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before a panel on capitol hill earlier today. >>> well the hill newspaper reporting that senator harry reid and mitch mcconnell squabbling today over the legislative agenda today. as you heard earlier in the program that will happen this week, so senator reid insisting that senator mcconnell insisting that majority leader reid, to put aside time-consuming votes on 17 of the president's judicial nominees and instead turn to the jobs act which the house passed overwhelming last month. senator mcconnell is accusing senator reid seeking a fight by forcing a vote on the controversial amendment. so, politics on capitol hill. here's more from the senate floor earlier in the day. >>> on judicial nominations you said that you're moving forward for this because you say it has to deal with republican object vichl. can you respond to that? >> if that were a question in a logic question it would be a flop. i mean, think about this. they could approve these judges in five minutes. so what do they mean taking it away from the jobs? the only major jobs bill is on the floor right now. the bill is a nice bil

if i had harry reid's job, we would be turning to the xm bank next. right after this and we would be doing it with very few amendments because the advantage to being the majority leader because you have the ability to schedule. i just want everybody who's following this issue to understand, if to i were setting the agenda, the next item up right after this bipartisan jobs bill would be the xm bank. >> my amendment sponsored by democrats and republicans was a partisan maneuver. they're not about to take the xm bank unless it's part of the overall package. so that's why we're doing it this way. he's not the leader, i am. and we have a number of very important issues that we have to deal with. and even though i believe in the xm program, it's going to drop it to the bottom of the calendar because we have things we need to do. >> harry reid, republican leader mitch mcconnell. and the boeing corporation, which is one of the largest export/import loan recipients, a big supporter of the bilko sponsored including republicans like lindsey graham, richard shelb

harry reid came out the day after with his media blitz, and what he did was he just began to pour tons of money our way. the press from the, the pressure from the press was designed also to keep me off balance, to catch those things in sound bites. as you know, we are working in sound bites, out of context. and i was never allowed to really explain thoroughly what i was speaking about at the moment that they caught that little sound bite. also we were never able because we didn't have the money to do the rapid response to that. so they got ahead of us in that first three weeks because we just didn't have the money to fight the fight that we needed to fight, and i would just be very, um, a word of caution to whoever comes out of this primary. have enough to be ready to go on television and rapidly respond to whatever attack comes to you from that arena because we know we're not just going against the opposition, we're going against a press that is aligned with that candidate. >> host: how long did it take you to write "right angle"? >> guest: i started in 2009, it was actually finished

there's simply no time to pass the stock act that was actually done aggression insider trading harry reid wins are tools on wars and on happy hour gangs of beautiful women trolling the highways in search of male sperm and then word on the street is that obama could formally endorse a marriage by december. all that. people calling what you said for free and fair elections. and they're still reporting from the. map you can hear behind the loud explosions. you know so much to the story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's you some of the part of it and realize that everything you saw you don't. charge the big picture. right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to senate majority leader harry reid for helping house republicans water down the stock act let me give you some background here right the stock act or the stop trading on congressional knowledge act this is perth introduced to congress almost five years ago and may two thousand and seven it was designed to stop elected officials and their staf

here is before the votes this afternoon, the senate democratic leader, harry reid. >> it's difficulto comprehend that the republicans want more -- republicans in the house want more fight. they haven't had enough. they're not willing to even take up a bill to do something about our highway system. 70,000 bridges are unsafe. 20% of our highways are in a state of disrepair. and they haven't even taken up a bill. we've passed ours. the least they could do is take that up. millions of people depend on this highway bill that has passed the senate on a bipartisan basis. they depend on it for their jobs. but it seems to me that the house has come to the conclusion led by the house leadership that they can't do anything unless they get a permission sleep from the tea party. and on everything, the tea party wants a fight. they should change course. house leadership should change course and do the right thing for the country. with less than two weeks to go before this bill would solve the problems of this country would be no longer efficacious. because at the end of the month the bill -- the l

harry reid it would be foolish for us to pass a budget. i think it's incredibly foolish they don't want to do the basics for the country. how are we going to deal with the debt if we don't do a budget. this president's budget when it was proposed last year got zero votes, 97-0. that is another example of the failure of this president. that is going to come out of this election because republicans have a fiscal plan to get us on track. >> greta: where do you get a bipartisan rebellion, i guess you can find a rebellion, where is this bipartisan rebellion coming from? >> you i've heard members on the other side of the aisle express frustration with harry reid and leadership about this issue of the budget. they know it's a problem. if we don't get our fiscal house in in order. i don't think it's going to be republican rebellion. it will be a bipartisan rebellion if we don't address this budget issue. we need to continue to push this think about it. at home you balance your budget. businesses and it's absurd our country doesn't have a budget ri

