the ed show. >> god bless you. >> you bet. that is "the ed show." appreciate your time. i'm ed. "politics nation" right now. >> right now they're breaking the new gop immigration plan with a vote set for later tonight. it comes after the gop's embarrassing implosion yesterday that developed into chaos and infighting. in a surprise news conference late today the president called out house republicans for holding this sham vote while refusing to address the real issue. >> house republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere. that can't pass the senate and

if it were to pass the senate, i would veto. they know it. they're not actually trying to solve the problem. this is a message bill they couldn't quite pull off yesterday so they made it a little more extreme so maybe they can pass it today, just so they can check a box before they're leaving town for a month. >> on the border supplemental? >> i'm going to have to act alone because we don't have enough resources. we've already been very clear. we've run out of money. >> he's going to act alone because the gop is leaving him no choice. republican leaders have surrendered control of the party to tea party extremists. tonight's vote comes a day after right wingers handed speaker boehner a humiliating defeat, forcing him to pull his border bill because it wasn't harsh enough. since then speaker boehner has spent a frenzied day throwing red meat to the far right, trying to satisfy their hunger for attacking the president, and

today they finally sound satisfied. >> this house is going to make a resounding statement today that says, stop, mr. president, don't violate the constitution. >> if barack obama would stop campaigning long enough and come back here, we could actually do something. >> the gop rhetoric is ugly and the plan they're voting on tonight is downright cruel. it would change a 2008 law that would make it easier to deport children from central america. it would block president obama's 2012 action to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants who came here as kids, and it would stop president obama from taking similar executive actions in the future. so republicans have finally found something they agree on. deporting children. that's their eun fig message. this vote tonight is a sham.

the president already says he'll veto it. it's away of pretending to camp out the border crisis while aborting it and today president obama said he'll take action himself. joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, democrat from washington and the "washington post" e.j. dionne. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> congressman, speaker boehner is desperate to apiece the far right on this and we still don't know for sure if they even have the votes. what does this make -- what do you make of this debacle? >> well, you know, rev, i was sitting here thinking about my grandmother who 167 years ago in 1847, was put on a boat by her parents alone at age 12 and sent to new york where there was no one to meet her. now, if this congress had been in place at that time, they

would have said, where are you from, and she would have said ross common in ireland. they would have sent her right back to the famine to die. that's the kind of thing we're looking at here. they don't want to find out the problems of these kids. they don't want to make any reasoned judgment about whether they should be kept here or protected. they have simply forgotten jesus's command to suffer the little children to come unto me. they simply don't believe that. >> wow, that's a heavy statement there. he spoke to speaker boehner about senator ted cruz's role in tanking the border bill that boehner was proposed until yesterday and the quote is when asked why they thought of cruz's meddling and what they thought of cruz's meddling, boehner associates were livid. i mean is there a sense in the gop that speaker boehner now has less control over the house than

ted cruz? >> well, i think there is that sense out there. i was at a session that speaker pelosi -- speaker pelosi -- leader pelosi had with a group of reporters yesterday, and i asked her what she thought of house whip ted cruz, and she said around here we call him the speaker. and i think that the republicans and speaker boehner has always been furious about this and this was an enormous embarrassment to him yesterday, that he couldn't bring this bill to the floor because he didn't have the votes. and i think that this week may be a turning point in our discussion. i mean there are many occasions for turning points. this might be it. you had two things. one is voting on this really, really right wing bill, which sends a message that the republicans don't even want to welcome the dreamers, people who, you know, came here not of their own accord as kids who do well in school. those kinds of people, i would

think they would want here, but secondly, the same week that they sue the president for allegedly abusing his power, they were also saying, well, president obama should have solved this problem on his own. well, which is it? i mean they can't -- you know, i think when the country looks at this, they're going to shake their heads and say this version of the republican party under control of a very right wing group is not the republican party a lot of republicans used to vote for. and so i wonder what's going to happen after this week out in the country as we approach the election. >> congressman, let me ask you. is ted cruz now running the house republicans? >> it's pretty obvious he is. he is the -- he's the icon of the right, right, right wing of the party. and he goes over there and whips them up and promises them that he will protect them in their elections and that he's going to run for president down the road here and he's going to lead the

