important as what you were actually reading. the context is this, president obama is overseas right now. president obama is in a foreign country. everybody freak out! he's not foreign, he is in a foreign country. he is still american. but the president gave a big speech in indonesia last night. today he traveled to south korea, within the last hour. the president addressed u.s. troops, stationed in south korea on the occasion of veterans day. we'll have more on that later in the show. president obama is not just away, he's really, really, really far away. the president is away now and he will continue to be away for a long time. he is not due back from this trip abroad until sunday, and it is only wednesday now. so given that, why pick today to surprise everybody here at home with the first results of the president's big commission on everything in the whole entire government? >> what gives? should retirement age get moved back? should you get fewer health care benefits? it's got to come from somewhere. tonight, the folks who were asked by the president to find where to cut are out with their answers. >> you may remember that a while back, republicans in congress proposed setting up a blue ribbon commission to work on the big picture financial issues facing our country. are we going broke? how do we keep ourselves from going broke? what do we need to do in the long run to get ourselves, to get the country back into financial health. republicans proposed a commission to try to get answers for those questions. then when president obama endorsed that idea, all of those republicans decided they were all of a sudden against it. >> this law failed by seven votes. when seven republicans, who had co-sponsored the bill, had co-sponsored the idea. suddenly walked away from their own proposal after i endorsed it. so they make a proposal, they sign on to the bill. i say, great, good idea. i turn around, they're gone. what happened? >> what happened? after republicans abandoned that idea, their own idea, president obama decided to go ahead and form this commission himself. it is a bipartisan thing, it is headed up by respected elder statesmen from both parties. and it is supposed to look at the big picture of, honestly, everything that the government does. everything we do that spends money or takes in money and how we can get those things to even out. nobody knew the commission was going to release its preliminary findings today. it was big, red-banner breaking news everywhere when it happened. it was such as a huge deal, it was a surprise,. oh, and by the way, the president is in freaking south korea right now. maybe this is not a coincidence. what you're seeing here is just scratching the surface of all of the politicians left, right, and center who responded to the commission's findings today by saying, "andand i paraphrase, o no, no, no, no no no. gimpb this is a presidential commission, they have just done the president a huge favor by having him not here, not in the country when his findings came out. because as expected, the preliminary recommendations by this group are toxic. cut social security benefits, delay everybody's retirement, cut medicare, cut out a bunch of really popular tax ebreaks that lots of middle class people use, lower the tax rate for rich people and for corporations. there are individual things that are recommended here that individual slices of the electorate or individual groups, interest groups, might be able to get behind, but politically speaking, all in all, this is like a toxic burrito, double the toxic, with toxic sauce and a side of toxic. a fact that did not escape the folks who served it up today. >> we have harpooned every whale in the ocean, and some of the minnows, and no one has ever done that before. >> i feel like we ought to be in a witness protection program when this is over, so look us up. >> now, look, maybe some of what they are suggesting will happen, it will get implemented. but if you were president of the united states and your commission just recommended this litany of stuff, you, too, would probably want to be 6,941 miles away from the white house when these findings came out. here's one thing, though, that before this year would have been considered just another of the political toxins in these recommendations. but this year, it's legitimately really interesting. in order to get the country's financial house in order, one of the things these elder statesmen recommend is that we cut the country's defense budget -- ah! defense? this is one of these things that's been so politically off-limits for so long in american politics that it's almost impossible to believe that they put it down on paper -- or powerpoint, or whatever. here's defense spending under ronald reagan, up, up, up. here's defense spending under the first president bush, up a bit, down a bit, and then back up again. and during the clinton administration, defense spending went down a teeny bit, and then under george bush, up, up, up, and way up, and continued under president obama. more than half of this country's discretionary spending is this. more than half the discretionary