politics today with revrand al sharpton starts right now. good evening. >> good evening and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight from cincinnati, ohio and a little later we'll be talking about protecting our voting rights. but we begin with tonight's lead. republicans need a health care reality check-up. with just 11 days left to enroll, president obama and his team are racing to get more people covered. today he visited with ellen. >> while i have you, i think it's only fair we should talk about obamacare. and that rhymed. >> well, you know, we've got about two weeks left until march 31st for people to sign up. if you don't have health insurance right now, you should go on healthcare.gov and especially all the moms out there who may have young people, 26, 27, don't have health

insurance but they think they're invincible and nothing is ever going to happen to them. >> the president making his case directly to mothers in america. he also said the law is bigger than the politics. >> people will be pleasantly surpris surprised. i've got a lot of folks that write me letters saying i didn't vote for you and i'm pretty skeptical about obamacare and i heard about the problems on the website but when i actually signed up it turns out i'm saving $1 or $200 or i'm getting health insurance for the first time. >> the affordable care act is already making a difference in people's lives and when republicans get out of washington, they can't avoid that fact. they see it for themselves. remember scott brown, the senator republicans hoped would help them kill obamacare when he was elected in 2010? well, he failed then. but he's talking about running

for office again. and he's still attacking the law. in a meeting with a republican state senator brown called obamacare a, quote, monstrosity. but the state senator in that meeting said the law was saving him money. he called it a financial lifesaver. his wife even said, quote, thank god for obamacare. and that's from a republican family. not exactly the monstrosity scott brown thought it was. but year after year after year after year we hear the same old talking points from the gop. >> i think it's important for us to lay the ground work before we begin to repeal this monstrosity and replace it with common sense reforms. >> this bill ought to be repealed and replaced. >> that's why we have voted over 30 times to repeal it, defund

it, replace it. >> we want to repeal obamacare and replace it with patient center health care. >> that's why we need to repeal this law and replace it. >> speaker boehner and the gang needs to face facts. 5 million people signed up for the exchanges. those 5 million people don't want this law repealed or replaced. with the deadline approaching, republicans are going to have to start facing the facts. joining me now congressman, democrat of pennsylvania and msnbc's crystal ball. thank you both for being here. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> good to be with you. >> congressman, 5 million covered and still counting. don't republicans need to find some new talking points. >> well, the truth is, you know, if you look at the count, they had the majority in the house and the senate and president

bush for six years they did zero on health care except veto the children's health care bill. president obama signed children's health care and then passed the affordable care act. millions are being covered. not just the 5 million in the exchange. millions of more on medicaid and millions of children under the children's health care program. health care is going to be a big part of the legacy of this president. it's taken us almost 100 years to be in a position where anyone in our country no matter what their circumstances can have health care coverage and president obama has done it and we still need to run through the tape. we have 11 million days. we're at 5 million in the private exchanges. we can get even bigger numbers, over 700,000 people visited the website over the weekend. we got more work to do. people need to go to healthcare.gov, rev, and claim the victory. >> you know, crystal, when the congressman talks about some on the right and some of the p

pundants criticized the outreach. one said president lincoln wouldn't have talked to the star of hang over. president obama responded to that. >> first of all, if you read back on lincoln, he loved telling the occasional bawdy joke and being out among regular folks. one of the hardest thing about being president is being in this bubble that's artificial and unless you make a conscious effort, you start sounding like some washington stiff. >> and, you know, this outreach outside the bubble is working. last night healthcare.gov tweeted 895,000 visits to healthcare.gov and 200,000 calls to call centers yesterday.

