secret money attacking claire mccaskill.hese big oil and insurance companies don't want you to know who they are but claire mccaskill will fight them: always has, always will. >> stephen: you know, all that secret money is making claire mccaskill kind of look like a heroic underdog. could it be coming from -- claire mccaskill? [ laughter ] clearly, she's got a lot to answer for. here to answer: missouri senator claire mccaskill! thank you for coming here. >> thank you. >> stephen: thank you for join us. okay, all these good men want to do is run attack ads against you with money that is not traceable. why do you have to make that ugly? [ laughter ] >> because secret is usually ugly. you know, it's kind of sleazy, slimy, secret money that people -- >> stephen: no but datda. the money is not secret. the money is public. the men are secret. >> the folks giving the money are seek yet. >> stephen: are secret. would you lick to apologize to the money now. you called the money secret. or do you have something against money, ma'am?

[laughter] it can be dead and clear mccaskill -- clear mccaskill if she is reelected in misery she will probably do that for defense. >> i have fed watching your show since the 2008 electoral season. it is an honor. talking about the recent crisis and the bf working with nato and the rebels could oust muammar qaddafi from power without laying a single book on the ground. do see this involvement with of viable force for the united states? with afghanistan and direct? >> is no rachel maddow dr. [laughter] there is a really smart guy daschle security. he writes for wired.com i did interview for the book and it is very confrontational but i am surprised there is no rachel maddow doctor in. and i am not qualified to do that. obama is a multilateral us. and also he does not have to be accountable for anything else. but he is the multilateral list which is to provide by libya. that is the form of exerting american power to have a military as the rest of those combined. we have not gone to libya and the arab league did not say that. that is why they took a different approach to syria. you can i

senator mccaskill spoke out strongly on this issue. am confident we have a lot to be proud of in our party and in the senate and we, too, are eager to talk about this and to talk about the economy. the the other senate race i would mention, jennifer which this race provides a sharp contrast is the senate race in massachusetts where senator brown has referred to gay and lesbian issues as a side show as things that aren't important. he continually points out it's well-settled law in massachusetts. he is right. what he doesn't tell you is that he opposes marriage equality around the country. it's one of many issues where elizabeth warren is on the side of the people in massachusetts and scott brown is in opposition. >> so democratic congressional campaign committee chairman steve israel said today that obama's stanchion on gay marriage is not that relevant to the house races and he encouraged candidates to let people know how you feel and move on. i am assuming you would agree that we have got, you know, to make sure that people are clear

john tester, claire mccaskill. do you think that this could hurt democrats' chance of hanging on to the senate or, you know, what is considered to be a long shot, nevertheless according to the chairman a possibility to take the house? >> actually i think it is more of a challenge for senate candidates and house candidates out there than the president. because the president speaks for his administration and he's running a national campaign and his campaign probably doesn't include the strategy, probably doesn't include carrying states like montana. so for john tester who is a democrat, he will be asked a lot about this and puts him in a fairly difficult position. but doing the right thing is what people expect of a politician and leader and so i presume that john tester and claire mccaskill and other folks out there are going to do what they feel is best. some of those folks might feel for more or whatever reasons the best thing is important gays and lesbians is not to be able to get married. that's a legitimate pos

chairman mccaskill, ranking member ayotte, senator inhofe, thanks for the opportunity to appear here today to discuss the current readiness of your united states army. i've submitted a statement for the record, and i look forward to answering your questions. these continue to be challenging times for our nation's military, and we've been at war now for over a decade. in fact, at no other time in history have america's servicemen and women fought for so long a period with an all volunteer force. and as you are well aware, we are still heavily engaged in operations in afghanistan. we recognize that our military and interagency efforts there are extremely important. in spite of the heavy demands placed on our personnel and equipment, i'm pleased to report that ours remains a remarkably resilient force. our soldiers are continuing to do an outstanding job, and they and their families have routinely done what we have asked of them. and after more than a decade of war, hard-fought in two separate theaters, america's all volunteer force is highly capable and well led. this is due in no smal

