. >> before we go to tony, let me ask john. the book that you wrote was such a commentary on how we train or fail to train lawyers. you know, in the typical method that we teach in law school. that book and that story "the paper chase," what were you saying about the way in which -- i mean, when i went to law school, the emphasis was to become a corporate lawyer. there was very little emphasis placed on being a people's lawyer. or somebody like a tony sarah. what are your thoughts on that? you've practiced. you're a law professor. recently retired. you've taught at a number of different schools. any thoughts on that? >> well, yes, i have lots of thoughts on it. i went to harvard law school. and believe me, when i was there, there was no legal aid at all. everybody was become a corporate lawyer. there was no question about it. you didn't even think about it. it would never even dawn on anybody. i don't think that anybody knew that there were defense attorneys. you know? anyway, at its heart that little clip said something, i thi

. >> before we go to tony, let me ask john. the book that you wrote was such a commentary on how we train or fail to train lawyers. you know, in the typical method that we teach in law school. that book and that story "the paper chase," what were you saying about the way in which -- saying about the way in which -- i mean, when i went to law

. >> let me ask john this. i get it. but the point being that this school, they are teaching people airplane maintenance which they have to be. if they are fixing them, i don't want the medicine cabinet looks like graceland. >> it is not just those technical students. it is the humanity students and literature. >> you don't have to be a student there. when i got my slns you tell them you can give blood, breath or urine. >> at private school you can get away with it. they can do what they want. it is a private institution. >> but you are paying that money as the taxpayer. so the taxpayer bill say, i want them tested. if it is their money why can't they say that? >> because of the constitution. >> stop throwing the constitution at me. >> put the constitution over there and let's pre pre send end this doesn't exist. >> i won't say i don't want pill bill fixing my garage. >> i will roll it up and smoke it. what better place for a young employee to learn how to fake a drug test. they might as well learn young. where to get th

what i'm saying is hey, why didn't you let us know before you let the press know over today, ask us a little in advance. >> let me ask john harris. where does the debate stand? any difference in your bogs as a moderator? >> well, no, there's no question there will be a republican presidential debate on wednesday. i think there is some question to when the president's speech is going to take place, as you know. my view, you said this might be hardball by president obama. that's perhaps true, but it's also to my mind a great big fat pitch over the plate for we have these presidential candidates who's going to be debating out at the ronald reagan library on wednesday. in all likelihood, the general election will feature one of these candidates versus president obama, so in some ways, this sort of counter-programming, if it happens that way, represents the first general debate. >> we're a couple junkies, this is a great news event. are you kidding me? we can watch all this happen. if you're moderating this debate, the first 20 minutes you're opening the floor and saying respond to what you just ahead and they'll have to think

. >> sean: let me ask john. we just did the gibson guitar issue. we had the sew.- we had -- if the wood was finished abroad they would be fine. they had the proper documentation. now they are told if you move your facilities overseas and create job there, does this impact the administration? doesn't that bring home every big musician in the country who loves gibson guitars, how stupid and insane regulation and bureaucracy is? >> i think president obama wants to save one job and it's his. everyone else is on their own. and that's the case with gibson. >> the obama mantra has become regulate and litigate. we need to motivate and innovate. >> that was illegal wood, i will really bought. >> sean: it was not illegal wood. they have all the proper documentation. >> you listen to the ceo, i don't buy it. >> sean: all the

clearly, let's just say, it's photoshopped. john, let me askrst, let me tell you the onion's editor gave this show, "jkusa" a statement that said," if there's a lesson that can be learned is that the first amendment in the wrong journalist's hands is a very dangerous thing. we will continue to report on this incident as well as the hundreds of more despicable acts congress commits every day." so they are defending their right to do this. and me, too. i defend their right to do this. but what happens is, tweets get retweeted and there are people who don't know what the onion is and it's a satirical -- because you and i would look at it and go, okay, this isn't right. >> right. >> because it's the onion. but nonetheless, there is a danger here. it reminded me a little bit of the whole thing about "war of the worlds," the invasion of aliens and people began to believe it. is this a self-restraint thing and did they go too far? >> i'm a big fan of the onion, but i do think this went too far. joking about hostages being taken in the capitol and gunf

