i think michael shure has been doing a great job in covering this.e is the yacht that they're partying on. it has the cayman island's flag, isn't that outrageous, but not a peep. >> i think the press is busy with the pyrotechnics of just the event itself. but i think one of the interesting things at having all these billionaire donors down there, in the past the candidate would spend the whole week there. so brian ross helped to answer the question, why is romney spending the whole week in tampa. because he's meeting with the high-level donors. the reason why they're giving so much money to romney now $10 million and $20 million up to $1 million at times because obama wants to shut down their loopholes that will cost them millions. that will save them in the tax bill when romney wins. >> cenk: there is a story of reporting that david koch specifically would give $100 million to get paul ryan on the ticket for him to be the v.p. but if you do a calculation and paul ryan gets his way, and the capital gains which are already low to zero percent, david k

and then coming up next we'll talk to michael shure about the politics of that.ney in some ways. and remember we had a bet who he would pick as vice president. how did that turn out? we'll find out. >> i'm going to shock the world and pick-- [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our [ air howling ] [ air howling ] peppermint that cools as you chew. stimulate your senses. 5 gum. now in micro pack. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: all right our epic political correspondent michael shure is here. he broke on this program that the white house was preparing for the vice presidential election for romney this weekend. you were right. but you were not right about everything that we did in a day. we picked a v.p. draft. >> we're going to draft different v.p. possibilityies. whoever drafts the right pick, we'll win $20. >> i'm going to shock the world and pick paul ryan. >> cenk: damn. who is that in the middle of the ring i see? who is it? oh no, not ep

and then coming up next we'll talk to michael shure about the politics of that.in some ways. and remember we had a bet who he would pick as vice president. how did that turn out? we'll find out. >> i'm going to shock the world and pick-- (applause) the best political insight leads to the best political foresight. >>>first pick, i'm going to shock the world and pick, paul ryan. >>>brillant. okay... >>>with the number that just came out he's more inclined to throw long. in which case, i think the long one is paul ryan because the risks are higher. here in the obama war room... >>>putting satire aside, i agree paul ryan would be great for democrats. for us it would fame the intellectual debate. >>>see the future "live" weeknights starting at 7pm. uygur. spitzer. granholm. only on current tv. it's like chicken and crunchy stuff got married! i only use french's french fried onions on my crunchy onion chicken because it's america's number one brand. just minutes to make, then bake! [ train whistle blows ] [ ball hitting paddle ] [ orbit girl ] don't let food hang aroun

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i'm sorry i misplaced my turk michael shure at the top of the hour.e anything in any book written by a guy that says bill raped hilary and that's how chelsea was conceived, and she is a lesbian, whatever -- [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: that guy. >> yeah. it's all conjecture. >> stephanie: yes. this movie -- and it's actually doing well -- which tells you this is a big market -- >> for lies. >> stephanie: for people that want to believe the worst about the president. this was the headline cenk destroyed [ mumbling ] >> cenk uygur and [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: yeah, you try it five times -- what was travis making at the break -- >> flirtinis. oh, i hit the wrong button on my box. >> spaz. >> stephanie: they are like vampire facts -- >> what are you trying to say? >> stephanie: the defense budget we are about six to one over our closest competitor? because this is their big thing now. we have to have enough to blow up the world apparently 75 times over. >> yeah. [ mumbling ] ducked the question, he said first of all the spending has grown promiscuously un

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we go to michael shure who has an interesting update on ron paul for us.d. >> before we go to ron paul, a little bit on what the vice president is saying. it's true. you see them talking about the religion of mitt romney. they're not saying it very loudly. they're not using the word mormon and just as vice president gore were saying, they're saying, as cenk would say, we have this and blah, blah-blah-blah religion. >> they've been talking about it on primetime. >> they don't want to talk about it. it's an uncomfortable issue for them. this is where progress starts, i don't want to rain on their parade but it feels like people are skirting talking about it. but you're right. >> al gore: sometimes that's the way change happens. i remember my grandmother who was a yellow-dog democrat and a kind-hearted woman had a hard sometime that john f. kennedy was a catholic. thank goodness that's completely gone. >> eliot: and as we talked about race with president obama. there was a question, how up front are you in talking about it. this was well considered on the las

i'm michael shure. you may know me as epic politician man.so difficult to say that, but that's what they call me here. we have a lot of politics to discuss. one of them is paul ryan, linein' ryan is what we call him. today he was heckled in virginia. [ booing ] >> no, no,!. >> the guy is doing this in response to why ryan lied about accepting stimulus funds. he's standing in the back of the crowd, getting booed. ripping up his romney-ryan card. if people are waving the american flag in front of him as if they're more american than he is. they're screaming usa citizen if that party has a a monopoly on what it means to be a patriot what it means to be an american. but it capped off another bad day for paul ryan. maybe the shortest honeymoon ever. i think sarah palin had it ease easier four years ago than ryan has this past week. he was asked about taking stimulus money. he was talking to a nation in cincinnati ohio. and this is what he had to say when asked if he took stimulus money. >> you asked for stimulus money for your district. is that re

