but i love what sununu. i love that he got in there and debated it this would like to spend the entire interview on it because it serves the president well. and as we know the mainstream media serves the president and president obama. so they want to stay on it because they can't actually. >> bill: you buy into that soledad o'brien, the cnn anchor there wants to divert attention away from the bad economy with this birth certificate issue. you buy into that that she consciously goes on her show and says you know what? i don't want to talk about the economy because it's going to be bad for president obama. so i will petty fog the issue, word of the day, okay? with this bogus stuff. you're buying that janine? >> i believe it. >> bill: you do. >> i believe they want to monopolize the time on the interview with that nothing can be pinned down such as obama wants to fundamentally change america. >> bill: okay. >> they like ambiguity. they like it. >> bill: marianne, certainly this is reminiscent of newt gingrich a

for equal rights for gays in america is one step forward two steps back and the very very ugly john sununu last week mitt romney claimed that america needs fewer teachers firefighters and police officers rather than trying to explain away the gaffe romney campaign chairman john sununu went on endlessly these n.b.c. this morning and said this if this is fewer kids in the classroom the taxpayers really do want to hear that there will be fewer teachers absolutely i think this is a real issue and people ought to stop jumping on it as again and understand there's wisdom in the comment if americans vote for mitt romney in november they will be electing a man who wants to see a country filled with poorly educated children and safe neighborhoods and that is very very. this is phytoplankton basically giant clouds of little tiny plants that fill the oceans it's the bottom of the food chain meaning that if it collapses so too does all other marine life it also produces about half of the oxygen in our atmosphere secure off the flight of plankton and the world as we know it ends the bad news we're kill

. ♪ ♪ of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.achers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our >>(narrator) eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>you just have to conclude that the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) independent unflinching, and above all politically direct. >> a look at the state of our state, hundreds of probe choice activists thronged the michigan capitol today to protest legislation that would essentially ban abortion in the great lakes state. among the bill's most e greenous provisions is that it criminal eyesizes all aboards after 20 weeks no exceptions, no rape incest health of the mother exceptions. the g.o.p.-controlled house is expected to vote on the measure is week and in fact, they were supposed to vote today. but the protesters deterred the vote, we understand. >> that's one of the war room stories we wanted to update for you that we have been following. another one is that also, johnson and johnson is the latest large company to bow to public press

and people ought to stop jumping on it as a gaffe and understand there's wisdom in the comment. >> sununu sees wisdom in the idea of reducing the number of teachers in this country. even though the census numbers show an increase in school enrollment every year. by 2015, enrollment is projected to be nearly 10 million students higher than it was at the beginning of the last decade. of course, it wouldn't be a full-court press from the gop without words from the real leader of the republican party. >> nobody's opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers, but they aren't private sector jobs. they do not contribute to economic growth. >> i guess rush limbaugh doesn't think teachers, firefighters, or police officers ever spend any money. it's frustrating enough to have republican spokesmen push this bill of goods but it's even worse when the people responsible for public job losses try to do the same. vocal obama chris christie is a walking billboard for slash and burn governance at the state level. he order 1,200 new jersey public employees laid of in 2010. the consequences were immediate an

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 it's go time. >>every weeknight cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the guys in the middle class the guys in the lower end got screwed again. >>i think you know which one we're talking about. the overwhelming majority of the country says"tax the rich, don't go to war." >>just wanted to clarify that. >>> mitt romney and his republican allies have been attacking president obama for government involvement in the economy. but what does active government really look like? just over the state line from where mitt romney gave his speech today kentucky governor steve beshear gave a speech of his own yesterday. he announced that ford motorcycle off company would reopen a plant in kentucky and employ 4,500 workers. it's part of the state strategy to boost manufacturing by giving tax incentives to companies that create jobs orin vest in equipment or technology in kentucky. a tax strategy that

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it's interesting governor sununu would say this.uy riding high in the republican party pushing back on romney's comments saying that, quote, i know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. that's not what i think of when i think of big government. governor walker taking a very different stance from sununu and even romney there. >> right. this is a classic democratic/republican battle where the republicans try to paint the government establishment be it the federal government or the local government, as sort of a nameless, faceless bureaucracy and the democrats will come back and point out firefighters, police officers, teachers, that is isn't simply a bunch of people collecting a paycheck who are members of union but the teachers, maybe of your own kids. suddenly, people aren't that excited about the teachers that teach their kids being laid off. so this is a battle we have seen played out repeatedly and it is interesting that walker, having won the battle to some extent with the pub

