was a grand bargain solve the budget crisis really necessary and was going to sorry congressman keith ellison about the progressive alternative and will so i stare at it and conservatives in the united states are a lot more like the taliban than you probably think or explain in tonight's detail . you need to know this mitt romney's attack on the forty seven percent lost him an election but the republican party's inability to separate itself from his comments could lose the american people and the man who filmed romney making his infamous speech will appear on amazon he sees the ed show to reveal his identity talk about his decision to leak the video of the press before he changed the course of the two thousand and twelve election the filmmaker was a bartender at what he calls a mom and pop operation in florida like so many americans suffering through the great recession he had no health insurance and struggled to make ends meet he was the forty seven percent so when he saw mitt romney tell of a room full of rich donors that it wasn't his job to worry about those lazy worthless indicted masses

and keith ellison, i watched the interview you tried to have with him.ur questions. >> sean: oh, no. >> he came on this station to do two things, one to defend the black messiah, calls our lord and savior, barack obama, and to make brownie points, and what they call themselves progressives, meaning that they had declared war on the republican party and they declared war on fox news channel, which they see as an exallry of-- >> this is really serious inasmuch as farrakhan, one. most divisive figures in our culture, rabid anti-semmite racist, khalid mohammed, kill the women, everything in sight, kill the babies, the children. >> don't forget, the congressional black caucus, the entire congressional black caucus led then by fumemay made a calf nant with louis farrakhan. >> sean: remind me, how has he gone this far without the scrutiny that we're right now-- >> how has he gotten this it far. that's concerning, even though he wrote this letter-- >> obama or keith? >> it doesn't erase what we know about this guy. i think it's telling how we're able to put peop

nation of it's lam but why would keith ellison choose to associate oneself vuach vile low life and ben carson, truth to power, will be my guest live and about obama's failed leadership and bad stated of the economy and washington. don't miss the wisdom of dr. carson, straight ahead. how do you keep an older car running like new? you ask a ford customer. when they tell you that you need your oil changed you got to bring it in. if your tires need to be rotated, you have to get that done as well. jackie, tell me why somebody should bring they're car here to the ford dealership for service instead of any one of those other places out there.

we'll talk to representative keith ellison who is the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus shortly. and also there is the president's budget which has zero chance of being passed. and the president seemed to signal his resignation to this budget quagmire. >> ultimately it may be the differences are just too wide. if their position is we can't do any revenue or we can only do revenue if we gut medicare or gut social security or gut medicaid, if that's the position then we're probably not gonna be able to get a deal joining us now top to does the budget battles on capitol hill we have congressman keith ellison of minnesota. thank you for joining us this evening. >> thank you. >> can you describe your budget and how that compares to some of the other budget proposals out there in congress. >> the budget is called "back to work budget." that says it all. it's about back to work. our budget, it's how many people it puts back to work. now debt and deficit are issues important for the outyears, and because we're bringing people back to work we'll address that issue. we get $4.5 tr

keith ellison from minnesota here in studio with us.u about this just reading in "the nation" magazine this week. it's time for a right to vote amendment. this is something that you are -- another thing that -- where you're -- >> absolutely. >> bill: an issue you are leading on. tell us about it. amend the constitution? >> yes and i'm glad to be teamed with with an awesome new congressman from wisconsin on this, but we want to see a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. if you look at the 15th amendment and other amendments addressing the right to vote they don't guarantee you the right to vote they guarantee you don't be discriminated against based on your color. i don't think the supreme court in any of it's a cases has ever defined a right to vote, and what that means is that a lot of these -- a lot of these affronts and violations of the right to vote are often struck down on the basis of state constitutions that say that you have the right to vote. because a lot of state constitutions say you have the right to vo

i'm joined tonight by congressman keith ellison of minnesota. great to have you with us, congressman. >> you bet. thank you, ed. >> is paul ryan serious? is he seriously going to introduce a plan to cut medicare benefits for people over 55? >> yes, he is. he is very serious. and really, at the end of the day, a budget is an expression of values. paul ryan and the republican caucus is telling you what they believe in. they don't believe in protecting seniors. they don't believe in making sure that there is a social safety net for people who face hard times. >> what do they believe in? >> well, they believe in that the rich people don't have enough and that the poor have too much. they believe that if you don't have enough money, you're not worthy, and spending government resources on you is a waste. and that's pretty much what they believe. >> and elections don't matter. they have denied what happened in november, and they are back to the same old stuff, aren't they? >> you're absolutely right. as a matter of fact, if anything, this election was

