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incredible. we think his chickens are coming home to roost. >> appreciate your time. thanks for joining us on "the ed show." that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politics nation" with reverend al sharp ton starts now. good evening. >> good evening, ed. thanks for tuning in. tonight's lead the gop's lawsuit backfires. today the absurd plan to sue the president is already taking a toll on republicans. we learned speaker boehner's announcement sent donations to democrats skyrocketing. the democratic campaign for congress, the congressional campaign committee, to be exact, raised $584,000. that's the most it's raised in a single day this year. today, democratic lawmakers made clear they are not worried about this lawsuit. going right after speaker boehner saying his lawsuit won't
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stop action on immigration. >> he's like shooting his parents and throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. pass a bill. that won't happen. if, if, if. they don't bring a bill to the floor the president has no choice on a humanitarian basis and a policy basis to act where he can on his own. >> this lawsuit is the latest laughable attempt for party leaders to appease a far right friend. that's never expected this president as legitimate from the beginning. it started as tea party rallies with calling the president a soviet-style dictator. then the right wing media ran with it. >> i'm warning you, america. this is the sign of a dictator. >> my next guest has decided to
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stand up to king obama executive order one after the other. watching a dictatorship emerge in front of their eyes. >> knowing who he is. knowing the kind of authoritarian quasi dictator mentality he has. >> classy stuff. over time, this language went from right wings on the radio to right wingers in congress. >> he's become a monarch or emperor that can basically ignore the law and do what he wants. >> the president seems to think he's a monarch. >> president obama doesn't want to be bothered with the niceties of democracy in our constitutional system. he just wants to decree it. >> he said let's make this a year of action and declared himself king obama. >> king obama. he's a monarch, a dictator. this is the trend on the right. and now, speaker boehner is on board, writing in a memo about this lawsuit, quote, we elected
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a president. we didn't elect a monarch or a king. it could be straight from the 2010 tea party rally. now it's coming from the highest ranking republican in the country. this this lawsuit isn't working for the gop. watch out. pretty soon they might be suing themselves for damages to the party. joining me now are karen finine and krystal ball. >> thanks, are rev. >> this didn't take long. >> in addition to the democratic fund raising we should say bring it on. if you want to bring on the lawsuit talk of impeachment, let's do it. let's have the fight and the arm. we want to argue that the president is trying to raise the minimum wage and have women have equal pay and do something about
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climate change. that's the fight we want to have. this may help republicans with the base. it even backfired on them on fox yesterday. >> it really did. you know, today speaker boehner sent out a tweet. it was almost comical. the quote was, americans deserve better which is why house gop remains focused on their priorities. # jobs & the economy. i guess he had to tweet it because he couldn't say it with a straight face today. >> i'm glad they are focused on it. i wish they would do something about it already. this is a man who is in charge of the house. this is the man john boehner who could, himself, bring immigration reform to the house floor and vote on it and it would pass tomorrow. but since he doesn't have the courage to do that, he's found ways to try to blame the president. the latest way of doing that is by saying we can't trust the president to be able to implement laws.
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he's a dictator, a monarch, he's lawless. we can't trust him. it's a crutch and excuse for the gop's inaction. what's ironic is it's the very inaction and obstruction that's forced the president's hand to do what he can through his executive powers. >> and then you have in the senate, ted cruz. ted cruz keeping up these ugly attacks, going after attorney general eric holder and the irs. listen to this, karen. >> the attorney general eric holder continues to refuse to appoint a special prosecutor, he should be impeached. when an attorney general corrupts the department of justice by conducting a nakedly partisan investigation to cover up political wrongdoing, that conduct by any reasonable measure constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors.