. >> well, let me ask you this, is john boehner up to the task? is he a strong enough leader to be able to get something done? or is he following the crowd? is the dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog here? >> it's an interesting question. we don't select their leader. they select their leader. i'm not going to interpose myself there, but obviously it is stunning when the -- when the speaker and the majority leader put together a piece of legislation on the floor. that piece of legislation, frankly was inadequate. it doesn't match what the senate had done. it didn't cover the range of disaster relief that's needed in the country and communities around the country, and they couldn't even pass the scaled-down bill, so there's a level of problem there -- >> scary. >> -- that is really concerning. >> you say maybe they're functionally obsolete. i think you're being kind to use the term "functionally." but let me get into the politics of it. rick perry had, in my opinion, the gall to come into new york while the president was dealing with s

let me ask something -- let me ask this and get back to your point, john boehner basically said this,we don't pass this wait until you see what the senate will send us. if you think this bill is unappealing wait until you see what they are going to get done. >> if you judge your vote purely on hypothetical, what the senate, god forbid they actually do some work, actually send us something, what my great hope is we'll regroup, we'll engage in that little bit of additional budget discipline and we will put together a package someone like myself can vote for. martha: this bill, if i heard you right is $24 billion short of being below the spending cap that was set in the budget bill, is that right? >> long would be the better way to phrase it. martha: yeah. >> from my calculation looks 24 billion beyond our budget resolution promise. martha: okay. are we going to see a government shutdown on september 30th if we can't get this resolved? >> i actually can't imagine that. in the scope of things we're all very close. so this is one of those occasions where if we can move the ball forward, if

megyn: let me ask you this. chris plant, did john boehner miss an opportunity.here is a lot of editorial saying the president made himself look small by doing this and john boehner should have taken the high road and said fine come on the night of the gop debate and would have won points as opposed to saying, no we have to have a security sweep, and we can't get that done for the president of the united states. >> they also are working with the speaker of the house to come to an accommodation so that everyone can agree to it. the president flu a political stink bomb down the hall to pick a food fight because they don't have a plan. they are struggling to come up with ideas, they will be the same tired old ideas that they did before. the natural operating environment for this white house is to be in a foot fight. they've got their guard in the press room warming up for today's briefing and they think they look good if they blame somebody else, picking fights and come out on top thank thanks to their friends in the news media. i think the president did this delibe

john kanas. >> nice to have you on the programme again. >> susie: let me start off with asking you. how would you describe the health of the banking system. wherther it's the super big banks or smaller banks. >> statistically they're in better shape than they were four or five years ago. all the metrics used have improved. capital is higher. reserves against non-performing loans are higher than they were in 2007. >> so in terms of sheer strength of capital they're stronger than they were. since the flagging economy is having trouble, banks are having difficulty expanding balance sheets and finding opportunitys to make loans. and so those who worry about such things worry that bank's profitability will be under pressure in the near future. >> your bank recently bought a small new york bank. do you think all the of the consolidations are good or bad for the economy? >> it just depends? >> some consolidation is essential as we go into the next decade. given the relatively slack performance of the economy. where i think consolidation will cause difficulties is in the small towns of amer

john harris, good luck tomorrow night. break a leg, as they say in show business. >> appreciate it. >> let me ask you this. have the american people made reassessments of is the president's political skills? >> i don't know about the american people. in terms of political skills, in view of a president's substantive skills. >> okay. ability to lead. >> is he able to run the country? and specifically in this -- is he able to do something about a structurally unhealthy economy? and all they can look at so far is evidence, and there's no way to say yes to that. the best case you can make is he needs more time in order to prove his case. the other case is, no. he's had his chance, had his time. now let's try something different. >> quickly, maybe can you make a -- tell me if you can, a friend and as well as colleague. can the president make a decision this week in that speech he gives thursday night with everyone in the country watching, a big nfl night besides everything else, can he decide, go left, do something populist that ed schultz and a lot of my other friends would love, even if it wouldn't sell for r

let me kno if i left anything out. political reports that john boehner freaked out when the drugster called him out, and that's why he askedto move his speech. tonight, dr. james peterson on the public disrespect for the president. >>> and the trumpster is reviewing dick cheney's new book. >> i don't like people who rat out everybody like he's doing in the book. >> daily show co-creator liz winstead are here to make sense of it. >>> the golden boy on every republican's short list for vice president is is trying to raise money by attacking cable hosts here on mnsnb. it started last week as senator mark arubio had his day in the sun giving a speech at the reagan library. they outrageously claimed that the big three -- medicaid, medicare examine social security -- have weakened america. >> these programs actually weakened us as a people. you see, almost and forever, it was institutions and society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. if someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. if a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. you saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. b

let's go to andy levy. don't ask me about my weekend, andy. >> i would never. i would never. have i seen that movie. -- i have seen that movie. christie's running or not running or running or not running. john, you said people have a feeling that all of the gop candidates suck. where does that feeling come from? >> i get your point, thanks. >> i don't even know what your point s. >> i don't think they s cru k, but we haven't found the one that would be interesting enough, right? >> isn't that code for they really suck? >> no. herman cane is entertaining and real who else is. >> newt gingrich. >> he is from the league of presidents. >> gary johnson. >> mitt. >> gary johnson. >> mit is it. >> gary johnson. >> gary johnson an interesting, sightly eccentric man. who else? >> ron paul. >> we didn't leave anybody out. >> and you said christie is doing what romney has done. he said, have i to do what romney did, so i have to spend years succeeding up to them. they have got a lot different person -- personalities. if romney was human he would be kristi. >> that's an interest ling -- interesting picture. they have different personalities and that accounts for something. >> their tone was like when t