michael shure, "the young turks." have a great weekend. [♪ theme music ♪] >>> good evening, i'm eliot spitzer and this is "viewpoint." the obama administration makes a modest reduction from 10 to 5. and romney god a modest bump at best for putting ryan on the ticket. ryan was in glenn alan virginia, attacking the president's handling of the financial crisis. >> undoubtedly, president obama inherited a difficult situation when he came into office, the problem is he made things much worse. >> the question for ryan did he make things worse for the gop ticket. when he denied knowing he accepted stimulus funds, claiming and i quote . . . meanwhile, mitt romney's attack on the president's cut for medicare providers triggered this response from the obama administration. >> the ryan plan aarp says it would undermine medicare and the voucher plan could cost retirees more than $6,000. >> and he tried to raise political costs for his refusal to release his tax returns, and i quote . . . >> but rhodes brushed him off, writing if

michael shure down in tampa, and he'll be covering this convention for current along with david schusterre week. thank you, michael. that's part of our "politically direct" coverage when we come back newt gringrich claims that the democrats are the ones who are doing the lying at "newt" university. >> we tell the truth less effectively. we are startled by their dishonesty we're tongue-tied. >> cenk: and the republicans new platform on porn, totally against it. >> i want to make sure that every new computer sold in this country after i'm president has installed on it a filter to block all pornography. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [spanish vo] but it was the jfk campaign that ran the first tv ads in spanish. [spanish] >> in 1960, it's not that the hispanic vote was not that big but it was concentrated in a few crucial states. (vo) but it was 40 years later that another presidential candidate really spoke to the hispanic voter: bush: gracias! >> as the governor of texas, he understood the growing political power of latinos. (vo) and now more than ever, candidates have to both walk the walk, and talk the t

michael shure is here with us now. what do you have, michael?> reporter: there are a couple of things coming out of the convention today. not much coming out. this is the dullness of today thus far is remarkable. it's like hearing that you have got free baseball tickets but it turns out it's a padre's game. that's where i feel like i am standing right now. right now behind me there are people talking about health care, and you would think they would get people on their feet. but there is just a smattering of noes. i did hear before going on that there's a code pink movement. code pink you'll remember -- they are an anti war movement, a women's rights movement, they are going for disturbing the piece a little bit. it turns out some people have gotten credentials today from code pink that will be coming into the convention. so we're looking for that disruption to at least pull some focus. as far as guns go, they haven't talked about guns much here. outside there are some people protesting the fact that you can't bring guns beyond the perimeter. th

and michael shure one of the turks! hello michael. >> how are you stephanie?ing everybody kind of you know -- jaws to the floor -- i tweeted that it's -- it's an 11 -- an 82 year old policy, and they are putting an 82 year old out on the stage. >> stephanie: were you in the hall for that? >> yeah, i was. >> stephanie: what was the feeling? >> the first feeling was the hologram wasn't working. [ laughter ] >> and because it's clint eastwood everybody strains to listen, and then it just started wandering. >> stephanie: somebody was commenting on the look on ann romney's face. >> i was sitting right next to her, so i couldn't see her face directly. no, i didn't actually see her face where from we were up in the top of the forum. >> stephanie: amazing you didn't get better seating. >> david shuster got the better seat. >> stephanie: yeah. boy, that cannot have gone the way the romney camp hoped. clearly he had no writers. >> it's true but even the excitement over getting clint eastwood. he is 82 years old. who are they trying to address? the people that identify w

. >> and we'll get to charlie pierce, and michael shure of the young turks.k uygur being the young turk. >> he is the actual turk. [ laughter ] [ inaudible ] >> stephanie: no do not stick your tongue on me when it is sold out. people learned that the hard way in buffalo when i was growing up. so lots to talk about with this. obviously as more and more details come out. cliff writes i'm a white male so i'm allowed to ask this question, why is the majority of these mass killers white males? yeah, and people are saying it wasn't an assault weapon. it is still the same issue with these high-capacity magazines. >> yep. >> stephanie: but that's -- because -- clearly i'm not a gun person. >> right. >> stephanie: that to me is still the issue. >> i don't see any reason for them. >> stephanie: and an expert was talking about yesterday there is no reason for civilians to have this. and i thought you can't even say something like that. we need to ratchet down our fire power. clearly mental health and hate groups. albert with interesting thoughts. steph once again there

