you mentioned grover norquist. i'll speak it him next. we described him as powerful unelected man. >> he's so powerful. 85% of the republicans in the senate, nothing is done in the republican caucus unless norquist approved it. he's been called the most powerful man in washington. everyone agrees that for grover norquist to sign off on a policy, it can get done. if he doesn't give the okay, forget about it >>> you would think what happened in kansas is approve to economics don't work. i'll put it to grover norquist, coming up after this. >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> tuesday. did the police fail misty upham? >> if somebody did something to my girl, i need to know that. >> was is a case of discrimination? >> we had no help from the police. >> a family pleads for answers. "stolen sisters", an "america tonight" special report. tuesday, 10:00 eastern. only o

you mentioned grover norquist. i'll speak it him next. we described him as powerful unelected man. >> he's so powerful. 85% of the republicans in the senate, nothing is done in the republican caucus unless norquist approved it. he's been called the most powerful man in washington. everyone agrees that for grover norquist to sign off on a policy, it can get done. if he doesn't give the okay, forget about it >>> you would think what happened in kansas is approve to economics don't work. i'll put it to grover norquist, coming up after this. >> next, the parents of captured american reporter austin tice. >> austin went missing in syria. >> campaigning for his release and maintaining hope. >> austin tice is alive. >> find him and get him home. >> a special "talk to al jazeera". coming up next. only on al jazeera america. joop as we saw in david shuster's story, kansas has been dealing with budget short falls ever since governor brownback began the march to zero income taxes. he insists the state will be on course, but proposed a massive increa

i'll put it to grover norquist, coming up after this. joop as we saw in david shuster's story, kansas has been dealing with budget short falls ever since governor brownback began the march to zero income taxes. he insists the state will be on course, but proposed a massive increase in tobacco and liquor sin taxes. call it what you may it's a increase and has grover norquist angry, he's the founder of americans for tax reforms, one of the most powerful me in washington. once a supporter of the governor brownback, he says the governor is headed in the wrong direction. >>> you don't support the increase, but brownback drastically cut spending on social programs which, wouldn't you agree, disproportionately impact the poor. >> kansas's challenge is that they've had 50 years of bipartisan overspending. they had a regan republican majority in the house and senate in the last two years. to argue that the problem is conservative republicans, they only recently got into office. what did happen was ta brownback attacked for cutting taxes and begin

great stuff from both heather and grover absolutely.ut what the left has spent generations doing in this battle for your mind is trying to convince you that you're wrong that you do not have the moral high ground. you can't trust yourself, america doesn't want what you're selling the reason they spent so much time and energy in moving that message to you. is because they know the truth. that the moment the light turns on america will realize. that was a pretty exciting experience wasn't it? the midterms, i want you to think about that did that surprise you? according to the left, to the democratic party and the liberals, that kind of thing wasn't supposed to happen, america is rejecting what congress servetism is quite the opposite most of the energy is spent making you surrender, making you think it's not even worth engaging in this process. we know of course, that's a lie lie. i don't know how long jonathan gruber has been on the planet, but maybe he's been operating for several generations about lying to the american people. those da

quite possibly. >> scary world we live in, grover.hank you very much for coming on. >> thank you. >> still a lot more to come this hour including more and more homeowners are improving their home instead of moving but is it right for you and your family? >>> next, survey after survey shows americans not saving enough for retirement but one small, tiny little change can make a big impact to your retirement savings. let us know what you think. tweet me @gerriwillisfbn send us an email through our website, gerriwillis.com. we'll be right back. [announcer:] what if one stalk of broccoli could protect you from cancer? what if one push up could prevent heart disease? [man grunts] one wishful thinking, right? but there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease- pneumococcal pneumonia. one dose of the prevnar 13® vaccine can help protect you ... from pneumococcal pneumonia, an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain difficulty breathing and may even put you in the hospital. prevnar 13 ® is used in adults 50 and olde

the presidents since glover -- grover cleveland nobody could convince him to come. he didn't get along that well with the media. every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest, has spoken. the president, we give the president the last word of the evening. no matter what is said before the president is the last word, which i think is an important attraction. it is viewed as important enough that some of them have come every year like president obama has. richard nixon didn't come every year but at the end, jimmy carter, ronald reagan was here every year, loved it. his wife performed famously, singing. she turned her image around. people had an image of her being stuffy and standoffish. everyone agrees that america appreciated her more afterwords. that was one case where photos did leak out somehow. that was delighted to have that image of nancy reagan put out. >> the present of the gridiron club this year, thank you for your time. >> thank you for visiting. [indiscernible conversations] >> we have been live from the renaissance hotel in washi

