michael moore wants to vote for santorum, so basically, what, what romney's got to say is that this isurting the party and also, it makes romney look better because santorum is admitting he's less of a threat to obama than santorum. >> and i'm not sure that's what he's admitting, but it's definitely making voters mad and my twitter is exploding. and bob and i debate like every afternoon on news room, and this is a dirty trick, a democrat running as a tea party candidate as we saw in the mid term, using taem language to cool voters or sending voters to different polling stations and this is fair game and santorum said i'm going after reagan democrats and that's exactly what he's doing. >> a lot of people don't like it. >> let me follow-up. not the fact that he's going after democrat voters, but the tactics, saying, really? saying, look, romney voted for wall street bailouts, but against auto bailouts. do you people in michigan want to vote for guys against auto bailouts? he voted against it himself. >> and they'll do anything to win. i mean, politics-- >> that's why i think that-- and i

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joining us is michael moore.you for being here. >> happy residents presidents day. >> do you love trees and cars. >> he does have that right. the trees in michigan are are just the right height. in wisconsin they go way you can't even see the top, in ohio just a bunch of shrubery. >> that is not a michigan joke? >> no, not at all. it's no joke. he likes the great lakes but all the little lakes, the poor guy, i just start to feel sorry for him on some level, not too much, but when i was in grade school, his dad was the governor of michigan. all through grade school, growing up, george romney, and romney, george romney was a man who supported the civil rights movement, when he was the ceo of american motors, took a pay cut because thought ceo's shouldn't be paid this much. he came back from viet nam after a tour to see what was going on, said we're not being told the truth. that cost him he had to drop out of the residential rates -- presidential race. >> he was positive i was brain washed, parroting what the gener

. >>> here is michael moore, please stick around for that. >>> the self appointed arbiter of truth they call it a day. i rate that statement mostly not really but maybe true. stay tuned for the details. >>> it has been three weeks since st. louis, missouri hosted the parade to mark the end of the eye iraq war. 100,000 people showed up in st. louis to say welcome home and thank you to the men and women who fought in that nearly nine-year war. since then, since the successful parade organizers say there are 20 other cities working on hosting their own parades to mark the end of the war. almost every case it's regular people, regular citizens, pushing their local government to let them throw a parade to welcome home the veterans. the most recent city to add the name to the list of confirmed parades is richmond, virginia. the virginia parade set for may 19th, a saturday, also armed forces day. richmond's welcome home our military parade has the page. we linked to that. the white house is planning to go mark the end of the iraq war with a gala dinner later this month. a dinner they have give

michael moore is out on the tape some place saying all his friends are going vote for santorum because he's the weaker candidate and they want to cause mischief. what about the democrat turnout, tom? how will that impact things? >> i don't know. i understand that's an interesting thing because i know the democratic party has done a robocall for that purpose to encourage people to vote for santorum and santorum has done a robocall to democrats asking them to vote for him. so one of the two -- i mean, the democrats are hoping that if santorum is the weaker candidate, but i'm telling you you better be careful what you ask for, democrats. here's the thing, honest to goodness, here's what gives santorum an edge and perhaps in a different election with a different candidate or incumbent things would be different. against a clinton, probably santorum would not have much of a chance. this is not a bill clinton. this is barack obama. he is the most left-wing candidate that -- i mean, candidate for re-election we have ever had. you don't have a right wing candidate against a moderate and i'll te

. >> santorum's response: michael moore's response? the michigan sub text the battle of the unforced errors. romney again remembers something that didn't happen. >> i voted against ted kennedy, tip o'neal and bill clinton. >> they were never on the same ballot together. >> we went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. >> no. and david shuster in michigan steve kornacki, and sam seeder. $20 million off of women's healthcare. not off of the price. off of the care. pushing to deny more women more health care even as alabama and virginia have to back off some of their preabortion transvaginal ultrasound demands. and where fox news gets it's quote, news. >> this could be the intent of the obama administration. >> and the latest from michigan too close to call and arizona, romney in a breeze. and the quote of the day. >> i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support. >> i'm sorry about that. that i would have paid to see. all of that and more now on "countdown." ♪ >> good evening, this is tuesday february 28th

