kucinich feels the same wayment we all do. we all do. so it's hard for me to sit back and look at this and think that, my gosh, it was a rush to judgment with toyota. i got friends that sell toyotas. and i've watched this congress bring members of the former gm board in and question them for bad business practices. now keep in mind, this is an outfit that is run on a $15 trillion in the red and they're telling general motors you don't know how to run your business. thanks, i think i'm going to hire somebody. i probably won't go you to guys. but we bring toyota in, we embarrass them from front of the world. we roll this out very early. when did we go to toyota and say we run the tests. it took us six months to let the public know there is an acceleration problem. we didn't do that, did we? there was a real time line problem here when you compare the two and i'm not talking about general motors and toyota. i'm talking about electric vehicles, one is the chevrolet volt or nissan leaf or anything else out there. if the cars are so great and

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kucinich. >> thank you, mr. akerson for being here. is the volt safe? >> it is very safe. >> do you, have you ever had any communication with anybody in the obama administration to ask them to provide some kind of consideration to gm with respect to the testing that you became aware of, not to disclose it, or to defer disclosure of it? >> absolutely not. >> and you're sure in terms of your staff, it didn't happen? >> i'm quite sure. i can't testify to that to 100%. >> but, as -- i don't -- >> as a policy, you, gm, did not try to get the obama administration to fail to disclose any tests that were made in a laboratory setting? >> no, no one. >> and you're not aware of any accident or any injury that's occurred to anyone driving a volt? >> absolutely none. >> they're safe in the vehicle, is that right? >> i own one, yes. >> and you drive it and your family members drive it as well? >> i just bought it. >> well let me ask you something. if there was a material defect in a car that was out in circulation right now, would that affect, let's say, your insuran

in tampa jackie kucinich, political reporter for "usa today," and in new york jeff greenfield, co-anchor of pbs's "need to know" and a correspondent for cbs, abc, and cnn. jeff, did wolf blitzer by going up against gingrich and not just letting him walk all over him, did he put himself in the position of debating the candidate? >> no, i that wolf was perfectly the -- the tone was perfect, and i'm perfectly prepared to have been deeply crap of my former colleague had he screwed up, but he didn't. when you are a moderator, do you this and pose a question with both hands tied behind your back. you can't debate because you are not an advocate. what wolf did was to remind speaker gingrich of the context in which those remarks were made, and i think you saw that gingrich rapidly retreated and then no longer decided it was the right time to coin an old phrase beat the press. i think he went to the well once too often. he has had this very successful run of criticizing moderators, and i think it time it was like throwing a pitch that worked against a batter of five others times, only this batter

steps of the supreme court and were met with the police presence and arrests congressman dennis kucinich meanwhile introduced an amendment yesterday to have the supreme court decision overturned saying that because of citizens united american democracy has been put up on the auction block so two years in public opinion soured and now for the overturning of citizens united to actually have a chance joining me from our studio in los angeles is john amano founder of crooks and liars john i want to thank you for joining me tonight and first of all let me just ask you know we have seen some effects obviously of citizens united especially in the midterm in two thousand and ten more money spent than ever before but do you think that we've seen the worst of it yet or is it just the tip of the iceberg. it's just the tip of the iceberg and thanks for having me on it's really it's really cool to be with you alone the amount of money that we're going to see coming in the general election is just going to be obscene you know what's been really good to me larry as and you've even seen it yourself is t

kucinich, you know rick perry doesn't even believe that climate change is occurring. he would dispute any kind of environmental impact as a result of the keystone pipeline. and there are many in this country who would support his position. >> well, i join with mr. perry in praying that the air and the water be kept clean. but we also know from our faith that we need faith and good works. the good works are regulation to protect the air and water and also government policy decisions that don't contaminate the air and the water which frankly, the keystone pipeline would have done. president obama recognizes that. he made the right decision. i support him on this. >> what about the fact that we know that the decision by republicans to insert this into the bill to allow the payroll tax holiday to continue for two months was a deliberate political maneuver, in fact, did it have anything really to do with job creation, to do with the environment? it didn't, did it? it had everything to do with politics. >> it's not a revelation to say that politics are played in washington,

