It will be on every friday at 11 00. It will be lovely if you watch it. I will understand if you dont. Please join us again next week. Here it is, your moment of zen. Tourists dont know how to walk. It is if you come here, go faster. Figure out where youre going first. Yes, the buildings are tall. Step over to the captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing cheers and applause stephen welcome to the show, everybody. Welcome to the report. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much. Folks, Stephen StephenStephen StephenStephen StephenStephen Stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I fight that. I cant fight that. cheers and applause . Thank you. Thank you so much. Please. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here. This show is really about you. I am but your humble servant. And, folks, it is nice for our royal baby coverage and we can now report officially ive been told we can report officially his royal hyannis Prince George of cambridge umbilical stump has dried up and will flake off in three to 10 days. I believe we have a picture of it. There you have it. Yup, yeah. Doesnt look good. That should be coming off pretty soon. Of course, folks, we all remember how we first learned the joyous news. The first born of the royal hyannis, the duke and duchess of cambridge. The first in line for the throne. May he be long lived, happy, and glorious, and one day reign over us. God save the queen. Stephen yes, londons official town crier was everything you could want, other than intelligible. The only way he could have been better is if he were real. The guy who became the face and the voice of the royal baby announcement appears to be a fake. A party crasher. When the town crier stepped up to announce the birth of the future king, everyone listened, assuming it was part of the pag pageantry of the birth of the future king. Turns out, he was not invited by the royal family. In fact, hes not even a londoner. Stephen she was a fake town crier. I mean, i should have known his hat featured a code of arm with a lion and unicorn when the National Coat of arms of london is two dragons. Also, the back of his jacket had long june silvers. laughter applause it turns out, the town crier is just a royal lover named tony appleton, who is available as a master of ceremonieses at weddings, birthdays, and bar mitzvahs. cheers and applause hear ye hear ye hear ye hear ye hear ye hear ye hear ye mazel, mazel. Let it be known that aaron cohen has gone from boy to man. laughter now lets get it started in here with yonkers premiere hiphop cover band the black eyed peas. God save the whole meshpuka. cheers and applause bell ringing but heres the thing, folks, if this guy is not real, then i cant trust any of it. The whole royal family could be a scam i mean, they dont do a damn thing. Why should we care . In fact,un what, jimmy . I have a suspicion put up the photo of wiland kate and zoom in. laughter booyakasha. Stephen speaking of institutions that have outlived their usefulness detroit. Now detroit has fallen on such hard times the city is filing for bankruptcy, becoming the largest u. S. City to do so move is unprecedented. The biggest municipal bankruptcy in american history. A major u. S. City officially declaring it cannot pay its debt estimated at 18 billion. Stephen 18 billion and detroit borrowed those billions from some pretty serious people. If they dont get paid, theyve thrented to cut off michigans thumb. laughter now, it turns out, robo cop was an optimistic view of detroits future because the numbers tell the story. The citys population has dwibdle twd 2 million to 700,000. Detroit has the highest Unemployment Rate in the nation, and at 73,000 abandoned buildings. Knowing how far the city has fallen would have henry ford rolling over in his grave and somehow blaming the jews for it. Notice, there are a lot of theories out there, about what caused detroits decline manufacturing jobs going overseas. Corrupt politicians. But the easiest explanation for detroits decline is its all the unions fault. You have all these pensions and you have all this debt, and now its just taking them down. There was overgenerous pensions and benefits. Lavish pensions. Lavish pensions. Stephen yes, lavish pensions, on average 19,000 a year, which detroit now says they will pay 10 cents on the dollar. But retirees, if you budget right, you can afford everything you need in detroit food, rent, a cue ball and a sock to fight off hungry raccoons. Luckily, luckily, there is a great idea out there on how to pay detroits creditors. The treasurers of the Detroit Institutes of art could be in danger. Kevyn orr has warned the d. I. A. Its huge collection could end up on the auction block. They have van gogh, matisse, and diego rivera, which is important because it was commissioned by ford himself. They might have to pawn detroits murals depicting a socialist workers paradise. In fact, they have received a generous offer from the museum of irony. Irony. laughter now the Detroit Institute of art also owns a copy of rodins the thinker and i might put in a bit boyd that because i need something to keep me company when im on the thinking chair. So, for as where detroit goes from here. Who knows . This guy does. Please welcome will Editorial Page Editor of the detroit free press, Stephen Henderson. Mr. Henderson, thank you so much for joining me. What have you got there . Whats that . Before we get started, youve been pretty hard on us in detroit. Stephen ive been pretty honest. We need your help to get out of this. So i brought you th tshirt that sums up our attitude about the whole world. Stephen all right, ill take that. Made by a detroit vendor, available in