we'll have you back more to talk about this. this is very troubling and an under-the-radar story. appreciate your time. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politics nation" starts now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead -- impeaching the gop's impeachment caucus. one of the highest ranking republicans in the country is now openly flirting with impeaching president obama. a decade after an historic call to move beyond this kind of poisoned politics. ten years ago yesterday, a little known senator elect from illinois elect identified the country with his keynote speech at the democratic national convention. >> now, even as we speak there are those preparing to divide us -- the spin masters, negative

ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. well, i say to them tonight there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states. red states for republicans. blue states for democrats. but i've got news for them, too. we worship an awesome god in the blue states and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes. all of us defending the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> that speech set barack obama on the path to the white house. but it set off alarms on the right which saw an existential threat in his message of unity and fairness.

today the effort to tear down president obama has reached its logical extreme. impeachment. gop congressman steve scalese is the incoming house whip. the third ranking republican in the house. this weekend he refused to say impeachment is off the table. >> will you consider impeaching the president? >> this might be the first white house in history trying to start the narrative of impeaching their own president. we want to see the president follow the laws. the president took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land. >> impeachment is off the table? >> well, the white house wanted to talk about impeachment. they are trying to fund-raise off of that, too. >> i'm asking you, sir. >> the white house will try to change the topic from the president's failed agenda. >> he couldn't give a straight answer. it was a revealing exchange. he knows he has to answer to his

own party's impeachment caucus. at least 16 have not expressed support for impeachment. and speaker john boehner is pushing impeachment light with his lawsuit against the president. republican leaders are playing with political fire. they would be wise to remember that divisive politics don't resonate with the american people. >> we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes. all of us defending the united states of america. >> we are one people. it's an idea that too many republicans in congress seem to have forgotten. joining me now is congresswoman karen bass, democrat of california. and salon.com's joan walsh. her latest article is why impeachment talk won't stop. gop won't shut up about it.

thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> congresswoman, what do you make of this impeachment a decade after barack obama's historic call for unity. this kind of poison politics. >> maybe my republican colleagues are tired of voting time after time to repeal the affordable care act. maybe this is the latest fad. you know, the idea that obama has done something that he should be impeached for is really just very sad. and the idea of impeachment which is based on three things -- treason, bribery, high crimes or misdemeanors. where is that? where is the evidence of that? >> there is not even the accusation. but, you know, joan, you wrote about steve scalese's refusal to take impeachment off the table. i want to read it. i thought it struck at something that the congresswoman also just

dealt with. this is you. they will never have 67 senate votes they need to convict or oust the president. but that doesn't matter. just a majority vote to impeach him puts an asterisk beside his name and that's what they've wanted all along. that's why steve scalise wouldn't tell fox he won't support impeachment. do they just want to tarnish the president's legacy? is this just about tarnishing and smear? >> i think it is. even john boehner's lawsuit is about that. but, you know, when they say now when john boehner says i disagree with sarah palin. i think that stands through the november elections. if they do well in november, win seats in the house and if they win back -- god forbid -- the senate, i think this gives the

impeachment caucus a lot of fire to say to boehner, you know, we are not with you. we want to seek impeachment. we've got the votes to do it. we have lived through john boehner saying we don't want to use the debt ceiling as a hostage and then using it -- >> oh, yeah. >> we don't the want to close down the government. they closed down the government. so boehner's word is not good with the caucus he represents. there is no reason to think this is off the table. >> i can't help but go back to the irony. ten years ago yesterday president, then senator barack obama, great call for unity. 2004 democratic convention. i had run for president that year. all of us sat there hopefully bringing the country together. where we are now is like people are working overtime to find a way to be divisive. >> it was an incredible moment.

