the great guides to human behavior. the best guide any of us will know. that's "hardball" for now. "the ed show" starts right now. good evening americans. welcome "the ed show" tonight. republicans don't want to take credit for a war they started. have we seen this movie before? oh, yes, this is the ed show. >> they are trying to manufacture, for example, this phony republican war on women. >> the four star generals and the war on women claim there's no war at all. >> talk about a manufactured issue. there is no issue. >> terry o' neil and tammy baldwin is here. the right wing smear machine is touting out an old favorite. >> they try to scare white voters away from barack obama. tlmpblts is a major racial

divide in how whites and blacks view the trayvon martin killing. there is major news in the investigation of george zimmerman. karl rove is warming up the death star. >> the record needs to be set straight about what this administration's policies are. >> the american cross road machine is fired up. it's going to get ugly. good to have you with us. i guess the keyword here is manufactured. it's the denial that is so amazing. the republican leader in the senate continues to tow the line for the gop. senator mitch mcconnel said there is no war and believe his female colleagues would agree. >> talk about a manufactured issue. there is no issue. senator kay bailey hutchison of new hampshire and susan collins would be the first to say we don't see any evidence of this.

>> really. mcconnel should check with members of his own caucus because senator olympia snow has called it a retro debate. senate kay bailey hutchison expressed her interest for planned plant hood. >> it makes no sense to attack women. if you doints view this an attack on women and you need to go home and talk to your wives. you need to talk to your daughters. ask them. >> can we come to the conclusion that the leader in the republican party does not want to sit there and answer to his o own. certainly are totally off base and have no clue. well, senator olympia snow has

called the battle a retrofit. mitch mcconnel threw him a lifeline and echoed his talking points. >> they're trying to manufacture, for example, this phony republican war on women. >> the republicans attack on women is extending beyond health care as dnc chair points out the gop is taking aim at women's economic security. >> the policies that have come out of the republican party saying that we should have to have a debate again over contraception and whether we should have access to it and whether it should be affordable. saying like governor scott walker in wisconsin, he tried to quietly repeal the equal pay act. women aren't going to stand for that. >> in 2009, wisconsin ranked 36th in the nation in terms of gender party. then came the equal pay enforcement act. the law makes it easier for

victims of wage discrimination to take their case to court. a year later, wisconsin climbed to 24th in gender party. thursday, scott walker repealed that law. there's no war on women. not everyone thinks walker's agenda is a bad idea. glen growthman who pushed for equal pay repeal explain the right wing logic to the daily beast. you can argue that money is more important for men. i think a guy in their first job maybe because they expect to be a bred winner someday. maybe a little more money consiebs to attribute everybody to a so called bias to the workplace is not true. can you not believe how these folks think and why growthman openly advocating to turn back the clock in wisconsin, one prominent walker supporter has kept quiet. he's called him a hero and man of courage.

he supports walker's anti-union agenda and even though he backs the ryan budget, mitt romney believes if his campaign can win on the economy, he can win women voters. >> women are really struggling in this economy. i believe the way we're going to get women voters in our side of the column is by talking about how we will get this economy going. >> now that a fellow republican has gone after women's paychecks, now that a fellow republican has made it more difficult for women to be compensated fairly, mitt romney isn't so willing to go before the american people and advocate for women's economic security. he's not willing to take a stand. mitt romney remains silent. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. can republicans make the war on women go away by pretending it doesn't exist? text a for yes, text "b" for no. we'll bring you the results later on in this show.

i'm joined by tammy baldwin of wisconsin now running for the united states senate seat in the state of wisconsin. appreciate your time. equality. that's really what we're talking about. equality for women in society. we're talking about jobs. we're talking about health care. in the state of wisconsin they have repealed a law that would make it -- would force the state to make sure that women get paid properly in the workplace. how can the republican party recover from this? >> well, it's shocking. all these things that we thought were very well settled equal pay for equal work, settled decades ago, access to birth control, settled decades ago. we see these issues being relitigated today. it's shocking to me. women make important decisions all the time about their own

health care, about their faemt's health care, education and family budget . people have to start trusting women. these comments you have been sharing with your viewers tonight from republican leaders show just how out of touch they are with wisconsin women for sure. >> what impression does it leave on you when you have mitch mcconnell saying exactly opposite what three women in his caucus are saying? >> it shows me how out of touch he is. in wisconsin women are agast. they can't believe in the state of wisconsin that we have seen measure to bring justice for women who don't get equal pay for equal work repealed by our state legislature and signed into law by the governor. they look at the debates that are occurri inring in congress