have to kill the choir bear ladies and gentlemen in response to missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill as missouri democratic party spokesman spokesperson caitlin gassy pointed out this is the kind of inflammatory language that could lead to violence or something worse i would add it is barely theory. for those who think the united states has the best darn health care system in the world i have a little mission for you go to florida get on the very southern tip of the state and look to the south about ninety miles off the coast there if you could you'd see cuba and trust me look at a cuba well brawn cause your eyes to burn out of your sockets won't turn you into a pillar of salt and won't get dragged in front of the house un-american activities committee instead you'll actually learn a lot about what a compassionate and effective health care system is supposed to look like even though cuba is one of the poorer nations in the world with an economy that ranks eighty ninth and a g.d.p. of just fifty seven billion dollars compared to the us g.d.p. of fourteen a half trillion dollars. still

mccaskill woman while the economy finally starts to look so are there any signs of life that we can down the time that will discuss it with one of the end side of the world financial elite co-founder of the quantum foam. despite most countries are claiming to have recovered from the two thousand a crisis of the world economy is unstable in america overspending an enormous public debt threatening new recession europe struggles with the long lost eurozone prices that devours bailout money and sparks unrest while the west is strongly the focus of the world economy seems to be moving to. just more and more economists agree that countries like china india and russia will soon become the translators and mr jim rogers is also one of those with a stake in asia. mr rogers welcome to the show i am delighted to be here thank you very much it's my pleasure well first of all your book gave to my children it's subtitled like how how to live and how to invest so how should we live in what should we invest in the eurozone just just let children time not investing in the euro here in the other thing i wa

. >> claire mccaskill wrote 12 agencies to ask for them to account for all advertising. >> they wantrtise benefit of the popular healthcare law. use campaign funds. >> they will encourage people to utilize them for better health. as written, the healthcare law requires a national science based media campaign on the health promotion. and disease prevention. it does not say how much should be spent on it. >> it spent $100 million on campaign to inform seniors of the medicare drug program. >> bret: thank you. the first school to require every student take arabic. plus, for romney and president obama both went there. but one harvard alum directory update is ruffling feathers. grapevine is next. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. ♪ [ acou[ sighs ]ar: slow ] [ announcer ] all work and no play... will make brady miss his favorite part of the day. ♪ [ upbeat ] [ barking ] [ whines ] that's why there's beneful plful lif

[applause] a want to acknowledge senator cleared mccaskill who is here. [applause] representative billy long. [applause] your mayor, melodie colbert keane [applause] somebody who doesn't get a lot of attention but does amazing work all across the country here in joplin, the head of fema, craig fugate is spent an awful lot of time here helping to rebuild. superintendent huff - [applause] principal cicada. [applause] to the faculty, the parents, family, friends, the people of joplin, and most of all the class of 2012. [applause] congratulations on your graduation and thank you for allowing me the honor of playing a small part in this special day. >> thank you and good evening. schools have faced and overcome many obstacles. with unwavering courage and resolve, he has led the joplin schools forward. he has been an inspiration to us all. i am proud to have worked in partnership with him and proud to call him my friend. mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking one of missouri's, one of america's finest leaders and educators. [applause] e

, as part of the subcommittee on contracting oversight's ongoing oversight effort, senator clair mccaskill, which i want to point out is a democrat -- and i -- meaning senator rob porman, requested basic information on hhs contracts on public relations, publicity, advertising or similar servicess from 2008 to the present. we asked for a response by march 16 from secretary sebelius of hhs and has received absolutely nothing from the hhs. nothing from the secretary. didn't bother. finally, we have bipartisanship and it's plone off by the secretary? >> yeah. another example... efforts of bipartisan -- rhetoric, that we hear from coming from our president, saying that he embraces and he has nothing to really contribute to the cause of bipartisanship, in order to get things done for the people. the president can step in and tell his department head there, sebelius to answer the senator's questions and let the public get to the bottom of this. i am going to go to the top and point the finger at president obama who is an absent commander in chief, he is an absent ceo from our nation's capitol. he