detroit. cheers and applause . Stephen i notice this is a hoodie. Are you trying to get me killed . Well, i think i think it will be good if you dont aware it in florida. Stephen what happens to detroit from here . Do you guys full out . Absolutely. One of the first things they teach you when youre born in detroit as iefs is how to take a punch, go down, get up, brush yourself off, and say im still here. Is that all you got . Stephen wait a second. Wait a second. Thats one of the first things they teach jew thats one of the first things. Its a tough place. Stephen is punch babies in detroit out of love. Shameful but true gleel okay, 18 billion, thats how far youre down. Bill gates is worth 72 billion. He could enemy in there, wave a magic wand, you have guys thought about getting malaria . laughter it cant be that far off. It cant be that far off. cheers and applause i havent talked to the mayor about that, but i will suggest it. Stephen okay. On the other hand, i think were very deserving of some sort of help of some kind. This is stephen but we already bailed out the auto industry. How much more bailout does detroit need . Think about it this way. Detroit was the arsenal of democracy in the 1940s during world war ii. We with the the tanks and planes that make sheer you dont speak with a german accent. Stephen and we thanked you for that by giving you motown. Actually, i think i think we gave motown to the world. Stephen whatever. But whatever. Details, right. Stephen yeah. What can detroit do to pull itself up by its own bootstraps before we give it a bailout . Doesnt detroit have to make an effort . What about selling the art from the Detroit Institute of art . That that was bought when you gierpz the fourth largest city. You dont need that much culture anymore. Right. laughter one of the things about the d. I. A. Thats important is its like a park or like another physical attribute of the city. Selling it would prevent the city from being the great place that it could be stephen you can keep the building. Just sell off whats inside of it, you know. I should admit that my wife is the marketing directort museum. Stephen another does she have an inside scoop if you really are interested in art, i probably could get you stephen you put this down on a picasso. Absolutely. Stephen all right. Maybe a lady, something with an even number of breasts, please. All right, all right. Ill see what i can do. laughter . Stephen what about turning in all of detroit into sort of a williamsburg, because manufacturing seems to be leaving the united states. Yeah. Stephen you know, williamsburg holds on to a little time capsule of an agrarian society. What if detroit became a time capsule of an Industrial Society and people could come there and say would you like to see us weld a buick . Thats only if you believe that manufacturing is only part of our past. I happen to believe and most people happen to believe its part of our future, too. The Auto Companies after their bailout are back to 15. 5 Million Units a year selling. We are rebuilding manufacturing in detroit. What we need is consistent policy from washington, consistent policy from our state capital in lansing. We need people to support us instead of turning their back on us. Stephen you live in detroit and also work in the newspaper industry. Are you a glutton for punishment . laughter you might say that. I came back to detroit from washington six years ago. And people looked at me like i was insane. But its my home. Stephen and maybe you wanted to live someplace less corrupt. A little less corrupt. Its my home. Its a place that produced me. It produce aid lot of people i know making great contributions in the city and in the country. I wanted to raise my kids there and ill stick by that. Stephen well, good luck. cheers and applause . Until this thing blows over, why dont you call chicago and ask if all of detroit can crash on their couch. Well, we might have to do that. Stephen Stephen Henderson from the detroit free press. Well be right back. cheers and applause [jjj4fs20r9 9 hh,xa. a. a. a. D ,x stephen hey, welcome back, everybody. Information, after liewgz the hispanic vote in 2012, the g. O. P. Wants to appeal to immigrants, and the republicans secret weapon is iowa congressman and mortuary training doll steve king. On monday, congressman king warned us about the real dangers of granting citizenships to young illegals through the dream act. They arent all valedictorians. They werent all brought in by their parents for everyone who is a valedictorian, theres another out there who weighs 130 pounds and they are hauling 77 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act. Stephen come on we all say it behind closed doors. Mex scrans calves the size of cantaloupes, all right. Or honeydues, what have you. A breakfast fruit of some kind. A papaya or particularly grarnlg grape fruit, whatever. One of the twaitz to choose who gets into this country is what size produce their muscles are. Its all about choosing the good ones. Steve king knows one. You want a good bird dog, pick the one that is the friskiest. You get the pick of the litter, and you have yourself a pretty good bird dog. We got the pick of every dawrnd civilization on the planet. Stephen los latinoses were offended of the immigrants as dogs analogy. One of the people offended was friend of the show univision a. F. C. Or jorge ramos. You recently compared immigrants to dogs. No, i didnt. Thats a mischaracterization. Did you watch the video . The full video . That speech was about celebrating legal immigration. Anyone that understands the language and the culture knows that if they saw the video. Stephen if you werent such a foreigner, youd get it take the jumping