"the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. and welcome to "the ed show." live from detroit lakes, minnesota. let's get to work. >> it's not good enough to be the party that shows up once every four years five months before an election. the truth is this work is never done. this issue of inequality. >> for many years, a central theme on this ed show. >> when the federal government tries to equalize outcomes, we're going to end up equally worse off. when the federal government tries to equalize outcomes, we're all going to end up equally worse off. >> the clock is ticking. people have bills to pay.

>> as a party, we believe it is wrong for anyone to be overlooked or taken for granted in our political process. >> a lot of house republicans are opposed to the unemployment extension. >> overlooked. or taken for granted. >> i'm not the expert. >> even a simple act can send an important message. >> republicans have thrown unemployed americans under the bus. >> we must all be very conscious of on ttone. we're all going to end up equally worse off. >> hold on. >> that's the new normal at the republican national committee. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for listening. interesting the republicans are all of a sudden talking about tone. tell me, what kind of tone do you want an unemployed american to have when their job has been

shipped overseas? tell us, right? what kind of tone do you want people to have when the bills come in and you don't have any resources to pay them? we start this show tonight with a brand-new number. the numbers are mounting. 1.6 million as of today, the number of americans who have lost their unemployment insurance. the number is growing day by day. by the end of the year, this number could be 4.9 million people. what kind of tone do you want them to have, republicans? make no mistake. extending unemployment insurance is the first step to fix income inequality in this country because it will effect the economy right away. now, on the flip side, republicans really have done

absolutely nothing to help the unemployed other than to coach them on what their tone should be. they've been very clear on this position time and time again. rand paul thinks unemployment makes people lazy to the point they don't look for work anymore. they're dead wrong and they don't have the facts. the rnc chairman spoke about income inequality. he thinks government assistance like unemployment insurance hurts people. >> the president is now preparing speeches on income inequality. i believe he should give those speeches while standing in front of the mirror. under his watch, everything has gotten worse. he should talk to himself because poverty is worse.

food stamp dependency is worse. we're all going to end up equally worse off. >> over 60 million jobs created under the administration of barack obama and 47 months of private sector job growth, with no republican help. the democrats are on the complete opposite page of where you're going to find the republicans. they're doing everything in their power to get an extension. the mistake they made the other day was they were trusting republicans. they launched a tweet storm on twitter shortly after 1:00 this afternoon to raise awareness about the unemployment

extension. they want to pressure republicans to work with them on extending unemployment insurance. >> while house republicans have ignored their plight by recessing, we think it is important house democrats come together to work on this issue. the american people are siding with the democrats on this issue. even a new fox news poll show 69% of americans think unemployment insurance should last a year or longer. the american people want an extension for unemployed americans. the president wants an unemployed americans. the democrats want an extension for unemployed americans. the republicans are the only ones stopping an extension in

the hall of congress. nobody is going to get taxed anymore. no one is going to have money taken way from them. the wealthiest americans will live the same as they did yesterday, tomorrow. do you want the republicans want a recovery before the midterms? do you think they want another nine months of private sector job growth going into the midterm? they don't want any of that. they're trying to butcher this economy. they're trying to torpedo it. they're trying to bring as much anguish as they can on americans so they can blame the democrats and president obama. he's the failure, right? i find it hilarious that the

republicans are now coaching the unemployed in this country on what their tone should be. their tone should be one of tremendous anger, i think, because there have been nothing but concrete walls put in front of the democrats and the president trying to move in economy forward. the republicans have been a no-show. the republicans are scheduling more vacations for 2014. it is terribly unfortunate. coming up on tuesday night, the president of the united states will have arguably his biggest platform of the year in the state of union address. he says it is income inequality. this will focus the country on something we've talked about on this program for years. it is a growing gap that must be addressed. it all started with trade agreements and goes to taxation.

