representative than congress. i mean, there are middle class people in the judicial branch. i agree with ryan. i'm not sure that anything can be done unless we can agree to sort of fedor the capitalist system we have. >> anna marie cox and ryan grimm, thank you both for your time. that is all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00. "the ed show" is next. welcome to "ed ed shthe ed i'm ready to go! let's get to work. >> effective immediately, i am banning mr. sterling for life from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. >> don't come to my games, don't bring black people and don't come. >> the hateful opinions, voiced by that man, are those of mr. sterling. >> you can change yourself. >> i don't want to change it.

>> this has been a painful moment for all members of the nba family. >> he's got an awful lot of african-american players. >> do you know you have a whole team that's black that plays for you? >> i support them and give them food and clothes and cars and houses. >> sentiments of this kind are contrary to the principles of inclusion and respect that form the foundation of our diverse, multicultural and multiethnic league. >> it's a slippery slope. >> whether or not these remarks were initially shared in private, they are now public. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. you can make the case that most americans don't even follow sports. back in the day, within i was doing sports, i used to be told by the general manager, only 20% of the people care about what you're talking about, schultz. i don't know what the numbers

are today but i would venture to say that this is probably the most spotlights that the nba has had on it in a long, long time. and for all the wrong reasons. today what we witnessed was a young executive stepping out in front of the cameras and the country paying attention to the nba and he gave us a clinic on crisis management. i didn't know who adam silver was until last week when i found out he was the new commissioner of the nba. well, adam silver stepped to the microphone today and basically gave a very good demonstration on how to black ball somebody. and that's what it is. he's gone. in an unprecedented move for the league, donald sterling has been thrown out of professional basketball. >> the central findings of the investigation are that the man whose voice is heard on the recording and on a second recording from the same conversation, that was released

on sunday, is mr. sterling. and that the hateful opinions voiced by that man are those of mr. sterling. the views expressed by mr. sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. effective immediately, i am banning mr. sterling for life from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. mr. sterling may not attend any nba games or practices. he may not be present at any clippers facility and he may not participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team. he will also be barred from attending nba board of governors meetings or participating in any other league activity.

i am also fining mr. sterling $2.5 million, the maximum amount allowed under the nba constitution. these funds will be donated to organizations dedicated to anti-discrimination and tolerance efforts that will be jointly selected by the nba and its players' association. as for mr. sterling's ownership interest in the clippers, i will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens. >> that's called putting the hammer down, folks. silver got instant support from friends of the league, magic johnson. no bigger name than him in the game of yesteryear. commissioner silver showed great leadership in banning l.a.

clippers owner donald sterling for life. and of course under nba rules, sterling still owns the team, the l.a. clippers. he must be voted out by three-quarters majority of the other team owners. silver feels confident that he's going to get the other owners to see it the way he wants it. it's not just the nba taking action against sterling. advertisers and sponsors are dropping deals with the clippers as fast as you can say their name. as of today, at least 13 companies have ended their advertising agreements with the clippers. if you think money doesn't talk, think again. the companies include adidas. big time. state farm, red bull, sprint, kia, mercedes-benz and corona, just to name a few. the nba community has been very clear on where they stand on sterling. everyone involved with professional basketball is outraged by this man's racist, despicable comments. meanwhile, leave it to fox news. fox news asking the question at the press conference of silver,

during today's press conference, check this out. >> with fox news, the kelly file. should someone lose their team for remarks shared in private? is this a slippery slope? >> about or not these remarks were initially shared in private, they are now public. and they represent his views. >> well, you could be rendering the judgment on this but i would say leave it to fox news to figure out a way to stand up for a racist billionaire. there's no room in society behind doors or out in front of the public for what this guy says and thinks, because times have changed. you know, major league sports, you can say is kind of the social guide of america in many respects. major league sports has had to deal with this before. maybe not at this level. of course there was marge shotten in baseball, there was al campanis who made a comment to ted koppel on "nightline" in

