thing underneath and too many politicians in washington are playing coy. >>> well, apparently, frank luntzt learn anything from mitt romney in the 47% mistake. he made the naive mistake of telling college kids with iphones in their hands that the conversation was off the record. really? luntz, you need to get updated with how kids use technology. they have no loyalty, but only to the information. this is what they're saying behind closed doors. it's a good thing for liberals in america. for more on all of this, let's bring in talk radio consultant holland cooke. holland, it's great to have you with us. holy smokes, they are throwing sand in the sand box. what's going on here? >> of all people, you'd think a media consultant would know that the camera never blinks. and, ed, you've known me long enough to know that i'm not much of a conspiracy theorist. but this is enough to make you wonder. i myself a media consultant with sympathize with frank luntz, because there is nothing more frustrating than you do the research, you formulate a plan, you outline it for the client, and then the client

republican pollster, frank luntz did the survey.itical analyst. >> nobody trusts anybody anymore. >> what's the problem? >> the problems is you are told something one day and different the next and change it the next. republicans aren't trusted. democrats aren't trusted. congress is at its lowest numbers in modern history. we feel all these institutions have let us down. we have no confidence in them. i think this is acidic. this is a very dangerous trend in american society. who is supposed to bring you together? who is supposed to unite you? who are you to turn to when things go wrong to know things will go wrong? >> you said it was more than politics. elaborate on that. >> they don't trust businesses. if you can put the numbers back up, ceos perform worse than the irs and wall street performs worse than the irs. nobody likes the irs. these are organizations. this he don't trust the media. they don't trust what happens in spores events. there is a crisis in confidence in this country. it prevents us from finding solutions to the c

the reports are that the washington redskins have hired frank luntz's pr firm for their poor image probleml pierce wrote: that's hilarious, tiel but i think they'll come up with a way to make native americans and other americans who don't like the name redskins seem like they're the real racist. if you have a comment for the show tweet us or post it on our facebook page. we got one. we're joined once again by the great dave zirin author of "how politics have turned the sports world upside down" and he has been on every tv show. >> but this is my favorite. >> john: and great to have you here for the first time normally you're a face on our screen. the washington redskins owner what a guy. he said 1908 he would never change the name. now he has hired consultants to conduct a focus group to handle this problem. >> he taught us that global warming dan snyder, he is costanza with hair. it's his nervous aggressive intensity and his inerrability to make people feel comfortable around him. you see this. every time dan snyder talks the people who want to see the redskins name finally changed they g

. >> i was just going to say, the famous republican pollster frank luntz wrote in a memorandum that ifrats got health care passed, that it could marginalize republicans for a long time. i think that explains. for abby it's life or death. >> when you ignore life and death or for those who may not have life and death situations but children who need to stay insured and other things and you ignore that and play partisan politics, i think you marginalize yourself, congressman. >> i think you're right, reverend. the fact is, this year we're going to roll people into these state-based exchanges and people who haven't had insurance get a chance to have insurance. the only option being the emergency room. and so now, you know, we're already going into full blast trying to help people understand what the exchanges are, how they can sign up, how it's going to benefit them, what it's going to cost them, the subsidy that they will be eligible for will be and people really have to know that. we have several districts setting up in minneapolis and including small business people who have a lot of qu

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some junior frank luntz must have told them -- >> that's what i thought. >> -- that court packing is something that's going to resonate and nobody's going to actually investigate it, which doesn't take a lot of investigation, by the way. the court was fully staffed and had its full complement of judges under george w. bush. >> right. >> so, you know, he's just actually returning the court to the number of judges that it should have. >> you never know what's in people's hearts. i grant that. but, joan, there's a pattern here. it's like bill maher says, new rules. >> oh, you know. >> there are new rules for this guy. i'm sorry, if another president said, i'm going to fill some vacancies, they would say, it's about time. when he does it, barack obama does it, oh, he's packing the court. just like he's got an enemies list. none of this is true. they just say it. >> right. and chuck grassley and mitch mcconnell participated. they kept -- confirmed the 10th and 11th judge on that circuit under republican presidents. it was all fine to have 11 judges under republican presidents because he's

what he called the constitutional option so the republicans pretty message this you know they had frank luntz probably do a focus group on the constitution actually says is that the job of the united states senate the house is not involved in this that the job of the united states senate when the president nominate somebody for the supreme court is to advise and consent another is to offer opinions to the president and to say yes by a majority there's one hundred senators a majority would be fifty and if it's a tie vote was fifty fifty tie the additional tie vote to breaking vote would come from the president of the vice president who's a democrat right now joe biden so all it would take is fifty votes there's nothing in the constitution about filibustering nominees there's nothing in the constitution about supermajorities sixty votes sixty six votes two thirds what none of it and so i'm with bill frist let's call it the constitutional option let's let's change the messaging on this and frankly i think that harry reid should do this yesterday. with regard to legislation leave the filibuster i

. >> bill: they've hired frank luntz.ing to tell them how they can explain it to the american people in ways that we'll all support it. >> we also want to be called that, right? >> it might be the quickest transition from uniform to suit ever. jason kidd retired from the new york knicks on june 3rd after 19 years playing in the nba. now he's got a new job as the new head coach of the brooklyn nets. kidd tells -- he tells "usa today" he's been studying for a coaching role throughout his playing days and is thrilled to have this tremendous opportunity to return to that team for him back when they were the new jersey nets, he helped take them to two nba finals back in 2002 and 2003 which by the way he lost to the san antonio spurs. >> that's right. you know, i think that's a good move. he's always been a super super smart basketball player. >> another swimmer is attempting to swim from cuba to florida without the protection of a shark cage. 28-year-old australian chloe mccardell set out from havana in calm waters yesterday i