he trundles out axelrod and rahm emanuel like tweedle dee and twiddle -- tweedle rahm. they're like the jocks that hang the rest of us up in the locker with the nuclear wedgie. what is next? a position paper run who is hotter, betsy or veronica? they are acting like little

he trundles out axelrod and rahm emanuel like tweedle dee and twiddle -- tweedle rahm.jocks that hang the rest of us up in the locker with the nuclear wedgie. what is next? a position paper run who is hotter, betsy or veronica? they are acting like little kids. you have the decade right, you have the wrong president. i look at axelrod and i look at rahm emanuel and rahm emanuel might as well be wearing a brush cut and axelrod should get this--- the stash. he hears too much. he has rabbit ears. >> hey, abtta batt -- batta batta. bill: barack obama reacts personally to criticism. >> it is more than that. you have to step up to the dugout. you have to say, each of your pitchers is the greatest pitcher i have ever seen in my life. bill: let's talk about leon panetta and cheney. cheney smells blood in the water. it is almost as if he is wishing that his country would be attacked again. >> i quote david lee roth on the bridge of the song "panama." we are all running a little hot right now. i think we should take a week off and ignore each other. let's face facts in a 24/7 new

and rahm emanuel's argue. the white house chief of argument that the democrats you pass this, that won't happen to you. if you don't pass it, you will lose just like that. >> the double-edge sword of having the majority in the white house, having the white house and the majority in the congress is that you get to push through legislation on a partisan basis. but then you own it. your party owns it. so this passing healthcare could be what does them in, in the mid-term elections. >> paul: passing healthcare could do them in. n>> yes. >> paul: why? >> backlash. >> paul: a great triumph. why would there be a backlash? what backlash are you talking about? >> mid-term elections the president party traditionally does lose seats in congress. already you have skittish democrats deciding not to run. >> what is it about healthcare in particular that's troubling for them? >> you have the taxes going up to pay for healthcare now. benefits not kicking in, until years down the road. >> nobody will see their benefits. meanwh

and rahm emanuel's argument, the white house chief of staff's argument, if you pass this that won't happen to you. if you don't pass it you'll lose just like-- >> well, it's a double-edged sword of having the majority in both the white house-- having the white house and a majority of the congress is that you get to push through legislation on a partisan basis, but then you own it. your party owns it and so, as this passing health care could be what does them in in the mid term elections. >> now, passing health care could do that? >> why? >> the backlash. >> a great triumph why would there be a backlash? what backlash are you talking about. >>? the mid term elections the president's party traditionally loses seats in congress. already you have some skittish democrats, deciding not to run. >> what is it about health care in particular that is going to be troubling for them? >> well, you have taxes going up to pay for health care now, benefits not kicking in until years down the road. >> i see, so nobody will see their benefits, meanwhile, the regulations and the taxes hit right away and mary

destined for political, rahm emanuel.e is the white house chief of staff and he will be forced to fall as democrats in congress suffer staggering losses, as you pointed out in the 2010 midterm election. okay, best political theater. pat. >> the beer summit with sergeant crowly and joe biden and obama, on tv, john. great theater. >> and gates and biden looks good? >> i think biden, i agree with monica. biden looks very, very good. he had a rough first half. he's doing fine. >> eleanor. >> year started in january. so i'm going with blagojevich, he was impeached in january and went on to a whole saga of reality shows and it's great political theater, too, because you got the feeling he was somehow enjoying it along the way. >> monica. >> the town hall demonstrations this summer. those demonstrations are exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when their representatives got out of control, the people rose up. >> sarah palin's book tour, she had a lot of support. catapulted not only the number one on theamazon list, but

