>> cheap shot, below the belt behavior. >> talk bougt suing the president which is a prelude to impeaching him. >> really? >> the president once more put the blame on congress. >> i'm the guy doing my job, you must be the other guy. >> i think this is a low point for boehner and obama working together. so what's john boehner's plan? >> it is about putting political points on the board. >> i think he gains nothing. >> come on, speaker boehner, enough with the stunts. >> it is a freaky friday john boehner edition. the house speaker levees a lawsuit against the president for not only doing his job but doing what house republicans wanted him to do. last night, they released a draft resolution saying the lawsuit against the president will focus on changes to the patient protection and the

affordable care act. speaker boehner claims the president violated the constitution when he delayed health law's mandate for businesses without getting the go ahead from congress first. in an irony worthy of alanis more i set, the house gop is planning to sue the president over delaying the employer mandate. they voted themselves to delay the employer mandate a year ago next thursday. potentially more problematic for the gop than spending taxpayer money suing the president over something they agree with in presence pell is the fact that their latest assault of the health law comes amongst strongest evidence yet that the health care law is working, and people like it. even republicans. for a picture of what the president's alleged lawlessness has wrought, how about a rate of uninsured americans. that's down to 13.4% in the gallop well-being index, a drop from 17% last year, and the lowest rate since they began the

measurement in 2008. so how do people feel about this eroding of their liberty, this tyranny? as it happens, they're quite pleased. a new study by commonwealth found three-quarters that got coverage are very or somewhat satisfied with it. nearly 60% say they're better off with the new coverage, while only 9% say they're worse off. here is the kicker, roughly three out of four republicans say they're satisfied with health plans, health plans that republicans and congress fought like hell to prevent other republicans from accessing. reupping the fight against the affordable care act at this moment in time, suing the president for a move you wanted him to make in the first place over something your supporters seem to like, for a party that never ceases to confound, for this, speaker boehner, hat's off

to you. joining us, jonathan capehart and sam stein. jonathan, let me begin with you. which to your mind is flow meksing, the fact they're suing the president over a delayed amendment they wanted or that they're suing him over something that's popular even with their own voting block? it is a question with no answer perhaps. >> it is true. the point i made this morning, i think it was there in the opening. >> we played it in the open. >> they're suing the president over a law that they tried more than 50 times to repeal and failed. and you're bringing up the fact they're suing him over doing something they wanted him to do in the first place. nothing john boehner does in his speakership makes any sense to me at all. >> do you think it is sort of crave enpolitical calculus,

maybe they have the best chance of advancing this lawsuit and we'll pretend the rest of the republican caucus has amnesia, that they don't remember we wanted broad delay on the mandates. >> the caucus, the rest of the country has amnesia. for the life of me to be quite serious, i don't understand the political calculation involved in the lawsuit in general because as i've said for awhile now, this lawsuit is a prelude to impeachment. as soon as his caucus realizes that the president won't be impacted by this lawsuit at all, obama won't be punished, that's the moment they're going to say well, we can just impeach with a simple majority in the house, why aren't we doing it now. >> impeachment seems easier than this onerous lawsuit. sam, there's a lot of analysis that the lawsuit only highlights what the president is doing.

the white house seems to like it, democrats seem to like it. the fact that the lawsuit will focus on the aca, which democrats may like as well does not seem to be good calculus from this house speaker. >> yeah. i mean it is a peculiar time to introduce this lawsuit. the commonwealth fund survey that came out yesterday suggests that attitude towards the affordable care act are finally softening. in fact, people are appreciating the plans they signed up for, although i would like to see one more survey to be perfectly comfortable making that prediction. but listen, republicans say you need to set out their objectives versus what they're trying to do. they're focusing on the relationship between executive and legislative branch. they don't want the employer mandate at all, but argue you have one avenue for getting rid are it or delaying it, and that is through legislative action. >> isn't that, for the american public, that seems to make no sense. yes, in theory, they don't like