. >>> michael moore, academy awarn winning documentary whose family has lived in michigan longer than michigan last been a state. thank you for joining us again. i'm glad could you come back. >> that's correct. thank you for having me again, rachel. since i spoke to you last week, the trees are still at that same height. >> eventually they will outgrow their perfect height and michigan will have to address that crisis since that is obviously the source -- >> we'll deal with it when we have to. >> we're on the eve of the michigan primary. how is the two leading candidates in the race are against saving the state's most important industry and unrepentant about it? >> i have come to the conclusion they are in a race with each other to see who can get the least number of votes from the michigan citizenry. i think it's the most bizarre last couple weeks here in the state of michigan. i think romney, this real guy image he's trying to project, you kind of feel sorry for the guy because he just keeps putting his foot in his mouth. i expected him to say by the end of the day he is all for eat

we heard from people overtly like michael moore, we heard from certain labor groups that they wantedo do this and force the republican primary onward and keep mitt romney from locking up delegates and keep doing that. was this encouraging tacitly? we don't know. but we know that it was effective among democrats. they did get what they wanted. one in ten, almost one in ten, was a self-identified democrat in the exiting polling in michigan. the other thing that we saw, a lot of those folks, megyn, could have been sincere santorum voters. megyn: 53 percent for santorum. >> overwhelmingly for santorum, and a lot of them could have been the reagan democrats, we talked about, socially conservative democrats that liked santorum's message and certainly he encouraged those votes, there was a robo call, talking with romney's bailout of gm and chrysler, but then there are the mischief makers and not sincere voters and we have evidence they were not part of the picture because a voter in favor of no legal restrictions on abortion, essentially on demand, who then says they voted for rick santorum

. >> that might have been the michael moore effect. >> that might have been the michael moore effect. >> he said to go vote for santorum. he is from flint, michigan famously, of course. all of those counties went for you in both elections. right? >> all of them. >> actually this one right here this county is the most conservative county in the state, and there isn't a single democrat probably in the history of michigan that has been able to win ottowa county. you see it's gone pretty significantly for santorum. >> all right. now, we hear that rick santorum is about to speak. we will take a break. we might hear from rick santorum. coming right back. what's up? >>hi! >>how ya doing? >>good. >>what you got there? >>a u.v. light lunch box. >>wow! how does it work? >>you put the fruit in, you turn it on, you wait for ten seconds, you take it out. it's a healthy apple to eat. >>that's big. if you sell as manny of those as we sold records, one day i'm going to be going to your house. >>got a cool idea of your own? enter it now at wouldntitbecoolif.com. chance to pitch their idea to will.i.am

you have michael moore telling people to vote for rick santorum. this is obviously an effort to intervene in our party to kidnap our primary process. republicans ought to be able to select the nominee we want. clearly democrats have concluded that rick santorum is easiest guy to run against barack obama that is why they are telling democrats to vote for them. >> neil: do you think they are working in concert with obama folks? >> they probably haven't communicated with one another, you don't need to. they are running the same robo calls trying to get democrats to sign up in the republican primary and telling them to vote for rick santorum. that tells republicans who the democrats are afraid of, it's not rick santorum, it's me. >> neil: still the president speaking to the uaw in washington said that you are union stands to the point you are the anti-rescue stance is coming back to bite you. >> you got folks say the real problem, we it was the workers, they made it out like bandits. state of the auto industry it was paying back. really? even by the st

. >> that might have been the michael moore effect. >> that might have been the michael moore effect. >> he said to go vote for santorum. he is from flint, michigan famously, of course. all of those counties went for you in both elections. right? >> all of them. >> actually this one right here this county is the most conservative county in the state, and there isn't a single democrat probably in the history of michigan that has been able to win ottowa county. you see it's gone pretty significantly for santorum. >> all right. now, we hear that rick santorum is about to speak. we will take a break. we might hear from rick santorum. coming right back. current tv presents: brought to you by pradaxa. the presidential candidate as a washington outsider is now a well-worn campaign theme but in a 1952 ad called "the man from abilene" it was brand-new. >>out of this small frame house in abilene, kanasas came the man dwight d. eisenhower. >>he was kind of the candidate from the heartland. >>coming from outside washington to come in and kind of clean things up and you have that repeating year af

tavis: having you and michael moore, it was a wonderful conversation. we got a chance to rebroadcast on pbs, so i was saying a moment ago, sunday march 18, i am going to new york. i am going to continue this poverty conversation throughout the year. the fastest-growing group of persons falling into poverty are women and children. nobody talks about the fact that women and their babies are becoming poorer faster than anybody else in this country. women and their babies, and the real question is what does it say about a nation that allows women and children, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be in poverty. that is the reality, and in the western world, the gap between what men make and women make is wider than anyplace else in the world. on sunday, the 18th of march, i am going to new york university, and i am having another conversation about poverty in america, this one just about one in, children, and poverty, and the -- just women, children, and poverty, and the audience is just going to be women with their babies. it will be a conversat

