a war without soldiers? let's play "hardball." ♪ good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. president obama has got recruitment problems, doves on the left don't want foot soldiers in the war against isis. hawks on the right don't want to roll them out. can we go to a enemy that america hates, with politicians refusing to even sign on? and the democrats pick philadelphia. can they regain not only the flawed, but what it stands for?

we start tonight at the political warfront, capitol hill, where the president charges like the light brigade with cannons on the right and on the left of him. senator angus king is an independent from maine. senator, can you support the president's call for an authorization of military force to fight isis? can you support it? >> yes, i want to see the final language, chris, there are a lot of issue that is haven't gone before the foreign relations committee, but i think it's entirely appropriate that the president has come to us for this authorizations. you put your finger on it in the introduction. it's a fascinating flipping of the parties, where the republicans are pushing for more open-ended authority for the president to act unilaterally form the democrats are calling for more controls. i think the white house has tried to define it down the middle with this phrase "enduring offensive ground combat operations. they're trying to try to find that middle ground, but it's a

fascinating debate. >> can it also be that politicians and both sides don't like to be tied to what could turn out to be a bloody war? isn't it a safer position to vote against no matter what the war is? let me ask you about this -- >> no, you're right. you're right about that. >> do you really think that left, the dovish left, they really think that obama is a secret hawk, that he's going to take this authority and run with it and start a major land war? do they really believe that barack obama is a secret hawk? i don't buy that. i don't believe they think that. >> within an hour yesterday, i heard both sides of that debate. i heard democrats saying the authority he was asking for was too broad, and a half hour later republicans saying it was too narrow. it was like going down the rabbit hole. maybe you're right, chris, on one point, and that is i think that congress is much more adept at criticizing and

second-guessing than its for taking responsibility. that's why guys like tim kaine and i have been pushing since last august, this is a constitutional responsibility. we're supposed to take this responsibility, the framers of the constitution did not want presidents that unilaterally have the power to take us into war. >> what word do you want changed? enduring? combat? that seems to be where it's at, that phrase. what don't you like about the word "enduring"? >> is it enduring for a week? two weeks or six months? i'm not necessarily uncomfortable with the phrase, but it needs to be defined. usually when terms are used? statutory language there's a history of covert cases or prior statutes. i think this is a brand-new phrase and has to be defined. >> the last 250i78 the president was in a situation he wanted or troops out of afghanistan by a date certain and he was beat to hell for saying a date. you're telling the enemy what date we're leaving.

now the congress is saying when are we going in and going out? we want a date. >> yeah, no, and i agree with you. >> isn't that an irony? >> it is an irony. i don't think he should have put the date at the end of afghanistan. but in this case they've got a day that says three years, but it says unless extended by congress. so it's not really a final date in that sense. if it were, we're going to do this in three years and it's over, i wouldn't buy that for a minute, but the fact is it's a renewable authorization, if you will, so congress has to play its constitutional responsible role of making these decisions. >> brand-new nbc poll injures out, maris poll shows that 54% of americans want congress to back his authorization. what do you think of the polls in this case on wars? do they endure? i wonder, do they endure? >> they change. there was a 60%, 70% against any involvement, and then we had the beheadings last summer, and it

jumped up. i think they varies according to what's going on in the field. but i think fundamentally the issue here is, a, do we want to take these guys on? i think most people agree that we should, we have to, they're a danger to us, to the entire world. should the president get some congressional authorization to do so? the answer is yes, in packet because at the makes the whole intersurprise stronger. if it's not just the president acting unilaterally. >> well, the democratic critics are saying they are concerned, as you are, about the restrictions, they aren't strong enough. here was senator joe manchin here yesterday on "hardball." >> the bottom line is i'm not going to vote for the interpretation, we can have combat ground forces on the front line fighting someone else's war. >> just to showcase this, on the right they're worried the language will limit it too much. let's listen to orrin hatch.

>> here we have the president >> well, i don't know about the language -- i don't know how senators call president stupid. i'm sorry, senator hatch. i have no problem with you personally, but you have to stop talking about a president like that. he's stupid? your thoughts, senator. how do you get the language together, the duty of the senate is to deliberate. how does the effort to -- the greatest deliberative body achieve a coalescing. there is too much language restricting.

