howard dean with me. we're going to be talking about free market capitalism, which as he well knows is still the best path to prosperity. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. [ lorenzo ] i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service® works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com® you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small. >>> we know about the koch brothers eyeing to scoop up eight newspapers observed owned by the "tribune" company but this has liberals up in arms. steve pearlstein of the "washington post" "how the lcht a. times can stop the koches" and brent bozell. steve pearlstein, i was shocked to read your column. you're always so calm and rational and persuasive. and as i understand it, what you're saying is, the reporters in the newsroom should go up on stri

max baucus could not survive and howard dean, let me go to you. where did dean go? you know what? he went down to mississippi. he is chasing that story. >> he is looking for moo cow. >> he is looking for the dog, moo cow. >> a good name for a dog. >> we are talking about max baucus could not survive in a democratic primary with that vote. i got to say, mike allen, in new hampshire, i do not see how kelly ayotte even though her race is several years away i don't see how you survive that vote in a general election in new hampshire. you just don't do it. maybe she has her eyes on the national ticket. >> what was she promised to be so self-destructive? >> i don't think she was promised anything. i think it's fear, mike. they are fearing the wrong source. they are fearing the 5% to 7% instead of the voters in their own state. i don't understand that vote. >> the more people you talk to in washington even a lot of republicans thinks the fears of the national rifle association are overblown and, joe, you make a great point about the length of time until her race. this will be a real test

howard dean and ed rogers is on the set with me. what should we be doing about north korea >> we're doing what we should be doing on the diplomatic front secretary kerry is about to go to china. china is the most important destination for our diplomacy. number two he's reassured our south korean and japanese allies of american determination to confront any further provocations by north korea. three defensively the president has ordered through secretary of defense hagel the redeployment of advanced anti-missile systems both in guam as well as among our naval forces in the eastern pacific. so he's doing everything that any president should be doing at this point. >> to achieve what? >> well ultimately to cause kim jong-un to recalibrate his thinking about whether or not he can provoke the united states or south korea into some limited conflict that would advantage him and number two, to in effect to de-escalate the rhetoric. it's critical we don't take the bait any more that kim jong-un and his regime is dishing out. >> some say pres

back when he served as internet operations director for howard dean. new book called the end of big, how the internet makes david the new goliath and your book applies to more than just politics. we want to focus on politics here. you've been the lone guy it seems like sayinging hillary clinton's not inevitable. did i sum your argument up fairly? >> you did. good morning, todd, it's great to be here and absolutely. you know, the internet really empowers insurgents and makes it easy to run against the establishment. so, the point is does this mean this should encourage an insurgent, one of the things about 2012 and watching it, to me, your theory played out with with romney. romney was the inevitable front-runner the whole time, but we knew there would be a challenger, we just never knew who it was. there was a new insurgent about every month and finally, it became rick santorum. the point was there was always room for someone else. >> not only was there room for somebody else, there was a lot of energy and it just never really coalesced around a single

here's james dean, the brother of howard dean.rise howard dean's people are going to cause trouble. they're on the other side sometimes. it's called democracy in america, whatever. he says "let's be clear, president obama when it comes to cutting social security, medicaid, medicare benefits, over 200,000 progressive members of your own party don't have your back and we're going to fight you every step of the way." when you decided to do this, did you calculate that these usual voices who have organized to make these kind of arguments, and they're fair enough, i sometimes agree with them, did you know they were going to come at you? >> look, you know, compromise and deficit reduction, they're always difficult. what i would say to some of our progressive friends is let's remember a few things. the president's doing this in the context of a budget where he's protecting medicaid so that we can have a major expansion of the affordable care act and help 30 million americans get coverage. when, as opposed to the republican house budget t

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with us on the set is mark halpern and former governor howard dean and mike barnicle still in boston and in washington, the huffington post, sam stein. first the latest in west texas. i have reports coming in, joe, say the place looks like a lair literally war zone. charles hadlock has the latest. >> as you reported, the briefing ended here. >> reporter: we will have another one at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. here is what we know so far. at least 160 people have been injured in the explosion of a fertilizer plant in west texas. 20 miles north of waco and 80 miles south of dallas/ft. worth. among the fatal casualties are between 5 and 15 and among those are 3 to 5 firefighters and perhaps one law enforcement officer. houses were blocked around this fertilizer plant. i was in kauffman, county, 60 miles away and we could feel it there. the concussion rattled the windows. we thought it was the approaching storms but it turned out it was much worse than that. it was an explosion that killed several people here in town and perhaps dozens more. mika? >> willie? >> willie geist here. is there a

bush and christy, a former spokesperson for governor howard dean, president of new heights communications. ladies, welcome. an all-chick chat. see how it goes. let me ask you christy what we can expect with the president's plan? >> well, i think what he's put forth is something na any first-year law student who has taken a negotiations class will tell you it's not a good idea. he's basically put forward what his last best offer is, he's put it first-- he's put it forth first. so basically what he's asking for is cuts to social security and medicare which is going to make a lot of democrats howl and a lot of republicans pretty happy and asking for modest tax hikes as we know is going to make some republicans unhappy. so it seems like he's starting from a pretty unusual place. >> jamie: if that isn't a compromise that would work then, mercedes, what other options are there? >> look, he's in a tough position. when you look at what he's put forward, it's going to be trying to bring in the republicans, trying to sell it to the democrats. you're already seeing the liberal democrats attacking th

