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(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.le down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. >> eliot: when romney selected paul ryan as a running mate, he was supposed to get a real numbers guy. as creator of the path to posterity ryan was supposed to provide the numeric justification for the tax plan. instead we got this. >> do you have the specifics. >> look at what mitt romney--look at what ronald reagan and tip o'neill did. >> michael: i mean, as my friend cenk uygur would say, of course! the reagan defense. they've relyied on drawing a comparison to ronald reagan as well as one other president. >> it's been done before. >> it's never been done before. >> jack kennedy lowered tax-- >> now you're jack kennedy. >> if jack kennedy only knew how much he would come up in vice presidential debates i think paul ryan knew where that was going. i'm joined by erol lewis and thomas frank, tha

jennifer granholm, thank you so much for your time.king forward to seeing you for our coverage. >> youyou betcha. >> eliot: a billionaire resort owner tells his employees they may lose their jobs if barack obama gets reelect: that's next in my view. but first, a reminder tomorrow night join me along with cenk uygur, john fugelsang and governor jennifer granholm as we cover the vice presidential debate. al be an exciting match up. here on current tv. more "viewpoint" coming right up. (vo) what is said here could decide the election. current tv presents coverage of the vice presidential debate. with unrivaled analysis and commentary. >> was this the game changer? is this going to change the dynamic? (vo) the only network with real-time reaction straight from the campaigns and from viewers like you. >> so keep on tweeting and maybe you'll have your voice be part of this democracy and see your tweets up on our screen. >>now that's politically direct. >> eliot: stop whining. that's my message for david siegel, the founder and ceo of westgat

governor granholm will cover that with us.uestions based on mitt romney's last debate. >> here is my news conspiracy thought for the day in who are these uncommitted voters? >> stephanie: really? >> voters who happen to live close to hofstra. i don't get it. it's not like we're talking about two candidates who are close enough on the positions -- >> i am undecided i like to listen to both sides. [♪ mysterious music ♪] >> what are they all libras? hey. >> stephanie: hey, i am too. medicare vouchers would raise costs for most seniors. >> yeah. shocker. >> stephanie: that's an actual study, not like -- what has the world come to when chris wallace is actually practicing real journalism now and again. >> yeah the six studies that were blog posts. >> stephanie: he was like they are not studies. they are bloggers. >> there are bloggers that do amazing work but the six they were citing were blogs from romney campaign users. >> stephanie: yeah, and he even had to say, you are saying aig is not partisan -- >> aei. >> what did she say c

we have vice president al gore governor granholm, governor spitzer and john fugelsang. the substantive record of president obama there are some things that i disagree with, as i've told you before, drone strikes, etc. when when you talk about killing bin laden coming out of iraq, and what he doesn't get enough credit for getting rid of gadhafi without losing a single life, and the republicans saying he's leading from the behind and i that i it was a success. will they change the term of the debates to who wins on styles and zinger, mr. vice president what do you think. >> al gore: how could you think something as inconsequential as style could play a role in a televised presidential debate. i don't understand the question. [ laughing ] >> eliot: i won't follow that answer. >> cenk: isn't there something off about that? >> al gore: yes, now can i quote you, cenk, of course! >> jennifer: of course! >> john: i think they agree with you, cenk. >> cenk: is there a way to influence the rest of the media enough to say just maybe you should focus on the substance of what these

newt was on cnn last night with former michigan governor jennifer granholm, an active obama supporter, of course. let's take a look. >> newt gingrich, should big bird be killed or not? >> that's total baloney. big bird makes millions and millions of dollars annually. >> save big bird! >> it's a commercially profitable show. >> save big bird! >> you would save big bird? >> i would save big bird by liberating big bird from the bureaucracy. >> jennifer granholm looks like she's still at the convention in charlotte. of course, he's a big bird fan. may look like he and granholm are on the same page with keeping big board around but newt still wants to do away with government support for pbs and other public programming. >>> that's it for "hardball." coming up, "your business" with j.j. ramburg. taste they love. could've had a v8... woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock

that may be the emotional pivot >> i'm jennifer granholm.war room, the president wipes the floor with mitt romney, the tigers wipe the floor with the yankees all is not right with the world but it's a hell of a start. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> this year, there are 54 million women eligible to vote. 2.5 million more women than men. enough to decide the whole election. as november 6 draws near one women are doing a lot of thinking about about a lot of

