with us tonight. appreciate your time on "the ed show." thank you. i'm ed shultz. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop's tax day giveaway to millions. today, republicans have a message for many americans filing their taxes -- you should be paying even more! unless, of course, you happen to be a millionaire. conservatives are embracing congressman paul ryan's budget, which shreds the safety net, while lavishing massive tax cuts and tax breaks on the wealthy. if ryan's budget were in evident today, millionaires would get an average tax break of $200,000. corporations would enjoy tax cuts of 10% at a time of record

high profits. and all companies would keep $45 billion of tax breaks. and all this paid for by gutting the safety net. and actually raising taxes on the middle class. under ryan's budget, middle class families with kids would pay $2,000 more in taxes. it's an ideology that ensures billionaires won't pay their fair share. and top republicans love it. listen to them this past weekend. >> we haven't talked about fundamental tax reform. and i'll tell you the most important tax reform, we should abolish the irs. >> just imagine what you would be out there doing if you didn't have to go write that check next week to the irs and pay those hefty taxes. >> we need to paz a tax policy that stops punishing productivity. . >> and tax day is always a reminder of how government has grown too large and too

intrusive. >> republican after republican complaining about hefty taxes. but check out where they were at a summit sponsored by the conservative americans for prosperity. it's a group backed by the koch brothers. they're worth $40 billion, making them the sixth richest feel in the world. that's the audience for the republican message on taxes? and that's the gop base. the 1%. joining me now are dkaren finne, isn't it awkward for republic republicans, coming just days after they voted for massive tax breaks to millionaires and raising taxes on the middle class? >> well, it should be. and it's an opportunity for democrats -- paul ryan said he saw this budget as a vision. so it's an opportunity for democrats to really show the

contrast between the kind of vision, as you laid out, that paul ryan and the republicans have versus the kinds of investments the democrats have been talking about in terms of infrastructure, in terms of pre-k and, you know, education. i mean, these are two very different visions for the country. >> jared, talking about this vision, here we get this tax cut for the rich, shredding of the safety net, big conference sponsored by billionaires. i mean, this plan seems to be sponsored by billionaires. >> right. i mean, one of the things i've observed, looking into the economic data is that over the course of this recovery, and believe it or not, the economy has been expanding since 2009, it just habit reached most people. but 95% of the growth has gone to the top 1%. "the new york times" had an article over the weekend about corporate salary ps .the median

ceo in their survey, his home run her salary -- and it's mostly his -- was $13.9 million. that's the median. and that's up 9% over the last year. i went and i looked how the median paycheck did over the past year, it's up 1%, and that's before inflation. so whethre is the growth going? it's going to the top. it's doing an end run around the middle and the bottom. the idea that you would cut taxes on the folks claiming all of the growth and raise them on everyone else is just antithetical to common sense. >> you know, karen, the website "media man" has found that fox news spent a lot of time this past year complaining about taxes on the rich. listen to this. >> there's a loophole that lets the rich get out of them. well, close that loophole. tax them to death. >> eliminate the corporate tax, money would pour into this country. governor comeau says i still

want to raise taxes, what's the message you get if you live in new york? >> it's punitive. >> imagine a tax free $500 billion spending plan no one would have to participate in. >> the president advocates high taxes to pay for an entitlement culture. >> so it's a relentless campaign over and over and over again, karen, for the rich. >> it absolutely is. and that last clip, for an entitlement culture, right? here they are, this is class warfare where they are trying to defend these tax breaks and the loopholes for the wealthiest and they don't want to make the kinds of investments that we need to be making to strengthen and build the middle class. it is classic republican economics. this trickle down economics. they're trying to protect the so-called job creators, while at the expense of everybody else. >> but, you know, jared, elizabeth warren, senator from massachusetts, she recently

hammered paul ryan making that very same point when she was hammering his budget and his economic vision. listen to this. >> paul ryan says, keep the monies flowing to the powerful corporations, keep their huge tax breaks, keep the special deals for the too big to fail banks, and put the blame on hard-working, play-to the-rules americans who lost their jobs. well, let me tell you, that may be paul ryan's vision of how america work, but that's not our vision of this will great country. >> i mean, she really went after him in ways that i think a lot of democrats are starting to become emboldened. >> right. i mean, i think that the -- some of the facts that karen mentioned are worth digging a little deeper into here. corporate profitabilities as a share of national income is about as high as it's ever been. and the data went all the way back to the 1920s.

