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can the auto industry's turnaround help the motor city rev back up, too? good morning, i'm chris jansing, and we begin with political payback involving hillary clinton and chris christie. the top two 2016 prospects both getting an early preview of the scrutiny and spotlight a campaign would bring. just when you thought you knew everything about the clintons comes excerpts from a new book that says her '08 list kept a hit list of democrats that supported obama for president. and a day after republicans defended the tough-talking governor. >> he says he didn't know. i think it's pretty darn credible. he wouldn't make this blanket denial unless it's not true. >> i think that he can now move on, as long as another shoe doesn't drop. >> i want to bring in msnbc political analyst jonathan alter and erin carmon.
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good to see both of you, good morning. let's talk about this hit list they had this spreadsheet and not just listing sort of who was on it, but also how egregious they were. they were graded basically on their support of hillary and those who angered the clintons the most. all coming out, obviously, in support of barack obama. what do you make, jonathan, of this hit list? >> well, honestly, it's very, very interesting story in politico. it's not terribly surprising that politicians keep score. the good ones always had in their minds and their aides have done it on paper to know who's with you, who's against you, because you have a busy day if you're a politician, you're not going to call and spend a lot of time helping out those who have not been helpful to you, and you want to keep track of it. what's interesting about this in the contest of the christie mess
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is that there's a line between keeping score and not doing any favors for those who have not helped you and actually being vindictive against them. and doing things that would hurt not just them, but the public. i don't see any evidence here that hillary crossed any kind of a line in the way she was keeping score. also, one other thing, bill richardson is not on that list and he actually should be close to the very top of it. they felt more betrayed by him than anyone else. >> claire mccaskill did end up on the list. let's look at one of the reasons she ended up on that list. >> do you think bill clinton was a great president? >> i do. i have a lot of problems with his personal issues. i said at the time, i think he's been a great leader, but i don't want my daughter near him. >> she did say she instantly regretted that remark, apparently, there was a phone call she was gracious, which
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made her feel worse, according to the excerpts from this book. i wonder if that was the reason she was the first female senator to endorse hillary clinton this time around. >> of course, we have to maintain a difference between bill clinton as president and hillary clinton, who has had a kroor in her own right. clearly, that is an awkward thing to say, but on the other hand, it's based on actual facts from the clinton presidency. i think what you'll see is, yes, you know, politicians keep score, but as jonathan mentioned, there's no evidence there was any sort of retribution, no evidence this is about anything in terms of maybe these people are going to be seated somewhere bad in a state dinner when hillary clinton, if hillary clinton becomes president. but other than that, i think we're going to see democrats get behind hillary clinton in a unified way, should she choose to run. >> one of the other things the book points out, they are pragmat pragmatic, just because they didn't like you in 2008, they could be brought around. let's talk about new jersey governor chris christie, this could be another tough week to
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him. subpoenas related to an ill-advised decision to close the george washington bridge. one lawmaker even mentioned the "i" word, impeachment. listen. >> if it becomes known that the governor was involved and he knew about it and he knew about the coverup and he was approving the actions taken by his senior staff, that raises serious questions that the assembly ought to look at. the assembly has the ability to do articles of impeachment. we're way ahead of that, though. >> what are the lawmakers looking for with these subpoenas? obviously, there's politics in stories like this, but are there serious unanswered questions? >> many unanswered questions. they want to hear what actually happened from those who were in charge of this ridiculous scheme, so you're going to see kelly ann, wildstein, and everybody else who we know now
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was involved or perhaps those who we don't know were involved. they'll all come and they will all testify or take the fifth, as they have in the recent past. the real challenge for chris christie and those around him is that, you know, he threw these folks under the bus or off the bridge, however you want to characterize it. they are not going to be too happy with them, and to save their own skins, there's a lot of precedent for this. they may well make a deal and turn state's evidence. >> that's part of the deal with him, this sort of drip, drip, drip of information. there are so many different investigations going on on so many fronts, in addition to which, there are people who are looking like they could have some real serious legal problems and maybe they will turn evidence, right? >> they certainly have an incentive to do so. of course, the biggest unanswered question is how much christie knew, is he telling the truth that he didn't authorize this? we also don't know why it happened.