any time you have a faction of the republican party which seems to have all the power it is a question of whether boehner will lead the party or if the tea party will lead the speak. it will be interesting to see what happens. democrats now have to use this as a warning. we need to mobilize, organize and do everything we can to hit the polls in november to hold onto the senate and take back the house. >> speaker boehner is explaining the lawsuit against the president. he says, quote, i oppose the employer mandate in the president's health care law. the house of representatives have voted to delay or eliminate it. but it is letter of the law that

was passed by congress and signed by president obama. he cannot unilaterally rewrite it. the speaker agrees with policy, but not if the president is the one who implements it. >> right. they oppose the mandate. at least the president did it. it's a weak case. there is a question whether the court wills hear the case. this is his way of trying to channel that fire of impeachment. in a way he considers productive. they believe impeachment would backfire on them. they accused the president of stoking the impeachment fire. that's not true. he didn't start the conversation. speaker baron's friends did. does the white house think it might not be a terrible thing politically? sure.

they recognize some advantage. john boehner recognizes it could blow up in their face. >> there is nothing wrong with taking a lemon and making it lemona lemonade. don't act like i sarted with the limit. it's the whole thing of questioning executive order. cut and dry. he limited stem cell research funding. he blocked funding to overseas groups that provided abortion counseling. he waved the key sign-up deadline in medicare part d. what are they talking about? none of them protested or sed a word against it when bush did it. nowhere near impeaching him.

they didn't even disagree with it. >> it wasn't just bush. it's the last several presidents. president obama has had far fewer executive orders. we have to look at the reason why he's had executive orders which i applaud. he's had them because he doesn't have a congress that's willing to work with him. all of oh us know there are a lot of things that could be done to improve the affordable care act. if you're going to vote over 50 times to repeal it and you don't want to attempt to fix it, then that put the president in a position that he really had no other choice. i think he should continue to do the executive orders. it's the only way to get anything done here. i also think at some point the republicans have to say, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. let's see. we don't like the mandate. we want the mandate delayed. he 'cause an executive order, delays the mandate. now he's violated the law? >> you can't have it both ways. we are going to keep making sure

the american people understand that. congresswoman karen bass and joan walsh, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> coming up, self-defense or murder. lawyers for the shooter of ranisha mcbride are trying to use her past to set her killer free. plus a christmas miracle in july. senator bernie sanders got republicans to actually agree to do something good for the country. we'll ask how he pulled it off. also is america ready for palin tv? she's launching her own channel. it says a lot about the leadership vacuum in the gop. stay with us.

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i almost can't believe it. congress has actually done something. yes, days before their summer break, house and senate chairman announced a deal to reform the department of veteran affairs. it includes $10 billion for veterans to see doctors outside of the v.a. system. $5 billion to fire new doctors and staff. and it requires the v.a. to get leases for 27 new medical facilities. senator bernie sanders, the chair of the veterans affairs committee says fixing the v.a. goes beyond politics. >> at the end of the day whether you are a conservative republican or a progressive, people understand that this issue should and must go beyond politics. that we have people who have put their lives on the line, come back with a lot of problems. it would be an absolute disgrace to the country if we didn't

address their needs. >> it would have been a disgrace if we didn't address these problems. this is something to celebrate. but this shouldn't have been a political fight in the first place. last week the deal was near collapse because house republicans didn't want to pay for it. then 116 house democrats sent a letter to speaker boehner and senator reid asking them to delay summer recess until they reached a deal. we owe it to our veterans to waste no more time. it's a real victory that lawmakers made this deal, worked through the differences to do the right thing. we better be ready. and we'd be a better country and be in way better shape if they did this more often. joining me now is senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont

and chair of the veterans affairs committee. senator, thanks for being here. >> good to be with you, al. >> congratulations on this deal. we don't see a lot of deals done these days. how did you get this done? >> well, i think both chairman miller of the house veterans committee and i understood that it would be a total disgrace if we left veterans who were hurting hanging out there and not addressing their needs. al, as you know, the cost of war is great. we got 500,000 men and women coming home from iraq and afghanistan with ptsd and tbi. they need help. we have overcrowded v.a. facilities all over the country. we need more doctors, nurses, more medical staff. we've got to do that. we have veterans on long waiting lines and facilities.