the mandate at all, they want to get rid of it. here is the president delaying it, but somehow that's something worth suing him over. >> you have to separate the issues, right? you separate the issues. you say one thing is how do you actually go about changing a law, and the other thing is the actual law itself. and it is a tough -- i grant you, it is a tough case for them to make because you can conflate those two things easily. why would you want the president to implement a mandate that you yourself oppose? it is curious. but at the same time, you know, to me at least it seems obvious they're not suing because they want the mandate to take effect, because they thought the only way it could be changed is by legislative action. >> i would also say nationwide, one in four uninsured last fall have now received coverage. it is really hard to make the case that this -- go ahead, sam. >> the irony is that this

lawsuit will probably be decided well after the mandate goes into effect, if it ever goes in effect at all, and possibly into the last years of the obama administration, if not after obama has left office, so it is not like it is going to effect anything, but they're hopeful it will establish a precedent between the legislative and executive branch. >> here is what will happen, sam, it will not set a precedent, the case will likely be thrown out. his major point was the courts routinely reject cases where there are political disputes between legislative and executive. it is y'all need to figure this out yourselves. >> even scalia is hesitant for the supreme court to step in as de facto legislative body.

you said something before about impeachment, so clear this is not a caucus where you can dangle one piece of red meat, they want the whole cow, and bob adams in the daily beast, runs the revive america pact, because america apparently isn't breathing. there are a lot of americans say to ride out the storm, i say this banana both capsized a long time ago. he is comparing the presidency of the united states to a banana boat. setting that metaphor aside, the lawsuit they see for what it is. erick erickson says it is political theater, john boehner doesn't have the fortitude. i think it alien ats the hard right base as somebody as a marion et. >> the other part of erick erickson's quote is why are you doing this theater, political theater here when you have the constitutional means to punish

the president, and that is a euphemism for impeachment. if you want to deal a serious blow to the president, if you want to punish the president, if you want to stand up for the legislative prerogatives you claim you're fighting for, don't go to court, impeach the president. >> his point was more specific to funding the law. we talked to people on the hill about this. they basically are looking at it saying we should have just shut down the government over obamacare. >> we had our chance. >> and the truth is that's an amazing lever that congress has over the executive, they can fund things for implementation, and they did take a swing at it and they missed. and that's what happened when they shut down the government in october. i will say one thing about the context of this, which is that, you know, this is not the first president that's used these types of executive actions as we are all aware. in fact, he uses them infrequently compared to other

presidents. not since grover cleveland the president issued such infrequent executive action. there are a lot of people that cheered on past executive actions. >> the only thing i say about what grover cleveland did and what president obama has done, some executive actions are counted differently than others, and some of his biggest orders/actions have not been counted in the same way. i think this president has been forced to rely on the sort of executive work around, more than grover cleveland because congress is broken. >> let me bring up this part. we did comparison on implementation of medicare part d under george bush and obamacare. and in the process found that low and behold, department of health and human services changed a deadline with respect to implementing medicare part d with almost zero fanfare in 2003 or 2007, i can't remember the year.

it wasn't considered a big deal then. republicans didn't have a problem with it. there was a general understanding implementing laws is tricky and needs flexibility. >> i don't know that it is acquiescence as it is understanding how government works. >> exactly. then you had people in congress that understood what their role what, what the president's role was, what it meant to govern. >> i will say this lawsuit is coming at the same time, jonathan, we talked about this before the segment began. the president is asking for funds for the border. who knows if they'll score that vote. they may prevent the white house from getting anything to deal with the boarder crisis, and i just wonder, the narrative of republicans being obstructionists and being intransigent gets more cemented if they do nothing on

