thanks for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> victoria, a new report shows todd akin and allen west spendingwhere does this rank in the tea party hypocrisy hall of fame? >> well, there's a big dose of hypocrisy. when we're looking at the tea party, one of their main tenants is about getting government out of your life, not managing your day to day and one of the other issues for the tea party has been abortion and curtailing women's choice. governor rick perry here in texas who keeps advocating that he's not going to outlaw texting while driving because he thinks it's an example of government micromanaging your life and yet the government seeking to have abortion we have curtailing and they can't get it together. they are talking out both sides of their mouth. >> joe, isn't it true that when you deal with the hypocrisy around spending, which is personified around akin or west, or as we just heard from victoria when you've got the tea party saying that this government is too big and the right saying we shouldn't be regulating this, regulating that, but they want to regulate people's private l

hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm todd akin to. the news sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care only on the dog call. remember that international airport in the very hot. air i did this when it developments. on tour of what is school everett's in goodreads just like a bridge i know. that really everybody that's what it is using to live in and then i was john lagos and i doubt that i was one of the lead so wanted. to do the low on identity event of his to do that it's. maybe a very sad it's kind humble you've done for charlap artist i was fights back i was fights. fights and everybody should go we had asked this dead government i don't want i have problem with me i'll fight them so well when we got back when if i do that i'll tell you it's going to equal how can you have peace if you don't do. without how i just wen

when former republican congressman and wan a be senator todd akin said in august if it is a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down, romney issued a press statement through a spokesperson. governor romney and congressman ryan disagree with mr. akin's statement. then he had his reporter stonewall reporters from asking about it. >> political specialist shawn boyd finished an interview with romney. >> one stipulation to the interview was that i not ask about abortion or todd akin. >> when richard murdock said live begins at the horrible situation of rape, that is something that god intended to happen, mitt romney once again had his spokesperson speak for him. governor romney disagrees with richard mourdock, but still supports him. then romney ran away when reporters asked about it. the newest bat crazy republican to take stage has been on the stage quietly, quietly, for 40 years. he has been over in a dark corner of the stage as the lone member of the house of representatives from alaska. last week 79-year-old don young was back home in alaska saying

i want to remind everybody what one of your former republican colleagues, todd akin, had said about the comments, "legitimate rape," that led to his political demise during this past election. take a look. >> would you take those six seconds back, if you could? >> oh, of course i would. i've relived them too many times. but that's not -- that's not reality. all of us are fallible. you know, we make mistakes, say things the wrong way. >> so is todd akin, obviously, there, very concentrated and pensive in the fact that he recognizes that his words might have cost him the election. is what he said and how he acted a true cautionary tale for other conservative legislators, and when they take on a woman's right to choose? >> absolutely, thomas. if you remember, two years ago, the very first bill that the republicans put on the house floor, hr-1, was to defund planned parenthood. and that erupted, i think, with great consternation among women across this country. why is it that the number one issue, when we were concerned about jobs and a failing economy, that the republicans were dead set ag

and their own candidates have cost -- the best reference for last cycle would be todd akin. recruiting candidates that are -- can win primaries but are alienate a general election audience. so they are having their own sort of internal struggles between the more conservative wing and the more mainstream. and that battle still needs to play out in these states. gwen: what fun we're going to have in the mid-term elections. not often we get a peek inside a meeting of the presidents' club as our friend michael duffy called it. there are only five of them. and along with their wives in dallas this week, they provided one of the most interesting tableaux of democracy that we ever get to see. plus the remarks at the opening of george w. bush's presidential library reminded us how very different they are. >> those who made this marvelous museum possible, we thank you, especially, and we're glad to be here. god bless america. and thank you very much. >> people began to joke that i was getting so close to the bush family i had become the black sheep son. [laughter] my mother told me n

so in that time, todd akin gave his staff a 98% increase in pay.ourth biggest giver to his staff. and basically all -- out of the top ten nine of them were republicans. of who gave the most to their staff. they just cranked up their salary on the way out the door. >> bill: now are these -- these are congressional employees, we're not talking campaign -- >> congressional employees. >> bill: so we all -- you and i, we pay for this, right? >> government spending is evil, bill, except for when it's not. >> except for when you have to give a couple of bonuses to your staffers. >> bill: plus i thought there were categories, i thought there was a ceiling if you're a legislative director in a congressional office i thought there was -- but to double it. >> 98%. i don't have the actual numbers of what they were making and what it came out to. >> presumably only for a few weeks. >> exactly. >> but still. >> bill: nice little bonus. >> damn right. >> walking around money as they call it. michael, the sequester you know, a month ago sequester is all we talked

record, most of candidates that made those mistakes were not tea party candidates, let's talk about todd akinrespectrepublicans like to calla tea party candidate but he was not, moving forward, is focus on founding principles of nation, the founding document is there it is being eroded and republicans have been complacent. they will continue to lose, they should be fighting today they continue to kick the can down the road, they are wondering why vote for a republican if they are just going to govern like a democrat. charles: interesting, because now, when you talk about recent polls, i have seen where, people are more concerned about debt then almost anything else, that was a huge winning midterm election item that shifted dynamic in washington d.c. and to your point it felt like republicans forgot about how bad the economy was, the deficit, and debt, and this thing. how could that happen. is this that there is no central leadership, if feels like a rude rudeless -- rudderless ship right now. >> you are right. considering the base is the one they need to get behind the party, and base is con