beans out of your ears, pedro. Try again. So from your point of view, you actually did not compare immigrants to dogs . Thats i said that speech was about the vigor of legal immigration. It was a very complimentary speech. Stephen yes, when he was comparing immigrants to dogs, which he did not do, he was complimenting them. The same way im complimenting steve king when i call him a tool. cheers and applause . Meaning meaning thats a celebration, okay. Meaning a useful implement with which to say roof a house. By the way, steve king believes roof is the spanish word for hello as in roofroof. So, please, its not about mexicans being animals. Steve king is just saying they are human beings who, if you pick the right ones, would make great pets. Ive already got one digging in my yard. Luis is loyal. Hes a member of my family. And its th at the first sign op dissplaishia i will send him to a farm upstate. I have a long of string beans 9 stephen my guest was a threeterm senator but she retired because she wanted to do something with her life. Please welcome senator olympia snowe. cheers and applause . Hey, senator snowe. Thank you so much for joining us. Nice to see you. Stephen nice to have you here. Its wonderful to be here. Thank you for having me. Stephen you were a rare creature. You were a moderate republican. Unbelievable, isnt it . Stephen please tell me the smithsonian has gotten a soosmle of your d. N. A. For future breeding programs because it seems like a recessive gene in republicans moderate. And thats what i love about them. What role was for you in the Republican Party after of as a moderate . Well, i brought diversity to the Republican Party. Thats what it was all about. Stephen as a white person from maine . laughter no. No, political diversity. Stephen oh, political diversity, sure. Political diversity. Yes, it broadened the views of the Republican Party and to be representative of all regions of the country. And now, unfortunately, that is not the case. Although, i think there are more moderate republicans, you know, than people realize. Stephen are they in the closet . No, they laughter so to speak, yes. Stephen im not one of them. Im pretty happy with the direction the Republican Party. I kind of like it. Strength, no compromise, scrij lance. Now, yu book is called, fighting for Common Ground how we can fix the stalemate in congress. You say, you know, theyre not getting anything done. Getting . Done, sell me on it. laughter john boehner just said he he just said the job of congress is not to pass laws. They should be judged by how many laws they repeal. Mitch mcconnell, leader in the senate, said their number one priority was to make obama a oneterm president. Nowhere in that is getting something done mentioned. Well, thats a problem. Which i disagree with them on. Because i think we have to solve problems. That is the purpose of being in Public Office. Thats the essence of public service. Stephen note purpose of being in Public Office is to stay in m. L. B. Office. No. Stephen you have to compromise. You have to compromise to pass laws. You have to compromise. Yes. Im a moderate republican. I have my strong beliefs. Ive always held to my principles but i appreciate and understand other peoples heartfelt views on issues but you have to work it out. Stephen you cant have it both ways. You cant have 100 of what you want. Stephen madam, respectfully, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot work for the other side and raise money for your election. You cant send out an email that says, help i need your money right away because some of my opponents ideas are good, and i want to help them pass laws. Check here to help me compromise my ideals. Well, for those who view it that way, we have to change it. Thats the problem weve got in washington right now. Stephen too much money . Yes, too much money. Campaign finance reform. That should be a must cheers and applause stephen but you filibustered wait. That was one of the things i agreed with you. You do . Stephen no i agreed with you when you filibustered the disclose act which was going to reveal how money gets into superpacs. First of all, let me say my provision was struck down by the supreme court, citizens united. So ive been a strong advocate and proponent stephen you dont believe i should have been able to have a superpac. Exactly. laughter youre absolutely right. Stephen but corporations are people. How ask that help stephen corporations are people. How does that help the campaigns of today . Has it benefitted has it improved. The supreme said money is speech, madam. Unfortunately, they they ruled that way. But it is regrettable for the country in terms of the impact its had on elections. Has it improved the outcome . Stephen for me it did. I raised a lot of money. Over 1 million. To the detriment of the country that unfortunately, that weve moved in that direction. Stephen i agree. Barack obama was elected. That didnt turn out well. No, its not necessarily the case in terms of were going to have different views. And people do get elected. But you know what . You have to work with those who get elected. And you have to work on both sides. And that has always been my purpose in Public Office. Stephen why did you leave the senate then . Why did you leave the senate . Because the polarization wasnt going to diminish and i wanted to take my fight outside of the senate. Thats my spartan side of my greek heritage. Continue to fight. Not like 300. cheers and applause . Stephen 300 doesnt turn out all that well. No. Stephen senator snowe, thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure. Stephen senator olympia snowe. Fighting for Common Ground. Well be right back. cheers and applause