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>> reporter: doing basic training with the army. >> let's go, stein! >> reporter: learning to drink scotch and talk sports? >> always complain about the referee's call. he is always wrong and he is stupid and you are right. >> reporter: and, of course, learning how to handle himself in a fight. >> have you been in a street fight? >> reporter: define street fight. which is how we found ourselves at true warrior fitness. okay, so, truth be told, neither of us is exactly earnest hemingway. i feel like i'm red dill for tattoos now. >> you don't have any? >> reporter: not yet. maybe it's just because i didn't get stuck with the pink gloves, but i'm feeling okay. >> i feel like i'm getting my ass kicked. >> reporter: web, this is not joem's first time in the ring. he's done mixed martial arts before, researching the book. >> it was not very mr. miyagi. >> wax on, back owax off. >> he got the guy to choke mel out. >> reporter: how did that feel? >> awful. i couldn't swallow that night. >> reporter: that was just the appetizer. for the main course, kix boxer r

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they served under both -- jeremy stein served under both administrations.l's a republican. >> right. >> they're technocrats who know the financial system. to put a hold on them is absurd. >> we have seen an evolution similar to judicial nominees. the boundary of what is the threshold of acceptability? first if, you know, you show you're a liberal, then you're out. you can't just be a moderate, you have to show you have conservative bona fides. we're ending up in this position similar to what we're seeing in judicial nominees where we have this dysfunction born. betty stevenson, thank you so much in sharing your considerable smarts with us tonight. it's a treat. >> great to talk with you. >>> as i said, if you like the run out the clock game of obstruction republicans are playing with the fed, then you'll love what they are pulling in our court system. it's officially empirically worse than it's been in a very long time. that's coming up. [ molly ] wash your paws, mr. man! [ female announcer ] think your kids are getting a dependable clean -in the bathroom?

. >> that was sam stein saying we made news. he knows when news is made. that's the job at the huffington post. the real news is the growing momentum behind an effort to put a plank supporting marriage equality into the democratic party platform this year. if you were to poll the delegates of the democratic convention, a plank would almost win by a land slide. a group called freedom to marry has penned an open letter calling for a plank. 11 state party chairs has signed onto that petition. the texas democratic party chair saying in texas we love all our families. we know to build a strong democratic party. we must honor the core principals of our party and champion the rights of every citizen. four former heads have signed on to the effort and so have more than 40 elected officials including the house minority leader nancy pelosi and mark udall of colorado and so has the man that is chairing the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor. there's really only one thing that seems like it could block official democratic party support for marriage equa

jill stein. sivas in a debate yesterday in the bay area.t out, you think you have a chance of winning? . >> and jill-i am not holding my breath, but i am not ruling it out. right now we have competing public relations for wall street sponson businesses. we are making the point that we have made progress and out the last pass several centuries through independent small parties that drive this. whether it is the socialist labor party the women's are devoted moulmein, -- the women's right to vote movement. it is a win where ever we come out. >>henry: of the suit there are also some issues the you can put forward to discuss with other candidates. >>jeff: >> -doctors a dying. dr. stein. we're seeing massive bail outs from the is president. he has raised the problems of george bush and had even gone further. he has disregarded the climate. he has neglected trade agreements. would establish a green need steel. we can do that now for about the costa -- the price of one of the stimulus packages. andy >> last time people voted for the green party can

jeremy stein is a well-known harvard economist with strong expertise in monetary policy and financial regulation. in between two stints at harvard, he was on the finance faculty at mit sloan school of management for ten years. his research has covered topics as the behavior of stock prices, corporate investment and financing decisions, risk management, capital allocation inside firms, banking, financial regulation, and monetary policy. he is currently coed tor of the quarterly journal of economics and was previously a coed tor. from february to july of 2009, he served as a senior adviser to the treasury secretary and on the staff of the national economic council in the obama administration. jerome powell is a visiting scholar at the bipartisan policy center here in washington where he is focused on federal and state issues. he's a former lawyer with experience in investment banking and private equity who will bring valuable and broad private sector examiner t oor expertise. he founded and led the industrial group within the u.s. buy out fund so he has broad experience in the private s

ben stein joins us line from los angeles. nice to see you. i read your diary entry in "the american spectator." and i've got to be honest. it's depressing. why is -- >> it's extremely depressing. it's really, really depressing. >> so given that, why do you think the u.s. treasury is in such dire straits? >> well, we are spending $4 billion a day more than we're taking in in order to stimulate the economy. it's not working very well, although we don't know what would happen if we didn't spend the extra $4 billion a day. we were adding to the national debt roughly $1.4 trillion a year. we couldn't even pay it off before when it was $5 trillion. now it's $15 trillion. it took 224 years to get up to $ $5 trillion in national debt. in roughly the next 10 years, we had another triple that to $15 trillion. there's just no way we can pay off the debt. we'll need to have massive inflation in which prices rise in a way that will torture people or we default on the debt. there's no other way out. i'm not going to say it's this year, next year, five year