biggest call rush since december. 12 days to get covered now. are they criticizing this kind of outreach because it works? >> they're criticizing the outreach because they criticize everything that this president does and you're absolutely right. he's reaching the folks who need to be reached. the folks that are harder to find right now. young voters, young citizens are more difficult to reach via traditional television. they're more difficult to reach by a phone, via mail. you have to go where they are and this idea of what abraham lincoln may or may not have done is absolutely absurd. in fact, i think the fact that the president can laugh and make a joke and not take himself too seriously is what a lot of folks really appreciate about him. that he's not so big that he can't do an awkward segment and poke fun at himself and make an important point in the process. let's remember, he's not going

on these television shows, he's not doing all of this outreach just for some political point. he's doing it because it's really important that these young folks get insurance coverage because it's good for them. not because he wants to score political points against republicans. this is a good and important message and i'm really glad to see him out there talking to folks and meeting them where they are. >> you know, congressman, when you listen to that, i think about paul ryan. he was asked about the health care law at a recent town hall earlier this week and he had a funny excuse for all of those anti-obamacare votes. listen to this. >> one thing i want to say, we didn't have 51 votes to repeal it altogether 51 times. i think that's sort of like this urban legend that we said let's repeal it and it's like we repeal the whole law. there were many pieces of this

law that we went after separately. >> so congressman, is it just urban legend or is it just me that feels that the republicans have done everything they could to gut obamacare? >> they not only have tried everything in the book, they tried to step outside of that. it's almost as if they are standing in the doorway, you know? saying never ever, right? the problem is the public is not listening. people are signing up in the millions. 5 million already. we're pretty clear up through 6 million and we want to make that mad dash to the end because this is about making sure that everyone gets covered and the republicans made a decision early on rather than to contribute and build a bipartisan law they were going to standout side and try to stop it. they couldn't stop the strategy. he got the bill passed and then they tried to stop

implementation and they couldn't do that. now they're on the sideline complaining and 5 million people rushed right by them to sign up. >> yeah. >> talk about that rush to the end, the white house talked with a number of athletes to tweet about the health care law today dewayne wade and kevin durant were just some of those involved. they have a combined 15 million twitter followers. how effective is that at getting the word out? >> they have been very smart on this piece and we were all disappointed with the initial roll out of the website but this part of knowing who they needed to talk to, knowing how to reach them, that is the part that the obama administration is really excellent on and they're able to draw on the tools they needed to use in the campaign and who they need to target, where they are, what sorts of media do they consume. this they do well. to your earlier point, the

republicans are going to have a hard time because the landscape has shifted. they can no longer say get rid of it. it's awful, it's an abomination because the reality has changed. people now see that they, their friends, their neighbors, their children can benefit from this law. so it's not going to be good enough anymore to say repeal. they have to have an alternative at the least that is better and so far they have nothing to offer. >> well, the reality has changed 5 million people and still counting. >> that's right. >> and we are still seeing people tweeting and generating enthusiasm. it looks like this is really, really going to help millions of americans. congressman, crystal, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you for your leadership, rev. >> thank you. >> and be sure to watch crystal on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. coming up, at this moment, a

desperate search is on in the southern indian ocean. is this debris from the missing malays malaysian plane or not? and if it did go down the ocean, the question is still, why? why was it so far off course? and what is the fbi finding on the pilot's home simulator? plus, paul ryan confronted over his inner cities remark. the heated exchange you have to see. and why is senator rand paul talking about president obama and race in a speech about the nsa? stay with us. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ]

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and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work. so there's a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. >> ryan later said those comments were inarticulate but he never actually apologized for it and now at town halls back home, voters in his own district are calling him out for it. check out what this man said to ryan in a powerful confrontation caught on tape. >> you said that statement was inarticulate. well, i don't believe that. you said what you meant, fine. the bottom line is this, that statement was not true. i'm going to point it out to you why it wasn't true. -- >> so number one, there is nothing whatsoever about race in my comments at all. it had nothing to do with race. race has nothing to do with

this. this is about getting people to work. >> tonight is clear, a lot of people aren't buying what congressman ryan is selling, including some of his own constituents. joining me now is congresswoman and democrat from wisconsin. thanks for being here congresswoman. >> thank you for having me r revrand. >> you signed a letter, it says your comments were highly offensive and you invite him to one of your caucus meetings based on what he said in that town hall. do you have more questions for congressman ryan? >> well, just let me say this, he says that it was very inarticulate. it is very, very difficult for him to say that there weren't racial overtones when particularly as we have pointed out to him he referenced charles