spending, more than half of the things we are not stattorically required to spend but we get to decide about each year, more than half, a majority of what we spent. this is it, we as a country spent as much on defense as the rest of the world spends on defense combined. and yes, that includes china. but the republican secretary of all of that money, bob gates, who president obama held over from george bush's second term, he keeps giving speeches about how the pentagon cannot keep having budgets this big. last month 57 members of the house and senate wrote to this commission of elder statesmen thing, saying, if you guys are going to be talking about how to get our financial house in order, then you really have to consider defense. everybody billed that as a bipartisan letter, but honestly, you want to know who the republicans were who signed on to it? there was republican congressman ron paul of texas and ron paul. also, ron paul. and ron paul. yeah, that's it. but they did get ron paul. but this is the hard part. even as defense spending has completely busted the budget for decades now, republican attacks on anyone who would propose even flattening defense spending, even slowing the rate of increase, let alone cutting it, is such a finely honed attack now, through years and years and years of repetition. >> john kerry and the liberals in congress voted to slash america's intelligence operation, cuts so deep they would have weakened america's defenses. >> leaders of the democrat minority voted consistently to cut intelligence spending throughout the 1990s, as they voted to slash defense spending. and that anti-defense, anti-intelligence philosophy lives on in one of the democratic alternatives that we have before us today. >> when senator kerry first entered the senate, he sought to cancel the very weapons systems that are critical to winning the war on terrorism and maintaining our military strength. >> if democrats gain control, you can count on them to slash defense spending to pay for wasteful washington spending. >> today, a senior congressional democrat proposed cutting defense spending by a quarter. slashing defense while our troops are at war. the democrats' answer to the challenges we face is to lower our defenses and raise our taxes. >> regardless of the utility of any particular part of defense spending each year, for essentially my entire life, republicans have reflexively attacked anybody who doesn't support big increases in defense funding every year, to infinity and beyond, there's no ceiling. what's different this year, what might be the one interesting and potentially constructive thing that results from the conservative movement's partial takeover of the republican party this year is that it might not be just ron paul whose willing to talk about this now. there is now a split in the republican party between those who say defense spending is untouchable and those who at least say they're willing to look at maybe cutting it. this is new. they say nothing in politics sfr new. this is new. this is something new under the sun. at least in my lifetime. republicans as a unified block have always attacked democrats for any proposals to cut defense. they have attacked democrats for wanting to cut defense, even when democrats haven't proposed cutting defense, because they've just liked the sound of that attack so much. but this year for the first time, republicans are not unified on that anymore. there is something new under the sun. senator-elect rand paul, the son of ron paul. senator-elect mark kirk of illinois. senator-elect pat toomey of pennsylvania. senator tom coburn of oklahoma. senator johnny isakson, congressman paul ryan. all of these republicans have suggested in varying degrees in recent weeks that cuts in defense can be on the table. of course, lots of other republicans are still taking the same old line. >> would you cut defense across the board as well as domestic? >> no, you do not cut defense. >> just so i understand what you were trying to tell chris, do you believe that defense spending is discretionary spending? >> no, i believe you have to find the efforts of the military, and we all know that. >> we don't even get a choice about it. i don't even acknowledge that it's discretionary. she says we all know that. can't cut defense. can want do it. but maybe not anymore. you know, the idea that defense could actually come down in terms of what we spend on it every year, that has been derided by the right as a dirty hippie pipe dream for most of my lifetime. is it possible that that might change this year wm that this year it might actually happen? joining us now is bernie sanders of vermont. thanks very much for your time. >> good to be with you. >> senator, before i ask you specifically about the proposed defense cuts, let me get your reaction, overall, to what we heard from this commission today. >> well, it was the commission, it was the chairman and the co-chairman, and i think it's basically a disaster. rachel, at a time when the top 1% have seen a huge increase in the amount of money they make, and that's more than the bottom 50%, i think you got to