the reality of stuff, how many people, i would like to know, believe todd akins point there is legitimatend that women have secret magical things things. >> cenk: that's crazy opinions this is about crazy facts. this is one that is devastating. >> what is a crazy fact versus a crazy opinion. >> john: 38% of americans according to this poll still things that hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. after president obama comes out and says it, that he had no involvement, how can one out of four americans-- >> he said once that he wasn't, and he said a billion times he was. when you rebeat the law. >> john: and at 2:00 in the morning when they covered that story. >> right, because the truth is on page 68 and the lies are always on page one. >> the brilliant pundits and generals who told us all these lies about the war or rebeated lies that they investigated, no one would suffer for what they did. >> john: they still have their jobs. >> it makes sense that our public the more information we get, the more misinformation we get. it makes sense that the public would be misinformed. >> they judg

when you look at todd akin and alan west, same thing as sanford, spending, spend they lose their raceble the salaries of their government employees. it's always i want to cut spend towering, i don't want to cut spending for me. >> cenk, i'll tell you that i don't think during this time in congress, i don't think any congressman had a better record of doing exactly what you sound like you wanted him to do. i think we need to stop spendion. i would agree with you on that. i think no congressman when he was in congress did a better job of protecting our spending and fighting against wasteful government spending than he did. i think he proves your point that we need more people like mark sanford in congress. cenk: yeah, governor sanford when he was governor and spending a lot of the taxpayers money to go have sex with his mistress. >> he's a great governor. cenk: whether you guys can convince people that he was a great governor well, you've done some good work and i give you credit for that, ok. i think a lot of people have bad a memories of him as a governor. >> the voters in charleston

last year we were talking about todd akin and planned parenthood. what the right is trying to do is change it away from the right of women being in control of their destinies. >> rather than getting a conclusion from the right premise. this is about enforcement. let me ask you this, elise. when you look at the fact that they are also complaining on the right about the coverage, let me go to right wing radio talk show host lars larson who has a theory on why he claims the media isn't covering the trial. listen to this. >> we're going to pretend that doesn't exist because we can't possibly tell the story without violating all of our beliefs that abortion is a right and any way it gets done to any baby at any number of weeks is completely appropriate for any reason whatsoever. >> i mean, first of all, do you believe there's been a blackout in the media and the surrounding coverage of this media s. it so, is it some way to protect a woman's right to choose? >> reverend, irin wrote the best piece on the fact that there had been no media blackout. i want

to avoid a todd akin, christine o'donnell. they hope to mediate such an issue. that's the landscapes. right now they are seriously out there trying to find these candidates, scarring the company to get the best folks to run. host: let's go to david from long island, new york, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i have an issue with how much money a lot of these congress people and senators make. i also have an issue with how much money they spend to run for office and how long they stay in office. it seems to me that the campaign has gotten away from what the actual candidate is going to do for the people but how to steal seats are get votes or make the population happy with the money they are spending for votes. if you talk to these people, they don't know the people. they don't know what they are doing for the people. they don't receive anything extra -- increases to social security, increases to food stamps has not been there, just the amount of people collecting hem. unfortunately life quality hasn't improved. the people that they are voting for,

claims to love jesus that much but loves the death penalty that much -- >> there could be someone's todd akin moment. they could find themselves suddenly defending years of subjugation and this could be the moment that could lead to it. >> john: senator mcconnell several times pointed to an attack last month that called into question the ethnicity of his wife born in taiwan and moved to america as an 8-year-old. is mcconnell being hypocritical when he was prepared to attack a mental issue? >> he's upset because they addressed her ethnicity and they're addressing ashley judd's religion. >> john: but at the same time his wife is not running for office. ashley judd was considering it. isn't his wife off-limits? >> there is family being off-limits unless someone could influence policy. >> she was in the department of labor. >> what a lot of people didn't mention is when this happened, ashley judd spoke out and said that this wasn't a correct thing to do. >> john: the fbi is looking into it. the person who recorded this and leectd it is the one being unethical. >> i think that's a greater hypocris

the cucc is like todd akin on abortion except less apologetic.- no, actually, he's exactly like wayne lapierre on guns. they're already freaking out about the impact his retrograde policies could have on the state's business climate. you know, though, as i'm thinking this through, this all just seems a little too neat. a little too perfect. really? in a year when republicans are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as a party with ideas and values from at least the late 20th century, and a year where the virginia gubernatorial is basically the only race in country worth watching, this guy, the man with the suggestive nickname who wants government out of your health care and into your bedroom, becomes the face of the republican party? he almost had me. what was it that "w" said again? >> fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. if you fool me, we can't get fooled again. >> exactly. i'm not falling for it. the cucc has not to be a democratic plan. george soros must have put him up to this. a brilliant scheme to hand the virginia governor's mans