immigration. >> as you talked about that, it made me think about the debate between president obama and mitt romney when he tried to go for the president on benghazi and whether he called it a terrorist act. remember what the president said? please proceed, governor. if they're going to do this on immigration, on the $4 billion immigration bill the president is asking for to confront this crisis that's on the border, to do a lot of the things they want him to do, if they want to block that, please proceed. because the president will have the people on his side. they're asking for do something, he is trying to do something and they won't. >> you had a piece in the huffington post quoting -- usa today, let's call the republican response what it is, a tactical decision to let a problem fester for political reasons. >> we did more than quote usa today. >> obviously you did. although we won't get into --

much love for my alma-mater. >> let's move on from that dark patch of our conversation and talk about the piece. we quoted a bunch of republican officials, former congressmen, strategists, people within the party, currently who are deeply worried about exactly what jonathan stated, which is that if your sole purpose is to say no to $3.7 billion supplemental, then you run a very serious risk of looking like you don't care about the humanitarian crisis, you run a risk of offending the hispanic community. a whole host of political risks that you run. a lot of people in the party, not just lindsey graham types are not only cognizant of that but are urging them to come up with supplemental. you see john mccain doing that in the senate. i expect people in the house

will come to their senses, too. >> i am going to call you on that in a few weeks. >> save the tape. >> i will, jonathan capehart, sam stein. thanks. >> thanks. after the break, stunning developments out of florida, ones that have nothing to do with lebron james, quoting founding father, a judge told legislators that their attempts to rig the vote are illegal. what does it mean for 2016. joy reed and joe walsh join us next. on my count. ...the one where you step up and save the day? make it happen. with verizon xlte. (crowd) oh no... we've doubled our 4g lte bandwidth... hey guys, i got it right here! in cities coast to coast. so take on more. with xlte on the largest, most reliable network. get 50% off smartphones like the new lg g3.

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in a decision sure to have ripple effects in 2016, a florida judge ruled that republicans in the state legally redrew the state's congressional districts to benefit conservative candidates.

if the decision is upheld by the state supreme court, the districts will have to be redrawn from scratch. judge terry lewis wrote the case goes to the very foundation of our representative democracy, quoting george washington's warning against cunning, ambitious, unprincipled men. he found that political consultants or operatives conspired to influence the redistricting process. the push back against a practice as old as our democracy, gerrymandering, didn't materialize overnight. they voted for amendment to the state constitution that required district boundaries to be fair and as equal in population as feasible. so what did the republican controlled florida legislature do? they drew districts like this one, represented by republican daniel webster, which judge lewis found to be drawn to benefit the republican party and incumbent and drew districts

like this one, the width of a highway bridge. a move opponents claim was designed to make surrounding districts friendlier to republicans. once they were done and dismissed republican consultants that helped them, they destroyed most documents related to the redistricting process. as judge lewis wrote yesterday, you have to wonder, indeed, you do. joining me now, editor at large of salon, joan walsh, host joy reed. joy, florida export, electoral expert, political expert you are, this goes back to 2010. >> yeah. >> and the fact that a group called fair districts florida, a grass roots group was able to overcome lobbying by the chamber of commerce, by the republican party of florida that spent nearly $3 million to defeat

this. the people of florida said hey, you know what, no more. >> i think california did a version of it, it was a huge fight, i remember that fight in florida at the time. there's a weird ironic thing, toorks you had some african-american americans of congress like brown oppose it. this bargain you see in a lot of states in the south they say to african americans, we will give you three seats. three african-american seats in congress in florida, but we're getting everything else. we are going to give you every black person within a million miles. just one seat. and the rest of them are all republicans. so you have a weird thing where florida is 32% registered democrats, the delegation is 17-10 republican and stays that way. these two amendments, one at the state and congressional level over time will overturn that bargain. a lot of people including core

in brown are not happy. >> corinne brown invoked the voting rights act, and if you take the long view to joy's point, this is a good thing for democracy. >> right, and no less a civil rights hero than julian bond said to our own chris hayes that this has to happen. we have to have -- corinne brown may have to do without some of those african-american votes. it would be unfair to give her a district without any. this would be a complicated thing, this can't go on. last year, greg abbott, attorney general of texas filed a brief and said we in texas, we definitely divided our lines so that we would politically benefit republicans, but we didn't do it for racial reasons. so we shouldn't be in trouble. so texas is kind of similar. there's more republicans but it