the state legislature, for example, over access to birth control. they say, really. we can't believe that this is being debated again. this is settled as far as we're concerned. when are you going start focusing on jobs and economics. speak of manufactured issues. the focus ought to be on getting our economy growing again. >> that seems to be the bullet point right now that every issue that's brought up about women and equality in our society and laws that are being proposed are being struck down. it's all manufactured. what's your response to that? >> i have seen in this particular congress over and over again partisan manufactured games playing and manufactured crises. if you look back over the last year we see escalating to the verge of shutting down the

federal government over whether to extend a middle class payroll tax cut. we see us getting very, very close to not making our debt obligations, making good on our debt obligations over an effort to gut essential programs in the federal government. time after time, we see a manufactured crisis. one that could be complete lly averted. as i talk to wisconsin families over and over again, they say birth control, really? are you seriously debating that in this day and age? they want us to get back to business. they want us to understand what they are going through right now. in this tax season as people are preparing for filing their return, they want to see tax fairness, which is why i introduced the buffet rule. they want us demanding a level playing field. that's what they want us focusing on.

increasing the middle class. they see this as propesterous. trust women. women have made responsible and important choices for as long as we know. trust women. >> thank you. tammy baldwin with us tonight. now, let's turn to terry o' neil. mitch says he doesn't know what members of his own kau issues are saying. >> i guess we should be grateful he knew the names of the women. he isn't listening to what they are saying. clearly senator snow, senator hutchison. those women really doll know. the reason that senator mckowsky apologized is she caught huge blow back from independent women and republican women when she

went home for the weekend after casting that vote. >> can mitt romney afford to avoid this issue and let the sound chamber and people in the senate say it's all manufactured and it's no big deal? >> no. being in denial is not going to make the war on women go away. the republicans can make the war on women go away. here is how they can do it. first of all, they can take a birth control pledge and say i promise to do everything i can to enact policies that will make birth control available, universally to women throughout the country. every woman should have it. take the birth control pledge. take the pledge not to cut social security or increase the retirement age or be stingier with the cost of living adjustment on social security, which is still being murmured about inside the beltway in washington. take that pledge you're going to protect social security. we know that women rely on it. take the pledge to roundly

condemn scott walker for going after female public employees collective bargaining rights. he exempted the state troopers, police and firefighters from his anti-collective bargaining law so it would affect the nurses, teachers, the social workers and the home health care workers. >> great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. the battle continues on. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts. thursday, i'm going to have an exclusive interview with joe bide en. we will be there. he's giving a speech on tax fairness. one of my favorite subjects. coming up, race will be a factor in this year's election and anyone who denies it is ignoring the facts. conservatives are bringing up reverend jeremiah wright. dr. james peterson joins me on

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welcome back. jeremiah wright isback. the birthers are back. the race is going to be a factor. race is going to be a factor in this year's election. here is what missouri congresswoman said when asked about president obama's birth certificate. >> i have my doubts about all that. i don't know. i haven't seen it. i'm just the same place as you are on that. you read this and read that.

i don't understand why he didn't show that right away. if someone asked for my birts certificate, i say here it is. i don't know. they say it's real. >> the congresswoman later tried to soften her comments saying she was confirming this issue has been raised by many of her constituents. congressman cliff sterns has raised doubts about the president's birth certificate. the flak has always been way for conservatives to portray president obama as the other, so to speak. reverend jeremiah wright had some controversial things during sermons he delivered this weekend. right wing is jumping all over it. when dan rather said race would be a factor in this year's election, some conservative websites blamed the media for stirring up race. here is what dan rather said.

