harry reid saw the potential just about before anybody else. he got over $144 million. >> senator reid is making that happen. >> harry reid -- >> i'm harry reid and i approve this message. >> i'm sure he does. you go through this and here's my point. there is a way to navigate these waters. when only 7% of the applicants get the price, you have to wonder as an average american in my home and my business, how did these guys get there and all the rest didn't? we find out that almost every single one of these is tied in in some way to the administration. there is a way to navigate the waters and be successful. the idea is you better be tied in to somebody who is influential. mr. thompson right now is busy. i know that harry reid visits facilities throughout pennsylvania too. i want to know what's going on. the american people are starting to wonder, billions and billions of dollars invested. by a government that picks winners and losers and a lot of it based on highly suspect ways of how do you get there? i wish i had more time. this is an interest

anderson worked for harry reid. i would assume mr. bronicki, is that your husband? >> my son. >> and he was a donor to the reid re-election campaign. there's nothing wrong with that. here's my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this judas goat of taking money from the government, there are strings attached to all this money we take. and there's re purr cushions. it gets to the point people start to wonder, as i said earlier, this feeding frenzy to come after this money. how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? you start to look, how did they get there? you think, geez, the guys worked for harry reid, and the other guy worked for harry reid, and all of a sudden harry reid gets involved in it, and the money starts to flow. again, this is the tough part of you sitting there. the american people have a right to know, how did this happen. >> if i may? >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the most fit projects for the program. it was well advanced. it was excellent construction, i

>> well, based on the comments from house speaker john boehner and from majority leader harry reid, i would place my bets on the student loan issue, in part because it is much simpler than highway legislation and they can extend the highway program without too much difficulty. president obama and the presumptive republican nominee, mitt romney, have both said they want to keep the student loan interest rate low. it's very important to both of them. so politically, it would seem that the student loan issue would probably win out if you had to pick. i think that some -- you know, harry reid, particularly, is trying to say that he doesn't want to have to pick. he would actually have to pay for both of them. but it's not clear to me that the republicans are going to follow through. >> national journal correspondent, fawn johnson, thank you. >>> kenya, indonesia, hawaii, kansas, chicago, and washington. this weekend on book tv. follow david maraniss on his journey walking in a president's foot steps, for "barack obama: the story," starting at sunday, 7:00 p.m. eastern, and then live at 7:3

huddle around the water cooler to watch senate majority leader harry reid of nevada shoot down a reportergton nationals star and las vegas native 19-year-old bryce harper. the context for senator reid's line was a remark made last week by brice harper to a toronto tv reporter who asked harper how he'd celebrate a home run he hit in canada. >> you know you, of course, in canada you are legal drinking age. a cell bra terror canadian beer would seem to make sense after a hit like that. >> is that a question, bro? why don't you ask something else. >> not canada. >> i'm not answering that. >> that's a clown question, bro. >> says bryce harper. that's a clown question bro stuff ironic t-shirts are made of. now senator reid yesterday. >> mitch mcconnell said he's waiting for mitt romney to say what his position is on the dream kids before he wants to comment. i'm wondering if you have any thoughts on him waiting for mitt romney and if you have any intention of bringing the dream act to the floor for votes in the next couple of months to put people on record? >> i don't want to answer that questi

i think that some -- harry reid particularly is trying to say he doesn't want to pick. he would like to pay for both of them. it's not clear to me that the republicans are going to follow through. >> thank you. >>> and a few live programming notes on c-span. more to come from a faith and freedom coalition conference here in washington, d.c. that is live on c-span they're in a short break now. the senate is taking a vote and they're taking a lunch break because senators rob portman and marco rubio are among the speakers. both have been listed as possible running mates of republican presidential candidate mitt romney. on c-span we are also planning live coverage of remarks from president obama. he'll be at a community college in cleveland speaking on the economy. contrasting his vision with that of republican challenger mitt romney. that's scheduled to get underway at about 1:45 p.m. eastern. and yesterday treasury secretary tim geithner spoke about the global economic challenges and previewed next week's g-20 summit in mexico where world leaders are gathering to discuss