another notch with an eagle on the eleventh hour battle with westwood admittedly took a lot out of michael moore though i'm a hand secured a two one victory at the seventeenth to california adding this w c title to the two thousand and ten bridgestone invitational trophy now has four titles to his name. now in tennis austrian you're going meltzer has overcome a broken toe to claim his fourth career title he be canadian minister and seven five seven six two in the regions morgan keegan championships in memphis the thirty year old hasn't won a title since winning in his own hometown of yellow in two thousand and ten and back injuries he says he slipped to thirty eight in the world rankings over the last twelve months in contrast. in a row in straight sets with meltzer took a single break in the first set and served it out with an ace for winning the second set tiebreaker seven five seven six the final score and afterwards well it's a joke you might break it's time for every tournament he says he's delighted to get his hands on the trophy. i am delighted to have played a really good match today aga

but just before the section of the agenda the item was to come up on, occurred, michael moore who speaking on the other side of the park finished speaking, and about 2000 people turned around and came and sat in the square in front of us. [laughter] so it was very, very nerve-wracking. fortunately, the fact that 2000 people came and joined the transept meant they never got to the item that we were supposed to be talking about. we waited three hours, and actually still hadn't gotten to the item. so we abandoned it, we abandoned the attempt to talk to the general assembly about the book and they said actually, the facilitator said, don't worry about it, just go to an education empowerment committee meeting. working group meeting. these were taking place in 60 wall street in the deutsche bank building. and ask for volunteers there. so we did a few. we went to the next empowerment subcommittee meeting, and that was a little bit of a fraud experience because there was a lot of support for the book, the idea of the book in a meeting, but there was also quite a lot of feeling that it was too earl

michael moore tweeting just said he went to vote for santorum but each time he asked for a ballot andaughed. and adding a ps that is sure to bring legions of hard cores to his camp. >> it is very easy to excite the base with comments. i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to get the nomination. >> despite his complaints romney admitting in an interview during the 2008 campaign: the governor tried to clarify that today. >> my case i was certainly voting against the democrat who i thought was the person i thought would be the worst heard of our nation, and in this case as i recall it was bill clinton. >> two of the greatestest slate fors in our history. and they never ran on the same ballot and the gap between o'neal's last election and clinton's primary was a mere eight years. meanwhile: >> give him a day or two, and santorum might be backing off another unfortunate claim. >> we went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. the bubble burst in housing projects because we were looking at $4 in gasoline. >> wrong on all counts. and newt gingrich is concentrating on next we

radical islamists would somehow annoy michael moore maybe christians would have a chance. >> bob: letsay something about that. i defended their right to build a community center downtown. we disagree on that. we defend that, nobody burns anything there, and then this happens and nobody says anything. this subject drives me crazy. >> eric: very quickly, some of the countries named in peace and other places. so foreign aid that we supply to some of the countries, talk about it. we don't -- egypt, $1 $1.6 billion. jordan, $678 million. iraq, $472 million. how about the other ones? kenya, $661 million. pakistan, $1.3 billion. a lot of questions remain whether we should be -- >> bob: well let's talk about -- >> andrea: no such thing as peace. it's just cease fire. >> bob: talk about the muslim brotherhood. one of the recipient from egypt for a lot of money every year. saying if you don't end us the money there will be problems with israel. what is your take on that? >> andrea: the muslim brotherhood is a violent group. my biggest fear when mubarak was taken out. they control the mosque and

pills in direct conflict of the long standing position of their faith win over about as well as michael moore at an nra convention. even loyal democrats and bona fide liberals were running from the exits to get away from him before he self-come busted from the heat he got and i'm not just talking about from the catholics. it is an issue that is much bigger. it threatens the very essence of liberty by allowing government to dictate matters of individual discretion. even if there wasn't a direct and holy unconstitutional assault on the religious convictions of catholics it is simply not the government's right to demand i give my employee something. if the president can demand that i provide contraceptives or abortion today next he might demand unlimited mental health or some other form of health coverage. he could then insist that employees be covered for dental work or cosmetic surgery. maybe a face lift for this old mug. might need some improvement the presidents it lame and. laughable attempt to make things better by playing the shell game biomorphing from the cross of holy cross to blue cro