and as harry reid said, this is not a new conversation.ad a talk with john lap on the house side, he said that he worked for rahm emanuel when he had the job and he said he remembers rahm poundsing his fist s fist asking for money. at some point this conversation will be revisited but probably not before the conventions which means mid to late september. so, democrats in the house and senate, you are on your own, find your money and protect your candidates and the president will take care of himself. >> i heard they're having trouble problems raising money to finance the conventions because of the white house ban against corporate contributions. >> and there's another dynamic, the president is moving into the clinton bundler because those parties of the party were divided. >> to be continued. thank you. >> thank you. >> and it's the movie about teen bullies that teens may not be able to see. ♪ ♪ you do ♪ something to me ♪ that nobody else could do ♪ i'm a wife, i'm a mom... and chantix worked for me. it's a medication i could take and stil

you buy harry reid's arguments and james carville's argument the democratic consul tonight that this will help democrats. >> i don't see this at all. something they've been trying to do for 70 years. >> only 70? >> yeah. >> it was, i mean, talked about during the depression and the roosevelt years and this is the crown jewel of president obama's, excuse me, first term. and for the supreme court to overturn it, i think is a significant blow to the democratic idea and sure, they'll try to demonize the supreme court, what else are they going to do and out there among average voters, it's going to suppress the president's support. >> but you have a lot of republicans, even this week who are fretting, oh, my gosh, we'll lose our best issue, if this is dehe feeted. i mean, steven king, and our colleague wrote about the iowa congressman saying oh, man, this would be bad. does that make any sense? >> well, it makes sense if you think about how it's bad for obama if the law is upheld because that means he has to run on this widely hated law that is going to have terrible-- >> if you're like d

couldn't be amended by anybody in the house so all of this this long story does all brings us back to harry reid there was some hope out there that these amendments would be reinserted if the senate voted to put this bill of for a conference committee but reid perfuse instead he took up cantor's version arguing at the conference committee simply would have taken too much time but if you decide to follow the money another motive for reid's moves apparently he's a massive beneficiary of lobbying firms and wall street largest and according to open secrets dot org between two thousand and seven twenty twelve securities and investment firms and lobbying firms were his second and third or third largest donors both industries are king of political intelligence so we just can't help but question it reads claim at the conference committee would take in too much time for that sorry excuse about a senator is tonight's told time when. our guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer adrianne a zero and alex that's all this is the editor of think progress dot org thanks for jo

guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to senate majority leader harry reid for helping house republicans water down the stock act let me give you some background here right the stock act or the stop trading on congressional knowledge act this is person introduced to congress almost five years ago and may two thousand and seven it was designed to stop elected officials and their staffers from profiting off of the nonpublic information that's regularly disclosed in the corridors of power it's also designed to stop lobbyists research analysts other people within the so-called political intelligence industry from selling that nonpublic information to speculators so it's one of applied securities regulations to call. congress that would force political intelligence to disclose their activities and a lot of people out there that this stuff was already illegal but thanks to a lack of robust few to sherry agreements of better regulation it was not so congress people in hedge funds therefore gleefully profit off of profiting off of insider info in the shadows almost

harry reid has already said he is putting that straight to the floor without any mark-ups in committee, which is fairly unusual. >> why is he doing that? >> well, they say they have been working on cyber security legislation for a long time and it's true. their bill incorporates elements from other proposals. i think part of the reason is that they don't want to have -- there are a lot of different committees that jurisdiction over it, it's a big issue, the homeland security committee, intelligence, security, there are a lot of committees that could get their hands on in a way that lieberman and collins probably won't like. they feel the bill right now strikes the right balance. >> is this bill that is being brought to the senate floor, in its infancy, was a senator rockefeller vehicle from a couple years ago? >> i think it incorporates elements from a lot of different bills that have been put together. lieberman and collins are the lead on this and senator rockefeller and senator feinstein as well is also pushing for it. >> is it getting opposition? >> yes. so john mccain and a variet

if you had some agreement between harry reid and mitch mcconnell on the other people like that. what are we going to try to get done in the next month and how can we organize our schedule to do it, that would be fabulous. >> bill galston joined us this morning on c-span's washington journal. he is the co-founder of no labels. you can get more information by locking on to nolabels.org. can bipartisan return to the house in the senate? will congress work across party lines? how old how would you improve congress? do you have a recommendation? give us a call, tell us where you're phoning from. keep your comments brief and we'll use some of your comments tomorrow and throughout the week on washington today. the phone number is 202-626-7962. we welcome our listeners coast to coast on xm channel 119. we're streamed on the web at csponradio.org. some other news today on wall street the dow was up six closing at 13,239. and s&p up five. a task force led by former secretary of state condoleeza rice and former new york city school chancellor warning america's security is at risk if americ