>> dennis kucinich. jerry springer will be in the special panel talking politics. >> jessica alba will be here and rick perry so let's get right to the other topics of the day. mitt romney who wants to be president on the republican side of things, yesterday, was this a gaffe or a good thing? he admits that he pays a tax closer to 15% instead of what you might expect for a wlty person. this is the whole warren buffet thing. when you make most of your income from investments you pay capital gains tax which is 15% thanks to george w. bush. instead of paying income tax, regular old income which will be taxed at a much higher level. is this a good thing now when mitt romney has also said at the same time he's not going to release his tax returns until april. >> well, it's a good thing, i guess, one thing, i do not think mitt romney can wait now until april. if you're going to give away the fact that you're paid 15% in your rate, that was the thing that everyone said that the governor politically said it's no

kucinich, is recognized. mr. kucinich: i want to thank my friend, mr. sablan, and members for pursuing this important legislation. i rise on behalf of not just myself but now departed world war ii combat veteran by the name of frank j. kucinich sr. he was proud to serve this country. he served in the pacific theater, but all veterans come together in paying respect not only to those who serve but to a president who on june 6, 1944, as the nation was preparing for that d-day invasion, said the following, quote, with thy blessing we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. lead us to the saving of our country and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men and a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. thy will be done almighty god. amen. those words by president franklin roosevelt upon the occasion of d-day, june 6, 1944, should not only be inscri

dennis kucinich join message now. good morning. >> it's got to be with you. good morning. >> the president hopes to appease the left about washington's crackdown on spending by promising he's going to focus on job creation this year rather than deficit cutting. but do you think that will work? are you worried? >> well, look, the main thing is to get people back to work, we should be focusing on job creation. what kind of jobs? i hope it's jobs that result in bridges being built and water systems being built, suer systems being built. if the president starts to focus on that and is able to get the resources from congress to put america back to work, that will be good for the american people, the economy, for president obama as well. >> everybody thinks that putting people back to work is a good idea and obviously, it will be helpful, the kinds of changes that need to be made though, they're not going to happen overnight and that's why ths going to be so much push to slash things out of the budget. what are you worried most about? >> you know, there's, there's

>> someone in the dennis kucinich wing on national security shouldn't call me a liberal. >> sean: doave a problem because you endorse specter? >> i endorse someone who i believed would ensure us we'd have two to three conservative u.s. supreme court justices. for me, having two supreme court justices that were robert and alito. if you go back and look, and senator specter said as chairman of the judiciary committee he made sure as chairman he'd push nomination through. and support the president if consulted. he did. alito on the court today because of that. i feel proud of the fact i was willing to stand up and fight for what i believed in. making sure that the court, which is unfortunately an important body in this country now would have those conservative justices and the 5-4 majority for at least several years to come. >> sean: senator, good to see you. congratulations. good luck in polls and caucus tomorrow. see you next week in new hampshire. >> my pleasure. >> sean: senator rick santorum. newt gingrich and michele bachmann join me later in the hour. but first, mitt romney. he h

>> someone in the dennis kucinich wing on national security shouldn't call me a liberal. >> sean: doave a problem because you endorse specter? >> i endorse someone who i believed would ensure us we'd have two to three conservative u.s. supreme court justices. for me, having two supreme court justices that were robert and alito. if you go back and look, and senator specter said as chairman of the judiciary committee he made sure as chairman he'd push nomination through. and support the president if consulted. he did. alito on the court today because of that. i feel proud of the fact i was willing to stand up and fight for what i believed in. making sure that the court, which is unfortunately an important body in this country now would have those conservative justices and the 5-4 majority for at least several years to come. >> sean: senator, good to see you. congratulations. good luck in polls and caucus tomorrow. see you next week in new hampshire. >> my pleasure. >> sean: senator rick santorum. newt gingrich and michele bachmann join me later in the hour. but first, mitt romney. he h

. >> jackie kucinich is a political reporter and jennifer jacobs is the chief politics writer for thedes moines register." jennifer, i want to start with you. these attacks, four years ago mitt romney's attacks on -- newt gingrich was hoping to boomerang them and it hasn't boomeranged. >> no, it really hasn't. iowans always feel uncomfortable with these attacks. one of the reasons why they liked newt gingrich is because he really did stay clean. they respected him for that and they weren't kidding when they said we like that he hasn't been attacking other republicans. >> so what you're saying is this grumpier newt not good? >> not good. >> what's been interesting is mitt romney responded to these sort of newt complaints over the last few days. let me play to you what he said to savannah on the "today" show this morning. >> i know the speaker is angry. i don't know why. but my anger is going to be focused on president obama's failures to put the american people back to work. >> i think he knows why. >> i think he knows why the speaker is angry. i think romney is smart to kind of try to

i would like to see publicity on the city part when they do tourist commercials kucinich san francisco is lgbt friendly. come to san francisco. i did volunteer for the training program with open house, and the main thing i noticed, they know -- they had no idea they had lgbt clients in their facility. when i spoke in told him why we went into the closet, they understood. i told them, go to the store and get a pin in the castro, where it, and i imagine that is working out. but it is needed, the training. it is needed. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you very much. and we do have the board rule in terms of not having clapping or booing, because it does disrupt the flow. i know we're all very enthusiastic about a lot of the speakers, but if you can refrain from clapping, we appreciate it. next speaker. >> my name is lynn. i have been in san francisco m0a metropolitan community church in 1970. working with open house and their caring connection friendly visitor program. what supervisor wiener said about concerns about aids is germane to our church, even though we have an inc