he split the term of grover cleveland. the sherman antitrust act was passed under his administration. he is not particularly well known in this day. if you look at scholars ratings of presidents, he falls in like 34th or 35th place. not very significant today. when this note was issued, this was one of the most widely circulated banknotes. this was called a national bank note. this blue thing is a charter number. what happened with the currency act of 1863 that created these national bank notes, it allowed individual banks to put up collateral by government gold bonds and the government would print banknotes for that bank up to 90 percent of the amount of value of the collateral they had deposited here it you will see things like the national city bank of kansas city, missouri. that is my hometown. this got to be so popular that eventually there was something like 14,000 different charters issued. the government printed these notes. they are some of the most widely circulated notes at the time. the lower denomination one h

guest: you write about grover and frances cleveland, a celebrity couple. the newspaper turned frankie into a celebrity. what was it about these people? guest: in that case, grover cleveland was much older than frankie, as she was called. the media jumped on that as an interesting moment. they were married when he was president. she was interesting to a lot of people and to the country because she was educated charming, lovely. this was the recipe for following it closely. when they were married, they tried to go on their honeymoon in rural maryland. a huge cavalcade of reporters tracked them down. they woke up the morning after they were married and solve -- saw all these reporters on the grounds. president cleveland was upset and never forgave the media for spoiling their honeymoon. he set up a house in washington where they could live not and the white house, because their celebrity was so intense. host: ken walsh, you say the modern era began with fdr. how sophisticated have we gotten -- we being -- house of the skate have we gotten in promoting our pre

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grover norquist.et as you can see it there, if my dad threw away a perfectly good presidency i would honor him -- my way of honoring him would be by learning to avoid that mistake. grover norquist joins us at the site of this caucus. that is harsh, isn't it? >> no, look, the modern republican party has explained itself and said we're the party that won't raise your taxes. but when come to a problem we're going to reform government, not raise taxes to paper over problems in the past. we're going to reform government like the ryan budget plan and other entitlement reform and all of the other candidates 95% of republicans in the house and senate made that commitment to the american people. and jeb bush has said he'll raise taxes on the american people if he feels like it. >> that's not exactly what he is saying. that's not exactly fair. he's not saying i'll raise it if i feel like. most people that refuse to sign this say i'm not going to box myself into a corner and make promises when i don't know what

there is grover cleveland, whose real name was stephen, his name was big steve or uncle jimbo. there is calvin coolidge, he hardly drank it all. he did occasionally have a beer prior to prohibition. coolidge was not the most exciting president. he was famous for not talking and he -- somebody wants that next to him at a dinner party and said to him, i have a bet that i can get you to say more than three words. he looked at her and said, you lose. [laughter] as i said, not a ball of fire. when he died, dorothy parker, the writer and humorist who held court at the algonquin hotel somebody told her that president coolidge died. she said, how could they tell? [laughter] cleveland was a fun guy. when he was a young politician in buffalo, he was running for some small office against a friend of his. they both agree that it would not look good if they were drinking all the time on the campaign trail so they agreed to limit themselves -- this will show you where he is coming from -- to four beers a day. after a week, they both agreed that was too arduous. they did not want to break the

in that particular case grover cleveland was much older than frankie, as she was called. so the media jumped onto that as sort of an interesting moment. they were married when he was president, and she was, she was entrancing to a lot of people in the media and to the country because she was educated, she was charming and she was lovely. and so this was sort of the recipe for following them very closely. when they were married they tried to go off on their honeymoon up in rural maryland and a huge cavalcade of reporters tracked them down, and they woke up the morning after they were married, and they saw all these reporters all over the grounds. and president cleveland was absolutely upset and really never forgave the media for spoiling their honeymoon. and so he actually set up a house in washington where they could live not in the white house because their celebrity became to intense. -- so intense. >> host: ken walsh, you say that the modern era began with fdr. how sophisticated have we gotten "we" being -- how sophisticated have we gotten in promoting our presidents a

