ben stein, and maybe for perfectly valid reasons. maybe it should be a separate bill or separate matter, but they want to make it part of this bill and this matter to police those who are already here and include in this bill. good or bad idea? >> we've got to police them somehow. if the guys who are here should have been already picked up, the tsarnaevs should have been picked up by the f.b.i. under existing legislation, under existing law. they were tipped off by the russians. their c.i.a. tipped off the f.b.i something went badly wrong of the the law was -- >> if you're right. >> i don't think we need new laws. >> that's what i was going to say. if you're right. and by the way, let's cut the f.b.i. some slack. it's very easy to second guess that not everybody followed up on this or that. they have a lot of work to do. >> i agree. >> we always know about the things they miss and hindsight is always 20/20. but the fact of the matter is, that is coming to light. what's also coming to light in this environment, charles payne, is that

to ben stein. as you tell he is glad to be back. charles payne, dagen mcdowell. we've also got adam and charlie gasparino. charles payne, what do we make of this? >> the day we have to worry about. everybody has to worry about it. wait for the fog to clear because you will love it when you get the plan out there. we don't need to score any political points the. you can't push a plan through without border security being first and foremost and. to push something through so both sides can say to bloc of voters, we like you would be a huge mistake. >> i hundred percent agree with you the political pandering to the hispanic vote. i have never seen anything so explicit in terms of pandering to an ethnic group. >> company's utility party is whole another issue. i think when you are pandering or not the fact of the matter you s you are delayin what looked like close at hand reform. i don't know if it is good or bad thing. >> may i respectfully ask, what is connection between border security and tsarnaev brothers. they didn't slip through the border. as far as i know non

pundit, actor ben stein, there he is.ow ben, i want you just to tell me where you are putting your money, your own cash. because i know you. very careful, thrifty so that even ferris buehrle would understand it. buy the market itself. don't try to pick individual stocks. don't go with stock pickers even if they ever beautiful young women who say pick stocks go. with the markets. can you buy the index fund. there is almost no commission. it buys all the stocks and the 500 u.s. industrial public owned companies. can you buy an index fund from vanguard. and for almost no commission whatsoever, buy the largest even warren buffet who has been kind enough to become my friend and my latter years has said that he cannot outperform the markets. >> you are a dedicated stock guy. you believe no matter what happens that the stock market will eventually come back so just buy the whole market and these index funds and just put it away and hope and fray pray? >> if it goes down, buy more. but over long periods of time. >> won't have any

my name is tony stein, and i have a ph.d. in environmental engineering and i work for the state of california in the department of general services and environmentally preferable purchasing. i worked three years in the department of public health and environmental quality. i'm here to tell you that it is so important for the local government that you are to be aligned with the federal government's work and the federal government ha on its own website, sec website, everything that is in the signage that is in the right to know. and we really need to pass the message along to the public for public health service, to provide them with the information that is aligned with our federal government. it is so important for us as local agencies to inform the public and what is the fcc puts right into the phone. here's my iphone which i safely use and follow. it's right in our own iphones. yet, if you don't know how to access that information, you won't know. most people don't know what i know and what you all now know. it's so importan

with me now is jeff stein.edits the spy talk blog and writes for the "washington post" on intelligence issues. the president jumped on this immediately yesterday stating that yule of his resources would be -- that all of his resources would be involved. give me your reaction to where things are and what you think is going to happen? >> i think he was rightfully cautious about defining this act and whom might be responsible because in fact we don't know yet. my assistant overnight surveyed the right wing, white superiority, neonazi websites, by the way. and we find we're cautious in reacting to this bombing, although one of the most extreme said that they're worried they were going to be blamed for this bombing and that the government would for yao it as a pretext -- would use it as a pretext to take away their guns. some of the more extreme websites talked about that but most of them are very cautious. the most radical comments come from the readers who visit these websites and say it's time to hang all the mus

stein claims he knew nothing about it but admits. >> the truth is, what do you do with them unless they can race. there is a very very real need for disposal of horses that are no longer any chance of being an asset they are liabilities. >> reporter: derek disagrees. >> our industry and our horse owners have been able to bare this burden of either caring for the horse for the rest of its life in one form or another or giving it a peaceful, painless death, slaughter is not a human alternative ever. >> reporter: it is simple. >> because of different medications routinely used i wouldn't eat horse meat not from the u.s. >> reporter: now the proposed ban on horse slaughter comes at a time when several meat process sores in the u.s. are petitioning the usda to slaughter horses again the meat would only be used for export but critics says the one more opportunity for our domestic food supply to become tainted. >>> well, fight over a soda has turned into a half million dollar lawsuit all started when a brisbane man tried to order a drink on a virgin america flight. the flight attendant told hi

