today. >> i celebrated by hanging a poster of clint dempsey on the inside of my closet. do we have a photo of him? because do we have it -- maybe not. well, he is in my mind. locked in my mind. there it is, it is coming up. there we go. that guy is a champ. that guy is a world champion. all right, the world champion, it is an epic, thank you for joining us on this odyssey, that is all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow. good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show" all the way live from new york. i'm michael dyson in for ed schultz, let's get to work. >> our borders are not secure no matter what they say. >> it is a border security issue. >> hey, secure the borders first. >> it is a crisis at hand. >> it is a problem of monumental

humanitarian impact. >> the policies on the border is certainly encouraging this behavior. >> they want children to stay in the united states. >> you cannot catch a train or bus or beat coyotes up here. >> we are able to detain people and send them back to our country. if you come to our country i illegally, you will be sent back. our nation, like no other, began as a nation of others. the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, we are the sons and daughters of immigrants, immigrants who had a chance at the american dream. told if they picked themselves up by their boot straps, they, too, could exceed. that option is what makes america exceptional. but our belief in the excepti

exceptionalism does not mean we should turn our backs on the latest wave of immigrants coming to our shores. if thousands of unaccompanied minor children continue to come to the border and president obama pressures congress to fix the border, some are responding with hate and vitriol. >> time for you to step up in your country, go back! go back home. go back to honduras. go back to guatemala. go back! >> the fear of the other is a dangerous and long-festering symptom of american nativism. few of their children in the country learned english. the signs in our streets have words in both languages, unless the tide can be turned they will soon out number us, the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language and even our government will

become precarious. although the sentiment is something you may have seen in the recent immigration debate, you may be surprised who wrote those words. benjamin franklin. it is never too late to get on the right side of history and right now we stand at the crossroads, a new gallup poll shows that many americans want to see less immigration to the united states. it rose to 41% today. but this issue is far more complicated than any single poll can capture. a poll conducted in may by "the new york times" that they think immigrants should be welcome to the united states. the percentage who say there should be no immigration has dropped to 19%. here is the truth. the way we talk about immigration and in turn,

immigrants, matters. the rhetoric matters. where you get your information matters. because many people who oppose immigration reform happened to have another thing in common. they watch our friends across the street. according to a survey from the public religion search institute and the brookings institution, 60% of republicans who trust fox news the most believe immigrants are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care. that is compared to 60% of all americans who believe that the immigrants strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents. the truth is, the immigrants taking jobs while bringing crime, drugs and disease with them has been used against different minority groups throughout our country's history. when we look back on those times in our textbook history we say not again. the truth is i should not have to make a case to humanize the

people crossing the border. i shouldn't have to note that 40% of the fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or first-generation americans. i shouldn't have to make the case that we have a moral imperative to address the current crisis through strong policy and procedure. we should pride ourselves on our immigrant policy. when civilians are forming, telling americans to go armed to protect the border we all need to take a good look at who we were, who we are and who we want to be. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, are we doomed to repeat history if we don't address immigration reform? text or go to our blog at e

ed.msnbc.com. joining us on the show, congressman, what action do you want congress to take? >> well, there are several things that have to happen. first, the house of representatives controlled by the republican majority should pass the comprehensive immigration reform that was passed a year ago by a bipartisan vote. the conservatives and liberals voted for a comprehensive vote, it dies, speaker boehner says there won't even be a vote in the foreseeable future. we need people involved in due process at the border. third thing that has to happen we have to make sure working with our partner news central and south america that the conditions exist for stability and security so that no parent in those places have to say to a child, leave the home, walk across the desert, walk across the border into an uncertain future because that is a safer bet for you than staying at home. so you need those three solution points but right now you have a

republican congress that is just not interested in any solution to the issue. >> well, given the triumph that you have articulated so briefly and eloquently here, you would think it would make sense, but you see the rhetoric taking place on the border. are americans really ready for immigration reform? >> yes, in fact if you listen to some of the poll numbers that you just cited, the vast majority of americans support comprehensive immigration reform if that means more effective control for our borders and a path to citizenship for those who came here. that is a perfect compromise, a solution that the majority of americans want. but here is the problem, the majority of the republican base doesn't want that. so the republicans in the house of representatives have decide -- decided that they should not pursue a strategy, and that is they should try to get out and maintain their majority. is it a effective political