. >> and sounding like dennis kucinich and jerry brown. >> in the process. >> we've had iowa and new hampshire, those races have been taking place in states doing economically well compared to the rest of the country. south carolina is not. the new republican party is not the old mainstream establishment, business friendly republican party. the composition of the party, you see that in south carolina, these kinds of economic appeals, populous economic appeals, on the positive sense and also the attacks on romney. this will be a different kind of electora electorate. perry is right in the objective sense. mitt romney will face these attacks in the fall. this will be our first chance to see how he does at fending them off. we'll see what this does to his prospects. >> do you agree that it's good for romney to get all this bane stuff out of the way now? >> he was hit on it early on, barely an issue late in the campaign. asked and answered. he has a chance to do that on bane. i think the democrats who are already riding the issue hard now might be making a mistake. they might say, why di

kucinich. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. administrator strickland, i'm going have a series of questions. i would ask that your answers be brief and, of course, true. >> yes, sir. >> now the fire occurred on june 6th. and as my colleague points out, it wasn't until november that ntsa's follow up testing confirmed that this was not an isolated incident. it does seem like a long time. what we need to know, administrator strickland, is whether there was a valid reason for so much time to pass. so the first question is, what was ntsa doing between june and november that required such a long internal investigation? >> thank you for the question, ranking member. in june, once fire was discovered, after the fact, some time over the weekend, and we were notified, we had absolutely no notion of what the source of the fire was. there was three other vehicles around it. it could have been arson. it could have been one of the other vehicles. it could have been a number of factors. so we had to go out, figure out what happened on the scen

the problem is he's part of the deny us kucinich wing of the party on national security. he wants to completely demill tarize the united states and move all your troops from around the world and create huge vacuums that would be filled by the people who do not have our national security interests in mind. we'd be leaving all of our allies out there to fend for themselves which again would not create a stable world or a stable situation for our country. >> schieffer: annuity gingrich. >> with respect to newt, i'd just say this. newt is a friend and someone whom i have a lot of respect for. we're talking about electing a leader, someone who has a proven track record of going when they're in a leadership position and fighting for the conservative principles that they say they're for. when i was in the united states senate leadership, every group from the nra, the national rifle association torques the nra, the national restaurant association, from social issues to business issues, national security issues if there is with a conservative agenda item that they wanted to push a

dismaying for me to say free market conservatives attack bain, the record of bain, sounding like dennis kucinich and if romney is the nominee it will hurt him. it's what bain did was not going around hurting companies, it went around trying to save companies that would have died entirely. was it better to have fewer benefits and fewer employees and a surviving company or a dead company. >> it has been characterized at vulture capitalism and there were instances where they went into companies and unleveraged and scrapped -- let go of a lot of people. they made a lot of money, they took it out and that company went under eventually. but this is business. we get that but it's a compelling story politically. >> shepard: i >> it has the potential to do a lot of damage but i find it dismaying that it's hard enough for conservatives to defend capitalism in this climate. you don't need newt gingerich, rick perry going out sounding like it's outrageous to fire people or streamline a company. >> what about the super pac candidate, the firewall. you heard newt gingerich talking about pretty extensively wha

i'm going to tell plu kucinich. we agree on a lot of things and entitled to our own opinions but we're not entitled to our own facts. the government has been involved in this far deeper than they ever should have been to begin with. mr. ackerson knows how to run gm. he has a history of running great companies. accident need somebody that never how to run the company to tell him how we're going to spend the money. i'm going to tell you, if you want to throw money, if you want to throw $7,500 in a tax incentive and then pennsylvania throw another $3,500 and another tax incentive when it's your money on the shelf and your product that has to turn because it's your dollars and you're damn careful about how you put that money. this is taxpayer money that is being used. no, i'm not going to yield. i have to tell you something, there is such a disconnect in this town with the way the real world works. general motors does not need the help of the taxpayers to subsidize thr caeir cars. you want to see that needle jump, you w

