weigh got some erickson folks here.hey were explaining how right when the bubble hit, erickson shrank to less than 100 workers. today, they're employing 580 people and they're hiring even more people because the housing market's bouncing back. so that's one of the things about housing. it's not just important for the person who owns the house. our economy is so impacted by everything that happens in housing. consumers feel better when their home values are in a better place. so they're more willing to spend. a lot of people who want to start a business, their savings may be locked up in their house. construction workers, is contractors, suppliers, carpet makers, all these folks are impacted by the housing industry. so we've made progress and that's helped to move the economy forward. but we've got to build on this progress. we're not where we feed to be yet. we've got to give more hard working americans the cannes to buy their first home. we have to help -- we have to help more responsible homeowners refinance their mor

visit ericksoning for details. >>> nasa rover landed on mars one year ago this week. alexalex demetrike reports, still more discoveries lie ahead. >> rover curiosity touched down. >> controllers in california celebrated and so did scientists in maryland. at the goddard space flight center, a portable chemistry lab had been built inside the rover. >> we have only driven about a mile but within this mile, fairly close to the landing site, we found very interesting environments. >> the powder was brought inside and a first of his kind chemical analysis was made. >> we found evidence of clay min will ras and sulfate minerals. >> we now know that mars was a blue planet, much like the earth, billions of years ago. it had an extensive amount of water, extensive atmosphere and clouds. and it rained on mars. >> curiosity began its second year with its main mission still ahead. >> it will travel another five miles to its primary target. the foothills of an immense mountain. each layer, a different era of mars past. it will look for signs of organic chemistry. >> the question is

it's frustrating. >> we should remember that erick erickson is the same person who tweeted a link tosale coat hanger retailer after the restrictive abortion law passed in texas. so i think abbey is right. he wants to be inflammatory, and the other aspect of this is, as soon as wendy davis burst onto the scene, there was a lot of commentary about how beautiful she is, and that was taken as a negative, like this woman can't be serious and powerful and this beautiful, and there was an attempt to say she had plastic surgery, and his abortion barbie comment goes to that, that you can't be attractive and powerful and smart. >> thank god we have both of you to disprove that. thank you, we'll have you back soon. >> coming up, an overseas terror plot is foiled. a live report from richard engle in the field in just a moment. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. when she's happy, she writes

honestly, it is just -- >> i could do more push-ups than eric erickson.ike to put that out there. maybe i can challenge him and see who is more of a man. >> he is terrified of us. >> thanks so much. >>> tonight in our survey i asked, does mayor michael bloomberg care more about wall street or workers? 94% of you say wall street. 6% say workers. you 6%, you need to wake up earlier. up next, i'll explain why republicans shouldn't be too invested in a 2016 run for this pretender. the postal service is critical to our economy. delivering mail, medicine and packages, yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service and want to layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. a quarter million tweeters is beare tweeting. and 900

this is ron erickson. >> ever had one of those day where's you're so hungry but you don't want to goto the store? all you need is an old t-shirt, mini hook, and needle and thread and lifetime supply of your favorite snacks and, boom, just a sew here, a sew here, a few more sews over there and who needs to go to the store? you are the store. >> this is very mcgyver. >> wearing yourself out eating all of that food? roll the sock into a bun and attach it to the jump rope with tape. loop the jump rope to the helmet. attach the smartphone to the center of the helmet. chew up the muscle and you just have to tug on the handles and, boom, you ca watch your and masicate the easy way. you're thinking it's so hard. but with two pillow, five straws, a block of ice, strir foam cooler and a krooik microwave, it's disgustingly early. cut a top in the top of the cooler and chain the straws together and p push them through. add your favorite drink and healthy breakfast and start in on the pillow. shove in a straw on the other side and connect it with the straw on the cooler and the rope from the firs

erickson, and all from the emerald fund for really understanding the importance of parks, for understanding how important open space and green space is for everyone in san francisco, but most especially for families and families with children who are rapidly moving into this area. and i understand there is going to be more and more of them over the years. so, getting this park in place at this point in time is truly significant. their commitment to providing the park is very significant. they spent over $2 million designing and building the park. there is a playground to come very shortly. and as you heard, they've agreed to provide the maintenance for it in perpetuity. this is a big win for san franciscans, a very big win for san franciscans. so, i really do want to offer my very special thanks to the entire emerald fund for this wonderful gift. and i'd like to turn it back to matt. (applause) >> thank you, row mary. and now it is my special honor to welcome to the podium the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor ed lee. (applause) >> thank you, matt. good afternoon, everybo