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trooper alex douglas shop september 12th, 2014 outside the blooming grover barracks.orporal brian dixon was killed. douglas made his first public remarks saturday as the borough named a road after dixon. he spent the last six months undergoing more than a dozen surgeries. >> i feel good. i am getting bert. now i'm off crutches and on a cane. our department, tremendous, horrific tragedy. that's what kept me motivated and just looking on into the future. >> police arrested eric frein after 48 day manhunt in the pocono mountains. frein has pleaded not guilty to charges for which prosecutors say they plan so seek the death penalty. >> a foyer fight nerve fresno, california is seriously hurt after he falls through the roof of a burning home. take a look at this video and you can see the firefighter in the middle of the smoke when all of a sudden, the roof collapses. and he falls into the garage. other firefighters and good samaritans helped pull him from the burning building, firefighter being treated for serious burns on more than half of his body. >> heroic act caught on

grover, i haven't forgot about you. you'll be actively participating in the closed portion of this hearing, trust me. ms. rice asked very good questions about recurrent vetting and mr. fletcher talked about the cost associated with that. do you have any idea how costly it would be to do recurrent vetting? >> i don't have that answer for you, congressman. >> no, sir, but that is a potential vulnerability that we've identified in our previous reports also. the importance of recurrent vetting. >> i think -- i'm very trained in asking questions and not pontificating, because for 20 years, judges would kill me if i did that. i would tell you that it's an important and serious issue. i would ask mr. roth or ms. grover direct us to the appropriate entity that can give us an idea what that cost might be. i think that's an important factor to enter into these things. as this program majeures, and more time gets -- takes place between when they are initially vetted and up to the present time i think that more opportunity for peop

grover to testify. >> good afternoon. i am pleased to be here today to discuss tsa's implementation and oversight of the check conclusions. three weeks ago during the week ending in march 3, half of all aviation passengers received expedited screenings for one of three main reasons. they were enrolled, they were selected for one time pre-check based on the automated risk assessment, or were randomly assigned expedited screening at the airport through tsa's managed inclusion process. my remarks today reflect findings from the recently issued report on expedited screening. we support the move toward risk-based screening to improve passenger experience. assuming that passenger risks are properly medicated to ensure risks are minimized. we found the tsa uses several methods. for pre-checked and rowley's, in some cases they perform a background check to determine low risk status. or they accept passengers because they have already had a similar access meant, such as eligible members of customs and border protection's trusted t

at the beginning, you had president grover cleveland, who had just survived what is still probably our nastiest presidential election. he really hated the press. a hatred which grew when he really, really disliked the way the press covered his engagement and wedding at the white house and then his honeymoon. he really hated how they covered his honeymoon, so he refused every invitation. but he is the only president. after that, benjamin harrison attended and every president since benjamin harrison has attended. host: more recently, ronald reagan seemed to enjoy these dinners. he went to all eight? george: i believe -- yes because he had just gone to the one before he was shot. so yes, he did go to all eight. he had some memorable lines. he had one line when farmers were complaining about his policy and grain sales to the soviet union. he said we ought to keep the green and send the farmers. that was supposed to be off the record but got out. host: let me ask you about the recent presidents. what is their attendance record? george: bill clinton was in the hospital for knee surgery durin

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guest: you write about grover and frances cleveland, a celebrity couple.ewspaper turned frankie into a celebrity. what was it about these people? guest: in that case, grover cleveland was much older than frankie, as she was called. the media jumped on that as an interesting moment. they were married when he was president. she was interesting to a lot of people and to the country because she was educated charming, lovely. this was the recipe for following it closely. when they were married, they tried to go on their honeymoon in rural maryland. a huge cavalcade of reporters tracked them down. they woke up the morning after they were married and solve -- saw all these reporters on the grounds. president cleveland was upset and never forgave the media for spoiling their honeymoon. he set up a house in washington where they could live not and the white house, because their celebrity was so intense. host: ken walsh, you say the modern era began with fdr. how sophisticated have we gotten -- we being -- house of the skate have we gotten in promoting our president

