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karl frisch is here. do we have a theme song tony? exciting to me frisch ♪ >> not to be confused with our pushing tony's button. >> for the record the whole was invented by john mccain. >> hal: that's true. >> and second if we want to know how liberals have trouble connecting with heardland america, it's because we talk about riding bicycles to nowhere, which is basically what spinning class is. >> hal: right. i totally agree with you. get out there and get the air in your lungs. >> you don't think a girl who just locked her keys in a trunk would get hit by a car? it's much safer for me to be in a room than on the street. >> hal: i'm not going to argue that point with you. karl frisch you are a media strategy, a democratic strategy you have messaged different products across the great divide -- see how i'm reaching really far for this -- of politic in this country in making it accessible and then you look at the autopsy report coming from the republican party and go um excuse me? >> wasn't it fun? talk about a good read. [ laughter ]

karl frisch is here right out of the box. ♪ carl ♪ >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com.tephanie: good morning karl frisch. >> good morning, from the bul fight strategies office right across from the supreme court. noo >> stephanie: look at you. location, location location. >> it has been very exciting. i saw a group of junior high students with a sign that said kids deserve a mom and a dad, and i said and they deserve to be in school. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: yesterday doma your take on that obviously that seems like good news. they seem skeptical of doma right? >> yeah, it is awesome us in for anybody who lives in a state that happens to recognize marriage equality because then they would at least in regards to marriage have the same rights as anybody else. but if you live anywhere else getting rid of doma doesn't really change anything for you other than you can move somewhere else and have the feds recognize your marriage but not where you live. >> stephanie: yeah. and some of this stuff. prop 8 lawyer basically concedes gay marriage will lose in the long run. i los

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joining me now is democratic strategy and syndicated strategist karl frisch. the war room," karl. >> thanks for having me. >> michael: so karl did the republicans learn anything from romney's defeat? >> no, but it's very clear that they still know their first blockbuster interviewed should always go to fox news. jeb bush has flip flopped. the one trait he should have been copying of his brother, was the position on immigration reform. i don't think this spells well for any of them. this is a party in crisis. they have no idea what to do. if you look at cpac, the annual gathering of far-right crazies that happens every year, they are having an entire panel discussion about the new leaders and the future of the republican party, and it's going to be filled with people like rick santorum and newt gingrich. >> michael: they should just live under that dilution. >> i'm fine it with. >> michael: yeah. >> i don't mind i that they are basically committing a very slows. california has only elected one republican to their first term statewide, other than arnold schwarzen

karl frisch love ya honey, see you next week. >> okay. yesterday became an entire day of he is startled by sunset sunrise, the tied -- >> yeah. >> stephanie: this is very immature, steph, i would be curious to hear brian kilmeade react to an erection. >> oh, what is this! what happened to my pants! >> stephanie: honey remember that happens every morning. no, we don't need to call the doctor. it hasn't been four hours yet. [ applause ] >> stephanie: we'll be right back. >> announcer: i got her number off of the men's room stall, 1-800-steph-1-2. ♪ nobunny knows easter better than cadbury! everyone wants to be the cadbury bunny. cause only he brings delicious cadbury crÈme eggs, while others may keep trying. nobunny knows easter better than cadbury! this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. ♪ ♪ in the jungle, the mighty jungle -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪

: karl frisch bullfight strategies.com. ♪ so exciting to me ♪ ♪ frisch ♪ >> stephanie: hit it karl frischbe bad. okay then. and i bet ya he had the first chorus all ready. please stand by. [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: yeah, they formally announced him as the new head of the catholic church yesterday. now nobody is there. here are some fun facts about the new pope -- let's just go with francis. no wonder they changed it. seems unwavering on matters of sexual morality. stanchly opposing abortion same-sex marriage, and contraception contraception. enjoy, have fun everybody. he said gay adoption is discrimination against children. >> yeah, much better to be an alter boy. >> stephanie: right. right. i'm just going to try this. karl is that you? ♪ i had to let it happen ♪ >> i think the pope was reading my mind because i was going to sing something from avita, and then my mic wasn't on. >> stephanie: yeah, what is the name of the song? >> i don't know the names of the song -- >> you know that song from the show. >> stephanie: you don't know show tunes. all right karl, whatever. yo

karl frisch. we're going to have fun. this meant to be taken seriously or is this just to get the party fired up. >> when you're doubled down and crazy you can't be serious. when you're trying to ignore some of the core issues that are going to be key to any 2014 or 2016 challenge, i can't see how this is either/or. >> john: rick, what do you think? >> we love it. the circus comes to town. it's funny. we're the ones talking about this. i watched fox earlier. they weren't talking about c. pac the-pacthe way we're talking about it. it's a circus. did you see donald trump? allen west. >> john: it's fun to mock them. >> i don't mock them. i depend c-pac's right to exist. it's the south by southwest homophobes muslim haters immigrant bashers racists sexists. the more that they exist in their 41st and 42nd and 43rd year it will only do better for the country because it will show the american people what the republican party is becoming. >> there were benign comments but putt toomey's speech, here he is discussing his version of

you and karl frisch. >> thank you. >> bill: bullfight strategies.at come to you all the time saying we need a little help with our public relations, we want to rebuild, retool how can you help us. so i have a challenge for you. let's say that reince priebus comes to you. he is the chairman of the gop, and he says our party is in bad shape right now, which it is by the way. >> yeah, that's like the understatement of the century. >> bill: they lost seats in the senate, the white house, eight seats in the house they have lost the popular vote in five out of six of the last presidential contests. >> uh-huh. >> bill: so we need to rebuild. okay? so my question to you is what would you tell them? and can they possibly rebuild the republican party? and how? >> well as a democratic strategist, i'm tempted to tell them, no no you guys are doing great. i can go back to my old republican days, right. >> bill: yes, you used to work for rick perry in texas -- >> yeah, and george bush all of the bad guys from texas -- >> well, it ease been nice talking to you. >>

. >> we were halfway through the second hour, karl frisch was in studio with us.zabeth was on her way in. she almost got stuck in the elevator on the way up. then in the middle of the segment, just boom! >> this is what happens when you let's gos get married the power goes out. >> bill: good thing we had our iphones. i had my iphone because with my flashlight app on the iphone, there it is, right? i was able to keep on the air. that's all we had. unbelievable. >> cyprian had a little battery-operated light. we made it through with what we had. >> bill: they kept the lights on at the white house. no problem down there yesterday. in the oval office. president, historic occasion. he was presided over a little ceremony where the vice president of the united states gave the oath of office to julia pierson who became the first female director of the great secret service agency. the president saying she's ready for this job. >> obama: break the mold in terms of directors of the agencies and i think that people are all extraordinarily proud of her and we have the greatest