former governor john sununu and former senator john sununu join us now., gentlemen. >> thank you. >> it's good to be here. how are you? >> who's more proud of their career in politics? i want to see you guys argue. who did a better job? >> my mother. my mother was chairman. she was chairman of the school board for five or six years in salem, new hampshire. there was no tougher job in politics than that. and she came out looking even better than when she went in. that's impressive. >> i'm afraid to turn you guys loose on the president and on this election. i mean, you guys -- even separately, you guys are both pretty tough. governor, let me start with you. >> yeah. >> what do you make of the -- it's vitriolic and ugly and it's going to get a loss worse. >> but it will calm down because this administration is probably the most incompetent in history and eventually as more and more people start paying attention, you're going to find, i believe, this election to be a lot different than it looks today. and mitt romney is going to do extremely well. >> what abo

sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.e cops and more firefighters that support our desk top, lab top, ipad. iphone. >> pleasant your hearts. >> the big one. >> stephanie: all i know, the little flower is there and it means go to meeting. i love go to meeting. >>the gavin newsom show is a search engine for solutions, and that's the focus. we want to focus on solutions and ways of bringing people together. that's the only way we're going to solve the world's great vexing problems. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> broadcasting across the nation. on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. standing up for the nuns. >> that's what we are going to do for this hour here on the full-court press. hello, everybody. happy wednesday, wednesday june 13th. good to see you today, and thank you so much for being part of the program here. it's the full court press as we boom out to you live from our nation's capitol with all of the big stories of the

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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 the airplanes are going to get from one part of the country to the other without any air i mean this is ridiculous and mitt romney ought to know better. i stand with our public employees and cops and firefighters and their teachers? right by those who gave their lives to for this country nearly 70 years ago. >> well, in today's mitt moment, the republican nominee kicked off his every town counts bus tour with his proclamation about small towns. take a listen. >> they raise strong families. run our factories and grow our food. they coach little league and soccer. they serve on the pta. they're volunteers. they help our neighbors and they dream big dreams. sometimes for themselves but mostly for our kids. >> ironic. mitt romney. they do dream big dreams just like some other dreamers like immigrant parents who dream that their children will also have opportunities in america. the dad who picks

thank gaemezilinsky, thank you for joining of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our >> eliot: coming up obama versus romney coming up, it's starring to sound like hamilton versus jefferson. but first dopped's birthday and the president's musk career. >> the birth king. don't forget don't trump. i'm not making this up. it is also donald truck's trumped birthday. >> the first thing he did this morning. he demanded to see his own birth certificate. >> he didn't want a big party. he invited a few close friend to to come over. >> he didn't even want a clown. >> there is initiatives about legalizing marijuana. >> if they make it on to the ballot i say romney is doom because we all know pot smokers are highly motivated organized and punk actual. >> sorry i'm late, this new schedule totally confuseing. >> drugs are dangerous and cause confusion go we have a special interest contributing 10s of millions of dollars trying to buy the election for mitt romney. >> all of this super pac, sup

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we'll see you again next of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.achers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our when we come back, gay rights seemed to have a victory in washington. it was pulled back. the guy who pulled it back. the guy who is against gay marriage will be on the program. we will have an interesting conversation when we return. >> speaking against the vocal >> cenk: the president has had star-studded fundraisers. he recently did one in new york, good morning"good morning america" has one on that. >> the star-studded fundraiser at the home of sara jessica parker. aathree arearethra franklin and merle streep, stars who were willing to shell out $40,000 for dinner. mariah carey provided entertainment and obama raked in $4.5 million. >> cenk: to me the fact that our politicians have to raise all that money is a disturbing part. the fact that they raised it from celebrities? who cares. have at it. hoss. the republicans are all bitter. >> claiming obama the pc life raft. >> i just don't see that how that u

. >> eliot: mike tyson sings and he has not of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.s, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our a great tasting mint core, frosted in powerful cooling crystals. ice breakers frost. feel the frost. >> eliot: coming up for the obama administration, the leaks keep on coming. first george hw shows his sox and mike tyson and bill o'reilly and colon powell show their vocal range. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the few finder. >> mitt romney, mitt, our buddy is going on a six-state bus tour and mitt is very excited because he's never been on a bus. >> romney: i met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. i figured he was in sports. he was not in sports. >> the tall man was not in sports. neither bounce ball nor oblong leather zip lynn kind. >> the nba final. pros okc stands for oklahoma city. cons mia, stands for lebron james in the fourth quarter ♪ lebron james ♪ oooh ♪ >> there's current tv. >> you catch current watch this show. we're current. >> i like a colorful sock. i'm a sock man. >> and they've been

dick armey, bill paxon, steve largent, saxby chambliss, john sununu, lindsey graham, tom coburn, susan molinari, john kasich, bill zellef, and i know i've missed some. >> guest: right. c-span: almost -- other than tom delay and a couple of others, the team that you started out with are gone. >> guest: well, you know, that happens in congress today. people used to say, well, you know, you go to congress, those people are there forever. the term limit -- you know, the term limit issue and all those things that we talked about -- you know, the average -- i don't know what exactly the average term of a congressman, but it used to be for a long time. today, it's probably eight years or ten years is the average time that a person stays here. and they cycle off and do something else. a lot of those folks that you mentioned are either in the senate or headed for the senate so i mean, they step up and do other things. saxby chambliss and lindsey graham, and coburn's running for the senate, and others. so you know, there's other careers, too. c-span: tom coburn did this show once, and it was --