they raised over twenty five grand way over their original goal so do you guys think that erick erickson is about to become an obamacare convert i don't think he'll become a convert i think it could be managed a little bit better i think what's happened is that we're seeing a lot of people realizing there was more in this than they were aware of initially i cannot say that universal health care is not a bad is a bad thing under the precepts that they should have tried to do piece by piece what's happened is that businesses have become overwhelmed with what the amount of costs are going to be the hours they can employ people and then we're looking at these exchanges and there are so many so many dynamics going on at the same time that i think a lot of people that's why we postponing them to you know they need to be the new york times we're all looking for businesses that were freaked out about this and they couldn't find them i mean there were a couple of companies high profile companies that a political agenda law center came forward and said that i know it is not and then backed away fr

scott erickson, back to my left, came all the way from california where we were a few months ago. he spent 15 years serving as a police officer in san jose, working on the recognition and identification of terrorist organizations. he holds a master criminale degree in justice studies from the university of cincinnati and if that were not enough, but has collaborated extensively with the heritage foundation, theuently contributing to blog "the foundry," on issues of law enforcement, missile defense. he has co-authored several reports at heritage including his latest -- lessons from benghazi. the investigation leaves questions unanswered. boy, do we agree with that. and to my right, the speaker of the oklahoma statehouse, t.w. shannon. he is the first african-american to hold that position. i had the pleasure of meeting speaker shannon during my last trip to oklahoma. he has been on the road with me, helping raise money for the rnc as well. of the registered member chickasaw nation and has worked as the chief administrative officer of chickasaw nation aterprises. he is spokesperson

several companies including, nokia, samsung and erickson have agreed to work with the country.d there's a surprising new survey out to what happens to wedding gifts you give to newlyweds. a british card company finds that 82% of couples admit to selling some of those gifts online. that's "america's money," make it a great day. i'm john muller. >>> you'll have to pay to play if you're on a sports team in hartford county, that's the new rule. edgewood held a community meeting threatening legal action to stop it or to reverse the policy or find a way that parents can be helped out. you won't have to pay until the team roster is set, and here's how it lays out. it's going to cost $50 if you make the j.v. or varsity team. it'll cost you $25 per activity in elementary and middle school. >>> today is the last day you have to help students in our area get back to school and all the supplies they need. donations are starting to come in. we stopped by the falls road in the foster location and picked up 33 backpacks filled with supplies. it is time now for the final big push. we have a li

it is a monument to one fallen firefighter david erickson.some say this is the worst they've seen in this area you can tell by looking at this scorched earth. the smoke is thick. it comes and goes. it dries and the sun is making it difficult for firefighters. earlier i spoke to a pio from the u.s. forest service. she told me how this compares to past ones she's seen. >> i've never seen headers the way i did earlier in the week this week. it was astounding to see the power of what i witnessed earlier. our main objectives right now, structure protection, judge just making sure we keep everyone safe and we protect that park at all costs. >> one concern is that this fire is spreading north and spreading east and encoaching on that western boundary of the yosemite national park. it is still aways away from the more heavily visited area, about 30, 40 miles. as this fire continues to grow in size and containment is still low, firefighters are concerned that this could keep going. >> nick, thank you very much. >>> georgia congressman don lewis wrote

i had the pleasure of speaking you back in may regarding erickson and wanted to let you know all wenttion is regarding pier one import, no short-term debt no, long-term debt, is this shackled to the home builder? >> it is still good. it is shackled to the home builders, but the home builders are going to be a great fourth quarter story and this one is really well run. we like the guy who runs it. he's always welcome on the show. tom in michigan. >> caller: hey, jim. booyah. >> booyah, tom. >> caller: what do you think of celldex. >> the stock has completely soared here. so take a snitsel. go ahead, morgan. >> caller: my question is about sun power. i had a bullish call on it and it didn't go too well. what do you think is going on with this stock? >> no, you don't want to touch sunpower. i was willing to go with first solar because they did have a great conference call and great quarter. that's the only one i'm recommending. go for applied materials, they own a small sliver of that market. let's go to lois in florida. lois! >> caller: booyah, jim. we wanted to know is now the time to

red state blogger erick erickson tweeted this. i guess they're right about defunding obama care.omney says they're wrong. now, new ads, urging them to sign on to lee's letter. heritage foundation president, former senator jim demint, he's going on the road to push his idea of repeaing the law this way. something i spoke to him about yesterday. >> i think ted cruz and mike lee, rubio, others, are doing exactly the right thing to go out and tell the country that we need your help to stop this law. this is maybe our last chance to stop it because millions of people are going to be signed up. >> a warning for 2016, quote, my guess is everyone of the contenders would be better than whoever the democrats put up. but there will only be one or perhaps two who actually could win the election in november. think it through. stay smart. he said, only get behind one or two. as the republican party continues to struggle with its identity, will the first in the nation primary state take romney's advice? our gaggle. former republican governor from maryland. stephanie shrock. and senior congressi