we can hope they start talking to each other in some way. >> sam stein?on to this budget will be. they are asking for this thing and criticizing the white house and now put it out there and say it doesn't go far enough because clearly have said it will state the middle ground. i've talked to an official administration off set and they say congress will be upset about their tactic here and know they have done this before by not staking out the progressive wing and negotiating to the middle they will get criticized and made it clear they are not signing off on any proposal that changes cpi or means testing for medicare. >> who told you that? >> senior administration official. >> who will not sign off on that? >> president obama will not sign off on any proposal 'cha thant c will change cpi. >> why say put a progressive budget out there? >> if you're a republican the past four months you have slashed defense spending and you've already agreed to the first tax increase in a quarter century. i would say this has been decidedly on our side and we have been givi

same stein, michael steele, mark mackinnon all back with us.inton and contributor to "vanity fair," dee dee myers. you missed it last night. >> i did. i'm so sorry to have missed. happy birthday to joe. >> yeah. he's passed out. he fell off the couch. he's face down. >> perfect. sign of a good party. >> yes, it was. also with us from capitol hill, republican representative from wisconsin and chairman of the house budget committee, congressman paul ryan. paul, good to have you back on the show. thank you for coming on. >> good morning, mika. good morning, dee dee. >> good morning. >> paul, this morning the president is going to officially unveil his budget proposal. the blueprint will reduce the deficit by $1.8 trillion. it calls for $580 billion in new revenue by closing loopholes and implementing the so-called buffett rule and reducing tax benefits for top earners. the plan also contains reduction to cost of living payments for social security benefits, higher costs for medicare coverage to upper income beneficiaries, access to universal presc

on the scene from last night and how the mit community is responding i was joined earlier by greg stein brecker he's a staff reporter for the mit attack and i asked him what in mighty students woke up to this morning. well most sure i can really see that they woke up to i know most of the students that i've talked to were up very late or are still but as for those of the few of them that kind of went to bed early enough that they missed the start of this. i can't even imagine we went to sleep last night on the normal campus and woke up with head of one of the campus police officers one of our own dead and the city turned into i don't know almost feels like a war zone lockdown go explosions going off long rifles it's so greg city to what is the current situation on your campus is it in lockdown right now. no it's not formally in lockdown i think the phrase they're using is sheltering in place which is basically please stay where you are and don't go outside please don't get hurt. and that's in effect over a number of different towns around here so are cities you've got cambridge watertow

sam stein is in washington.espondent pete williams with the latest on the boston marathon bombing investigation. pete, what are you hearing? >> it's a very fast moving investigation. they are now looking for two men and this is based on the pictures that they've been able to analyze partly a result of the bonanza of pictures that people have turned in in answer to the fbi's request for pictures and partly from what they are getting from surveillance cameras in the area. the beginning of this was a surveillance camera mounted on a department store across the street and down the block a bit from the second bomb attack. that's the picture you're seeing right now is that second scene. the bomb was placed out near the end of the sidewalk there. and in these pictures they see one young man who has a heavy backpack who sets it down just before the bomb goes off and then dashes away. he's also seen talking on a cell phone. they have two avenues of inquiry here. one is pictures themselves and they have clear pictures of

so that would be the clip about what they could accept in gun control, sam stein.e have a clip somewhere in our files. >> this is a tight-lipped show. >> we don't have time to rehearse the clips. it's not real show business. >> no. are you serious? >> we will show the immigration reform clip some other time. >> just tell us what it was. >> it was basically they'll accept something that's consistent with the president's principles. i have them memorized, mostly. >> good thing. >> and that, of course, is path to citizenship, and that is where the problem is. >> is that really the problem, though? you would think that at this juncture republicans would sort have gotten the message after losing 70% of the hispanic vote. i don't see why the white house needs to bend that much on this. they won an election largely on the hispanic vote. largely because they were promising to do immigration reform with a path tozenship. if they were to turn around and say the path to citizenship is going to be a 20-year process -- >> you have taken the path to citizenship. you have the dua

state level, governor brown has been a very strong supporter and leaders of both houses, president steinouse and president per ez have shown strong leadership. this check is much more symbolic of many many other checks that have come as a result of investor confidence in the city. i want to thank the labor for being part of all these projects and the business community for working closely with us and the transbay joint powers authority for being consistent entities here to steer through all of these years of changes and economic turmoils. i want to thank our friends at boston properties for being great anchors to this city. congratulations and thanks very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mayor. we very much appreciate your remarks. thank you very much. it is now my pleasure to introduce a very important woman, not only to this project but to this new district. supervisor jane kim. supervisor was appointed to the board of supervisors, she is currently a member of the finance and budget committees and shares the rules committee. she also sits on the san francisco county authority and t

and i have covered senator fine stein for decade. never heard her say it.stion opponent of the background check are afraid and fear is driving up the sales of gun and ammunition. on the other side the fear is being used as a tool as well. some supporters of stricting gun control just proud this political advertisement targe targeting senate minority leader mcconnell. the ad is running in kentucky mcconnell home state. >> who doesn't agree with mitch. >> go down to gun show like the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check. without having to show identification card. whether are you waiting for. >> carol mcconnell why he's in such bad company. >> washington is he waiting fo for, staff for mcconnell called the ad days moreable. about senator fine stein statement about weren't to go ban all guns, there are a beautiful of conservative web site that show a clip from the 1995 interview she did with 60 minutes that she said if she had the boat in the sun at she would have pushed for a ban. well she was t