is claire mccaskill in missouri say she will agree with the platform that marriage ought to be redefinedl nelson in florida going to want to run in a state where 62% of voters said it should be between a man and a woman and then that takes a lot of wind out of the sails. >>en 0 the republican and democratic side. >> if other elected officials in the democratic party say i don't agree with the president -- >> cheney does. >> we have to take a break. lots more to come from our roundtable. >> from the bullying the kid with long hair and ridicule the same hair for having an american express gold card, not platinum. >> was romney a bully in high school? how much matters now? >> after one term nicolas sarkozy lost his re-election bid because he wasn't able to fix his nation's economy or as obama put it, uh-oh. >> here and abroad president obama fighting a global wave and "time" magazine asks "are you mom enough?" we'll debate the controversial cover. >> don't look at it as a source of future humiliation or helped shape him into the most fearsome cage fighter in the history of mankind. are you

claire mccaskill is not going to win or lose re-election based on gay marriage and neither will jon tester. health care is more cultural. health care is a more cultural -- has been used more in these culture wars frankly than gay marriage will be. >> indeed. >> the way they have taken health care. this is something you are on top of, chris. >> i agree. they all matter and we'll see what really matters in the end. this will be used by the president's opponents, i can get on it, and, chuck, you agree with that they will try like hell to use it and it is up to the voter whether it works. >> i think you will see a party split on this. i don't think it will be unanimous inside the republican party to go for the wedge and the jugular the way they did eight years ago. >> great pleasure to have you. coming up, we're back with much more on the president's historic announcement. stay with us. ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me

i think it's going to pass easily out of the house but someone like claire mccaskill in missouri running re-election as a democrat, they want to put the pressure on them to have that vote in the senate because there are also some bruises from december 2010. last lame duck session was very messy. a lot of liberal policy got passed. republicans want to avoid that and make democrats get on the record on the taxes. >> robert costa -- >> larry kudlow. >> -- as always, terrific stuff. now, why should the gop let the democrats dictate a grand fiscal bargain? after all, as i said, mr. costa agrees with me and he actually knows politics. a republican president and senate and house should be able to push their own dynamic pro-growth program. so here now let's talk. we have democratic pollster, 1996 clinton campaign advise yeh mark penn. we have also have former house majority leader dick armey. he's co-chairman of freedomworks. former white house deputy press secretary and cnbc contributor tony fratto joins us. dick armey, let me begin with you, my good friend. why should romney and the republican

one, are the folks who are like you, who are similar to you like claire mccaskill out in missouri on this issue, in a state where your stance is not going to be popular. that means that there's potential more downdraft on the whole democratic ticket in that state. then you look at a state like pennsylvania where you have a democrat in bob casey who has a different view than the president on this subject, and there maybe you have to have -- if you're bob casey -- maybe you have to put a little more distance between yourself and the president and that, in turn, highlights an unpopular stance for the president in that state. so whenever you have democrats that either have to embrace an unpopular stance of yours or distance themselves from it, that's not what you want to see. megyn: but we are being told more and more these days that this is becoming a rights -- an issue of, you know, possible bigotry, that the gay rights lobby is trying to paint those who are opposed to marriage equality as bigots. and so, and with the president saying what he said to robin roberts, you know, the pressu

claire mccaskill acts like a moderate except when she goes to washington, d.c.us, it's not supposed to be a cake walk in washington, d.c. that's the whole reason the government's structured the way it is. that's why the senate and house of representatives is the way it is. it's not supposed to be super easy because if it were, can you imagine what we'd have? >> it's not meant to be e zhu easy, but it is a horrible thing when you are someone who tries to break gridlock, then that is how used against you. again, you saw what happened the senator mccain. i have no problem if you're a are republican or democrat and you want to make the argument about getting elected, but then it's like you committed treason because you chose to work with someone on the opposite party. that spells trouble. >> you're presupposing that we're talking about something that's completely constitutional. if you're talking about nationalizing huge chunks of the private sector, that doesn't really jive nationalizing huge junks of the private sector, that doesn't gibe with what's written in the

