bill maher" on hbo. bill maher, it is nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> always good to see you, rachel. >> the occupy wall street protesters today, bill, they took a tour of wall street billionaires' homes in new york city. noting among other things that new york's special millionaires tax expires at the end of this year. there's been this surtax on millionaires in new york, but yet all these millionaires are still here. i wonder if you feel like the occupy wall street protests are resonating, have come up with at least a vague message that is speaking to people who may not be participating in those protests yet. >> absolutely. i think it's a great thing. on our show, we've talked for the longest time about how what the left needs is something to put the wind at the back of the president and other democrats who as you know have a tendency to falter toward the side of, shall we say centristism. this could be it. so what their message is a little vague. i like it they're sort of militantly vague a

i did not work so well for hosam maher husein.i think the discounts the fact the statute does harmed by its mere existence. again, i think a lot of people have relaxed about the patriot act anything that george w. bush is not in the white house because they do think that barack obama is going to be looking for people. but the power is there. the statute of limitation is going to allow people to be prosecuted by some future administration that things, without all different presence in the future. the president obama and eric holder don't really determine the action of all people and agents below didn't. >> host: but they have made, they are responsible for the own actions. part of the compelling part of your book is the very thinly veiled system that you portrayed, candidate obama is very different from president obama, and that by and large it has a continuation of the bush administrations policies. from my perspective i think there's very little opportunity for a just and in our strategy on terror. and it's actually a laudatory r

hbo comedian and resident pot head bill maher has ridiculous advice -- shocking -- about drugs in yourt it there yourself. this is america. it would be the healthiest thing they eat all day. put drugs in the halloween candy. >> kimberly: that is irresponsible and not funny. >> andrea: that is a cry for help. pay attention to me. it is obnoxious. >> bob: he is having an acin flashback. >> eric: i bet both of his viewers are outraged about this. >> bob: what do you think? >> greg: he is obsessed with new ag age health. he is a quake. >> andrea: are you defending -- >> greg: no. do you think it's responsible for him to say that? kim serious case like razor blades and people poisoning halloween candy. >> greg: a joke. >> bob: what is this stuff? >> kimberly: makeup. you have seen it before. finally, a fun halloween poll for you? do you believe in ghosts? rasmussen poll shows 31% do believe in ghosts. 62% do not. 7% don't know what to believe. someone needs to tell them. maybe the obama administration will tell them they should believe in ghosts. bob, you do. >> bob: i do believe in ghosts.

we will hear directly from ahmed maher. then we will do a question and answer.please join me in welcoming ahmed maher. [applause] >> i am very happy to be here. i am thinking the arab-american institute for the invitation. it is a good chance to talk with you. informal meetings. so i want to share our ideas with you. and discussing about the future of egypt, of retribution, and -- after the revoluation, and american rules and. the admiration between our nations of youth. the american youth, our brothers. we started as a group after establishing a movement towards the modern movement in egypt. towards the beginning of the struggle of the mubarak regime, we were a group of the people. the majority -- about 3000 or 4000. after the parliament elections, we continued our activities in egypt. they banned any activities in egypt in the street at that time. we started to use social media, the internet. at that time, there was no facebook. we tried to reach more people, to organize our group, to spread our ideas. the main aim of our speech or our message was how to conne

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this is the scene heading out to lake maher where we have this skies beginning to fill up. with overcast conditions due to marine layer that is returning on shore. what you can bank on, overcast skies, temperature wise in the 50s. tomorrow gray morning but blue skies in the afternoon. 66 san francisco up from today's 62 degrees. 76 in san jose. stratus commonly referred to asthma routine layer, form of low kids, patchy fog, we'll push back into our inland areas at least good 60 miles towards the ultimate path. it will begin to pull back into the open waters during the day. it's going to take some waters to scrub off the coast. now we had that enhancement at the marine layer due to the north of us that's finally kicking in an easterly direction. that's going to allow high pressure to expand. when that happens it warms up the atmosphere. 80 degrees in morgan hill for the outside number to the south from santa clara valley. 60 around the coast. tomorrow wind southwest winds 5 to 10. 60 in the bay to 79 degrees in sonoma. smack in between. the extended forecast will hold this w

please join me in welcoming ahmed maher.ause] >> i am very happy to be here, and i'm thanking the arab immigrant institute for the invitation. i think it's a good chance to talk with you and any formal meetings, in the formal meetings. so, i am going to share our idea with you and discussing about the future, and discussing also about what is american rules. they complain -- [inaudible] and the american youth, our brother. so, we started as a youth activist in 2005 after establishing movement towards the movement in egypt, and towards the beginning struggle and against mubarak regime at the time. there were a few number of people, 100. the majority of, about three or 4000 a day of the elections. mubarak elections. after the parliament elections, we decreed our activities in egypt. and security was banned any activity in the street at that time. so we start to use social media. we start to use internet and blogs at that time, 2006. there is no facebook. but we use the internet to reach more people, to organize our groups, to