1987. swiftly, both of them were gone. jimmy the greek, cbs took a few days but they got rid of him and he didn't do any more nfl commentating. times have change. how it's changed, these advertisers have stepped up in a big, big way. you can say that the nba made the calculation, not only are they a social league and they represent so much when it comes to reflecting society with their diversity, but it's also a business. and it is about the money. and this guy sterling is real bad for business, because when advertisers like this start cancelling, the landscape changes and that can become contagious. and of course there's the player react as well. back the examples that i just cited, players really didn't say too much back then. they did this time. then there's this thing called social media. that was never around back in those days, when those three people that i cited were pushed out of professional sports.

so we today live in a fish bowl, more so than ever. what we say, what we think, it's all out there. and there has to be a social acceptability to it and it is connected to people who are going to connect to the people who are saying it. if you think that this isn't real in this business, go ask rush limbaugh how that sandra thing is working out for him? how many other talkers have had to struggle because so many people left that genre? go ask fox news if they'd like to have the ratings of glenn beck but dog gone it, they just couldn't sell the guy. wao yaw say, people take to heart. what this guy said was a tarnish on the league. the league did the character thing. they did the right thing. they did what they had to do. they did what they should have done. and maybe they've made a statement, maybe more people will wake up and maybe more people will respect professional sports, realizing what an impact

they have on our society. get your cell phones out. tonight's question, do you think nba commissioner adam silver was too harsh on sterling? text "a" for yes, "b" for no, 67622 or go to our blog ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment. we'll bring you the results later on. let me bring in al sharpton, head of the national action network. good to have you with us. >> good to be here, ed. >> your impressions of what happened today? >> i thought it was a very bold move. i thought it was appropriate. when you have an owner that could say something as ugly and racist as this, within we were called on saturday and took a public position and started saying to advertisers, we have fought battles as you know before i was involved.

what adam silver did was bolder and more swift. i just spoke with him about 15 minutes ago and he's agreed to meet with other civil rights leaders and myself to talk about our concerns about now that this move has been made, an unprecedented move, how things will be put in place in the nba and hopefully throughout sports that will never bring us to this place again. i think that the fact that the owners he said to me are going to stand with him, that he's confident that this team will be sold, i think it gives us a very serious teaching moment. but the question now is what will we put in place and how do we use this to challenge all of industries that we cannot have this kind of poison at the levels of ceos and?xj make decisions on people's lives. >> what would you like to see the league do? what does the league need to do to remedy this in the future?

>> obviously if you have a man that has had discrimination suits that he's had to settle that has made comments before, that you have people of the reputation of elgin baylor, there neats to be more diversity, way these things are aired and dealt with in advance. i don't want to give a five-point program tonight. we're meeting with the chairman of the congressional black caucus, head of the urban league, head of the naacp. we're going to talk about this and others. we must make it lead to good things. i think when you see people like magic johnson stand up, all the way to lebron and others, i remember within we used to have to fight these battles and the players wouldn't say anything. i think it was unprecedented that magic and lebron and others

came forward that the heat team stood with this team. i think we saw how far we've come in this country but we still have further to go to make sure that this is an aberration, not just something that we got by until the next incident. >> the rev, do you think, number one, the owners will vote him out or do you think a minority owner needs to own the l.a. clippers? >> i think the owners will vote him out. after my conversation with adam a few minutes ago, i think he seemed confident. i think he'd have a better barometer than i do. i think they would be making a terrible statement if they went against the nba commissioner silver. and in terms of minority, i think it would be something that would add to the league. we only have one minority owner now in michael jordan. i think that if you really want to have something that some would call ironic, i would call something else.

suppose magic johnson did get to own that team, the one that he didn't even want in the place. i think that would show how far we've come. >> okay. reverend al sharpton, "politics nation" follows this program from washington tonight at the top of the hour. thanks, rev, appreciate your time. >> thank you. joining me now via the telephone is paul swangart. there's a financial impact to this. whether the league could withstand it or not remains to be seen. certainly the clippers were going to be hurt by it. what impact will this have on the clippers brand? are they going to be able to recover? how do you think they'll react to the swift action by the nba commissioner? >> well, i think it started with the swift action of the business community stepping forward before the decision was made today to break ties with the clippers that sent a strong message to the rest of the league ownership that something needed to happen.

