Show Notes for Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Posted on May 22, 2013 • 0 Comments

• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about media coverage of Obama’s “scandals”

SparksGuitar• Sexy Liberal Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for Humpdays With Hal

• Rescue efforts in the tornado-ravaged Oklahoma City suburb of Moore continued through the night into Wednesday morning, with officials increasingly confident that everyone caught in the disaster had been accounted for.

• A far-reaching bill to remake the nation’s immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict.

• Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who leads the exempt organizations division under scrutiny for targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, is refusing to testify before Congress. She was supposed to testify today, but will plead the Fifth.

• Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and outgoing Commissioner Steven Miller told the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that they knew last year that the IRS had a “Be On The Lookout” list while processing nonprofit applications and that tea party groups were on it. The extent of their knowledge at the time, however, was limited, they said.

Retired FBI agent on the pressure cooker and the victories of law enforcement

Posted on April 17, 2013

Stephanie Miller gets an inside look into the process of terror investigations from retired FBI agent Chris Kerr. He tells Stephanie that he’s surprised this kind of attack didn’t happen sooner after 9/11 and that it shows the “victories of various law enforcement agencies.” Stephanie asks if the pressure cooker implies anything. Kerr responds that it’s tempting to say it’s “a lone wolf or an unsophisticated group of people,” but a sophisticated group could have used this device to “throw investigators off the trail.”

http://current.com/shows/talking-liberally/videos/retired-fbi-agent-on-whats-next-for-boston/

Stephanie tackles the issue of gun control with NRA member

Posted on April 15, 2013

Stephanie Miller listens to what caller Tim from Illinois, who is an NRA member, has to say about the issue of gun control. Tim doesn’t like that “gun ‘control’ has been changed into gun ‘safety legislation,’” and he compares this with putting lipstick on a pig, saying, “It’s still gun control.” Stephanie tells him that “nobody wants to take away all the guns,” but Tim says he knows anti-gun people who want to ban all guns. The two do agree on one thing — even Tim acknowledges that there are some sensible regulations.

http://current.com/shows/talking-liberally/videos/stephanie-miller-tackles-issue-of-gun-control-with-nra-member/