and to give one example, you have anti-tax activist grover norquist this week who's been attacking jeb doing so he brangs up george h.w. bush famously raised taxes after saying read my lips i'll never raise taxes. >> interesting he won't be settling down to grover norquist norquist. we turn our attention to another potential 2016 candidate. it's the vice president we want to talk about now. there are official lyly draft joe biden super pacs on the move. take a listen. >> our plan mainly focuses around the summertime. there have been numerous media accounts from the vice president on making his intentions known in the summertime. we're focusing on iowa new hampshire. >> early primary states there is their focus. is there more speculation or less speculation of the prominence of a biden run? >> i'd say it has been shrinking day by day. now, joe biden has been teasing the possibility of a presidential run for years, really. you know he's always been taking care to show up in some of those early states that always invite 2016 scrutiny whenever any candidate appears there. but there just ha

grover send driving me nuts. hold on. >> okay, hurry up. it's ren evening a. wants to hang out with me tonight but she told me not to tell you. do not hang out with her. bye. she doesn't want me to tell you. hold on. oh my gosh. she's so annoying. >> who is? >> who is this? >> gretchen. >> right. hold on. >> hasn't that happened to all of us? >> ya. >> you used to click over, and you didn't click over? okay. i want to make an announcement on retraction, that's not my favorite move. >> i favorite movie? >> according to the study though we found 15% of office emails are gossip, and about 80% of what we hear in the office, is actually true. researchers of course say negative gossip is more prevalent than positive gossip. >> did you though know this, mike? when you gossip about another person, the person that you're gossipping to, they sometimes start to associate you with whatever you are describing, so talking about someone in a positive way sue serio is so nice, so pleasant, always orders great weather, they start seeing you as a noise guy, too. but alex holley

is on your remarks that texas has somehow and that question is how is that more coercive than the grover north quest and not to if all the republicans who decided to splurge never have any taxes when our infrastructure is sending towards third world status and we need to do things that are good proposals, including private public, which is probably going to lose the republicans senatorial seat they could've had a north carolina because the republican candidate is being undercut. so how is refusing to raise the tax less coercive on the population? >> i got it. i got it. on the first -- on the first barrel, i think one of my favorite political philosopher is as a guide named louis hartz, who is a harvard professor. he would've book called the founding of new societies anti-stalking about the essence of democracy. he said the essence of democracy is the individual shall not be thrust in a corner and that summons up all kinds of thing about minority rights and majority rule and i really do agree with him when i see the full force of government power being brought to bear to thrust an individ

between progressives and libertarians that break off from the separate parts and use the ever of grover cleveland as someone who's able to do that. >> at least in theory. >> there's no president has been perfect. >> exactly. to me, i think i can someone who tries to build this coalition on a regular basis it often comes down to where do you think the actual source of corruption is? does this government, basically trading rants to distort any registered or is this, d.c. at corrupted into well-meaning government? it's probably all bit of both but if you think you skip around that issue in the book. i'm going to ask you which d.c. as the predominant source of the? >> it doesn't matter. i'm not sure matters for the sake of an alliance. to treat the underlying malady or do you treat the symptoms? you get a little relief from treating the symptoms. symptoms. >> i think matters in the sense of, so to me if we believe the problem is that government essentially creates pseudo-monopolies by restricted market and entry, then the answer is not, let's just regulate more. the answer is let's not hand

vikram: i was interested in the comparison you did between stephen king and grover norquist.owa primary is more important than making people happy in washington. stephen: here is steve king somebody who will be courted by a lot of these candidates especially the ones who need iowa to win. there's a whole group of them that if they don't perform in iowa, they will have a hard chance to go much further. we saw this with his cattle call in january when he had his iowa freedom summit. everyone came running and they came on stage and gave their performances. he is not as followed as some people on twitter. he's got a pretty good following. olivia: i always think that talk radio is the literal mouthpiece of they conservatives of the republican party. should it be twitter? steven: conservative media on twitter is just as strong as anything. you can look at sean hannity and laura ingram. olivia: but is it the media of choice for republicans? steven: this year. brendan: it's important the person running the fee. aaron shock got into trouble for what he put instagram. steven: with poss

joining us right now is the founder of americans for tax reform, the end irs before it ends us, grover at the lower end of the economic totem pole need a lot of pep right now because there are 20 new taxes involved with obamacare and those are the people who are benefiting from it. they need help yet they turned off this program why. >> that's a good question. they are shutting down a government program and handing the money over to groups that have worked with the administration politically. it looks like politically connected groups like a.c.o.r.n. but groups like that. a lot of names you don't recognize. there have been studies of some of these groups and they had 49% failure in terms much getting irs material correct when they try to help people. the program was supposed to help people making less than $50,000 a year. you're quite right. new tax burdens on middle income people from obamacare. the administration is being completely unhelpful to lower income people and then handing contracts out to friends. >> you know what it sounds like, grover. it sounds like the president and his

