march. but if you're looking to 2020 or even 2018, does this message help you guys get that power back in congress? >> you're talking long game. there's a short game, too. we're talking about 2018 necessarily right now. we're talking about monday. monday, fellow michigander betsy devos, must not in charge of the department of education. we know what she's done. >> it's a whole movement and it is building. and it will be there, it will be vocal. people are going to get involved. this is not just some picnic here to show up. seriously, i have never seen, i've been to, i was at the counterinaugural to richard nixon right out here. it was nothing like this. this was something. and again i couldn't tell from the stage, but 70, 80% of the crowd had to be women. it was -- it was an amazing thing. i had never seen anything like this in my lifetime and they're
down from college, and a lot of daddies are having a lot of hard conversations with a lot of daughters tonight. i promise you that. it was unbelievably difficult. >> well, look at the number of daughters in that room at the javits center tonight. clearly there to witness that event. i'm also rewinding the last couple days, jennifer granholm was on our broadcast. she was a passionate guest on bill maher this friday night. but on my broadcast, i want to say friday night, 11:00, we were short on time. but my last question to her was, if it was up to you, what would the closing message be in a bumper sticker slogan. and what she wanted to talk about was jobs. jennifer granholm, michigander by way of harvard law school, 47th governor of the state of michigan, and that was not in the official closing argument.
that's something you'll still be talking about 20 years from now. yes, you'll be talking about it 20 years from now when the next bush is running for office. my next guest is a local michigander who is making a name for himself in the competition world of music. please welcome marshall mathers. our worship of technology has midwived our doom. grounded flights, plummeting stock markets, a totally unusable redesign of seamless. come on. >> joining me now is a host on sirius xm and the daily beast columnist. we can watch those clips all day. >> yes, funny stuff. >> he's got the shtick. as we move to 2016, he's got all the connections. he's done all the interviews and the pieces in the past, does he take the number one spot when he starts tonight? >> i don't think he takes number one. jimmy fallon is far and away, jimmy is immensely talented. so the stephen colbert. will america like him as much
the voters of state of michigan. >> i work a lot with at-risk youth. i have said that a lot before. i have heard adoptive parents say the fact that they chose their kids. this was a child that was really wanted. i know there are going to be vo voices, lz, that say, this is a couple that wants these children, this child. they want them. the love and the dedication is there. there are so many families that are just having kids that don't want them. they are not being taken care of. that's a real frustration for a lot of people. >> absolutely. i used to live in michigan. i moved away. i was born and raised a michigander. i was a youth pastor of not one but two churches. i volunteer in my son's school. no one dotes over youth more than i do. to be told in michigan i couldn't adopt because somehow my sexual orientation would dictate my parenting skills was a complete slap in my face. my son, a 4.0 students going to
consider very problematic rhetoric in the campaign trail. when you accuse obama, the president, of being a food stamp president and everybody gets into the birther fun and there's a -- i don't even know what game that donald trump's going to pull this week. he says he wants to go on the offensive with the birther talk. do you have a problem, thinking back on it, of having used ethnic politics, with terms like food stamp president? >> look, i find your assumption so absurd that it's hard to answer your question. >> okay. >> but let me take the birther thing for a second. >> sure. >> what mitt romney did the other day, people say, you ought to relax, you ought to be a little bit lighter. so he tells a joke. it happens to be a joke that serves him in a totally different way that you're calculating. it reminds everybody in michigan that he was born in michigan, he's a michigander, and the poll that came out this morning, he closed a five-point gap in michigan. >> how does that justify the use of that reference to birther talk, when birther talk has been poisoned -- >> it was a throwaway line. it's part of the common culture.
here. he's going to pay for beer afterwards. free beers on newt. okay, you've engaged in what i consider very problematic rhetoric in the campaign trail. when you accuse bobama, the president, of being a food stamp president and everybody gets into the birther fun and there's a -- i don't even know what game that donald trump's going to pull this week. he says he wants to go on the offensive with the birther talk. do you have a problem, thinking back on it, of having used ethnic politics, with terms like food stamp president? >> look, i find your assumption so absurd that it's hard to answer your question. >> okay. >> but let me take the birther thing for a second. >> sure. >> what mitt romney did the other day, people say, you ought to relax, you ought to be a little bit lighter. so he tells a joke. now, it tends to be a joke that serves him in a totally different way that you're calculating. it reminds everybody in michigan that he was born in michigan, he's a michigander, and the poll that came out this morning, he closed a five-point gap in
he's a michigander, and the poll that came out this morning, he closed a five-point gap in michigan. >> how does that justify the use of that reference to birther talk, when birther talk has been poisoned -- >> it was a throwaway line. it's part of the common culture. >> do you think it's funny that the president had to show his papers to shut down the birther talk? that he had to go to hawaii and get his documents released. do you think that was funny? >> i think that it is bizarre that people think that it is a challenge to be able to say, i was born there, here's my birth certificate. what's the big deal? >> because it hasn't stopped. because we've got members of your caucus, the republican caucus, like louie gohmert and these people that keep talking it up. >> but romney was making, by any reasonable standard, he was making what's called a joke. >> first one he ever told. >> and it was a joke that actually -- >> okay, let's listen to romney. here's mitt romney telling the joke. if it was a joke, there certainly was a punch to it. >> now, i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised, where both of us were born.
michigan. and bernard whose friends and family comes from washington, d.c. and new york. he was born in israel. sergeant, what is a michigander doing here in israel? >> i have close ties to the united states and israel and i felt like serving the military here because there's a huge security need and i felt like i had to do my part. >> what is your role? what role do you play? >> i am an interceptor which means i am directly involved with the interception of rockets that directly threaten civilian rights. >> do you think you can protect the people there are so many aimed this way. >> so far we have been doing a great job and we are constantly improving. i feel very confident in what we are doing. >> do you ever get a sense that this is a never ending war? >> i have hope. i want to believe that eventually it will end.
>> the reason we want to sell without reserve is we don't want to exclude any potential bidders. we want people to think out of the box, to be as creative as possible and use this site for the best possible use that they would like to bring forward. this is an excellent location, and will be a great value for potential bidders. >> you can be part of this historic auction of the pontiac silverdome. >> joining us now from the interview is michael moore. the filmmaker and author and michigander down to his ball cape. good to see you. >> nice to see you, thank you. >> for many months i have been reporting on michigan and every time i finish reporting on something going on in michigan, i ask what the sam hill is up in michigan. the republican rescue plan for the towns and cities in michigan that are in trouble is that you have to first stop local democracy. then you can get to work on fixing these things. >> right. we have to burn down the village in order to save it. >> yes. whether or not it is -- we'll
yankees superstar derek jeter is attracting a whole lot of attention in tampa. it has nothing to do with spring training, actually. >> his mansion is so vast, so -- >> mansion. >> what did i say? >> mansion. >> yeah. tourists have been flocking to see it. water taxis offer the best views. the $8 million house that he built has 31,000 square feet, seven bedrooms, nine baths, and enough large to dock five boats. it's larger than a baseball field. >> jeter certainly has come a long way. his 2,000-square-foot childhood home in kalamazoo, michigan just went on the market. the asking price for that humble pad, just a mere $140,000. some guys have all the luck, man. >> grew up right down the road from him in jackson. 45 minutes. >> oh, so a michigander just like you. see? you should have played your cards right years ago, you could have been the first lady of baseball, girl. >> no thank you. >> no thank you? >> paula jeter doesn't sound good. >> all right. we'll be right back with more "world news now" right after this.