scott erickson, to my left, came all the way from california, where we just were a few months ago. he spent 15 years serving as a police officer in san jose working on the recognition and identification of terrorist organizations. he holds a masters of science degree in criminal justice studies from the university of cincinnati, and if that were not enough, scott has collaborated extensively with the heritage foundation, frequently contributing to their blog. scott is focused on issues of national security, including foreign terrorist organizations, law enforcement, and missile defense. he has co-authored several reports at heritage, including his latest, lessons from benghazi. and to my right, the speaker of the oklahoma state house, t.w. shannon. he is the first african-american to hold that position. i had the privilege of meeting him in my last trip to oklahoma. he has been on the road with me, helping the rnc raise money as well. that is a big plus for t.w. he is a registered member of the chickasaw make -- nation. as speaker, he has been a voice for limited government, person

i want to read a pretty harsh column by eric erickson about you, sir.it says coburn is willing to wage a holy war against wasteful pork barrel spending but on obama care these days and other issues outside of government pork coburn chose the leadership line held up as the reasonable conservative by leadership on mike lee's defund strategy. senator coburn says it's impossible. i wish tom coburn would join the fight with mike lee, ted cruz, rand paul and marco rubio, having expect so much time with republican leaders peddling can't instead of try, i give up hope he can change in the twilight of his senate career. your response, sir, to that? >> you can't respond to the bloggers. i mean, one period in a six month, i'm a hero and the next time i'm not. the fact is unless you agree with them 100% of the time, you don't pass muster. so that's a blogger on red state that i obviously can't please. i'm not sure how to best characterize -- nobody's ever put me in anybody's camp other than my own. and so what we're trying to do, nobody disagrees with the goal, the

push roselawn taking questions from the kootenays session -- q and a session from of phoenix and erickson construction ready met with our next guest the chairman of the parent company atlas holdings. thank you for being with us. you went there in part because the subsidiary is hiring? how many jobs? how many does it take to get a visit from the president? >> hello. about 10 months ago when we acquired the business, we were at about 100 employees. at this point we are at 580 so we are growing quite rapidly in part thank through a steady recovery of the housing markets. we operate arizona, nevada and california. but the through our efforts to stabilize and improve the business i would expect next year we will see several hundred more join. lori: that is consistent as by way of the president do you expect any concern because it is a pretty solid debates whether housing recovery is solid or whether we shape up for another bust ? >> once i got past my wardrobe malfunction, one hour prior. lori: wardrobe of function? >> i put coffee on my white sugar. he was terrific can't spend time with our f

eric erickson, we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you.'s a lot of rain moving across the country and a lot of flooding in missouri where the state patrol continues searching for the mother of a 4-year-old boy who drowned yesterday. evacuations also underway with some 200 families already forced out of their homes. have a listen here. >> i communicated with all neighbors with flash lights to make sure that we were all still okay, and as soon as we opened our front door, the river had come automatic way through here. all the way through here. bill: maria molina's live in our fox be extreme weather center. maria, what are you seeing out there this morning? >> good to see you. good morning, everyone. unfortunately, we've been dealing with a lot of heavy rain over the same areas so that does include parts of kansas, missouri and down into arkansas. so we have been experiencing a lot of flooding across these areas. the ground is already saturated. i want to show you just how much rain we've received just in two days, so just within the past 48

this is erick erickson sort of prominent national conservative.eek, romney won kentucky by 23 points, i think it was only 22. anyway, yet kentucky said it is a toss-up. why shouldn't mcconnell require like he made jim bunning do? >> he has sided up to rand paul that mitch mcconnell cut ads for in the 2010 senate race. i read a story about this last month. going throughout and talking about earmarks that he has gotten for kentucky years ago. he is going out there and stood in front of, i believe it was a park they had built and got 35 million in federal money to get this. talking about how much he could bring back to kentucky and that's hard now because the tea party wing isn't that interested in that stuff. but still trying to do that. so, i think on the one hand this is where maybe some difficulty. i agree it's an uphill climb and probably his primary opponent and him having some difficulty. he wants to run as this guy but also want to run a guy that will shut down all kind of government spending. >> interesting what rand paul actually does. he s