party to where it ought to be. the belief of many of these guys is we didn't go far enough into the ditch last time, that's why we lost in 2012. so they're going to follow this guy right further deeper into the ditch. and he really has a hold on them because they have -- they're like -- they're like debutees in a religion. they're not compromising, talking to anybody. they're just sitting over there talking to themselves and they come out with a bill worse than the last one. wi think we've seen the wofrlt and they come out with the one today. >> you know, e.j., today, president obama came out himself talk about the gops blocking emergency action on the border crisis as well as other commonsense issues. listen to this. >> in circumstances where even basic commonsense plain vanilla

legislation can't pass because house republicans consider it somehow a compromise of their principles or giving obama a victory, then we've got to take action. otherwise we're not going to be making progress on the things that the american people care about. >> e.j., i mean, doesn't tonight's sham vote really say that or confirm that? and in many ways say why the president ought to be making the moves for direct executive action himself? >> on the border crisis, he really doesn't have any choice. he's going to have to move border money around all by himself. it's not like he went to congress and said, look, i need $3.6 billion or some sum of money because i want to solve this crisis you guys were yelling about to me only a few

weeks ago. so he made it very clear he wanted congress to help him so they could act together and they have said no. and what you've got, i think, on the republican side are some parts of the party that believe that it's unprincipled to work with the president of the united states if he's with some other party or barack obama. and in the assistive party use have, you can't governor the country if that's the way you're going to operate. again, i think that's going to be the central discussion of the matter this fall. this is about plain vanilla. this isn't left wing problem-solving. we can't even do that. >> he admitted yesterday one gop lawmaker really showed how frustrated he was with the far right. listen to this. >> how are you going to get the votes? what's going to be different? >> we'll get the vote. >> how?

>> we'll get the vote. >> what changes tomorrow that wasn't there today? >> i hope some people grow up. >> what do you think, congressman, that some people in the tea party grow up overnight? >> well, i think he threw some more raw meat in this bill, this nondreamer bill and said vote for this thing. you can go home and talk about that and pass the other one which does a little something. rev, you've got to think about this. this is little kids we're talking about. 52,000 kids. and the president has to be taking care of their health and their safety. and these people on the right are treating them like they were cattle that kind of had wandered into their farmland and they needed to put up another fence and shoo them back on the other side. these are kids. these are live human beings, and they're treating them just awful. i don't know how they face themselves when they go home. but he's given them just enough

red meat that they think they can go home and convince the voters they were protecting them and therefore they've tried to get one rid of these things that wandered into our neighborhood. it's not going to work. >> i'm going have to leave it there. congressman mcdermott and e.j. dionne, thank you both. have a good night and weekend. >> you too, thank you. coming up, the one thing republicans don't want to talk about. we'll look at what gop lawmakers have been doing while president obama has been creating jobs. millions of them. also, the shooting death of ranisha mcbride. a new look at how her killer's lawyers are trying to use her past to set him free. it's in tonight's justice files. >> plus right wingers finally admit on camera that speaker boehner's lawsuit against the president is letted with hypocrisy. we'll show you the tape ahead. ugh. heartburn.

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in my first term if i had a press conference like this typically, everybody would want to ask about the economy and how come jobs weren't being created and how come the housing market is still bad, you know, why isn't it working. well, you know what? we did work, and the economy's better. >> president obama this afternoon touting another strong jobs report. this month the economy added 209,000 jobs. that's six straight months with 200,000 new jobs created for the first time since 1997. in fact, 2014 is currently on track to be the best year for the u.s. job creation since