. >> joining me now, msnbc's richard rofl and former democratic governor of vermont, howard dean.dean, i think we can all remember after 9/11 that no democrats, exactly no democrats, went to the floor of the house of representatives seven days later to assign blame to the president of the united states about what the country was going through. but after this boston marathon bombing, here they are. they're out there making this case. >> yeah, i mean, it's extraordinary, the decay of these people in congress who claim they represent anybody other than people who just hate the president. this is ridiculous. this is so childish, like ben zazi. it's silly. it's juvenile. it's not going to get them anywhere. you know, these people keep making the republican party -- they keep saying they want to rebrand it. there was a state legislator in new hampshire yesterday who claimed the government of the united states was responsible for the boston bombing. her name, i think, was betty kelly, or something like that. these people aren't just mean spirited, they're crazy. and i don't know anything

howard dean, candidate for u.s. president, said that republicans that good to bed at night not caring about the welfare of children. this is typical of how we are perceived. and that is what sustains leftism, because right -- the right must be so awful i better be on the left because i have a good heart. >> host: where did you grow up? brooklyn new york. my father, who is still with us, is 94, and will be on my radio show on his birthday, as he has been every year for years. was until very recently a certified public accountant. i'm one of his clients and he is very good, and his rate was great. i must say that, too. aside from everything else. ment -- and my mother, during her hay day, she ran a 300 bed nursing home. so, she passed away three years ago. >> host: were they conservatives? >> guest: that is a very interesting question. i was raised -- brooklyn. >> columbia university, give me a break. you're democrat. come ofs on your birth secretary. dirk certificate. i voted for jimmy carter first term. but in value

. >> joining me now for today's strategy talk, former vermont governor and dnc chairman howard dean andlican strategist joe watkins who served as a white house aide under president george h.w. bush. >> good to see you. >> governor, your response, the reaction you have to this proposal, what is it? >> i think it's pretty hard to make conciliatory gestures to a side that's not interested in con sillation in any way. i think the republicans have still got to sort themselves out. they were just out in hollywood voting to, you know, against gay rights and against women's rights to make their own reproductive decisions. so we don't know what the republican party is. i'm basically not in favor of negotiating with somebody who doesn't know who they are and has not been a good negotiating partner in the past. >> okay. but you know the president is aware of whom he is dealing with. how badly does he want a deal if he's putting social security on the table? >> well, i think he wants a deal pretty badly. i think it would be a good thing to get a deal. there are other things you could do with social

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i was the finance director for howard dean's residential campaign and that was really the first major explosion of online fundraising. it made his presidential campaign viable. nobody knew who this guy was until folks around the country said wait a second, i believe in this governor from the tiny state of vermont. that was the beginning of it all. the american people can come together. >> and a professor here at american. i feel uplifted by having you speak. you mentioned the role of women in this struggle and picking up the challenge. -- i am wondering you can speak to the role men have in deconstructing the institutions that have been traditionally closed to women. >> i will not do. one of the things i mentioned, emily's list, all of you guys, we are not just women. there are men supporting. big increase of men joining emily's list because there is such a clear recognition that when we have an equal number of women and men sitting at those decision- making tables, we are actually going to get the policies that are best for our communities and families. there is a growing understandi

joe trippi who was national campaign manager for howard dean's presidential bid telling the "wall street," quote, this is a possibility that we can get immigration reform, but even that could go the way of gun control, where we feel like we've got a compromise, we feel really close but it doesn't quite happen. meanwhile, a senior white house official has this to say, quote, mr. obama has used every tool in his toolbox to try to advance his agenda and that includes meeting with, talking with, dining with, and negotiating with lawmakers of both parties. let's get 0 some reaction here from jonah goldberg editor at large for "the national review.," a frequent critic of the ba obama administration and a fox news contributor. it was not that long ago, in account in a i believe it was april 19th that jonah wrote an editorial very much like this for "the national review." about the president's powers of persuasion, and how they sometimes come up lacking. so, jonah, what do you think about it? is mr. obama not using the bully pulpit to his full advantage if. >> i mean he's using the bully pulpit.