you heard me talk about ceo compensation. if, in fact, corporate profitability, and i don't have a problem about corporate profitability, if it's reaching everyone else. if, in fact, all this profitability were reaching down the way all these folks say it is, we would definitely know that by now and we don't see that. secondly, if you actually look at the share of taxation that's falling to corporations these days, it's close to an all-time low. so corporate taxes as a share of federal revenues are way, way down. if anything, president obama has been too friendly to these folks, if you look at the bottom line. the idea that he's somehow serving the entitlement class is completely belied by the evidence. >> let me ask you this, jared. paul ryan justifies slashing the safety net by claiming that spending is out of control. listen to this. >> if washington is serious about helping working families

or serious about getting families out of work back to work, then it needs to get serious about our national debt. how do we do it? first we stop spending money we don't have. >> i mean, give me your response to that point. >> look, it is patently wrong on the numbers. they call paul ryan a numbers guy. he gets them wrong as often as not. the budget deficit is a shared gdp of 10% in 20099, last year it was 4% headed down to 3%. that's the larnlest four-year decline in the budget deficit since the mid 1950s. and almost 80% of those cuts have come from the spending side, not the revenue side. >> but karen, when you look at the other side of it, under president obama, the deficit has fallen year after year. i mean, new projections this year have shown it's falling again in 2014 to less than half of what it was justless than l

two years ago. >> that's exactly right. it's what the president has been talking about in ferm terms of a balanced approach. let's make an investment, but we can be mindful of our deficits and mindful of spending. but the republicans were just not interested in that. they have this fairy tale that they like to tell, and it's particularly offensive when you consider that paul ryan himself benefited from social security as a young man and now wants to, you know, cut that kind of program for young people -- for people in this country who might find themselves in the very same situation he found himself in. >> just a quit comment about that. look, i understand the need for a balanced approach to getting on a stable budget path. i talk about that a lot. in the near term, we have actually cut our budget deficits too quickly. and it's undermined economic growth at a time when we actually need fiscal support to help grow employment right now. >> well, we do need to grow

employment, but i think my point was that as they do all of these attacks on the president, the facts show -- the numbers show the deficit has gone down. i was addressing that narrow point. thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> and be sure to watch "disrupt" with karen finney right here on msnbc. another day, another major piece of good news for the affordable care act. i've got to admit, it's fun watching the republican reaction. plus, murder charges. a white supremist in court today after alleging gunning down three in a hate-filled rampage. plus, this ought to help the old rebranding campaign. a republican congressman is questioning the constitutionality of the civil rights act. and it's on tape!

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>> in the four years since the affordable care act passed, we heard all kinds of crazy predictions from the gop and the right wing. talk about death panels and job killers. even armageddon. but now, more proof that this law is working. a new report from the congressional budget office finds in 2014 the health care law will cost $5 billion less than projected. over 10 years, it will cost $104 billion less than expected. and overall, the law should reduce deficits.

that's right, in case any republicans didn't hear me, the law will lower deficits. the cbo also projects 12 million more people will gain health insurance this year because of the affordable care act. and that will climb to 26 million by 2017. cold, hard numbers. showing this law is working. so how wouare the friends on th right going to react? i bet they'll say the same things they said when they learned 7.5 million people signed up for health care. deny, deny, deny. >> they know they've got a math problem with obama care. and the numbers are not going to work out so that the program is actuarily sound and they're going to have somebody to come spin the numbers. >> the obama administration is using funny numbers when it's touting the enrollment numbers. >> obama care has been the single greatest lie i've ever

witnessed. >> they need a fall guy when the truth comes out that they don't have 7.5 million enrollees. >> well, limbaugh's got a point there. they don't have 7 million enrollees they have 7.5 million enrollees. it's time for republicans to face facts. the health care law is working and no amount of denial can change that. joining me now is david corn. thank you for being here, david. >> good evening. >> what is the republican's plan, to close their eye, cover their ears and wish the law would fail. is that their plan? >> i think that is their plan. i think that's about it. we're done here. this is not a matter of debate for them. having the cbo numbers and all the facts that you just cited, i hate to break this to you, will not have much impact. this is a question of theology. political theology perhaps for the republicans.