take a hard look at the tax breaks that these people and large corporations have gotten. every single year, we're losing about $100 billion in revenue because of money being stashed away in tax havens in the cayman islands, in bermuda. in the year 2005, one quarter of america's large corporations didn't pay a nickel in taxes after earning $1 trillion in profits. last year, exxonmobil made $19 billion in profits. not only did they not pay any taxes, they got a refund from the irs for $156 million. so you've got to look within the context of the american society, huge loopholes in tax breaks for the richest people at a time when they are becoming much wealthier, while the middle class is in steep decline. so i think when you talk about moving toward a balanced budget, clearly, you don't punish working families and the middle class who are already hurting, you got to go to those people who have made out like bandits in recent years. the last 25 years, 80% of all new income went to the top 1%. those are guys that i think you've got to look at in order to bring new revenue into the system, not working families, which is why i think the bowles and simpson report today was very, very weak and unfair. >> on the issue of defense, specifically, senator, do you think that we could actually see defense cuts this year for the first time in such a long time? is it possible you'll have some new allies among this new crop of self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives? >> rachel, i do. and i think the point being made is some of these very, very conservative guys understand that when we spend $700 billion a year on defense, that's the elephant in the room. and you can't have any credibility at all if you're not looking at defense spending. and i think there are -- is an enormous opportunity in there. let me give you just some examples. my office took a look at spare parts that the military is purchasing and not using. they're putting in warehouses, something like $25 billion every year in unused spare parts. there is weapons systems out there -- you know, when the military budget was substantially increased, we were fighting a major world power called the soviet union. we are still spending tens of billions of dollars a year on weapons systems, fighting the soviet union, except the soviet union no longer exists. our military posture should be fighting international terrorism and al qaeda. we need to make major changes in the way we do business. also, there is massive fraud, massive fraud within the defense industry. we issued a report, which will soon be up on the internet, talking about how major military contractors are ripping off the government. they've been fined billions of dollars, because of just cheating the government. these guys go out, in addition to that, they go out for contracts. they say, yeah, we'll build these weapons systems for $5 billion, turns out they end up building it for $15 billion. so i think any honest person understands when you're looking at a $700 billion budget, there are enormous savings that we can bring about without lessening our military strength. >> and let the record show that we discussed on this program tonight potential policy overlaps between senator sanders of vermont and senator coburn of oklahoma, and in that, i believe anything is possible. senator bernie sanders of vermont, sir, it is always a real pleasure to have you here. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. okay. still to come, cookies. cookies used as a political weapon in pennsylvania. a weapon wielded by former alaska governor, sarah palin. she welded cookies and she wielded them lonely. and we'll set the stage for my interview with theda"the dai sho show"'s jon stewart. that's all coming up. 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i asked his former communications director, nicole wallace. a lot of people, i think even on the left, thought george w. bush might be the adult to do that. because even someone who served through the most politicized times, he was a person who was a sort of voice of reason against islamophobia on the right and the left and the center and he didn't do it. and there isn't anybody else who rose up to do that. do you have any insight as to why he's not? >> look, i think that would have been a great place to hear his voice for the first time since leaving the presidency, and i think we'll get to see -- you know, his book comes out soon and i hope he's asked about that, because he was an incredible voice. >> mr. bush was asked about it on his book tour this morning on the "today" show and he pointedly and with what struck me as a strange tone of anger and dismissiveness in his voice, pointedly declined to step up, declined to step up and be a voice of reason on this issue again, like he had in the past. i found this jaw-dropping. please watch. >> you wanted to be a uniter. along came 9/11 and you did something that a lot of people thought was a real effort to unite. you reached out to the muslim world. >> right. >> and you visited a mosque. and you said the following, "the face of terror is not the true face of islam." and