they have to get emergency care in the private sector. >> yeah. >> the problems were before us. we came together to address them. >> it's really great. i don't want to minimize at all how much this is a breakthrough. but, you know, congress made a deal on reforming the v.a. under your leadership in the senate. republicans refused to take action on so many other issues -- on immigration reform. the senate passed a deal, but the house ignored it. republicans filibustered the president's long-term plan to invest in our infrastructure. and they filibustered a minimum wage hike which i really want to focus on. so another issue that shouldn't be partisan is raising the minimum wage. republicans used to support raising the minimum wage. in 2007, 82 house republicans voted for a minimum wage hike. so did 45 gop senators. why won't they come to the table

and deal with this now, senator sanders? >> well, i tell you, al. you and i know the national minimum wage of $7.25 is starvation wages. >> right. >> we've got to raise it to at least $10.10 an hour. this gets you right into the issue of campaign finance and the role the koch brothers and big money play in the political process. the koch brothers and many republicans believe not only that we should not raise the minimum wage. they believe we should abolish the concept of the minimum wage and if somebody could get a worker to work for $3 or $4 an a hour, that's what they want to see. what we've got to do, al, it seems to me, is rally the american people who overwhelmingly understand we need at least $10.10 an hour for the minimum wage and those guys don't get re-elected if they don't support it. >> congressman paul ryan wants

to become the new face of fighting poverty. you know, the gop's representatives enduring that. listen to what he said yesterday to "meet the press." >> the federal government's approach has ended up maintaining poverty, managing poverty. it's disincentivized people from going to work. able people should go to work. we should have a system for them to realize their potential. >> what's your reaction to that, senator? >> yeah. able-bodied people should be able to go to work when there are jobs available. >> right. >> what mr. ryan isn't telling you is real unemployment, counting those who have given up looking for work, those working part-time when they want to work full-time, it's not 6.1%. it's closer to 12. youth unemployment is 20%. if mr. ryan wants people to go to work, rebuild the infrastructure. put millions of people back to work. >> i mean, it amazes me -- amazes me to talk about

able-bodied people should go to work and then vote against infrastructure bills, vote against jobs bills. it's like telling everybody to go swimming after you have drained the pool of water. thank you, senator. congratulations again. >> thank you very much. coming up, jury selection under way in former virginia governor bob mcdonnell's corruption trial. what was he doing inside that courtroom the today? but first, you thought the republican party was already a reality show. now sarah palin has her own tv network. i'll grab the popcorn. come on back for this one. vo: this is the summer.

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>> raiding medicare to pay for the health care law. that sounds pretty scary. turns out it was also pretty wrong. today, a new report says medicare will remain solvent until the year 2030. that's four years longer than expected. it's happening in part because of the new health law. the report cites cost reduction measures as the affordable care act requires. it turns out the aca is helping extend the life of medicare and laying the rest yet another gop talking point. joining so many others that vanished. did the right wing think we wouldn't noticed their tactics are backfiring in a big way? nice try, but here's my talking point. we gotcha. she's still the one for you.

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and now it's time for "politics nation's" guide to tv's most memorable moments. >> welcome back. there have been a lot of memorable moments on the small screen. we all remember when off and on city jumped over the sharks and into our hearts on "happy days." we remember how bill cosby redefined our view of what a sweater could be when he debuted "the cosby show." who can forget "seinfeld"? nine seasons for a show -- about nothing. but can america handle an entire channel about nothing? well, get ready, ladies and gentlemen. sarah palin is going rogue. >> welcome to a new project. this is a news channel that really is a lot more than news. are you tired of the media filters? well, i am.