>> well, i think what you will see is a fascinating hearing and fascinating debate. you have people like bob menendez, corker, tim kaine, very thoughtful people. i disagree with a bit. manchin is right, but maybe for different reasons. 9 reality is ground troops from america aren't going to win this war. it's gob to be arabs and muslims taking on arabs and muslims. if we go in there, that's exactly what isis wants. in other words, it won't be effective, but, you know i've got to say, don't you find it ironic, chris, you've been watching this for a long time, to see republicans arguing that this president should take broader, unlimited authority. that isn't what i've been hearing around here the last two years. i think congress has to take this responsibility. it's exactly what the framers intended for us to do, and i

think we can work out some language that will meet everybody's requirements. i certainly hope so. >> thank you senator king from maine for coming on. let's bring on senator isaacson, senator, thank you for joining us. this is like a mathematical explosive model, where one size says weft more restrictions in the weeks ahead. 9 other says we want less. >> i think angus is right. we definitely need to fill in some of the los angeles and i think the foreign relations committee will do that, but rest assured a lot of us want to make sure we get it right, because getting it wrong will not be good for america and american interests. >> do you think it's fair to say this would be for the nestr next president, sometimes in the late part of next year, you could

write a whole new resolution for the next president. this wouldn't be gonching the next president, would it? >> well, it would end at the beginning of the next president's term, but here's the way i see it. the president has demonstrated less than the necessary appetite in my opinion to go after isil. i think this resolution will protract what's gone on in that part of the world. american people are tired of sees young folks like ms. mueller, and the jordanian pilot being killed. you've got to kill them in return, and we need a commitment to do exactly what the president has said he wants to do, and that is destroy isil. the only way you do that is with military action. >> do you think the language of this authorization can make the president more aagreesive? >> i think it needs to make the presidents more specific. we need to know what we're getting into. if the goal is to degrade and then destroy, we need to give

him the ability to destroy. if he does not want to use that ability or limits it by rules of engagement or time, then we have a problem on our hands. >> have you thought about how we, using the tools we have, airpower, special forces, the kurds who are great fighters, what else, certainly now the jordanian air force, which is gung ho now. we don't have a decent, even a reasonably decent uncorrupt iraqi government, or army. who's going to do this fighting when it comes down to taking territory and holding it? who is going to do that? >> if it were my choice alone, first of all i would put a no-fly zone over syria to protect the people we trained in syria. number two, i would give the ground forces the opportunity to do what they have to do. we already have 5200 on the ground in iraq supporting the air war. it may take a few more. we ought to do that. we need to degrade and destroy

isil, and eventually it will take a coordinated effort between the air, the ground and between all military units and the arab country that is surround us. >> but who take the land? who takes back that part of iraq and syria from the bad guys and turns it over to whom? who gets the new land we're taking back from the bad guys? that part of that, that critical part doesn't seem clear to me in the strategy. >> that's very perceptive, if you replace assad, who do you replace him with? first we're trying to train a syrian army to fight the old syrian army and run assad out. that of course will pique the interest of the iranians, which is a whole other issue, but doing nothing, not going after them, not deciding we are going to destroy isil is not a good policy for america. >> i agree. i agree. one thing i agree on with the senator -- it may not be important what i think, but i don't see a strategy for victory against isis yet anywhere. thank you for joining us. senator isaacson of georgia.

coming up, the democrats have picked their convention city. what better place for the democrats to lay claim to every it stands for, liberty, equality, of course, all men are created equal, the pursuit of happy sinuses, about gay cup 8s there's so much they can say from the declaration of independence from independence hall, from the liberty hall. what happens to republicans when they go to london? what is wrong with the air over there? chris christie botcheded the question of vaccines. we're going to ask london's mayor boris johnson, what's in the air over there that's making republicans so confused? their brains get foggy in foggy london. reince priebus vows the party will make gains, but let's compare his words with the big-time efforts to suppress the black vote across america. finally a switch by the

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another republican is testing the waters. john kasich is heading to south carolina next week. it's his first trip to one of the early primary states, and it's raising eyebrows. he won reelection last year by a big margin. if he doesn't run for president, likely to be on the short list for vp next year. i like the guy. we'll be right back.

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been selected to host the 2016 convention. they beat out brook listen and columbus, they last convened there in 1948, and they will highlight the values of the independence and the role philadelphia has played in the nation's founding. the dnc released this video on facebook earlier today soon after the decision was made. here it is. ♪ it's philadelphia. anyway, joining me, very dramatic, debra. >> you like that?

>> bringing the convention to fp. the chair, florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, ed ren democrat, michael nutter, and pennsylvania's senior u.s. senator, bob casey. don't take all the time, because i want everybody to talk here. congresswoman, the choice many philadelphia, how much was it about the symbolic history of the city? >> well, the main three reasons that we focused on for any of the cities when we decided on philadelphia, was resources, logistics and security. but philadelphia is the cradle of democracy, chris, as you have said many times during this review. the opportunity to nominate the next president of the united states in philadelphia with the backdrop of the birth of our nation, and to showcase the democratic party's values of inclusion and empowerment and creating more opportunities for people to succeed, that's what it's all about. we're thrilled to be coming to philadelphia. i was so excited to call mayor nut are, governor rendell and senator casey this morning.