>> it's not management because michael moore runs it, they had change at the top here.t's a coal based railroad. meaning the coal is a predominant cargo that will determine the fate of csx and coal is -- well it's beating the heck out of it because of natural gas. on the knch caonference calls sy that natural gas this low is bad for the rails. i have on go to lee. >> big booyah from the high desert. >> i used to go there to watch the sun go down. >> jb hunt, last week, they had record revenue earnings for 20 eleven, what is the effect on the stock going to be and where do you see the stock going? >> by the way, the transports did not act well today, and that is a worry, i think they go higher. and i think the trucking companies are terrific. and don't forget the truck's engine companies. i do not see anything slowing down union pacific, no, new york city it will keep moving, i want to thank my buddy, and pal, friend at bobie 23, who nailed this question. keep the requests coming and don't forget, we will show them on the twitter. stay with cramer. >> coming up the clock

. >> reporter: michael moore is gabe watson's long-time friend.e told the jury watson was still devastated roughly a week after her accident. >> i asked if there was anything i could do for him. he did explain that tina's body was not going to be released. he said he wanted to stay there. and bring his bride home. it was emotional at times for both of us. >> reporter: gabe watson is accused of turning off the air to tina's tanks, shortly before she floated off to her death while on a honeymoon dive in australia. >> he was a diver. he planned this trip. >> reporter: when prosecutors tried to make the case that watson, a certified diver, could have saved her, they had trouble. >> i panicked. i grabbed gabe. he grabbed me. we looked at each other and kind of froze. >> reporter: it's a feeling prosecutors may have felt on friday themselves before resting for the weekend. now, even the alleged murder motive took a bit of a hit friday as the defense cross-examined another prosecution witness and tried to remind the jury that gabe watson never saw a dime

. >> michael moore was on with rachel last night and he said all of his democrat friends are planningo vote to muddy the waters so some are voting, some are democrats that are trying to express themselves and some are voting because they want to muddy the waters. and by the way, we are talking earlier, chuck todd was right, it was dick worthland, who coined the phrase, reagan democrats but our friends at "newsweek" tell us it began in the wisconsin primary. although that was not any recollection. to be continued. >> thank you so much, appreciate it. and we will be talking to you tomorrow i hope as well. up next, our team political coverage, live from michigan. the american war plan in afghanistan, is it mission impossible? one golden crown. come on frank how long have we known each other? go to e-trade. they got killer tools man. they'll help you nail a retirement plan that's fierce. two golden crowns. you realize the odds of winning are the same as being mauled by a polar bear and a regular bear in the same day? frank! oh wow, you didn't win? i wanna show you something... it's my sho

. >> michael moore is from there. one of the greatest documentaries is from flint. that ended up going for santorum. now, down here, of course this is -- these districts going for romney. >> four or five districts down there to give people an idea just how concentrated the people are. right? is it five in the detroit area? five congressional districts compared to one for up. >> it's the largest congressional district. >> that's this whole. >> commercial seats in michigan. >> there are 15 right now but this map here for the race from 14, which is the new map. >> what i am gathering, donnie correct me, rick has about nine of those now or very close. >> right. >> he will be winning. >> it will be interesting. so hang on, you guys. we are going to go now i think, to david shuster. david shuster is in michigan right now, and he is in novi outside of the romny headquarters. david, are you there? >> yes. >> what can you tell us. >> we are here. on the romney campaign a lot of the supporters financial supporters, staffers when they left here, very relieved because they have

to take two example, michael moore, admire him greatly, raised awareness in the united states, to show both foreign and domestic policy as pursued are dead ends or worse, and yet both of the men assume the problem is coming from the top, which is partly true, of course. the problem is this rests on these and the belief that the institutions pulled the world over the eyes of the average american citizen is well-intentioned. i would say to them, get out, talk to people, you know? find out how accurate that is. it's one of education. pull the world away from the eyes, and the citizenry awakens and commits itself to a popular social provision. is that happening now with occupy wall street? it's an important question, and i think we should talk about it afterwards in the q&a. what if the world is the eyes? the so-called average citizen really does want, as janice put it, and probably not much else, they are grateful to the corporations for supplying us with oceans of consumer goods and to the pentagon for protecting us from the awful arab lurking in the middle east. if that's so, then the p

i have seen enough michael moore exposes. what's going on? all we read is good news. thought the auto industry was getting killed by japan and germany and korea. and it's doing pretty good. >> gm has come back strong. that's good for flint. we have products like the silverado hd, which was the 2010 truck of the year. we have a third shift back to work. more than a thousand new people working in the community. that means they can pay their bills and support their families and important for local governments. they can pay some taxes. >> why is romney wailing against union members? it sounds like old-time republican talk. very old-time. >> yeah. it's hard to figure out who he is pandering to. but what we want to see is a strong partnership with our federal government. we want a president who will stand up for working families and middle class security. there were more than a million jobs at risk in this great recession in the auto industry alone. the president took a decisive step. he made some smart decisions that put people back to work. and there were some other provi