life opens up when you do. >>. >> sean: a lot has been made of keith ellison's mel on this program, buted he showed no interest in answering the questions on the sequester and debt. and past associations like louis farrakhan and other leaders of the nation of islam. congressman ellison responded by saying i was attacking his religion which is not true. i never discussed his religion. i was pointing out that his constituents, american people deserve to know whether he spent a lot of time with going around with farrakhan and khalid abdul mohammad. you may not be familiar with him but i thought i would my for you what this vile human being has said about people in the past, jewish people. he is a sitting member of congress, sharing the stage with this guy? watch this. >> sean: here is reaction is the chief strategist for the tea party and radio host, david web, what was your reaction when you find out that apparently there is even a spokesperson for louis farrakhan and was associated with him and mohammad sharing the stage. what does that say about ellison? >> what it says he chooses the p

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joining me now is congressman keith ellison, democrat from minnesota.irs the progressive caucus. thanks for being here, congressman. >> thank you, rev. >> you know, we've been seeing real evidence the country is progressive. why do you think we're seeing such a big shift? >> well, because the country really is progressive. americans are fair minded people who believe that people ought to live their lives as they choose to. as long as they don't hurt anybody else. we believe that the economy ought to work for everybody. we believe that people ought to be able to pursue their dreams. you know, every time we stand up on the house floor in congress, we say the pledge of allegiance. and the way we end it up, reverend, is liberty and justice for all. everybody. and that is imbedded in who we are. >> now, you know, politico calls the shift in politics culture wars. with a twist. the quote is from politico, three issues. gay rights, guns and immigration climbed to national attention after surviving battle tests in states and enjoying a shift in public opinion.

congressman keith ellison of minnesota, congressman tim ryan of ohio.l take the liberty to say three of my best friends in the congress. no doubt. >> that's right. >> gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. congressman ellison, you first, what's going on here? >> well, we have 107 people in the house caucus, democrats who say that we are going to stand firm on social security, medicare and medicaid benefici beneficiaries. the bottom line is, you know, they're -- anyone who wants to make any changes there is going to have to talk to the rank and file democrats. and a lot of us are very clear on where we stand when it comes to seniors, people with disabilities and people who are living on survivor benefits. these are folks with very limited income and they have already given. >> do you have enough to stop what i'm hearing on some of these sound bites tonight and the coverage from today? what do you think? is this a softening from the white house or what? >> well, the white house has pretty much been here for a long, long time. we pushed them back ear

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. >> joining us now is one of the authors of that legislation, congressman keith ellison who coachesal cau s caucus. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> bill o'reilly has labeled several charges at you, sir, and your caucus so i must ask you now, have you once or ever been a cook or do you support the appeal of american capitalism? are you a lunatic? >> i have not now nor have i ever been any of those things. >> thank you very much, sir, for answering that. i think we are fully satisfied with that response. to be fair, your budget faced resistance from those in your own party. >> trats that's true. >> on the other hand, i would suggest that's a budget switch from like paul ryan's for three years has failed but for three years is approved by virtually every single republican in the house. but are you discouraged at all at today's result? >> no, we're quite encouraged because we're gone up. we've actually picked up votes from over last year. but let me tell you though, martin, gallup recently issued a survey and found out that about 72% of all meamericans want mor infrastructure

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>> we've had keith ellison on this show many times. er site, you know talking about the war on terror, way back when. there's some reason -- there's just some weird reason the right wing is obsessed with i believe the lone muslim congressman in america. they just can't -- obsess about him. again, why did hannity -- was going to do his mccarthyism stuff, the deep associations, then why the you have him on your show? again, it proves why he doesn't have people who talk back to him on his show because then he has to spend the rest of the week cleaning up the mess he's made. >> stephanie: remember the right wing -- the republican -- i think running against keith ellison but was talking about building a wall keeping muslims out of america. he's from detroit. what are you going to do? build a wall around detroit? charles on cavuto. >> the president won 50.98% of the vote. >> i thought it was 97. >> he acts like it is 98%. he's running around saying he's not a dictator. guess what. he acts like it sometimes. >> based on what? >> stephanie: yes

