maher." thanks for coming on the show. >> anything for you, mike. >> thank you, my friend. despite blow back from the right wing saying that leftists and liberals who compare the tea party hostage takers were wrong, mitch mcconnell today admitted his party acted like hostage takers during the debt ceiling negotiations. do you agree? >> i think anyone who's sane agrees. i don't see any could be controversy there at all. a lot of people have been calling them hostage takers for a long time fp if we shoot the hostage, it's not that bad for the hostage, that was their idea about the debt ceiling, right? if we default, you know, it's not the end of the world. which to me is the equivalent of saying, we have the hostage, if we shoot them in the head, it's not that bad for the hostage. >> it's crazy. >> yeah. >> well, maybe they're boning up by looking at ransom, an old mel gibson movie to figure out how to get this thing done right. what's your response to palin and bachman playing the victim over

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maher. he kind of breeze over it, but i do want to note -- when he took office, he was facing a more than $300 million deficit he had to close. building the budget, he was focused on cutting in a way that was responsible. but it was mostly a cutting exercise. when we went to him and said, we actually need to grow, sir, it took a lot of courage for him to make an investment as part of this budget. which he did. that, you could say, was may be the easy part. he proposes the budget, and then he has to turn to the board. the board was faced with a lot of demands for a small amount of resources. supervisor cohen was a great leader. they saw the value in this investment. investing in our neighborhoods, investing in our people be buying -- investing in our people. so, i do not want that to be lost in the fact that the mayor and the board have taken a courageous steps in making those dollars available. representing the board today, we're in her district, you're great supervisor, supervisor melia --

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as you know song was sixteen years old when communities maher asked that's not inside the song so or should not be honest for his crimes so on is. no rational person and i've known have been honest is being honest and will be honest. most hours must be asked in front of britain. this is punishment this is not. a mention. that it's. because you've. been immersed know me whatsoever. and i didn't come here just first. and heard they first. started a small. trial wife. and mother is now. when. the. last time the close up team was in the region where the gold rush still gets people hiked up. this time guard she goes to cheer on preachin the for the local government is giving power back to the people look where every orphan will be adopted. the locals turn their land into a tourist fair and honest well come. culture close up on r.g.p. . wealthy british style. such. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. morning news today violence is

due to injury she also missed both the french open and wimbledon this year soften and her brother maher out distinguished as the only siblings to have both held the world's top ranking brother soften now generating headlines in the world of politics after retiring from tennis six years ago the thirty one year old aiming for a seat in the russian state duma standing for the united russia party. to basketball and there is no movement in the ongoing amby labor dispute between team owners and the players' association that's according to commissioner david stern his state's quote everything remains the same on all the issues ahead of the november first season starts and there will be more meetings later in august. we're at the same place were. thirty days ago. we agreed we'd be in touch to schedule some additional meetings that's all so you can only go so long discussing non-economic or just to be a shoe store etc careful next steps or care if you get your brings you back to the list. and finally two thousand and six mo to be champion nicky hayden found out what it's like to take to the trac

when maher russia have won the euro league super final in. katha the second time in the history after coming from three goals down to basis and six four and sunny moscow is from costa right now reports. russia has already established itself as one of the world's beach soccer powerhouses alongside giants like brazil stay and portugal to name just a few the euro leaks super final held in moscow for the first signed by the way proved once again that they seem is a force to be reckoned with come the world cup however the home team started the super final slow and that's put it lightly this which side who are they your league runners up in last year's tournaments managed to upset the sold out improvise be carried out three times by the end of the first period their star player and look how much he must go striker deion stankovic scored a brace and he still made border to the third city to get it from getting it was obvious that a once in top form in the opening minutes we couldn't hold on to the bull and eventually conceded some pretty easy gills

standings jujubee injury concerns missed the french open on wimbledon this year soften her brother maher outs are distinguished as the only siblings to have held both of the world's top rankings for their stuff and generating headlines in the world of politics since retiring from tennis in the nine the thirty one even for a seat in the russian state duma standing for the united russia i know there's just a month to go before the european basketball championships tip off but russia has been dealt a major blow in their preparations school center sasha cowan forced to misstate entire competition with injury twenty six year old days scheduled to undergo surgery today it will take him up to four weeks to rehabilitate ruling the much of international davis blot squad however you tell john ford undercurrent that the informed victory out but until a famous golfer from the denver nuggets they are all expected to fly the flag for a share in the three we near the continental championships are vital for qualifying for next year's london olympics which is only european triumph came four years by. the