. >> i was watching realtime with bill maher this weekend and he was willing to put up $1 million to her $1 that he not survive longer and get the nomination. others say he is romney's worst nightmare. how is he going to consince people that he is not the flavor of the month? >> it's a matter of longevity and doesn't have the organization that romney had. romney has been running for president for years and he has staffers all over the country. cain is playing catch up. he raised more money recently and will be hiring more people, but even then the totals are well behind several other candidates running behind him in the polls. he has a strug toll keep up all the way long. >> thank you very much. greatly appreciate your time, david. thank you. >> developing news in the search for baby lisa irwin. police are surrounding a home as we speak. we are expected to hear from her parents in a news conference. >> rick perry publicly distanced himself from the minster who made incendiary comments regarding mormonism. a string of e-mails obtained by the daily beast reveals perry's campaign may be

>> when i saw that clip on the "bill maher" show friday night and they moved the camera to ellis henican and he was going like this, i thought that was something the bill maher people put in there to be funny. no, that really happened. it's possible to extrapolate too much from herman cain on the abortion issue. there's inherent awkwardness in republicans advocating small government and government big enough to intervene in every pregnancy in america. there is an awkwardness there. herman cain being so awkward about it perfectly manifests the intrinsically oxymoronic nature of waning a small government, to force american women to give birth against their will. there's the political issue of whether the republican party would nominate someone who said abortion wasn't government's business, someone who's effectively pro choice. you can extrapolate it to those things. really i think the most important thing about herman cain on the abortion issue is the simplest thing about it. he does not seem to understand that if abortion is illegal, if there is a law against abortion then government is

on stage with bill maher, was former democratic congressman alan grayson of florida, former george w.h communications director nicolle wallace who you've seen on this show and on the right, p.j. o'rourke. after congressman grayson gave an eloquent description of the problems raised by occupy wall street, the critique they've been raising, things like wall street's financial grip over both political parties and what hasn't happened since the financial crisis caused by wall street in 2008, p.j. o'rourke tried not so much to denounce the movement as a whole but rather to just mock it. congressman grayson mercilessly, it was a move that did not end well for p.j. o'rourke and ended very well for congressman alan grayson. >> get the man a drum. they found their spokesman. >> well, if i -- >> get a bongo drum. forget where to go to the bathroom and it's yours. >> listen, if i am a spokesman for all the people who think we should not have 24 million people in this country who can't find a full-time job, that we should not have 50 million people in this country who can't see a doctor when they

tonight she's about to be a guest on "the bill maher show" so she can't host her own show. we're able to talk with her by phone for this moment. >> good evening, melissa. thank you for having me on "the rachel maddow show." i feel like it's a looking glass thing. it's great to be on the snow. >> you can always be a guest on my guest hosting of your show. >> deal. >> listen, back in 2005 and 2006, when americans were in the streets pushing back against this war, did you imagine that this is how it would end with the security agreement, with this kind of a slow, you know, movement out, this immunity, denial of immunity by the iraqi government? does american protesting about our own international entanglements matter at all? >> you know, it is, i think that the most i could have foreseen, the most i could have imagined was that the american people would elect a democratic president who was opposed to the war and that would be the person overseeing the end of it. i think that protest movements and the in-the-street kind of protests that we have about wars and that we certainly

. >> political cometator and sometime comedian bill maher, take ago shot at this news channel for coveragef occupy wall street protesters. some of those protesters part of a millionaire's march. and to an affluent community in new york city. all right. cal, has lower manhattan sort of become a campground for the liberal media? >> when has it not been. you know the song "i'll take manhattan", you can have it. look at the coverage, the nbc reporter ludicrously pronounced it our arab spring. isn't that wonderful? and brian williams called it a protest against economic and social inequality. well, as business commentators on this channel on this very day have properly noted. the media and demonstrators ought to be out in front of congress and outside of the white house and fannie mae and freddie mac. that's where the problem started and where it continues for the 14 trillion dollar debt. >> or up in washington d.c. in front of the white house or congress or above. and you've been listening to npr's coverage of the protesters and what do you hear? >> my particular spin and president is that i a