are the a number of amendments already introduced in congress congressman dennis because dennis kucinich has introduced a new one yesterday over fifty three councils across the u.s. have already passed their own resolution so he thinks that it's really possible of another and i meant the constitution here. well i mean it is possible it's not going to be easy but it least you know we can start with the occupy movement on the local level and then it percolates up. i born to a political pac or blue america pac and we raise most of our money online so basically all the candidates get almost one hundred percent of the money we don't really it's not like a packet you would say you know we pay each other it all goes to the candidates and alan grayson who's running for reelection you know when he was in car he authored a bill that basically said listen if you should be forced to disclose who your donors are and so that would be a great start we can get if we can get these little pieces of legislation passed in congress even if we don't overturn it entirely right away it starts chipping away at i

chairman jordan, ranking members, cummings and kucinich. i welcome the opportunity to testify today, and stand behind a car that all of us at general motors are proud of. please allow me to start with some volt history. gm unveiled the volt concept at the january 2007 detroit auto show. in june of 2008, the old gm's board of directors approved the volt project for production. well before the bankruptcy and the infusion of government funds. the battery story goes back much farther in the early 1990s, with gm's extensive work on the ev 1. drawing on that experience, we engineered the volt to be a winner on the road, and in customers' hearts. today i'm proud to say, that the volt is performing exactly as we engineered it. in its first year, the volt garnered the triple crown of industry awards. "motor trend" car of the year, "automobile magazine"'s automobile of the year and north american car of the year. volt is among the safest cars on the road. earning five stars for occupant safety, and a top safety pick with the insurance institute for h

politicians like ron paul or dennis kucinich they say what you will about their policy is that it almost seems like anytime someone comes out and says something that goes against the the mainstream narrative they're exiled to some sort of a heretic yet i don't see that really changing do you i think well i think the way to change it is i mean in the back in the day if you did something like this i would have been hammered and buried but now there's enough other outlets out where you can actually who will defend you who put you on t.v. who put you on the radio show who will support you on twitter facebook and other social media so there is i think is open for the sort of gold needs to kind of resist against this but it's an uphill it's an uphill battle you know i mean the lesson the reason why the response was so severe in my case or in a case like the leaks we gradually manning and julian assange is being. the want to set an example they want to show oh no you can't do this you can't actually report what powerful people say you can't rip you can't try to write as accurately and as truthf

kucinich: i thank the gentleman from oregon. on its surface the resolution seems to make sense about making sure we pass a budget, and that's of national importance. i think that all of us who are here understand the underlying politics that have made it very difficult to bring a budget forward. and of course budgets are all about priorities. what are our nation's priorities? when we get to the point of passing a budget, here's what we ought to be telling the american people. that the middle class will be protected. that the social safety net will be protected. that social security will be protected. that benefits will not be cut. that the cap will be lifted. that there be no privatization. that medicare will be protected. that will there will be a fix so doctors can get a fair shake. and that we'll do something about medicare part d which blew a hole in the medicare budget. that we'll begin to cut back our military presence around the world and that we start to take down this military industrial complex that general eisenhower

congressman dennis kucinich will give us best and worst moments of last night's speech. then, dick morris on who will win the florida primary. ro make sure that those who are making the most pay more. since the end of world war ii the wealthiest have paid lower taxes. >> bill: do you want to raise the cap gains to 30 or 40 or 50? >> no, i didn't say that. >> bill: i know. do you or do you not. >> i think the president's proposal is right. the focus of the president's proposal by the way wasn't simply about capital gains. it was about american manufacturing, about ending the outsourcing and insourcing. he talked about giving tax credits. >> bill: any congress person who wants to raise a cap gains to 30 and that's what president obama implied he was using that 30% number, okay? any millionaire -- anybody making over $1 million should pay 30%. that would be a cap gains because romney and buffet and a lot of these people make their money on interest payments and their taxed at 15. i'm going to ask you again, if you don't want to answer, tell me you don't want to answer and w

>>guest: well, coming from someone who is in the kucinich wing of the democratic party on national security being called a liberal by him is a little bit, almost ridiculous. the bottom line is, as you know, most criticisms leveled against me throughout the campaign in the past is i am too conservative to win and now ron paul says i am too liberal after talking about the most liberal views in the hit of republican politics on national security. so, i think you have to have credibility and i have credibility across the board on all the issues standing for the conservative principles that made this country great and will create a clear contrast between the republican nominee, and i hope that is me, and president obama. >>shepard: you talk about conservative principles how much longer do you think antigay rights is going to stay with conservative principle and folks like you say who say having gay marriage is a hit on families in america. how long will you realize everyone is okay? >>guest: well, everyone is okay. but that is different. what we are talking about, not talking about everyone, she

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