murray and we all know charles murray is basically -- has blatantly said that black people are inferior. his reference to the inner city males is definitely a proxy for black men, but having said that, the congressional black caucus wants to treat this as an opportunity to look at the culture that has prevented black men from working. i mean, you talked about it earlier in your earlier segment, the lack of affordable health care. the lack of transportation has haunted many black men in terms of finding jobs. the lack of adequate educational opportunity where you're not just compiling these worthle worthless certificates but you're getting the education and job training that will provide you with job opportunity and of course we cannot ignore the culture of bigotry, discrimination and racism that

has prevented african americans from getting jobs. and certainly can't discount the -- everything from an uneven criminal justice system that targets black men and other sort of culture problems that lie outside of the character of black men. and i -- we are inviting congressman ryan to challenge his own assumptions about the character of black men. let's have a job's program like the 10-20-30 jobs program that was articulated an designed that would provide real opportunities to poor men and women living in urban and rural areas. democrats and republicans all over the country. >> yeah. let me go back to this town hall because here's more of the exchange related to the gop's

makers versus takers rhetoric. listen to this. >> everybody work. you got here in a car or a truck or something. somebody from the inner city helped make that. >> sometimes when you're in radio you try to take a bunch of ideas and collapse it into a bunch of sentences and you oversimplify and it can be misinterpreted. that's what happened here. >> it's oversimplified yet he had time to mention charles murray and others. your response to that statement? >> well, i can tell you that representative ryan has been sitting at the tables of the very powerful and wealthy for many, many years. he's still a very young man. so we as members of the congressional black caucus, again, we're going to see this as an opportunity to take someone who is a very powerful member of congress, the chairman of the budget committee, may soon be the ranking member or chairman of the ways and means committee and get him to

challenge his assumptions and to look at the problems of inner city men as something other than poor character. but, you know, so that when he puts a budget together and does not want to provide a job's program for example, his colleagues will not vote for a jobs program that the president has continued to offer. we want to take him up on this challenge and say will black men work if they're given the opportunity. >> well, we'll be watching congresswoman. congresswoman gwen moore, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you too. >> still ahead, the new daylight search for that possible debris from malaysia flight 370. what could it tell us about what happened inside the cockpit? but first, senator rand paul

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why is senator rand paul saying this about our first black president? here's the kentucky republican in a new york times interview. quote, the first african american president ought to be a little more conscious of the fact of what has happened with the abuses of domestic spying. martin luther king was spied upon. civil rights leaders were spied upon. muhammad ali was spied upon. anti-war protestors were spied upon. is rand paul really bringing race into a conversation about the nsa? and he doubled down in a speech at uc berkeley last night. >> i find it ironic that the

first african american president has without compunction allowed this vast exercise of raw power by the nsa. certainly j. edgar hoover's spying on martin luther king and others in the civil rights movement should give us all pause. >> you find it ironic senator paul? let's clear up a few things. first, president obama knows full well the history of u.s. spying on civil rights leaders. he mentioned dr. king specifically when he announced reforms to the nsa earlier this year. >> during the course of our review i often reminded myself that i wouldn't be where i am today were it not for dr. king who were spied upon by their own government. >> secondly, who is rand paul to make this point? a cynical use of race from some on the right. when the president talked about

being sensitive to issue of race, like he said after the trayvon martin verdict, the right attacks him for it. but it's interchangeable. they attack him for not talking about issues of race too and when rand paul talks about being conscious of race when it comes to spying, what about rice? she works for president bush known for surveillance of u.s. citizens and where does he get off talking about race in civil rights at all. this is a man that once said he would have modified the civil rights act if he had been a senator at the time. >> you said it should have been allowed to stay segregated. >> yes or no. >> what i think would happen -- what i'm saying is i don't believe in any discrimination. there's ten different titles to the civil rights act and nine out of ten deal with public