is still not as imbalanced, the congressional delegation is 24 and 12 republican. this has gone on around the country, especially after the landslide of 2010. there's going to be some carving back, and it is great to see it. >> i feel like democrats are much more open to the idea of having independent commissions or taking redistricting out of politicians' hands, they've seen what happened to the republican party. these districts have been gerrymandered that the republican party on a national, state level is controlled by a far right ideology that made governance impossible. >> when you draw the minorities into a district that's a half minority representative, you make the republican districts whiter. you have in texas a state where you have a lot of hispanics but they're not in districts of the members of congress who control the house. florida is the same thing. this is not a very conservative state, but politics and laws in

florida, gun laws, start with that, democrats vote for a lot of those crazy gun laws there, maybe that's not the best government, but they've governed from the far right even though the population is in the middle. >> i wonder if republicans don't want to have more mixed districts. you look at immigration reform. you have the house republican caucus, whereof 232 districts, only 39 have latino population share of at least 20%. that means there's no incentive for republicans to do anything measurable on immigration reform. and that's playing out badly for them now. >> i think white republicans and latino republicans who want to reach out to the latino population would clamor for more equal proportion of vote. so there are those people. but they haven't been very loud, alex, haven't been very loud on anything. they've really been drowned out by the extremists in their caucus. i don't know if this decision

will help encourage them or not. >> maybe black democrats or black voters came out for thad cochran in mississippi, moderate establishment republicans can secretly work to end the gerrymandering process. >> there are somewhere. >> maybe it is -- florida has a lot of them. >> if it happened in florida, it can happen anywhere. joan walsh, joy reid, thank you for your time. you can always catch the reid report, must see television, 2:00 p.m. weekdays, here on a little channel called msnbc. coming up, a deadly confrontation just got deadlier. i will tell you where next. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares.

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that he's interested in instilling in his children. i think it is a very powerful statement about the value of a place you consider home. >> back in 2010, home wasn't where lebron james' heart was. >> going to take my talent to miami beach. >> today those talents are headed back to lake erie. joining me, josh green. always good to see you, my friend. tell me if you will why this is a story that's bigger than just lebron james, mega basketball star. >> it is big because of where the gop is going to hold the convention in 2016 in cleveland and when they're going to hold it. republican officials made the decision they want the convention as early as possible. reince priebus, rnc chairman

wanted june. >> maybe, dude, go ahead. >> to be able to spend the money earlier next cycle than he did last cycle. but as david plouffe, obama's old campaign manager pointed out, if you have a convention in late june, you run the risk of going against the nba finals. that's a problem in any situation because you try to get a national audience. imagine if the cleveland cavaliers being led by lebron james are in the nba finals. you could picture christie or rand paul, rob portman having to compete for cleveland's attention with lebron james, it would be an absolute disaster. >> maybe john boehner can sue lebron james. i am kidding. it is a story about cleveland, too. that's one of the reasons earnest was weighing in in the emotional way he was. this is the hope when he left, he would stay in ohio, give cleveland a fighting chance.

do you think optimism that he is returning home will help the city, is that well placed optimism? >> look at the reaction, cars lining up for miles outside his home. this is one of the great storylines in sports. if he were to lead the cavs to the finals, it would be like the ending of a hollywood movie, cleveland would be going bonkers, but not going bonkers for republicans, which is what republicans would like them to be doing. >> it is amazing or not amazing, took all the negative five seconds for any ohio related politician to chime in. >> i don't know who won the official race, pretty much immediately my inbox was praising the decision, welcoming him home. good for them, good for the economy, gives ohio a leg up, second leg up since they have at least one convention coming. it is possible democrats could wind up somewhere in columbus.