obama care is a disaster, and that's all they're going to say over and over again. it's going to work up their base. it's destroying america. it's taking away american freedom, and they're just not going to change their tune. they may sort of not rush to repeal it if they should have another vote again because millions are signing up, but in terms of the rhetoric, they're going to keep blasting away, and that is their strategy. just the other day, ted cruz was out there saying he wants to repeal every word. even the parts that give people mammograms, preventive care, keep your kids on, deal with pre-existing conditions. to some of us, it does sound like crazy talk, but this is where they are. >> republicans have no plan to help people who have gotten coverage under the health care law. i mean, take arkansas congressman tom cotton. >> yep. >> he's running for u.s. senate. here's what he says about the law.

>> so in the long term, we do have to repeal obamacare entirely, but ultimately we need to replace it with reform that trusts dock fors not bureaucrats in washington. but when asked what we would do with all the millions that already signed up, he said we want all arkansas ans to have medical care. hopefully we'll return to a medicaid system that's returned to them and let them address their need for the entire state. that's not exactly a straight answer. >> no, but he's also in favor of american flag, apple pie, maybe even god. you know, the republicans have switched to talking about the need for health care, which is a big change for them. but there are no details. how long has house speaker boehner been in power? it's been several years now.

how many votes on repealing oba obamacare? 51. how many votes on what they're going to replace it with. i think the answer is zero. >> and that's the real problem, isn't it you can't go out here and just run on i'm against this while people by the millions are signing up for the first time, getting relief. >> i disagree with you a slight bit, because actually i think they can and they will. because they're count on these red states where there's such a political bias against the democrats and against barack obama. the well has been poisoned so well by the republican attacks the last few years that i don't think in the next eight months or less that the democrats are going to be able to totally sell the benefits of obama care. it may take years for people to sort of actually, for this to take root. so, you know, i'm guessing their focus groups are telling them that it's still an effective attack. as long as you also sound positive and talk as if you have a plan, whether you have one or

not. >> you know, but we are seeing signs that the democrats make on the offensive. check out this ad. a group that is supporting alaska democratic candidate mark begic who's running there. >> i was lucky. i beat consequencer. but the insurance company still denied my health insurance, just because of a pre-existing condition. i now have health insurance again because of mark begic, because he fought the insurance companies so that we no longer have to. >> now they actually touting support of the health care plan. will we see more of this from democrats? >> i hope so. i think it's a great ad. it's the type of pitch barack obama and the democrats should have been going from the get-go again and again and again, put a human face on it. ultimately because of what's happened the last few years with republican obstructionism, i'm

not sure democrats can gain an edge on obama care, but what they need to do to have any chances this coming november is at least fight to a draw. get people seeing these positive benefits and not just let the ted krucruzs of the world and tr rhetoric dominate the debate. these ads are exactly what they should be doing. hopefully they'll have the money to do this because we know what the ads will be on the other side. >> david corn, thank you for your time tonight. still ahead, the right wingers are cooking up a new conspiracy theory about hillary clinton and the shoe. also, a key court hearing for the white supremist accused in the kansas city hate crime shooting. but first, 50 years after the civil rights act, you won't believe what a republican lawmaker is saying about this landmark law. stay with us. you, my friend are a master of diversification.