but asked on friday she told hbo bill maher it was a sign that the country was pretty darn -- blank.xpletive. he attributeed it to tim geithner who says swears like a 7-year-old boy. a new blog featured on the smithsonian's website getk attention for the wrong reasons. the department of innovation describes it as being about people and ideas that will likely shape the way we will live one day. the logo features three interlocking years that could not turn and rotate properly. a user noted that the gears are imminentize # and representative the opposite of innovation. it does accurately reflect the state of our nation's capitol, but that is hardly innovation. i recommend shifting gears. finally hollywood take on the navy seal mission that killed usama bin laden is scheduled to come out in october of next year. less than a month before the presidential election. columnist maureen dowd write writes -- the movie makers are getting top level access to the most classified mission in history. ♪ top story at the bottom of the hour, brutal day on wall street as investors get the first chance

history and yet move on to keep options available for women in the future earlier i caught up with maher but this and this install excuse me a correspondent for science magazine and author of the book natural selection choosing boys over girls and the consequences of a world full of men i also asked her about to explain the history of this for us. clearly history really goes back to the one nine hundred fifty s. when population growth and major concern in the west and it was an issue for a number of routledge and important reasons that we had estimates showing that. people were living longer than ever before that in part because of advances in public health certainly weren't dying and disease. around the world in as creative numbers and it seemed to you and we miss estimates for the first time showing. the population in the book like twenty or thirty years out and people became very concerned. both the right and the left and there was an. interest in doing something and with strategies to control the. nation around the world. there were people on question who were mixed up in this for wr

government shell after losing to south african kevin anderson in his opening second round match on tuesday maher is less heralded the opponent knocking out the two time to jump in in straight sets stopping just again in the second six three six one it's murray's third consecutive opening round loss in american hald gold masters this year following surprised the thieves in indian wells and miami in spring. slow again seem to be doing so. i mean it's happened to me already once this year and you know i've trained really hard to get ready for i've always played very well here and. i can get i think though i started both really really badly which doesn't help against on the surface like when i was done approach early. and i think going into. elsewhere frenchman rasha got skase safely through to the second stage after beating germany florian the town saved claiming a six three six two victory to progress into the last two way we will face brazil in almost the much. and finally told gulf as a gearing up at the athletic club for this week's p.g.a. championship including former world best tiger woods ar

it leaves people to start asking questions for which i think are just kind of stupid questions bill maher went ahead and talked about this one take a look i think hillary would have been better having lived through p.j. dizzy dress. and trillions and all of that she would never of still like obama seems to think that he can win them over you go shit with him she would have bill you know i mean she would she knows how to deal with difficult. i don't view problems with days at all tell you why because yes we can talk about hillary and how she's a ballbuster you know she is so much tougher than obama and i think there is a statement to be made there but i don't think you can actually ask would it been would have been different or would it have been better of course would've been different but would it have been better if this person was in office because. from the record if you look at obama specifically people flip flop a change completely for when they're on the campaign trail to when they get into office you have to start asking all the whys and you never really believe that are you just

customers who have deposits of more than fifty million dollars as more investors take cover from the maher. turmoil so they're saying that they're basically trying to force people out of cash and into somewhere else because they're receiving so many people coming in flooding the banking system with all this cash and this is something we've spoken to james turk about where he envisioned reverse capital control that instead of capital controls being on money being taken out of the u.s. it would be against money being brought into the u.s. in order to avoid the hyperinflation of all those dollars that are overseas yeah another great point trying to stop the money from coming in by charging essentially negative interest rates people say you can't take interest rates below zero but you can by charging people to hold their money at the bank they start off with these big fifty million dollar posits and then they work their way down to mom and pop are out there with a couple of thousand dollars on deposit you will be charged one or two percent or more at the end of the year you have that much less