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germany in the world cup semi finals was a national embarrassment. a heartbreaking turn of events for the country that's had mixed feelings about hosting the competition, ever since it first won the bid. the weeping fans were a stark contrast to the optimism and joy of a few years ago, when the nation's economy was in full flight, and brazil had just been awarded the 2014 world cup and 2016 olympics. but that high didn't last long. the economic slow down with corruption and misplaced spending led to protests, protests which while down from the peak in 2013 continued every day of the tournament as brazilians demand more accountability from their leaders. >> i watched a game, and there were several hundred people, to watch brazil, mexico. about half the folks there were rooting for mexico, that's an act of protest. >> now with no cup in their

hands, brazilians are left with empty stadiums, white you will fants that came with a $3.6 billion price tag, and one-third of which may not be used and the tournament is over. money that could be spent on badly needed public services, including health and education in a stagnating economy where roughly 1 in 5 still lives below the poverty line, and the child mortality rate is double that of the united states. >> there were some statements that before that well, the world cup will be a boost to the brazilian economy, no, it will not. >> at the same time, fifa stands to make a $2 billion profit from the competition. >> the word fifa is about as popular in brazil as fema in new orleans after hurricane katrina. >> as for politicians that once championed the games, with the national election in october, they may now be having second thoughts. >> income inequality, inflation,

employment, and public service, those are issues that politicians in brazil are all confronted with, and politicians in brazil better pay attention and respond in an intelligent and consequential way to that message. >> brazil isn't unique in experiencing the highs and lows of international sport. the 2004 olympics famously blew a hole in the greek economy, the games cost greece $15 billion. they precipated a debt crisis that stands at 172% of the greek gdp. what was once a privilege, hosting high profile games, is increasingly seen as a mixed blessing, and in some cases a curse. >> i think we are looking at the up side of mega events. that's why fifa and ioc are looking to countries we would never call democracies to stage these events for 2022 winter olympics. the only serious bids are china and kazakhstan.

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brazil exited the world cup tournament in disgrace, and after sunday, the tourists will depart, too, leaving questions

about crumbling infrastructure and several soon to be empty stadiums. explains the world, unlikely theory of world globallization. frank. you'll always be franky to me. you were in brazil for part of the games. there was a lot of outcry before the games. given the loss, it is not that the loss informs everything that will happen after the games, but it feels like it will exacerbate the inevitable let down and criticism directed toward the government, the amount of money they spent on the games with little to show for it. >> i think there's correlation between the loss and political mood. in brazil, the game is so tied up in the country's sense of self worth and self esteem that this loss, which was not just a

loss, it was a humiliation, it was a devastation, it was a national shame, this game if it was meant to be anything, it was meant to be a showcase for the country. at the crucial moment, the team failed spectacularly. i think that does influence public opinion. brazil over the course of the last decade has built an incredible middle class, thanks to the policies, the presidents who had the left party there, the workers party. but when they created the middle class, they also created a new politics in the country, and brazil was so used to the kind of bread and circus that came with building these stadiums and holding these spectacles, but the new middle class is really kind of unsympathetic to the corruption and overspending that was put into these games. i went to a stadium in sa

sao paulo, i couldn't believe my eyes, there was a marble staircase leading to the second tier of the stadium, kickbacks going to clubs and cronies of the state. i think inevitable there will be some price to be paid by the political for the overspending. >> fifa requested they build eight stadiums, they built 12. a testament to how powerful the construction industry is. a stadium in the middle of a rain forest. 25% over budget. cost $294 million. and there's no local team in manaus. that was one of the most egregious made by the government. >> there's no acceptable

rationale that justified the expenditures. you look at it all, you have to pretty clearly assume that money was flowing into the coffers of cronies. >> headline july 9th, brazil shares jump on bet soccer loss to hurt rousseff election. you talk about the loss mitigating or not mitigating, exacerbating it. someone could be ousted from power at the end of all this. >> it's happened before. harold wilson, british prime minister, 1966, he won re-election on the basis of england's triumph in that world cup. then lost in 1970. and people say that the national mood turned down as a result of england underperforming in that