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wow. >> ted cruz has jumped shark with this. let's be serious. i just want to make one point. this goes to what krystal was talking about. we shouldn't forget one part of this is about undermining the legitimacy of the obama presidency and whatever cabinet member they can use that's part of going after holder, going after sebelius. remember, part of oh this is about attacking the president and his legitimacy. number two, what ted cruz is not reminding the american people is let's talk about the last time republicans impeached a president. after a 70 to 80 million expenditure of an investigation that then led to impeachment of the president and i seem to remember that president's numbers went skyrocket are iing. it pointed out to the american people that republicans are often willing to go too far, get drunk on power. in this case you try to impeach
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or sue. what it points out is what's not getting done in congress. >> there is one big difference. at least there was an allegation. >> right. >> at least there was something to try and make impeachable. this this regard they don't have an allegation. this is all imaginary. reaching in thin air. they raised the question to speaker boehner, what is the specifics of your lawsuit. let me let the speaker speak for himself. >> what specific executive action or actions are you planning to challenge in court? >> when i make that decision, i will let you know. >> doesn't that say it all? you are threatening a lawsuit with the president of the united states saying his executive
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actions undermines congress. when a reporter says what specific executive actions are you using in the lawsuit he says, when i make that decision, i'll let you know. how can you take them seriously? >> that's unreal. he doesn't have are a single specific example. it just shows you how political this is. speaker boehner watched eric cantor defeated in a big way unexpectedly. he's saying, i have to keep the republican party together. i have to keep my hold on power. going against the president, calling sort of elusively or alluding to the fact that he's lawless or may deserve to be impeached. that's a winner with the base. something i can do to get folks behind me. it's nakedly political way to keep the party together. the only thing they can agree on is opposition to the president. >> the other thing it does and this is why i wanted to lead with this tonight, the other
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thing this does, karen, as i said when i opened, a year ago today the senate passed immigration. >> okay. >> a year later they have done everything in the house but deal with the immigration issue and other issues. people are suffering while they are playing games, while they are engaging in distraction, and politicalle theater. >> that's exactly right. i said at the beginning i think democrats should welcome this fight. if the republicans really want to have this fight let's have this fight. but let's make sure we are aggressively, proactively making the exact case and the exact point you just made. i would like to see every republican house member and particularly members of the senate where i think this strategy could backfire on senators who have to bring in some moderate republicans who are going to think this is ridiculous. let's have the fight and let the republicans defend why they are spending time ond taxpayer dollars on a lawsuit while
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people are suffering. while unemployment extension isn't getting done. immigration reform isn't getting done. >> veteran who is are protected this country can't get insurance. we with can't allow them to keep distracting us. thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> be sure to watch krystal weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern on "the cycle" at msnbc. coming up, while republicans fantasize about lawsuits and scandals, president obama is talking about what really matters to the american people -- jobs. also, a stunning moment on national tv. a father told his missing son has been found. >> we are getting reports that your son has been found in your basement.
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sir? are you -- >> i thought my son was dead. >> tonight new questions about the case. it's part of the justice file. my interview with the man who made the freedom summer happen. legendary civil rights icon bob moses is here. he'll talk about how far we have come. and the work still to be done. the lowest price
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sometimes it seems that all we see out of washington is gridlock. republicans refusing to work with the president. and ignoring issues that would help working people. today, president obama got out of d.c., held a town hall in minnesota and said he's fighting for the issues that could change real people's lives. >> i will will be honest with you. you've got a party on the other side whose only rationale, motivation seems to be opposing
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me. but despite that, we are making progress. [ applause ] >> despite all that, we can make life a little better for american families who are doing their best, working hard, meeting their responsibilities. >> minimum wage, equal pay. this is what the president is focused on. to help level the playing field for working americans. but he says it isn't easy. >> increasing the minimum wage. which would benefit millions of people all across the country. [ applause ] >> we talked about equal pay for equal work. i want my daughters getting paid the same as men do. all of these things are achievable. but we've got to make washington work for you.
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>> he's bashing republicans in washington. the president wants to get things done. what are they doing? they are pranking each other in the house. i'm not kidding. take a look at this. >> obviously those are all races we'll be watching here as we move forward. what do you make of the latest wrinkle in the e-mail that's surfaced from lois lerner? >> yep. john boehner is keeping house republicans so busy they can find time to photobomb each other in the halls of congress. while they are goofing around, it's the american people who are really getting pranked. joining me now, goldy taylor and ryan grimm. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> ryan are, how effective is getting outside of washington to fight for middle class families? >> it's not any less effective than staying in washington.
