is limbaugh's audience is off.f hit the point right in your introduction a couple years ago advertisers began to realize that rush limbaugh was bad for business and now rush limbaugh has become so toxic that even political figures are starting to realize that. his audience is continuing to dwindle. a couple weeks ago on facebook he pointed out that the demographics are against us folks, you know and partly he was sort of alluding to and starting to signal this advertiser -- this station drop due to his advertiser losses and this is just part of a larger trend. his -- he's just not commercially viable. >> well, you know there are -- if you want to talk about the age factor here and he says the demographics are against him. wait a minute. there are broadcasters on a national level who are older than rush and they are not losing audience the way he is. john fugle sang what do you make of it? >> as long as there's angry middle age white guys with impacted colons rush limbaugh will have listeners. i'm not going to rejoi

rush limbaugh has been known to say some things from time to time, and to call some names. the difference is when he approaches that line or even crosses the line or when rudy giuliani a few weeks ago got heated and said something about the president, the country was subjected to a category five civility storm from the media. everyone is reaching for the smelling salts. oh this is terrible. gnashing of teeth. when harry reid comes out on a routine basis and slanders people groundlessly and makes remarks like this, it seems like the self-appointed civility police are curiously offduty a lot of the time. >> very interesting. i want to play another exchange that is a bit interesting. watch this. >> mitch mcconnell put out a statement after you announced you were retiring. it did not include the word "friend" in it. what does that tell you? >> i guess he should have had me help write his press release. >> what do you make of that? >> that's not too bad. that is a funny response. he is almost retiring. the place, congress will be a better place when he's gone. i think the more f

rush limbaugh last week was saying last week we need to keep an eye on him, and i think that a lot of conservative radio show hosts and tv show hosts are seeing that he would have a little bit more of a general electability. he might have a harder time in a primary but when it comes to appealing to a broad swath of the american electorate that he's maybe a better person to look to. >> do you get pushback from fox news or sean hannity or rush limbaugh when you talk about their influence? >> a lot of times when i reach out to them to try to talk to them about who are you looking at who are you favoring they don't want to talk about it. they say i want to be impartial. i want to help my listeners and my viewers make an informed decision but they definitely show a preference based on who they talk to the most and they'll let their preference known in various ways. i want this type of candidate and they will interview somebody with those types of views and talk about their amazing record. let's say scott walker gets this a lot, they'll talk about you have an amazing record in wisconsin. an

and rush limbaugh says he does have a brother named larry in the aa meeting. >> my good god. >> there is an investigative report on breitbart.com which is one of the most embarrassing things i've read. they tried to get plans. >> they did get plans, they mapped out the entire bathroom. >> he couldn't possibly -- you know, the guy -- >> there is only three feet between the shower. you couldn't stretch that far. >> the lines through his -- [ inaudible ] >> it made it believable. maybe he tried it and there was only -- >> harry reid looked at the plans and said now is a good time to remodel. i can't do this from d.c., i have to redesign. >> how did they get his house plans? good journalism. kennedy: we'll see you later in the show. >> okay. kennedy: living to a thousand, i teased it in the monologue, we will give it the full monty coming up. coming up, comedian jonathan kite is here, he's also one of the best impressionists i have seen in my life. his christian bale will make you sail, and hell yes, a new government report says the number of teens smoking e-cigarettes has skyrocketed. we

caller: who does rush limbaugh work for?uest: it works for his radio syndicate for whom he is well-paid. i will take that ball and run with it for a second. first of all, if you pull back for a second and look at the forces that are transforming news media over the past decade in change -- and change, there have been essentially three revolutions within have my lifetime. you happy days when there were essentially three sanctioned networks that were repository of all news knowledge and perhaps as many magazines and change. then you have the rise of talk radio and partisan media which was designed in the eyes of the people who advocated it. they believe the implicit bias of mainstream media required explicit bias to balance. then you had the fragmentation in the media environment with the rise of online. what you had was a bunch of business strategies about appealing to narrow but niche audiences. in that environment, we saw the rise of partisan news and the way you cap the audiences entertained was to keep them infused. rush