corporations will be no less profitable if the rest of them do their fair share. tonight's question -- do republicans have anything but spin on income inequality? text a for yes. text b for no. you can always go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. let's bring in senator bernie sanders. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> you've been on this topic on this program numerous times and finally the president of the united states is going to make this a central theme in the state of the union. what kind of an impact can this have? >> i think it's going to be huge. today, the top 1% owns 38% of

the financial wealth of america. the bottom 60% own all of 2.3% of the wealth. one family, the walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40%. in recent years, 95% of all new income has gone to the top 1%. clearly the president has got to lay out a series of proposals that says, we've got to pay attention to the working families of this country. we have to address the crisis of unemployment, which means extending unemployment benefits, which means raising the minimum wage and creating a jobs program. and it means paying attention, so the government represents all of us and not just the big campaign contributors. >> what's the mission of the republicans, senator, at this

point? they won't do anything on jobs or unemployment extension. what are they for? they talk about what they're against. >> this is what they're for. they do, ed. if you look at what the extreme right wingers are about. social security, medicare, medicaid, a minimum wage, the concept of the minimum wage disappears. if you can hire somebody for three bucks an hour from the perspective of most republicans, that's just fine. they want to move us, ed. we should be very clear about this. they want to move us into where all of the rights we have fought for for the last 80 years to protect the sick, the working families, the elderly, the children, the poor, all of those

are pushed aside and you are out there on your own. if you're unemployed right now for seven months and you have nothing at all, they're not going to extend your unemployment benefits. if you are trying to feed your family on food stamps, they're going to cut your food stamps. if most of your income comes in by social security, they want to cut social security, eventually privatize it. they want to transform medicare into a voucher program. these are radical people who want to undo what people have fought for for 80 years in the country. >> the president will have to lay it out what he's up against, what the american people are up against. moving it forward, i think the president is going to have to get extremely detailed on some of the numbers you have put out

there to make the case. this may be a year where there's absolutely nothing gained legislatively. the only thing the president can do is to go out and win the crowd. go out and win the people to the point where more americans will side with him, that maybe it'll shake the republicans to do something before the midterm. what can be accomplished in a state of the union address in your opinion? >> i think what the president has got to do is make the people understand what this right wing extremist ideology is about. if we're all successful in doing that, the end result is you'll have 15, 20% of the people who believe we should give tax breaks to millionaires or cut social security or not raise the minimum wage. our job is to make it clear what the republicans stand for, the

obstructionist role they're playing, and to rally the american people around an agenda that speaks to the crisis facing working families in our country. we have to raise the minimum wage. we have to extend long-term unemployment. we need a jobs program. we protect social security, medicare, medicaid. we think long and hard about expanding this tpp trade agreement. we have an agenda. let's get it out there. >> senator, when is it time to tell these unemployed americans the 1.6 million people who have lost their unemployment benefits, there's a real possibility there's not going to be any extension. it's now etched in stone this is how many weeks you're going to get. are we close to that point, even though you have 69% of the american people who think the unemployment insurance should last a year or longer?

when do you tell those folks this probably isn't going to happen? >> i think, ed, what our job is now is to rally the american people to give the republicans an offer that they can't refuse. that is if they continue to stand with the wealthy and the big money interest against working families, if we are strong in organizing and educating, the republicans have a choice. either they're going to start doing the right thing or they're going to lose control over the house. >> we can only hope. i appreciate your time. thanks for joining us on the program. remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. we want to know what you think. coming up, john boehner admits he won't give up wine for the white house. plus, mike huckabee exposes his