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there are conflicting questions about who was the target. each of the theories doesn't offer a complete picture of why this happened. >> in fact, in some cases don't add up at all. >> i don't think the only big question is whether christie knew. remember, nixon probably didn't know about the break-in at watergate in advance, the coverup is always worse than the crime, and i think some of the big questions chris christie has to answer is, why wasn't he more curious between september and january about what was going on inside his own government? and why does it seem they were more concerned about press coverage in "the wall street journal" and elsewhere than getting to the bottom of something that might have sounded trivial, sounded fun when he was joking about, you know, a few months ago about being out there moving the cones around, but was awful for the people caught up in it. i was reading this morning about a guy had been unemployed for a year, first day at a new job, 40
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minutes late to his new job. you know, somebody who was visiting her husband who was having a stem cell transplant, she missed part of the medical procedure because she was caught on the george washington bridge. what was really lacking from chris christie's press conference was compassion about those folks. it was all about me, me, me. and in retrospect, i think it's not holding up as well as it seemed to be going at the time. >> initially, he wasn't getting a lot of support, but now sort of republican leaders are backing him and saying pretty positive things post-press conference, including rnc chairman reince priebus. >> we have a really smart person in chris christie, who's a former u.s. attorney, who understands what's out there, and thousands and thousands of documents have been revealed and not one single link to chris christie has been found. >> and rudy giuliani says, look, it's easy to understand you're running a campaign to miss
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something like this. is something like this missable, or to jonathan's point, is it surprising a former federal prosecutor, all of this is going on, in the newspapers, questions are being asked. >> doesn't ask why his staff members resigned as a result of it. yeah, what's interesting, jonathan mentioned his lack of compassion in the press conference. this idea of him as being a softy at heart underneath the tough veneer has been what has leavened his image. so the lack of compassion for the folks that you mention, i think, will actually hurt him. but in terms of what the republican leaders are doing, i think they realize they don't have a lot of strong candidates that could potentially compete in a general election against hillary and they don't want to prematurely wound him, because he is a politically talented person. he may survive this. they don't want to get out in front attacking them when they may need him in 2016. >> don't want to be on a hit list. bad joke.
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jonathan, final finale for "alpha house." we saw the interesting combination of walk-ons. there i am after anthony weiner. >> next to grover norquist. >> that's interesting group of people. look, you know, politics is hot on television these days. did you have fun? >> it was hugely fun. there are now 11 episodes of "alpha house" that are available for binging on amazon. it's amazon's first television show, the way netflix had "house of cards" as its first show. we've had a great time shooting it. it stars john goodman. not just chris, but chris matthews, mica and joe, and others from msnbc and some other networks are in there, as is senator schumer. he makes a cameo in episode nine. >> thank you very much, jonathan. the executive producer title now
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adding to best selling author, all these other things. >> you're too nice today. >> all right. am i right there? >> yes. >> executive producer. thank you very much. good to see you, too, irin. >> thank you, chris. checking the news feed, clock starts on a six-month deal for iran's nuclear program. iran will cut back on enrichment efforts and in return, economic sanctions will be rolled back. the ultimate goal is to use the six-month period to negotiate a longer term deal. u.s. lawmakers working on a bill to impose tougher sanctions on iran, and over the weekend, president obama says if that happens, he'll veto it. right now, the supreme court is hearing arguments over president obama's recess appointments. were they legal or did they violate the constitution? the contentious part goes back to january 2012 when senate republicans refused to allow votes on two key obama nominees. republican senators tried some procedural maneuvering to stop the president from making the appointments, but he did it anyway. it's a huge constitutional case
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that we will be watching very closely. both the faa and ntsb now investigating why a southwest airlines flight landed at the wrong airport last night. the flight was supposed to touch down at branson airport in missouri, instead, it landed at the much smaller airport seven miles away. the plane had to land on a shorter runway, though no one was hurt. 124 passengers were bussed to the correct airport. good news for some 300,000 west virginia residents who have not been able to use their water for five days. 24 hours of tests now show the chemical that spilled into the elk river is at safe levels, although the all-clear hasn't been given yet for residents to use or drink it. state offices are reopening this morning, schools are still closed. what's getting done on capitol hill? we're still waiting for a deal on unemployment and the budget. we'll talk about that with congressman chris van hollen next. [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart.