i fully expect businesses that want to associate themselves with the clippers will come back but only if as the commissioner said today, they can rid themselves of the ownership that currently resides down there. >> if sterling sells the team, will it help? >> oh, most certainly it will. i think this is the culmination of a long history of a lot of people surrounding the nba. i guess the sad part in this whole situation is he's going to run away with probably one of the richest team deals in the history of professional sports that will be a very coveted franchise. if the board of governors follows the commissioner's recommendation and forces him to sell, that will be a good thing for the nba and most certainly for the clippers in the long run. >> we've not only seen this around personals, now we're seeing it around sports teams. the advertising power drives an awful lot. more so today than ever before.

it's almost as if they're empowered to take action. in this picture that we're showing right here of the players taking a stand before the game the other night, how powerful is this on sponsors? >> it's very powerful. the essence of sponsorship is aligning your brand with another brand. in this case, a sports brand. you know, the companies that have distanced themselves with ved we do not want to be associated with what the brand now stands for, which is in this case, the owner. we've heard, i think it's been reported in the last few minutes and hours that adidas is coming back to the fold, putting their signage back on the court. the players in how they act tonight and ultimately will play tonight have a huge bearing on whether people rally around everybody associated with the team, with the exception of the one guy they want out. >> i appreciate your time, director of sports marketing center, university of oregon. i appreciate your time. one following comment to this, i am impressed with adam silver.

he didn't let it become an issue on the clippers home court. he took action today. there was a lot of conversation in the sports world about how are the fans going to react when they come home playing the golden state warriors, tied at two games apiece. what does this mean to the players, coaches? it would have put doc rivers in an untenable position. this is how you manage. he moved, moved quickly, he was very decisive. if americans didn't know who adam silver was earlier today, a lot more americans will know who he is tonight. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter, @edshow. the dream a bill heats up in state legislatures like florida. rapid response panel, coming up. first, the prophet glenn

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over his boehner add. >> he's looking for a laugh. >> what is this, a joke? >> winter egg doesn't stand much of a chance, his bombardment of boehner in an ad. >> the number two trender, are you there, god? >> talk to him. don't talk to me. >> glenn beck has a message from the almighty. >> lord, what do you want me to say? >> i talked to god. she says, yo, what's up? >> what do you say. >> nice to meet you, god. thank you for the grand canyon and good luck with the apocalypse. >> you tell them i am coming and i will settle scores. >> he was obviously inarticulate. >> today's top trender, ryan shame. >> we have got this tail spin of culture in our inner cities.

>> paul ryan visits the congressional black caucus. >> the meeting is to talk about poverty. >> a meeting that has been in the works since last month when ryan stirred controversy with comments he made about the so-called culture of the inner city. >> the generations of men not even thinking about working. >> i hope that he just comes in and apologizes. >> congressman ryan later said he was inarticulate. >> there's a real culture problem here. >> if you don't know and speak about that which you don't know, you're going to end up in a mouth trap. >> joining me tonight, congressman james clyburn from south carolina. great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. thanks for having me, ed. >> you bet. i want to point out to our audience you've spent the majority of your life in public service. some 40 years. 22 years in the house of representatives. i want to talk about this nba story first. oo you've seen a lot of change in your life.