they do not look like rahm emanuel comes out and says we're not doing health care reform anymore.re reform fails in a vote. it will die in either of those ways, i promise you. here's what it will do. if it dies. number one, rahm emanuel and other congressional democrats will come out and say we are as committed to health care reform as we always have been. this is a key priority. that's why we are in washington. we're just not going to do it right now. that's number one. and number two, is pareback. we get some magical -- your insurance company, there are no more rescissions and this is a great victory for the american people. but that article scared me much more than anything else has so far. because the way this goes down is that it grows old and it dies. like other organic matter. and i think this needs to be called out. if emanuel is saying that it needs to be called out by people in the base and people who care about this as the death of health care reform. because you can't run that timetable. you can't deal with jobs. and i don't know -- he seems to think jobs will pass by

i'd like to hear what rahm emanuel says to her. >> well, perhaps he'll come on and tell us at some point, yeah, right. okay. mark, listen, let's be fair. when the president was in the midst of two wars, certainly in the year or so past 9/11 and every year of his administration thereafter, the president was attacked a lot on terrorism and how he was handling it. and yet when you hear it, it does have a dissonance to it. any way to squeeze the politics out of this? >> no, this is thoroughly, completely political here. and it's unfortunate but that's just the nature of the political moment. when we look at what happened during bush years people attacked the way president bush was prosecuting the war. we may have say he overreacted but there's no was -- no public critique from former presidents or vice presidents suggesting it was the president's bibi halve yor that started the war. that's what dick cheney is saying which is misguided. you would think that president obama was in amsterdam giving out visa, letting the guy on the plane. there was nothing the obama administration could do to st

recently about in the past week some pundit has actually said he might replace rahm emanuel as whitehouse chief of staff and that is a job that doesn't have to go through senate confirmation. i would like your thoughts on that one. >> guest: i like and tom daschle to tools on this. he is one of those washington fixtures that never goes away. and even after his senate nomination for hhs had been withdrawn he didn't go away. in fact i point out in "culture of corruption" he was behind the scenes pulling the strings. this is a guy who is opposite of hope and change, and yet has been instrumental in in the entire health care debate and shepherding this through and trying to sell -- salvage it. as a picture of barack obama meeting at the white house with tom daschle and i haven't heard of the call was talking about, but it certainly comports with the way this administration has done business in the past. >> host: we have a tweaked here, michelle malkin, from loralogik. i heard this malkin refer to democrats and independent calls on c-span as moon bat. but she dismisses criticism from thei

i suspect that any mess thank goes out at that level of the cabinet gets cleared through rahm emanuel or david axelrod. >> you don't think she takes ownership of that gap? >> now, she has to. some people calling for her job. enough is enough. this is a problem as we just heard that concerns all of us and shouldn't be a bipartisan issue but the current administration, they have to own it and i think one of the things we have seen them do recently is essentially throw the intel community under the bus early on. president obama declared he has two reviews going right now. before the reviews are finished he is already declareing that there are systematic failures and human failures. i think in an effort to distract and deflect from the white house. >> how much of an investigation do they need to do? i mean the guy got on the plane. what was he doing on the plane to begin with? obviously the system didn't work. obviously there was an abun dance of failures along the way and not just at one point. >> first of all, the assessment of the administration is that he is not a terrorist connected

. >> bret: i don't usually make predictions, i'll make one, white house rahm emanuel drops out and runsor the state of illinois and tom daschle chief of staff. that's it. thank you for our show, thank you for making special report the number one political news show on television.

vice-president joe biden, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel and top military commanders. one national security advisor denied any problems with the pentagon. federal grand jury has been convened to investigate whether the now infamous white house party crashers salahi's made false statements to get in the dinner. the presence of a third party crasher at the dinner, newly discovered photos posted on line by guests identify the third party crashers as carlos allen, a man who himself may have ties to the salahis, no word if the they've been subpoenaed. they issued a statement saying if called to testify they would plead the fifth amendment. what was once the safest senate seat for democrats might not be so safe anymore. a new rasmussen poll shows tightening race in massachusetts with only two weeks for a special election to fill ted kennedy's seat. the latest poll has democrats martha coakley leading senator scott brown 50-41%. previously coakley had been leading by more than 20 points. the year is young, but can we expect some political slug fesses along the way? some washi

