News just like it doesnt exist. It really tells you what john the democrats are going to try to use this as a wedge issue while the republicans try to use benghazi as their wedge issue. I suspect both topics may go away as of november 7th. Hopefully not. I think that the president did a fantastic job last night on jay leno saying that he basically said that male politicians should not be making decisions for women. Thats what a lot of women feel. John such a pleasure to have you both here. Does Colin Powells endorsement mean anything . Not as much as it did in 2008. He used to be the war hero when he was with bush. Now he endorses obama. It is all colin powell. I think if he endorsed romney, that would be a big irstory bigger story. John i think youre right. Tina depue and eric boehlert, two of the smartest people i know. Thank you both so much for your time tonight. A programming note, governor Eliot Spitzer will be back tomorrow live from l. A. Where hes also appearing on real time with bill maher. Catch him tomorrow night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on hbo. Coming up tonight the romneys found another investment that could be good for their future. Voting machines. Will their new model come with a fouryear warranty . Thats ahead. And now to my point. That is a whole bunch of bunk the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. I look at her, and i just want to give her everything. Yeah you you know, everything can cost upwards of. [ whistles ] i did not want to think about that. Relax, relax, relax. Look at me, look at me. Three words, dad etrade financial consultants. So i can just go talk to em . Just walk right in and talk to em. Dude those guys are pros. Theyll hook you up with a solid plan. Theyll wa wa wait a minute. Bobby . Bobby what are you doing, man . Im speed dating [ male announcer ] get investing advice for your family at etrade. John if governor mitt romney wins the presidency next month, he will take the office in early 2013. A year which happens to be the 40th anniversary of roe v. Wade and that is our number of the day 40. Same age as eminem. Governor romney has said he wants to repeal roe v. Wade but he supports case but still wants to repeal it. It would be like repealing obamacare but keeping the parts you like. The g. O. P. Is turning up the heat hoping to sway women voters. Many polls as we discussed indicate it hasnt quite worked. Governor romney has become fond of saying women care more about employment than roe v. Wade, an elegant way of saying arent you ladies desperate enough to give up rights for a job . Whats more important . Reproductive freedoms or making 77 of what a guy makes. Whether youre for or against abortion rights, if youre younger than 50, youve got one thing in common. You most likely have no memory of what life was like before rowe. My mom is in her 70s none, a former nun and ive heard her talking with her nurse friends about this issue. None of them like abortion but they remember what it was like to work in Emergency Rooms before the law and thats why so many support the law. So i would ask everyone who is planning on voting for governor romney, wherever you stand on roe v. Wade, once he paves the way for repeal of roe and criminalizes roe ask yourself who deserves a longer jail sentence . The woman who terminates other pregnancy or the doctor who performs the procedure because that is what youre the one time its okay for you to miss my show is if thats the only time you can get to a polling place. Make sure that voting is your highest priority on election day. Besides, you can always dvr my show. You really cant dvr the future of the country. To help you make informed decisions, watch current tvs politically direct lineup. Only on current tv. So vote and vote smart. John welcome back. In 2003, the diebold Security Corporation which created electronic voting terminals faced a lot of controversy when ceo walden odell revealed he had been a top fundraiser for george w. Bush the guy who owned the Voting Machines. The controversy got worse in 2004 following the death of Pope John Paul ii when it was revealed for the first time the vatican cardinals had voted for the new pope using only diebold machines and somehow george w. Bush won. Not really but in this election, it is another voting machine manufacturer with a money trail leading to the Romney Family thats raising quite a few electoral eyebrows. They will be used in crucial counties. Hart is owned in large part by a private equity firm hig capital. It just so happens that four hig executives are bigtime fundraisers for the Romney Campaign and wait for it. Hig members occupy three of harts five Corporate Board seats. One is solamere started by tagg romney. Joining me now is rick ungar who wrote all about the sorted details in a recently published oped piece aptly titled Romney Family investment ties to Voting Machine Company that could decide the election causing concern. Rick congratulations on a very succinct title for your piece. It sounded so complicated now im lost. John could you find a way to fit more words in . The trick is to get to the edge of what you can tweet. John 120 characters. I just made it. John it is a fascinating piece. A lot of our liberal friends say tagg romney owns the machines that