1999. the private sector under this president is growing. 53 straight months of private sector job growth. a remarkable streak, the longest in american history. and when you compare this president's record to his predecessor, it's not even close. there have now been 6.3 million jobs created under president obama. under president bush the private sector lost 646,000 jobs. yet we're still hearing republicans crying that president obama's policies are killing jobs. today the president called out republicans for failing to advance an agenda that could further boost the economy. >> unfortunately there are a series of steps that we could be taking to maintain momentum and perhaps even excel iaccelerate .

there are jobs that could promote growth, more relief, more income for higher and middle-class families and so far at least in congress, we have not seen them willing or able to take those steps. >> right now congress should be doing more to create jobs. but instead we see them fail to do theirs. joining me now is jack bernstein. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, rev. >> jack, put this in context for us. 53 straight months for private sector job growth. how historic is this streak we're running right now? >> well, as you said earlier, it is a historic streak. that's almost 10 million jobs in the private sector. the unemployment rate, 6.2% last month, has come down a full point over the last year. and by the way, a couple of months over this recovery, we had the unemployment rate coming down for the wrong reason

because people were leaving the labor market. in fact, since last august the participation rate, the share of the population who are participating the labor force, has stabilized, and that's another very important trend. it means that this decline in unemployment is precisely the kind of decline we want because more people are getting jobs. >> you know, jared, today in your blog you pointed out one of the major gaps in the economy recovery, quote, wage growth remains one very important area that continues to reflect the slack that still besets the job market. until things tighten up a lot more, too many workers will continue to lack the bargaining clout they need to claim their fair share of the growth. i mean how important is raising minimum wage to the recovery and health of the economy, jared? >> well, that's a real part of the problem i outlined there. and i'm very glad you raised that point for a couple of reasons. one, it gets right to the point the president made.

by increasing the minimum wage, an idea that is, by the way, extremely popular with people across the country, even a majority of republicans support that idea, we can help adjust those workers at the bottom of the pay scale who lack the bargaining clout as i said to claim their fair share of the growing economy, an economy that expanded at a 4% rate in the last quarter. but also this wage story is important for the federal reserve. we know that the job market is improving, the economy's picking up some pace. but as long as wage growth remains as tepid as it's been, it's important for the fed to hold back in terms of putting on the brakes, continuing support the recovery. >> today the president address some of the things blocked by the republicans. watch. >> i've been an advocate on raising the minimum wage, making it easier for folks to pay off their student loans, fair pay, paid leave, all of these policies have two things in common.

all of them would help working families feel more stable and secure and all of them so far have been blocked or ignored by republicans in congress. >> you know, is there any way to measure how much republicans have hurt the economy with their policies and their votes? >> i think it's tough when you come to those kinds of measures, but i'll tell you one thing. last year in 2013 we know through measuring precisely that kind of effect that these congressional inactions actually took 1.5% growth off of last year. that translates to something like a million jobs. so that's a big story in and of itself. i'll tell you something else. interestingly, the president has been trying to push every one of those issues as best he can by rule changes or executive order and that's been helpful. he doesn't need the congress for that. but it tends to be very narrowly targeted. it only hits a few people.

so the fact is he's trying to broaden out that very important agenda. >> what do you project will happen in terms of the growth of the economy and jobs in the private sector in the next two years? tell us what we could look for as americans in your estimation? >> let's talk about the job market. i think what we've seen now in month after month with payroll gains that have been 2,000 or higher is that we really are into a solid period. i don't see the kind of head fakes where you do okay for a few months and then you backslide. i'm pretty confident the job market is going to continue to add employment at around this pace. if the labor force continues to firm up as i suggested earlier, that means we could see more off the unemployment rate over the next year and a half. that moves us closer to full

employment to a point where the folks who haven't been benefitting from wage gains ought to be able to get a better shake in that regard. but all of that is contingent on congress not throwing a wrench in it. and think it's the congressional republicans who need to be listening to that. >> jared bernstein, thank you for your time tonight and have a great weekend. >> you, too, rev. thanks. still ahead, evidence that speaker bane 'eers lawsuit is blowing up in his face. and the president is calling out the republicans for their h hypocrisy on their executive actions. but first the first lady gets personal with a powerful statement about her roots and how far we've come as a country. [ male announcer ] don't just visit miami.