>> let's not forget that race will be factor in this presidential campaign. yes, the country can feel good about we elected a person of color, which i did not expect do see in my lifetime, but race will be a factor in this. >> according to a new poll race legal conclusions are still a problem. 89% of blacks and 72% of whites say the country is very divided by race or somewhat dly 40% of president obama has been helpful in bridging the racial divide. let's turn to dr. james peterson. those polls show some pretty interesting numbers. great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. those polls show race is still a problem and the president gets mixed reviews. what do you make of it? >> i think the polls are accurate. i don't think we need the polls to understand the ways in which wras has been rolled out over the course of this last year.

let's take a look at some of the big public cases. let's look at the republican race. you get the food stamp president. you get the disrespect of juan williams. you get the i don't care or let's tell black people to earn their money instead of getting assistance from the government. race is willing been injected here. i take issue with the fact that race in and of itself has to be a negative conversation. we need toe have progressive and positive conversations around the issue of race. we have a long way to go. saying it's factor is so obvious to me. i can't imagine why anyone would try to make a big issue about it. obviously, it's factor. >> we're hearing about jeremiah wright again. i can't believe that. does anyone care about this? i'm bringing it up because the right wing is bringing it up. we have to talk about how rotten and filthy they are and they

will make any comparison they can. >> sometimes we use the euphemism of red meat that politicians throw out. he was so electrifying in the election season, they will try to go back. fox will try to go back to him as much as possible to try to recapture that energy. they are trying to raise their base up. get folks interested an negative politics. those statements were taken completely out of context. those folks on the right say we live in a free country and say what you want to say in the pulpit or whatever. they should be standing behind him. he served his country. the context of that sermon made a lot of sense in if america is going to be a certain way, god will render judgment on it. >> the birther nonsense keeps coming up again and again. republican party has shown very little leadership on this issue.

well, he says he's born in america. that's what it says on the birth certificate but we're not sure. >> absence of republican leadership on this issue. they take the same tone when they are trying to endorse or not endorse mitt romney. it's very lukewarm. it vacillates between what they really think and what they are trying to say politically. we can't allow the right to dictate the way race moves around discourse. we ve to be more constructive. we can't let the folk on the right distract us with these crazy ideas about even to mention race or try some of the these serious issues means we're race-bating. we're trying to make progress. >> are we making progress? we look at the laws being passed in this country. we see the polling number ts th

are out there. we see the hatesters out there on the president questioning his faith. >> it's hard. it's disheart rning sometimes. i feel you on that. yes, we are making progress. barack obama is the president. when we make those kind of huge leaps in history, there's going to be some backlash. we have been dealing with a lot of that backlash in presidential politics and in the political sphere. we're dealing with around not abolishing the death penalty. we have work to do. your show is about that work. you know i'm about that work. we can't allow the right to just sort of cast a negative cloak over discussions about race because we can't move forward and move beyond some of the historical thing wes have been living with. >> great to have you with us tonight. a new development of the trayvon martin case fuels speculation about a possible arrest. george zimmerman is showing he

won't go down without a fight. his new website highlights an act of vandalism against a university's black culture center. a martin family attorney joins me next. respect has left the building. a sitting republican senator tells his twitter followers that president obama is stupid. you mean the last guy wasn't? stay tuned. everything that i've gained in life has been because of the teachers and the education that i had.

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the special prosecutor investigating the trayvon martin case in florida has pulled the plug on a planned grand jury hearing. this means prosecutor angela corey is taking full responsibility for deciding whether or not to charge george zimmerman, the man who shot trayvon martin. the grand jury has been scheduled to convene tomorrow by the former attorney in charge of the case. wo wolfinger rekuzed himself last month. corey's decision to skip the grand jury hearing indicating zimmerman will not be charged with first-degree murder since florida law requires a grand jury in those cases. he could still be charged with a serious felony like manslaughter. trayvon martin's family is encouraged by the development. their attorney released this following statement. we are not surprised by this announcement, and, in fact, we are hopeful that a decision will

be reached very soon to arrest george zimmerman and give trayvon martin's family the simple justice they have been seek all along. meanwhile, zimmerman is reaching out to his supporters online. that's right, the shooter. he's set up a website to solicit donations for his legal expenses and bills. progress reports tonight, zimmerman's site features a picture of black culture center at ohio state university that was vandalized with the phase long live george zimmerman. can you respond -- thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> can you respond to that website and what george zimmerman is doing? >> we've always believed that mr. zimmerman is entitled to a full defense. i'm also president of the national bar association.