senator harry reid wondering why everything has to be a fight. they're close to an agreement on a number of amendments brought up for consideration so the issue continues in the senate. senator reid is vote inning way to bring it back to the senate floor. here's how it unfolded early today on capitol hill. we'll begin with harry reid of nevada. >> here's what i have learned today is senator mcconnell pulled micah from managing the highway bill and givesing to shus ster. i knew his father very well. we were both senior members of our transportation committees. we worked together on several highway bills. his name was bud shoe ster. if his son is anything like the dad, it will help get this bill done. we have to go back to a time when we worked to get things done, not create issues ideologically. highway bill is important. it's not a bill we should be doing changes in the clean water act or clean air act. we shouldn't be declaring war and doing all these things have nothing to do with the highway bill. so speaker boehner has said today i'm told --

they just introduced it a couple weeks ago, but harry reid has already said he's putting that straight to the floor without markups in committee which is fairly unusual. >> host: why is he doing that? >> guest: well, they say they've been working on cybersecurity legislation for a long time, and it's true, and their bill incorporates other proposals. they don't want to have -- there are a lot of different committees that have jurisdiction, it's a big issue. whether it's the homeland security committee, intelligence, there are a lot of committees that could get their hands on it and will change it in a way lieberman and collins probably don't like, and they feel like the bill they have now strikes the right balance. >> host: is this bill in its, in its infancy was it a senator rockefeller vehicle from a couple years ago? >> guest: i think it incorporates from a lot of different bills, senator rockefeller and senator feinstein as well is also pushing for it. >> host: is it getting opposition? >> guest: yes. so john mccain and a variety of ore republicans -- other republicans don't like i

megyn: let me play the sound byte to which you refer by harry reid. listen to this. >> i think this poll is so meaningless, it is trying to give the american people an idea of what 300 million people feel by testing several hundred people. i think the poll is flawed in so many different ways, including a way that questions were asked. i don't believe in polls generally, and specifically not in this one. >> here is somebody who still refuses to pass the stock act in the senate of the united states. the only place where insider trading is legal is in washington d.c. the rest of us get put in jail for things of that nature. harry reid won because the unions and all the hotels told the people working at the hotels, go out and vote for harry reid, and that's exactly what they did, and that's why he was reelected. they are out of touch in washington d.c. and i think america is truly starting to understand that, because we are the ones going by the gas pump, we are the ones having to pay for gas. gas is what, almost -- at least in california, $3 a gallon hig

> jeffrey toobin calls the supreme court hearing a train wreck for the obama administration and harry reid tries to rip him but doesn't get away with it. a jetblue pilot has to be restrained by six passengers. it's a big day. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, sand box politics. mitt romney sent off alarms from washington to moscow when he said this about russia. >> this is without question our number one geopolitical foe. they fight every cause for the world's worst actors. >> this is the same man who warns that quote, a china is a prosperous tyranny will pose problems for us. and lame duck russian leader medvedev fired back. >> it is very reminiscent of hollywood in a certain period of history. my first advice is to listen to reason when they formulate their positions. reason never harmed a presidential candidate. my other advice is to check their clocks from time to time. it is 2012, not the mid 1970s. >> hold on. medvedev calling romney hollywood? sort of interesting that his boss likes the hollywood staging, including the taming of t

let's take you do the senate floor with harry reid and mitch mcconnell. >> it's a question of priorities. we do agree we ought to pass this jobs bill. certainly if it were called up, it would be open for amendment and the majority leader could offer the xm bank amendment if he chose and other senators could as well. it's a question of priorities. do we want a big fight in the senate over procedure. we've had procedural differences which i'll address later, not right now, but later, relating to the confirmation of judges, responsibility of the senate under the constitution of the united states. or do we want to turn immediately to a jobs bill that we overwhelmingly agreed to as the majority leader has just conceded in his remarks. it's a question of priorities. deyou want to have the senate in a billing fight over procedure after we finish the highway bill, or do you want to turn to an overwhelmingly bipartisan jobs bill supported by the president, passed by the house. it's a question of priorities. what do we want to do next for the american people? >> mr. president, i am stunned by a co

harry reid. from the hometown newspaper shall the las vegas sun writing about this, senator reid calls the transportation bill like republicans and the charlie brown football. here's how the l.a. sun reports. the long and winding road to a highway bill will keep winding and weaving its way through congress, at least for a while. this after senator reid failed to jump-start the legislative process which sputtered. more on this from the senate floor and here is senator bob corker, republican of tennessee. >> the reason i come down here today in a very hopeful way is i think all of us certainly support the highway bill. we want to see a bill like this passed. but i think we also want to see it passed in the appropriate way. some of the earlier renditions that have come out of the finance committee unfortunately have not paid for this bill. it's my sense that maybe what's happening in this right now is that maybe there's work being done to try to make that not be the case. i know the senator from new