guided by the moral framework that limbaugh and others wanted to impose wolf whistling invites , voters to react in a way that tells them that their implicit fears are at play and are much more important than their other ideas. a sociologist and professor here at uc berkeley has written extensively on this topic, and on abortion politics in particular. she argues that the right to life movement represents an attempt not just to protect the fetus, but to ensure that the family is a higher priority in the career among women, and that women choose to stay home, women who choose to stay home, are not relegated to a place lower to women who work outside the home. taking her argument one step further, i believe it is the case that some politicians are using the right to life movement 's implicit messaging of family versus career specifically to provoke voters who wish to guard against that perceived threat. keep in mind that whistler's don't necessarily even have to believe their own message, many of them likely do not, but just as a race based dog whistling is often nothing more than a strat

. >> larry: another whore and shut i expect from the rush limbaugh crowd but tart? who was insulting you, the dowager from "downton abbey"? ( laughter ) that's really old school. you know, now that i think about it, i do remember people attacking her pretty quick. >> when the story broke in january 1998, it broke online. it was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the internet for a major news story. i was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously. >> larry: that's true. she lost her reputation instantaneously, and yet the jokes lingered well past their cute phase like the frankie muniz of punchlines. ( laughter ) ( applause ) so wrong. so wrong. no don't clap for that. really don't clap for that. that is wrong. but the real shame here isn't on lou's actions 20 years ago. it was the way this country and our media oftrasides a young girl for doing something foolish but not worthy of ruining her life. and the worst part is, if she did it now in the age of the internet reality tv, we'd be begging to keep up with

caller: who does rush limbaugh work for?uest: it works for his radio syndicate for whom he is well-paid. i will take that ball and run with it for a second. first of all, if you pull back for a second and look at the forces that are transforming news media over the past decade in change -- and change, there have been essentially three revolutions within have my lifetime. you happy days when there were essentially three sanctioned networks that were repository of all news knowledge and perhaps as many magazines and change. then you have the rise of talk radio and partisan media which was designed in the eyes of the people who advocated it. they believe the implicit bias of mainstream media required explicit bias to balance. then you had the fragmentation in the media environment with the rise of online. what you had was a bunch of business strategies about appealing to narrow but niche audiences. in that environment, we saw the rise of partisan news and the way you cap the audiences entertained was to keep them infused. rush

jose as a glass across the map you can see most of the temperatures and low to mid '50's 56 from limbaugh'ssue for places like the delta will show you fairfield 20 mi. an hour sustained winds 30 mi. an hour sustained winds concord 10 in oakland some of the strongest winds will been tracking for you this morning as a breakdown that part of the forecast next 30 minutes most exciting timber to the edge on the life matt in the upper '40's to very low fifties for a good bit of the south bank. >>james: to much as one of the 5460 degrees colder the lunch hour and will keep it mild as we hit 4:03 p.m. yes it will be mostly sunny were all in baltimore to maybe to 07 days of the sixties to low '70's there really is the forecast about every ammon valley location the east bay 66 to 7164 to 71 and another that oakland 63 san francisco 59 that is the story for today the talk about the future will have cloud once again wednesday morning but looking for that to really open up during the afternoon we would expect slightly warmer temperatures tomorrow and then to the mild ride to the work week and a note of

. >> rush limbaugh said we should ignore hillary clinton. >> did she? >> do they have a tip jar at chipotle? >> yes. >> turning to other politician. throwing his ad in the 2016 ring, senator rubio delivered a passionate speech announcing his candidacy last night. a well received message. here's a clip. i have a debt to america. this isn't just the country where i was born. america is literally the place that changed my family's history. to succeed on this journey, i will need your prayers and your support and ultimately your vote. >> and a few moments later the senator sat down with sean hannity for a chat. sean asked about his relationship with fellow floridian and likely hopeful jeb bush. >> i noticed the media has been trying to pit you against jeb bush. some recent headlines. forcing locals to pick sides. at odds with his mentor. >> i consider him a friend. he's someone i admire and respect. i'm not running against jeb bush if he decides to run. i'm running because i believe i'm the right person at the right time for this country. >> good answer. >>