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it's stunning. but he's not the only republican uncomfortable with the civil rights act. remember what senator rand paul told my colleague rachel maddow in 2010? >> there's ten different titles to the civil rights act, and nine out of ten deal with public institutions, and i'm absolutely in favor of. one deals with private instituti institutions, and had i been around, i would have tried to modify that. >> the woolworth lunch counter should have been allowed to stay segregated? just yes or no. >> i think would happen -- what i'm saying is that i don't believe in any discrimination. >> he would have tried to modify it? really? what we're seeing is this gop anti-government rhetoric taken to new extremes. next month, the wisconsin state gop will hold a vote on whether to secede from the country. in mississippi, a leading tea

party candidate has been connected to the neo-confederate movement. and in states across the country, conservative lawmakers and sheriffs are arguing that they can just nullify federal laws that they don't like. isn't this the same party that keeps calling the president lawless? republicans like to claim they're a law and order party, but now it's only the laws they agree with. joining me now are dana millbank and margie omara. thanks for come on the program tonight. we reached out to the congressman for a statement he said the civil rights act is the law of the land. the country is stronger because of the act in 1964.

certainly different than his statement yesterday, isn't it? >> yeah, i think his advisers got to him quickly. he's facing a primary challenge from someone who likes to dress up as a vampire at night. and when you're trying to run to the right of dracula you're going to run into problems like this, and that's what happened. he's got to be absolutely to the furthest extreme of the conservative base there. and so he gets himself to this sort of trouble even in more of a clumsy way than rand paul did earlier. i don't think anybody seriously questions the legitimacy of the civil rights act any more than we question the legitimacy of the constitution itself. but i i think when you're involved in a republican primary, all bets are off. >> you know, margie, the congressman questioned the constitutionality of the civil rights act, but he had no problem invoking civil rights leaders in his fight to repeal obama care.

he said, quote, it only takes one with passion. look at rosa parks, martin luther king, people with passion that speak up. they'll have people follow them because they bleed the same way and smart leadership listens to that. very interesting how he uses figures of the civil rights movement while he questions the constitutionality of the civil rights act itself yesterday. >> it's the hypocrisy of just picking and choosing what laws you want to follow, what law enforcement you want to uphold and who you want to elevate to be a folik hero. some are lawbreakers and they're being held up as folk heroes on the right. although if people were flood into this country saying look, i don't need to follow the law of the land, i don't need a pathway to citizenship, i don't care of a federal law. i' not going to abide by it. you see a lot of folks on the right really catering to this

very fringe element. they are spending more time trying to cater to the fringe on the right than trying to understand the women and minority voters and younger voters that they keep losing election after election. >> dana, the right wing has increasingly rallied behind a nevada rancher who threatened a range war with feds. the rancher has been illegally grazing his cattle on government land for decades. yet -- well, let me play this for you. >> the sovereign people of this nation, we're standing, and we're going to stand until we take the guns away from those bureaucra bureaucracies, and then we'll start making america great one more time. >> in my mind, i'm not a rancher, but i would think the government would be thankful because you're cutting the law for free. >> look, the cattle are doing their job.

my family has been on the land before the bureau of land management was even formed. >> we're pro-logic and tradit n tradition. >> so like paul revere, you're making your stand, we're being overrun by an out of control tyranny. >> he's talking about disarming government enforcement agents. i mean, this is the party that have calls the president lawless. these are the folks that talk about they're law and order? >> well, reverend, this is where you have limited government runover into no government. when you're illegally having your cattle graze on government land and refuse to pay taxes even though the court and the law says you requires it, you're not a symbol of limited government, you're a symbol of anarchy. that's where this bleeds over to, like the idea of secession as you mentioned in wisconsin. and we heard earlier in texas. this is the idea of, we don't like it, we don't like the law,

not that we're going to work to change it. we're going to take our toys and go home. >> marge, i think with gets me is when you hear the constant over and over again talking point that the president is lawless, but they will stand up for a rancher like this, they will question these civil rights act constitutionality, but in that climate, they talk like this about the president of the united states. >> there is the pattern of lawlessness in this administration. ignoring law after law after law. if this president doesn't agree with the law, he refuses to enforce it. >> we have an increasingly lawless presidency. >> i think the president has changed the constitution. he's decided that it's optional and he's going to obey it when he feels like it. >> what he does not have is the constitutional pound-for-pounder to run this country like a dictator. >> we've never had a level with that level of audacity and level of contempt for his own oath of office. >> so he is lawless, he has