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>> but is it more effective? >> i think it is in this sense. the only thing he can do at this point with republicans, with a firm hold on the house is to change the conversation nationally. he's driving the conversation toward issues like the minimum wage. then you see two things happen. you see towns, cities, and states start passing their own laws, raising the minimum wage. you also see companies that recognize that they need to do something because there is a public pressure to do it. you just saw ikea come out and in some places their minimum wage will be $13 something an hour which is real progress. >> you know republicans are suing president over executive action. he said it's one of the best tools he has to fight inaction. listen to this. >> we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order
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to make sure that we are providing americans the help they need. when i can act on my own without congress by using my pen to take executive actions or picking up the phone and rallying folks around a common cause that's what i will do. america doesn't stand still. neither will i. are wherever and whenever i can take steps without legislation to expand opportunities for more american families, that's what i'm going to do. [ applause ] >> on things like the minimum wage and other things, is this very important, the actions that he's taking here? >> it's critically important. as ryan said, it is about changing the conversation and the narrative. listen, the president is taking his fight to the shareholders to the american people who own the government, who have a stake in it. he's taking the fight home to us. while republicans are back in
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congress doing no work, they may as well be out skeet shooting for the paycheck we are giving them. they are not passing immigration reform. they stalled on the american jobs act. anything meant to move the country forward they have stalled on it. even when the president came hat in hand to negotiate. they have proven themselves insatiable. they are an itch that can't be scratched. >> nbc news first reported this morning that republicans aren't doing anything for the rest of the year. the quote, mark yesterday, june 25, on your calendars. it was the day congress all but closed up shop to focus on the midterms for now house republicans have signalled they are done working with the white house and democrats.
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because of that unemployment benefits have been cut off for 3.1 million workers. the republicans want to pretend these people don't exist, ryan? how do you do oh this? >> right. announcing that that's it for now implies that they were doing any work to begin with which, as a stat you laid out makes clear. they weren't. millions of people just suffering day after day. constantly going to the internet. searching unemployment extension, unemployment bill. trying to find out if the check will come through. the one they have been telling the landlord will come through as soon as the house gets around to it. and to just never do it. to not take a vote is unconscionab unconscionable. to sue the president for doing something is that much stranger. if congress wants to stop the president from doing what they don't like, they can pass legislation. that's what they are empowered to do.
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for them to file frivolous lawsuits instead of dealing with the uncrisis is bizarre. >> i mean, past legislation? that's a novel idea. where did you get that idea from. at least president obama is trying. people are sitting around unemployed, getting up every day, trying to find work they can't find. these people can't convene to even deal with basic things. goldie, it's an outrage. for people the to be sitting around like, oh, it's just another day in the park. oh, they didn't do work today, they are ruining american citizens' lives. >> i think we ought to be to kusd on creating jobs at meaningful wages, meaningful work so people can produce for their families. that's what will keep this economy moving along.
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instead, we are focused on pulling away the safety net. we should have extended unemployment benefits at that time first of the year. republicans could not bring themselves to put that extra money into the pockets of america. we'll spend it right away on the light bill, on gas and groceries. >> what i'm trying to say is why is everyone just going along like this is acceptable and like we are not in the midst of a situation are where people really need their congress working? you mentioned ikea, ryan. let me go back to that. ikea became the latest company to raise its minimum wage. the company is raising its average hourly wage to $10.76. it will affect half of its employees. meanwhile, gap raised its minimum wage and has seen applications up 10%. raising the minimum wanl makes
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good sense for these in business. when you have private business showing more action and more compassion than the elected are representatives we send to washingt washington, that's not a good thing to me. >> no. i think here is all you need to know about that. republicans in oklahoma passed a law pt. republicans who believe in local control pass add law saying no towns throughout oklahoma could raise the minimum wage on their own. they had to stick with what republicans said. local control is part of the ideolo ideology. when it comes to anyo s tthe mi some republicans are saying there shouldn't be a minimum wage. we are going back to 1880s stuff. 6 years old? sure. get in the factory. no minimum wage. that's their definition of
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freedom. it is your liberty to contract with people for whatever amount. >> i have to leave it there. goldie taylor and ryan grim, i'm outraged. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, president obama, like we have rarely seen him. he's mocking republican climate change deniers. you will want to see this. and a 12-year-old boy found alive in his basement after disappearing 11 days ago. watch his father find out on live television. >> we are getting reports that your son has been found alive -- in your basement. >> what? >> new questions emerging. you be the judge. ahead. ♪
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republicans in congress really don't believe what scientists say. just listen to them. >> i'm not qualified to debate the science over climate change. >> it wasn't just a few years ago. what was the problem? it wasn't global warming. it was ice cubes. we are not ice cubes. >> it is a hoax. there is no scientific consen s consensus. >> the president is not a meteorologist. >> gop lawmakers who deny global warming are officially turning into a joke and last night president obama delivered the punch line. >> folks tell you climate change is a hoax, a fad, a plot. it's a liberal plot. they duck the question. hey, i'm not a scientist. which really are translates into, i accept the man made climate change is real are, but if i say so out loud i will be run out of town by a bunch of
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>> police say -- have you ever seen something like this tv?