you said, "in our anger and emotion, our fellow americans must treat each other with respect." you know there is a major controversy brewing here in new york city downtown where there's a proposed islamic community center sited for just two blocks from ground zero. if i look at your words there, it makes it seem to me as if the rights of muslims should not be denied for the sake of the sorrow of others. is that fair? >> if i listen to what you're trying to rope me into, you're trying to get me to talk about this mosque issue. >> which is fair. >> again -- >> i know, i tried the other day too, didn't i? why wouldn't you speak out? you could calm a lot of rhetoric. >> because there's a lot of events and a lot of opportunities for me to speak out over the next years, and i have chosen not to . and the reason i've chosen not to is i don't want to intrude on my successor's ability to get the job done. inevitably, if you get me to answer this question, they would then compare that answer to what president obama or what other presidents would say on the issue. >> without saying whether they should build the community center or not, are you disappointed in the increase of anti-muslim rhetoric in this country that we've seen. >> i think most americans welcome freedom of religion and honor religions, i truly do. and the problem with the arena today is a few loud voices can dominate the discussion, and i don't intend to be one of the voices in the discussion. >> one man bearing the brunt of there not being a prominent voice from the right, for dialing it back, for respect, for tolerance joins us next. okay, now here's our holiday gift list. aww, not the mall. well, i'll do the shopping... if you do the shipping. shipping's a hassle. i'll go to the mall. hey. hi. you know, holiday shipping's easy with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. yea, i know. oh, you're good. good luck! priority mail flat rate shipping starts at just $4.90 only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. do you know what the name was of the anti-sharia law constitutional amendment in oklahoma? this was on the ballot in oklahoma, it passed with 70% of the vote. it changes the constitution of the state to ban oklahoma courts from considering sharia law in making their rulings. you know, just in case. the name of that constitutional amendment, i kid you not, the "save our state" amendment, as in, save our state, save oklahoma from the muslims. as we reported last night, the implementation of oklahoma's new "save us from the muslims" amendment has been stayed by a federal court judge in oklahoma city in light of a lawsuit challenging the measure on first amendment grounds. that lawsuit was brought by the head of the council on american islamic relations in oklahoma. care sent us a dossier of e-mails they say they have received in conjunction with this case, most received in the last week alone. most of them, i cannot get anywhere near reading to you on television, including overt threats against president obama and the desecration of muslim grades and a lot of bad spelling and all-cap screaming. some of the milder ones, "this is america and the voters spoke -- get the message, we want you all to go home." "go back to your own islamic country, stop invading ours." "shut the heck up. you people are neither citizens oklahoma or the united states. take your islamic law and shove them up your -- yeah -- and go back to where you came from." "siloam has spoken in regard to your fabricen messed up so-called religious whatever. now back the "f" off. americans will never get or accept your fabricen beliefs so basically give up and go back to where you can be the freaks that you are." "we will work in this country, jews and gentiles to destroy those mosques built here and cover them with blood of swine, because you're -- spelled wrong -- religion." care also tell us their offices have been vandalized recently. some of the threats and vandalism they've been subject to, they've been advised by law enforcement to not describe in more detail for their own safety. joining us now is the executive director of the council on american islamic relations in oklahoma, his name is muneer awad, he filed the lawsuit against the bizarre constitutional amendment. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> can you tell me what the climate has been like in oklahoma for you surrounding this whole anti-sharia law constitutional amendment? >> initially, it's been somewhat atense, as you can imagine, bringing about the lawsuit in defense of the constitution and in defense of muslim citizens of oklahoma, we've been challenged by a lot of the supporters who supported this amendment, ever since it was mentioned as a state ballot, but recently since the law, since the judge made an order to stay the certification, we have seen an outpour of oklahomans who have come to our support, who have mentioned the need for rationale and understanding of the violation of our first amendment rights. and they've spoken out with us and they've said, it's unfortunate that we've allowed politicians to basically rewrite our constitution, solely