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lawmakers are up against a wednesday deadline and we're hearing they are very, very close to a budget deal to iron out the details from patty murray, paul ryan's bipartisan budget compromise. politico reports they are close, but need to do a quick temporary deal before they can get there. joining me now is the top democrat on the house budget committee, congressman chris van hollen. good to see you. >> good to see you, chris, good to be with you. >> when people hear budget and deadlines, they start to worry about things like another government shutdown. where are we with this? >> there's not going to be another government shutdown. we're close to coming to a budget agreement. as you indicated, in december we came up with the framework for the budget, now we have to agree on filling in some of the details. it's possible we won't get it
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entirely done before the clock runs out, so you'd have a very short-term what we call a continuing resolution, but i am confident we'll get there at the end of the day. >> we know that the president is expected to release his budget proposal next month. it's getting pushback from democrats for a new formula to calculate social security benefits. here's how the hill characterizes it. "democratic lawmakers say obama should shelve the idea now that they are facing a difficult midterm election where they need to send out the liberal base to preserve their senate minority." what do you think about this whole controversy as it's been presented? >> well, chris, i do not support this particular provision because of its impact on seniors, but no, i do not think the president has hurt our negotiating position, because he was very clear that he would only accept this change if republicans agreed to close some of these huge tax breaks,
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egregious tax breaks, for people making millions of dollars and for special interests. and republicans have absolutely refused to come to the table to do that as part of deficit reduction. so the president might want to reconsider that proposal, given the fact that republicans have shown no interest in closing any special interest tax breaks, but, of course, that's his decision. i can tell you that the democratic budget submitted in the house this year, and i'm sure the senate budget, will not have that provision. the senate democratic budget. >> in the meantime, from 1.3 million americans, it's another week without their extended unemployment benefits. where are we on that? >> well, this is a real emergency, chris. this is something congress should have dealt with in the end of last year. here in the house, congressman sandy levin and i put forward a proposal that would extend unemployment benefits for three months on an emergency basis. we had an offset, we paid for it
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by getting rid of egregious agriculture subsidies. speaker boehner refused a vote. i hope we can get it moving in the senate. senator reid indicated he's open to looking at a number of options. we put a proposal on the table last week, unfortunately, the senate republicans objected to that. so we still have lots of republicans, chris, who are blaming the people who are unemployed instead of working together to try and fix this problem on an emergency basis. 1.3 million americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, still looking for work, we need to make sure they have some support as they continue that search. >> before i let you go, i have to ask you about that excerpt from the new hillary clinton book. it says her staff has a hit list that essentially ranks people that didn't endorse her in 2008 for president. you're on it. your reaction? >> yeah, chris, i just heard about this, and i have to say, it's a total mystery to me. i was the chairman of the
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democratic congressional campaign committee in 2008, trying to elect candidates all over the country. i didn't get involved in the primary, the democratic primary that year. i was focused on supporting all our candidates and trying to make sure that whoever emerged as the presidential nominee for the democrats would support our efforts. so if this is true, and again, i have just read the reports, it's a mystery to me and i'd be interested in hearing what the basis of it would be. >> would you like to endorse her now in case she decides to run for 2016? >> i'm a huge supporter of hillary clinton. i hope she will run for president, and i've indicated i would be a supporter of hillary clinton if she runs. but again, i'm trying to figure out this last one, chris, as i say, it's an unsolved mystery. maybe someone will pick up the phone and tell me. again, this assumes this is a true report. >> congressman chris van hollen, thank, good to see you. >> thanks, you, too. thousands have descended on
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a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity we need is reliable. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. big news from the detroit auto show today, where car companies are showing off new models and new profits. the best year for the car industry since 1997. car manufacturers have made their way back from the bad times and bailouts from five years ago, and after the city of detroit filed for bankruptcy six months ago, city officials are looking for a comeback of their own. they view the auto show as an example of a broader reviefl. joining me now, alan mulally, president and ceo of ford motor company. good to have you back on the program. good morning.
