new drama from mel gibson. photographer hurling some pretty harsh accusations at the hollywood star, accused gibson of ripping his shirt while gibson's pregnant girlfriend watched. now, police say they're not buying it. folks at the -- i believe the place is called the playhouse. a club in hollywood. they say the story -- the photographer's story is b.s. let's get to the bottom of that. i want to bring in my colleague jane velez-mitchell host of "issues with jane velez-mitchell" coming your way top of the hour. jane, what do you make of this? >> well, i think these circumstances can be very troublesome for a star like mel gibson. essentially because he's had scandal and trouble in the past, it opens a pandora's box, and it really invites others to be rather aggressive with him. according to the reports that i've read, a photographer/reporter was trying to get a shot of mel gibson and his girlfriend and couldn't get it, and so handed the camera to somebody else, sort of an average joe, who ended up trying to tak

we did the mel gibson story, howie, you guys and everybody quoted at tmz when we broke heath ledger's death, you guys quoted us and everybody else did. britney's divorce and on and on and on. it's disgenerous and maybe dishonest, because if you look at it -- we embarrassed a lot of people who are way behind on this story. i don't think they should be embarrassed. it's enough to say, look, we had good sources, and everybody wanted to be careful. i think for them to say it is ridiculous, because they've been quoting us for three and a half years. >> in a way does -- >> no, no. >> let me ask the question and you can answer. in a way does tmz make some of these stories safe for the mainstream media, kind of laundering through them through customs? you published the photo of rihanna her badly bruised face. everybody else showed the picture and jumped on the story. >> well, i mean, a picture is a picture. but, you know, in terms of other stories we do, how do they know what our news standards are? i can tell you right now, i was a newsman at cbs and nbc. our standards are tougher than there

you would not know this from the epic film, a professor of mel gibson called the patriot. how many of us have seen that? that moment were actually basically the british are represented as kind of bs s. i say sergeant, and hill that baby, would you? [laughter] it was a german director, is that unreasonable of the? of course, the pitcher was based on the life of francis merit, the real swamp fox this ferocious brilliant man of action but he is represented as free his slaves. gimme a break. not only did francis marion not free his slaves, they actually, a group of them across as mounted british troops against francis marion. i wonder what we don't see that in the movie? i was going to say in this digression -- was going to say that when mel gibson makes another movie which i think probably we won't anticipate too soon to call the tory, will have known that the sense of the revolutionary war and the civil war is actually respected so we're in a very bad time in the spring of 1783 and it was conscious on how are redeeming some shred of honor so there is a conference called an a

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go with the pulp machine not with the mosaic which happens to be mel gibson's favorite fertilizer playert in idaho, scott? >> caller: boo-yah, jim cramer. >> we're liking idaho. we've got to do the show from idaho, it's the prettiest state i've ever been in. what's up? >> caller: i want to know what your thoughts are on ticker tdy. >> all right, i have always been a believer, and it's been off -- i think the technologies is one that we should do, we should do a whole segment on, that stock is right to buy. aimtech might be right to buy. negtarian -- let's go to joe in pennsylvania, joe? joey. joe, speak to me. joe's giving me the old heave-ho, making me look bad. how about we go to edwin in tennessee. edwin? >> caller: jim. >> edwin. >> caller: yes, jim. if you have room for it i will send you a huge tennessee hillbilly boo-yah. >> man, i was mentioning in the tennessee papers, boo-yah, overnight, saying there's some football player that was wearing an outfit louder than cramer talks. i like that, that means i've being heard in tennessee. let me help. let me help. >> okay. my micro devic

. >> it's probably in mel gibson's property in malibu. [ laughter ] and fidel's got, like, a little casao florida. let's face that. [ laughter ] so, he's in malibu and i'm going to, kind of, suck up to him and cozy up to him. >> jimmy: you like the cigars? >> you don't smoke cigars? >> jimmy: i try to now and then, but i'm not good at it. i was trying to bring the pipes back. >> because you're like what? you're like 17 years old. >> jimmy: i'm 14. [ laughter ] i'm 14 and a half, mr. baldwin. [ laughter ] >> when i go there, i hope i get to meet castro. just so i can say, "where is your spider hole in malibu?" >> jimmy: yeah. >> do you think he'll know what that means if i say that to him? >> jimmy: of course! >> how do you say -- who speaks spanish here? how do you say -- [ speaks foreign language ] [ laughter ] >> how do you say spider hole? >> jimmy: how do you say "spider hole"? [ imitates tracy morgan ] >> "what the [ bleep ] is wrong with you?" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: tracy! you keep slipping into tracy. you're like sybil. [ imitates tracy morgan ] >> "i asked you a simple [ bleep ]

he played jesus in mel gibson's "passion of the christ." he only suffered minor cuts and bruises.officials say that they have no idea what possessed this man to throw his bicycle in the way of his motorcycle. megyn: huge trauma unfolding on capitol hill. democrats have added sweeping hate crimes legislation to a defense authorization bill. this is one of those things where they have a bill that they need to get yes votes for and they stick something controversial on the back. some are not thrilled about this. what happened? >> as you know, it is -- people have been trying to pass this through for a long time. the senate attached it to their defense bill. it is an amendment attached to an amendment which makes everybody crazy because it is -- the amendment is attached to is the f-22. the hate crimes prevention act, the senate says that they hold hate crimes and abhorrent. they let it go through. it expands the -- -- expands the federal definition of hate crimes. like i said before, it is attached to something completely different, which is, do we continue to fund the fund thef- 22,

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