it can still work and why it's not having an impact on the comp store numbers at all. i tire of hearing how this product line or that product line can make a difference, and instead i want to know how the company could turn off so many of the traditional customers and why they don't seem to care about the new assortments at all. if johnson wants to succeed at this point, he's got to change the name of the enterprise, yes, scrap the name jc penney, i'm not kidding. first, the old customers seem to have turned against penney, so you've lost them already. the new clothes and soon to arrive home goods are dead on arrival because they are sold at jc penney, a place where people seem to know instinctively not to shop at. for example, if you buy one of those new selections from joe fresh, a very attractive line of clothes at jc penney, and someone compliments you and asks you, hey, where did you get that dress? and you tell them i got it at jc penney, that

ken vogel, julian epstein and jonathan capehart, thank you so much. >>> if you think the cause of gun lost, don't. advocates are uniting for a day of action. >> so please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply i regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the cia and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters. what can i get you? i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure. decaf or regular? regular. cake or pie? pie. apple or cherry? cherry. ♪ oil or cream? oil or cream? cream. [ male announcer ] with reddi-wip, a slice of pie never sounded better. that's because it's always made with real cream, never hydrogenated oil like some other whipped toppings. the sound of reddi-wip is the sound of joy. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a m

andrew friedman, theo epstein, these are really, really bright guys.ore information available to us. but i think most of us are similar to wall street are creating our own proprietary statistical analysis. and so we're not letting mike lewis sitting in our office for an entire year writing a book about it. >> everyone has access to the same data. it's ho w you analyze that data. are you still relying on it as you were ten years ago? >> probably more so. once you sort of become quantitative, you don't go back. it's hard to, i think, we were very quantitative 10, 12 years ago when my assistant was here with us and, you know, with our current staff now, we're more quantitative because we have more information, more things available to us. and once again, it seems very rational. >> so you believe in it as much now as you did then? >> more so. >> really? >> more so, we have more information, better information, technology has allowed us to measure things we couldn't do ten years ago. i mean, every baseball game, every major league game, every event on that

just a couple of weeks ago, eugene epstein did the chart. and the cover of "barons" was a picture of the president having made his state of the union address and the caption on the front of the magazine, the newspaper, was "the way to greece," or something like that. and it was a real serious analysis of the deep, systemic debt problems this nation has. and a plea for us to act to move forward and avoid the risks that we are now undertaking. and one part of what they did was to actually analyze what you could do with more taxes. particularly taxes on upper-income people. and they ran the numbers, and i believe this is an accurate run of the numbers. so on the left side it has the public debt as a percentage of g.d.p., abc news o and on the right are the years over time. sew and so mr. epstein took the things -- he ran the things based on increasing taxes. and increasing taxes a lot. so his first run was the purple line, how much debt would go up -- how much the debt would go up if the current tax rates stayed in effect. and this is the purpl

joining me now to discuss this is jay sekulow, and julian epstein, former house judiciary committee andouse government reform committee. glad to have you both here on this. the report is very lengthy and to some extent exonerates the doj on some claims from the the past and some condemns for things particularly in the voting rights division. i want to start with you, jay, this inspection by the inspector general was in part, but not in full in the wake of the dismissal of the new black panther case, where the defendants were black and the complainants, the alleged victims were white. that was ultimately dismissed in large part, not in entirety, but dismissed in large part and led to all sorts of controversy. they looked into that. they looked into a couple of other cases where the defendants were black and the victims were white and voting rights cases and then they looked at the doj and voting rights of the civil division. not just under president obama, but under president bush. what was your take away. they're concerned about partisanship. they're concerned about the interpretation o

jonathan alter, julian epstein, gentlemen, thank you so much. >>> next, mitt and ann romney and why the media is to blame for mitt's loss. stay with us. >> he was not being given a fair shake. people weren't allowed to really see him for who he was. >> all right. what about the media? >> i'm happy to blame the media. both tylenol and bayer advanced aspirin are proven to be effective pain relievers. tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain. bayer advanced aspirin blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer advanced aspirin. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate safe driving bonus check? what is that? so weird, right? my agent, tom, said... [ voice of dennis ] ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for