contempt of office, but they give platform for a rancher on government property who talks about disarming federal agencies. >> it is such extreme language. it's really unbelievable. it's just certainly not the language you hear from regular voters. it's a real fringe element. and you saw mike huckabee this last week who says i think they have more freedom in north korea than the united states, thinking about airport security. the language is just really, really far out there. and it's going to be -- it's continually rejected. i mean, you saw with the range war, some of the folks out there have said. well, what we're going to do is put the women out front to see the women on the frontline of this skirmish. that's what some of the folks out there on the ground are saying. and then i think as a symbol of what the right is doing in this debate altogether. >> but dana, we've always had this kind of rhetoric, but it

seems to have gotten very, very much more heated and intense under this president. >> without a question, reverend, it has, as we've observed at various points over these last several years. you could point out the contradiction. sometimes we have the conservatives saying this president is lawless and a dictator. and at other times they're saying he's too weak and being run over by the rest of the world. it really has nothing to do with the constitutional or the law. the whole notion is to discredit this president, to see that he is something other than what's operating in the system. obviously if the complaint were just about law and order, well, then they might have something to say about the nevada rampbler, about people who are talking about secession, about people who question the constitutionality of the civil rights act. but it's not really a constitutional argument against this president. it's a disagreement, it's a policy disagreement and they're trying to discredit him from being a part of this system. >> they're trying to dp ing tin

him, try to make his presidency illegitimate. all while they give platforms to ranchers on government property which talks about disarming government agencies. i wonder if hypocrisy fits in there somewhere. >> maybe, reverend. >> thank you both for your time this evening. >> thank you. coming up, that white supremist who went on deadly shooting rampage gets his day in court. when are hate crime charges coming. plus think you've heard out the outlandish right wing conspiracy theories? well, this next one takes the cake. it involves shoes and benghazi. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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i got a little nostalgic when president obama recently remembered how crazy the birther movement was. so who's ready for a good old fashioned right wing conspiracy theory. after that birther scam, the pollers game who claimed the polls were skewed leading up to the 2012 election, then came the jobbers saying the administration cooked the books on positive job numbers. but now we have the shoers.

yes, the shoers. it all has to do with this last week. hillary clinton was in las vegas speaking when she was nearly hit by a flying shoe. it was a startling moment, but she laughed it off. >> what was that? a bat? was that a bat? is that somebody throwing something at me? is that part of cirque d cirque du soleil. my goodness, i didn't know solid waste management was so controversial. thank goodness she didn't play softball like i did. >> she handled the situation with grace and there should be nothing political about this, right? wrong. wait until you hear the latest kooky conspiracy theory. i gave you the party's leader.

>> i can totally relate to think that everything the clintons do is staged or choreographed. and i haven't seen it. i got people telling me her reaction wasn't natural. maybe it's because in my sub conscious, i think it was staged or set up or whatever. i don't know why anybody would be throwing a shoe at hillary unless -- you know, maybe it's an attempt to make the benghazi people look like nuts and lunatics and whackos if it had nothing to do with that. >> i need to applaud this one. this is a new level of crazy. somehow he goes from a flying shoe to benghazi? a stage shoe, a staged shoe throwing to make the benghazi people look like nuts and whackos. and count the pizza man as a

shoe truther. herman cain, the one-time front-runner for the gop nomination thinks the shoe toss was staged. he tweeted fakery from the clips. are these right wingers completely divorced from reality? as they say, if the shoe fits, you know the rest. joining me now is drew courtney, director of communications at people for the american way whose blog right wing watch monitors the far right activity. and joe madison, sirius x many radio host. thank you both for being here. joe, here comes the shoe truthers. i mean, how do you explain this ongoing conspiracy theory obsession? >> i was saying this morning, they're like weeds. they just keep popping up in the garden. or else they're smoking weed. i don't really know what one it

is. all one has to do, and skbrus common sense rules. is ask the woman who threw the shoe who has been, what, arrested, probably by federal agencie agencies. she's been charged, and charged with a felony. now if this were staged you would think she would be the first to speak out and have something to say about it. i mean, it's absurd and, you know, i'm in the talk radio business like you and i've been doing it a long time. but, you know, i should tell mr. 999 that that's not how you do talk radio. you really are just playing to low-hanging fruit. >> lessons heard. you know, drew, there was a lunar eclipse last night and of course, the right wing had to find a way to tie that to the president. right wing watch reported that