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we would have described them. >> i would not have talked about that. >> to suggest that women can't control their libidos is extremely threatening. >> joining me tonight lizz winstead. lizz, good to have you with us tonight. about the time you think the republicans have said everything, they come out with something that's just totally outrageous. from uncle sugar to democrats insulting women in the country. what does huckabee's comments say about the parties' view of women? >> it says so much. dick black, who was running for the virginia congress, who was the guy who said that it should

be legal to rape your wipe because she was laying next to you wearing a nighty had to drop out of the race. to them forcing women to have children when they can't afford it because they don't know how to make their own decisions and to brlame it on their libidos, t is unbelievable, ed. >> it is. other republicans have distanced themselves from huckabee's

comment. do they disagree with the message he was trying to send? we don't know because they're distancing themselves. it doesn't mean they don't think it. >> i think that's right. it wasn't like i wholly disregard that. that's an absurd thing to say. the things i kept hearing was -- i wouldn't have said it that way. i understand his point. what was his point? i don't understand his point. the republican party comes from a different philosophical point. when huckabee was governor of arkansas, a piece of legislation he passed was covenant marriage. you enter into a marriage and the government makes itheart har you to divorce. i mean, it's so interesting to

me how they don't want government into helping people get a leg up and achieve the american dream, but when it comes to anything that has to do with our privacy, our health, they're inserting themselves no pun intended all the time. >> all the time. this comment uncle sugar, i have a few phone calls on the radio show today. people thought that was very racist. that's another angle we'll leave alone tonight. >> the uncle sugar thing to me, the most laughable thing at all is the very first piece of legislation that our democrat president passed was the lily led better uncle sugar act? no, i don't think so. >> huckabee isn't backing down from his comments either. he's trying to fund raise off of

them. guess what liberals, if you can't stand to look at yourselves in the mirror, get ready for more of this talk because conservatives are going to continue to fight back against your destructive policies towards women and families. what's he talking about? what destructive policy where they want to insert themselves in your private life? >> that's the thing. we hear about women and our libidos. women who need birth control are not having sex by themselves. you have sex with someone else. one of those people is the person that gets pregnant. it's called science. if the entire population of heterosexual people and people who have sex with people who can get pregnant are getting pregna pregnant, you make sure if they don't want to have kids, you can

make that happen. we would have so many more children on this planet if couples did not use birth control. it's part of our sexual health. we live in a country where sex is okay and people like it. they try to shame us if you enjoy your sex life, you want to have a healthy six life, you want to make some decisions about your sex life, every time a woman turns around there is somebody making her feel like garbage for embracing her sexual self. we're tired of it. >> lizz winstead, always great to have you on the ed show. thanks so much. coming up, two republican golden boys are casting some new dark shadows. the rapid response panel weighs in on that. the state of workers in the state of union.

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welcome back to "the ed s w show." things just keep getting worse for this wonderful class of republicans. they were once considered the gop most likely to succeed. earlier today, bob mcdonnell and his wife appeared in a court and pleaded not guilty to federal

charges they traded political influence for $365,000 in gifts and loans. they were released on their own volition. governor christie has his own set of problems. there are currently two investigates looking into bridgegate with an option for a third. the u.s. attorney's office in new jersey has launched an investigation looking into accusations that the christie administration withheld hurricane sandy relief fund money. another mayor is accusing his administration of closing the city's dmv office in 2010 because he and local democrats opposed christie's legislative efforts. the media once held these men up

as just real evidence of republican momentum. whatever the outcome of these investigations, it's going to be hard to regain the public's trust for either one of these guys. joining me now my rapid response panel. gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight on this friday. there's a lot to unpack here legally all of a sudden. those republicans are keeping it interesting, aren't they? from a serious legal perspective, how much trouble could christie actually be in? >> i think it continues to grow day by day. people are empowered right now. they feel like they're not afraid to talk. when people aren't afraid to talk, people come forward and new stories develop daily. i already think probably there's some people who have engaged in things like obstruction of justice, interfering with a police investigation, those

people you're already hearing they may come forward and talk. when they start talking, i think it is over for this political mobster chris christie. they've already lawyered up. if they haven't, they need to. >> from a media perspective, how has christie handled this? he had the big press conference for a couple of hours. then he had the inaugural speech. how's he playing this? what's his next best move? >> from a media relations standpoint, the conference was good. let them ask questions until they run out of gas and then lie low. he went and visited the mayor, though the mayor tried to wave him off. this is a problem for the gop

