meet grover norquist., whose mission statement is, "the government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. we believe that that power should be minimized." that's right, the most powerful man in america who does not sleep in the white house is losing it. he is being driven crazy by republican senator tom coburn, who decided to do these two things in this order. number one, not run for re-election. and number two, go to war with grover norquist. i have praised senator coburn's choice to take on grover in this space a couple of times before. and today in "the new york times," coburn wrote an op-ed piece attacking grover once again. then grover made the mistake of responding in an interview with the hill, in which he inadvertently revealed just how badcrap crazy he is now. here is how he explained his fight with coburn to the hill, word for word. i defy you to make any sense of this at all. "it is like a couple that is having a fight, and one of them tries to drag a third party in, like t

in fact, it will keep their pledge to grover norquist.he cliff in january, the pledge to grover will require, require all republicans to vote for the president's tax bill, because it will then be a cut of most income tax brackets. the treasury department is right now making plans for what will happen on the tax withholding tables on your first paycheck in january after we go off the cliff and all the income tax rates go up. the strategists at the white house and the treasury and the democratic leadership in congress believe that if we go off the cliff, they will then the be able to pass the democratic bill that cuts all of the tax rates back to where they are now, except those top tax rates and they'll be able to do that in a matter of days. the tax writing committee in the senate knows how to do this virtually instantaneously so nothing, nothing can give the democrats more power over tax policy than going off the cliff. you might see a few more bucks withheld from your january paycheck, maybe your first paycheck, but when congress then q

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i happen to have tumbled upon this because i wound up renting space from grover norquist for seven long years and witnessed firsthand what i'm about to show you in terms of the influence operation that began during that period, went at the george w. bush 2000 campaign and then the bush administration, again, setting the precedence in terms of personnel, policy and practices that are metastasizing today. next slide. another gang of six. you've already been introduced d to abdel rahman al marudi. let me go through some photographs of the next. next slide. well, this is al marudi with governor bush and next slide. this is khalid safuri, his right-hand man and niwad awad who runs one of the most aggressive muslim brotherhood fronts c.a.r.e. in the summer of 2001. this is another convicted terrorist running at the time of this photograph in march of 2000 the palestinian-islamic jihad organization. next slide. muslim al sadiqquey, the imam presenting the president a koran in the white house shortly after 9/11. next slide. this chap. he worked in the white house for most of 2001. he was the mu

you probably have seen there's grover and super grover when he puts on the cape.now, the one question i might ask you, grover, is you know, even back when reagan and tip o'neill got things done and in the past where we've seen parties work together, sometimes, even doing what one party will still think is the wrong thing or an incremental step towards the wrong thing, sometimes you need to throw a bone to get the other party to throw a bone back to you and you know, make some type of compromise. in your world, i guess it seems much more difficult if you signed a pledge to never ever raise taxes in any respect. do you see where i'm going with that? >> yes, but first you have to ask yourself what problem are you trying to fix? under bush, spending increased too rapidly. under obama, reid and pelosi t increased much more dramatically, quickly and higher. we're spending too much money. now, some democrats say, well, why don't we raise taxes? well, raising taxes doesn't solve the problem of spending too much money. it enables the problem of spending too much money. so

john adams and grover cleveland. grover cleveland is my greatest example. in the first academic poll that happened in 1948 cleveland was ranked eighth. john adams was ranked ninth. cleveland, as we all know, we don't know much about cleveland. i didn't before i started this. to be honest with you, i still don't, but i know enough to talk about it a little bit. what we know about him, he is the only president to serve to nine consecutive terms. less known as the fact that after each of those terms his party was tossed out of the white house. the first time was him on the ticket, and the second time after is party have basically said we don't want you on the ticket voters still tossed out the democrats under william jennings bryan and broaden william mckinley. so he representative -- he is the only two-time one-term presidents ira street. so my question is, how on the world, if you think that voters are not totally stupid, helen the world can he considered number eight? i didn't think he should be down there in 27, but eight seemed a little rich. so let's loo