former democratic governor of michigan jennifer granholm. atlanta's democratic mayor kasim reed.lican strategist alex castellanos. and nbc's tom brokaw. >>> and later, politics, satire, and lots of laughs. i go one-on-one with stephen colbert. in character -- >> i don't really watch the news so much. i come in around 6:30 and i just say the opposite of whatever rachel maddow says the night before. and comedy just helps an idea go down. that's all. and it just makes you listen for a minute. >>> from nbc news in washington, "meet the press" with david gregory. >>> good sunday morning. it is a critical time in the race for the white house now. over the next eight days, think about it, we'll see the final two debates as polls show mitt romney now improving his standing in key battleground states of florida, virginia, and ohio. look at those polls. meanwhile, this weekend, people are still debating who won the vice presidential face-off as "saturday night live" had some fun with the vice president's over the top performance. >> congressman ryan, we begin with your opening statement. >

i'll be here with with governor granholm and john fugelsang. that's only on current tv. coming up, the romney tax plan so riddled with holes that even fox news is not buying now to my point. (vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action. trickle down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. alright let's break it down. mom, pop it. ♪ ♪ two inches apart, becky. two inches. t-minus nine minutes. [ ding ] [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls. let the making begin. ♪ ♪ hmm these smell amazing, too bad the guys aren't here we're clear. ok, swarm! swarm! hello [ female announcer ] pillsbury chocolate chip cookies. let the making begin >> eliot: withwith fewer than 24 hours for the next presidential debate, president obama supporters are desperate to see him bounce back from his dismal performance in round one. here is our number of the day 58. that's how many town hall meetings that

once again we have the amazing the electric governor jennifer granholm. governor, what have you got on the show tonight? >> because we are heading into this debate, the final debate, and we are coming out of a week of just bizarre polls, we're going to have a session focused on what the debate spinning forward has to do to solidify this for the president and then what do these polls mean? we have linda lake who is a fab pollster, and then we'll go to the polls in the swing states which are going one way and the national polls going another and that crazy gallup poll and try to figure out what that portends. there is an awful lot to talk about. >> eliot: are there those who want to reject it just in a state of denial? >> you would hate for the progressives to be discounting the gallup polls the way that they were doing a couple of weeks ago. you know. >> eliot: we're becoming the jack welchs of pollsters. a reminder we'll be back here monday night along with vice president al gore, cenk uygur and john fugelsang. we have more "viewpoint" coming right up. po

(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.d the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. soon to be somebody one on the best selling list. chicago tribune says palast is exactly what he is supposed to be. >> the international cycling union has announced this morning they are stripping him of his seven tour de france titles. it is officially done. he didn't win those. >> bill: all right. >> [ inaudible ] >> bill: yeah. greg, you document all of these efforts to steal the vote around the country. funded by -- fuelled by karl rove and the koch brothers. what can people do about it? >> in the back of the book it gives you things like don't go postal. if you don't have to mail in your ballot don't. they now how to target you. you have pimply guys blackberries saying they didn't put something on the ballot. go in precinct go early, et cetera. and i explain how many votes you

i'm jennifer granholm. election is only eight days away but with hurricane sandy winding its way up the east coast, president obama is focusing most of his attention on the federal response to the storm. mitt romney continues to do some campaigning. he held a townhall in ohio aboard his plane this afternoon. i'm joined again by chris lehane, a democratic strategist, a crisis communications expert. we did talk a little bit about what a challenger should do in light of this. i'm actually -- i want to go back to something else we began to talk about, which is in 2000 when al gore won the popular vote, but apparently lost -- at least one supreme court justice, but the question was at what point do you give up the ship. >> uh-huh. >> jennifer: you were inside those conversations, and would you have advise if we come down to an election that is so close like that. >> yeah. to me one of the critical issues is we had to deal with this the morning of the election, right? which is a lot of people didn't realize that

i'm jennifer granholm from the great city of new york.ular viewers of this program know we are constantly exposing the mendacity of the far right not just mitt romney though he is a particular favorite of ours. when they say that more than half of americans don't pay any taxes, and the oft whopper that the economic stimulus didn't work at all. so i have often thought to myself somebody has got to write a book and put all of these lies in one place and then debunk them clearly with precision. take them guess what? our next guess has done just that. and now he's written the new book "pack of les: debunking the 40 most destructive conservative myths in america." j.p., welcome inside "the war room." >> i'm glad to be here. >> jennifer: what caused you to decide to write a book about it? >> i guess the most accurate answer would be a lifetime of frustration that finally boiled over. >> jennifer: i feel your pain. >> i was in a sense waiting for somebody else to write this book, and nobody did. and i was involved in the 2008 campaign, and i jus