would you subpoena rahm emanuel to testify if it meant the difference between you being free and going to the extent you can ask the president of the united states to testify -- >> mike: will you ask barack obama to testify at your trial? >> i would be interesting in doing that. whatever conversations i'd have that were lawful, love to have him as a star witness. whether or not it could happen, i don't know. michelle obama could be a witness in the case because there are relationships with tony that she could shed light on to put in context the false allegations in relation to me. the two stars of the real housewives of new york city got political. when they put me on the hot seat. >> everybody watches some version of trademark television. i want to know the most embarrassing thing you watch that you'd never admit. >> mike: that i'd never admit but i'm about to admit. >> that your daughter knows your watch and no one else knows -- >> my daughter by the way loves housewife of new york. >> don't forget you watch it because you're married. straight men do watch it as well. whatever the mo

i look at axlerod and rahm emanuel might as well as wear a brush cut like hr haldeman and erlichman.ber that guy who used to flip him on a little. hey batter, batter, swing batter. >> bill: so what you're saying is that the pitcher's on the mound and you're going hey, you're a bum. hey, you're a-- and the pitcher is looking at you and breaking concentration and throws a ball and hit over the fence. that's barack obama and any kind of criticism he reacts personally to? >> it's more than that. you have to step up to the dugout and you have to say, each of your pitches is the greatest pitch i've ever seen in my life or he gets rattled. >> bill: let's talk about pin etta and cheney. almost as if he's wishing that his country would be attacked again. >> well, look, i quote the great philosopher david lee roth, the bridge on panama. i think we're all running a little hot right now and i think we should all kind of maybe take a week off and ignore each other. let's face facts, in a 24/7 news cycle, all of us who are in that cycle are going to say something. you know? i don't think that pane

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they'll have exclusive interview with rahm emanuel.ng monday, "the dylan ratigan show," all of it here, only on msnbc. >>> how is this for crazy, richard anthony forest jr. arrested in arizona on two counts of reckless driving and one count of speeding. not only was he allegedly driving over 90 miles an hour, but as you can see in this video, yeah, he was standing through his open sunroof while driving. mm-hmm. picture tells a story right there. >>> canada declares war. well, really canada's national parks declared war on moose. there was apparently a moose population explosion in the eastern part of the nation. moose collisions with vehicles in two national parks are happening more frequently so officials say they're going to thin the herd. you know what that means. i'll be right back. listen to this story. i love hosting the holidays... especially for my adorable grandchildren. but after all the rich, heavy food, i was irregular, sluggish. so my friend recommended the activia challenge. activia, with bifidus regularis is clinically p

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. >> let's imagine that somebody forces, like rahm emanuel, forces your book on president obama's has and obama ridge a book and realized like he's read other books, realizes wait a minute, what i've been doing is maybe not good enough. are you hoping something like that happens? that sonesta? sure, that would be wonderful to see that happen. but i still think we have to keep coming back to the reality that we've got to make it happen. we've got to create a new economy. we've got to stop making missiles and make equipment that makes equipment that cleans up the polluted lakes in nicaragua and the force and polluted lands all over the world. let's use of a percentage of our national budget, of our military budget, to pay the same companies that are currently making missiles or gm owes who instead make equipment that will not only produce the same electricity and energy, but also would clean up the terrible pollution in the world. and let's pay cubbies like monsanto and dole to create new ways for the starving people of africa to feed themselves, and to distribute food and story. you kn

