[ theme ] stephanie oh, pardon me. Ive just doodling a picture of george w. Bush naked in the shower. Gak stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. I love those pictures. Laura, hand me the fleshcolored crayon, would you . Stephanie at least youre not on a Carnival Cruise. I missed that story. [ laughter ] stephanie Carnival Cruise ship is on fire. Ship is currently on fire. And toilets were just up d running thisorning. Oh, that sounds so unpleasant. Stephanie Food Poisoning no toilets and the ships on fire. Other than that. Aint we got fun stephanie all right. Here she is in the current news center our news director, Jacki Schechner. The pope is stepping down. Pope benedict xvi announced this morning he will resign on february 28th. In a statement to the cardinals he cites advancing age and deteriorating health. While the move is not unprecedented, it is not common. The last pope to resign was pope gregory 12 in 1415. Pope benedict xvi has served less than eight years but is 85 years o
Put that down. We were talking about people who talk to you on the phone and talk to their kids in the background. You know how jim mocks our fitness session . I was eating an apple and he he said he said, how are you going to burn off that apple. Here she is, the current news center. Good morning, everybody, the battles to restrict abortion continue in texas and former senator and former president ial candidate Rick Santorum is jumping into the fray. Santorum will go to texas and hold a press conference in austin. His spokesman said hes joining those giving a voice to the unborn seriously and backing a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Remember this is a state bill and Rick Santorum is from pennsylvania. Anyway thousands of activists both antiabortion and prochoice have been swarming the capitol to weigh in on the bill. The state committee has determined to vote today. The bill is requesting that doctors have admitting privileges to hospitals and would effectiv
[ theme ] stephanie okay. Here we go. Were not in any way hung over from inauguration festivities. I did not just get here 20 seconds ago. And Jacki Schechner look at you. Youre fully prepared. You were out until 4 00 a. M. Youre not supposed to tell people that i went home with you at 1 00 and wrote my news. Stephanie sure, you did. Exactly what i did. Not that i was posting on twitter at 4 00 a. M. Stephanie i think you saw from the pictures what i was doing. Hanging out with the Vice President. Well talk about that a little bit. In the meantime, here she is. It was a big fing deal. Here she is, Jacki Schechner in her current news hovel here on the road. At least you got out of captain americas underpants. Pup tent. Right now this hour former president s, house members senators governors cabinet members all start arriving for the inauguration. As do the crowds. The estimates have gotten as high as about 900,000 people at this point. This is minuscule however compared to last inaugura
[ theme ] this is the Stephanie Miller show and its not Stephanie Miller. 100 less stephanie. We have hal sparks. Hal i know it is amazing. Im so excited by the way to actually be able to speak before my theme song. It happens so rarely. We have the lovely and talented Jacki Schechner who is not going to be doing our news breaks but interjecting throughout the entire show. Cool. Hal elbowing us out of the way with facts and figures and a beautiful figure at that i might add. I was going to ask which hour i get to hump halibut apparently we get to hump him all three hours. Weve all been traveling. Tbone, we need some talc in here stat. Major chafing on the hump days with hal. Chris and jim will be with us. Chris will be scrolling through adult sites the entire show as normal. Get a load of that. Whoa hal now lets go to the news with Jacki Schechner. On that note. Good morning. Secretary of state clinton will testify today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the september
[ theme music ] stephanie all right. Jim, okay. All right. Really . Stephanie see jacki what he did there . He brought a costume. Im pretty sure Food Poisoning is not contagious. Stephanie im almost certain it is not ebola. Its Food Poisoning. It sounds like nora virus. Its Food Poisoning. Stephanie the good news is i think im back in those 25 jeans. I havent been in 25 since second grade. Stephanie oh, please teeny tiny. Here she is jacki schechner. Ghment, everybody. President obama traveling to las vegas today to unveil his plans for comprehensive Immigration Reform. Democratic senator schumer, and others worked for the republicans and democrats worked to carve out a brood set of principles. The second prong would be changing our immigration system so as so improve our economy. And the fourth part of the plan would be setting up is better system for the workers. To create a system to bring them forward. Allow them to settle their debt to society. The expected to praise the blueprint