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>> hi, chris, good to see you again. >> the big news i'm hearing is your new ford f-150 pickup, you're making this with aluminum instead of steel. it is america's top selling vehicle, has been for awhile now. are you taking a risk in revamping what is a consumer favorite? >> we certainly don't think so, chris, and what the neatest thing, what you said, people have preferred the f-series truck for 37 straight years in the united states. as a matter of fact, for 32 years, it's been the number one vehicle in the united states. and the real reason is, that every year with every new model, we continually innovate and bring more features, more capability, more durability, more functionality. the latest technical innovation now is to add new high strength, military-grade aluminum. of course, these are the same aluminum alloys we use in commercial airplanes that we know well, and pound for pound,
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aluminum is tougher than steel. to offer this capability and over a 700-pound weight reduction allows us to bring that capability for towing, hauling, and improve the fuel mileage. people are so excited about the new f-150 truck. >> while the car industry has been coming back and ford in particular showing amazing profits, it's been a rough five years for detroit, again, going into bankruptcy. i wonder how you feel the two are tied, obviously, the history of the auto industry with detroit and the fact you're bringing money into the city with this car show, but for example, i know ford is planning to hire 5,000 workers in the u.s. will some of those jobs go to detroit? what do you think about the future of the city? >> well, absolutely on the employment. one of the neatest things about the automobile industry in the united states, it is the fundamental driver, the foundation of economic expansion, and in ford's case,
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we committed to this new family of full class, full family of best in class vehicles, just like our new f-150 you see here, and based on the strength of these products, we're increasing production and we are hiring, as you just mentioned. that's the best thing we can do for every community in which we operate throughout the united states, including ford. i might also, you know, shout out for all, everybody associated with ford, because the unions, the uaw, our employees, our dealers, our suppliers, everybody pulled together during the toughest of times and improved every element of our competitiveness. that's why we're in the position today where we are now profitably growing the corporation for the good of everybody. >> and i don't want to let you go without allowing you to answer a controversy that happened last week when one of your vice presidents was kwoquo as saying, we know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it, we have gps in your car, we know what you're
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doing. it raises questions about the gpss, the information, and if people can opt out of it. what would you like to say about that? >> well, clearly, that was absolutely false. we do not track our customers in our cars. their privacy is our number one concern, and that comment was in a different kind of a forum where they were talking about all the issues facing us going forward, but that was absolutely incorrect and ford does not, absolutely not, do that. we are absolutely committed to protecting the privacy of our consumers. >> alan mulally, president and ceo of the ford moto company. busy week for you, thanks so much for coming on the program. and if you read only one thing this morning, you know the term team angst. a new book argues it isn't the teenagers suffering through adolescence. it's their parents. fascinating excerpts and it's my must read and it's up on our facebook page. let us know what you think. ♪
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if you thought the battle over new gun laws was over, think again. outside groups are planning to spend millions to push gun control to the front burner in the midterm elections this year. start with nra, they plan to spend much of its $200 to $250 million budget on educating members about candidates. and "usa today" reports michael bloomberg will use his personal wealth to try to strengthen gun laws, and that may be just the start. matt bennett, senior vice president and cofounder of the third way. robert treynham, former bush/cheney adviser. good to see you. the newtown tragedy made this such a big issue last year. do you think this pressure is off or could all these millions make a difference in the midterm elections? >> yes, it's still on people's minds, still on people's agendas. i think that's the main reason
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why you have former congresswoman gabby giffords and others educating about gun safety, but it's not just about gun safety, which is extremely important. it's also about mental parity, mental health. it's a whole conversation we have to have. every time there is one of these tragedies, whether it is virginia tech, columbine, newtown, we always promise never again. we always say we need to have a more wholistic, national conversation, and it never happens. >> we seem to have a bit of a conversation, matt, after newtown, but not much came of it. this is something you're intimately involved with. background checks failed, for example, that seemed like the most likely given the public opinion polls, so let's talk about the difference between what you might want and what will really happen. do you think that this is going to be a real conversation coming up in the midterms? >> well, it might be, but, of course, nothing seems to be happening in washington, so you can't really base the failure to pass the background check bill on anything other than washington gridlock.