john huntsman. let me move on to the next clip from someone who is very conservative. michele bachmann. i askedstion that didn't get fully answered in the last debate. tell me whether you think she answered it in this debate. after the last debate a young member of the california tea party said he didn't feel he had his question fully answers, the question that received the most votes on google and youtube. the answer to this question is a number. and the question was, quote, out of every dollar i earn, how much do you think that i deserve to keep. >> after the debate i talked to that young man and said i wish could have answered that question because i want to tell you what my answer is. i think you earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you earn. that's your money. that's not the government's money. obviously we have to give money back to the government so we can run the government. but we have to have a completely different mindset and that is the american people are the genius of this economy. it certainly isn't government that's the genius. megyn: rob, what did you t

let me ask you this, major. some politicians tried to deny that people like you were facing this kind of intrusion and this kind of bias. let me show you an exchange with senator johnome of the denial that we saw in washington leading up to this law being changed. >> regulations are, we do not go out and seek to find out if someone's sexual orientation. >> senator, that's -- >> you do not. that is the fact. i know the military very well, and i know what's being done, and what is being done is that they are not seeking out people who are gay. and i don't care what you say. i know it's a fact. >> he says they were not seeking out people who were gay. you were a major. you come from a family of military men. your father went to west point, flew helicopters over vietnam, uncle celebrated, and they went in your e-mails. you were -- had your privacy invaded, they were looking for gaze, is that not true? tell us your storey. >> that's absolutely true. i served for 13 years, did four deployments in the middle east. never once during my time wearing the uniform, never once did i make a statement to the military that violated don't ask, don't tell, and yet air force went out

let me ask you this -- speaking of bipartisanship, why did the president not want to take a meeting with the speaker of the house johnd of this speech. it looked as if, unless we don't have the full story and you can enlighten us that they were trying to extend an olive branch to the president prespeech. why did he not take the meeting? >> finally, we appreciated the letter that speaker boehner and majority leader cantor sent that expressed willingness to cooperate on some of the very issues that the president is going to put forward tonight. we think that's a good thing and we think the american people demand it. this president has met with the leadership of the house and senate more often for longer in this -- the past several months than i think any president may have in history. the american people are glad they did that but they don't think another meeting around a table is going to solve their problems this country is facing. they want action! and look, the president going to work with congress, with members of both parties, of both houses going forward to try to get this done and grow the economy and create jo

ask him to continue in his work with all of his gusto. he reminds me a lot of the late great senator, ted kennedy. host: let's go to johnon the line for democrats. guest: 43-year-old, three strokes, that's what the president's health care program is all about, to make sure we prevent these things from happening. that's what the president's proposals for affordable health care are all about. host: john on the democratic line from missouri. caller: good morning. the next time you speak to the president, tell him i've heard for the first time the words i've been wanting to hear ever since he was elected, which is "veto." stop these republicans. in response to cutting education to teachers, you expect him to pay teachers to destroy their base, the uneducated? thank you very much. guest: thank you. that's why i'm so optimistic that people like the poor will have an opportunity, regardless of their affiliation, to express this to their elected officials. that's where we -- that is what we are therefore. host: when he talks about the threat of veto, do you think he is done moderating on this? from april through the course of t

me. >> ask a question. >> think about it right now. >> seriously, no. let's have something more serious. what does the scene on abbey road depict? >> somebody who has no shoes on. >> what does it depict? >> the funeral. >> johnndertaker -- >> what's the last line of rocky raccoon? >> no, no -- >> the young rockies revival. >> and by the way, the license plate on the volkswagen. >> i still haven't heard the order from left to right. >> if he was still alive. >> of course i know the order from left to right. i'm not going to be insulted. i'm not going to be insulted. >> joining us from washington, political writer for the "huffington post." oh, hello, sam. you cute thing. all right. >> let's look at that. >> no. >> let's look at that picture. what's going on here? >> we're sorry. >> he took it of himself. had went like this. >> what is this, sam? >> what did i do to the people in your photo department? i don't understand this. >> oh, wait, we did this? >> yes. >> i thought you went and had somebody to take that shot of you. >> no. >> yes. we are really -- >> sorry, sam. okay. >> so let's move on then. what about new york nine last night? what's your take up there? do you nationalize it? what does it mean? >> w