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 --

i'm talking to maher to an address and he's now a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party but she was formally the european commission's chief accountants while she was in that job she raised concerns about flaws in the commission's accounting system which she said left it vulnerable to fraud mottram dress and thanks for talking to us today now were you a euro skeptic when you joined the commission as chief accountant no i was not a euro skeptic in fact i thought you were a project was a project of cooperation i thought you were sharing solutions among the different member states so i was quite on earth to be able to be part of the european union and also or to be part of our roof reform that they were undergoing what happened or what did you find out to make you change your mind when i found out that the had no control on the payments they were making out of the european union budget basically you know they didn't ask if people qualified to get the funding from the european union and i was responsible for the signature of the it's so i had the highest r

christian religious leaders for sunday's violence which left twenty six dead general i don't know maher said to the minority of protesters were peaceful but an arm crowd joined the group and began attacking soldiers officials deny troops opened fire with live ammunition or ran over them with armored vehicles existing drivers were in a state of panic trying to escape. a small radiation hotspots have been detected in the japanese cities of tokyo and yokohama levels are actually higher than in some areas that were evacuated around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant scientists say the radiation poses no danger to health but more checks are being made the discovery comes seven months after an earthquake and tsunami brought fukushima close to a nuclear meltdown. the consequences of their near nuclear disaster in japan were far reaching and germany has taken the lead in europe promising to give up nuclear power by twenty twenty two and thale the gap with or unknowable forces but it's not all positive and eco friendly future a well be one of blackouts disappearing industry and huge electricit

has blamed christian religious leaders for sunday's violence which left twenty six dead general otto maher said a minority of protesters were peaceful but an armed crowd joined the group and began attacking soldiers officials denied troops opened fire with live ammunition or ran over an hour with armored vehicles insisting drivers were speaking halleck trying to stay. for the advantage here is spanish and banter is rather spending long and lonely months in orbit mealtimes on the international space station are a highlight area in zero gravity is a challenge both for the guiders and high tech chefs have to plan to many on earth so our teams and peer all over iran for tasting. after traveling at phenomenal speed for two days cramped in the small space of a so used rocket cosmonauts arriving at the international space station going to be package but how do you eat in zero gravity. you have to be a bit more careful while eighteen. every different piece of food that gets out of your grip will float away and you won't be able to keep track of it. to make sure cosmonauts enjoy their lunch without

you know this this mocking the cynicism that's ridiculing by the likes of drugs by the likes of bill maher across the culture in america where it's ok to assassinate a us citizen because he's he's obviously a bad guy because the president doesn't like them or that this is ok for j.p. morgan a private corporation to pay your police department a huge sum of money the largest in the history of new york this is something that we saw in the mubarak regime it's not mubarak tried the same thing soon. hired more leg breakers and it didn't really help in the end you know but again max this notion that there's some sort of exceptionalism and that we can you know dance at the edge of of tyranny and not ever for some reason because we're superior americans fall over into a corrupt system whereas madonna dancing on the edge of tyranny that sounds like a dance if i ever heard it so again ok here's j.p. morgan and we're told by all our fellow americans to worry about them paying off the new york police department here's another headline regarding j.p. morgan the anglo american precious metals to rivet ha

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and in case you are wondering why tom isn't here tonight make sure to tune into real time with bill maher on h.b.o. friday night at ten pm eastern time when tom will be featured on the desk and don't forget as tom always says democracy begins with you get out there get active you're it. the big.

kind of an interesting statement since last question for you a lot of big things happened for it's maher scheduled to happen for tomorrow what are you hearing in terms of how this movement will take shape and evolve in the coming days. i'm not exactly sure how it's going to take form that the unions are kind of joining up with what's going on because the unions have by far and away many more people than we do but they are a huge portion of our country and i know tomorrow there's going to be a large march down i think it's from city hall to st and it's four thirty you think scheduled and i personally am going to be taking off work early to be a part of it. i don't know we'll see what happens but there are a huge part of our country and so they have to be included in the equation we'll see what happens and i was occupy wall street protester katie falkenberg. all the cycling on for more than two weeks there have been spotty coverage of these protests even though many say this is the start of a tea party on the left some even calling it the answer to the arab spring here at home the american