greek people, and basically going into collusion with the banks to create the illusion of doing something for the people. and is that not really what most of these sovereign nations are doing, where the politicians are complicit with the bankers in orchestrating financial engineering for sovereign countries, such that the banks can make money, the government can retain power, and the people get screwed? well, in iceland, what they did is they arrested the prime minister when the flimflam there was uncovered with the banks. you grab the criminals. you don t charge the victims. they re bankrupting the victims and letting the criminals walk. goldman still has its nearly half billion dollars in fees in its pocket. so the victims are being charged. i m sorry, it s the criminals, the guys committing the fraud who should be charged. it s the vultures who should be charged. listen, i agree with that. it s been an interesting game of ping-pong and we ll wrap this up between those who blame
many of the so-called tax expenditures. now, with all respect, governor, and you know i m a democrat who s also supportive of entitlements reforms as well as tax increases to do the fiscal mix we need. both sides are locked in to their ideology and litmus tests on either side. a lot of people think we need a third political force to shake things up. about 20 seconds left. do you think there s actually going to be an independent candidate that emerges to try and fill what at least the polls say is a real void in the kind of extreme center frustrated with what s offered on both sides when people feel they re getting a lot of flimflam? i d be very, very surprised and i think it best chance frankly for our republic, is for the republican party to adopt a position that is full floated for growth. it s the only place the revenue can come from and also very candid about what needs to be done to trim down current spending, our future promises,
prime witness turned out to be someone saying oh, no, you guys misunderstood what this other muslim activist had done with the f.b.i. it s really bad for durbin and i think he probably could have gotten some good people to testify. i m not sure he picked the right one there. ok. coming up, the next big holiday is easter. his good. let s move! let s move campaigns for easter. historically, the white house is giving out hardwood easter eggs. you know, the kids actually use real easter eggs. weren t we there one year? many times, you were the giant rabbit the last two years. yeah. mr. bunny. yeah. now they ve gone green with their eggs. green eggs and flimflam. ok, these are eggs now. you look at this video now. these are the wooden eggs and now they re sustainable hardwood certified hardwood, meaning they re made out of particle board and they are environmentally friendly. ok? particle board? i m kind of old fashioned and from this little town in connecticut, why
bacteria, you have seen this. i just discovered activia, which helps with which actions as a body regulator. shepard: they have agreed to pay $21 million in settlement to state and federal regulations. and former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. thank you both for joining us. what do we make of this? this is a classic example of flimflam. this is a large multinational company with a lot of money going out there putting out all sorts of statements as to what this can do and they have nothing to back it up. and part of what makes our system great, part of what makes this a great company to do business is there are consequences for these actions and our government ensures we have a level playing field and
joining the discussion now, joy reed msnbc national correspondent and also with us, jennifer reuben, writer for the washington post, and david frum editor for the atlantic and author. joy, there is this widely made observation that if you get near donald trump, if you allow donald trump to have anything to do with your future, your future is destroyed, there we see the end of paul ryan s congressional career. rick wilson puts it everything trump touches, dies. that s his all-purpose saying. the reality is, i think you laid it out perfectly there. because paul ryan has been the ultimate triumph of form over stance. the beltway media adored him. eight years ago he was called the flimflam man. he has these ideas of ending the social safety net, ethe wants to end food stamps, privatize medicare, privatize part of social security. all these ideas unpopular with