for political gain. and they're supporting us with our cause and hopefully it will be a successful one. >> i know that the basis of your lawsuit is a claim that it violates your freedom of religion, it violates your first amendment rights. why do you think that this passed so overwhelmingly? it passed with 70% of the vote. >> right. well, i mean, this was a well-planned and well-funded campaign of misinformation. we've basically got politicians stump speeching, telling oklahomans to fear the looming threat of islam, that islam was coming to take over our court ifs we didn't act immediately. unfortunately, it resonated with a lot of voters who don't know much about islam, who've never met a muslim, who know nothing other than what these politicians were telling them. and if we know -- i mean, we already have an amendment that makes sure sharia law will never take over our courts. it also makes sure no religious law will take over our courts and it's called the first amendment. if we know that it's impossible for a foreign law or a religious law to ever conflict with and replace the laws of our courts, we need to ask these politicians, why were you deliberately misinforming oklahomans into voting for this? >> if you think that the overwhelming vote for was born of ignorance, and i have to tell you, i share your belief that it was, do you think it would have made a difference to have prominent voices, particularly on the right, speaking out about religious freedom and respect for muz slims and respect for islam and what the meaning of the first amendment is? would it have made a difference to essentially have people try to tamp the down the ignorance in this case? >> absolutely, i think so, absolutely. if we have people that come from the same side, where these political campaigns came, that were telling oklahomans to fear muslims, to be afraid of muslims, to disrespect muslims, if we would have voices out of that side come out and say, you know, this is wrong, there's nothing to fear about muslims. muslims are our neighbors. they've lived here just as long as we have. they are engaged and active members in our community, had we had voices from the side of the political campaigns that were pushing this say that, i think it would have really -- it could have cut the edge off of the violent rhetoric and the hate rhetoric that has come out, but, of course, if you have voices that say we shouldn't be hateful, we shouldn't be violent, we shouldn't be fearful, that would undermine a campaign that's based on hate, violence, and fear. so that's obviously why no one from the political campaigns on that side came out with those sentiments. >> muneer awad, bearing a lot of grief and getting a lot of abuse right now for his position there and for having launched this lawsuit defending religious freedom, thanks for your work, thanks for being here, and good luck to you. >> thank you for having me. >> thanks. ahead on "the last word," lawrence o'donnell talks to lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff to colin powell, they'll be talking about mr. bush's book tour, which is as close as i'm going to get to an interview with him. next on this show, sarah palin's cookie offenses. it's crumb-y. sorry. 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"parent organizers would have to pick just one sweet per party, and will be encouraged to encourage anything else from a menu of healthy snacks." on tuesday, as sarah palin was due to give a speech at a private christian school in the state, she took to the twitter machine. "2 pa school speech. i'll introkids 2 beauty of laissez-faire, via serving them cookies amidst school cookie ban debate, nanny state run amok." then she showed occupa eed up a christian school with 200 cookies and told all assembled who ought to be boss. >> i heard there was a debate going on in pennsylvania over whether public schools are going to ban sweets. i wanted these kids to bring home the idea to their parents for discussion, who should be making the decisions, what you eat, and school choice and everything? should it be government or should it be the parents? >> or should it be the lady who brought the cookies to her $75,000 speech? it should be noted that the conservative pittsburgh newspaper that ran the original story about the cookie police retracted the story and posted a correction, saying there was no mandate about sweets, only a plan to encourage schools to serve something healthy to eat. no word on whether governor palin will now try to retract the cookies, now that the basis of using them in her publicity stunt has been debunked. even though i want her to take back her big lie against pennsylvania, i don't think i want her to try to retract the cookies. more debunkery about what you should and should not believe from today's headlines when we come back. clean makeup for normal skin, oil control, and clean for sensitive skin. so take off that mask and slip into lightweight coverage that really fits. ♪ it's makeup that works for you... -and you. -and you. 