discounted by every single poll ever donned a college campus and then she started ripping into rush limbaugh. when i asked if she ever was and it listened it got relatively heated which is an interesting way to recruit. it if elizabeth warren is a lot of fun. i always going to have conversations. it's how i got. >> have you ever been told before that you talk fast? >> i've been working on it for a long time that i will fall into the stereotype and my parents talk extremely quickly so everybody we sit around the table and it sounds like everybody is on fast forward and then we go back and time and i had to make sure that my parents met and i was born eventually. it was wild. [laughter] >> dickie is a missing augustine you are on book tv. >> i have read several of your works and i have heard you speak before in los angeles. i am a former republican and i'm so fed up with the party and the politics i wanted to ask you are we still able to grab defeat out of the victory this time around and are we going to fire lit up again and then we need to recommend the book freedom to choose. it's a great b

consider rush limbaugh's portrayal of sandra fluke as a slut when she advocated for mandatory inclusion of contraception care in health care plans. this whistling evoked responses from whistlers, who perceived miss fluke's position would threat entheir patriarchal idea of women's role. guided by framework limbaugh and others seek to elicit articulating positions such as this wolf whistling invites listeners and voters to react in a way that tells them their implicit fears are at play and are much more important than their other ideas. dr. christian luker songsologist and professor here at uc berkeley has written extensively on this topic and abortion politics in particular. she argues that the right to life movement represents an attempt not just to protect the fetus, but to insure that family as a higher priority than career among women and that women choose to stay home who choose to stay home are not relegated to a place of lower prestige, relative to women who work outside of the home. taking her argument one step further, i believe it is the case that some politician use the right

. >> that was radio host rush limbaugh on the incredible story coming out of wisconsin a story that alleges a democratic prosecutor went on a witchhunt alleged bye li for voters who supported conservative principle and it's been going on for year s trace starts out our story. >> wisconsin gives prosecutors wide-ranging power to see if the documents are forced into maintaining secrecy while being investigated. in this case allows to find out if conservative groups was coordinating with governor scott walker to raise money during the raul of 2012. governor walker was being targeted for going after union benefits and collective bargaining. critics say john chisolm was usinged as a weapon. the john doe law was used to go after walker. it was used to go after people with benefits. krinty walker said she was jolted awake by what she thought was a home invasion. turned out to be a police raid. holding a battering ram. she said she was trying to calm down and get dressed with her body in full view of police. she kept begging them not to shoot her dog and they stormed and rummaged through her house,

spoke with debbie wasserman-shultz about her fight with rand paul and how that produced what rush limbaugh called a victory for republicans unlike any he has ever seen. next, rand rush our intk2&% and what this means for theçó road ahead. >> rand paul has done something no other republican has done. he has turned the abortion issue around on the democrats. ♪ during its first year, a humpback calf and its mother are almost inseparable. she lifts her calf to its first breath of air, then protects it on the long journey to their feeding grounds. one of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. at pacific life, we offer financial solutions to accomplish just that. ask a financial advisor about pacific life. the power to help you succeed. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. they

even rush limbaugh, who is against you on the immigration deal has said really laudatory things about in the wake of that. you're young fresh faced, never lost a race, so you're a winner. but the flip side of that is some say, he's not ready for a competing network described you as a little boy, compared to hillary clinton. and then there was some criticism on line last night after your interview with our own sean hannity, because you were sweating in the first block of his show, and people started to say, he was sweating, and remember that famous time he needed a drink of water? he drinks water. he must not be ready for prime time. >> well first, that room was 89 or 90 degrees i think a lot of people were sweating in that room last night. i felt bad for him, it's an older building. i'm not new to this obviously, i haven't been in politics my whole life, but i have been in long enough. two years in local government, i'll have served a full term in the senate. i'm proud of where i come from and what i've achieved thanks to my parents and this country. i believe this country needs a new