will be used to rig the election. Thats an overstatement. John i think a lot of friends on the left have jumped the gun. Lay this out for us. The issue the real issue here is an ethics issue. The real question we should be asking is should people who manufacture Voting Machines, who own companies that manufacture Voting Machines, should they be giving money to anybody when i say anybody forget president s. Im talking about somebody running for county dogcatcher. Anybody whose name is going to show up on that machine should they really be giving money . You and i do something where were not supposed to make political contributions because of the nature of the work that we do. I get that. I trade that when i decide to be a journalist. John yeah. Is it really asking too much of somebody who owns Voting Machines to maybe avoid the political contributions or if youre the chairman of hig who is very involved in bundling, if you want to be a politician, you know what, there are a lot of things you can invest in. Maybe Voting Machines isnt your thing. John right. It does seem like the sith doesnt designing light savers for the jeddi. Dick cheney left halliburton and was given 32 million. Could have given it back. Didnt. Got into the white house. Pretty much had private meetings that no one was allowed into. What i really like is the way you led this in because people are not focusing very much on what happened in 2004 with diebold. Listen again nobodys ever proven that anything happened. You know what we do know . We know that we dont know if it was on purpose or accidental. John in 2004 . In 2004. John things went wrong with Voting Machines in 2004. It is provable. What we dont know is if it was intentional or not. When we dont know, i will always say were going to assume it was not intentional. But you know what . When the ceo of the company im going to do everything i can can it is perception. John youre talking about walden odell of diebold who said do whatever you can to get this guy elected. These guys here, i i like that. It was nicely done. John it is very confusing. Ive heard so much disinformation about this. The greatest message we can give our friends watching is mitt romney asson tagg, doesnt own the machines. He wont be rigging them himself solamere has investments in hig. As it happens this needs to be clear, the investments that they have are not in the specific fund that does own the machines. The problem is not so much that investments. The problem to me, the ethical problem again is that the chairman of hig is a huge bunder will for the Romney Campaign. Hig itself when you aggregate all of the contributions by their employees the 11th largest contributor to the Romney Campaign. Now, i would be saying this if the name were obama instead of romney. It is not about romney. John a lot of people would be saying this if it was obama. One very fun game you can play, you folks at home can do this, too. I go up to rye might ring friends to say are you upset to know that barack and Michelle Obamas nephew owns some of the Voting Machines used in the swing states. Did i say obama . I meant romneys son. Are you upset about that . Try it at home. It is fun. It speaks of the fact that even if theres no Core United States here corruption here, it is indisputable that we have the appearance of impropriety. I hope everything goes swimmingly in ohio. I hope the Voting Machines work perfectly and they very well may. The problem is if they dont, we all know that Voting Machines have a funny way of not working as well as we would like them to. If they dont and if ohio turns out to be a close contest, how does this look . I mean you see whats coming. You see whats coming. And it is that perception. It is the appearance of impropriety thats completely unnecessary and shouldnt be a part of the system. John something howard dean pointed out back in 2004, how would we know if something went wrong . Actually, sometimes we do know when things go wrong. We knew in 2004. John we did but that was an electronic touch screen machine. It was. John your piece got a bit of controversy. Only a second left. You were contacted by i was. John by an employee of hig and an employee of hart who happened to be the same guy. And the press secretary for governor romney. John they all wrote to you. What was their response . They werent very happy in all cases. Actually, it was interesting. The original response from the Governors Campaign was huge. But when it was all over, i was asked to include one line. John okay. I guess it wasnt as huge as they thought it was. John i hope everyone checks out your piece on forbes. Com. Rick ungar, always a pleasure to speak with you. See you next time. Mormon feminists for obama are in fact joining us later in the show. But first donald trump abig bombshell was a big bomb. Big. Huge w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w [ male announcer ] red lobsters hitting the streets to tell real people about our new 15 under 15 menu. 