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there are things happening in the states, colorado, connecticut, a few other states, new york, passed much tougher gun laws in the wake of the tragedy at newtown, but there's no doubt, as you mentioned in the outset, chris, there's going to be a lot of money spent, a lot of discussion, as they put it, meaning television ads aimed at the gun issue on both sides. and it's going to be a really serious issue in the states for the foreseeable future. >> let me talk about one in particular, colorado, which unfortunately has seen far too much violence, particularly mass violence with guns. and do you think they are going to try to overturn or change gun restrictions that were enacted last year? i mean, it did lead to the recall of two democratic senators, robert, and i'm wondering is colorado a place other people are looking at as kind of a bell weather? >> absolutely, colorado is an interesting state because it's fairly progressive in many ways, but let's remember it's also a western state. i think one of the things we
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have to put in context, although gun safety is extremely important, we also have to go back to the national conversation about gun culture and about how in certain states, the culture of guns is just that. it very much is embedded in the local communities there. so i think colorado's going to be an interesting state to watch to see if, in fact, they are going to roll back gun laws, if you will, or enforce what they currently have or move forward with tighter gun control laws. >> your side lost one of the leading voices in congress, carolyn mccarthy announcing she's going to retire. >> yeah, that's a huge loss. congressman mccarthy has been the leader on these issues for many years. she, herself, is a victim of a horrible gun tragedy, but let me go to the point about gun culture in colorado. it is true the nra is able to defeat two folks involved in colorado's legislation. i don't think you'll see a rollback of the colorado gun laws because of the high-profile nature of the gun tragedies
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they've had there over and over, and because for the most part, the laws they passed were very reasonable and in line with the vast majority of the public, including gun owners. >> robert traynham, matt bennett, thank you, guys. >> have a good day. checking the news feed this morning, world leaders, including a u.s. delegation led by vice president joe biden paid tribute today to ariel sharon. sharon died saturday at the age of 85 after spending eight years in a coma after a stroke. the military man and politician known as the bull dozer was also controversial for his role in the war in lebanon and land disputes with palestinians. former nba star dennis rodman on his way back to the u.s. after his latest high profile visit to north korea. on his way through the beijing airport, he apologized for not being able to help free kenneth bae, the american being held in north korea. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry i couldn't do anything. i'm sorry. if you could put it on my face, put it, blame me, it's not my
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fault, i'm sorry. i'm trying to do some good stuff. >> during a rant when he later said he was drunk, rodman suggested bae was to blame for his imprisonment and has been criticized for not using his influence with kim jong-un to help free bae. today attorneys for alex rodriguez are filing an appeal in court fighting his 162-game suspensi suspension. a-rod says he plans to attend spring training with the yankees, despite the suspension. his accuser, anthony bosch, did not help rodriguez's cause. he told "60 minutes" he personally injected a-rod with steroids and he was obsessed with hitting 800 home runs. controversy in the world of figure skating just weeks before the sochi olympic games. the u.s. figure skating association named ashley wagner to the team of three, despite finishing fourth at nationals after falling twice in her long program. it bumps third place finisher off the team, but wagner has
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been the most successful in international competition and because of that, the u.s. is bringing three and not two skaters to the olympics. what's getting lost in all this, gracie gold's first national championship, she and pau lee that edmonds round out the team that will head to sochi. target's ceo in its first interview is apologizing to as many as 110 million customers who may be victims. >> as time goes on, we are going to get down to the bottom of this. we are not going to rest until we understand what happened and how that happened. clearly, we're accountable and we're responsible, but we're going to come out at the end of this a better company and we're going to make significant changes. >> cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. what else did he have to say? >> the interview he said his heart sunk on that very first day in december when he got word of the attack. of course, christmas was just ten days away, right, so he