wanted to say something about jennifer granholm.efore she was above more, we had a republican governor here. during that time was when the economy was really blooming. the automobile industry was doing very well here. and, and, so the governor lowered tax as here in michigan. that is just before the economic downturn, the auto industry went into the toilet, you you know, so the tax revenue dried up in the state. after jennifer granholm had got on that the office. okay. all of the sudden, michigan is now suffering because similar tax rate that's the previous republican governor have put unplace bus at the time, the economy was growing. hen that fell into the toilet then we had a big financial problem. everybody blamed granholm with that and that, that was not the case. she was a real good governor. she was just look the president obama was stuck a real bad situation to have to deal with. and the negative stigma was placed on her just like on the president due to what had been done before by republican governor here or president in wa

connect with "the war room" jennifer granholm. >>it's a call to arms. heard. >>> i'm all about winning. i think republicans need to change our gop moniker to a gsp. grand solutions party. be about big things about solutions, that's what swing voters care about. >> jennifer: so former florida governor jeb bush, so fascinating. he is not afraid to ruffle some republican feathers, and he believes his party has to make fundamental changes to stay relevant. and a big part of that is to reach out to latino voters. and jeb bush is warning that the problem with hispanic voters is so bad that texas, texas! now a red state could turn blue by 2016. so speaking of 2016 if governor romney loses to president obama, jeb bush becomes a leading gop front runner. automatically. so what is the likelihood that he is going to run? here to discuss that is joe hagen, joe has penned the article "bush in the wilderness" for this week's edition. i'm so fascinated by this piece. it was really so in depth. you really got inside of what was going on in the bush family. let's start

the former democratic governor of michigan and now host of current tv's "the war room" jennifer granholm. rounding out the roundtable for the hour, the mayor of atlanta, democrat kasim reed. republican strategist alex castellanos. and nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw, who by the way moderated the town hall style presidential debate between john mccain and barack obama in 2008. so we'll have some perspective of what to expect from that point of view. welcome to all of you. governor mcdonnell, the framing of this is that things are moving in romney's directions. if you look at the polling in the battleground states, there has been a movement toward him after that first debate. what makes you think that is sustainable? >> because it was based on i think a sharp contrast between the vision of mitt romney and the record of barack obama. it's the first time that 60 million americans live got to see the two, and another 60 million or so through social media got to see him. i think it's a sustainable trend. and in virginia, i think that it's all about jobs and energy and the economy and

with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, watch the only truly experienced presidentialebate coverage. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: karl rove accuses commerce secretary john bryson >> bill: binders binders we've got binders and binders full of women. [ laughter ] >> bill: oh, god what a dufus good morning so good to see you today the morning after that big second presidential debate and what a difference a couple of weeks makes. president obama obviously taking some cues from vice president joe biden. good to see you today. welcome to the full court press here on current tv, here on your local progressive station from our nation's capitol and our studio on capitol hill just down the street from the united states capitol building in the shadow of the capitol dome. i know you want to get right into the debate. we'll do that and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. for me, back from a quick overnight trip to san diego did a little debate with mike murphy in front of the amer

(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.et the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. ♪ >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: good morning everybody. welcome back again to the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol from our studio on capitol hill. this monday morning october 15, good to have you with us. one of the most exciting things that happened this year as far as i'm concerned were voices that have come out against the ryan budget and the republican attempts to really gut all programs impacting or helping the middle class and the poor, and one of the strongest group of voices coming from catholic sisters who banded together and put together their first bus tour called nuns on the bus. they went through nine states. it was so successful that kind of the model nuns of the bus tours have been popping up all over the country. the ringlead

(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. [ ♪ music ♪ ] ♪ always >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ always there to remind me ♪ ♪ always -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ there to remind me ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to. fifty minutes after the hour. president obama maintaining his lead over mitt romney. and gender gap back to where it was. uh-huh. charlene in milwaukee, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, charlene. >> caller: good morning. good morning. my husband and i watched that dinner last night. and i had to reflect. mitt romney is a real sore loser. he marched off of that stage after the debate and grabbed his wife and he was mad. and he decided to get back at the president with all of his rich friends. and i'm going to dump politically on you tonight and will is nothing that you can do about it. but obama is bigger than that. he is going to wait

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governor jennifer granholm, the host of war room.nkthank you for being here tonight tonight. >> eliot: we have "viewpoint" up next. from silver screens... to flat screens... twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. >> eliot: coming up, how much will richard mourdock's comments hurt mitt romney among female voters, but first jimmy fallen on monday's debate and a musical tribute to the great swing state of florida. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder viewfinder. >> experts are saying that the election may be decide by one or two key swing states, including as usual, the state of florida ♪ florida ♪ it might be you ♪ can we trust you ♪ to make a stand ♪ you're a state ♪ full of great people ♪ we see you in the news" >> when mitt romney hired a pilot to fly a thermal ship that looks like a blimp the idea was to get publicity but not this kind. >> first the gone doe la struck and then it deflated. ♪ it's up to you ♪ florida ♪ ♪ >> a giant image of mitt romney's face hover