teddy roosevelt lost the election, but he changed the outcome, much like rush limbaugh did when he ran against bill clinton. he made ill clinton talk more about fiscal issues because of what he had done in the campaign. having an independent candidate running for president that was talking about the importance of allowing all people the right to vote and that the right to vote comes from the voters maybe is the catalyst that begins to help move the change forward. helping independent candidates i think that is a good idea. endorsing independent candidates , i think that would be a terrible mistake. we are trying to get more people a choice and that is what we should be doing as an organization. [applause] >> one minor correction -- it was ross perot. >> i'm sorry. >> 1992. >> i said rush limbaugh. [laughter] >> i think that we need to have a flowering of association. this is a room of people that feels connected, or seem to be a lot of connection as independents. it is not like no one wants to be connected. it is ok to be connected to people. i think that to be rigidly boxed in democra

here's limbaugh describing it. >> i don't believe for a minute that whatever happened to harry reed had anything to do with an exercise machine unless somebody repeatedly threw him into it. harry reeds looks like and is acting like and now with this announcement behaving like somebody that may have been beaten up. >> who would beat up reid and get him to lie about it? conservative blogger has a theory saying reid had promised to obtain some benefit for a group of mobsters. he met with them on new year's day and broke the bad news that he hasn't been able to deliver what he promised. when the mobster's complained reid made a comment they considered disrespectful and one of them beat him up. end quote. that's a big charge. what is his source? a friend of his that heard rumors when he was in vegas a week or two ago. because you know about vegas rumors. other than that he doesn't have any evidence to support this theory but he says it's more credible than the exercise band claim and now he's calling for an investigation he got. today news which many republican officials sight as a news sour

consider rush limbaugh's betrayal of sand or fluke assay slut.this whistling provocatively and purposely provoked responses from listeners who perceived the position as one that would threaten their patriarchical ideas of a woman's appropriate role. guided by the moral framework that limbaugh and others seek to elicit when articulating positions such as this, will entice voters than listeners to act in a way that tells them that their implicit fears are at play and are much more important than their other ideas. dr. christian liquor sociologists here at he has written extensively on this and abortion politics in particular. she argues the right to life movement recommends an attempt not to protect the fetus but to enjoy the family at the higher priority of career among women and that women choose to stay home who choose to stay home are not relegated to a place of our prestige relative to women who work outside of the home. taking her argument one step further, i believe it is the case that some politicians are using the right to the implicit mes

here is rush limbaugh talking about democrat's response to the law. >> they view christianity as the evil majority. they hate christianity. they hate it. they hate what christianity is. >> they hate it he says. on the same day bill o'reilly tied the backlash with the awful terror attack in kenya. >> link everything together. we just heard about the terror attack in kenya on christians. you have two things in play. you have the muslim extremists jihadists. they want to kill chasristians and are doing it all over the world. and in the united states and western europe you have a civil war between the secular con grexal movement. in both cases christians are targets. >> that is one frame for the story. and the other frame, frankly, the dominant frame everywhere from cnn to msnbc was about gay rights and the potential for discrimination. >> governor pence has simultaneously simultaneously turning the state's government tension to the pressing need making sure it's legal to discriminate against gay people. >> to say the law is not discriminate story is disenginous. when you break it down i

gerald: would it be rush limbaugh? brian: it would be.rian: what about your first service of news -- source of news? gerald: we are doing some media outreach to south dakota, and it is very interesting to get that regional perspective on things happening in minnesota and the area. brian: how do you know someone is telling the truth? gerard: you cannot know. brian: how do you find the facts yourself? gerard: i look for an outside perspective. as someone with an interest in journalism, i would like to think that we should look at the facts first and forming opinions second so the economist comes to mind because they are outside the u.s., so they report with an outside perspective areas -- perspective. they give you the facts. brian: i want to ask you a question and be up to show the hands. how many in this room use in your studies wikipedia? put your hands up. that did not exist when i was your age. it shows you how much things change. who had their hand that back here? yes and we have heard from you. i want somebody who has not talked, ple