but this time, this time, senator harry reid on the democratic side has had enough.he rand paul personhood amendment to the flood thing seems to have aroused real genuine anger in the mild-mannered senate majority leader. in responding to the personhood amendment, senator reid lost his temper today. he lit into republicans on the senate floor. here's the thing about harry reid losing his temper, though, and lighting into republicans. harry reid is so soft spoken, so mild mannered, so beyond calm and collected, his demeanor so politely unperturbed, that even when he is saying mean, angry, fed up, even sarcastic words, he does not sound mean, angry, fed up, or sarcastic. he sounds nice. for example, about two-thirds of the way through his tirade about the anti-abortion personhood amendment to the flood bill, senator reid says, "i think this is outlandish." only, here's how he says it. >> i think this is outlandish. >> outlandish. the substance of senator reid's speech was compelling and important and fiery if you read it on the page, but the delivery was -- >> outlandi

. >>> let me take you right now, senator majority leader harry reid reacting to the news of the day.n. >> tough economy, we can't look back, we need to look forward. we shouldn't waste time refighting old, old battles. we should focus on creating jobs, improving the economy of the people of this country. republicans and congress have made it clear that instead of focusing on jobs, they want to keep having this old, old political fight. republicans in the house have announced even a day early next month that they're going to have a vote on what? repealing, as they say, obama care. it's just a sh vote. a show vote on votes and votes that they have had so many different times to repeal the law. this is what my friend, the republican leader said just an hour or two ago. quote, the court's ruling doesn't mark the end of the debate. it marks a fresh start on the road to repeal.ç that's not what middle class americans want to hear. we should be working to improve the economy, not wasting time on partisan, strictly political issues. in the coming weeks, we're going to take up legislation to

. >> why did senate majority leader harry reid refer to a reporter's inquiry as, quote, a clown question bro. we'll explain that one later in shows. first to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. we start in egypt, where the country's ailing former leader of three decades is reported to be near death this morning adding another layer to a complicated political situation. ousted president hosni mubarak reportedly on life support after receiving -- after suffering i should say multiple strokes while in prison. the 84-year-old serving a life sentence was transferred from his jail cell to a military hospital where he's been monitored. the news comes as supporters of the muslim brotherhood flooded tahrir square in protest to protest the moves made by military generals that would diminish the power of a new president. the brotherhood claims mohamed morsi won sunday's presidential election but supporters on the other side for mubarak's former prime minister ahmed shafiq are refusing to admit defeat claiming a majority of votes. the official tally comes tomorrow. here to s

he was harry reid's deputy staff until 2005. mr. anderson worked for harry reid. is that your husband or who would that be? >> my son. >> he was a donor to the senate reid re-election campaign. there's nothing wrong with this. here is the point. here is my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this judist goat. there are strings attached to this money and we start to wonder, as i said early this feeding frenzy to come after this money, how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? you say how did they get there? the guys worked for harry reid and the other guy and all of a suddenhe money starts to flow. people sta to wonder w did it get gamed. this is what theop part of you sitting there. the american people have a right to know how did this happen. >> if i may. >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the fit project for let me ask you. mr. crane, bright source, california valley, solar ranch, project am, where did they sell the power they generate? >> they all sell to california mai

i think harry reid's got a drawer in his desk that's for republican bills that come from the house ande just chucks them all in there and it's got a lock on it and i'm not sure he's interested in opening that drawer. remember the house already repealed obamacare. the house voted to repeal obamacare lock, stock and barrel, one of the first activities we did at the beginning of this congress in 2011. the reason that we did so is because we believe it to be, the bill to be unconstitutional but also violative of all the principles you and i hold dear as it relates to health care. every single one of them, whether accessibility or affordability or quality or responsiveness, innovation, choices, all of the things we say we want in health care, and the bill destroys all of them. so what do you say to your friends when they say well, what are you going to do. you hear them, what are you going to do, you don't have any solutions. well, nonsense. the fact of the matter is, you can solve all of the challenges we face in health care and other things without putting washington in charge. let me jus