>> i'm so happy for you, mr. mayor. congratulations. what a great way to end your tour, your terms as mayor of philadelphia. clean as a whist 8, which is a big deal in philadelphia, to be completely clean. we love that. but you're productive. you brought the pope, and you're not even catholic anymore. [ laughter ] even though you went to st. joe's, and you're going to make it even more important. tell us why it happened. what did you do right? >> well, chris, thank you very much. what we did right is we made sure that everyone had a role to play, played their role properly, as the chairwoman wagser man shultz pointed on you we focused on the resource, logistics and security. >> governor rendell with his previous experience as mayor and party chair, philly having hosted the 2000 republican convention, a convention nonetheless and all the things that go with that, having

senator casey, and the work he has contributed, his relationship, of course, not only with the party, about you with the white house, congressman bob brady, the leader of our party here, and the person who has been pushing this idea for some time. we didn't think we were ready, i didn't think we were ready for '12, but i nigh we would be ready go 2016. security is our big thing here in philadelphia. the enthusiasm about this, chris, you know philly, is off the charts. people are really excited in the streets of philadelphia. again, i want to say thank you to the chair for picking philly. >> governor rendell, you gave us a great boost of morale, what's this going to mean in terms of recognition, finally philly will be the center of our country for at least a couple weeks. >> well, we have a tremendous boost from the republican convention. people saw philadelphia and couldn't believe the changes that had occurred.

as mayor nutter pointed out today, all the good things that were in place in 2000, those things have just progressed under mayor street and mayor nutter. it's a hotbed for millennials, count to "bon apetit" it's a great restaurant city. conde nast called it the best cultural city. and the good news is the team that ran it at the wells fargo center, the police team, the transportation team, that team is all intact, ready to go, and to do as flawless a job in 2016, as we did in 2000, but i think in the end -- and debbie is right about the three criteria they applied, but in the end, the ability to do this and to

nominate maybe the first woman who's nominated for the presidency in the history of the country, to do that with a backdrop of independence hall, liberty bell, constitution center, i think that was compelling. >> has secretary clinton got a room at the ritz carlton yet? are you all said? because my wife can help -- i'm just kidding. senator casey, this is a big deal for pennsylvania. secretary clinton whose family comes out scranton, a vice president comes from scranton, and you're from scranton, as your dad was. this is a big week for scranton, troo, though they do root for the yankees, and we're not very happy about that. >> not all of them. >> senator, go ahead. >> i would say it's a great day for philadelphia for sure, and for the region, southeastern pennsylvania. it's also a great day for the commonwealth. we've got great support, as

governor rendell and mayor nutter know from all across the state. the state united behind philadelphia's bid. so it was a great effort to accentuate the city that's the birthplay of america, and i think we'll chart a course for the future. one footnote here, though, we're grate 68 for the chairwoman's work, she did great work, but you do not want to be on a witness stand when she's cross-examining you like she did the three of us. >> would eflgt to thank the chairman of the city committee, too, of course. >> absolutely. >> congresswoman debbie waserman shoots, in more simp language, thank you, debbie. >> you're welcome. we're thrilled. >> thank you all, gentlemen, thank you, congresswoman. up next, why do candidates keep getting tripped in the obligatory trips to london, first chris christie, now johnson. all the way across the pond, this is "hardball," the place for politics.

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welcome back to "hardball." we've seen an odd trend lately of candidates embarrassing themselves while in london. chris christie ignited a fire democrat storm when he suggested parents should have more choice about whether to vaccinate their children. refused to answer any questions. do believe in it do you accept it? >> to me i'm going to punt that as well. >> no. really? >> that's a question a politician shouldn't be involved in one way or the other. >> any british politician, right or left wing, would laugh and say yes, of course, evolution is true. >> to me it's just one of those i'm here to talk about trade,

not to pontificate on other issues. i love the evolution of trade in wisconsin, it is going well, and would like to see an even bigger elf. louisiana governor bobby jindal suggested to cnn that there are so-called no-go zones in london that are unsafe for non-muslims. >> there are people in london that will tell you there are neighborhoods where the women don't feel safe walking through the neighborhoods without veils. there are neighborhoods where the police are less likely to go. that's dangerous. >> and of course back in 2012, then candidate mitt romney offended many when he said that london might not be ready to host the summer olympics. a nice way to visit the country. shortly thereafter, london 'mayor johnson red could you romney for his comments in front of 60,000 people. >> there's some people coming from around the world who don't get it about all the preparations we have done to get london ready in the last seven