. >> rush limbaugh. i hope the country fails. i hope his kidneys nail fail. hout about that.w far will cecily strong go? >> i don't think i've been known as a real envelope pusher. i don't want to be mean. i'd rather be funny. and of course i'll have a couple of pointed remarks but hopefully's all funny. it's funny to me. >> and you know jake she would not test any her joke ons me. they're keeping those closely to their chest. i will tell you she said she doesn't want to be mean but there's plenty of ridiculous stuff going on in washington right now so she's got plenty of things to make fun of. you're going to be at the din are. have a good time. >> i will. thank you so much. be sure to tune in so our special coverage of the white house correspondent dinner this sad night at 7:00 p.m. on cnn. >>> today the hubble telescopes turns 25 years old today. hubble did not start out with high hopes. its first images were kind of fuzzy. today nasa celebrated the day by releasing quite a image, a burst of light emitted by stars. the telescope has logged more than one million observation

the attacks on abortion access on birth control, todd akins' rape comment, rush limbaugh's slut comment. this rebirth of feminism and talking about women's issues. celebrities have made it cool beyonce, taylor swift, lena dunham equal pay. there's more women anchors, more women reporters reporting on women's issues and i think men have been really supportive of the cause as well. so i think while i hadry couldn't necessarily embrace some of those things back in 2008 even if she may have supported them back then now is the time to talk about them because now is the time that men and women want to hear about them and are ready to talk about them. >> you know let's look at where many of the gop potential contenders stand on women's issues margie. on a woman's reproductive rights, they're all against the right to choose. on pay equality, they're all opposed to any legislation mandating equal pay. and paid sick leave, none of them support it. laura, is this coming to a campaign -- is this going to be part margie of a campaign ad near you? >> absolutely. look, and these issues have been impor

if you want to talk about reality, listen to rush limbaugh on american television and say look what the americans are saying. this is a jerk, excuse me, saying what he is saying. it's not a russian a russian policy and it's not an american policy. it's separate people and let's make that clear. >> all give you the final say on this important point on how nuclear weapons flow into the discussion of engagement or isolation. >> both of them talk of nuclear weapons as reemerged. not in the same way as we were conscious of them in the past but the discussion has reemerged. ms. applebaum wrote a column lately i don't think she put a head on it, but it should rattle the discussion of nuclear weapons. when people start talking about that i think we know were in dangerous territory. i would go even farther and i would say we are in a new cold war by whatever name and it's potentially more dangerous than the last one. this is where the nuclear weapons come in. for several reasons it's more dangerous. this one is in ukraine right on russia's borders. secondly, and this is what really worries me, d

debbie wasserman schulz about her fight with senator rand paul and how that has produced what rush limbaugh called a victory for republicans unlike any he has ever seen. dana perino is next on rand rush, our interview, and what this means for the road ahead. >> rand paul has done something that no other republican has done. he has turned the abortion issue around on the democrats. ♪ bring your vision for the future to life. for more than 145 years, pacific life has been helping families achieve life-long financial security with innovative tools and strategies. talk to a financial advisor to protect your family and plan today. pacific life. the power to help you succeed. pacific life proudly presents "humpback whales", a whale-sized movie for giant screen theaters. (dog) mmm. this beneful is so good and healthy. hey, you know what? we should just go ahead and have this for breakfast tomorrow. would that be crazy? (vo) beneful original is a healthy blend your dog will love. with whole grains, real beef and accents of vegetables. tt8fq@q:)q1m-[f=/p2!a>l

so the -- >> i said rush limbaugh. there you go. >> i think that we feed to have a flowering of association. this is a room of people that feels connected, i think. there seems to be a lot of connections among people as independents. it's not like everyone's in their own chair not at all wanting to be connected to the person next to them. it's okay to be connected to people. i think that to be rigidly boxed in, as a democrat and republican and that's it, you know, that's not good. but that if we can have a ballot that actually allows association to be shown, to connections to be shown and that that you can call it a party, but you can just call it an association, but it's not rigid and it might be a new one a couple years from now. that brings people in. it makes people feel connected. and i think there's a whole conversation to be had about how that could be put into our politics. wash stateington state's form of top two, you have a certain number of characters where you can say your -- you can say what you're connect

