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] claim service so good, it's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can always count on them. unlike randy over there. that's one dumb dude. ♪ ♪ the new claim satisfaction guarantee. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. you've heard bill's views, now let's hear yours. politically direct means no b.s. just telling you what's going on in politics today. >>at the only on-line forum with a direct line to bill press. >>it's something i've been waiting for a long time. >>join the debate now. >> caller: i think it was inevitable. i think one of the things people aren't talking about yet we're waiting for the statistics to come in for states who have approved it, the number of relationships and the length of the relationships for the gay population i think is going to grow. so will monogamy as a result of being able to be married. >> bill: i haven't seen any numbers on that either but certainly, patrick, by the way as a fellow californian, let's hope that our state joins the 21st century right? >> let's hope. the numbers on the prop 8, if prop 8 were to be put on the ballot today,

. brought to you today by the american federation. teachers. good men and women under president randy weingarten making a difference every day. this is the old boardinghouse reach here if you excuse me just a second. grabbing something from the printer because we go into -- we're going to continue to take your calls. don't worry. about mitt romney and some of the pranks he pulled in high school including maybe one that amounted to bullying, whether he should be held responsible for those. take your calls at 1-866-55-press. first we jump into the spin room. the spin room today brought to you today by wrigley orbit gum. yes, clean up that dirty mouth with orbit. eat, drink and chew orbit gum with orbit gum. and we have been talking about mitt romney. president obama coming out in support of same-sex marriage. how will this go over in black churches across the country. we wanted to ask someone from that community. she joins us this morning. candy holmes with community church is in prince george's county, maryland. reverend holmes, thanks for joining us. >> good morning, bill. it is a ple

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that mitt romney shut down. one of them was american pad and paper, randy johnson, a former mpad employee who joins us on the news line this morning. randy, thanks for getting up early for us this morning. >> no problem, bill. glad to be on. >> so your plant was out in marion indiana. correct? >> that's correct. >> bane took over the plant or came in and put some money into the plant. and then what happened? >> well, let's back it up just a little bit. >> okay. >> bane purchased mpad. they made it a subsidiary of their whole network, so to speak. >> yeah. >> they bought that in 1992. they spent 5 million out of their pocket borrowed 35 million from banks, institutions, so forth, to launch this company or make it johninger. >> that's the way they always try to talk about it. what happened was they immediately started charging fees, one company to another, over $2 million the first year and then the second year, they did the same thing and then my plant was purchased in '94. they charged fees just to do that. bane and so they are paying themselves the whole time and got their money

so do i. i want you to come back and we can really good into this issue. >> factsastic. >> randi pweingarten, aft dorg.org. we will be right back. you've heard bill's views, now let's hear yours. politically direct means no b.s. just telling you what's going on in politics today. >>at the only on-line forum with a direct line to bill press. >>it's something i've been waiting for a long time. >>join the debate now. >> great to >> great to have you with us. governor eliot spitzer. >> great to be here. >> we are welcoming the boss. my god. >> better be on good behavior. >> co-founder, chairman of the board, long-time friend of mine, a great american, vice president al gore. mr. vice president, good morning. >> hey bill. welcome to current tv. i am so happy that your show is on and doing so great. and good morning, eliot. >> good morning. >> i can't tell you how proud and excited we are to be here, to be part of the term. so we will do our best to carry the flag from 6:00 top 9:00 every morning. >> it's a very exciting and informative show. i am really happy about it. >> you know, i

. blinds.com. randy on rumsfeld. caller from georgia. hello, randy. good morning. >> caller: good morning. it is always amazing the republicans want to bring up jimmy carter being defeated by nature, a sandstorm and ronald reagan puts how many marines at risk and pulls them out like the coward he is. >> bill: we forgot about that. we shouldn't forget about that in lebanon. >> caller: as far as newt complaining about anybody would make this decision, somebody would have to be able to have the report called in first. he didn't want to pay for it. if nobody's going to call it in, how are you going to make the decision? >> bill: good point. good point. everything they say there is no logic to it, of course, randy. appreciate the call. again i think it is just their -- either frustration with or their hate for barack obama that make them unable to give him credit for anything. john out in lakewood, new york. hey, john. >> caller: good morning, bill. >> bill: yes sir. >> caller: i was watching the program last night on another network about the situation room last night. one thing was with very