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[ cheers and applause ] >> did you ever see the munsters? >> oh, yeah. >> here's what i think when i watch msnbc. you're marilyn. >> thank you. >> everyone else over there is [ bleep ] nuts. by the way, while we're on it, what's with the complex even tempered even lady. who's she supposed to be matched up against on fox? no, no, there's my girl. >> i really like bombastic rhetoric. i like people going over the top and using hyperbole. i think it's exciting i'm in cable. >> it's our food. >> it's what we look for. i find it enjoyable. don't lie or expect to get called out when you lie. and don't threaten to shoot people or encourage the shooting of people. let's just agree to that. >> if i saw that engraved on a plaque somewhere, i would think, this is a reasonable place of business. >> you know, overmathdow is right. right after the earthquake in haiti. i thought i gave a gentle nudge to rachel maddow concerning the relative merits of president bush and obama re disaster relief. >> putting someone as incapable of hillary clinton in charge of the state department central to what the obama administration wants to do differently than what bush and cheney did. >> not the right time. or to put what happened in blog-spleranto. stewart rips maddow. that wasn't a rip, that was a rib. a rib, not a rip. but, of course, have you to respond to a ripping. >> listen, i love me some jon stewart and the daily show, but no apologies for reporting on which agency is the lead in our nation's efforts to respond to hai haiti. >> when i saw what she said right there, i thought it was completely fair. when i read what she said. maddow retaliates against unlikely foe jon stew art. oh, we're foes [ bleep ]? you don't retaliate at me. there's rachel maddow she's leaning forward, apparently having dropped something. hey, maddow you like apples? round one, how do you like them apples. >> i have two things to say about jon stewart's speech, one bravo. number two bravo. that you go, i go, you go, i go principle, i believe it, and i'm happy in my country over 200,000 people turned out to cheer that. no joke. >> have a good weekend. i slept, i spent a lot of it dressed as a boxer. it will make sense. watching some of the reaction to our rally to restore sanity. and good thing i was distressed that way. >> all of us here at "countdown" had one major well defined problem with the rally to restore fear. sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful. >> whoa! i don't think we were equating the two. we don't ever -- we spent a lot of our time. >> i know everybody likes to say, oh, that's cable news, it's all the same. let this incident lay to rest forever. the fassel never true anyway of fox news and what the rest us do for a living. >> goodness, my teeth came out. >> so i'm a huge "daily show" fan. it's not like he talks about us all the time. but when he talks about us, it's cool, hey, i'm on "the daily show." it's nervewracking because when he nails people, he totally nails people. >> it's fun watching him nail other people, but not fun watching him nail you before. >> i've never interviewed jon stewart before. he's interviewed me twice. i've always wanted to interview him. it just feels like a big deal. >> i think we ought to promote this like the event it is. it's ali/frazier. it's the brawl for it all, it's duran/leonard ii. it's an event. it will be -- >> i'm not fighting with jon stewart, i'm not at war with him. >> not technically. let me just take a run at this. >> okay. all right. ♪ >> for two years and two months, they've both had shows on basic cable. for two years and two months, they've been circling each other. word warriors. he's funny, she knows lots of stuff. thursday night they collide in a cable tv battle for the ages. maddow, stewart, the brawl for it all. >> no. no. no, no, no, no. >> too much? >> by infinitinfinity, not even. seriously, bob? >> no, it's a good note. let me take another run at it. i think i can tone it down for you. >> okay. >> rachel maddow really likes jon stewart. jon stewart doesn't appear to think that rachel maddow is a total jerk. thursday night, maddow, stewart, something's got to give. >> no. no. no, no, no. are you kidding? not only can we not do that? i -- no, i can't do that. no. >> understood. will you just indulge me? >> all right. ♪ >> she makes a genuine effort to make sense and use facts to support her point of view. he's really funny and good at pointing out the absurdity in the media. maddow, stewart, i got your sanity right here, bub. >> bill, i am speechless and also totally alienated from you and the whole concept of this. >> this is basic cable. this is basic cable promotion. >> good-bye. let's just. we'll figure something out. oh, my god, what are we going to do. >> they really haven't had any crosswords. there's very little chance that they'll brawl on tv. rachel maddow, interested in what jon stewart thinks about politics and the news media, because she thinks he's smart and funny. jon stewart, gracious enough to come on rachel maddow's show to answer whatever questions rachel has. maddow, stewart, he's going to be a guest on her
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