republicans need to call into rush limbaugh and voice their opinions rather than calling in to c-span. have a good day. host: kevin, washington. you are calling on the disapprove line. why is that? caller: good morning. i would like to speak about eric holder and barack obama and the a little bit about marijuana. i believe these folks have spoken. the subject of marijuana should be legalized. we have done that. i am getting a little bit distracted, but i would like to get myself a little well-rounded. host: let's let it sit there. we will move on to dorothy in baltimore. caller: the lady who said he should not be involved in the things, he should have. -- [indiscernible] they need to look out for the people and everybody. i do know that eric holder and obama has done an excellent job dealing with the average american citizen and i believe he will -- host: the attorney general talked about reducing prison sentences for nonviolent criminals. [video clip] attorney general holder? we are -- attorney general holder: policy took effect and roughly 64% of federally charged drug trafficking s

if you want to talk about reality, you listen to rush limbaugh in american television and say, look whathe americans are saying. this is a jerk, excuse me, saying what he's saying. it is not a russian policy. it is not an american policy. it is separate people. let's make that very clear. garry: it is like american anchorman on the payroll of criminals. >> stephen, let's give you the final say on this important point. stephen: the threat of nuclear weapons flows into the discussion of isolation versus engagement. i will take the view here that both kasparov and pozner are right. talk of nuclear weapons has reemerged. not in the same way that we were conscious of, but the discussion has reemerged. ms. applebaum wrote a column recently. it was the fo's of the column which said we should rattle our nuclear weapons. when people start talking like that, and she echoed that column here today, i think we know we are in dangerous territory. i would go even further than pozner and say, we are in a new cold war and it is potentially more dangerous than the last one. this is where the nuclear weapo

we talk about reality you listen to rush limbaugh on american television. look with the americans are saying. this is this is a jerk, you'll excuse me saying what he is saying. it is not a russian policy and it is not an american policy. it is separate people. >> that's the difference. >> let's give you the final say on this important topic. the threat of nuclear weapons flows into the discussion of isolation versus engagement. >> nuclear weapons. >> yes. >> i we will take the rabbinical view here that both are right. talk of nuclear weapons has reemerged. not in the same way that we were conscious but the discussion has reemerged. ms. applebaum wrote a column recently. i don't think she put the head on it but the ethos of the column essentially said we should rattle on nuclear weapons. when people start talking like that when she echoed that on-air today, i think i think we know we are in dangerous territory. i would i would go even farther in alarm and say we are in a new cold war by whatever name, name command it is potentially more dangerous than the la

teddy roosevelt lost the election but clearly changed the election much like rush limbaugh did when he ran against bill clinton. having an independent candidate running for president talking about the importance of allowing all people the right to vote in the right to vote in the rates of outcomes from the voters may be as the catalyst that begins to help move to change forward. helping independent candidates is a good idea. endorsing independent candidates is a terrible mistake. we are trying to give more people a choice and asked me if the function function of what we should be doing as an organization. [applause] >> one minor correction. it was ross perot in 1992. i think that we need to have a flowering of association. this is the role of people and things connected. a lot of connections of people as independents. it is okay to be connected to people. it could be rigidly boxed in sort of democrat republican that's it. but if we cannot the ballot that actually allows associations to be shown, connections to be shown and you can call it an association but it's not rigid and it might

consider rush limbaugh's portrayal of sandra fluke as a as a slut, and this whistling was one that made people feel that she threatened their patriarchal ideas of a woman as a supportive role. particularly this wolf whistling invites voters to react in a way that tells them that their implicit fears are at play and are much more important than their other ideas. a sociologist and professor here at uc berkeley has written extensively on this topic, and on abortion politics in particular. she argues that the right to life movement represents an attempt not just to protect the fetus, but to ensure that the family is a higher priority in the career among women, and that women choose to stay home, women who choose to stay home, are not relegated to a place lower to women who work outside the home. taking her argument one step further, i believe it is the case that some politicians are using the right to life movement and implicit messaging of family versus career specifically to provoke voters who wish to guard against that perceived threat. keep in mind that whistlers don't necessarily even

