Ousted president morsi. The violence has put the president in a very tough position. While we want to sustain a relationship with egypt, our continued cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets. Michael he has canceled a joint exercise because its probably not a good why the to conduct joint exercises with people who are killing its people in the streets. But the president did not mention the word coup or the 1. 5 billion in aid that the u. S. Gives to the egyptians every year, most of which goes to the military. Obama made clear he feels damned if you do, damned if you dont. He pointed out many egyptians blamed the u. S. For supporting morsi while he was in power. America, the president said, cannot control the outcome in egypt. We want a peaceful democratic prosperous egypt. Thats our interest. To achieve that, the egyptians will have to do the work. Michael after the events of the past few days that work has become much, much harder. Joining us one last time inside the war room is bill press, host of current tvs the full press show, and Jason Johnson, Senior Editor of 365. Com. Bill, back to you. Its always good to see you, bill, and i know that you had your last current show today. We might as well talk about it now. Where can people live stream your show Going Forward . Tomorrow morning bill press show. Com we were a radio show before current tv, we will be a radio show after current tv. The show must go on and starting september third we will be on free speech tv, and on talker. Tv so people can still watch us on tv. Just a different channel. And stream us online and listen on the radio including right there in san francisco, michael. Michael yes, exactly. And bp show. Com is the twitter for bill. Is there any good option on egypt . I think there is a necessary option. This really does put the president in a tough spot, between a rock and a hard place as they say, but the think the Administration Made a mistake by not calling this a coup from the beginning and then suspending aid from the beginning. To tell the military please dont do this again, which we did when they massacred 75 people. Now i heard this is going to climb to a thousand or more. You gave the count of 630. They paid no attention to our plea for none violence, or plea to stop it. Listen, they are killing people with our weapons and our bullets. This is a distres disgrace. I think we should cut off aid today. Michael i couldnt agree with you more. Its not the money that will start or end anything there. The money should be doing something symbolically. Thats important. There is a since in the end of the day that the u. S. Will fall in line with whoever comes out on top with egypt. Is that true . Yeah, probably. This administration doesnt seem to be about the business of nation building. And the way not only the Bush Administration but most previous administrations have. Whoever comes to power as long as the United States believes theyre going to be relatively stable, we would rather have the bully that is always going to be there on the Street Corner than the thug that changes every other weekend. Unfortunately, i think thats what we end up doing. Whether we take our money there or take our foreign aid out, were just seeing a gestation process of any country that goes through change. I dont think there is much we can actually do unless we put boots on the ground, and no one wants that. Michael that is the point, nobody does want that. It remains obviously to be seen, but its a great point about turning this over to somebody who will be there all the time no matter how unsavory that might be. I want to move to something that is close to our earths. August 28th is the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and this speech. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character. I have a dream for them. Michael bill, if dr. King were with us today as sometimes silly hypothetical, but i think its important, what would he tell progressives to focus on . What is the fierce urgency of now, as he said. I would defer to jason on this, but i would say two things from my perspective. I want to point out that the legendary iconic john lewis is going to speak at that 50th anniversary, and he spoke at the first one. I think hes the last of the speakers alive who spoke there. I find that so thrilling and so meaningful. I think john lewis and Martin Luther king jr. Would say two things, number one, lets remember that that march on washington was about jobs and economic justice. I think thats one thing that Martin Luther king jr. Would be telling us today. There are too many in this country who are out of work, who have not seen their real wages gone up in the 10, 15 years. 