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me for acting on my own. and then when they couldn't pass the bill yesterday, thaw put out a statement suggesting i should act on my own. >> that's right. just a day after the house voted to sue the president over taking executive action, they told him to take more executive actions. it's enough to make your head spin. even some republicans admit that it makes no sense. >> look, you can't say on the one hand that the president's overreaching by acting without legislative authority and direction and then refuse to give him legislative authority and direction in another airy. >> it is ridiculous to sue the president on a wednesday because he oversteps the law and as he has done dozen os of times illegally and unconstitutionally and on thursday say he should overstep the law. >> it is ridiculous, but the entire house lawsuit is ridiculous. it's nothing more than

impeachment-like, and now we're seeing it backfire on the republicans. the campaign for house democrats announced today they received $4.8 million in online donations just this week coming from 240,000 donors. it's the best week online fund-raising the house democrats have ever had. the american people want to focus on real issues, and the more republicans focus on these silly stunts, the more opportunities they hand to president obama and the democrats. joining me now are goldie taylor and susan milligan. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverend. >> susan, the republicans sue the president one day for taking executive actions and then telling them to take more executive actions. doesn't it show they aren't serious? >> it remind mess of that joke, rev, where the cup sl complaining about a restaurant and the one says the food is terrible and the other says, i

know, and the portions are so small. you can't have it both ways. you can't threaten legal action which most people don't think is going to be uphead in the courts anyway and ask him to take action because they're incapable of doing it. right now they're struggling to get enough support for a show vote on immigration, not even real legislation. what surprises me is they haven't learned from their mistakes in terms of what an electoral mistake this is. impeachment didn't work for them in the past. shutting down the government didn't work for them in the past. not raising the debt ceiling didn't work. i know they're trying to energize a side of their base because a lot of the general elections will hinge on the turnout. but they're alienating not just independents but a lot of republicans. >> you know, goldie, we hear democrats are the only ones talking about impeachment, but listen to what the leader of the party says on the issue. >> i never have called for the impeachment of obama.

all i've said is that i think that it's a mistake to take the option off the table and take the ammo out of your arsenal. but i've never said pull the trigger on it. >> now, boehner has refused to take impeachment off the table. don't want it but they don't want to take it off the table. is it better for them to use it in their minds as a constant threat? >> you know, i think it is good for at least the republican base to use it as a public threat but there are mainstream republicans, elected members of congress who have openly called for impeachment. 're attempting to placate a base. speaker bane hearse run the political calculus on this. unfortunately it's been a bad math. rather than stop it early on,

nip it in the bud, he's let it play out. he's come to a hatchway notion by filing this lawsuit. but those things as you know it only work to the democrats' favor. it helped them to raise money. it helped them to raise volunteerism. like you said, you haven't seen house democrats bringing this kind of treasure trove in the -- really the year since this president has been elected. >> you know, susan, "the daily beast" also is reporting that impeachment is still a hot issue outside of washington. quote, in the remaining republican primaries across the country, the issue is front and center. with gop candidates signaling that they're more likely than their opponents to remove obama from the oval office. will we see more republicans talking about impeachment as they hold town halls during the summer break, susan? >> i think what you're going to

see from some republicans is an unwillingness to take it off the table or to say what a stupid idea it is because they're worried about alienating the base. a lot of the veteran republicans on the hill, particularly the senate, are not happy about it. i spoke with senator hatch about it just the other day and he said, oh, nobody over here in the republican party is talk about it. i said what about sarah palin and this person. he got this steely eyed look and said, sarah's not sitting here. i know it sounds tame but from senator hatch who's usually much more gentlemanly, he sees this side of the party making mistakes and they may have to live with it and pay for it at the end of november. president obama says he'll keep taking executive actions. listen to him this week. >> look. any time congress wants to do -- work with me to help working families, i'm right there. the door's always open.