strategy? we'll see, is it a solution to immigration? absolutely not. >> well, in choosing the strategy, do you think anything will get through the republican opposition? >> how can anybody expect anything meaningful to get past the opposition when they're now suing the president. this is a group of people that time after time has rejected compromise and solutions for a political strategy. and obstructionism. speaker boehner just put the death nell to any hope of immigration reform now so what we need is the democratic majority in the house of representatives to join the bipartisan effort in the senate and get this bill to the president's desk once and for all. >> well, the republican shenanigans aside, and the opposition in congress what do you make of the militia opposition at the border explosive. >> -- that is just awful. that is a small group of people. i'll tell you what america is,

the statue of liberty, an orderly process that controls our border but is based on good common sense and humanitarianism. some of the footage that we see at the border -- all the footage that we see at the border is extreme. and i think it is disavowed by most americans, democrats and republicans alike. >> congressman israel, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. now, let me bring in the attorney awe authorize of "how to say i love you." this type of villfification has been used throughout history as you know, as something foreign, to be dismissed, and something to be demonized is really powerful. do you think the media today makes maintaining those myths easier or harder? because after all having the independent media is being able to check some of the rubbish.

>> well, absolutely, but at the same time, when you say you check is there is another group to highlight it. so as the congressman so eloquently put, we see the efforts, the chauvanism, we need to have a conversation about these folks that are having this more visceral response to these brown skinned individuals who are coming across for very, mortal fear reasons. and there are provisions and condition that is allow for immigrant children, indigenous children, brown-skinned children, to come across the borders when their home is in strife. however, because of these media outlets they certainly have a chance to broadcast their ugliness those folks are harping

this, because that is the normalized reaction that they believe it is normal. >> that is a key term there because it makes it appear to be inevitable and acceptable within the context of american politics. do you think anti-immigration sentiment is doomed to keep repeating itself? >> well, as long as we deal with the deficit construct where we see jobs, resources, crimes, et cetera, as finite resources and that we have to preserve. and that somehow the folks coming across the borders, that those folks are in competition. it is obviously a fiction, a myth. but as long as we see those people in competition for the jobs that we want, us that are established and who have honestly to use a very over-used term, first world problems. we are not in competition for the same jobs as folks who come across the borders, yet that is

the myth propagated, we are doomed to repeat these myths, professor. >> do you think americans are ready for immigration reform or does it even matter? >> yeah, i think it matters. the community i work most closely with is obviously going to be native people. and there are native people very vulnerable. for example, to-wit, the people on the border in arizona, those people have been essentially occupied by border control. and there have been examples within the nation of border patrol shooting the citizens. this is documented fact. and so hopefully a comprehensive immigration reform would help to address those sort of micro-aggressions and microcosms of this discussion, so i don't

think it is completely lost. but as we talked about previously we are doomed to have this conversation and this sort of racism will continue to go on. but we can help to alleviate the strain for our brothers and sisters along the border and hopefully make life easier and come -- comprehensible. >> you're one of the brightest out there, how does the american dream with the type of anti-american rhetoric visit on you today. >> thank you very much for those kind words, professor, you're one of my intellectual hero and i truly appreciate that. regarding how we reconcile that, i think it is important we do understand as congressman israel pointed out that these are the exceptions. these people are not, unfortunately, the loudest microphone often times gets

mistaken for being the rule. and they have the loudest microphone because they're performing in ways that are absolutely unamerican and are speculatab speculatables. they put fear in brown skinned people who are looking to come across the border and brown skinned people, and that is fine, that is their right under the free press. and malcolm x said our study in history is best qualified to reward research. i think we have to understand there is a lot of a-historical people out here. we have to look at history and understand with the exception of the vast majority of my ancestors, the vast majority of americans come from immigrant backgrounds. and that is fine, because it has made america into the amazing creature it is today, providing the resources, intellectual capital to be able to build the structures we have been able to

do and make the amazing business contributions that we have. so as you pointed out these fortune 500 companies started by immigrants or first-generation folks we have the resources of wanting to come across the border. we have to be able to meaningfully and be able to engage and weed out the negative influences because we can't have the borders open for everybody. that is accepted. but we have to be able to say that we're going to do it in a way that provides meaning and substance instead of just reject everybody. that is not reasonable. >> all right, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you, professor. >> remember the answer to tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow. we really want to know what you think. coming up, rand paul and rick perry duke it out on a war of words. first, the diplomat, chris