what have we seen today? what did we see in the nba? >> what we saw today, ed, i think is an attempt on the part of the new commissioner to get at the issues that have been beneath the surface for a long time. all of us have been hearing for years about mr. sterling. and this new commissioner has decided that he's going to act and act decisively. he is taking a great first step. now i would hope the owners will step up and provide the necessary votes to carry out this ban and then do what is necessary to force a sale of this property. this man seems to feel that not just a team but all the members of that franchise are his property. and this is a real problem. i think what the commissioner

did today, starts us down the road to have a new kind of relationship between ownership and players. i hope that the ncaa will take a look at this and start doing some of the same things at the college level. because in many instances, there's a cesspool leading to professional sports, starting with college athletics. >> congressman, paul ryan has called his comments inarticulate and he's not apologized. he's going to meet tomorrow with the congressional black caucus. what do you expect out of the congress, the chairman of the house budget committee who has gotten so much attention because of his radical budget? which of course was passed in the house and his comments on the inner city and how we have a culture of men not even thinking about working? what has to happen tomorrow? >> well, what has to happen tomorrow, i think, is first

mr. ryan is -- should explain how that is being inarticulate. when you say people are not working, that's one thing. when you said they are not thinking about working, people who are lining up by the thousands every time there's a factory or new industry with 200 or 300 jobs. you see 2,000 and 3,000 people line up. it seems to me that they are thinking about going to work. i'll remind him of the experiences he's had as opposed to many of the experiences. a lot of these young men and older men living in the inner city had. i always thought about working, yet over 80% of my college graduating class left south carolina because they couldn't get work. they were not just thinking about it, they were begging for it. we have some of the same things taking place today.

so i'm going to be presenting 34r r mr. ryan with the 10, 20, 30 plan that the congressional caucus put in their budget. we got the most votes for our budget this year than we ever got in the history of the existence of the caucus because people see that we have some solutions to very serious problems. i'm going to present that to mr. ryan tomorrow. i hope he will give us his feedback on it. >> congressman, if you look at his budget, 69% of his cuts affect minorities and lower income americans. vice president joe biden slammed paul ryan's budget, saying the plan favors the wealthy and cuts funding for infrastructure and medicaid. are there any doubts on where ryan's priorities are? >> absolutely none. if you were to get beyond his rhetoric and look at his proposals, i think that everybody in this country will

see that he is favoring the wealthy over the working men and women in this country. people who want to work and will work for minimum wage would love to have their minimum wage increase, he's not talking about increase in the minimum wage to $10.10. what he's talking about is taking away the resources that will allow people to work at any level. i think that he's going to get some good feedback at this meeting tomorrow. >> i would say it sounds like it's going to be good feedback. congressman james clyburn. good to have you with us tonight. appreciate your time. thanks so much. still ahead, republicans in congress continue to drag their feet over immigration reform. what's happening in florida? rapid response panel weighs in. later, the debate over the keystone xl rages on. land owners with serious concerns over the pipeline's route through their state. tonight, one of pipeline's most

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here's the attitude. oh, don't make me do this. oh, this is too hard. >> welcome back to the "the ed show." last week, house speaker john boehner back home with the folks, made headlines for finally telling the truth about his colleagues. fed up with his own party's unwillingness to address immigration reform, boehner openly mocked their reluctance to get anything done. the moment of truth didn't last too long. today boehner took the long, lonly walk back. >> that was no mocking. you all know me. you know, you tease the ones you love. all right? some people misunderstood what i had to say and i want to make sure the members understood that the biggest impediment we have, in immigration reform is that the american people don't trust the president to enforce or implement the law that we may or may not pass. i said it here. it's the truth.

>> enforce, that's the old tired republican bullet point. president obama in his administration has put more enforcement on the border, three-fold than the bush administration. in fact, we are deporting people out of this country at a record pace which liberals are upset with the president on. boehner can try his best to shift the blame on to the president but the truth is, republicans are holding up immigration reform in this country. just look at what's going on in the state of florida at a state level. you've got a senate bill 1400, it would grant in-state tu ig at florida's colleges and tu igs for undocumented floridian students who attended high school in the state and applied for citizenship. the bill has bipartisan support. a version of the bill has already passed the house, however, the appropriations committee chairman, snow negron

refused to allow a vote. didn't want to go down that road. one republican uses a procedural maneuver to block the will of the people. there's still hope republican senate president don getz still has the power to allow the full senate to vote on the bill, no matter how it unfolds. you can be sure boehner will try to blame the president of the united states for his own party's failures. even on a state level. joining me now in our rapid response pan, connie shuttle and o'dade. what's the latest on this? does it look like the senate president is going to allow a vote? i guess to capsulize this, this is anti-dreamer, isn't it? >> well, actually, yes, the senate president is anti-dreamer. but it looks really good. it looks amazingly good, like tomorrow we're going to have a vote. we have 21 co-sponsors in the senate.