more than that, i'm -- i'll go to them, i'll -- you know, wash their car. walk their dog. but where they're doing so little or nothing at all to help working families, then we've got to to find ways as an administration to take action that's going to help. >> we can't wait, so if they're not going to do anything, we'll do what we can on our own. >> the president is acting, the republicans are blocking. gold goldie, does that give the government something to run on in the midterm elections? >> in fact, it does. not only are you going to see more fund-raising happening on the democratic side of the aisle, but you're going to see much of this messaging being pushed through the grassroots. you're going to see much more volunteerism, meaning people getting out to vote. you know, for speaker boehner, this is like poking the president in the eye -- having

the president poke you in the eye or saying he poked you in the eye and turning around and say, hey, turn around and poke me in the other eye. i sued you for this one. i'm not going to sue you for this one. this president has signed less executive orders than others. i think it's a misnomer. what's really happening here is speaker boehner and the entire leadership, they're being pushed by their grassroots do things that they know are dangerous to their party. turnout elections are always base elections. they're always about the grassroots, dyed-in-the-wool, both democrats and republicans turning out. what speaker boehner and them are doing is letting out the grassroots. i think that's an unfortunate, unfortunate strategy. >> goldie taylor and susan milligan, thank you for being here tonight. have a great weekend.

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legal analyst glenn anderson and attorney see ma meyer. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> we start defense in detroit. he's charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting 19-year-old renisha mcbride on his front porch last november. this week prosecutors rested their case after calling more than 20 witnesses to the stand. but before they put their first witness on the stand they repeatedly tried to have information about renisha's past introduced into evidence. >> we had amber jenkins testify about a dopehouse. we heard that in evidence. why can't i now bring in the evidence of renisha's cell phone pictures which shows she deals drugs, marijuana specifically.

i think the screen name for renisha mcbride on twitter is very important. her science scene name is young and thugging. it is admissible and furtherance of self-defense to claim that the victim was the possible aggressive. >> using the victim's past to prove that she was the, quote, probable aggressor. paul, the defense attorney has asked for this evidence to be introduced at least three times now. what do you make of this strategy? >> you know, i'm really sensitive to these tactics to denigrate the victim. and in this case i think it's really frustrating that they're really trying to show the jury that maybe she was a bad person without any evidence. i think in this case it's racially charged, it is irrelevant, prejudicial and that's exactly why the judge kept it out as he should have and i'm angered about it. i hope the prosecutors are as angered as i am and express that

to the jury about their defense of this victim in this case. i think it's ridiculous that they keep trying again and again and again because it's clear what their thinking is. and they've even said they thought she may have been up to something. there's no evidence of that. there's no proof of that. >> you know, see ma, i've mentioned the defense repeatedly attempting to get into evidence her past. in pretrial motions they asked for cell phone photos of renisha with cash, marijuana, and a gun rerks nisha's criminal record and evidence of a 2011 car crash that renisha was involved in to be introduced. the judge denied all of this evidence in pretrial hearings. since the pretrial has started the defense has asked twice for cell phone photos with cash, marijuana, and gun. over and over again. >> judge, that's our job. we have to repeatedly make applications to preserve the record because later on some

appeals lawyer is going to say you didn't do your job, defense attorney. now, what paul is saying is accurate. the past is the past. however, if they can show character of renisha, hone in on that period of time right before the murder took place, and during that period of time, if we can show that renisha's behavior pointed to aggression, pointed to her being the one who started the fight, then you may have relevance. >> but there was no fight. he shot her through a screen door after opening the front door. what fight? >> i use fight in a very loose term, rev. i'm saying in the sense that she was pounding on the door and the defense attorney, i believe there was some testimony that there could have been somebody else there, so that brings out some more reasonable doubt. also going toward the fact that why there was two different boomings in two different areas of the house koob rating the defense. >> teller has never, paul, been