i always have been. so we're going to do something about it. >> the sarah palin channel. it's an online subscription network touting all her favorite things -- impeachment, oil pipepine, of course lots of sarah palin. the home page has a national debt ticker and a countdown clock to president obama's last day in office. it's a steal at only $9.95 a month. it would be easy to dismiss this, but that would be a mistake. let's not forget sarah palin brought a wave of tea party candidates into congress -- people like ted cruz, marco rubio whose extreme views brought washington to a standstill. the truth is projects like sarah palin's new channel are filling a vacuum left by the do-nothing

congress and the failure of gop leaders in washington. by refusing to act, they have allowed far right wing voices like rush limbaugh, glenn beck, and sarah palin to run wild and run the party. joining me now are dana milbank and krystal ball. >> what does the sarah palin channel say to you about the state of the gop now? >> doesn't say anything good, i'll tell you that much. i think you're right to say there's been an abdication of leadership from republicans in washington, not only in terms of taking some of the irresponsible rhetoric out of the main stream. they have ceded control of the party. you can see it in the immigration debate. also the fact that they have no ideas of their own to offer. so the republican party has been captured by the cult of penalty

of people like glenn beck, people like rush limbaugh, sarah palin. since there aren't concrete intellectual ideas, instead they are looking for flash and stardom. sarah palin is hoping with the latest effort to capitalize on that. >> well, dana has never called them intellectual. here's a video sarah palin posted on president obama's, quote, addiction. watch this. >> our government officials are addicted to opm, other people's money. it's like renter's mentality. >> is this channel another way for sarah palin's talking points to reach tea party voters and politicians? >> that's what she wanted to do. i have a feeling this will be something of a hard sell. she wants people to pay more than they are paying per month to get netflix but all they will get from sarah palin is cheap

comedy at this point. that's all she's been contributing to the national debate. if any of your viewers are thinking of subscribing, go with the monthly option as opposed to the year. she tends not to stick with these things for long. this will last even less long than sarah palin's alaska. >> these right wing talkers, as much as we talk about rush limbaugh, glenn beck, sarah palin, they are the driving force behind the republican party. watch. >> i personally am calling to impeach the president of the united states. this is impeachable. >> this is an impeachable offense. this is in direct violation of the oath of office. >> the one tool they have are articles of impeachment. let's get going on that. you don't bring a lawsuit to a gun fight. there's no place for lawyers on the front lines. >> they set the tone.

they set the policy. are theykrystal krystal? >> they are driving the energy in the base, who turns out in primaries. with that impeachment talk, you now see a majority of the republican party thinks the president should be impeached. there is astonishing numbers still about the number of oh republicans who think this president wasn't born in this country. so, yeah. even if she's reaching a small fringe which is likely to be the case, even if you're reaching that small fringe because turnout is low in primaries, you can still have a disproportionate impact. that's the scary thing. the only response and the only answer to that is for more people from the center, from the left to get involved in politics so it's not run by sarah palin, glenn beck, rush limbaugh-inspired extremists. >> because if there is not the

counter involvement from -- i won't say the left. people in the seasnate. people who don't want to see the extreme. many the vacuum, they drive the entire discussion, dana. >> they do. i suppose the only saving grace here is that sector is already so cluttered with voices that adding sarah palin's to it probably doesn't do a lot. let's face it. she doesn't have quite the talent for this kind of thing that glenn beck does. he was able to go it alone after fox news. are very unlikely for sarah palin to do that. much more likely she goes the way of oh herman cain tv. she doesn't seem to have that ability. >> now sarah palin has modeled her channel after glenn beck though. beck's own digital channel he launched in 2011. beck now boasts 300,000 subscribers who each pay individually $10 a month.

the site pulls in $36 million in annual revenues before commercials. of course, sarah palin and glenn beck have a right to make all the money they can. what if there is attention between ideas that make good profits and those that make good policy? >> that's a great point. >> you have no accountability when you want your own channel. there is no one there to say, that's a bridge too far, so to speak. glenn beck can go out, do whatever he wants. he has. unfortunately he's been very, very successful at it. conservatives have set up this meme of the media is lying to you. the main stream media. sarah palin is part of that. it setups an opportunity to say we are the ones who tell you the truth. the irony is the messages they are selling are so corporate-backed no one in the,