i think who should be replaced is just people like rahm emanuel. i think it would be great to have david to replace him as chief of staff, and geithner to be replaced. they have a bad decision. mr. bernanke deserves a chance. he hasn't been in there long enough to make a bad decision. so i think he just needs to have a chance to see what he can do. host: david has an op-ed in "the washington post" tomorrow, but we have an early advancer of it, and the headline says november doesn't need to be a nightmare for democrats. this is stemming from the oonts of this week. this is some of the recommendations that he has. he says, we still have much to do before november and time is running short. every race has unique characteristics, but there are few general things that democrats can do to strengthen our hand. he says, one, pass a meaningful health insurance reform package without delay. you'll excuse me as i flip the page. he goes on to make some other points. he says we need to show we are not just focused on jobs, but also create them, make sure that v

and you see more -- more parallel critiques of the rahm emanuel's and the tim geithner's and the henryaulson's from places like rolling stone and blogs like mine. things. and, you know, the general consensus among critics on both the left and the right is that the obama financial services, financial quote unquote reform policy has built to make banks that were too big to fail even bigger. and has rewarded the enron style accounting of pain and freddie mac was even more bailout money. and so i think you'll see more of those bedfellow alliances targeting both -- both targeting democrat politicians have enabled it. >> host: michelle malkin, a lot of people we've talked about michelle malkin.com. when people post comments, they are not always nice, is that correct? do you leave is up or take those down? >> guest: if they violate my terms of use policy, which you can see on the website, i do my best to ban commenters who cross my line, crossed the lines of those terms of you. >> host: do you support an open dialogue among people disagree with you? >> guest: there are liberal commentators on

her husband thinks it would be great for, rahm emanuel, joe biden, all lobbies for to take the job.cide that they will not -- that she will not take the top, and had this incredible late-night phone call where she tells him why she does not want the job and he accept ththat those are all good reasons -- she is burdened with debt, she is tired and wants to go home -- he understands all that, but he says, "i need you to take this job. with the economic crisis will be a huge part of my first term might need someone who understands foreign policy whose hand i do not have to hold, and i need you and the country needs you." after everything with this at the arc of their relationship, it is an extraordinary moment. the moment she admits her husband might be a problem, something she never did in the campaign -- anything bill clinton did something considered politically detrimental, and she defends him. she never takes any other side, totally loyal to her husband. now she is not saying not disloyal, but admitting to barack obama that there is a political vulnerability with her husband . bara

her husband thinks it would be great for, rahm emanuel, joe biden, all lobbies for to take the job.e finally called him to decide that they will not -- that she will not take the top, and had this incredible late-night phone call where she tells him why she does not want the job and he accept ththat those are all good reasons -- she is burdened with debt, she is tired and wants to go home -- he understands all that, but he says, "i need you to take this job. with the economic crisis will be a huge part of my first term might need someone who understands foreign policy whose hand i do not have to hold, and i need you and the country needs you." after everything with this at the arc of their relationship, it is an extraordinary moment. the moment she admits her husband might be a problem, something she never did in the campaign -- anything bill clinton did something considered politically detrimental, and she defends him. she never takes any other side, totally loyal to her husband. now she is not saying not disloyal, but admitting to barack obama that there is a political vulnerabili

rahm emanuel -- punching that -- back, obama has the skills that are verbal but not what needs to knock out. axelrod, one thing about the republican guard, they have not stopped campaigning cents mccain loss. they need to get -- the white house needs to get in campaign mode. they need to get him out of the white house and send him around the country. robert gibbs, when he comes of tv he needs to be offensive and not defensive all the time. the reason why i say this, i am republican. i have been watching my republican party say no, no to everything and what this win in massachusetts is now the republican party is part of the process of getting things done. now they have to come with an agenda. and when the democrats and the president comes out with the agenda, what is my party going to do? are they going to say no or vote with it, because now have to be part of the process. this win is very good for the party. we have one more seat, but you cannot say no anymore. as far as independents -- what i don't like is one day you want to be a democrat and the other day you want to be republican.