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have america's full support like they used to. >> that is a complete pile of garbage. >> i think the unrest you see in the middle east is caused in some measure by the fact that this president has not acted in a decisive, consistent way. >> i am who i am but i am not a bully. >> joining me now is the host of "agenda," got caught in chris christie's deninciation of the notion that he is a bully. so is chris christie qualified to speak on foreign policy? >> no, he is not qualified to speak on foreign policy. what struck me, he criticized the president, and was asked, would you send troops? and then he said, that is the president's decision. frankly, i don't want him to be president. >> well, ari, is this a big indication in your mind that the

governor has 2016 ambition? you say he will never be preside president. >> chris christie has had ambitions all along, you got a guy like chris christie in new jersey, his bullying works well. he will run into republican voters that disagree with him, that will not play well, regardless of what you think of his policies his policies will not work in iowa. >> let's play a game of make-believe. let's for a second imagine a world with chris christie. >> you're scaring me. >> how do you think his tough-guy style would play in the international diplomatic field? >> i don't think it would work and i don't think he would do it and i don't think it would be realistic. to have, you can be bellicose and push people around as governor and pretend you're a tough guy, but when it comes to diplomacy, that is about nuance

and coming together and working with people, some of whom you don't even like. and chris christie has proven no ability to do that. >> so switching topics, another republican trying to get back in the spotlight spoke out today. >> i feel very strongly about what is going on over there now. just as i did when we made the decision to go into iraq in 2003. i believed in it then and look back on it now. it was absolutely the right thing to do. >> now there is no surprise that cheney was met with fierce protests. what is your take on the iraq war? >> i'm just surprised people are paying attention. why don't we go to bernie madoff for stock tips? it led us to the greatest foreign policy disaster that we've seen in the last 20 years. i wish he would just go away.

off and it is amazing that anybody in the media would take him seriously. look, dick cheney wants a platform. that anybody in the media, or anybody pays attention to him is a joke. >> on the other hand, people say this is a man of certain accomplishments as the vice president of america. but on the other hand, leading us down such a path why doesn't he pay more in terms of his reputation? he is out there constantly haranging the president, but i don't think he paid in a fashion for what he did to the president. >> because bombing other countries means you never have to say your sorry? i remember people were drummed out of foreign policy circles for suggesting going to war in iraq was a bad idea. it is disgusting to me that dick cheney has not been drummed out

of the circles with all of his ilk. >> how do we compare to dick chen cheney? is he the hench out there with what he believes -- >> i'm sure george bush still believes he did the right thing. dick cheney is trying to promote a career for his daughter. he clearly has a viewpoint that he wants to express. it just happens to be dead wrong. >> well, when you think about being dead wrong and he has a daughter to promote the broader issue here is how former politicians weigh in on the events of the day while maintaining a certain kind of presidential, in this case, or at least vice presidential presence, dick cheney doesn't seem to acknowledge this kind of rule. >> does that separate him from republicans who refuse to acknowledge barack obama's president, or refuse to

acknowledge the executive authority he has? he is just way in line with every other republican on that. >> no doubt, ari-havt, thank you very much for joining us. and the rapid response panel weighs in on the clashing conservatives. plus, a reality check for the pretenders tonight. but next, i'm taking your questions. stay tuned. there's only two of us...

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america should be doing. and when you read his op-ed in "the wall street journal" he talks about basically what i consider to be isolationist policies. and america can no longer come back onto the continental united states and draw a red line around the shore of america and think that we're somehow or another not going to be impacted. >> kentucky senator rand paul, who also happens to be a doctor, gave this scathing response in op-ed. he wrote, apparently his new glasses have not altered his perception of the world or allowed him to see it more clearly. senator john mccain who is friends with both of them expressed his opinion on sunday. >> i am not particularly interested in getting between senator paul and governor perry. but i do believe that the things we're seeing in the world today in greater turmoil in any time in my lifetime is an accek abse