it is a bipartisan bill. obviously the extremist republicans don't want it. it's amazing what an election year will do. at the end of the day, the winners will be the people of florida a' especially the dreamers, all of us that have invested in our education and future. >> this bill has the support of governor rick scott and former governors jeb bush and bob martinez. where is this opposition coming from within the republican party? it's almost like they're taking marching orders. >> it comes from the far right. the far right has always been organized in their ability to e-mail and to phone members of legislatures. you hear them use that excuse all the time, they're hearing from their constituents. you're elected to leave, not wait for permission. while the right is organized, i've been on the receiving end of that as i know you have, that doesn't mean they speak for the majority of americans, even, let alone the majority of dreamers. let's be clear here. we're talking about children. you're either for children -- if

you're only for some children, you're not for children. you either support the children in this country or you don't. that's one of the arguments i'd be making in day in and day out on this. >> it seems that the republicans are obviously making the calculation that, gosh, these could be voters someday and we can't let this happen. what about that, annette? >> it's not just about absolutely, but it's not just about someday. it's about today. and the fact that this year we have an election and governor rick scott has seen us in his polling, he's waking up and saying, uh-oh, last year we vetoed the driver's license for dreamers. last year we were second-class citizens. this year, an election year, he's all for the dreamer bill. it's great, again, because we all win. we see the writing and we know where he's coming from. >> this senate president getz wrote a column about why he doesn't support this bill, saying senate bill 1400 is not limited to hispanics. it casts a blanket of approval

over noncitizens who are in this country without proper legal status from anywhere in the world, including the countries that are runs of terrorism and anti-american violence. connie, is he trying to tie this legislation to terrorism? clearly. what's your response to that? they'll try anything. >> they will. i read that op-ed and thought it was pathetic. he tried to compare and contrast this to veterans benefits. veterans in every state in this country should get every advantage they can get. that has nothing to do with all these children that have grown up in this country. if they've attended high school and they've applied to become citizens, it's simple. do we want these children to experience the american dream, reward them for trying hard and working hard? or do we want to breed resentment and disappointment in them? why would we do that to any child in this country? i don't mean it all to come

across as naive. i come off as a mother and an american. whatever gets them there, ed, i don't need their hearts. i need them to do the right thing. >> is this very different from what's going on in virginia, connie, the attorney general declared dreamers eligible for in-state tuition after legislators rejected the dream act. >> right. >> explain what's going on there. >> in a word, leadership. i mean, the attorney general barely won that election last fall. he made a decision. he's going to do the right thing. he's not going to worry about poll numbers or the next election. it was a remarkable statement that came out. they issued it in vietnamese, hindi, i don't remember all the languages. that was a perfect rollout for that announcement. >> annette, this just is not the real rick scott, is it? do people get it? >> well, certainly hispanics, we

get it. we know just last year he treated us like second-class citizens. i will tell you, this leadership that we just saw and we're seeing in other states from democrats, mostly, it's exactly what we need to see in washington from boehner and just have a vote. i mean, a huge percentage of republicans, not just democrats, republican support immigration reform. >> yes. >> across the country. and he's only listening to this or letting this minority, extreme minority, dictate the priorities in congress. it's a shame. >> thank you for being with us tonight on "the ed show." thanks so much. coming up, rush limbaugh has the scoop on who's really behind donald sterling's racist comments. pretenders is next. stick around. you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™.

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welcome back to the "the ed show." republicans want this and some democrats. xens who are opposing it are asking their congressman to flip. say no to it. the weekend in washington, d.c., speaking with people who are adamantly against the pipeline. nebraska congressman lee terry is one of the pipeline's most vocal supporters in the house. he released a new video this week, what more will it take? >> only if this project does not exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. >> according to the state department, budding the keystone pipeline will reduce carbon pollution by 28% to 42%. >> the president didn't have a problem with the alberta clipper pipeline delivering oil into the united states and crossing the border.