making her bid official today, but senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was eviscerated by erick erickson'se red state publication, which questioned whether the republican party needed to waste a safe seat on mcconnell, who is in a dead heat in his own senate race. even republican voters can't gre agree on their party's direction. according to a recent pew poll, 54% of gop voters think that gop leaders should move in a more conservative direction, and 40% in a more moderate direction, and just 5% saying, hey, it's good the way it is. but even with all the battles in the gop, it remains true that you can't beat somebody with nobody, so democrats will also need to be sure that they've got some somebodies on the ballot. all right, mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, these are folks who are leaders in the party and they're getting primaried. what's happening with republicans? >> well, with mcconnell's case, he is the republican leader, and he's not fielding the to senator lee's request to immediately say, sure, we'll shut the government down. so he's in a box. now, he's going to privately talk to

erick erickson of red state yesterday started a deal that made some -- it has gone viral, defining hers the abortion barbie. so that's the tool on the right. on the left, if you look at her record, this wasn't her first filibuster. in 1911 in the texas senate, she filibustered against an enormous cut in public education, $5 billion in public education. she was one of the leaders in the fight for the state equal pay bill. the state version of the lilly ledbetter act would have made it easier for women in texas to follow the pattern of the federal law. it passed. she helped lead that effort. rick perry vetoed it. she was part of providing money and help to get rape kits. there was a big backlog in texas. she was one of the leaders in pushing for -- against cronyism in state government to audit rick perry's sort of enterprise business subsidy funds, fight for homeowner's insurance. a lot of these typical democrat democrats -- proposals. she has a broad, broad record but this effort to define her as a one-issue candidate exclusively about abortion is really the fight of the day right now.

. >> bill: wasn't it erick erickson she ripped a new one? >> that's right.traged there were so many female breadwinners. she really kind of said you know -- >> bill: she's tough and she's good. i think she would be a big success at 9:00. who knows. stay tuned. find out more if you follow mediamatters.org. jeremy, always good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: what do you say? 33 minutes now after the hour. it's friday, august 9. good to see you today. and again, want to quick comment before we move on about what's happening next week. and remember most importantly, we -- this is going to be a little change on the television side of things, okay. but let's not forget, we're a radio show. even when we're on tv, we are a radio show. and that's what we do. and that's who we are. that's why we are so proud and happy to be on your local progressive talk radio station this early in the morning to start the line-up on progressive stations all across the country and nothing changes on that. nothing ch

see, erick erickson at red state and these guys. >> erick likes me, says it publicly. hugged me.you know what, i let them -- you know what, i feel sorry for them. i let them scream and yell because it makes them feel -- >> i happen to like you. >> oh, god. don't say that. james carville, get the hell out. andy serwer, thank you, margaret carlson, thank you as well. who are the smartest kids in the world? we've got author amanda ripley. she is great. she followed students in three foreign countries for a fuel year to answer that question. so many of my friends have been e-mailing me saying you've got to hear what she has to say. it's fascinating. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ i've got something for you too. (announcer) fancy feast delights with cheddar. a meal that is sure to delight your cheese lover. now available in the classic form she loves. fancy feast. the best ingredient is love. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. it's great. [ male announcer ] the

scott erickson, to my left, came all the way from california, where we just were a few months ago. he spent 15 years serving as a police officer in san jose working on the recognition and identification of terrorist organizations. he holds a masters of science degree in criminal justice studies from the university of cincinnati, and if that were not enough, scott has collaborated extensively with the heritage foundation, frequently contributing to their blog. scott is focused on issues of national security, including foreign terrorist organizations, law enforcement, and missile defense. he has co-authored several reports at heritage, including his latest, lessons from benghazi. and to my right, the speaker of the oklahoma state house, t.w. shannon. he is the first african-american to hold that position. i had the privilege of meeting him in my last trip to oklahoma. he has been on the road with me, helping the rnc raise money as well. that is a big plus for t.w. he is a registered member of the chickasaw nation. as speaker, he has been a voice for limited government, personal respo

scott erickson, to my left, came all the way from california, where we just were a few months scott is focused on issues of national security, including law enforcement and missile defense. he has authored several reports, including his letter since -- his lessons from benghazi. do we agree with that. , the speaker of the oklahoma state house, the first african american to hold that position. i had the privilege of meeting him in my last trip to oklahoma. he has been on the road with me, helping the rnc raise money as well. that is a big plus for t.w. he is a registered member of the chickasaw nation. as speaker, he has been a voice for limited government, personal responsibility, has advocated saving taxpayer money, and building oklahoma's infrastructure. speaker shannon has been appointed to the gopac national advisory board. i will let him tell you the truth about himself, but i think many of you will want one after this. i will ask a few questions, but first, let's go around the room, starting to my left -- in five minutes, tell us what brought you here, why you are republican, and