47 americans living i47 millio, and the Supreme Court is teaching this, and 50 years later were still fighting over the basic freedom of voting rights. I mean, that is uncalled for. Just unbelievable. Michael and you know he would be there on the ground in North Carolina. Jason, jim crow is no longer the law of the land, but Americans Still live deeply segregated lives, in our neighborhoods, or workplaces, our schools. Is there anything in our agenda that addresses this or do we need to focus more on it . There always needs to be more focus on it. If Martin Luther king jr. Were to come back alive today he would be disgusted with the amount of segregation that we still see. He would see the movie called the butler and say, my goodness has that much really changed . And he would look at income and he would say i cant believe you havent gotten anything done in the 50 years ive been dead. I think what the Progressive Movement needs to remember and in particular remember what this president is to continue to light fires under the feet of politicians to stay angry and passionate about these issues. Its not like you can fix income equality. Its not like you can gist fix racism. These are rain leaking through the roof. You have to constantly patch it up or well flood the home. There is a belief, unfortunately, that some of these problems get fixed, and we can move on rather than realizing theyre ongoing struggles. We had Christine Pelosi on yesterday, oh, we elected a black president , so all of our problems are over. Thats not the case. He has been tepid on issues of race . If so, why do you think that is . You know, i dont want to fire president obama. I will. He does receive criticism. I dont think he has been as outspoken as he could be. He certainly condemned the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, but i didnt see the passion, or as jason points out, he sticking to these issues and making imakingmaking it the hals presidency. Then people will say, youre just being a black president rather than a president for all americans. But i think we need more leadership from him, and thats what i would like to see. Michael jason, ill let you have a quick shot at that one. Of course he could work a lot harder. He could be a black person and standing up. Its his constituents. Its his job to push policy for the very people who fight to get him in office, whether its conservative christians, women, africanamericans, and president obama has been lacking in that area of his strongest constituency group. Michael it has been a treat to hear your input on politics. I want to ask you to give us parting wisdom. What are some of the biggest story that our viewers should follow Going Forward. Bill, ill give that to you. Oh, wow, you could have told me that ahead of time. Michael i was going to, but they said lets not. I think its we should be who we are and fight who we are and continue to fight the idea ideae believe in. Its economic justice, global warming, making sure that every american enjoys complete fullness of the rights of the constitution and the american dream. Conservatives never give up, they never bend over. They never stop fighting. I think we liberals kind of coast, and we cant do that. We have to maintain the strong fight. Be proud of who we are and fight like hell. Michael people should exactly listen to what bill press said. Jason, you owe me a dollars because you had time to think about your answer. Im going to say this, you said the biggest story heading forward. Demographics are destiny. Were going to look back on this time period, and were going to see the last screaming, fighting, pouting of a small shrill group of racist americans who want to stop america from becoming what its going to become. No matter what any of us want to think or believe, this country is becoming younger, browner and more progressive on racial issues, more progressive on economic issues, more progressive on sexuality and gender issues. While one side may want to stop what is happening, and politicians who claim they support them dillydally, its the future. And our policies should fit how this country is going to become rather than screaming, yelling and kicking what we might want it to be. Michael nonno one wondered y i wanted Jason Johnson on my last show. We had bill press from the bill press show and Jason Johnson from the 365, thank you for being on our last show. Well take more swings at our old punching bag. And they say never bring a knife to a gunfight, but theyre armed with the truth. Thats the threat to the gun lobby and their big money. And then congratulations, bob philner, youve won your very own award. Brett erlich will present it here in the studio. He didnt want to hand it to you in person. Its the final hour of the war room. And we will be right back. Did anyone tell the pilgrims they should selfdeport . No, they said make us a turkey and make it fast. laughter . She gets the comedians laughing. Thats the best thats hilarious. And the thinkers okay, so there is wiggle room in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. Ya, i consider you jewtalian. Okay, whatever you want. Who plays kafka . Who saw kafka . Who ever saw kafka . laughter . Asking the tough questions. Chris brown, i mean you wouldnt let one of your daughters go out with him. Absolutely not. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me . Absolutely singing i take lipitor, thats it. Are you improving your lips . laughter . When shes talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. It looks like Anthony Wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. His what in the ring . His hat. Always outspoken, joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. [ theme music ] michael what the future holds will depend on who you ask, and for one last time well ask Michael Tomasky from newsweek and the daily beast, he joins us from washington, d. C. And new anchor offal jazeera, david shutser, he comes to us from new york. Thank you for joining us, i mean it. You have both have been a big part of the show. The republicans are in a battle for the soul of their party. David, how do you see this playing out. Ill answer that in just a second. But first, congratulations to you, everybody at the war room, new particular, michael, have done an amazing job for w this show under the last six to eight months under sometimes difficult circumstances. I know this is not the last time the world will hear from team michael, and were all glad to be part of it, and always honored to be working with you. Michael thats very kind. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. You got it, now regarding republicans, the future of the republicans, i think, michael, on something that you said many times before. It depends on whether the Republican Party is going to go the way of the tea party and go to that extreme right wing position in places like North Carolina and texas, or are there going to be adults in the party and say, we cant win this way by alienating hispanics, africanamerican voters, women voters. If the Republican Party is not willing to make that choice i think theyll just keep drift together right and theyll be in a world of hurt in the next several elections. Michael did they realize this . We realize it from without, and you and i, michael, talked about this a little bit. We dont want to let them in on the secret, but it seems they dont even know about it. I dont know, i think they do know about it. By the way, i second everything that David Shuster said. It has been great fun to do this show. Michael thank you. You know, they know it, but there isnt that much that they can do about it, maybe. There are a couple of things they can do about it. They can nominate someone in 2016 who does have more appeal across ideological lines. That means, i suppose, that only means chris christie. It might mean jeb bush. Those are the only two out of the bunch that is discussed that i could see have any chance of any crossover appeal. It strikes me that the Republican Base, and the extreme part of the Republican Base, by the way, not the whole Republican Base, but the extreme part of the Republican Base still call the shots in that party. They still call the shots of congressional republicans. As we saw in 2012, president ial candidates have to pander to that part of the extreme part of the base. I dont see how that will be different in 2016. Theyve lost two elections in a row. They would probably have to lose a third, i would bet, before they shake up things. Michael thats an interesting way of looking at it. That may be when the realization tart to kick in. Yesterday we talked with Christine Pelosi about the potential for the democrats to regain control of the house in 2014. Do you think this is possible . Do you think they can even hold onto the senate or come back to win those five out of six seats that they would need to turn the senate . I think with the senate its possible. I think its tough for the republicans to get to six. I think the house will be difficult for the democrats because of the way the redistricting is done. The number of competitive house races for democrats or republicans in the headtohead matchup are just shrinking, so the battles lines are futur fewd farther to be seen. There is a ground swell of leaning republican districts, i think theyll continue to lean that way. Its a tough stretch, but you never know. We may be ready for another sort of major election in a Midterm Election where maybe its an issue that we havent yet thought about in terms of the news cycle. Michael that is a big part. Were still so far ahead of election day. Michael, its the last show and were talking about bigger issues. A lot of people consider Immigration Reform as one of the make or break issues facing the republicans. How do you think this debate is going to play out nationally as we get into this electoral politics stuff . I think theyre going to pass something but something that is small, conservative, and very tailored to that pace that i was just talking about that will either not include a path to citizenship or will include a path of citizenship that is so full of rocks and other items along the Obstacle Course that its not even going to be seen as a genuine path to citizen chicagcitizenship. Thats probably what theyre going to do. In other words, no bill. It will be seen largely by most americans, it will be seen as their fault that there wasnt a bill, the fault of the house republicans. Immigration reform is not the kind of thing that you can come back and do next year. As you know it was tried in 2005. It failed. Now its 2013. Every eight years thats about right, thats about what it takes to do a big bill like that. So theyre going to lose any chance at occurring any favor among latino favors for many years, for a long time. Michael its something that they need to Pay Attention to. As the shifting demographics happen in their electorate, theyre going to be left rutterless on this issue, and it seems like such a nobrainer. I will end this show not understanding exactly how they approach that issue. I want to shift gears now. I want to talk about jack germo germond. A great journalist. I read his books. I saw