Jacki i didnt send it to him, just ford. Stephanie we call her sidney leathers, are you really, her news name is jacki sheckner. [ laughter ] stephanie did you hear that was the latest thing that she would like to have, hate sex with sarah palin . Agh bring that back stephanie with that visual, here she is, jacki sheckner. Jacki good morning, everybody, happy friday. President obamas got business to take care of before heading off to an eight day vacation. This afternoon, the president s going to sign the student loan bill, a bipartisan compromise designed to roll back Interest Rates pitched doubled to 6. 8 july 1. It will save the average undergrad on Interest Rate charges now. The bill caps out at 8. 25 for undergrads, and 10. 5 for their parents. At a press conference after canceling a meeting with putin in moscow. While russia granting asylum to edward snowden, jay carney indicates there are others. President obama likely today to answer questions concerning n. S. A. Surveillance concerns after meeting yesterday with tech and Civil Liberties leaders to talk about government programs. Apple c. E. O. Tim cook and at t ceo attended the session. Its been holding a series of meetings with experts and stake holders to talk about ways that the government can try and balance privacy with National Security concerns. We are back with more show after the break. Stay with us. This show is about analyzing, criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. Are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night . Is this personal, or is it political . A lot of my work happens by doing the things that im given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. In reality its not like they actually care. This is purely about political grandstanding. Ive worn lots of hats, but ive always kept this going. Ive been doing politics now for a dozen years. vo hes been called the epic politics man. 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Stephanie i may do the whole interview now that youve thrown down the gauntlet, why not. We need sub titles for the show. Stephanie we have turtle troubles right out of the box. Poor mitch mccann necessarily. Did someone take pictures of him having sex . Stephanie by the way, that turtle sex sound is stuck in peoples yesterday, a guy said it sounds like that when he turns his sink on. Somewhat analogous. The plumbing doesnt work. Stephanie Mitch McconnellsCampaign Manager caught on tape saying between you and me, im holding my nose for two years. Mitch mcconnell said Campaign Manager, because what were doing here is going to be a big benefit to and in 2016. Rand paul is becoming the damian isnt he, the omen, its all for you, red. By the omen three, i think sam neil played damian as an adult and ran for president. Stephanie chris matthews, did he see . Ive been doing this for a long time, theyre going to nominate rand paul. Mark it down. Its either that or dick cheney. Stephanie rand paul has a lot of positions that the gop leadership just doesnt like. Right. I dont think theres any chance theyre going to let him get the nomination. Stephanie you know why i want it to happen. Why . Stephanie because our friend kathleen was here this week and she said [ coughing] stephanie she played in kentucky and met him and talked to him personally and said he is shorter than she is and shes like 51. We need an elf. Stephanie he would have minivans. Maybe hes a habit. Stephanie he would have to hire the mini tribute bands. Stephanie what . Stephanie when she told me that, i was picturedding, because if that happens, you know, president obama would have to shake his hand. Hed be at kneecap level. Hi, what are you doing up there . Hey stephanie we frequently kill people on the show, because we dont know. Is he still alive . I think he is. Im thinking of cabinet, because Herve Villachez no longer with us. Billy party no longer with us. I think the last of the munchkins passed away. We have still two more left. Stephanie all right. We got a munchkin down, but we still got the e. P. A. , and their elder statesmen. And the travel loss city gnome. Am i going to die . No, i have not. Stephanie ok, the story, how did i get off on this . Oh, because Mitch McconnellsCampaign Manager caught on tape saying he is holding his nose. Justice released yesterday, former and powell Campaign Chair denied knowledge that the campaign bribed the state senator for his enforcement in the 2012 primaries and said he was currently holding his knows as Mitch McconnellsCampaign Manager until he can work for rand paul. He cant be holding Mitch Mcconnells knows. He couldnt reach it anyway. What are you doing up there . Stephanie i picture him knocking on the tree to see how the cookies are coming. He carries along a note tread because hes worried about being trod upon. Of course some like that. [ knocking ] stephanie how are those pecan sandies coming. The doctors told senator mcconnell that he had a kidney stone. He refused to pass it. Im asking him to be a man, run on his record. Stephanie be a man what the people need right now. Thats our top political priority over the next two years is to deny president obama a second term. There are those of us who spend a lot of time on this