i would agree to having an executive session with desire rogers or rahm emanuel or anyone at the whiteain what they did, why they did it, what was the basis for it, and today asked the secret service's input. why after 15, 20 years of a policy was a change for this? that is the underlying issue which is not being addressed. today will be a bit of a show. i have no intention of asking questions. to me, it just continues disarrayed -- continues the charade. so long as desire rogerses here, we will not find out what happened. oversight of the secret service, oversight of the security of the vice president and president of the united states. so long as we refuse to insist that desire rogers be here, as long as the white house continues to stonewall, we're not doing our job, they are not doing their job, and i believe severe implications, not just at the white house, but our ongoing relationship with the white house. there needs to be trust. implies that we cooperate and insistence on controlling all the information, keeping all to themselves whether on this or other issues, the fact is thi

i was going to ask about the 18 phone calls you made to rahm emanuel, more than any member of congress. what i would ask you about is this idea that they're going to make prompts. i'm going to read two statement and request you a question from neil barofsky's testimony that is coming up. first one is, quote, on page 13, treasury's own t.a.r.p. financial statement estimates that treasury will not be made whole but is rather projected to lose more than $30 billion on its aig investments. second quote, narrowly asserting that taxpayers will be made whole on maiden lane three, one part of the aig counterpart transactions without mentioning the huge losses treasury expects to suffer on other inextricably linked parts of the very same transacts is simply unacceptable. the american people deserve better. so my question, and hoping you can respond to those two statements, is when you refer to profits from the aig counterparty bailout are you counting the cost of the $35 billion in cash aig handed over to counterparties, or just the $27 billion they got directly from the new york fed? >> congre

. -- and rahm emanuel and congratulated him. think the heavy lifting was going to be limited, and i think they did a wonderful job changing global optics, and i am the one who argued the for that alone, obama should be given the nobel prize, the substance would or could come later, even though that was clearly an important, but changing realities of global order and changing the way historic not -- history of global order is changing -- is seen, that means you have the ability to recreate american leverage, and the administration not only picked the finding challenges for itself, so iran, israel, palestine, but of those, iran in terms of everything else you look that seems to be the highest national security priorities through which all other lenses needed to be viewed, and this is when i go into the pieces -- as the liggett to some degree moving the rush of course and china and -- as i look at to some degree moving the russia of course and shine a course in a different direction, they might be less destructive -- and china cour

national committee to preserve social security and medicare, wrote to white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. the national committee to preserve social security and medicare is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing millions of members and supporters nationwide. for more than 26 years, the organization has fought the interests of older americans. here is what the national committee to preserve social security and medicare said -- "the national committee strongly opposes the fiscal commission legislation authorized by senators conrad and gregg." the national committee is also focused on social security, arguing that it is inappropriate for such a commission, and they wrote, and i quote -- "incorporating social security into such a commission would signal to american seniors that the president is willing and even eager to cut social security benefits. ultimately, older americans will accept changes in social security." i repeat that." ultimately older americans will accept changes in social security only if they have a voice in the decision and feel confident that changes are solel

i was going to ask about the 18 phone calls you made to rahm emanuel, but we'll have to save that for another day. i would like to ask you about the idea that they made profits. i'm going to ask you two questions from neil barofsky's testimony coming up. first one is, quote, on page 13, treasury's own financial statement summit estimates this treasury will not be made whole but is projected to lose more than $30 million on aig investments. second question, just one part of the aig counterparty transactions without mentioning the huge losses treasury expects to suffer on other inextricably-linked parts is simply unacceptable. the american people deserve percent. so my question and hoping that you can respond to those two statements is when you refer to profits from the aig counterparty bailout, are you counting the cost of the $35 billion in cash aig handed over to the counterparties, to the counterparties, or just the $27 billion they got directly from the new york fed. >> congressman, i think mr. barofsky and i agree on this, and i was very clear in my statement, the government is st