i'm for everyone having their day in court and a proper defense. i think this family has only wanted civility in this case. they continue to want a fair, public trial. that's what's important that we have in this particular case. at the end of the day, i think you described him correctly. he is the shooter so he must stand his day in court. if he believes he has a defense, he should put it on. >> he is playing on the motion of hate on his website to get money to defend himself. >> we've always said there's no place for hatred in america. this particular family, the martin family, believes that there's no place for that. we should all be together. there should be civility. these situations should be handled in a court of law. that's what we believe to this day. >> he wants people to pay for his living expenses and he puts that on his website. i think it speaks volumes how

desperate they are and trying to gin up emotion on his side. the other thing is the cancellation of the grand jury. what does that mean? >> it means angela corey has taken control herself. you never know who is on the grand jury. with the case now in her hands, she gets to do a direct filing. she gets to examine the evidence that her investigators so collected. then she gets to make a decision. we have all the confidence in the world that she is going to do the right thing and file the charges against mr. zimmerman. >> you think she's going to make an arrest in the near future? >> well, we sincerely hope and believe she's going to do that. we believe that all the evidence that she could every need leads directly to him being arrested and convicted. >> did you think there was going to be a grand jury?

were you surprised? >> i wasn't surprised. we knew there was real possibility that she would go ahead and do a direct file. if you listen to her interviews, she was hinting at that all along. it was not news to me at all. >> how soon do you think an arrest will take place? >> it's hard to put a finite number of days. >> this week? >> we're very hopeful it will be this week. >> student protests force the sanford police department to close for a few hours today. how important are these continued protests to keep the case moving forward and visible? >> it's very important. it keeps the consciousness of everyone on getting justice for trayvon. as long as there's a reminder there, everyone knows that we need to move in that direction. i think it's the collective energy that we have experienced

here that is helping this thing keep its momentum and getting it to the proper day in court. >> appreciate your time. thanks for joining us. the record needs to be set straight about what this administration's policies are. >> bush's brain is joining us with team romney to destroy the president. howard fineman on today's big news from american crossroads. a united states senator tries to degrade the president on twitter with an insult and gets busted. we'll show you the tweet. republicans in congress take the war on workers to a whole new level. you won't believe who is behind this website. whoa.

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officials at american crossroads said they would probably begin their campaign this month. crossroads is co-founded by karl rove who gave a sneak preview of the coming assault on president obama. >> american crossroads is about to launch its first major anti-obama blitz this month in terms of an advertising campaign. what's that going to look like? >> well, it will be revealed later this week but president obama took his campaign and about $1.4 million worth of ads in battleground states to go after governor romney on the issue of energy prices. the record needs to be set straight about what this administration's policies are with regard to energy. >> if you want an idea of the kind of ads crossroads will run against president obama, look no further than the gas pump. >> now he's taking credit. for which part? the $5 gas or the millions of

americans struggling because of it? tell the president his oppressive energy policies aren't working for us. >> we know domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. the oil and gas extraction has one of the best rates in the country. in the age of citizens united crossroads can been as dishonest as they want to be. let's bring in howard fineman and sam stein. good to have you with us tonight. >> thanks. >> what does crossroads super pac do for mitt romney's chance sns we look at the calendar, it's april and a bunch of money will be spent. how different is the landscape going to be or could it be? >> i think american crossroads is going to go after the president's policies but go after them in a personal way. you saw that they said in that ad that his policies are not

working for us. it's going to be us against them. the them being barack obama and his administration. i think they will try to put a personal tone on it. if you look at the polling, one of the places where the president remains strong among independent voters if they like him. they trust him as a person even fp they disagree with policy. mitt romney has an unfavorable, favorable rating balance with the american public. my sense is what rove is going to do with his independent group is to try to personalize it and go after the president in as nasty a way he can while keeping it on the issue. >> sam, co-founder of crossroads joined the romney campaign as a senior adviser. is that all we need to know about how connected the romney campaign is to the crossroads outfit? >> who signs the checks in this

group any way? >> neither one of us. >> you're right to point out there's this network with a lot of connectiveness here. romney's own super pac have executives who were with him at bain. they know each other. they cannot legally coordinate, but they know what each other want in terms of messaging and strategy. one other important note on that karl rove clip, he was a little d disingenio disingenious. i think that's important to note. the amount of money that's going to come into this race through these super pacs is going to be overwhelming. it's going to be very tough to keep track of who originated the attack and how much money has been spent on it. >> there's another conservative talker in the mix. mike huckabee hit the air waves

and picked up on gas prices. >> gasoline is twice what it was since president obama took office and so many people have given up looking for work that it may just not matter. >> i don't know if he's reading from a script or doing a radio show. howard, is huckabee going to be another important figure for the republican attack machine? >> well, the way to look at this is if karl rove is really the quarterback here and he's got his football team spread all over the field. he's calling the signals in public. first of all, announcing they will have a $200 million campaign. they are sending out the bat signal into the air to come give money to american crossroads to double down that romney's campaign needs to raise money. rove is very close to the key people in the romney campaign such as stewart stephens.