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was it self-defense or murder? it was day two of the prosecution's case. 55-year-old theodore wafer is charged with second degree murder and manslaughter for shooting 19-year-old ranisha mcbride last november. ranisha showed up drunk but unarmed at wafer's porch in the early morning. she just had crashed her car. her family said she wandered to wafer's house looking for help. but the 55-year-old shot mcbride

in the face through a closed door, killing her. today, the prosecution took us right back to the front porch and what happened right before that deadly shot was fired. wafer said he was scared for his life because someone was banging on his door. the forensic experts in blood collection and fingerprints testified about what they found and didn't find on the scene. >> he received a sample from the swabbed front storm door. >> that's correct. the dna are profile developed from the blood stain from the front door matched ranisha mcbride. >> number one is an impression that i can't tell you what caused it. imprint two is consistent with the with size of the last joint of the finger. could have been made by a finger, but it's very smudged.

i can't use it to identify anybody. number three is not made by a finger or a palm or any ridged structure from a person. >> the defense countered with this. >> if you don't collect fingerprints quickly enough it can disappear. >> it can. depends on the circumstances. >> if you want fingerprints would you agree it is not a good idea to wait 10 or 11 days? >> depends on the circumstances. no, we would rather not do that. >> you want to lift the fingerprints as soon as possible, don't you? >> yes. >> two different theories today. so which one will the jury believe? joining me now, prosecutor and legal analyst paul henderson and criminal defense attorney cimar ayer.

thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having us. >> thanks, rev. >> paul, let me start with you. how does this forensic evidence play with the with jury? >> it has nothing to do with what happened that night. that forensics from are the defense perspective is a distraction. because at the bottom line, the thing that matters is that he was not at risk. he was not in imminent danger. he shot her through the door. they are going to try and show maybe they missed the collection, but there are no fingerprints, no evidence, no broken glass. there is no entry into his home. that's what concerns me. i know the defense is trying to raise it up and make it an issue. it is not an issue with the ultimate issue in this case. >> do you agree? >> of course not. my friend paul, the former prosecutor. you know when a homicide oh occurs, what happens? we preserve the scene. crime scene arrives. we have evidence collection and

indication of a homicide, we have a medical examiner's office to take swabs, to protect the scene. in this case they didn't go do their job for 11 dais, paul. 11 days. >> what's that mean? in view of the defense attorney, why is that important? >> evidence could then be contaminated and evidence dis appe appears. >> we're not doubting he shot her. >> great question. >> from behind a closed door. >> folks, it is a self-defense case. they are putting self-defense forward. ranisha mcbride, that smudge, that fingerprint, that could corroborate and i submit that it corroborates the defense of self-defense. >> how? >> i absolutely disagree. there is no self-defense there. there is no proof she broke a window, ever entered his

domicile, ever did anything more than stand outside even if the evidence came back, which it does not show, that she had been banging or kicking on the door. she didn't try to enter the door. he didn't say she tried to enter. he said he was afraid from behind a closed door and shot her in the face. >> comments he made after the police got there doesn't say any of that. >> right. >> the evidence doesn't show it either. >> hold on. there was booming and banging from two areas in front of the house, okay? >> booming and banging isn't imminent risk. it's not immediate danger. >> at 4:30 in the morning? let's talk about the forensics. let's talk about the fact that there was what appeared to be a muddy footprint on top of the air conditioner on the side of the house which is also consistent with this man's claim that he heard noise on both sides of the house.