what do you think grover?the kind of tax rate increases that obama's reelection would guarantee, this is not just dividends. the alternative minimum hatch match. 31 million families will be hit by the alternative minimum tax. all of the taxes that we see coming in, the doubles or the halving. it will further slow the economy. this a has been the worst recovery from a recession since world war two. why? because of the threats of the tax increases which if obama is preelected all become very real. the fact that he wants to extend the cuts for some people, we know that's not true. he was president in 2009 and 2010 with a democratic house and senate, and he extended none of them for anyone. not poor people, not middle income people. >> other economies want to sure up their problems there, but we're trying to avoid the same situation. we have this austerity program that we may face at the end of the year. >> no, we want less spending. we want to progrowth policy in the real economy. lower tax rates, strong economic

spending the massive military or republicans able to break their promise to multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist in order to protect their defense industry donors and all across america record high temperatures and a lack of rain are causing a nightmare for our nation's farmers and our agriculture industry just how badly has the largest drought in decades hurting our food supply and is this a glimpse of things to come in the age of global warming. you need to know this when you mention these small handful of wealthy families and pretty much own to el salvador in the reagan eighty's you often think of the infamous death squads that their right wing military government supported as tom brokaw reported in one thousand nine hundred eighty three on n.b.c.'s evening news the death squads strike could anyone most destructive working for the gross or sympathizing with them even when friends are involved most of the victims are the sons and fathers of the poor the children and husbands of these women who marched recently against gadhafi. these people routinely used rape and murder including that

anti-tax activist grover norquist. "washington post" associate editor bob woodward and democratic strategist hilary rosen. also this morning, a few minutes with bob costas of nbc sports, on the penn state sex abuse scandal. after this week's devastating report about who knew what, and when. >>> good morning. well you knew it was going to get nasty and here we are in this presidential fight. really the choice is by the fall, is this going to be a campaign that turns on the obama economy? or mitt romney's business record? a week ago we were talking about a bad jobs report for the president. this week, because of the obama team going on the offensive, it's all about romney's bain record. and the president is staying with it on the campaign trail yesterday in virginia. >> he invested companies that have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want a pioneer in outsourcing. i want some insourcing. >> the response now, the adviser of the romney campaign ed gillespie. good to have you back. >> thanks for having me. >> so

jon knott of grover cleveland. now my favorite example. in the first academic poll by arthur jess leger, cleveland the spring eight and john adams is ranked ninth. not cleveland as we all know -- we don't know much about cleveland. i did before i started to be honest with you. i know enough to be able to talk about a little bit. what we know about it is he's the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. what is known as after each of those terms his party was tossed out of the white house. the first time as him on the ticket and the second time after his party he basically said we don't want you on the ticket, but the voters still tossed out the democrat under william jennings bryan brotman william kennelly. so he's really the only two time one term president in our history. so my question is, how in the world if you think the voters are not totally, how the world can he be considered number eight? i didn't think he should be down there in 27, but it seems a little rich for me. so let's look at it. his first defeat in 1888 won the

quote, its complete confidence in the loyalty of suhail khan, a bush department official, and grover norquist to the united states. he's the intellectual i were inspiration behind the allegations. what makes senator john mccain's statement frankly so bold is other members of congress have been silent or kind of supportive. mike rogers, who chairs the house select committee on intelligence. let me repeat that. he's the chairman of the committee. here's what he said on frank gaffney's radio show, seeming to buy into the muslim infiltration theory, editing fbi training materials to remove language that was anti-muslim. >> michele bachmann is kind of taking the lead on this particular issue and going through and trying to figure out what they took out of the training materials and what they left in and why did it get changed? >> restating, congressman rogers is chairman of the house intelligence committee. he's a very powerful lawmaker. as for congresswoman bachmann, intent much of today trying to track her down, get her to answer some questions. eshe would not. she released a statement

it's interesting i remember when he was going after grover norquist. and that was condemned by a number of conservatives. there wasn't much there, but he was alleging grover norquist was trying to get the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the american conservative movement. >> absolutely. he's been going after governor norquist for almost a decade. he doesn't care. he'll go after republicans, he will go after republicans, democrats. he went after bush administration officials. he said the head of the cia had submitted to sharia law. so she is really shameless and he's been driven out of the elite in the conservative movement in addition to cpac and the american union board, which includes john bolton and the head of the nra. real staunch conservatives. he was kicked out. but there's kind of an interesting dynamic of the tea party versus the establishment. where while he's persona nongrata other congressmen still listen to him. he still has their ear. even some senior officials like jon kyl, the number two republican in the senate, used to sit on frank ga