karl rove is the past master. he's the architect. he's probably the closest thing there is to, as i said, the quarterback of what will be the opposition to the president. i think they are all going to key off of what karl rove says in public as a quote, independent guy. he is speak more freely than anybody else including the campaign itself. >> sam, this is the segment that aired after karl rove appeared on fox news. >> they could be worse. some americans are paying $7 a gallon for regular. >> oh, it's all the president's fault. you got the crossroads campaign. they got their own network now. you have fox news just working them over big time. seriously, will the camp be able to take all of this on? this whole orchestration and effort. >> i think that's probably one

of the top three most important questions of this election. in 2008, the campaign said funnel all your money through us. we want to coordinate message and we can do it ourselves. the question is can you survive on a campaign like that in a post citizens united world? to this point the obama campaign has had to do it. their super pac has raised next to nothing. how long liberal and progressive donors will sit on sideline is a key question to this election. you can see that he the campaign is saying, it's not as much of a shoo-in as you think. you see them sending out fund raising e-mails say the polls show us losing. >> can the obama team and their super pacs spend less and still win? >> i think barack obama because of 2008 and because of the

excellence of their internal organization, they're obviously going to be competitive and raise a lot of money. the $200 million sound like a lot. that's just the beginning on the republican side. the obama campaign, itself, will just be the beginning on the democratic side. i think union support, separate contributions will be very important. i think the president is going to need some of those millionaires and even billionaires to pony up on the democratic and progressive side if they're going to match it. this campaign, i predict when it's all over, could get close to $4 billion. i think it's going every big corporation in america, every interest group in america, every sector of the economy in america is going to be in with their own super pac. we've just begun it's going be hard for anybody to keep track of. the fire will be coming from all direction simultaneously.

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ultimately i'm confident that the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a

democratically elected congress. >> last week president obama gave his take on judicial activism. this weekend senator chuck grassley scolded the president on twitter in a very confusing message. let me help translate it for you. constituents asked why i am not outraged on president obama's attack on supreme court independent. because american people are not as stupid as this exprofessor of constitutional law. grassley is the top republican on the senate sew judiciary committee. it was only weeks ago he was preaching the virtues of restrants from the senate floor. >> those who can't get their policies enacts oumpb turn to the cords. i flatly reject that notion. the constitution vest

legislative power in the congress not the courts. judges are simply not policy makers. >> grassley might wand to hold off on the name calling. maybe she should stick to wardrobe advice about this tweet about mitt romney. everybody asking how romney relates to average person. me thinks no problem, but if so, i have answer. just leave starch out of shirt. must be farm talk from iowa or maybe he should stick to promoting his interviews with greta van sunshine. maybe the senator had a couple of cool ones and playing with twitter. i think somebody should pull the plug on grandpa's twitter. don't you think? that would be the smart thing to do. darrell issa is trying to dupe american workers with pictures of roosevelt and bobby kennedy. the president of the communication workers of america is here to set him straight.

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he takes bobby kennedy who supported the movement in 1968 and even abraham lincoln who talked about the rights of workers to organize and form unions. why should the facts matter? i think this is the beginning of the 99% spring training. this spring training is progressives across the country, 100,000 of us started today training each other on the economic issues of our time on our own narrative about how we talk about the economic issues of our time. this is 100,000 working people and how we will take collective action together. >> as far as darrell issa is concerned and what the union busters out there a doing, they're trying to present the picture that union management is shaking down workers in the workplace to create this political fund that could go out

and spend it any way they want. i need you to respond to that. >> we totally oppose citizens united and that decision. we need to restore the democracy to where every vote counts, not every billionaire counts. that's the root of the problem. that problem can be fixed. we support the constitutional amendments that would do that. that democracy is critical to why we're seeing the 99% spring training now. we oppose any use of that kind of money in politics no matter who it might be. that's a separate fund. people give it if they want to give it. they don't if they don't. >> they're not forced to give? >> they're not forced to give. more importantly, let's get all the money out of politics and restore the democracy that we all believe in, including his money, as you said, the richest member in congress. >> why is it that the republican party, collectively, is so ae s

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