since grover cleveland, who was in office when the club was founded, nobody could convince him to come, he did not get along that well at the media. every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest, has spoken, the president, we give the president the last word. no matter how much lampooning goes on, the president gets the last word. that is a very important attraction. and it is viewed as an important enough. some of them have come every year. richard nixon didn't come every year. but,, especially at the end, jimmy carter. ronald reagan was here every year and he loved it. his wife performed famously, a one year singing secondhand close, to the tune of secondhand rose and turned her image around. everyone agrees that america appreciated her a lot more afterwards and that was one case where those did leak out somehow. through the white house, that was delighted to have that kind put out before the public. >> clarence tate, the president of the gridiron club this year, thank you for your insight. >> thank you for filling in. >> tonight's dinner is close to cameras

between progressives and libertarians that break off into several parties and use the example of grover cleveland as someone who's able to do that. >> at least in theory. >> but there is no president has been perfect. >> exactly. to me i think attention, someone who tries to build this coalition's on the record basis, it often comes down to where do you think the actual source of corruption is? is this government basically creating which chewed to store or registered or is this corrupt in other ways? and again it's probably a little bit of both but i do think maybe purposefully to skip around that issue in the book. i'm going to ask you which these is the predominant source of those? >> i'm not sure that it matters for the sake of an alliance. do you treat the underlying malady or can you treat the symptoms? we get a little relief from treating the symptoms, you know? >> i think it matters in the sense of, so to me if we believe the problem is the government essentially creates pseudo-monopolies by restricting market entry, then the answer is not let's regulate mortgage interest let's h

presidents since grover cleveland who was in office when the club was founded, no one could convince him to come. he didn't get along that well with the media. every president since then has come and said the gridiron as a honored guest. we give the president the last word. no matter what is said before, how much lampooning goes on, the president is the last word. it is viewed as important enough for them to come -- not every year. jimmy carter came. ronald reagan came every year. his wife performed famously singing secondhand clothes to the tune of secondhand rose. she turned her image around. people had an image for as a stuffy. america appreciated her afterwards. that was one case where photos did leak out somehow. these things -- to the white house. >> clarence page of the chicago tribune, president of the gridiron club this year. thank you for your insights. >> thank you. >> next, former governor jeb bush making remarks at a house party in dover, new hampshire. then rand paul speaks to students at the university. after that, john brennan on his agency's efforts to strengthen inf

and you used the example of grover cleveland -- >> right. >> -- as someone who was able to do that. >> at least in theory. >> yeah. no president's been perfect. you know -- >> certainly talked a good game. >> exactly. to me, i think the tension -- and, again, someone who tries to build these coalitions on a regular basis it often comes down to where do you think the actual source of corruption is? is this, you know, government you know basically creating rents at which to extort and then redistribute, or is this business an otherwise well-meaning government? again, i do think it's both, but i think maybe purposely you skip around that issue in the book so i'm going to is you where is -- which do you see is the predominant source of this? or does it matter? >> i'm not sure that it matters for the sake of an alliance. do you treat the underlying malady or do you treat the symptoms? we get a little relief from treating the symptoms. >> i think it matters in the sense that so to me, if we believe the problem is that government essentially creates pseudo-monopolies by restricting market an

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so, at the very beginning, you had president grover cleveland who just survived what is still probably our nastiest presidential election in 1884. he really hated the press. hatred which grew when he really really this liked how the press covered his engagement and wedding at the white house and then his honeymoon. really hated how they covered his honeymoon. he is the only president -- after that benjamin harrison attended and every president since him has attended. steven scully: ronald reagan seemed to enjoy the dinners. mr. condon: he did. steven scully: he went to all eight? mr. condon: i believe -- yes because he had just gone to the one before he was shot. so yea, hes, he did go to all eight. but, -- he had some memorable lines. he had one line when farmers were complaining about his policy and sales to soviet union. he said, we should keep the grain and send the farmers. that was supposed to be off the record but it got up. steven scully:out. steven scully: george w. bush, barack obama, bill clinton -- what is their attendance record like? mr. condon: president clinton was in t