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gary stein was discharged for criticizing president obama. gary stein. you got in trouble for speaking your mind. >> i would say so. >> nine years in the marines and you posted things, i guess not only on facebook but in a private chat room. >> yes, in a private group. you thought it was just a screen shot and kind of got you in trouble. but as an active marine you say screw obama and will not take my orders . will do my job better than the next guy. but for saluting i will not. >> the words are tasteless and i think they are articulate . i thought it was a some what private group and nothing is private on facebook now. >> and people find out from employers and college entrance things it was a career ender. the marine corp gave you other than than honorable discharge. what does that mean when they say you are dismissed. >> i had 60 days on the contract and i went from being a sergeant doing an important job and having full benits to 60 days discharged out of the marine with no ben tis so to speak. depends on. >> did you say these things because you meant

and thank gary stein for being here.usly, one of those things when you sign up in the military you kind of yield over a whole lot of things and this is going to be a case worth watching and particularly, do you have a right as a military individual to say things privately you may not carry out in terms of your duty and that may be the question that has to be raised. clearly, anyone in the military, even if they don't like the orders, has to care them out and show respect to those above them. that's part of the deal. and gary, we'll follow this case with great, great interest. it's really raising a lot more questions than we can answer here today. do you think chuck norris is tough. wait until you meet his 91-year-old mom. wilma norris-knight shares stories of chuck and their families from the past when we come back. (applause). on my journey acr, i found new ways to tell people about saving money. this is bobby. say hello bobby. hello bobby. do you know you could save hundreds on car insurance over the phone, online or a

eddie stein said to me, babe, they're my people. i said, ed, they're our people. but it won't be long, they'll be out of there. him and joe liebgott. and any one of you, this gentleman said it all. it's awful. you don't want to ever, ever see it. the man went through it. he can't talk about it. i can't talk about it and i only saw it. >> thank you, babe. >> i just want you to know that. it's very sad. and i live with it like he does. but it's something that should be -- i just wish i could get into detail about it but i can't. i can't. it's not acting. it's the truth. >> very emotional. >> thank you, babe. >> one of the hardest episodes for the actors to film was the concentration camp episode in lansds berg. ross had a prominent role in that. jimmy obviously was featured as well. could you guys address how that was set up by stephen spielberg and tom hanks. there was a little bit of a surprise for the actors filming this episode as well, correct? >> yeah. you know, that was -- we knew the episode was coming, and that was a big, a big conversation that they had wi

and shortly after wage and price controls were invoked, i was put on a committee with herb stein and jim lin to plan our exit of wage and price control. in the meantime, jim hodgson and other cabinet members seemed to spend -- and i occasionally replacing jim spent almost every day at the white house in cabinet-level meetings trying to ameliorate wage and price increases or come up with decisions on various wage and prices across the country which was bizarre. >> in -- >> remember, george schultz was -- john connolly and george schultz both had a role in administering that program and arnie weber was the executive director. and then don rumsfeld was, too. >> well, in an interview with secretary schultz said he was against wage and price control. >> i think it's true. it was connolly that convinced nixon. i'm sure schultz was against it. he hated the idea. so that's why it was amusing that he was put in charge with it. >> in an interview with us vice president cheney talked about how he played a role working for rumsfeld and actually assigning some of these targets, you know, deciding

ben stein says yes. >> because of the steps we took. the economy is much stronger than it was when i came into office. >> dennis miller has some thoughts on president obama'sview appearance. miller also with some advice for mitt romney. >> shake it off, let's roll. >> bill: caution. you where to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. stunning new developments in the trayvon martin case and is that true subject of this evening's talking points memo. abc is reporting and fox news is confirming that florida doctor examined george zimmerman hours after his confrontation with trayvon martin on february 26th. you'll remember, zimmerman shot the 17-year-old dead and has now been charged with second degree murder. according to the doctor, george zimmerman suffered a closed fracture of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and minor back injury. zimmerman had bruising to his upper lip and cheek. obviously all of that points to a physic

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sergeant gary stein, former marine.d now it's over with because of something he posted on the internet. >> i want to be the best of the best. >> reporter: gary stein said he always wanted to be one of the few and the proud, and he has been for nine years with an excellent record. >> i won this medal. >> reporter: he has a house, wife, 3-year-old daughter, baby on the way. he put it all at risk. >> reporter: are the two of you scared? >> of course we are. anybody would be scared in this position. >> reporter: two years ago the signing of the obama health care plan gave him a passion for politics, but he ended up being the public example for how the marines handle personal opinion in the internet age. >> with the passing of obama care i saw the great travesty to every citizens. >> reporter: he co-founded the armed forces tea party website. a forum for strong political opinions. he knew he had to tread a fine line as an active duty marine with legal limits on public political activity. sometimes he crossed it. >> reporter:

ben stein says yes. >> because of the steps we took. the economy is much stronger than it was when i came into office. >> dennis miller has some thoughts on president obama'sview appearance. miller also with some advice for mitt romney. >> shake it off, let's roll. >> bill: caution. you where to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. stunning new developments in the trayvon martin case and is that true subject of this evening's talking points memo. abc is reporting and fox news is confirming that florida doctor examined george zimmerman hours after his confrontation with trayvon martin on february 26th. you'll remember, zimmerman shot the 17-year-old dead and has now been charged with second degree murder. according to the doctor, george zimmerman suffered a closed fracture of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and minor back injury. zimmerman had bruising to his upper lip and cheek. obviously all of that points to a physic

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you can actually get fired if you're an active member of the military recently we saw sergeant gary stein get a less than honorable discharge for making some pretty strong comments about president obama take a look. you called. president obama a domestic enemy we have that up there as an active duty marine i say that word obama and they say that the post specific lee violated the uniform code of military justice article thirty four which basically says you neglect the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces i could be used better words and i agree with that but the same point the principle behind it that's my personal opinion as gary stein and it's my every right to say that. now it's sad to see any sort of free expression suppressed but military rules are unique so soldiers might want to err on the side of caution before getting all political on facebook especially considering how the military reveres discipline but now it's move on to the next question rules surrounding private sector workers there's a common perception the anything you say on social media could get y

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