him on television. I was interested that was interested in horses. You wrote about how political journalism has changed during germonds time, and i want to see how you see changing Going Forward. Its interesting that you sought your first fake i. D. Not to get into bars. Michael yeah, its all about the ponies. I found my way to the bar afterwards. I grew up in new york city. I could walk in a bar without a fake i. D. Any ways. Yeah, true. I think jack whom i had the privilege of meeting just one time but had a lovely conversation with, i think he represented a kind of big voice on politics that we dont have that much of today. In some ways, in many ways i think consumers of news and political junkies are better served today. There are so many sources of news, so many places to find out, so much more information than you could find out back in the 1960s and 70s. And i think the country and consumers of news are better for it. However, i do think that jack and his cohorts, they were a high priesthood, if you will, of punditry, early punditry. I think they were a better high priesthood than the high priesthood we have tray. Todays high priesthood, they make too much money, frankly, theyre part of the 1 , and the way they talk about issues reflects the fact that theyre part of the 1 . Jack germond and his buddies were not part of the 1 , and they reflected th the others better. Look, i think quality political journalism will stand out. It will still make a difference. It may come out in different forms, the internet, blogs, but the think the quality of journalism will make the coverage interesting. Its the free market capitalism that the best products will still get attention and good writers and journalists will still get plenty of attention for their work. Michael thank you for making our show so much better. I am going to miss these conversations with you two, i really do mean that. As we move forward on tonights show its our last dance, our last chance for last resident done idonna summer fan brett er. We dont dance around the issues at the war room. Well take one last headshaking look at guns and money. Its still the war room. Stick around. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. Documentaries. On current tv. If you believe in states rights but still support the drug war you must be high. Viewpoint digs deep into the issues of the day. Do you think there is any chance well ever hear the president even say the word carbon tax . With an opened mind. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . And a distinctly satirical point of view. But you mentioned great leadership so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. laughter cutting throught the clutter of todays top stories. This is the savior of the Republican Party . I mean really . With a unique perspective. Teddy rosevelt was a weak asmatic kid who never played sports until he was a grown up. laughter . And lots of fancy buzz words. Family values, speding, liberty, economic freedom, hardworking moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. If Wayne Lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense. Hey, so can i. Once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things happen. Watch the show. Only on current tv. Michael its still hard to believe that 244 days have passed since a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. Since then 277 new towns since newtown. Following newtown to aurora to chicago. Here today to talk about this issue are our good friends, keli goff from new york city, and lee fang. We have keli, rules brings us the news of the day. And lee fang never fails to impress us with his ability to follow the money. Its so nice to have you both on our final show. Keli, im going to start with you. The u. S. Has far more gunrela gunrelated killings than any other developed country. How can we put a stop to the violence. Were not going down to any paths of that. Look, if the tragedy of newtown wont force officials to find their conscience,ing i, nog will. Thats what i believe. Gun control is first, second, third, and fourth when they walk into a voting booth and make a choice about a candidate. A lot of those who support gun control tonight think about that. They think about other issues when they walk into the voting booth. Not that those other issues arent important, but if we want to see change, then we as voters have to take ownership of the issue and say we will not compromise and it will be the only issue that well focus on before we consider other issues. Michael obviously, keli is right, lee, and she echos how i feel about this. Something is in the way. I know you know something is always in the way. Why cant they pass meaningful gun legislation, where do we trace that to . Three simple letters ,nra. Youve done a great job describing it to the viewers about the legislative fight. The nra has shown the path forward for special interest to manipulate the policies debate without responsibility. When you look at what they put out in public, they dont show that secretly theyre being funded by gun manufacturers, ammo companies and gun dealers. These gun industry types who would not like to see some of these big reforms on background checks or banning certain types of weapons, theyve been able to hide behind the nra, and i think