american leadership and we'll pay a very, very heavy price now and in the future until we understand that america is an essential role in maintaining peace and stability throughout the world. and that does not mean sending combat troops anywhere. >> neither paul nor perry has announced plans for a presidential run in 2016 but they're clearly viying for a position. >> professor joseph, does this fight have a point beyond them fighting? >> well, i think it is both them fighting, michael. but i also think it stakes out two important positions in the 2016 republican primaries. i think paul's position in this case is not what we would call classic isolationism. it is really a position that strikes closer to what the president has done which is to use american power judiciously,

and i think that will gain a lot of traction in the primaries. i think his position from the disastrous 2012 run, his take on this is basically to double down and say well, he would be will ing to spend time in iraq, and that has real traction from others who believe the president didn't complete the job. so they're staking out positions that i believe they think both will gain support. i suspect john mccain will have more support from the grass root republicans. >> and more on the vying and contentious relationship, do you think the gop can use that fighting to their advantage? >> i think you're seeing signs of the same party movement we hear about when we heard sarah palin say a few weeks ago, gee

she is no longer part of this ideology. right now you have rand paul squarely lining up in a way that scares the gop. what is he talking about? he is talking about the expansion of militarism. and that always has been kind of a brand of the republican party. on the other side you have the establishment of rick perry. he is talking about gop leadership embracing this unrestrained cowboy kind of reckless militarism. which has generally been the talking point for the gop. add to that what we hear rand paul talking about issues with the nsa, how he is suspicious of the nsa, how we have to take them under control. these are fundamental parts, michael of the division taking place in the gop. it is easy to understand it. you have billionaire babies that like to call themselves the libertarian. the koch brothers, for example, for decades they have been

trying to work with the establishment, launch this viable third party. they come from a libertarian background. in the process what they have created is this division that we see in these editorials, they have weakened the gop by creating this tea party-type fringe within the gop, represented clearly by rand paul. and while doing that they empowered these loopy alternatives like sarah palin and ted cruz who appear to be more willing to form this new right-wing, almost libertarian party. so i read a lot more into these editorials that are crossing when you take it together with other developments that we have been seeing in the past weeks. >> well, in light of that, adding more drama, to enter these squabbles in the gop, you have to look at it in terms of rand paul's recent political

op-ed, where he said on foreign policy perry couldn't be more stuck in the past, doubling down on policies that haven't worked, and reinforcing attitudes that cost our nation a great deal. if repeating the mistakes over and over again is what perry advocates in foreign policy or any other form of foreign policy he really should run for president. in washington he would fit right in. because leading optirepublicans democrats not only supported the iraq war, but leading candidates campaigned on it in 2008. that is the difference between isolationism and the kind of classic judicious policies that president obama has deployed. what is your reaction to this if you will, pointed argument of rand pauls? >> well, it really scares the hell out of the gop establishment. because when we think about what he is saying he is basically saying if he were president it

would not be business as usual. and that the entire party should actually have a different perspective on military intervention. because historically it is not just that the republicans in the post-war period have been hawks. we have had democratic hawks and republican hawks. the republican party brandished pre-emptive war. paul is suggesting a break from this which scares the hell out of the establishment. >> right, so mike do you agree with that? relegating the pre-emptive times of the past scares the right wing because they want the bully pulpit to scare the right wing. and these are the counter-attacks that rand paul will use. >> i think what ought to scare them, this ringing within the gop that keeps getting worse.

look, what is the brand of this thing they're trying to create within the party. it is the uncompromising gaggle of idealogues, the party of bundy, for example, they're anti-environment, anti-regulation. none of this resonates with the american public in a broad way. it will continue, you know, you will see somebody who says we just need to break away. at some point, rand paul does not line up with rick perry or any of the republican contenders. we have rand paul who leaves us with economic ruin, and so either way if you take a look at it, it is bad for the republican party. the democrats should be able to

capitalize on this. all they have to do is think about how to use these different angles. and one thing is for sure, there is a change taking place in the gop, not easily solved. off it and it could potentially do harm in the coming decades. coming up, violence in chicago continues as death tolls rise this weekend. james peterson joins me to discuss what the city can do to curb violence and to begin to heal. blache ] go pro with crest pro-health. ] go pro with crest pro-health. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score.