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just a short time ago the search resumed for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. military search planes from the u.s., australia, and new zealand joined a merchant ship in the indian ocean. it comes after satellite imagery showed two possible objects that could be debris from the missing jet. the large erpiece r piece is 79

across. the other is smaller, about 16 feet across. is it another false lead? like cargo from a passing ship. if it is the missing 777, it would be right near the search zone that investigators identified as one area where the plane could have landed. that's almost 1500 miles from perth australia. it would also be about as far south as the plane could have travelled before running out of fuel. one thing is for sure, this is one of the most isolated places in the world. the ocean is as deep as three miles in places. waves can get as high as 32 feet and add to one more problem, the planes black box. >> time is slipping away. they've got only 17 days until the batteries on those underwater locating pingers run out.

>> joining me now are greg fyffe a former ntsb investigator and jay rollins a retired american airlines captain and former u.s. naval aviator. greg, let me start with you. what do authorities consider this credible lead. >> it's hard to tell rev rand only because the prime minister said this is a credible lead but we're not really sure what makes it credible. based on the satellite photo, it doesn't have the resolution that we would have expected to be able to make any kind of determination whether this debris came from an airplane or as you said before, is just some cargo that has fallen off of a ship somewhere at some point in time. >> jay, same question to you. >> well, unfortunately, i'm worried that this is going to

turn out a lot like the satellite photos that we got from china. i'm hoping that isn't the case. i know these families are in desperate straights to get answers and hopefully this is the real thing. i will say this much revrand al. yesterday i said the mechanical possibilities for remote, if this turns out to be the aircraft, then i will have another possibility as to what could have happened. >> all right. now, jay let me ask you this, one of the investigators who lead the search for the missing flight was a little worried by the size of this debris. it's nearly 80 feet long. could a piece that big have survived a crash? >> well a piece that big certainly could have sir voourv crash. many times there's large parts of a wing that will survive but what's worrisome is the wing

certainly would be toward the surface because it would be full of air. if the aircraft had run out of fuel, then the fuel tanks that are located in the wings, if they were still intact, would then continue to allow the wings to float toward the surface. but it's a big question mark whether they would be above the surface. so generally speaking, only smaller parts, seat cushions and things like that can be expected to float. such a large object, i would be surprised. but let's see. >> greg, what kind of clues can a piece of debris give investigators? >> if this turns out to be debris from the aircraft, it depends on what these pieces are and where they came from. if it's a wing, we may be able to tell whether this was a high speed impact, high energy impact or a low energy impact such as if somebody was trying to land the airplane at a slower speed.

we just won't know until we actually see these parts because they'll have different signatures. we know this airplane was at at least 35,000 feet or probably the majority if not all of the flight and if it did run out of fuel, it's coming down. now, who was guiding it? was it a human or was it the auto pilot trying to maintain altitude after it lost thrust and the airplane had just settled into a descending speed and descended into the water? we won't know until we look at the wreckage. >> you know, jay, as a former naval aviator, talk about how difficult this mission is for the pilots conducting the search. >> it's a vast amount of water. the pilots have to start from australia and it's approximately 1500 miles out there. so you're looking at a flight of three or four hours just to get on site. then the aircraft has to do itsz

grid search and then climb back out and fly back for another three or four hours. so it doesn't leave a lot of time to actually search the area once the aircraft arrive. on the other hand, i know ships are in route and they'll be able to do a more thorough but slower search. >> greg, the ocean is as deep as l three miles in some places. will they even be able to hear the signal from the black box even if they're on top of it? >> that's a good question. it depends on what assets they're using to listen for the pingers. if they have a surface based ship dragging a side scan sonar, they could, in fact, if they get close enough to the main wreckage and one of the two cockpit data recorder boxes, they could hear the audible ping from either one of those boxes or both but that assumes the boxes are in a position of being