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federation of teachers, good men and women of the aft under president randy winegarten, making a difference every day, you bet. we will we will be talking to go president randiwine garten here but first ginning into the spin room today, a lot of talk about mitt romney and how he secured the nomination. who is he going to pick to be his vice presidential running mate? everyone has advice for him, including john mccain. >> the absolute most important aspect is if something happened to him, would that be person be well qualified to take that place? i believe that was the primary factor of my decision in 2008. i know it will be mitt's and i am happy to say we have a deep bench. who who does he think he is kidding. that will one factor that the person he named is qualified to take over as president of the united states is the one factor missing in john mccain's decision four years ago. do you think that anybody, anybody believes they are available or is really to take over as president of the united states? peter? >> i don't know who he thinks he is fooling with that. i mean first of

david sirota out in colorado and as i mentioned tom hart and randy rhodes are out there. we are starting to get a message machine going. they still have to -- they overwhelm us, i think, in that area. so my feeling is, we've got to get our message out, yes. i try to do that every day. also, when mitt romney says i deserve credit for the auto bail-out. >> sure. >> you have to point out that this joker opposed what george bush and barack obama were doing to help the auto industry and when he says now that i am not sure about where i stand on immigration, he doesn't point out that he said he would vitaed 0 the dream act -- veto the dream act. >> you have to do both and strongly stand for our principles, you know. and when you are talking about any of those things, make clear, you know, where the president was on the bail out. he rescued the auto industry. don't be ashamed of saying exactly what happened. >> it's his baby. the white house points out that he would have been -- if he had followed the polls on that, he would have done nothing because it was politically very unpopular.

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chicago. hi, nicky. >> hi, steph, i was listening to randy yesterday, she said she watched you yesterday morning. she said you have fabulous posture, and she said you don't go to bed at night. >> that's true. i heard her talking about me and i said i think she and howard are broken up, and lisa and i are broken up so i asked her to marry me again, and she shot mow down again. [ laughter ] >> all right. 47 minutes after the hour. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> are you thinking what i'm thinking? >> all the time bitch. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ news block. weekdays six to noon. so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry™. better. [ male announcer ] snickers satisfies. people really love snapshot from progressive, but don't just listen to me. listen t

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randy duke cunningham he got sentenced to more than eight years in prison because he admitted to taking money illegally. remember how he cried when he was sentenced? watch? >> i know i will forfeit my freedom, my reputation, my worldly possessions, most importantly . . . the trust of my friends and family. >> that sounds touching right? right before that press conference we found later, he had taken a laundry basket full of cash and tossed it out his window as he drove by his wife's house. now he is asking for his rights back. why? he tells the judge: he has got to protect himself. he also says: he is obviously not going to earn that money by writing

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randy. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. new 5 rpm gum. stimulate your senses. >> eliot: in the year 2000 when ray kelly was the commissioner of u.s. customs. he said some and frisk trait ticks in new york sowed new seeds of miss trust. nypd have embraced those it was tick. the number of the day 168,126. that's how many times black men between the ages of 14 and 24 were stopped and frisked by the new york police last year. that means the nypd searched nearly 10,000 more black men in in 2011 than actually live in the city. one of the primary justifications for the stop-and-frisk policy is that it leads to the recovery of concealed firearms. while blacks and latino were tries as likely to be frisked while whites were nearly twice as likely to be carrying a concealed weapon. mayor bloomberg offered a spirited defense of the policy yesterday saying the stops were, quote, a deter deterrent and hopes that the next mayor builds on the system because he plans to live in the city. he should be reminded that stop and frisk tactics also sow seed of mistrust. to cover thei

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