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linda hayes told the chicago tribune she planned to barricade herself indoors. when i hear gunshots i'll fall to the floor. when i hear police sierns i know it's okay to get up. she was not speaking in extremes. but the reality of survival. the chicago violence didn't slow down. 21 people were shot between friday night and saturday morning in the city. as the weekend came to a close at least 28 people in total had been wounded by gunfire and three died. many of the victims were teenagers, but the bullets had no discretion. one witness recounted the scene when a 16-year-old neighbor was shot. >> the police sat there and the boys went back this way. he kept running this way. you heard them shooting down here, over 40 shots. >> what do you make of this situation? >> i don't know. the police bogus. the police bogus. >> the tension between residents and law enforcement is palpable. the blame cannot funnel to any one space. whether officers are

overfatigued, gun laws too lax or gangs too prevalent. the severity of chicago's neighborhood warfare is there to exacerbate with each finger pointed. joining me now dr. james peterson, director of africana studies and associate professor of english at lehigh university and msnbc contributor. what flaws are you seeing in the conversation on chicago's violence? >> i think there are a couple of flaws. number one, we are really good at sort of counting the datament we are good at presenting statistics. the homicide rates, the number of young people murdered at any one particular time. we're also good at coming up with propped up out of nowhere responses that are not solution oriented. someone talked about bringing in the national guard a week ago or so. those are some of the problems with how we approach it. the reason the quantitative

approach doesn't work is there are two things. one, we need a better qualitative sense of what's going on in order to come up with the solutions that might work. obviously we don't need any kind of military presence or more police. the police are working hard. in fact, they have done effective work along the lines of managing some of the gang problem there is. this is not all gang related. there is common sense gun safety/gun control issues here. the issues here have are to do with access to jobs and economic development. the neighborhoodses that represent the 80% or more of the homicide statistics we keep tracking here are neighborhoods that have been underdeveloped for scores of years. if we really are interest as a nation in addressing the violence problem in chicago we've got to talk about the structural issues here. the main one withes here are about economic access through jobs and obviously reformation of the public school system there. >> yesterday i sat in riverside

church with the blessing, the baptism of my grandson maxim. as his grandmother and grandfather, his mother and brother, we all concluded listening to father flager from chicago he was telling truth. he said it was genocide. what do you think about the argument that what we see going on is an attempt to subvert a group of people whether intentionally or not through failed policy and practices that continue to target them with vicious particularity. >> whether or not people like to aploy the term genocide to inner city violence in chicago or america, the consequences are clear. we can't throw our hands up here. it seems a knee jerk reaction to say we need more police here or we need people to stop behaving badly.

i have been there working with school children. downtown chicago is beautiful. tree-lined streets, clean, beautiful city. you go into neighborhoods under duress and it's the opposite. the reality is the chicago city proper is also responsible for the under development of neighborhoods. this takes sustained commitment to economic development, sustained commitment to revolutionary ways of thinking of the public education system. that's the investment that will address the problems. we can talk about policy issues. the reality is there are policies we can talk about. access to health care, common sense gun safety. we need community effort, too. there are lots of people in chicago doing great work. they don't always have the

resource or platform to let people know what they are doing. >> is rahm emanuel focused enough on the issue? >> i have to say no. he's a talented politician. at the end of the day, i'm not sure he understands exactly how complex this problem is. it requires a lot of resources and i'm not sure about his strategy for trying to address it. this is not a policing situation. we are with talking about the fabric of the community, the erosion of life, the inability for children to walk with safely to and from school. these are the kinds of issues that require more than just a mayor. these are the issues that require the entire community, probably some statutory support at the state level as well as federal support from the federal government in order to understand and acknowledge the ways in which chicago has been underdeveloped over time. >> no doubt about it. james peterson, professor of

africana studies at lehigh, thank you very much for your time. >> thanks, dock. >> that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> good evening, dr. dyson. thanks oh you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the next gop shutdown. house republicans forced a government shutdown less than a year ago. but they have already forgotten how badly it backfired. because right now they are playing another game of bri brinksmanship. refusing a deal to finance the highway fund which pays for projects to keep roads and bridges safe. the white house says if congress doesn't act by august 1st, they will have to cut highway and infrastructure spending by 28%. that would put