world cup. i don't think it is necessarily going to go down because of this. i think there are many other factors at work. and it is nice for us to sit here and think about the soccer mad brazilians, and to think that they're so -- it is kind of an amusing story line to think a loss could end up dictating. >> another loss. >> another president's loss. brazilian politics is more complicated and brazilian voters are much smarter than that, thank goodness. i think there's a chance she holds on. but national mood matters. and this loss was something that has clearly sent the country into some sort of weird funk. >> made them question why they spent this money to begin with. some stadiums will be used in the olympics, but there was a quote from one of our contributors in the piece we played a few minutes ago. he said awe tok chris ee is the

mega event's best friend. it does raise the question, what governments choose to invest this money in stadiums that may never see another spectator, the world cup in 2018 in russia, in 2022, in qatar, where tlr a thousand fatalities among migrants doing construction. and as a sporting enthusiast, what do you think about that these is, that places that want the huge, huge events, mega sporting events tend to be somewhere the most repressive regimes that can get away with this. >> not just get away with it, almost a political necessity. you go back to mussolini, hitler that put on olympics, mussolini put on a world cup as well. they attached to the success of brazilian team in the '70s.

oppressive regimes try to tie to sport. sport is spectacle that makes countries feel good about themselves, makes countries feel important. it's been one of the historic strategies in a dictator's play book to ensure success. >> last thing, frank. we spent so much time maligning the world cup, the final is this weekend. i wonder as someone who knows a lot about the beautiful game, whether you have a favorite, germany or argentina. >> i picked argentina from the start. >> oh! >> but i'm not sure it was a wise pick. but i have to stand by it. this has been a spectacular world cup, despite everything we said. it has been filled with goals galore, stories, suarez returning from injury, playing sub limely, it had costa rica.

>> highs and lows. >> advancing to the tournament in unlikely sort of way. the one thing that's been lacking this tournament is a truly great team and germany in thrashing brazil seemed like they may have emerged as that truly great team, and if they win, it could tie the tournament into a nice bow. >> i will say that i had picked germany from the beginning. and i don't know soccer. thank you, my friend, for your time. >> thank you. after the break, lest anyone forget about con speerists trying to say the president is a secret muslim. the latest in islamaphobia next. vo: this is the summer.

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and the winner in this week's conservative dog whistle contest is the drudge report. the right wing news posted this photo of president obama on its home page this morning with the headline 72% approval among muslims. yes, the president has a 72% approval rating among american muslims. also has 83% approval with african americans and 52% approval with hispanics. among all minorities, the president's favorability stands at 65%. why, why, could that be? perhaps it is because the other major american political party, the republican party, has actively sought to alienate nearly every vote that is not white. there's the raft of legislation passed almost exclusively by republican legislatures that makes it harder for minorities

to cast a vote. immigration reform that the republican controlled house of representatives officially killed just yesterday. but nothing compares to the grand old party treatment of muslims, a group against which the party waged an organized campaign. this year alone, at least eight states introduced republican sponsored legislation to combat the fabricated threat of sharia or islamic law. in 2012, four members of congress suggested a top hillary clinton aide was part of a muslim conspiracy to influence policy. joe walsh claimed a radical strain of islam in this country is trying to kill americans every week. then this week, leaked nsa documents reveal from 2002 to 2008, the bush administration monitored prominent muslim leaders for apparently no other reason than they were muslim.

when one party spends considerable time maligning and ostracizing people of a certain faith, they tend to flock to the other party and leader of it. the big e question is this. does all the republican fund-raising around religious freedom and tolerance, does all of that evaporate when the god is a muslim one? that's all for now. "the ed show" is next. good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show." live from new york, i am michael eric dyson in for ed schultz. let's get to work. >> maybe it's just me they don't like. >> getting sued right now by mr. boehner. >> house speaker john boehner made official what he's threatened for weeks. >> laying out his lawsuit against president obama. >> there's some irony. republicans