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Remember hes been saying this is going to change the whole course of everything. Everyone was tuned in wanting to hear what donald trump had to say. Turned out to be nothing but a silly little publicity stunt and i said to myself, hey thats not the donald trump i know. I believe we have the footage of the announcement of making it yeah, wait a second. You know what . Im sorry. Im sorry. [ laughter ] that wasnt donald trump essentially trying to publicly extort the president of the united states. That was a gorilla eating its own [ bleep ] whats this thing with trump and you . It is like me and letterman. What does he have against you . President obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country. Obama this dates back to when we were growing up together in kenya. [ laughter ] Vice President ial hopeful paul ryan, you know who im talking about when i say paul ryan he gave a major policy address on poverty. Were still not sure whether hes for it or against it. Right now americans engines of upward mobility arent working the way they should. Im ayn rand and this is ayn rands private poll. Okay. Now do not applaud in unison. That is collectivist. Well now unmove and undo the applause. These guy have become so tied to special interest look, i dont blame that baby for crying. [ laughter ] you know what . She just realized what it means if romney gets elected. Lets say mitt romney is elected. We have thank god our prayers are answered and a president named mitt. How soon thereafter do we see the economy improve . I dont know. Maybe 45 years later . John a candidate you havent met talks about some issues you havent heard. Dr. Jill stein the where you dont back down from a challenge. This is the age of knowing how to make things happen. So, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way . Talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. 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On tuesday in chicago the Free Election Foundation held a really fascinating and highly entertaining debate for all four of the Major Third Party candidates who werent allowed to participate in the president ial debates. Unless you watch a lot of al jazeera and cspan, you likely missed it. The media covered this like the opening of a Vegan Restaurant in alabama, thats part of the problem. It was moderated by larry king who voted for lincoln. The debate featured dr. Jill stein of the Green Party ConstitutionParty Candidate virgil good and rocky anderson. While the debate did focus on the economy, they also touched on issues president obama and mitt romney would never touch. Such as the Drug War Campaign finance reform and the u. S. Government spying on its own citizens. It is a pleasure to be joined now on the show by dr. Jill stein who is running for president as a member of the green party. Good evening dr. Stein. Thank you so much for your time tonight. It is great to be with you john. John great to have you. When i was watching all of the president ial debates this year including the Republican Party one of my drinking game words was ndaa. I had to drive everyone else home. It was interesting watching the debate where i think so many on the left and the right saw the issues being discussed that have been ignored by the two party debates. Was it fun for you to be a part of that venue . Absolutely. These are the issues that the American People are really clamoring to talk about. And our campaign since were not a a corporate sponsor big money wall street sponsored campaign, we have the liberty to actually speak to those issues. And it was very exciting to be talking about how we are going to create jobs. Stop the offshoring that continues not only with mitt romneys bain capital but which is enabled by the freetrade agreements that barack obama has expanded to. Talk about the ongoing wall street bailouts which continue to the tune of 40 billion every month were spending to bail out wall street for the fourth time. As if the other three times have done us any good. Theyre still too big to fail and too big to jail. Writing their own ticket in congress. It was wonderful to be able to really get the record straight on whats happened under democrats as well as republicans. Democrats have basically embraced the policies of george bush on issue after issue and to be able to set the record straight and also lay out how we fix it. A Green New Deal to create 25 million jobs. Jump start the Green Economy that can put a halt to Climate Change and make wars for oil obsolete which is wonderful to be able to put that on the table and hear how incredibly exciting excited people were to actually hear their solution. But theyre already advocating for but that mitt romney and barack obama wont even mention. John you make a lot of terrific points. A lot of very fair points as well. I used the word fun before because i was most struck by the energy in the room. How excited the people in that room were to be taking part in the event that was really all about democracy. Why did you run for president this year . You know, ive been active for about 20 years as a mother and a medical doctor, what got me going was watching this epidemic of disease settle in on our younger generation. Everything from obesity and diabetes to skyrocketing rates of asthma and cancer and learning disabilities and the list goes on. And i didnt feel so great sitting there in the clinic handing out pills and medical procedures and sending people back out to the things that are making us sick to start with. Everything from ai