twelve we, of course, had the infamous todd akin in missouri and richard newshour dock in indiana. so five seats that they lost. >> ifill: are there any republican seats being vacated where republicans are at a disadvantage? >> not at a disadvantage. i suppose -- i mean, that was scenario for democrats to compete in georgia. a very crowded republican field. if one of the less broadly acceptable republicans like congressman paul brown, for example, were to be the nominee i think democrats would think we have an opportunity. they are recruiting candidates. they're either recruiting congressman barrow of georgia. a democrat is going to be a very strong candidate as a member of the house and they're recruiting sam nunnen's daughter. so democrats are trying to put a good candidate in georgia. >> ifill: so democrats are hoping they get a revisitation of the luck they had last time which is the republicans choose badly. >> exactly. even in states where they are on defense. democrats are definitely playing defense this year. they got to play a little offense in 2012, they're not so lucky t

it's like todd akin in missouri. these are races republicans should have won.bad candidates. at first the campaign committee was going to go ahead with it, give mark sanford money. he's at least well known. he served as governor twice. he's got the politics that seem to fit that district. but he's also an idiot. and let me say this in his wife's defense. remember that mark sanford came to her to ask her to run his campaign this time around. after publicly humiliating her with another woman. so for all of his alleged political genius, she may have been the real brains behind his campaign successes in the past. >> cynthia, you hit on, i think, the key point there about the genius of this operation. i think that's something a lot of republicans have recognized right out of the box. at the end of the day, republican voters in the primary voted for him twice. not once, but twice. >> in the runoff. >> in the runoff. first primary then the runoff. >> will they do it again despite all this nonsense? >> from what i'm hearing on the ground in south carolina -- >> will th

to avoid another todd akin or christine o'donnell. that's the landscapes.ht now they are seriously out there trying to find these candidates, scarring the company to get the best hopes to run. host: let's go to david from long island, new york, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. have an issue with how much money a lot of these congress people and senators make. i also have an issue with how much money they spend to run for office and how long they stay in office. it seems to me that the campaign has gotten away from what the actual candidate is going to do ow to stealple but hwo t seats are get votes or make the population happy with the money they are spending for votes. if you talk to these people, they don't know the people. they don't know what they are doing for the people. they don't receive anything extra -- increases to social security, increases to food stamps has not been there, just the amount of people collecting them. unfortunately, like quality has not improved. the people that they are voting for, they just see a big party every

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salary records show former missouri congressman todd akin roughly doubled his staff's payroll in the00 for the quarter. akin's former communications director says it was a quote, separation package for staffers who were losing their jobs after the congressman was beaten by claire mccaskill in the missouri senate race in november. >>> a bit of a conspiracy theory to tell you about. a friend who advised ashley jud to run for the u.s. senate says kentucky politics has both democrats and republicans working against her. last night on outfront jonathan miller claimed both sides sabotaged judd's political aspirations. >> some of them wanted another candidate, secretary of state allison griems and some for good reasons wanted her, they thought she'd be a stronger candidate. but others sought to either profit from her, working on her campaigns, or would love to have a friend in the u.s. senate. and then, kind of ironically on the other side, you had people who weren't friends of secretary grimes, who wanted to push her into the senate race, so that she wouldn't be running for governor or lie

her comparison of sexual assault led people to classify her as the democratic version of todd akin.and i remember thinking did she really say that? it is a horrible thing to say. but it is not true. >> stephanie: the guy in the "daily beast" writes i was at the dinner. i never heard her say anything like that. what's more, such a statement would have been completely inconsistent with the way i've heard her discuss her horrible experience of sexual assaults. you think you know, by the time this went through -- >> it was in breitbart it must be true. >> exactly. it is discouraging. when i read things like that and i hear things like that, it does give me pause to think do i really want to open myself up to things that aren't even true about myself. >> stephanie: those picture that have hit the internet of you, me and jacki schechner debauchery. >> do i really want to explain it regularly? >> stephanie: we can explain everything. but i'm just saying. the second big lie involved the big dog, bill clinton. they began to press the narrative he was for the other -- who is the other gal? >>

advice with jonathan miller said that that was part of the reason they are calling her the left's todd akin part of the reason she thought oh, my god this is too much. miller claims she never said that in the dinner. he was at the dinner. even if she did say it and howard said she did say it. i thought ok, she's coming in here ready to fight. i think -- it turns out she didn't right and if she scared her away, is that the problem -- is that a problem with celebrities sometimes that politics is really, really dirty and they're not ready for it? >> well, and it is a part of how politics operates. she could have said it, she could not have said it, she might have said it to one person. in the end that probably wouldn't have mattered, because the fact that you and i are talking about it indicates that it had some degree of traction. on the left, you can objectively look at it, she is ready to fight, knows that it is going to be a gut check when it comes time to campaign and debate mismcconnell. on the right, they are easily envisioned dirty tricks around this, saying our component compared mesh