more on this, congressman keith ellison, democrat of minnesota joins us now. good afternoon, sir. >> thank you, psir. >> thanks for joining us. we know vice president ryan likes to wax fantastical about his political position and marathon achievements and running times. now it seems he's balancing the budget with all kinds of mythical math, including eliminating the affordable care act, which as chris wallace likes to say, is not going to happen. didn't we just have an election, sir? or am i dreaming? >> well, the supreme court said it was legal that congress passed it and that people of the united states said that the guy whose signature is on the affordable care act is the winner of the election. so why we're doing this retread is a little difficult to understand. but, of course, we do understand. paul ryan represents a point of view that wants to shrink government to the size when you can drown it in the bathtub. he does not believe government has any role in making sure that the american people have access to health care. and he's an extreme free marketeer

wednesday we talked with minnesota congressman keith ellison co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus about the c.p.c. you can occur groeschel progressive caucus his budget unlike ryan's plan the c.b.c. has budget to work back to work budget puts the interests of middle class americans first proposing economic stimulus not punishing austerity is the best way to tackle unemployment and. reduce the deficit so as the obvious one of the main differences between the two budgets and which plan will prevail in congress let's ask paul ryan's fellow wisconsin representative congressman markey ok and welcome and i think it's great to have you with us so. how would you describe paul ryan's republican budget and contrast it with the one that you guys are you know first of all it's a bunch of recycled ideas that the public's already rejected you know the last election people don't want to go down the path of austerity this is the same path to austerity only on steroids because they're going to try to solve the entire deficit in ten years guts benteke aid cuts medicare once again provides lo

democrats libertarians aren't the only ones worried about drones on monday eight democrats including keith ellison barbara lee enrolled sent a letter to obama expressing concern with the constitutionality of his administration's remote assassination program group identified the programs on limited geographic scope broad definition of the phrase imminent threat and use of secret kill lists as particularly troubling anyone who calls themselves a progressive should absolutely worry about expansive executive power and extrajudicial killings the left needs politicians like representatives ellison and lee to push the mainstream of the democratic party to promote our core values and not just the policies of the president this letter is a good start the bad mike rough for north carolina five guys franchise owner mike ross for went full papa john announced he will pass the cost of his employee health care plan to consumers in the form of higher burger prices under regulate. created by the two thousand and ten health care bill owners of a small business of fifty or more employees must provide their workers

keith ellison and peter welch to preview the president's meeting with the house democratic caucus.we'll have a couple of democrats in, cot petters from california and john yarmou. h from kentucky to tell us all about their conversation with the president yesterday. won't find that anywhere else on cable news this morning. the president went to meet with the republicans. he got plaudits. >> we felt it was a very good meeting. he was very candid. he certainly understands that you can't fix the country without adjusting entitlements to fit the demographics of our country. >> bill: not sure what that means. i think mitch mcconnell is seeing too much in what the president said. the president, yes, he does recognize the need for some reforms in social security and medicare in order to make them work better. but he assured senate house democrats yesterday he has no intention of going along with the republican plans top, in effect, gut medicare medicaid and social security. again, we'll find out more about that big meeting with house democrats yesterday from scott peters from california. n

february caucus chair's keith ellison a roll of offered an alternative to arbitrary sequester cuts they called it the balance in at balancing act that cut tax breaks for the wealthy while paring down on reasonable defense spending the plan then proposed reinvesting those savings in transportation and education c p c the congressional progressive caucus releases a budget every year in fiscal year two thousand and fourteen proposal will likely reflect those core principles of previous plans including trimming the pentagon expanding revenue sources and ending unpopular corporate welfare while building on the ideas of the balancing act the government needs to expand its role in rebuilding the economy not reduce the progressive caucus is budget is a serious and thoughtful plan that makes common sense cuts and forces the super rich to pay their fair share of previous years are any indication paul ryan's path to poverty will dominate the washington debate and drown out sensible alternatives are the mainstream media thinks that placing the needs of working americans before the needs of big busi