how do we know she didn't try to stand on the air conditioner and enter the house? how do we know he didn't hear that noise which put him in fear of his life? >> it was only one shot through the door and he killed her. if he thought it was other people, why shoot only one time? >> number one, he said -- this is conflicting and i agree it is conflicting that he says that he thought the gun wasn't loaded and he discharged once and now why did he shoot only one time? >> so he discharged by accident? >> that's what he said to begin with. he changed it. >> you can't have an accident and self-defense, paul. >> that's it. >> he changed the theory. >> seema is a good defense attorney to raise these issues. >> it's fact. >> you focus on the imminent danger. was he in fear of his life? had she crossed the threshold into his home. the answer is no which is why i believe he's going to be found

guilty. >> let me ask you something quickly before we go. before the jury came in, the jury was denied by the court seeing some of the 2009 police report and ranisha's screen name from 2009. also the prosecution objected immediately to the introduction of the evidence. listen to this. >> there really is no reasonable cause to believe any of the information will be relevant and admissible in court. mr. waif didn't know the victim in this case. they were strangers. it's not the situation where the victim and the complainant knew each other and knew of each other's history. there is nothing relevant, nothing new. this is an incident that the defendant brings up from 2009. it would be, i think the victim would have been around 15 years old. so the people object.

>> what was the defense trying to do bringing this in, paul? >> this really makes me angry. they are trying to dirty up the victim by trying to bring in any kind of information about her past which may have justified what he did in shooting her. even if she had been a bad person before -- which was not proven or introduced -- he didn't know at the time. it is irrelevant what she did last week or last year. it is irrelevant what her screen name was on facebook or whatever social media. what's relevant is his behavior. that's why the judge kept it out. it was argumentative and a distraction to the issue in the case which is why i believe he should be found guilty. i will stay away from the racial component of him trying to justify why he may have been more afraid of this young african-american woman outside of his door who was injured and look pg for help. >> we'll have you both back on the case and of course other things. paul henderson and seem gla

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jury selection is under way at the federal courthouse in virginia for the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. they were seen walking into the courthouse today for the start of the trial. they arrived separately and reportedly embraced in the hallway before greeting and hugging supporters. 150 a potential jurors reported today. they are criminally charged with 14 counts of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts from a local businessman in exchange for helping him promote a dietary supplement product from mcdonnell. they are charged with taking the following -- a $20,000 shopping spree for dresses here in new york city, a $50,000 loan for maureen. $15 a,000 to help pay for the

remaining catering costs at their daughter's wedding. golf outings for the family, a private vacation at his multi-million dollar vacation home, a rolex watch for the governor, even a joyride in a ferrari: mcdonnell said he repaid it all and deeply regrets accepting the gifts. but he did nothing illegal. this is one we'll definitely be watching closely. aptain obvious. captain obvious: i'd get a deal for tonight aptain obvious. with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens?

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bedroom. but to guarantee your right to provide food in the kitchen. i was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. she used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in brooklyn so i would have food on the table. she taught me as i walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you are going. that's family values. >> it was a tremendous honor to take a message of fairness around the country. that memorable night marked the end of my presidential run. for another man that convention was just the beginning. the night before senator-elect barack obama brought down the house by talking about what unites us as americans. >> it is that fundamental belief i am my brother's keeper.

i am my sister's keeper, that makes this country work. [ applause ] it's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and still come together as one american family. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] there is not a black america and a white america and latino america and asian america. there is the united states of america. >> it's a speech that still resonates today. because americans want leaders that will put politics aside for a larger purpose. it's possible. even from republicans. we have seen a republican mayor adam o'neal, walk all the way from north carolina to washington to protest the gop's failure to expand medicaid. and we have seen gop senator rand paul bucking his party to

push for criminal justice reform. that same senator obama became president and convinced newt gingrich and i to go on the road together around education. if you have a big enough vision you can work with people that don't agree with you. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. when in doubt, throw 'em out. are let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. out, out damn spot. how do we rid this country of president obama, erase his name from the history books from the history of our presidents. how did we put a giant asterisk next to him so future generations will never