joe trippi a former howard dean campaign manager and fox news contributor.o you believe the immigration bill on balance would be a bigger net benefit to democratic politicians? >> i think it will benefit both parties. one of the problems that the republicans have had is that their opposition to immigration reform to reaching a compromise has really hurt them in the latino and hispanic communities. it's one of the reasons that after george bush got 4 4% of their votes in 2008 -- swore, excus2004, excuse me. the hispanic support has been declining nationwide. finding a compromise would help republicans start to talk to hispanics. they are much morey lidge justly -- they are a very religious community. there are tkpwrourpbdz on values and other things that republic republicans could talk to the hispanic community and actually start winning their votes again as george bush had reached out to them. in the very beginning as the people become citizens and are eligible to vote, look, republicans have never won them, it's going to be not 12 million people because onl

joe trippi is a former howard dean presidential campaign manager and a fox news contributor.s to election or campaign finance reform, joe, is this a case where the president is saying, you know, do what i say, and not what i do? >> jon, i just think campaign finance reform is dead. i mean it's just -- and i've got to take some responsibility for it, in 2004 the dean campaign was the first campaign on the democratic side to opt out of the public financing system. it's gone downhill ever since, and i think the president was right, i think, in august of this year on the internet, he said that he had thought now that the only way to get real campaign finance reform was to start a movement for a constitutional amendment. i think he's right about that. but i agree with a lot of the critics, i -- i wish he hadn't created the superpac, i wish he hadn't gone -- decided to fight the republicans. both parties tended to go in the same direction now in terms of the more money we can raise the better, and it's an all out war where the biggest contributors have -- have a lot more influence

progressive point of view in such plain simple moral speak that i haven't seen a politician do it since howard deanbout it -- i'm like oh that is a way that we can understand what the banks have really done to us. >> there is an article that talks about things you can do that will save money in better ways. close loopholes, cut overseas military bases -- >> it all adds up to a lot of money. >> stephanie: yep. albert in tucson welcome. >> caller: hello. i wanted to make a comment on that gentlemen who said regular citizens need assault weapons because they are the only thing that can penetrate body armor. right, the crack agent will slip on their body armor before they come in and take your flat screen tvs and alcohol. give me a break. [ applause ] >> stephanie: he is the top of the smart list today. john fugelsang relates with us right? for another half hour for fridays with fugelsang as we continue on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello, current tv land hour number 3. nurse jacki? >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: it is another boring edition of jacki is always right about

you forget that howard dean was practically -- lost his re-election campaign for governor of vermontwent for civil unions. >> the dean story is interesting, too, because a few years after that he was running for president and he sort of had the nixon land mentality a little bit. he had this line where he talked about he wanted the guys with confederate flags, their votes. >> to be self-indulgent, discussing the issue of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, and i was destroyed. now it's a law. so being ahead can be dangerous is the problem. >> some people were ahead. >> that is true. >> it's not just pure demographic shift. it's not just because there are young people. it's because there have been decades of organizing on these issues. part of what happens, and it's happening i think when we're point thog these issues of the disconnect on economic issues, economic justice issues, is the organizing on immigration, the organizing and coalition building and alliance building that actually pushes politicians on both sides of the aisle has been building for a long time with a lot

i was the finance director for howard dean's presidential campaign and that was really the first major explosion of online fundraising and i made his presidential campaign viable. nobody knew who this guy was until folks around the country said wait a second, i believe in this. this governor from this tiny state of vermont and that was the beginning of it all. the american people can come together. [inaudible] thank you so much. i feel uplifted. i was curious, you mentioned the role of women in this struggle. but i think you can tell from the audience as well there are man as well. i was wondering if you could speak to the role manhunt on the traditional influence. >> i would love to. one of the things i mentioned, at least last, all you guys, there's been supporting. in fact, we had a very big increase of men joining emily's list because there is such a clear recognition that when we have an equal number of women in an sitting at decision-making tables, we're actually going to get the policy is best for and families. there is a growing understanding from everybody in the country that

times" this morning, it says this -- a quote from jim dean, the brother of former vermont governor howard dean and chairman of democracy for america, political action committee. he said, real democrats don't cut social security benefits, period, and it is shameful a democrat president is leading the charge to do so. the group vowed to recruit a primary opponent for any democrat in congress votes for a plan that cut social security. guest: it is really going to be rough politics on the democratic side for anybody who is going to be talking about chain cpi. the democratic approach, including president obama, has been to support social security. and of course, the chain cpi is an argument that the cpi measure is inflated, which, in terms of the things that seniors by, i don't think it is the case. health care, those costs rise faster than inflation. fuel, home heating fuel, and food. so, you are going to see a lot of pushback on the democratic side. host: "the washington post was quoted friday said liberals expressed outrage a freshly reelected president would concede so much. some allies were co

this has angered some some of on the left fired back at howard dean's we will fight you tooth and nail. it seems like that's all we are getting left on the right now. these are not from the information we have so far this is radical reform. adjustment to the growth social security. probably not as deeply in trouble as medicare. they had intense support on the left so far. >> the president is apparently angrying people on both sides. release on wednesday. the left doesn't like that he is going to tackle some of these entitlement things and obviously the g.o.p. doesn't like that they have heard that he wants more more tax increases. they say they have already given him that here is his press secretary on what the president's thinking is. >> what i will say is that this is not the president's idealized budget. it is not what he would do if he were king or if only people who supported his proposals were in congress. it is what he believes is a fair and balanced approach to our deficit challenges. one that allows us to address, to protect seniors. help secure and the middle class and give l

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