and this is a problem for america. i looked up that growth and opportunity project. remember the big research that the republicans did after 2012? >> yeah. >> even they called it the autopsy report. the first sentence in the intersecti introduction, the gop is a tale of two parties. the federal wing is increasingly marginalizing themselves. innocent until proven guilty. these were two shining stars who are now tainted. i'm into the message. people believe what they want to believe. there's going to be depositions. people will be testifying under oath. let the chips fall as they may, but we've already reenforced an

unfortunate stereotype. it's like "american hustle." the governor's lieutenants are mucking up traffic in a billion dollar development. it just doesn't pass the smell test. >> no question about it. christie's aide, bridget kelly, hired a new high-powered attorney. what do you make of that? what did the first guy do wrong? she claims she is telling the truth but all of a sudden she's changing teams. >> you're going to see a lot of that. some attorneys will say they have conflicts with other people. they're going to get political pressure to step aside. the most telling thing about this whole christie story is you have a mayor saying, you know what? i'm willing to take a lie

detector test if you don't believe what this governor did to our city. i'm willing to take a lie detector test. secondly, i'm willing to plead under oath that everything is truth. then she said the most important words. how about you, mr. governor? will you agree to a lie detector test? lawyers right now are trying to figure out -- when somebody comes to them, do they have a conflict down the road? do they have a potential conflict if they want to represent the bigger fish? this is going to scramble up in the court proceedings take place. if you think you're part of the low-hanging fruit and you can stand behind the power of this governor, this governor's power may disappear tomorrow.

you may be stuck holding the bag. if i'm sitting in an office with them, that's what i'd be saying to them. >> who are the allies for these guys? how is this playing out on right wing radio across america? >> before you even get to the general public, you have the governor's wife saying, i didn't know what he was doing. you've got the governor saying, i didn't know what she was doing. there's a little he said, she said going on. the further you get from the epicenter in either case, the more it seems like anywhere else. in texas, it was a traffic problem in new jersey to them. there's not much buzz to them yet in virginia. all i'm hearing about is justin beiber.

the story is going to unfold more. >> christie is the head of the republican governors association. wouldn't have his picture taken down in florida with rick scott. i don't think either one of them could use each other right now. he's tasked with going around and raising money. when does it get to the point where he's beyond the point of diminishing returns? it might be time for republicans to say, christie, you probably shouldn't have this position. we should be able to get someone else to get this job done. >> it's already happening. you have the grifter side. you have rick scott, who had to plead the fifth amendment 78 times on stealing money.

you have david vitter and bob mcdonnell and then add to that chris christie. between the grifters and the lunatics, you have huckabee on the lunatic side with palin and cruise and rubio that have to be worried about far more than women's libidos right now. you have a party that's in such bad shape right now that they don't have definition or a brand. >> how damaging is that to huckabee with women listening to talk radio in america? how is that going to be defended? >> well, there was the killer sound byte right there. i'm having flashbacks to these rape comments we heard a couple of years ago. what we're not hering is con spec

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welcome back to "the ed show." this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work. president obama is preparing for tuesday night when he'll deliver his state of the union address to the nation. he is expected to talk about issues that we have brought up on this show time and time again and highlighted for years. >> does focus on the essential need to expand economic

opportunity throughout our country to reward hard work and responsibility, to move forward with our economic recovery so that our economy grows faster. it creates more and better jobs. and we continue to invest in a way that solidifies an economic foundation for future economic growth. >> it may feel like deja vu since president obama has already used previous state of the union speeches to discuss his plans for creating more jobs in america. the president wants to raise the minimum wage, good thing, to help reverse this growing income gap between the richest and the poorest in our country. he is right to keep pushing this unfinished business. the problem is president obama is on the wrong side of a trade deal which would prevent all of these things from happening. the transpacific partnership will ship jobs overseas. you can count on it. and will have a major negative impact on the middle class in this country. but that's not all. >> we're looking at the