pursue and seems he was pursuing it because they put out their number one surrogate this morning, john sununu on television to double down on the romney line, then it seems like something like the rule of holes is when your nee one, stop digging. i'm not sure romney is going to stop digging on this one. >> gentlemen, thank you both. i we shall we had more time for howard fineman and david corn. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> what does it mean for the white house now that attorney general eric holder is investigating whether top secret national security details were leaked? that's ahead. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ fe male announcer ] [ fe gain fireworks scent booster, inspired by women who like control, which, last time i checked, was most women. sprinkle as much as you'd like into the wash to boost the scent. gain. anything but ordinary. >>> you might not have known the name of the commerce secretary but you do now. john bryson was cited for felony hit and run after a pair of car crashes southern california over the weekend. bryson allegedly rear ended a car stopping for a

. ♪ ♪ of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.e teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our >> cenk: we're back on "the young turks"." as some democrats are starting to worry that the election might be slipping away from president obama. the president, on the other hand is confident that they're going in the right direction. >> obama: we are in a stronger position. we are moving in a better direction than when i took office. >> cenk: well, but some democratic strategists are concerned that might not be the case. >> i'm worried that the white house and campaign talks about the progress that is being made, people take that as a signal that people think things are fine and people don't feel that or believe that. they want to be assured that he understands the depth of the problem and he has plans to deal with the deterioration of the middle class. >> cenk: part of the problem he did not make the structural changes that i think a progressive should have made, that is not to continue to bail out th

[music] of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.e teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our >>(narrator) the sheriff of wall street. >>the leadership of high finance just doesn't get it. >>(narrator) the former governor of new york, eliot spitzer is on current tv. >>somebody somewhere can listen, record, track, gather this data. >>arrangements were made. >>(narrator) independent unflinching. >>there is a wild west quality to it that permits them to do whatever they wish. >>(narrator) and above all politically direct. >>facts are stubborn things. >> a power panel for you guys chris she can never is the president of the firm libertas. : . listenny mcalester, a good friend. good to be here on the young turks. is obama too busy for wisconsin? he was giving eight different interviews in six different swing states and here he is at wbay in greenbay let's listen. >> there were a lot of democrats in the. >> the truth of the matter is as president of the united states, i have a lot of responsibilities.

of sununu, you're wrong. mitt romney, you're wrong.e teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our it doesn't matter who you are. she was trying to be cool. she walks in, bonus, bonus bonus, bonus. [ screaming ] by the way in heels, the same height. [ applause ] >> wow. >> stephanie: she's awesome. as is john fuglesang. thank you, boston. 18 minutes after the hour. let's continue on "the stephanie miller show." >> announcer: for a good time, call now. gaeme inc. thank gaemezilinsky, thank you for joining >> cutting my higher wouldn't be that complicated. >> a little off of the top there. >>>. >> am i right? you got to give these guys' a discount. they only take five minutes. >> well that was president obama this afternoon, taking a break from the campaign for a quick lunch at a washington, d.c. barbecue with military and community members. now, romney wasn't anywhere remoteley like that for his lunch. he was with about 100 ceos and businessmen across town to deliver his pre-buttal to tomorrow's econo

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let's listen to john sununu defending the idea that, you know what, we have too many cops in america. too many public schoolteachers in america. let's listen to that. >> let me respond as a taxpayer, not as a representative of the romney campaign. there are municipalities, there are states where there is flight of population. and as the population goes down, you need fewer teachers. there are places where just pumping money in to add to the public payroll is not what the taxpayers of this country want. i think this is a real issue and people ought to stop jumping on it as a gaffe, and understand there's wisdom in the comment. >> jonathan capehart, he didn't have a prescription for the places where the population is increasing and how many teachers or. cops that they need. >> this is one more statement from the land of mitt-believe, where suddenly we don't need cops, we don't need firefighters, we don't need teachers. can you imagine if a democrat had said this or if president obama had said this today or even five years ago or ten years ago, a democrat making that kind of statement? w

pursue and seems he was pursuing it because they put out their number one surrogate this morning, john sununu on television to double down on the romney line, then it seems like something like the rule of holes is when your nee one, stop digging. i'm not sure romney is going to stop digging on this one. >> gentlemen, thank you both. i we shall we had more time for howard fineman and david corn. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> what does it mean for the white house now that attorney general eric holder is investigating whether top secret national security details were leaked? that's ahead. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer ] knowing your customers is important to any successful business. which is why at wells fargo, we work with you to get to know the unique aspects of your business. we can recommend financial solutions that can work for you that have helped millions of business owners save time, reduce expenses, and maximize cash flow. as the number one small business lender for nine years running... we're with you when you need us. so you can be there for your custo