were going to see more and more corporations adopting this approach whether its the Koch Brothers hiding behind 20some front groups to insurance companies, hiding behind front groups to effectively control the debate, and to avoid accountability. Michael yes, and i think, keli were going to see an irs who will not follow them so closely. Weve seen the them follow the super pacs and will they follow suit when it comes to political mills like alec, do you see that changing the tactics of the other side . Well, look, i think it would be better for this entire conversation if that were to happen. If you were to ask me, michael, if im confident that our congress will do anything that theyre supposed to do, no at this point. We can trust congress not to do much at all. Thats sad to say, but im part of the majority of americans who think that because they have not given us any other option. Is that a great note to finish your last show. Michael there will be room for optimism. Lee, do you think there is a democratic alec. There have been efforts. I covered some of them. There is a group called progress now that is setting up state afill yets to come up with policy solutions, to distribute them and publicize them. But at the end of the day you look at the groups that are set up for the Public Interest or democratic interest, theyve got 100,000, maybe 500,000 to play with in each state, and theyre coming up against a 30year organization like alec that has been around since the 70s. And these groups not only have already had a couple of Million Dollars in each state for their budgets, but theyve been infused with so much money over the last three or four years as the republicans have taken a statebased strategy as theyve been temporarily outside of the white house. Michael the most important thing you mentioned was the difference in size. Even if they do it, the amount of money that goes on one side to the other. I do want to switch over to an article that you recently wrote about stopandfrisk in new york, and how its been ruled unconstitutional. Civil rights activists are celebrating the decision, but it has had political fallout. Why will this hurt people like michael bloomberg. What is really historic about the stopandfrisk story, we could see the first major election decided by civil rights issues than weve seen in decades. This was a real rebuke of michael bloomberg, the fact that the federal judges said that the practice is inherently inconstitutional, thats what they found. Watching all of these candidates trying to become the civil rights candidates. You have Christine Quinn who has been close to michael bloomberg. While they all say racial profiling is bad, what we see are candidates who took it a step further who say they supported Council Bills who said flood out there needs to be an inspector who oversees the nyc practices, and guess who else greed with that, the federal judge. So de blasio went out with a great add featuring his africanamerican son who said my candidate will be the one who stops stop and frisk. Now we see de blasio volting to first place. Hes leading substantially in first place. Michael hes not without his support from other circles, and Christine Quinn is very close to commissioner ray kelly. I want to ask you about this. Sometimes is Society Better to say, listen, maybe this is deterring crime, but what its doing to society is worse than the crime itself. And is there merit to that . This kind of speaks to all issues that we talked about on this show over the last year. Its called the great unwinding of american society. We have two justice systems, two economies. We have one treatment of the wealthy new yorkers, and another way of treating folks who are lower income, and maybe in communities of color. How you deal with this, you know, the timing of this ruling is differ for progressives because its highlighting de blasios position, and reinforcing the big problem we have in society that theres basically a twotiered system for justice. Thats what everybody is upset about. Michael . Michael were up against time, keli, im going to get one sentence from each of you. This goes back to the optimism i promised you were going to give us. One sense about something that our viewers should be optimistic about . There is more ill let have you it first, keli. Thats what i was going to say what is optimistic about the result after stopandfrisk is that people thought only black voters cared about this issue. Only voters of colors. These polls show that whites and progressive new yorkers care about racial civil rights as everybody especially. I kicked off my writing career talking about the town halls of 2009 when there was a big right wing backlash against progressive priorities. Look at the last week there have been huge organizing efforts to get progressives out in the field and talk about issues that effect the american public, and theyre making big waves. This is one of them, climate change, the economy, its a good time. Michael lee fang, thank you for all that youve done in this show. And keli goff, always love to hear what you have to say from new york. We really appreciate it. Coming up, anyone interested in hiring this soon to be unemployed jokester, email him, brett erlich joins me for the last time. Stick