one woman who know as thing or two about prepping such, for such a night is jennifer granholm. who stood in for palin in helping joe biden prep four years ago. today the current host of the "war room with jennifer granholm" kind enough to join us from new york. hello, governor. nice to see you. >> ashleigh, nice to see you, too. thanks. >> the question, prepping joe biden then versus what he must be prepping for now has to be entirely different. i dare say apples and oranges? >> totally different. you have put your finger right on it. i mean, four years ago, he was a presidential candidate. remember? and barack obama invited him to be on the ticket. they had policy differences between the two of them, and so much of his volnerability was in not having, you know, learned or known or had the same positions as barack obama. but this time, there's no daylight between the president and the vice president. that vulnerability is not there for him and, of course, preparing against sarah palin is stoelgtsly different than preparing gelgts paul ryan. totally different. sarah palin was an

i'm joined by my colleagues governor jennifer granholm the two-term governor of michigan who gave theeech of the democratic convention bar none. john fugelsang who's satiric commentary leaves us laughing every night. and you're going to explain how we use social media tonight. >> john: indeed. and we're here debating from my hometown, the great isle of long. current tv is where we want you to be on tv with us. if you look right below, you'll see our brand new and improved twitter screen. throughout the debate you will be able to watch not just the candidates but the feedback of your fellow americans, different media outlets, all of the shows here on current, including cenk who is with his brand new baby on the west coast. and if you want to hear what people are heckling to the candidates throughout the entire evening. this is the place to be. if you include the hashtag in your tweet, you will see your tweet come up on the screen so try to have an attractive profile picture tonight. the steaks are high. so you can be part of this great electronic family. >> jennifer: i want to start ou

(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: this is the "bill >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show," now on current tv. >> bill: 22 minutes after the hour now happy friday, friday, october 19. really bummed that we missed our chance to talk with sister monica mcgloin. we made fun of her kind of sleeping in, but she did check in and dan talked to her but now the bus is out of cell phone rang, so we won't be able to find out how she was able to handle these tea party protestors. what an ugly bunch. they've got better things to do than go after these nuns. nuns have a right to point out to the american people that the paul ryan budget is bad for the poor and middle class. >> that's next, you going to pick on little school kids? really nuns. that's who you want to pick a fight with. >> bill: calling from married dana, hi. >> how are you? >> bill: good, thank

(vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action.orld, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: all right. 13 minutes now before the top of the hour here on the "full court press" this thursday. brad woodhouse is a communications director for the dnc. he will join us in studio in the next hour. right now, we're visiting with coral davenport from the "national journal" and victoria jones from talk radio news. talking mainly energy. we'll be back to victoria and coral and your calls in just a second here. but first interesting question. you need some extra money at the end of each month like who doesn't. well, here's something you might consider. incomeathome.com. they are america's leading work from home business and this is something you can do. no matter your age education or experience. you can literally earn

on mondayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay >> jennifer: i'm jennifer granholm, we are in new york city. if you are looking for the best political analysis anywhere, you have come to the right place. it's friday night in "the war room," and it starts right now. ♪ >> this is a bunch of stuff. look here is the deal -- >> what does that mean a bunch of stuff. >> it means it is simply inaccurate. >> it's irish. >> we irish call it a whole bunch of malarky. >> jennifer: there was a bunch of stuff being thrown around last night but jolting joe biden didn't let them go unchecked. here he is on paul ryan's medicare proposal. >> this is a plan that is bipartisan. it's a plan i put together prominent democrat senator -- >> not one democrat endorses it. >> our partner is a democrat from oregon -- >> and he said he no longer supports it -- >> but put it together with a former clinton director -- >> who disavows it. >> jennifer: the partner is democrat ron widen and ron widen had his own response today, saying quote . . . and that wasn't the only tall tail from ryan. here he

newt was on cnn last night with former michigan governor jennifer granholm, an active obama supporterf course. let's take a look. >> newt gingrich, should big bird be killed or not? >> that's total baloney. big bird makes millions and millions of dollars annually. >> save big bird! >> it's a commercially profitable show. >> i would save big bird by liberating big bird from the bureaucracy. >> jennifer granholm looks like she's still at the convention in charlotte. of course he's a big bird fan. may look like he and granholm are on the same page but newt still wants to do away with government support for pbs and other public programming. >>> up next, debate strategy. we now know more about what president obama was trying to do in his lackluster debate wednesday night. that will be helpful to know. >>> and one thing democrats and republicans can be sure of, it won't happen again. well, we can hope. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. irst step. for the spender who needs a little help saving. for adding "& sons." for the dreamer, planning an early escape. for the mother o

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