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a father told his missing child has been found? >> no. it was stunning to watch. now everyone is going back to look at his reaction to see if they can glean anything from it given the circumstances of how and when the child was found. when nancy grace said the child was found. she didn't say if he was dead or alive. the second time she said alive. when you look at the circumstances, the police had been in the home and searched three times. they didn't find signs of his son there. we know there is a 12-year-old alive who was missing for 12 days. one person knows what's going on during that time period. that is the 12-year-old. you can imagine investigators and police will interview him and use experts to talk to him to find out what exactly happened. >> michelle, what could have happened here? i guess a million different scenarios. what do you think they are going to be looking for? the police in investigating what did and didn't happen here?
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>> i think it will be very important. exactly what faith said, to interview the child and make sure you are using psychologists with that interview to make sure you are not going to traumatize him anymore. again, we don't know what happened. we don't know where he was. in terms of the father's reaction, lack of reaction, strange reaction, everyone reacts differently. for anybody to jump to conclusions based on the father's reaction is wrong. he's reinterviewed, will be reinterviewed. clearly the child wasn't there during the time that basement was searched four times. no way. >> what's the normal reaction? i don't know what normal is. >> generally when a child is missing that many days sometime it is news isn't good.
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in these circumstances the news was good. when the news is revealed to a parent they usually aren't on national television with millions of people watching and scrutinizing. in this case, when you look at the circumstances -- and i agree with michelle -- i don't think the kid was in the basement for 12 days. >> they said there was fresh food. >> fresh food. there were circumstances of the way he was barricaded inside. there are smart, capable 12-year-olds. is this kid such a genius that he can evade the police, fbi, set up this scenario, have food down there and do this all on his own? >> i think there was probably an adult involved. >> we are sure going to follow this. >> let's go to the next story. a police story gone horribly wrong. during a drug raid police tossed a flash bang grenade into the crib of a 19 month old toddler
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nicknamed boo-boo. he was badly burned. he was put into a coma. >> he's such a happy little boy. to see him like this not moving -- it's heart breaking, you know? we just want to hold him and we can't. >> the baby got out of the coma. the parents are concerned about brain injury. the raid produced no weapons, drugs, cash or the suspected dealer. it was a so-called no-knock raid meaning the police barged in without a warning, armed with military-style assault weapons. it's becoming more and more common. michelle, don't these kinds of raids increase the oddses of a horrible mistake like we saw with this baby boy? >> this is a nightmare for law
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enforcement, for everyone involved. certainly we can't say that we can't have raids anymore. they are individuals who are committing or allegedly committing crimes and the police have to have no knock or want situations. nobody intended this to happen. the question is did the force they used was absolutely over the top? it seems to me it was. this is something they are doing on a split second. second of all, what type of information were they give by either a confidential informant or other individuals to actually say that they have drugs there. that that individual was there at that particular time? that has to be looked into. i'm sure there will be an internal affairs investigation. as a result, as well as in a federal investigation. to this police agency. >> what about the law? this no knock law. because we have seen mistakes before. i preached at a young girl's
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funeral in detroit. the same problem. a toddler on the couch. they throw this thing in. she was killed. these laws are, in my opinion prone to leading to terrible accidents. >> the warrant was based on a confidential informant who was a criminal. when you have an informant giving you information, you have to look at who the person is. >> and why they want to give this information. he was a relative who was kicked out of the home. he told the police there were drugs and guns in the home. the police were wrong. they didn't do their due diligence. they didn't make proper observations on the home. if they had -- [ speaking simultaneously ] >> i am a criminal defense attorney. taking the other side of the argument, cfl informants aren't angels or choir boys. they are often criminals giving
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this information. that's how they ares used. >> which is why -- >> but if they have a motive, michelle, particularly against the people -- >> there is no question about that. >> you have to question their reliability. >> also, what information do the police have that there is another family there at the time? did they know that? >> they should have known it. that's the problem. they should have known. >> they should have known a lot of things. >> this is a horrible situation. >> there are babies in the hospital because they didn't do their job. >> i have to hold it there. we'll have the mother of the young child and her lawyer on this program next week. michelle and faith jenkins, thanks for your time. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead, 50 years after the freedom summer, how do we protect and expand civil rights for everyone? i'll talk to legendary civil rights icon bob moses.