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revealed in the interview he's still shaken and expects more sleepless nights because they are not going to sleep until they get it right and they regain the trust of customers. greg steinhuffle says he's aware of the anger felt by customers because apparently no one screens his e-mails, so he's read every e-mail that's come to him. bottom line, he vowed to do everything possible to make it right. >> as a result of this data theft, target announced customers can sign up for free credit monitoring. >> that is right. target is offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all target customers who shopped in their u.s. stores. they've chosen protect my i.d. all you need to do is do it before april 23rd, of course, this year, then register for the offer through protect my i.d. before april 30th, then you get all these complimentary services. back to you, chris. >> mandy drury, thank you, mandy. >> thank you. the 2014 golden globe awards
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were handed out last night in l.a. and they were some surprises. "12 years a slave" shut out until the big prize. ma "american hustle" won for best picture, best comedy. leonardo dicaprio won for "wolf of wall street." "breaking bad" won best drama, brian kran ston. and his show, brooklyn 99 beat perennial favorite "modern family" for best comedy. so, i checked out all the photos, here's my best dressed list, i'm obviously a fashion icon myself. lupita nyongo. naomi watts from tom ford.
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depend on them. now the brink is defined as living paycheck to paycheck, where say a doctor's bill or broken down car could send someone into a financial crisis. it's highlighted in the shriver report and i'm joined now by nbc news special anchor maria shriver. angela glover with us, as well, ceo and founder of policy link, a national research and action institute that contributed to the report. good morning to both of you. maria, this is something you have cared about and worked on for a long time, but how did we get here? >> well, this is a reality check, i believe, for the entire nation, and it's a reality check for women, for business, and for government. and it's a long story and a complicated story how we got here, but i think it's a simpler story how we get out of here. women have to think about themselves as providers, not being provided for. businesses have to realize the american family has dramatically changed. we need flexible hours, living
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wage, and a whole host of things that are advocated in the report and government needs to step up and people can vote for leaders, republican, democrat, male or female, but advocate for the things the polling in this report advocates for and angela has written about. >> angela, no one is further behind than women of color. in 2011, 4.6% of all american women rr poor, that's the highest rate in 18 years, but african-american and latino women, 26% and 24% respectively. why are they falling through the cracks even more than everyone else? >> they are falling through the cracks because of the historical and continuing impact of racism, and when we're looking at these broad categories of inequality for women, it masks deep suffering in african-american an latino communities. one of the things we know is a majority of black people, including black women, live in communities of poverty. same is true for latino women, so what we have to do is remove
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these racial barriers, get children in the good schools, get women the education that they need, provide some resources and loans so that women can pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. if we don't deal with racism, we can't deal with the impact of gender on women. >> so let's talk about some of the specific things that are going on. two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs in 2011 were held by women. even though they represent only 40% of the overall labor force. president obama, they want to raise the minimum wage. >> they do. and i think what's interesting about those two-thirds of minimum wage workers being women is that 70% of those workers don't even get one sick day. that's not one day to care for a child, people all over this country are making a decision between caring for a child and going or losing work. caring for a parent who might have alzheimer's. >> or taking care of their own health, going in when they are
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sick. >> exactly. these are what we call in the report to be a 21st century employer, there's a lot of businesses that are, you know, setting a good example and that are not choosing between the bottom line and taking care of their employees and retaining their employees. >> so i guess what she's saying, angela, is this can be done, because when you hear the arguments, for example, about the minimum wage, when you hear arguments about things like paid sick leave, it always sounds on many businesses sides as if that's going to be the end of their business. >> the shriver report is such an important contribution in this long overdue discussion about inequality in poverty. we do know the strategies, and not only are they good for the people who are being left behind, they are good for america. we're becoming a nation in which the majority will be people of color by 2043. the majority of women by 2045. if we don't deal with this disproportionate lagging that's going on in communities of color, it's going to hurt the nation, not just these women. it will be good for business,