do you believe that same outreach is happening with democrats that you have with congressman keith ellison of minnesota. he is concerned there will be cuts to social security and revisions to met care ha he would not support and he said he is willing to fight the president tooth and nail on any changes to entitlement programs. do you believe the president has reached out to more progressive members regarding change sms. >> i think he is going to have to confront the real understanding that there some of us who are absolutely committed to saving medicare as we know it and social security and that we will have to fight for it. our constituents center on the issues. the public is with us. the polls show that the public strongly supports that we take care of and save medicaid, medicare, and social security. these issues are very important to us. yes, the president will have to deal with us on that, but that's how the process goes. >> what consessions are you willing to make with entitlement programs. the president said it's on the table. >> the concessions i'm willing to make have to do with c

one of the democrats says he won't bundle on cuts to social security is congressman keith ellison, democratota, here in "the situation room." congressman, thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. >> you're uncomfortable with what the president is saying when it comes to entitlement reform, social security, medicare, in particular. why? >> well, i am uncomfortable with it. i do respect the president has a tough job. he's trying to get a deal done here to remove sequester, which i support. but i don't want it to be done to the most vulnerable people's expense in our society. people on social security make about $22,000 a year. their social security allotment is probably about half of that. about 30% of all women on social security rely -- have nothing other than social security to rely on. and so, when we start talking about cutting social security, i get a little nervous about that. >> what he's talking about is a relatively modest change to the way they deal with inflation. the cost of living increases that will be cost of living increases, but not necessarily as high as there wo

score one for keith ellison indeed.ill be back with a quick parting shot on transhis friday. with a world premiere episode. it's a pretty, little town, with a pretty big problem. >> it's like an infection, and the longer they let it set in, the harder it's going to be to get rid of it. ask [ music ] >> bill: the parting shot with bill press, this is "the bill press show." >> bill: a little breaking news this morning. just broke: 212 democrats in congress 212, 174 in the house 40 in the senate have filed an amicus brief with the supreme court asking them to overturn the defense of marriage act joining the obama administration and joining 80 leading republicans. this is huge. the supreme court has to act the right way there. now, on the parting shot all together now one great big, oh poor baby for bob woodward. what a cry baby. what an ego, a horse's ass his successful writing career

he met with house democrats and told minnesota democrat keith ellison to calm down, republicans will not go along with a tax increase, some do not worry about entitlement reform. i am paraphrasing. guest: 1 in the we have noticed in the white house's message, it will not bend over backward for a deal. if they cannot get the tax increases they want, they will walk away and be satisfied with deficit0 trillion in reduction they've already secured. the white house does not seem anxious to do a deal if they cannot get what they want. host: bill is with us from raleigh, north carolina. welcome to the program. thank you. question about these important things you are discussing, trade-offs. sometimes trivial things ring true. one of the people said it would take 51 votes to pass a budget bill in the senate. i thought, maybe 58, 59 would pass. if there was a tie at 50, we have a vice-president who would break that tie, unless they have other procedures. could you explain that? isst: one thing that interesting about the process. discussing, trade-offs. sometimes trivial things ring true. one o

the bill comes from congressman keith ellison, democrat of minnesota.erest of mortgages of up to a million. his legislation would cut the principle to 500,000. now, you could not deduct the interest on the amount above that. the popular mortgage interest deduction is in the cross hairs as washington wrestles with tax reform and the budget. right now if the tax break worth about $100 billion per year to taxpayers. proposals from the obama administration and some in congress would reduce that by capping itemized deductions, particularly for wealthier families by reducing the size of all mortgage eligible for the deduction or eliminating the deduction for mortgages on second homes. as the housing market begins its fragile recovery, trade groups are fighting back. >> an enormous impact on higher-cost areas, new york, massachusetts, new jersey, california, illinois. the high-cost markets out there would really see a decline in their own prices. some estimate up to ten or 50 percent of the value. some would say 5%. adam: the interest groups are expected to ra

this bill comes from congressman keith ellison from minnesota.ow you can deduct the interest on mortgages up to a million in for instance pal. his legislation would cut that to $500,000 and you could not deduct the interest on the amount above that. the popular mortgage interest deduction is in the cross hairs as washington wrestles with tax reform and the budget. right now homeowners deduct $100 billion in interest payments each year on their mortgages. proposals from the obama administration and some in congress would reduce that by capping itemized deductions, particularly for wealthier families by reducing the size of a mortgage eligible for the deduction like congressman ellison's legislation would do or eliminating the deduction for mortgages on second homes as the housing market continues a fragile recovery, trade groups are fighting back. >> the mortgage interest deduction is the biggest incentive for americans' largest wealth generator and that's their home. we don't think it should be touched. however, everything is on the table when it