issue. Stephanie thank you. Oh, boy, this is from the tea bagging, this is not from his democratic opponent. This is from his whats his name . Bevin. Offered a stern challenge to the incumbent, be a man. Tea Party Challenger said this is a battle reelecting someone just for the sake of accepting him back to washington. Oh, snap. Oh, no, he didnt. Stephanie oh, yes. Oh, yes, he did. Stephanie talk to the shell. Thems fighting words. Hold still while i try to take a punch. Its coming. Its coming. Look out, here it comes. Here it comes. Stephanie you have to be a really bad fighter to get cold cocked by Mitch Mcconnell. It takes a week to get there. Avoid smearing his opponents or democratic challenger, instead offer a concrete example to something hes proud of running on and asking him to be a man. I challenge you to a duel. Hold still, here it comes. He doesnt have an index finger with which to paul trigger in a dual. Stephanie no, he does not. We have lots to get to. We have russia. Russia is by the way, disappointed, the president disappointed in russia, russia now also. Disappointed. Stephanie disappointed in us. Rocky Mountain Mike has helped. As a mayor, we have a lot of right wing callers. We have. Stephanie yes. Yesterday, jacki explained what was happening with the capitol hill exemption. We flushed a lot of Tropical Storm out from the bridges. Stephanie you can tell he was calling with the talking points that jacki just refuted. Stephanie maybe jacki could tell me, if its not good enough for the people of capitol hill. They are hitting republican town hauls, telling them to shut down the government, or were not going to vote for you. Good, good plan. We have audio of that later on, people like aaron shock. Shock. Its awesome. Shocking. Stephanie has the stunning steve king had further thoughts on Climate Change. We cant really measure the sea level. It wont stay still. It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down. Stephanie it doesnt stay at one level. Which way did it go . Which way did it go . I figure him with a tape measurer at the beach. Whoa, that was a different level. Now its higher again. Stephanie whoops [ laughter ] [ applause ] stephanie it keeps doing it. Why wont the sea stay still . Rocky Mountain Mike, please help us, wont you . We all live our lives and take our ability to understand reality for granted. Meet skeeter. Not to text and drive, skeeter struggles with basic motor skills. Pete has. Obama. Ill be over there to stand my ground. We have so far to go. Together, we can help the skeeters of the world find their way out of their bubble and do our solar system. [ laughter ] [ applause ] stephanie skeeters back. 17 minutes after the hour. Well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Viewpoint digs deep into the issues of the day. Has the time finally come for real Immigration Reform . With a distinctly satirical point of view. If you believe in states rights but still believe in the drug war, you must be high. Only on current tv. Stephanie 22 minutes after the hour, 1800steph12 the toll number, toll free from anywhere. Guess whats fun . Datream is the most fun ever. It is just pure fun and makes making soda quick and easy, tastes great, no clean up. You can if i see all your summertime flavors. Its not just soda, you know soda stream, do it, do it. By the way, im reading my l. A. Times yesterday. News print on my fingers. So strange. Stephanie i am old timey like that. What a great case for the bible, evangelical christians have joined the fight to pass common sense reform. Jim wallis wrote this, no wonder it made sense. You said book him now. Now stephanie i did. I did indeed. By the way, speaking of bookings, we frequently have hilarious stories, here is our latest one. We got this yesterday, right . We got a pitch yesterday from the ron paul people. Apparently hes going to start. Stephanie a channel the ron paul channel. Crazy captain liberty. I was like ok. Hes been on with us before. Its been pleasant, we said yes, we would love to. Stephanie he was parole unacquainted with me. Once people become acquainted, theyre like oh, no. Oh, no. He pitched us, we said yes. Stephanie i was on the defense about it, youre like yes, yes, that makes holy crap, what . What . No Fire Department . What . And so we said yes, we would love to have the former congressman on. Stephanie i would have been very poll light, probably talked to him about the things he said that made accepts. Not the stuff in his newsletters and stuff like that. That would be rude. We got a tersely worded note back saying he will not be appearing on your show, thanks for your interest. But we didnt reach out to you, you reached out to us. He fired himself. What were you thinking, youre an idiot. So i tweeted out that information yesterday and called him a coward. Stephanie they probably wanted to say see, liberal shows wont have him on. We said ok, callyourbluff. Com. Whos the fraidycat now . Stephanie im sure now well get that booking. Right, after this . Stephanie once we dont get a booking, we just stomp on them and make sure theres absolutely no chance it can happen. Lets just pee on the grave of that booking. I can think of one. Stephanie shh. He went all fill in the blank