world net daily says the lunar eclipse was a divine warning to obama and that, quote, right wing pastor mark biltz told world news today that the blood moon is a divine warning to obam that that god has more than a pen and a phone in his hand. it's comical. it sounds medieval to blame a lunar eclipse on the policies of the president. but these things, as whacky as they are, they end up having real consequences. at the end of the day, we have election, we spend people to washington and we ask them to do the messy, hard business of governing. it can be tough, but at the end of the day that requires compromise. if you're pretty sure that god himself is opposed to president obama and his economic agenda, there's not a lot of reason to compromise with president obama and that's really problematic. we face a lot of big problem,

not as progress is or conservative, but americans. and the more this conservative conspirator theory takes over, the less prepared we are to deal with them. that was really problematic no matter where you stand. >> right wing conspiracies over the years have latched into every possible crazy idea they could. watch this. >> the president's dangerous expansion in powers appears to be endless. >> this is not about health care. it's not about insuring the uninsured. it's about the total control of a free people under the guise of health care. >> it's all part of a massive obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the second amendment in our country. >> he uses ambassador stevens as the point man with this guy, and they funnel through turkey the weapons to the jihadists on the border. >> president obama was born into

the islamic faith, raised as a muslim as the child. >> obama says he's a christian but where's the evidence. >> if you're going to be president of the united states, you have to be born in this country. all i want to do is see this guy's birth certificate. >> it's endless, the attacks are crazy and also dangerous, joe. >> here's the dangerous part. what they do is there's a strong of things. it's like a menu of craziness. it's like going into a restaurant and here's all these menus, these things on the menu. so there's something there for everybody. you just pick one. and that's how they're playing the game. and then as it relates to hillary clinton, this is just the forward to what's about to come if she does decide to run.

they're just priming the pump and nay ear going to continue this, even after the obama administration is out of office. but this -- here's how you overcome this. keep winning elections and particularly off-year elections like the one coming up this year. we have this win this election and that makes them the nuts they are. 62% of the republican thought the obama administration was secretly trying to take everyone's guns away. 42% believe sharia law is making its way into the u.s. courts. and 44% think president obama plans to stay in office beyond

2017. the gallup poll shows just 25% of voters identify as a republican. that's an all-time low. are the extremist views hurting the gop brand, drew? >> well, i think the extremist views are hurting the gop brand broadly speaking. but there are still people within the gop who believe they are politically well served, at least in the short term by pushing these kinds of conspiracy theories, and we know that because they continue to push them or allow them to be pushed. i think that's one of the most disturb things about this, how deeply cynical it all is. there are a lot of people on the far right who i disagree with. i disagree with the kochs on just about everything. at the end of the day, these are smart people. and yet they continue to allow groups like americans for prosperity to push just lies about the affordable care act or the president obama'sed a menstruation.

>> at least the president takes it in stride. at my convention on friday, watch how he can handle it. he takes it in stride. >> do you remember a few months ago, my administration put out a photograph of me going skeet shooting at camp david? do you remember that? and quite a number of people insisted that this has been photoshopped. but tonight, i have something to confe confess. you were right. guys, can we show them the actual photo? and just to be clear, i know where my birth certificate is. but a lot of people don't. do you remember that? that was crazy. that was some crazy stuff. >> thank you for your time. still ahead, a court appearance for the kansas city hate crime

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marathon's finish lines, survivors focused on resilience. survivors like patrick downs and his wife jessica who both lost legs as they cheered runners on near the finish line. and a professal dancer who lost her lower left leg in the bombing. >> we know have to think philosophically about the capacity of the human spirit. it is right here in the city of boston. whether our families have been here for generations or recently called boston home, we know that we have written another chapter in a rich history of revolutionary people. >> our vooifr commusurvivor comt something any of us have chosen to be a part, yet we were just that -- a community. >> a year ago today, we all were filled with fear, anxiety, not

knowing what to do and how could things like this happen. but today, watching those victims reach down and have the strength to bounce back, for those that were lost and those that were wounded made us all feel we need to reach down and keep fighting back against those that would do harm to innocent people. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >> view from the bridge, let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this developing picture in new jersey. chris