. >> first it was grover cleveland, wasn't he on the 20 and andrew jackson bumped him. >> he got hisi thought we could agree on one thing, could we leave the money like it is? i thought we liked the money like it is. if you want to put a woman on the money p get a new bill. >> i'm sure your girls have asked, where are the women othe money? >> hasn't come up. >> don't you want a woman president? >> the right one. >> it seems like a lot of things cost $9. everything cost $9. >> or $9.99. >> we need a $9.99 bill. >> a $9 bill with women on it. it would be a plurp bill. >> it would be especially if you buy something off television, every is $9.99. >> i would love a $0.99 coin. >> i want to try, i believe it's a matter of time before we get the hassle buck. that's going to be happening. al do we have a copy of the hassle buck? there it is. >> there's my daughter's wish come true. >> wait a minute, what that means, our producer created counterfeit money. >> you're not allowed to make fake money. >> jamie on facebook wrote us, saying leave our history alone. >> thank you. >> brock, writes i

my question is, do you -- host: are you talking about the grover-norqueist tax? caller: yes.uest: i'm sympathetic to what americans for tax reform is doing with that tax break. caller: you didn't answer. do you agree with it or not. guest: i thought saying i am sympathetic means i agree with it. if you want, i'll say i agree with it, if that makes you happy. caller: to my understand, what you are saying means taxing the poor and giving the rich a privilege. guest: i don't think that's true. if you look at a lot of the corporate tax loopholes, they obviously benefit the rich. if you look at some of the itemized deductions, overwhelming thatly that benefits the rich. if you look at charitable contributions deductions. a million dollars and they get their name on the been -- building and they get a tax deduction for it. i'm talking about tax deductions for the poor because the poor don't have tax deduction liabilities to begin with it. where it is challenging, is you have some middle class people, they do benefit, and not only from the state and tax deduction but also from the h

grover cleveland was in office when the club was founded, so nobody ever finally convince him to come. he didn't get along that well with the media. but does any president? but ever president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest, has spoken. the president, unlike a lot of organizations, we give the president the last word of the evening. so no matter what is said before how much lampoons goes on, the president gets the last word which i think is a very important attraction. and it is viewed as important enough that some of them haven't come every year, like president obama hasn't. richard nixon didn't come every year. especially at the end. jimmy carter. but ronald reagan was here every year, loved it. and his wife performed famously one year, singing "secondhand clothes" to the tune of "secondhand rose" and turned her image around. people had an image of her as a big stuffy, standoffish and everyone agrees that america appreciated her a lot more afterwards. that was one case where photos did leak out somehow, we think through the white house. i was delighted to hav

the audit the pentagon coalition, the group that has several advocates, including ralph nader and groverorquist. and a story from "the washington times" yesterday, a piece and a warning to congress about the impact of sequestration. now congress is debating. should they lift the caps on sequestration and put more money in the pot for the pentagon? michael in tucson, arizona democrat. what do you think? caller: credit, good morning to you. i don't think they should -- greta, good morning to you. i don't think they should lift those caps at all. the reason is, for one, they are not auditing any. and number two where is this military spending going anyway? i think they should live look sequestration on everything else, -- lift the sechrist on everything else, but as far as the military goes, leave it there. and the caller about three dollars ago, he kept talking about how the jews got us into the war in iraq. he is correct. it was benjamin netanyahu who came to congress in 2003 and commence the congress to go along with the bush administration about weapons of mass destruction and being col

knbc's joel grover went to ask them. residents want to know why the police aren't stopping it?'t wrong. if they are upset, it looks like it is so blatant, we should be doing something, we should be doing something. >> reporter: but today it is still easy to illegally rent a party house. how easy? our "rossen reports" producers are undercover in california. >> how many people can fit inside here? >> inside and out, up to 200. >> reporter: this realtor is happy to show us a couple of homes to rent. including her own. the price? $7,500 for the night. just look at how close her neighbors are. >> we can do it up there, put the deejay up there? >> yeah. have people cover the pool. make this into a dance floor. >> reporter: yes, a deejay and the dance floor just feet from the neighbors. and the music could be blasted. just imagine trying to sleep through this. in fact when we asked about noise, our realtor blames the neighbors for being too sensitive. >> neighbors that don't rent the houses are kind kf enof envious or jealous. so they want to make it more difficult. >> reporter: jealo