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good for women, good for america. >> how do women take the lead on this? first of all, at the beginning of the report you write, this is not something i've lived. it's not i've ever been on the verge of poverty, but you talked about your mom and a conversation you had. so proud of what she's accomplished, including the largest organization in the world helping people with disabilities, yet she didn't feel she'd done everything she could to make the world a better place. >> she grew up in a patriarchal family, all the perceived power was in elected office, and what i learned from that, that power is an inside job, and people, individuals, people of all colors, races, economic groups, and men also, have a lot of individual power. and we should not be giving away our vote to people who do not support the policies that we advocate for. we should be choosing partners that are supportive of these
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work places, what's good for women is good for men. i think my mother lived in a time all these things had to happen on capitol hill and we've seen huge waves of support of people who have moved capitol hill. capitol hill responds to pressure from people. it responds to letters to congressmen and senators. it responds to movements online. it responds to films. we saw that with harassment in the military, so there is a will and there is a power in people to create change on capitol hill, and they can do that in this instance. >> i want people to know you have an awesome website, there's a lot more online if people want to google. >> they can download this for free on amazon. >> look at the report, at articles people have written. we're going to do two more segments this week about some of the findings. thank you so much, maria, for coming in. angela, thank you, as well. i also want to let people know at 8:00 eastern here on msnbc maria and chris hayes will have an hour-long special "50-year war," the changing face
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to politics now, where politicians trekked out to arkansas for the 71st annual gillette supper. it wasn't just senator mark pryor and his challenger munching on raccoon. organizers trucked in hundreds of pounds and lots of politicos tried it for the first time. >> someone's going to kill it and eat it. >> it's not just eating coon, it was barbecued. >> how was the brisket? how was the raccoon? it was on the plate. >> we're here for the dinner,
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what else? it's delicious, i came 1,000 miles. actually, we're here to support our friend mark pryor. >> looking forward to our first taste of raccoon. heard about it, must be an arkansas delicacy. >> can't just go down to walmart and pick up some coon. >> now you'll be able to see michelle obama's stunning red dress from the second inaugural in person. it goes on display at the smithsonian tomorrow. it is traditional for all first lady's dresses from the first inaugurations to be part of an exhibit, but this is the first time a second inaugural gown has been put on display, so take that fact to your dinner party tonight. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and co." richard luiy will be up next. see you tomorrow. ♪
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subpoenas is expected to land on the desk of key members of christie's inner circle. that could happen any time today. the assemblyman leading the investigation plans to demand documents from christie's fired department chief of staff, bridget anne kelly and spokesman michael druniak. the question topping everyone's minds, what did the governor know? when did he know it? was he telling the truth when he told reporters last week he had no involvement in a plan to close lanes on the george washington bridge to exact political revenge? >> i think we've got a really smart person in chris christie who's a former u.s. attorney, who understands what's out there, and thousands and thousands of documents have been revealed and not one single link to chris christie has been found. >> i think that he can now move on, as long as another shoe doesn't drop. >> first of all, we don't know all the facts.
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i think this is a story that's still developing and we should reserve judgment. >> there's this, suggestions once again from the man leading the investigation that christie could be impeached over the matter. >> if it becomes known that the governor was involved and he knew about it and he knew about the coverup and he was approving the actions taken by his senior staff, that raises serious questions that the assembly ought to look at. the assembly has the ability to do articles of impeachment. we're way ahead of that, though. >> plus, a new twist in political headache for the governor this morning. according to new jersey congressman frank pallone, the inspector general of the housing and urban development department will audit the new jersey tourism campaign. it was paid for with funds for superstorm sandy relief. all said, will christie be stronger than this storm? joining u

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