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we are back. on 1964's freedom summer, a turning point for the civil rights movement and america. in mississippi, hundreds of students from around the country, many of them white, were coming down for the freedom summ summer. it was unprecedented to highlight racial injustice in one of the most segregated states in the nation. in the center of it all was an activist named bob moses. he became one of the great icons of the civil rights move lt. -- movement. young people working with the
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committee are characterized by restless energy. they seek radical change in race relations in the united states. the world is upset. moses gave up his life in the north to join the civil rights fight in the south. he was threatened with death countless times as he worked to get people registered to vote in mississippi. he inspired p people to join the cause from the cotton fields and dirt roads of mississippi. bob moses changed american history. i am honored to welcome the man who launched freedom summer. dr. bob moses. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you, al.
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>> what was it like in mississippi? give ussen an idea of the atmosphere, the environment that people were coming into. >> you were dealing with a state that had decided that it would be a rule are unto itself. in other words it figured out how to prevent any agency including the fbi of the federal government from actually having direct impact in mississippi. so it was from the governor. they had set up which we didn't know about until later. the sovereignty commission acted like an intelligence agency which was gathering information about anybody. i mean, mississippi was a place where white people couldn't cross a line. one example was the hefner family in macomb in 1964 which
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decided to just invite some volunteers to meet them to their home. their daughter had been miss mississippi. they were run out of town the next day. >> miss mississippi's family was run out of town? >> out of town. out of macon because her father and mother decided just that they would meet volunteers. >> just meet them. >> because it was revolutionary to have white students working with blacks, living together, eating together at that time. is that not right? >> if you had white people coming down and white peoples using the same toilet, the same
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washroom that this would undermine the idea of apartheid which was operating the absolute need to separate the races for social purposes. >> it's hard to imagine the climate of fear and oppression in mississippi that summer. how did people deal with the constant threat of violence? >> well, here's the thing. it was guerilla warfair. -- war fare. it's not constant. you were not always in danger. you had to know when you were in real danger. most of the time we were living in the base. you would make it out the to the courthouse. that was the place. you went to different layers over and over again. the local sheriff and the outreach of the league that are
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resorted to violence. >> some are trying to turn back the clock on voting rights. >> yeah. here's what i think. if you think about jim crow which was a form of slavery by another name. we succeeded 50 years ago. we got it out of public accommodations. mississippi freedom democratic party. we did not get it out of education. so the work of the 21st century
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that's left undone in that movement. it's really how are we going to raise the issue of the public school education of every child in this country to the level of the constitution. right now young children are citizens of states only for purposes of education. we need them to be citizens of the country for that purpose. >> bob moses, thank you for your lifetime of service and for your time this evening. >> thank you, sir. >> ahead, today a unanimous and very controversial supreme court decision. it impacts anti-choice protesters at abortion clinics. that controversy next. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.
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itself has no problem reconciling free speech and keeping it own protesters away. turns out the court has a huge buffer zone around its own building. you can see it there in yellow. i would like to hear from the justices why it's okay to have that buffer zone for them but not one around clinics when women may be making the most personal of decisions. umatologit umatologit about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira is proven to help relieve pain and stop further joint damage in many adults. humira can lower your ability to fight infections,
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president obama. how far the grand old party has fallen. howard baker was 88 years old. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. have a nice weekend. "hardball" starts right now. tea party mississippi blues. lep lep. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, rage on the right. the tea party supporters and backers on conservative talk radio aren't giving in quietly accusing thad cochran and supporters of race baiting, cheegt and betraying the conservative movement by chasing the votes of nonrepublicans. they point to flyers and