upright so the signal isn't buried upside down in the mud or covered up by wreckage. but if that's the case, then yes you would have to be on top of the wreckage or on top of the box to hear it. >> let's talk about the black box. what can they learn from the black box? i mean, what could they -- what kind of information could they get? >> the fact is is that with the cockpit voice recorder it's a two hour recording device and unfortunately, if the recorder was allowed to continue to roll, then of course the first two, three, four hours of events are gone because the system would have overridden those previous events and we would only capture the last two hours of flight. if it was a solo pilot, we may not hear anything on the cockpit voice recorder except noise in the cockpit. possibly some audible warnings and that kind of thing. that may or may not shed light on what was happening in the cockpit in the latter stages of the flight. the key here probably is going

to be the flight data recorder. it's a 25 hour event recorder. it records the artifacts of the -- basically the entire flight. we'll know what direction, what control inputs were made. what pattern was flown and while it doesn't sound like much, we may be able to build a story line as to maybe what the intent of the pilot or pilots who were operating the airplane, what the intent was during the course of the flight. >> well, we're going to keep, really, on top of this story. greg, fieth thank you for your time tonight and jay rollins, please stay with us. >> i will. coming up, if the debris in the indian ocean is from the missing plane, the question is still why. why did it end up there? and later, we will be talking on a much lighter note. president obama on the record with ellen on her oscar selfie.

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the frantic and desperate search is on in the southern indian ocean. is this debris debris from the missing malaysia plane? and if the plane did go down in the ocean, the question is still why? why was it so far off course? the last known contact with the

plane was somewhere between malaysia and vietnam and the potential debris was found 1500 miles southwest of perth. why did it drop off of radar? why was there silence from the pilots? let's bring in our panel. tom casey is a flight instructor and former commercial pilot. jim cavanaugh is an nbc law enforcement analyst and back with us is jay rollins, retired american airlines captain. thanks to all of you for being here. >> thank you. >> now, to breaking news today could narrow this investigation. we, again, don't know if these imagines are debris from the missing jet. but if it is confirmed, the question remains, were the pilots involved? let's go around starting with tom. in light of the news, what's your take on the pilot? >> well, we never heard a mayday

and the first thing a pilot would do besides handling the situation would be to notify air traffic control that there was a problem. we never heard that. the plane either executed a divert flight plan or the heading select was moved to a course that would take it to the west of its way point position or it's course to china. beyond that, the debris or the focus now which seems to be very narrow and very intense is based on a satellite imagine of debris that is probably in line -- it is in line with the fuel -- the limit of the plane to fuel exhaustion, to the point of fuel exhaustion. but this is like flying from new york to denver to look for skiers in the rocky mountains. it's an incredibly difficult and challenging investigation and time is the enemy of an investigation of this sort. >> jim, what do you think?

>> well, on the spotting of the debris in the australian waters there, i think it's, you know, could be a break in the case but like in these cases, it's heartbreaking too because if it is then you have lost all of these souls. i think the u.s. intelligence community has probably communicated with the australian intelligence community to let them feel this is something significant or they wouldn't let the prime minister go out and i doubt that the photographs we have seen is the same resolution they have seen. they've probably got a good indication. and there's a lot of floats down there as well so it's not a sure thing. but they have to check it out. like tom said. it's far away. ships are slow. weather is bad down there. it's sil going to be tough. >> jay, where are you on this if, in fact, it is the debris? >> well, there is a theory out there that puts forth a benign

mechanical explanation for this. the aircraft on take off might have had damage to the nose tire or the nose wheel assembly such that a fire was started just as it took off and as the gear was retracted into the wheel well. if that were the case, that area would begin to overheat and not far away and up above is the avianics hole. so the smoke from the tire could have gone into that area and heated it up and caused this cascading failure of transponders, radios, and then came up into the aircraft itself including the cockpit. they wouldn't have discovered that necessarily until they were into the flight. and at that point, the pilots would have had to quickly get on their oxygen masks, attempt to