on our ass. Hes a lovely senator. Stephanie see, now it narrows it down in such a way as it makes it awkward. Never coming on this program, come on. Stephanie like many relationships, im sometime not sure what i did. So many women that can share that conversation with her. Was it something i and i was sober. We shared this story before. Stephanie no no dont say it. Are you sure . Ok. Stephanie yes, you probably have blurted it out before. That was ill advised. Stephanie yes. I think it was just the general tone that she perhaps did not enjoy and found confusing. What is all this 11ty . Levity. Magic wand stephanie this is from joanne wurley. [ singing ] lily tomlin said can i give joanne your email address. I said can you . My happy place. [ singing ] theyre doing an animal event. I dont think i can do it, which is very sad, because im out of town that weekend. Theyre doing a best in show fundraiser and fred willard is doing it. Id have to make a video. Ed begely, jr. I told you i did a photo shoot for the advocate with max and fred. Im going to get right wing hate male about bestiality now. Bestiality. Stephanie you guys know best. You were wearing a lace dress . Stephanie no. That one . Stephanie no, i have a new color. Its teal, lovely teal blue, thank you for asking. You went shopping what pashmini goes with that. Stephanie i was wearing my dog. They can be used as a dog. Did you get masted by his tail . Stephanie yes, because im just that old. Reverend jim wallis joins us next on the Stephanie Miller show. We need a laugh frack. Stephanie 34 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12, toll free from anywhere. Reading my old timey newspaper yesterday, im like wow, its not often you read an op ed that makes this much time. Really . The bibles case for Immigration Reform, showing compassion to foreigners and strangers is morality. I thought theres exactly why it made sense, written by jim wallace. Joins us now, good morning, reverend. Good morning, how are you . Stephanie i am good. What a great piece you wrote in the l. A. Times. Oh, glad you liked it. Stephanie you always talk such good just good, common sense about this kind of stuff in a way that i think is so understandable about people, about Immigration Reform for all the arguments. You just say its the right thing to do. Certainly for 11 million families and all of us, it really is the right thing and the best thing to do, yeah. Stephanie some say it will take a miracle for congress to pass reform. That miracle may be in the making, helped along by christians who want to turn their faith into action. You visited with 300 evangelical christians from 27 states, mostly republican representatives on capitol hill. Tell us about that. Well, heres a miracle. Paul ryan called me. Really . Magic wand he said i want to help with Immigration Reform. I said great, would you meet with us . We had a lovely meeting. We disagree on other things, and thats fine, but on this one, he really wants to provide some leadership here, and to be honest, you know, what he said was you have the Grassroots Movement. Weve never had this immigration bill before. The Grassroots Movement that impacts, influences the political right and republicans, so thats a new factor in all of this, and so my hope always is we can find things that are moral issues that can cross political boundaries and bring people together as you say to do the right thing. This is a clear example of that. You say in the piece that republicans you spoke to said you guys represent a new factor in this debate. Yeah, the white house says that, republicans say that, democrats, we met with the leaders, democrats and republicans in the white house. August resist is happening right now. Remember what happened to health care around the august recess before, tea party, right wing groups take over town meetings. Were having town hauls, round tables, sometimes with the member of congress. This time, we are saying immigrants are my friends, my brothers and sisters, i know their children. What you say about them is not true, so were going to have people in all these conversations to prevent the right from taking over the august recess town meetings and kill Immigration Reform, which theyre going to do. Stephanie no one speaks bible like you do. You say it is the biblical call to welcome the stranger. Congress needs to pass Immigration Reform because it is the morally right thing to do. You want to say god never ordains particular pieces of legislation. Im just saying, i think hes a democratic. You say the principles put forward are the right ones. You say it will bring 11 Million People out of the shadows, reunite families, all goals that are consistent with biblical values. Well, what happened here was theres a difference in reading your bible and just thumping it. Weve had a lot of bible thumping. When you read it and it literally says in matthew 25, jesus says how you treat the stranger is how you treat me. All these evangelicals have realized that how they treat immigrants, including 11 million undocumented people is how we treat christ himself. Now that was a converting moment for an awful lot of people. The other thing that converted people was now immigrants are parts of our c