thompson worked for harry reid. mr. anderson worked for harry reid. who would that be? >> that's my son. >> he was a donor to senator reid's reelection campaign. and there's nothing wrong with this. there's nothing wrong. here's my point. this is not to embarrass you. when we follow this, taking money from the government, there are strings attached to all this money we take him and there's repercussions. tickets to the poor people start to wonder, as i said earlier, this feeding frenzy to come out of this money money, how in the world did 25 of you get to the table and the others were left out in the cold? how did they get there and you said well, gee, the guy his work for harry reid, and the other guy work for every reid, and all of a sudden kerry breed gets involved in and all of a sudden the money starts to flow. people start to wonder, again, this is the tough part iv sitting there. the american people have a right to know how did this happen. spink if i may. >> absolutely. >> i sincerely believe that our project is one of the most fit projects for the program. it wa

unfortunately harry reid scheduled a lot of senate floor votes for this evening. senator rubio unable to get away. which leads me to sate -- say the thing i say almost every day, you (bleep)ed me again, harry reid. you (bleep)ed me again. [ laughter ] the senator will be here next week. in his police we got very lucky denisleary. graciously stepped in his lace. a young -- dlenis leary. both candidates face the task of solidifying the enthusiasm of their base while reaching out to the undecided to cover all of tonight's democalypse2012 panda express edition sponsor by panda express. when you need panda meat and you need it fast. [ laughter ] the first rule -- [ laughter ] -- i might have gotten their slogan wrong. [ laughter ] the first rule of election year seduction is knowing your audience. both gave speeches that offered demographic snapshots of their campaigns. barack obama must appeal to a diverse endlessly fractured coalition of competing interest while romney has to bring together what appears to be 50 shades of white. [ laughter ] so the different makeup o

we found out that senator harry reid will tout another round of green programs. are they working? >> they are not. they are costing $200,000 per job. compare that to the american venture capitolindustry. it is 1-10ths of the cost in the private sector and the government is not keeping pace to what is going on in the world. by the time it funds the company it is way behind the . by the time solyndra got funded the chinese price was far behind what solyndra could batch. and so, you know, there is a pave involved . and rick, indeed, the government and senator harry reid are doubling down on let's be realistic here. it is a fact of life. and if we do this rich's way. we would be raising the white flag and china is spending enormous amount of money subsidizing the solara we want to have our kids to work for the chinese or own the companies. if we end up as an also ran, this could not be a good thing for the united states. >> and it is not just cars and batteries by the way. the government claims to have got 750 workers . it is hurting the recover. it is a coast for kilowatt hour. oil a

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. >> harry reid, the senate majority leader, announced he will be holding a vote on a small business jobs bill that would try to incentivize hiring with tax incentives. is that something you think could be taken up in the house by the republicans? >> possibly, but i would urge senator reid to go back and look at what actually create jobs. it is not tax incentives. it is decreasing onerous regulations from the federal government. it would be tax decreases of businesses can drive more of their money back into expanding the business. it is certainty in the marketplace. the job creators out there can not know that the government will not come in late in the game and change the rules. there is so much this government could do to get out of the way of businesses creating jobs. whether or not another tax incentive is needed, it certainly something we can discuss. however, again, i would remind folks that the house has passed 30 pieces of legislation that would in fact create jobs out there in the economy and they sit on harry reid desk. let's take up one of those. >> why would tax incentive

plus, senator harry reid trying to be like bryce harper. find out why that is. sports is next. >>> now, 9 sports with kristen berset. the best sports in town. >> nationals are one of the worst outings of the year, getting swept by the yankees and their hits problems continue. aside from the yanks, the nats have been dominant. sweeping their first two opponents and tonight they move on to their next american league team, the tampa bay rays. another tough team with some really good arms. >> they always had some good arms. on pitching and defense and timely hitting. kind of like us. they have been more like us. the fact that they are a fairly young ball club. not as young as us, but fairly young. >> gets to start nor the nationals tonight. for the rays lefty, david price. these two teams last met in 2009. tampa bay picked up a series sweep. >> in what might be his final olympics, michael phelps trying to break his own record. if he qualifies for all of them, plus three relays, phelps could bring home ten olympic metals. the nba finals continue for game four. it's t