>> with all due tors my fell legal analyst harry reid, i'm sure he has more experience than i do. it this court, they don't mess around. they don't talk to each other a lot except during oral arguments. they give it their best shot and it looked like 5-4 to me. >> they came up with pretty strong opinions. >> the four liberals were clearly not happy with the job defending the what you, law, so making speeches. people almost laughed a couple types because steven breyer was speaking so much more than asking questions. >> we'll talk more about it later and again tomorrow. see you in a bit. another scary moment in the skies today. get this this, the jetblue flight had to divert after according to passengers the captain started yelling about a bomb. heidi was a passenger on flight 191 from new york to las vegas. she was in row eight. i talked to her about just what happened. >> i was sitting watching an - flight movie and all of a sudden a bunch of flight attendants were running down the aisle and ahead of them was a tall gentleman in a jetblue uniform. i didn't know at the time that he

. >> with senate democratic leader harry reid. >>> then -- >> there's an old saying. campaigning don't end. they run out of money. >> it's not going to come together. >> calling it quits. when you've been all in. with two-time presidential candidates deck gephardt and steve forbes. >>> and -- >> the economy is getting stronger. >> he may be right. but we have passed this way before. sorting it out with alice rivlin, former director of the office and management and budget. steven moore of the "wall street journal." dan balz of the "washington post." i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." presidential campaign and democratic sources confirm members of the president's re-election team told top congressional leaders this week, no re-elect money will go to house or senate democratic election coffers. at least until after the election. although the president and top officials will help in other ways. sounds like every man for himself. joining us this morning, one of the lawmakers who spoke to the president's campaign team, senate democratic leader harry reid. t

days the voices calling for calm caution diplomacy they seem to be few and far between senator harry reid trying to pass a new round of iranian sanctions through the senate without allowing any debate or any amendments but that failed because the block by senator rand paul the sanctions were geared towards penalizing firms for iran related activities of their foreign subsidiaries as well as anybody to provide equipment to run the aids censorship or human rights abuses language also formally stated that the us policy is intended to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon so paul aimed to add an amendment that would make sure that the use of any military force would have to get congressional approval and he has this to say about it on the floor. i'm amazed that the majority party objects to an amendment that simply restates the constitution our founding fathers were quite concerned about giving the power to declare war to the executive they were quite concerned that the executive could become like a king many in this body could not get boots on the ground fast enough in a variety of pl

harry reid is the obstructionist on these jobs host: agendas you said majority leader harry reid haseed to some jobs bills in the floor today. here is the headline in "the ."shington po"the new york times "they are making common cause with the of the people who have control over official washington guest." guest: the house has approved a lot of jobs bill. harry reid has been an obstructionist and so has the president. they have absolutely stopped -- host: the president signed off on those bills, as well. guest: finally, but it is election season. he has got to. he knows that if they continue to block the jobs bills that we passed in the house, that it will hurt him in the re-election bid in november. they are actually capitulating on this because of the pressures of the election. host: jim hall tweets in this. guest: any job that is created. they talk about jobs that are created or saved. there's no way to measure jobs saved. that's why they talked about that. the figures are not factual. we will promise that if we pass the president's stimulus bill, which will cost us over $1 trilli

harry reid. general they did everything they could to sabotage the iraq war. he is at fort bragg this democrat out post in iraq. he thought it was stupid. he thought it was stup toyed to have a democratic out post in the middle east. now he's taking credit for it. if he was really this great unifier he would have brought george bush with him to fort bragg or brought him to a press conference with nourial mal k a in iraq. he doesn't want to do that. i think he's happy that there is chaos because all that means is it is another excuse another reason for a government action of some kind. >> what is the roerl of government? >> government spelled out ideally and flawlessly in the constitution. the first ten limits what they can do. they have said it is a big obstacle. they call that negative liberties. constitution with them is negative liberties. it says what government can't do and they want to change it. >>> straut ahead the man behind the mick phone. what is his greatest passion? he will tell you himself. ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's le

and then harry reid got very angry at you and here he is. >> i wouldn't bet on this but i bet i haven in court a lot more than jeffrey toobin. i have had arguments, federal court and trial courts. the questions you get from the judges doesn't mean that is what is going to wind up with the opinion. >> go ahead. >> he's my fellow legal analyst as well as a united states senator. i certainly defer to harry reid in terms of trial experience but this supreme court, these justice justices, they don't play devil's advocate. when they talk and ask questions it is usually easy to tell which way they were leaning. it was quite clear that there were four justices very strongly inclined to support the law. it looked to me like the four who spoke on the other side, clarence thomas didn't say anything but his views on the subject are well known. it looked like the other four were looking to strike the law down. five to four, this mandate looks like it is doomed to me. >> would you agree with that? and how about to some of the americans who go the supreme court, they are appointed for life. why is

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