i was going to ask about the 18 phone calls you made to rahm emanuel, more than any member of congress. what i would ask you about is this idea that they're going to make prompts. i'm going to read two statement and request you a question from neil barofsky's testimony that is coming up. first one is, quote, on page 13, treasury's own t.a.r.p. financial statement estimates that treasury will not be made whole but is rather projected to lose more than $30 billion on its aig investments. second quote, narrowly asserting that taxpayers will be made whole on maiden lane three, one part of the aig counterpart transactions without mentioning the huge losses treasury expects to suffer on other inextricably linked parts of the very same transacts is simply unacceptable. the american people deserve better. so my question, and hoping you can respond to those two statements, is when you refer to profits from the aig counterparty bailout are you counting the cost of the $35 billion in cash aig handed over to counterparties, or just the $27 billion they got directly from the new york fed? >> congre

her husband thinks it would be great for, rahm emanuel, joe biden, all lobbies for to take the job.she will not take the top, and had this incredible late-night phone call where she tells him why she does not want the job and he accept ththat those are all good reasons -- she is burdened with debt, she is tired and wants to go home -- he understands all that, but he says, "i need you to take this job. with the economic crisis will be a huge part of my first term might need someone who understands foreign policy whose hand i do not have to hold, and i need you and the country needs you." after everything with this at the arc of their relationship, it is an extraordinary moment. the moment she admits her husband might be a problem, something she never did in the campaign -- anything bill clinton did something considered politically detrimental, and she defends him. she never takes any other side, totally loyal to her husband. now she is not saying not disloyal, but admitting to barack obama that there is a political vulnerability with her husband . barack obama does not express that h

i was going to ask about the 18 phone calls you made to rahm emanuel, more than any member of congresstion from neil barofsky's testimony that is coming up. first one is, quote, on page 13, treasury's own t.a.r.p. financial statement estimates that treasury will not be made whole but is rather projected to lose more than $30 billion on its aig investments. second quote, narrowly asserting that taxpayers will be made whole on maiden lane three, one part of the aig counterpart transactions without mentioning the huge losses treasury expects to suffer on other inextricably linked parts of the very same transacts is simply unacceptable. the american people deserve better. so my question, and hoping you can respond to those two statements, is when you refer to profits from the aig counterparty bailout are you counting the cost of the $35 billion in cash aig handed over to counterparties, or just the $27 billion they got directly from the new york fed? >> congressman, i think mr. barofsky and i agree on this and i said in my statement, i was very clear, the government is still exposed to sub

her husband thinks it would be great for, rahm emanuel, joe biden, all lobbies for to take the job.finally called him to decide that they will not -- that she will not take the top, and had this incredible late-night phone call where she tells him why she does not want the job and he accept ththat those are all good reasons -- she is burdened with debt, she is tired and wants to go home -- he understands all that, but he says, "i need you to take this job. with the economic crisis will be a huge part of my first term might need someone who understands foreign policy whose hand i do not have to hold, and i need you and the country needs you." after everything with this at the arc of their relationship, it is an extraordinary moment. the moment she admits her husband might be a problem, something she never did in the campaign -- anything bill clinton did something considered politically detrimental, and she defends him. she never takes any other side, totally loyal to her husband. now she is not saying not disloyal, but admitting to barack obama that there is a political vulnerability

makers has cut a deal and i talk about it, that they could deal where drug lobbyist sat dowõ with rahm emanuelhe white house chief of staff and said we promise to support your reform effort on health care if he will make sure that the bill does not heard us into will not pursue these policies that will hurt us and sure enough it subsidizes them. watched happens in the last couple. the one thing the insurance companies really fear is the public option. the government is sure to compete. that will get stripped from this bill i put three /1 odds on that. you will have67h÷÷ a the abscess -- other subsidies there is the individual mandate so when students graduate and do go2heñ out there and you want to buy a health care plan at $5,000 deductible, i will pay for my insurance and if i get hit by a car insurance will pay my big expenses that will become illegal+vvÑ because it will mandate the you buy a insurance at a certain level. if you only buy it for a catastrophe that is what could end up of violating the individual mandate you have to pay a fine. they might allow young people to buy catastrophi