granted that's the house majority caucus and paul ryan is a -- vp candidate and keith ellison was not on the ticket. congressional caucus doesn't have the same power in the house that the tea party caucus has. they are in the minority. at the same time there are real actual costs in terms of what kind of budget we are actually going to get because the center of gravity is so far over towards the ryan budget and, in fact, when the ryan budget came out, i will shut up for a second the ryan budget came out there was sense in which it was oh, man, doubling down and ignoring the election results. he is not -- you know, still going to repeal the affordable care act. but from his perspective, doubling down and keeping things anchored there is probably a pretty successful strategy in terms of dragging over the kind of medium line we drew on the graph. sam? >> well, it is strange. i mean, because -- what strikes me, though, about this go-around, first off the real problem starts with this notion of deficit and debt hysteria which i think is -- something that goes across the political spectrum

minneapolis, the co-chair of the progressive caucus and one of the authors of our plan, representative keith ellison. mr. ellison: let me thank you, congressman pocan. one of the great things of this 113th congress you and a number of other awesome new members have joined us to lend your creativity and expertise for advocating for the american people, american man and woman. you hail from the great state of wisconsin where collective bargaining began? mr. pocan: absolutely. we are very proud to be not only the creator of collective bahraining and unemployment compensation. mr. ellison: reclaiming the and, you come from a state, we love tammy baldin and when she told us she was running for the senate, we didn't know how anyone could fulfill her tremendous legacy, but you walked into this building and you have stepped up right away. i want to say thank you for the work that you're doing. if i may take a few moments to talk about the back to work budget. there will be all kinds of budgets discussed. the budget offered by congressman ryan has been the subject of a lot of conversation. i would submit, mr

ironically her district is the one adjacent to keith ellison. >> bill: whoa. >> find us on twitter athow. >> bill: susannah calling from kingston illinois. >> caller: hi, there. i've thought about michele bachmann a lot. i'm a straight person but if i were a lesbian or gay i think it would be horrible to be her daughter. i love you honey, we love you but we're going to have to change you. then we'll love you more and it is so unfair. but i just want to say she should go pray with rand paul in texas or colorado or wherever they live and normal republicans -- i'm a republican but it is not my father's or great grandfather's republican party. i don't want to give up being a republican. i don't want to change to libertarian. rand is named after that russian lady. >> bill: ayn rand. is he named after her? >> i don't think so. >> bill: susannah, you're right. the republican party of your that's right and grandfather doesn't exist anymore. maybe it will come back. but it won't come back as long as it keeps tolerating nuts like michele bachmann. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." hi

tomorrow, congressman keith ellison and peter welch, oh, boy. can't wait for that. come back and join us right here tomorrow. >> this is "the bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: happy wednesday everybody. jacki schechner, you know i have so few things in my life. look how happy i am about my new coffee mug. >> what does it say? >> stephanie: it is green in time for st. patrick's day. >> ooh. does that mean there's no pinch ug? >> stephanie: here now is colin farrell. >> messing about with mrs. all the rumors are true. >> i got about a third of that. then again if he looks like colin farrell, it doesn't matter. >> stephanie: all right. now here we are. we're getting lucky. jacki, news clover leaf. >> good morning everybody. president obama's got a busy day today. after his morning briefing in the oval office, he's going to head up to the hill to meet with house republicans for the first time since june of 2011. the goal now is to find some sort of compromise deficit reduction deal before the summer. but president obama is expected in this meeting to bring u

co-chair of the prodepressive caucus mitigating circumstance friend the gentleman from minnesota, keith ellison, for two minutes, thank you. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized -- recognized for two minutes. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to just congratulate everybody with the progressive caucus an thank all the staff that did such a good job preparing this excellent budget which gives us an amazing choice as americans, to confront this jobs crisis. i'm so proud that our speaker has told the world, speaker boehner, that the debt crisis is not immediate. he's right, it's not. but let me tell you what is immediate. the jobs crisis. that's why the become-to-work budget brings down unemployment to 5.3% within three years by investing in people, our construction workers, our teachers, our police officers, we're also fiscally responsible, redeucing the deficit over the long run by $4.4 trillion. the republican budget makes the wrong choices for our country. i respect the fact that they have honestly projected a vision but it's an austere vision for the american