. >>> california senator diane fine stein is also home in the bay area tonight. in 11 minutes, what she said about a new military threat against the united states. >> california governor jerry brown's office released details of his trip to china next week. the purpose is to promote california to chinese investigators and business leaders, including five stops in beijing and shanghai. >>> sheriff's officials in napa county identified a man shot by a for that psychotics agent last night. >> they say pablo ramirez is wanted for violating his probation. authorities say he was in his vehicle with two other men in a parking lot in napa when drug agents confronted the trio. he reportedly got into an altercation with one of the agents who shot him in the chest. >>> the u.s. coast guard released video of crew members recovering 245 large bags of marijuana. >> officials say mexican smugglers tossed the bags over board, after being spotted. >> they escaped to mexican waters, having an estimated value of $5 million. >> chuck read is taking his baseball pitch to the league. >

state level, governor brown has been a very strong supporter and leaders of both houses, president stein house and president per ez have shown strong leadership. this check is much more symbolic of many many other checks that have come as a result of investor confidence in the city. i want to thank the labor for being part of all these projects and the business community for working closely with us and

to ben stein, gerri willis, charlie gasperino. >> 24,000 people in california are hired to interpret obamacare? nancy pelosi doesn't understand it, the health care industry has been trying to understand it and can't do it. the bottom line, and i'm looking at it it from the consumers point of view, your costs are only going up some 68 million people are probably going to lose their corporate sponsored health care as a result of obama-- >> how many? >> 68 million. >> at least we're going to create 21,000 jobs in california. is that really the bottom, bottom line? there's more it to this than economics? >> happened to take two minutes out of my life and started reading the 63 pages. rules for navigators and shut down after the second page. the same thing happening since day one. we were told we had to figure out what was going to be in it. we knew what was going to come. it's going to be much higher costs, all kinds of regulations and mandates, we'll get the surprises by the week, whether it's a $63 fee for just to have a fee or this. i can't imagine what this is going to costwo or thre

thank you, stephanie cutter, sam stein. it's the navy rule. if the simplest guy can understand it. >>> up next, more trouble for the republican party's re-branding effort. this is "hardball." the place for politics. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you -- including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. >>> ha! back to "hardball." now to the sideshow. first up, jon stewart went after egypt's president mohamed morsi for his government's recent detention of a popular political comedian with his own television show. for stewart the attack hit a little close to home. let's listen. >> is there anything else he may have done here, perhaps concerning the president, himself? >> this show mocked him when he

but running argument with ben stein. you know, ben comes on here and touts the need to raise taxes and i don't totally disagree with him, but the problem is it's so much easier to raise taxes if you start boy raising taxes you'll never do any of the cuts. the only cuts that we had, when you think about it are the sort of marge nat sequester cuts and we do need-- >> it's never, we have never in this country had an experience where we have cut stuff first and then raised taxes, and it's always raise taxes and then maybe we might, you know, fiddle with the potential growth of the-- >> and adam, coming to that, what were you saying? >> we should get back to the premise the new taxes and the-- >> excuse me it's not adam lashinsky on business, but go ahead. >> all i would like to say, neil, is that all of these -- the new taxes that you listed at the outset, essential i the user fees, this is good public policy. >> you're paying more or not? >> yes, the president shouldn't have said in the campaign not one new tax. i mean, we

last, but not least, they have access to expertise to michael stein who designed a 100 thousand square foot of the olympic stadium. last week they asked to make recommendations. this is not on the website. i have not seen it. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm jim patrick with patrick and company. there have been a lot of discussions on this board, but i think the board needs to make policies to encourage buildings to happen around their area. i'm right around their area. to my knowledge there is no policies in place to incur this tax increase. i'm against the aluminum awe ning. we have a building near by. the pigeons love it and the dirt loves it. it will buildup and you just can't go in with a rag and wipe those out every 3 or 4 months. it's really impossible. to clean it, we water spray down and it's a big mess. i believe, no. 1. no. 2, the pigeons love it. they will find their way in and there is a lot of areas. big problems with pigeons. so i think we really need to rethink this. no. 3, i like the visibility and the idea of being able to see action and reducing 20 percent. you won't