weakening of financial regulations. we are looking at the weakening of our -- of food safety supply, critical issue as it has to do with vietnam and malaysia. we're looking at a weakening of environmental laws. and we are going to potentially cut off access to people in other countries to affordable drugs. this has a very-reaching effect. >> in his state of the union address, the president absolutely needs to address income inequality, raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits, no doubt. all good things to bring up when talking about good-paying jobs here in this country. but he needs to realize none of these things are going to be possible if the transpacific partnership is passed, and it all starts with the stamp of approval of fast-track legislation, fast track trade promotion authority. not good. we've talked about it a lot. but we're at the 11th hour right now. and this is a real chance for the president to explain to the

country the upside of all of this. i don't think he can, because there are no ledgers of positive activity for america when it comes to international trade deals. there is no history to back him up. larry cohen is a communications director who has worked for the president of this country, and he is great to be with us again tonight. the cwa president. larry, you testified last thursday, a week ago yesterday, in front of the senate finance committee. does that committee, from your take watching all of this unfold, do they know what they're doing? do they understand the issue? do they understand the severity of where we are right now? >> the leadership of the committee does not in my opinion. i think there are at least six or seven democrats who actually do realize that in a nation like ours with the highest trade deficits of any nation in history with the job exporting of the last 20 years of nafta,

with as we just heard a new framework that puts investor disputes above the state or it's our nation or a local government that is trying to regulate safety, the multinational company, the foreign corporation can trump our ability to regulate. unfortunately, i don't believe the chairman and the ranking republican -- any of the republicans, unfortunately do, and the irony, ed, is most republicans that are on base believe there shouldn't be fast track, and that these deals stink. and that they're not good for small business. it's not just workers and greens and consumers. small business gets ruined in these deals as well. >> well, that is really something we haven't touched on. small business from a legal standpoint. you're looking at an average of 500 cases a year being brought in grievances on international trade policies. how in the heck are small businesses in this country that work on tight and small margins

going to have the legal prowess to be able to fight on that level if it's such a great deal? >> yeah, they can't. and the lawyers that get hired, that's the part of our economy that expands. thousand dollars an hour lawyers, while as you said, it's great that the president talks about maybe a $10 minimum wage. but the workers in this country that make $20 haven't had a raise in 20 years in real dollar terms, largely because of these trade deals. so whether it's small business or middle income working people, they need a raise too. america needs a raise. and the minimum wage we applaud, but we need to think about how our version of globalization is actually holding us all back. >> you think the president is going to talk about the tpp? if this is such a big deal and he is so adamantly in favor of it, this would be the perfect time for the president in detail spell out to the american people what's the upside. what do you think? >> i think he'll talk about it.

unfortunately, this is the part of his administration that deals with the u.s. chamber of commerce. our own commerce department. and they will fixate on exports. and they will ignore the fact that the multinational corporations, including honeywell, who testified with me on thursday, they don't care where they produce. it's about how they maximize profits. and that's okay. that's what they're there for. but we have to stay focused on the imports and where our only multinationals are going to produce and what it means for an american worker to compete with the vietnamese worker in manufacturing who if they're lucky makes 75 cents an hour and has no rights. that's what this transpacific partnership and fasttrack are all about. >> and the other thing is when you hear environmental standards, we're talking about the oil companies lobbying and engaging. they of course want to do whatever they want to do to pull that oil out of the ground there is no question about it. larry cohen, thanks for your time tonight. big speech coming up on thursday

night. looking forward to it. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. good evening, ed. and thanks to you or tfor tunin. in coming up, we'll have an update on the new developments in the chris christie investigations, including this big question. who will be the most likely one to cooperate with federal investigators. who will be most likely to spill the beans. it's a key question, and we have a very proactive answer and provocative answer. that's curve. but we begin with tonight's lead. the gop's libido problem. today republicans are frantically trying to backpedal these comments mike huckabee made at yesterday's rnc's winter meeting. >> the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them