LIVE from TYT on Current: The influence of gun manufacturers, Christof Putzel, Colin Goddard

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Cenk on #TheaterShooting: ‘We’re being massacred out here’ by gun laws written by gun manufacturers Cenk talks to Michael Shure about the politics behind America’s lax gun laws. “You cannot continue to allow the National Rifle Association to write the gun laws in America,” Shure says. “The Democrats need to have some balls on this issue.” Cenk says, “This isn’t …

LIVE from TYT on Current: Joshua Malina on SNAP, Fox News struggles with context, and more Bain outsourcing

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‘West Wing’ actor Josh Malina ate on $31.50 a week, and so should everyone voting on food stamp funding Cenk talks to Josh Malina (“The West Wing” and “Scandal”) about Malina’s week on the “SNAP Challenge” — living on $31.50 worth of food, the weekly amount provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “In my constant attempt to avoid being …

LIVE from TYT on Current: Campaign advice, Boy Scouts #FAIL, and Limbaugh’s Bane nonsense

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Zimmerman’s First Interview is w/ Sean Hannity, as TYT predicted TVNewser reported Wednesday that Sean Hannity has locked up the first interview with George Zimmerman and his attorney Mark O’Mara. The interview will air Wednesday night. This might have been more surprising if Michael Skolnik, GlobalGrind.com’s editor-in-chief, hadn’t already predicted exactly that on Tuesday night’s ‘TYT.’ Tuesday night http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/blog/sean-hannity-gets-1st-interview-with-george-zimmerman-just-as-globalgrind-coms-editor-predicted-on-tyt Maybe …

LIVE from TYT on Current TV: Erin Burnett on Romney, Michael Skolnik, and The Newsroom

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Robot-on-robot crime!’ Even Erin Burnett joins call for Romney to release tax returns As conservatives join liberals in demanding that Mitt Romney release all of his tax returns, “Everybody is piling on,” Cenk says. But we still didn’t expect that Cenk would end up agreeing with CNN’s Erin Burnett! “Et tu, Burnett! How could you do this to Romney? Robot …

LIVE from TYT on Current TV: Chicagoland politics, Lackland trials, and campaign censorship

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President Obama hits Mitt Romney hard with his ‘no holds barred’ campaign style Michael Hastings, reporter for Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed, helps Cenk break down why President Obama’s team has been so successful at knocking Romney down a peg in the 2012 election campaign. “President Obama — one of his greatest talents is going out on the campaign trail,” Hastings …

LIVE from TYT on Current TV: Romney Bain pains, SNAP cuts, and Best Week Ever

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Obama campaign’s devastating, simple strategy to attack Romney: ‘Corporate criminal’ Cenk talks to BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings about the growing attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record — and Romney’s scramble to change the messaging. Hastings says the Obama campaign has been laying the groundwork for Romney’s contradictory statements about his work with Bain for months. “They finally hit on the …