michael shure is here, ana kasparian, and noren. i love the glove. to see her fingernails. >> baria tv was created. and from the producers to the camera women all the women are fully veiled. this is the culture war going on in egypt playing out on the air. these women have complained of being repressed and discriminated against. they could not get jobs in the media, now they feel this is a place for them. it's comical because i can't help about laugh. >> cenk: comical? i don't know what you mean. ana, thoughts, go. >> even though it looks comical and we don't understand it and we don't like it, it's something that they've decided to do. it's a lifestyle that they've chosen. they finally have a job doing something that they love doing. i'm for it. i don't see anything wrong with it. i wouldn't see the veil but i believe in the religious freedom to wear that veil. >> cenk: this is where they lost me. this is the owner the man who is doing this. >> it is my rejection of the discrimination that is inherit in the radical system of democracy. democracy let

the sea of galilee apparently last year, guys, and of course i'm talking to ana kasparian, and michael shureer jayar jackson and keep those compilations coming. i love them. yoder was part of a congressional delegation at the holy land, at the sea of galilee that is a sea that is a lake, that jesus walked on, if you believe it, god bless. apparently he goes skinny dipping like frank the tank. come on, everybody we're going skinny dipping where jesus walked on water. yoder will have to explain it. here he is. >> my wife and i had had dinner. alcohol did not play a role in the edition to jump in the water. it was a spontaneous moment where other members of congress were jumping in, and i made the mistake of jumping in. and i was in for 10 seconds and guy back out and it was obviously a mistake. >> cenk: i don't care. i don't care if it was a religious place, not guilty. >> cenk: not guilty, he's not going to get kicked out of congress? get arrested? i agree. we could talk with him and say words that mean nothing un unbecoming of a representative of the united states. we could criticize. >> cen

we're going to send michael shure and one of our producers to cover the convention for the republicansek. but we decided to have them track the storm as of today. joining us mark thompson, 35 years experience as a meteorologist. that's why we call him the weather dude. there they are, in the middle of the storm now. >> hi, cenk. this is a rough one. these guys have really had great duty. you come down for epic politician but you end up with weather. >> when we got down here they said that the republicans were real blow-hards, but that's i didn't know that's what they meant. >> it's going to be a wild, wild weekend. from here, where do you go? >> wow! we're going up to tampa. we're going to follow the storm. >> you ought to stop in puerto rico. they're going get the worst of it. >> watch out the water behind you. >> whoa! >> listen, you guys really should take cover. by the way you can't expense those ponchos. keep that in mind. >> thanks so much. stay dry. >> nice shorts, by the way very nice. >> cenk: schuster who was going to be at the convention, he blew away earlier. mark, tell us

all right, michael shure joins us. >> you have the nerd brain part right. >> cenk: making progress. hy are they--i'm not sure i've ever seen a campaign, even among republicans this brazen in just making up the exact opposite of their position. >> the republicans are the wmd party. they like to lie they've had success in lying they go for it. they are not going for anybody else. they're not going for new voters they're not going for special interests. they're trying to get their base out. they tell the base their lies. they want to believe it. they tell these self-fulfilling prophecies. if you say welfare is a terrible thing, then welfare is a terrible thing and the president wants to go back to how it was before. >> cenk: i get that part. don't worry about corporate welfare. we'll keep trillions in the bank. but all these welfare recipients, i get that part. but even their base does not want them to cut medicare, then they got to lie about it because their base doesn't want-- >> there is a part of the base that wants them to cut medicare. that's the wealthy part of the base. that's a

. >> michael shure in las vegas. i hope you took some money off of adelson. >> not yet. we will try to get in this there later. >> don't lose money to him. when we come back, you know, they have got a new lie out. they are running it all over the place about how president obama stole $700 million from medicare. what a crock of crap. i am going to show you exactly what's wrong with that when we come back. >> cut it by $700,000,000,000, stole $700,000,000,000. >> obama cut $700,000,000,000. >> i am so tired of their lying but i am going to show you exactly how that's wrong. later in the program, we are going to talk about fake heros or reality t.v. and real heros. >> wall small step for man. >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. they're doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>that's an understatement, eliot. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> so you know what paul ryan's proper problem is: he has proposed a plan that would turn medicare into non-medicare. it would be a voucher program, nothing like what we have now. so it would shred medicare

now i'm bringing my rowdy friends here, we've got michael shure and ana kasparian. all right guys, look, i have a little problem with this. now shana is going to let it rip. for some reason, you know, as i look at the small business owner, i feel more sympathy for him. if it is a national chain and they say we're not going to give cakes to gay weddings, outrageous unacceptable, et cetera but if it is a smaller chain, i feel like we're almost impeding on his belief. a lot of people believe what he believes. a gay marriage shouldn't be allowed. i vehemently disagree with them but shouldn't they be allowed to think that? >> it doesn't matter what you think or i think because colorado law says that he can't do this. colorado law, they passed an anti-discrimination law prohibit discrimination whence when it comes to housing employment, any business that serves the public qualifies. >> cenk: you're right. it includes sexual orientation. the guy says gay marriage is not legal in colorado. so you're asking me to do a cake for an illegal ceremony. i'm not discriminating agai