move on this. >> the reason i think guys like grover put that pledge out there and politicians follow that pledge is because where i started this. the historical perspective is you give a dollar to the government and it finds a dollar to place in spending. it finds a way to spend that dollar. grover, i would assume, i don't want to speak for him, we have to cut off the spigot, cut off the funding of government. it doesn't allow for emergencies. we've arrived at two emergencies you point out, one is the fiscal cliff and the other is the one you're not talking about and that is the long term debt and deficit problem. right? both of those problems are working in opposite of each other. >> correct. >> so we have to, yes, perhaps let go of some of our historical perspective to make concessions on those emergencies and get action on those in the short term. he's not wrong on the long term. we have lessons to learn about the concept of getting things done. >> mark, later on we're going to talk to olympia snow. next week i'll talk to lee hamilton. we are dredging up everyone who once roughly

grover norquist's wife is a muslim.egations saying it's completely indefensible, there's nothing else to say. does it, frankly, help when people have a personal experience with prejudice or themselves have been on the receiving end of a witch hunt, that they are much more empathetic? we know this as people of color or minorities who struggle against the main stream lack of a kind of personal story and narrative, does this help? >> absolutely. look, there have been stories about for instance, elected officials even here in the state of new york who switched their vote on gay marriage because they had gay neighbors and their kids were being raised in a house full of love and that changed their position. and we saw this on people who had one position on interracial couples until they had a half black, half white grandkid. it's really refreshing for once to see our politics united against hate for a change as opposed to united in hate. and i center to say, usually congresswoman bachmann is on my list with alan keyes and oth

wayne lapierre is not a credit hog like grover norquist.anti-tax lobbying muscles publicly. he loves calling senators idiots. he loves taking credit for preventing any sensible tax policy in this country. wayne is a old school. wayne lapierre follows the old lobbyist playbook of never publicly taking credit for anything. every time an american mass murderer uses the right that wayne has preserved for any one in this country, including al qaeda and homicidal maniacs, to buy insane amounts of ammunition, and then that mass murderer gets huge headlines, wall-to-wall cable news coverage, and comments from the president, wayne lapierre never takes credit for any of that. never. wayne always does a kind of, ah, shucks, modesty thing and says, if i couldn't make sure that that mass murderer could get all those bullets, he would have used something else to kill all those people. talk about modesty, huh. maybe some of our mass murderers would have found another way to kill a lot of people, but we'll never know, will we? because wayne has just made i

you need emergency short-term spending because your economy is going down the tank again, you risk groverquist and his people campaigning against you. why is that acceptable in our dynamic economy and our democracy? why can't we tell people stop with the pledges, go in there and make the necessary deals that have to be done. i'm not asking you as a conservative. i'm saying this is something liberals and conservatives need to do, democrats and republicans got to move on this. >> the reason i think guys like grover put that pledge out there and another -- politicians follow that pledge, because the historical perspective you give a dollar to the government it finds a dollar in spending. find ways to spend that dollar. grover i would assume, don't want to speak for him, we've got to cut off the spigot, the funding of government. you are right, it doesn't allow for basically emergencies. we've arrived at two emergencies you point at, one the fiscal cliff and the other one is the one you're not talking to, the long-term debt and deficit problem. both of those problems are working in opposite o

grover norquist is full of hot air and not much else. congratulations, president. well. >> greg: did you say read my lips? i won't raise taxes? isn't that the same president? >> dana: senator coburn in oklahoma has an on-ed saying that the left is obsessed with grover norquist so they take their eye off the ball like entitlement reform. >> bob: you can't take your eye off of him because it's tough to find him. he's only 4'2". >> kimberly: bob. here is something we knew all along was true. i.q. expert james flynn and he determined that women closed the i.q. gap. let's talk about surpassing it actually. >> eric: wait a minute. >> kimberly: scoring higher than men. "telegraph" newspaper so obviously very true. women outnumber men on college campus, hold more advanced degrees than the counterpart.