senators john tester and claire mccaskill have declined to endorse president obama's call for same-sex marriage. democrats who have easier races but in states that could become more competitive in november have backed away from obama's stance. first of all the names on the list, erin, do any of them surprise you? >> no. they don't, i mean those five represent either very red states or they are personally very religious. now i would tell you that the democratic party in a blanket way, does support it. democratic campaign organizations that are trying to elect democrats to the house and the senate started fundraising off of it this week. >> okay. dave, i want to talk about your recent blog post. which has a new "u.s.a. today" gallup poll showing independents and their reaction to the president's support of same-sex marriage. here we go with the numbers, 63% say it makes no difference. 23% say they're less likely to vote for president obama. 11% say they're more likely to vote for him. what's your take-away on those numbers. >> well, there is definitely still more intensity among people w

i want to knowledge senator claire mccaskill who is here. representative billy. [applause] your mayor. and someone who does amazing work all across the country. the head of fema. spent an awful lot of time here, helping to rebuild. the superintendent, the principal. the faculty, the parents, the family, friends, the people of joplin, and most of all, the class of 2012. congratulations on your graduation, and thank you for allowing me the honor of playing a small part in this special day. the commencement speaker, the job is primarily to keep it short. they have given me more than two minutes. and the other job is to inspire. but as i looked out at this class, what is clear is that you are the inspiration. to this country and the people all over the world. last year, the road that led you here today turn that no one could have imagined. just hours after the class of 2011 walked across the stage, the most powerful tornado in six decades toward a path of devastation through droplets that was nearly a mile wide and 13 long. in just 32 minutes, it took thousands of ho

democratic senator mccaskill has spoken out against this. even the administration supports the idea of preventing illegals from receiving public benefits through funding of a verification program. mr. speaker, we can fix this, put a stop to the abuse of precious taxpayer dollars, by simply requiring a social security number. americans want, need and deserve better protection of their hard-earned money and we owe it to the united states of america, to take action today. i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, is recognized. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield one minute to the chairman of the human resources subcommittee, the gentleman from kentucky, to discuss the committee's final recommendation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i rise in support of this legislation, including the provision to end the duplicative social services block grant. w

chairwoman mccaskill, ranking member a odds and senator inhofe, thanks for the opportunity to appear here today to discuss the current readiness of your united states army. i've submitted a statement for the record and i look forward to answering your questions. these continues to be challenging times for our nations military and we have been at war now for over a decade. in fact ignore the time in history have americans servicemen and women thought for so long a period with an all-volunteer force and as you are well aware, we are still heavily engaged in operations in afghanistan. we recognize our military and inter-agency efforts there are extremely important. in spite of the heavy demands placed on our personnel and equipment, i'm pleased to report that ours remains a remarkably resilient force. our soldiers are continuing to do an outstanding job and they and their families have routinely done what we have asked of them. after more than a decade of war, hard-fought in two separate theaters, america's all-volunteer force is highly capable and well led. this is due in no small part

democratic senator mccaskill has spoken out against this. even the administration supports the idea of preventing illegals from receiving public benefits rough funding of a verification program. mr. speaker, we can fix this, put a stop to the abuse of precious taxpayer dollars, by simply requiring a social security number. americans want, need and deserve better protection of their hard-earned money and we owe it to the united states of america, to take action today. i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, is recognized. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield one minute to the chairman of the human resources subcommittee, the gentleman from kentucky, to discuss the committee's final recommendation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i rise in support of this legislation, including the provision to end the duplicative social services block grant. we