get on goggles, deal with this fire and put in -- attempt to make a turn. the cockpit could quickly become engulfed in black smoke and everything could get haywire at that point. at some point, the aircraft would have had to have been turned to the south and then the auto pilot took over as everyone on board perished and it became a ghost flight. >> okay. well, let me ask another question. is everyone -- this is a question everyone is still talking about. if the plane went down in this area, is foul play still likely? the question to jim, in light of the news, do you think it was terrorism? >> well, we would run this case, you're thinking the right way. but we would run this case on two parallel tracks. this is the way the investigators would look at it. i'm sure the fbi. they have done it many times in

ntsb. you run parallel tracks. so you're looking at these things, the suggestion of a tire fire. but look, i have investigated fires and arsons. rubber fires are thick, black, choking smoke and there's no way that a rubber fire if it's noticed in the cockpit is not going to -- immediately you're going to think it's an emergency. so i would be thinking about tom's comment there as well which means a lot to me if i was an investigator on that then why wouldn't you use the radio and call a mayday. you have a little going both ways. that's why you keep your accidental track going and your terrorist track going. there's things going either way. people jumble the facts and what i work from is the foundation of facts because people say the last radio call from the cockpit was at 1:19, contact with the cockpit is 1:19. that's not correct. the last radio contact was at 1:30 with japanese air. they say the transponder was

turned off at 1:21. that's not correct. the signal was lost at 1:21. you go to the foundation of facts. you composite your theories just like tom and j.r. and that's smart. that's what weoff. you can posit your theories, but you always return to the foundation to see where you are. >> jay, do you think that terrorism is still possible here? >> absolutely. especially if this turns out to not be the aircraft. if it is, then it becomes more difficult to explain why terrorists would want to go six hours due south. >> tom, your take. 30 seconds. >> i think the theory of a fire is strenuous. the aircraft flew on and on. and remember swiss air? they had a fire, crashed.

did get a mayday signal out. they stayed in the air too long. they should have brought it down right away. i do think there was an interventi intervention. human hands brought it down. we don't know. just that the plane is missing. >> tom, jay, thank you for your time. we'll be right back. mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers.

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there's a problem with voting here in ohio. and his name is john -- the republican secretary of state is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. just got rid of souls to the polls early voting. and on weekday evenings. republicans in ohio have lost a war on voting, but democrats are fighting back. i'm supporting calls for a voter bill of rights. thanks for being here. >> thank you. and thank you for being here at ground zero as it relates to

voting rights. as you indicated, we have a secretary of state that has to go. that's why we're happy to have senator nina turner running. and we want to make the voting rights pe rights permanent in the constitution. >> and he said voting in ohio is easy. what do you think about that? >> it was easy. there was voting on sunday, provisional ballots. but then african-american voters came out in record numbers and voted for barack obama. and they want to make it harder,

have it harder for you to have certain types of i.d.s to vote. that's why it has to be in the constitution. >> let me get this right. after president obama got this record vote, this is when they started changing the laws? this had nothing to do with any fraud? >> oh, no. nothing to do with fraud. voter intimidation billboards that were strategically placed in african-american neighborhoods. and a lawsuit that allowed a juvenile judge to be seated. they want to make it more difficult because too many people came out to vote and barack obama became president.

>> so, that's what kicks off tonight. >> absolutely. putting voting rights as fundamental rights in the state of ohio. this is all across the country. and they're all lined up at word of deliverance. and each and every person will have their voting rights, and it will be permanent in the constitution. >> thank you. and voting rights will be a big part of this year's convention for my group, the national action network. that's april 9th through the 12th in new york city.

go to our website at national action network.net. voting shour a right for all citizens, all parties, and all races. we're going to make sure as americans to protect that right. thanks for watching. "hardball" starts right now. vigil. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in san francisco. i'll start with the hunt for flight 370. 7 billion people on this planet, and the global focus is on a plane last seen carrying 239 of us. a vigil to