>> it's harry reid's senate. >> it's a democratic senate. so this is going to await the election, and if the senate is overturned, then we might get the repeal. >> you've got to have romney and a senate and a house. >> 51 votes. >> it's a tax. and you can deal with taxes. >> so you think this is an unrealistic expectation? is it for rhetoric? is he beyond the -- >> right now it is meaningless. >> meaningless? you have not initiated a repeal. >> it's irrelevant. >> suppose the senate gets the message from the people that this thing is not working. >> they know it's not working. >> a democratic senate is going to overturn -- >> it will be repealed later in the year. >> you can bring it up all you want. unless harry reid is gone you are not going to get anywhere. >> exit question. this is a victory for president obama. will it be a short-term victory or long-term victory? pat buchanan. >> i'm afraid it's a long-term victory. >> it puts him in the history books and on the right track and i think it's to his benefit in november. the country does

. >>> harry reid had fun with a questioner and honored a nevada born baseball star at the same time.ashington nationals team phenom bryce harper recently greeted a question he didn't like with the response, that's a clown question, bro. at a press conference tuesday reid used the line but responded anyway. >>> the daily caller points out former alaska governor sarah palin has yet to formally endorse mitt romney. even fox news reported it last friday in a keynote speech to conservative activists pay lin didn't mention romney once during her 35-minute address. >>> catherine zeta-jones who or traying a rock crusader in "rock of ages" says she modeled the part after michelle bachmann. she told ivillage, quote, she'll hate me for the rest of my life but yes, i did. >>> and finally, a dog named mozart was sent a virginia voter registration form last week. and if that's not bad enough, the dog had been dead for two years. and that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> last night on msnbc's politics nation, california congresswoman loretta sanchez spoke about president obama's new i

let me get back to harry reid.rs argue is that if you allow the arizona law to continue as is it only leads to racial profiling. what do you say to that? >> wrong. you know, harry reid is wrong, the people who want to go down that path, they are wrong. we believe in the rule of law, and the rule of law applies to it's unlawful to racially profile, and i think extreme steps to make sure that that wouldn't happen. we amended the bill. we -- i have total confidence in the law enforcement here in arizona to eupl phra me implement the way it's intended and racial profiling will not take place and it will be upheld. they will be held to the same letter of the law that we expect everybody to be held to the letter of the law. bill: to that point, what have you told your sheriff's departments and police officers? how have you told their instructors train them on how to interpret the law now. >> the ab post which is the train section of law enforcement in arizona has done exteps i havextensive training with all law enforceme

speaker boehner has said before the final deal with harry reid, barack obama and john boehner, just the three of us in a room before everything collapsed, and then ultimately 24 hours later we had the bca. they had a deal that wasn't the bca and what the speaker said after the "washington post" reported on it and the it was an accurate article, he was going to get the house to vote on this, this house, the tea party house or whatever you want to call it so the republicans are there so when i hear members like carl levin and harry reid say we're going to break the backs of the rigid idealogs on taxes, it's already happening, but the groundwork isn't getting done. all of the work that has to be done in a staffing and member leg of and the jurisdiction in ways and means and all the other ones, this overlaps in so many areas and places, so what should get done, fine, you're not going to take the votes now but do the work now. >> i'm going to pressure you. you still avoid the contingency i laid out which was let's just say this group of leaders is not able to come to the agreement that we th

and are a do we hear the same arguments that the mormon church is telling harry reid what to do when. we have yeah i mean there are several mormons actually in the senate in the house. very interesting dave thank you very much my pleasure thank you having me on appreciate your being with us now everything you know about the differences between mormonism and christianity is right. public education is dying in the state of louisiana and religious freedom is dying right alongside it earlier this month the republican controlled state legislature approved a new school voucher program in louisiana that shifts tens of millions of taxpayer dollars away from public schools and toward private religious schools as in teaching kids in louisiana math science and history will no longer be in the hands of qualified unionized teachers instead it will be in the hands of profiteers and religious fundamentalists many cases who don't believe in science and don't think the history the world goes back farther than five thousand years this new voucher program in louisiana achieves two goals first it hurts t

warren took on government and wall street when she was asked by senate majority leader harry reid tor the financial bailout. then she led the charge to create a new consumer protection agency. brown successfully sponsored laws to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and to prevent members of congress from using inside information to profit from the stock market. why should massachusetts voters elect someone other than scott brown? >> well, i think this is really about whose side do you stand on? scott brown has been delivering for wall street. >> reporter: your opponent says you tried to water down the very financial regulations that would prevent another meltdown. >> well, with all due respect, as you know, she's had some credibility issues lately. >> reporter: he's talking about the controversy over warren's decision while at harvard and the university of pennsylvania to list herself in professional directories as native american. >> there's no evidence of her having any native american. she's not 1/32. there's none. >> reporter: warren says she was told by her parent