>> it won't ab proved if it significantly worsens climate change. the state department report concluded that keystone will not have a significant effect on climate change. >> the president, it's about politics. >> it's time to build. >> earlier this year, members of bold nebraska told me the lobbying effort in this campaign are two of their big concerns. >> he sent an e-mail to his supporters saying their electricity bills will go up unless the keystone pipeline is approved. >> that is outrageous. >> that is outrageous. >> the fear tactic is out there as well. >> oh, sure.

>> all of those groups, they'll put them in their political ads. when it comes time, when the rubber hits the road, where are they? >> they claim prices will it says, i am proud of the work literary is doing to lower energy costs at home by passing keystone xl. he says the president's decision to delay the pipeline is all about politics. congressman lee terry join us on "the ed show." glad we could work this out. congressman, i want to ask you about the e-mail. constituents there in nebraska were very concerned about the claim that the electrical rates would go down if the keystone xl

was built. >> the issue is energy rates. there's no doubt that the gas prices at the pump will go up. we didn't say electricity. that's a myth perpetrated by bold nebraska. the reality is the oil that comes in from alberta sands will completely offset the oil in venezuela. venezuela is near a civil war right now. they're an unreliable trading partner. there's no doubt that prices will stabilize, the gas that will be produced by that oil will be cheaper as it comes into the market. and there are some people in the northeast that provides heating oil. this will provide that level of security and keep the oil prices down. economic studies show that. >> there's lots of economic studies out there. what about the purity of the oil. senator mary landrieu says this is going to be the cleanest

barrel of oil in north america. do you agree with that? >> it's a heavy crude. if we were talking heavy crude versus sweet crude, there's no doubt about that. >> so compared to venezuelan oil. >> they would be equal in essence. in fact, the refineries buying this oil are the ones that are using venezuelan oil right now. so they're already engineered for the heavier crude. >> okay. now, you said this is a political decision by the president. >> absolutely. who give oil subsidies to oil companies that make billions of dollars. so everything about energy is political. putting that aside, isn't this pipeline a legal issue? imminent domain and property rights and the people in nebraska they don't want it on their land. it's a legal issue, isn't it? >> part fs of it are a legal issue. but signing the permit isn't a

legal issue. the president's duty is to determine if it's in our national interest to sign that permit. and they concluded it's not going to be an impact because of that pipeline. >> there are studies that have questioned and there's studies all over the place. but even if the president gave approval, congressman, this wouldn't speed it up because it's hung up in the state supreme court in nebraska plus the public service commission would have to rule after that. >> maybe, maybe not, but he can certainly sign the construction by signing the permit. >> well, wait a minute. you can't -- >> you need to say that it's been stayed by the courts. >> congressman, they cannot build this pipeline until this is cleared up by the nebraska state supreme court, correct? >> no. right now, it's under a stay. they can start building it right

now. they may have to go into imminent domain because there's going to be. >> that would be breaking the law. the president can't be a dictator and go into nebraska and -- >> he's done it on many other things. >> whoa. this is a fact. he can't go in on imminent domain. >> no, that's a state issue. >> so hasn't the president said all along he was going to wait for the legal process to play out? >> ed, you just put a new standard on a permit crossing a border now that all of the land has to be put together on the route. >> no, i didn't say that. the president said all along that he is going to respect the legal process before he makes a decision. you are not doing that for this pipeline. >> the legal process for his duty of signing the permit which is waiting until the state department deemed it final, and they made it final, it's time

for him to sign it. he should pull out his pen and sign that. it's time to build it. >> there's so much to talk about. we only had a few minutes. congressman, come back and we'll do it again. i appreciate you being on the program. thank you so much. that's "the ed show." politics nation starts right now. >> breaking news. a majority of nba players have now gone on the record supporting the league's tough stand against l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. the report mab fast and furious. >> effective immediately, i am banning