if you want to talk about reality, you listen to a rush limbaugh on american television or something like that and you say, look what the americans are saying. this is a jerk you'll excuse me, saying what he's saying. that doesn't mean -- >> american television. and only one caller in russia. >> and it's not an american policy. it's separate people. and let's make that very clear. >> let's give -- >> on the payroll of kremlin. that's the difference. >> steven, let's give you the final say on this important point of how the threat of nuclear weapons throws into the discussion of isolation versus engagement. >> nuclear weapons. i will take the view that both kasparov and posner are right. talk of nuclear weapons has reemerged. not in the same way that we were conscious of them, but the discussion has reemerged. ms. applebaum wrote a column recently. i don't think she put the head on it, but it was the ethos of the column which essentially said we should rattle our nuclear weapons. and when people start talking like that and she echoed that column here today, i think we know we're in da

he lost the election but clearly change the outcome, much like rush limbaugh did when he ran bill clinton. he made bill clinton talk about the fiscal issues. having an independent candidate talking about the importance of allowing all people to have the right to vote, may be is the catalyst that begins to move the change forward. helping independent candidates think that's a good idea. endorsing independent candidates -- that is terrible. we are trying to get more people a choice and that is what we should be doing as an organization. [applause] >> one minor correction -- it was ross perot. [laughter] i think that we need to have a flowering of association. this is a room of people that feels connected, or seem to be a lot of connection as independents. it is not like no one wants to be connected. it is ok to be connected to people. i think that to be rigidly boxed in, democrat/republican that is it, that is not it. but if we can have a balance that allows association to be shown, to connections to be shown, that you can call it a party, but it is not rigid in their mighty in new one and

. >> it shows the credibility of limbaugh.hy in the world would i come up with a story that i got hurt in my own bathroom with my wife standing there. how could anyone say anything like that. i think a lot of people as i read, kind of don't like me as a person. i think that's unfortunate. >> mitch mcconnell just sent out letters to states saying don't follow through with obama's plan. >> he comes from a coal state. i don't mean to be mean spirited but he is a slump of coal. i thought he did an outstanding job. he's my man and loves baseball. >> didn't he do pretty much what obama wanted. >> well he was long before obama was there. i supported him before and after obama. >> are you entirely comfortable with hillary clinton as the democratic nominee. >> sure. very, very much. i talked to her husband yesterday. clinton, i love the way he ends his conversation with me and he was so sincere. >> how does he end his conversation with you. >> harry, i love you. >> he says that every time. >> he says that every time. >> will there be a

rush limbaugh. host: we are making note of it. you having the to say about the dinner last night?aller: it was a joke. that was the worst thing i have seen in my whole life. host: how come? caller: it was flat. no comity. obama can read a script. when he gave his speech about having pages come to the white house. he is a terrible president, and terrible speaker. c-span needs more conservatives instead of offering net job liberals. host: we have written it down. chris is on the line now. your thoughts on the beltway culture as it exists right now? caller: a lot of this reminds me of the decadence of rome before the fall of the empire. these people are so happy with themselves, while the rest of the country seems to be suffering. you know, this administration just seems to be what theodore after another. yet, these are the people who want to filter and control our news. we started the schedule with the revolution, it might be time for another one. host: that was chris. on our facebook page curt writes, the belly of the beast. check rights, i lived in the district, i miss the beltway

if everyone is ever watching fox news or listening to rush limbaugh or any online commentary, republicansre like rabid dogs every time they speak about anything. they cannot get their way when they are saying something, they attack people. they cannot come up with ideas they lie and they believe everything they say. no wonder people cannot have a discussion. host: let me repeat the phone numbers to get some other folks to weigh in. republicans, call 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. mike lillis, congressional reporter for "the hill." guest: good morning. host: why don't you pick up where we left off on the human trafficking bill. it came to an abrupt end in the senate. what is the bill about and where is it now? guest: it came to an abrupt end. the plan to go yesterday was canceled. a lot of people think that is good and means there are talks going on behind closed doors that are making progress. i think it is a postponement and we are likely to see it come up next week. mitch mcconnell said last night he is hopeful that they can do that make some progress