he was quoting harry reid's analysis.axpayer protection pledge was created about 25 years ago in order to make it possible for a candidate to say to the american people i am not going to raise your taxes and do it in a way that is believable. for thousands of years, candidates have been running for office asking for power and promising not to raise taxes. they tend to break their word once they get elected. by having it in writing, the pledge is a simple commitment. the pledge is to the american people, the people of your state. rick scott, the successful governor of florida, signed the pledge to the people of florida. not to me or the americans for tax reform. the pledge is a simple commitment to the people of the united states or florida that when i run into a problem, i am going to reform and not raise taxes to pay for previous problems. this is what scott walker did in wisconsin. they had a $3 billion deficit. the reform public-sector union laws -- he reformed public- sector union lost. as a result, they balance the b

harry reid has not brought a budget that a democrat has voted for at all.her it be the president's budget or republican budgets. the democrats have locked and opposed voting for any budget. we need to actually get a budget passed using reconciliation as a way to change the obama meth care law. >> does that give you an opening to deal with in. >> well, that is why we have been working to try to get any budget passed but hair hair effectively blocked that as well. >> unbelievable. huge campaign issue. especially with $5 trillion in debt accumulated in that time. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. >> sean: team obama is accused of running deceptive ads against mitt romney. this is not the first time that the anighted one has been accused of stretching the truth on the campaign trail, straight ahead. >> shame on youion barack obama. it is time you you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. down here, folks measure commitment by what's getting done. the twenty billion doars bp committed has helped fund economic and

>>> and harry reid placing a bull's-eye on republicans in a heated exchange on the senate floor. is the gop dragging its feet on the economy on purpose to help mitt romney? >>> and there are a number of reasons why this song is going to get to you all summer. ♪ it's hard to look right at you, baby ♪ ♪ but here's my number, so call me maybe ♪ ♪ hey, i just met you >> wow. well, there's a surprising fact about the artist, carly ray jepson. outfront, next. >>> i'm erin burnett. welcome to "outfront." outfront tonight, jamie dime on opens his kimono. the ceo of jpmorgan chase gave us all quite a mental image when he testified in front of the senate banking committee in washington about whether the largest bank in the united states has been open about its multi billion dollar trade losses. >> we generally are open kimono with the regulators and tell them what they want to know. >> open kimono. sure, that sure sexes up that testimony in washington but maybe he was open kimono about the things he knew about but not about things he didn't, like how the trade in question had morphed out o

make the economy worse because he feels that's better for them well i hope that's not true said harry reid well it is true and now we have proof here's what the politics editor ed with the politics editor at business insider michael brendan doherty this weekend on build real time with bill maher just came right out and said that he had been told by a senior republican senator that they had planned to block all legislation that might improve the economy paraphrasing here that might improve the economy between now and november. so there you have republicans won't do anything this year except wait for the economy to tank and here's the bigger picture with regard to that question of the day of republicans committed treason sedition or just conspiracy to destroy the lives of millions of working americans so that they can make president obama one term president here's why i ask when louise and i first moved to washington d.c. two years ago there was this very fancy expensive restaurant on the back side of our apartment building right across the street from the f.b.i. headquarters more than once

pretty large bipartisan majority but yet republicans the house won't act on it and senate majority harry reid accused eric cantor of not acting on it because he wants to crush the economy well i doubt he wants to grassley calmly but i would ask this when the house passes a bill in the senate what does that upset you too or is it only when it's the other way around. well maybe if they're democrats or not this isn't in the house i mean you know there's a lot of her problems on the senate side so it's even more shocking than the senate's able to come up with a bipartisan bill and pass it in the house when even to act on that well i guess my point is this is harry reid sitting on a lot more bills than john boehner is it also requires a lot higher of a majority to pass legislation although you know you'd have to acknowledge most of those bills that you're talking about the thirty or forty pieces of legislation that the republicans the tea partiers in the house passed are either symbolic they know there's no chance you know hey let's privatized medicare right let's vote your eyes medicare let's pri