around, folks. Honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. vo later tonight, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. Jack, how old are you . Nine. This is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. vo with Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. vo from the underworld, to the world of privilege. Everyone in Michael Jacksons life was out to use him. vo no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. Michael welcome back to the war room. Im michael shure. Just like on the last day of school its time to hand out awards. You know its time because lauren who worked on this show for a long time just walked in the control room. What is she doing . Michael im joining you with brett bet and its our last ever brett erlich awards. I will wait until she leaves the control room. Michael oh really . Well, the attitude on her, michael. Michael well, i understand. Lets do awards. First of all what a dang pleasure to be on the second to last show of the war room. Michael brett . Yes, michael. Michael this is the last show. Oh, that changes things. Anthony weiner, were going to give him Desert Island dream. Anthony weiner. He gets Desert Island dream my dream is one day hell go on a Desert Island, and run out of batteries on his phone, and he wont be able to sext me any more. Michael its been a drag. Its been very hard. Michael youre the only guy i know hes sexting. Yes, you should see my profile pic. Its pretty andrognus. Im runner up because after a half hour after i eat chalupa i can clear the elevator out of anyone. Michael just a half hour. My grandmother said it would go right through me. Michael she made chalupas. No, lease likely to understand the anatomy of a human being body . Michael i dont know, you tell me. Steve king. Here steve king. Not stephen king the author, because he understands it very well because he is very descriptive in all those flasher books he wrote. But he, that guy, hes ridiculous. Michael he is, also most likely to clear a press conference. Absolutely. Michael eight people at his thousands of, you know, capacity press conference. We were very excited to see that he would just keep piling it on toward the end. Most likely to run for president 17 times despite not having any chance to win, donald trump. He wins that. He has less of a chance to win than donald duck, and we remember that donaldy daisy mini, mickey sex scandal from the 40s. Michael thats what stopped that donald from running. Thats all, better chance of. Better chance to win. Also Donald Michael i had a vowel notw of not putting donald trump once on this show. Sorry. Michael we almost made it, and now you ruined it. He gets two, of course, best hair. I had to get that in there. Michael really . The best hair, donald trump, thats too easy, its below you. Least likely to run anywhere, chris christie. Michael right. Least likely to run at all. Physically. Chris christie, i feel bad for chris christie. I want to apologize for him to him for all the cheap shots because i like the guy. And i want to do Something Special for him. I want to buy him something that he would like, which i imagine is a ton of food. Michael he would like that, although he would like it less even though hes a little more stealth. And john oleary who works on our show as well, hes a big defender of chris christie. He is from new jersey, and he thinks hes great, but hell never be president. You never know, i dont know much about politics. Michael why are you here . I dont know, you flew me up. Michael keep going. The marco rubio, thirstiest. Michael lets drink to that, brett. Thirstiest. So tell me. Thank you. Michael youre welcome. So refreshing. Refresh from the mountains. Of ireland. Any how, marco rubio, theirsiest, i loved that moment. Michael i think everybody loved that moment. Here is this guy, the up and comer, everybody knew him, and turns out that marco rubio is justhe bombed. He totally bombed. He totally bombed. Gosh, just put your water closer to your face, and then sip it like this. Nice little sip. Delicious. I feel like im growing a beard right now. Any how. Cutest couple. This is heart warming and enduring. Cutest couples because now they can marry. According to news i have yet to read, but i trust people. Michael youre right. People who have been telling you are accurate. Yes, they can marry. The cutest couples. Cutest couples, and finally this is my favorite, above massive social achievement that it is in america for gays to be allowed to marry, the best moon, that is an amazing graphic. Super moon. Michael do you like the moon . This is better than that. Michael this is super. More than twice as good than a half moon. Michael thank you for punctuating every show this way and making us laugh, shows that have been heavy and full of issues. Youre a funny guy. Youre a funnyman. I am sorry this is the third show ive gotten canceled on the network. Michael the whole network, its not just this show, i promise. Coming up, ill share my parting words with you next. They should selfdeport . No, they said make us a turkey and make it fast. laughter . She gets the comedians laughing. Thats the best thats hilarious. And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so there is wiggle room in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. Ya, i consider you jewtalian. Okay, whatever you want. Who plays kafka . Who ever saw kafka . laughter . Asking the tough questions. Chris brown, i mean you wouldnt let one of your daughters go out with him. Absolutely not. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me . Absolutely singing i take lipitor, thats it. Are you improving your lips . laughter . When shes talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. It looks like Anthony Wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. His what in the ring . His hat. Always outspoken, joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Only on current tv. Current tv is the place for true stories. With Award Winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. Real, gripping, current. On current tv. Michael so this was a day that i knew would come from the moment that i was given this assignment. It doesnt make it any easier. Ive bun lucky to walk through these doors each morning, usually a little late, and sit down with the smartest people ive ever known, and plan the new stuff for the things i love which is politics. Our series the march goes on which covered the civil march movement and what it means today, it makes us proud. The fact that you watched and listened along with us is an incredible pleasure. Policies change what our guests fight for every day, to be given the chance of telling their story was not only a privilege but the movement what our network set out to do. I hope that our show helped in that struggle. But politics, i love politics. I always have. It has its bad apples, its far too corrupted by money, but so are other things such as sports which i also follow. But i hope it leaves you with the sense that there are really good team in politics, and theyre trying to make this a better place. I would like to tell but cenk uygur. I would be flattered if you turned your tv sets off after this show because it was enough, but cenks passion, skepticism and preparedness has made our Network Better and made me better. Cenk trusted me on politics and gave me an outlet to share what i know. He bestowed the title of epic politics man, but hes really the epic figure of our changing media and how we discuss our politics. I thank him for the friendship and opportunities that he provided me. I want you to listen to some thank yous because theyre important to me. Steve lang, and the war room was here in san francisco. As our colleagues took their assignments at this network, we worked with young and energic minds. I will never waiver there is the university of virginia and every other school. However, berkeley is i itself p. Our show would not have informed you well had we not been as well informed by many who found news and nuggets in places we never would have known to look. The news was handled masterly by francesca leonard, pauline made this whole thing run. Her soon to be born baby will be a very lucky kid. Mark, kind of a new yorker, always a great start with me, has my thanks. Our writer and editor, the guy who makes sure all grammar note prompter, he is smart, talente talented,whoa, how did this get in there. Scroll head. Just off to the left of where im looking at you stands steve porter, a liberal kentuckian who loves politics more than anyone i know. I thank him, i thank you, steve, for your calming presence and for making sure i always knew what was going on. I thank david and terry for putting me on this air and trusting my judgment. Our executive producer is mark, always been in my corner and always cared about this show, how good it looked, content, and the message we sent, mark, it worked, and thanks to you, we thank yothank all of you for wa, and those who showed appreciation online. This is my appreciation to you. Im certain that i will see you soon. Now for the last time im afraid i say good night. The young turks are next. Bring everybody out here. [applause] michael we did it. [ chanting war room ] [applause] come here, come here. [ cheering ] we did it. We did it. Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. But still support the drug war you must be high. Viewpoint digs deep into the issues of the day. Do you think there is any chance well ever hear the president even say the word carbon tax . With an opened mind. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . And a distinctly satirical point of view. But you mentioned great leadership so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. laughter cutting throught the clutter of todays top stories. This is the savior of the Republican Party . I mean really . With a unique perspective. Teddy rosevelt was a weak asmatic kid who never played sports until he was a grown up. laughter . And lots of fancy buzz words. Family values, speding, liberty, economic freedom, hardworking moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. If Wayne Lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense. Hey, so can i. Once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things happen. Watch the show. Only on current tv. Theme cenk everybody, its a bittersweet moment, the very last show for the young turks on current television, so one more time. Its go time. Its go time. Its go time. You know what . Its go time. Its go time. Anybody . Anybody . What time is it . Its go time. You know what time it is. Its go time. What