they say they found several hundred bullets, a loaded rifle and six 30-round mag steins -- magazines. he reportedly pointed a loaded rifle at a woman's head before the carjacking. we spoke to -- we spoke to her. >> the whole time, i was like i can't believe no one is walking close enough to me to ask for help. >> according to investigators, he was trying to get to the russian consulate in san francisco where he was planning to seek asylum. >>> president obama confirmed there's some evidence that syria has used chemical weapons against its own people. sal castanedo joins us live with mr. obama's warning to the president of syria. sal? >> good afternoon, tori. the president continues his tough talk toward the government of syria and president bash arail asad -- bashar assad. u.s. and u.n. regulators suspect syria has used a small amount of gas. today the president sauled this a game changer not only for the united states but for the entire international community. >> when you use these kinds of weapons, you have the potential of killing massive numbers of people in the most inhumane way

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gallagher, vice president of dimos, heather mcgee and political editor at the "huffington post," sam stein. you guys have been doing a great job chronicling the reality of the sequester cuts, what it seems to me is here we have a case of the two americas, the legislating class, and actual americans. and the fact that sort of congress seems to be in its own bubble regarding the pain of the sequester cuts, republicans especially in so far as they're declaring victory on this, when in reality there's a serious toll that the squekter is taking. >> there's a national story and a bunch of local stories. for the first couple of weeks, the national story was sort of obsessed with whether or not there was going tore tours in the building behind me. whether the easter egg roll was going to be continue as well. and why those lengthy lines at the airport that the white house warned about never materialized. in actuality, locally there's been a lot of pain and suffering that's happening and it will get worse, sequestration is $8 5 billion just this year in cuts alone. they don't have to come all at the

to ben stein, glad to see you. as you can

joining me is glen thrush, the "huffington post" political editor and white house correspondent, sam stein, former director of the domestic policy council under president obama, melanie barnes and "washington post" columnist and msnbc political analyst, ezra klein and ayman mohyeldin, msnbc correspondent. i want to go to you, ayman, the president, they keep doubling down on the terms, credible and corroborative. needing more evidence as to whether assad is using chemical weapons. how much do you think the international community and specifically syrians are taking stock in this notion that the white house is moving perhaps towards action of some kind in syria? >> well you know, i've been speaking to people overseas. and trying to gauge their reaction from the syrian opposition leaders, the syrian coalition, they put out a statement yesterday, in which they said that time has come for u.s. action. that the evidence is so overwhelming, not only from an anecdotal level, but also from the u.s. intelligence assessments and some of its closest allies, that there is no more excuse for inaction an

we have sam stein with us this morning.ormer director of the white house domestic policy council and ceo of melanie barnes solution. melanie barnes. and willie geist. mike barnicle. and the host of politics nation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> it really is a big day and you can't overstate the compromise and the power of the compromise that joe manchin and pat toomey have put together. here are two conservatives. manchin without a doubt the most conservative in the senate. pat toomey for my money' i've said it all along, one of the true conservatives in the u.s. senate from pennsylvania. it bears repeating. while the rest of the party jumped off the cliff when bush was president, toomey remained conservative and voted against a medicare drug benefit plain and he got elected in pennsylvania, a blue state and this compromise is incredible. guys like us paul ryan we respect pat toomey so much and why it's not a surprise paul ryan yesterday said

and sam stein is political editor at the "huffington post." i want to start with sam on the reporting here. it looks to me like there's a good chance they will have 60 votes, to at least begin debate two days from now. >> yeah, that's about right. from our count, we have about eight republican senators who are leaning very strongly to openly supporting the first cloture vote which would allow you to go to debate and amendment. harry reid may lose two members of his own caucus on that vote. max baucus and mark pryor are noncommittal at this point. that gives gun control advocates a bit more time to craft the legislative language of the background check bill. like you said, it doesn't guarantee passage. they still have to close the debate period in order to get to actual vote on passage. >> senator, you were there, explain this to people out there, this cloture, this filibuster game now. you can filibuster a bill even before people start talking about it. then you can filibuster it again once you don't like the direction of the debate and might

and sam stein is the political editor and white house correspondent. he is really tough.guy is a solid, tough journalist. i don't think you lean forward enough but that's all right. let's talk about the president's role. you and i can -- you're a publicity person. you understand communications. there are times when the president's on the front page. i was working for tipp for those years and would say i don't have to be on the front page every day. we know when you're there. lately, three or four months, the president has not been out there. bloomberg i bloomberg's been out there, biden's been out there. why hasn't the president been consistently charges since newtown on guns? >> chris, i think he has. >> out front. >> out front. you saw last thursday the event he did at the white house. >> every day i get up and read the papers. stephanie, i read the papers every day. >> we can't control what people put on their front pages. it did make some front pages last week. he's talked about gun safety and curbing gun violence since newtown tragedy. he's travel ing to colorado tom