any corroboration or evidence that there was anyone else including a statement made initially by him that night. >> ever. that is all imagine nair and we're wondering what could have been and what might have happened. all of that is irrelevant because there's no proof of any of that. what we know is that she was injured, that she was looking for help, that it's 4:00 in the morning. of course, you have to bang on the door to get attention. she wasn't even aggressive enough to get through a screen door, so all of those arguments i find to be false on the defense and i'm glad that the judge sees through them and ruled them -- ruled that information and that kind of evidence out. i'm hoping the jury sees through all of this as well and looks at this for what it is and finds him guilty at the end of the case. >> paul, i just want to remind you after the accident took place, one of the neighbors -- somebody called 911 and renisha mcbride left the scene twice. not once, but twice. if she stayed there when she was highly intoxicated three times

over the legal limit, help would have arrived. >> well, but the problem is -- wait a minute. the problem with that is we're going from if there was another person leaving the scene of the action. one plus three does not equal two. now, to the so-called slender man trial in wisconsin. one of the two girls charged with trying to stab her friend is mentally incompetent to stand trial. the two girls were both charged with adult first-degree homicide after they allegedly tried to establish their gerlfriend to death to satisfy a mythical monster called slender man. the nbc will not feed them. one suspect told police slender man demanded they kill to show their dedication to it. today the judge ordered one of

the girls be committed for treatment. she'll be moved to jufr nile court. >> this age is so preposterously young. wisconsin says 10 years old as adults. that is too young. i think it should be moved to juvenile. some things they do, rev, they can look at the severity of the crime and do iq testing, education level, reading comprehension, and if those girls test younger than their biological age, that could be a reason. >> paul, should they try them as adoesn'ts? >> i agree with see ma. it's a complicated issue and what they've done is make the charging mandatory when someone over the age of 10 is involved in a violent crime but i think a review like this is expected and necessary so a judge in a third party can make an evaluation as to whether or not it is proper and whether north someone should be held accountable because it's a complicated legal issue. you're looking at mental

competency and you're looking at guilt and then you're overlaying that whole process with the evaluation or whether or not these individuals should be charged as juveniles and adults and really at the end of the day, i think this raises the question that we're constantly answering in the criminal justice system about whether or not it's adequate to address issues of mental illness over and over again. >> paul, we're going to have to leave it there. thank you both for your time. have a good weekend. >> thanks, rev. >> thanks for having me. >> again, we're watching the breaking news tonight on the house floor. lawmakers debating a gop bill that would make it easier to deport immigrant children. moments ago democratic congressman john lewis delivered a passionate speech on the house floor opposing the gop plan. >> there is no such thing as an illegal human being. history will not be kind to us if we fail to do what is right,

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sample to this day. he also changed american culture. his song "i'm black and i'm proud" gave an anthem to the new black pride movement. he was a leader, a role model for millions of black men and women. the night after dr. king's assassination, a james brown concert in boston was almost canceled due to fears of rioting. during the show police and fans starting pushing and shoving. tensions escalated until james brown single-handedly restored the peace. >> you're not being fair to yourself and me either, all your race. i asked the bullies to step back because i think i could get some respect from my own people. are we together? >> yeah. >> that night there was rioting in 160s across the country. not there. it became known as as the night

james brown saved boston. the got father of music changed america. but he also changed my life. i was 18 when he took me under his wing. his son teddy had just died. i came from a tragic background as well. i became like the son he lost and he became the father i no longer had at home. he taught me a lot about defining yourself. he taught me to believe in yourself if no one else did. he taught me to be the head of your owner fan club. don't use your circumstances to define you. reach for the top no matter what. he never would allow me to make excuses. when i would have my pit parties about my socioeconomic or family standards, he would tell me, you've got to reach, you've got to define and believe in yourself. don't be like everyone else. james brown taught me how to get on up. i hope some young men and women

across america gets that from this movie. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. friday night bites. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the theater of the absurd now known as the republican-led u.s. congress. you thought "house of cards" was bad. at least on that show they get things done. here in the nation's capitol on august 1st, 2014, they stay up late. they stay up late on a friday evening for the most ridiculous of reasons. start with making it look like they're working. they're here showing that they're here, got it? so i andth