years. i here's there's a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether we are ready. he wants to know whether we're ready. are we ready? [ cheers and applause ] are we ready? what a cheerleader. mayor boris johnson. did you know there's a cartoon character in this country, boris and natasha? >> yes. >> my darling, none of that? how did you get a russian name? >> i have a russian name, because there was a guy, who was actually an american called boris litvin, my parents were students in new york. >> you're eligible for run for president. >> that's right. i pay taxes. >> you were born here. >> i was born in new york. the guy said to my mother, she was going to tail a greyhound bus, a bus from mexico back to new york city, he said that was

no good, and he would pay for her plane fare. she said in gratitude, i will call my child boris. because of generosity of this country, towards my indigent student parents. >> why -- what do you make about an american who won't -- like we just saw. scott walker, who i thought was an okay guy -- >> i thought he was a great guy. >> totally bizarre. the theory of evolution was propounded -- >> it's not a theory. >> it was when charles darwin came up with it. he was in bromley, come to bromley. i advise everybody to come to london and see the people of bromley and understand why charles darwin came up with the idea of natural selection. it's all there. >> why do they think the people -- why we experiment on animals and experiments a all these different kind of creatures, because they're somewhat related to us. otherwise it would make no sense to experiment on them?

>> look, i'm an evolutionist -- >> i remember we were taught evolution from day one in school. let me talk about leadership and the parsity, i think that's a good english word. thatcher was looked up to, kennedy, reagan, it's getting pretty shallow out there for leaders. >> but maybe that's a good thing, mr. matthews. >> chris. >> forgive me, chris. maybe what it shows is in many of our countries, the world does not require the kind of critical leadership that marg thatcher, ronald railinger provided when we had to face down the russians, doesn't require the kind of courage that winston churchill had to display during the absolutely existential moment in 1940. maybe we live in a blander, softer kind of age. >> yeah, but we live in a television age that churchill doesn't are to face, where we can watch a flyer, a crank otherwise jordanian get burned

alive by gasoline. a young woman who is helping people who are desperate get killed. we have to watch that. i just wonder, as much as i don't have a plan to win this war against isis, how can we be a manly, conscious, moral country and watch one person after another be publicly and be executed. >> we can't. a couple weeks ago i was in kurdistan and saw the one set of guys who are really sticking it to the isil people, are the kurdish peshmerga, and we should be backing them. >> maybe we should give 24e78 a country. that's what they want. >> well, they claim they would be happy with kurdistan in northern iraq, but obviously there are difficulties with turkish kurdistan -- what they certainly deserve is the support, the training to -- >> you and i have something in common. we both have a hero. i happen to have a copy of this book.

this guy is america's greatest hero. this guy. churchill, you meet more men and women who say -- what was it in a made us across the pond, besides his american mother, what made him the guy we looked to and said, you know, damn it, that's what we need? >> because in may 1940, if he hadn't stuck out against hitler, if he hadn't refused to do that deal, then i think britain would almost certainly have -- >> buckled? >> have bent the knee in one way or the other. it would have been an epoch of unparalleled gloom and misery for europe and for civilization. and thank -- that was the first thing. the second, he spent the next two years or however long it was, virtually two years, working on america, with fdr, he worked on america to get her, to get america to come in and pull our chestnuts out of the fire. that made all the difference. >> great to have you on. thank you so much.

>> thank you. good look for your book. you didn't come for that reason. you asked not to talk about it, and i pitched you into it. boris johnson. i think i'm going to root for you. up next t. reince priebus, he's not my kind of chair, says the party will make gains with african-americans and this after the work trying to keep people from voting. there might be a consistency issue there, reince. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics.

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welcome back to "hardball." reince priebus wants black votes. that's a mighty tall order, when your party also suppresses black votes. yesterday at the trail blazers luncheon, the party reached out to african-americans, saying -- i want to see us increase the number of republican votes in the black community, so that increase actually has a clear impact on the outcome of the election. given that republicans in nearly three dozen states passed laws in the past two years to suppress voting rights, that might be hard. some republicans aren't shy about the political motivations behind those efforts. before the 2012 election, mike turzai said their voter i.d. law would give the election to romney.

here he is. voter i. dishes, which is going to arrow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> done. and then the state's republican party chair gloated about how those laws took away votes from president obama. >> do you thing all the attention affected last year's elections? >> yeah, i think a little bit. i think we probably had a better election. think about this. we cut obama by 5%, which was big, you know. a lot of people -- he beat mccain by 10%, only beat romney by 5%. i think photo i.d. helped a bit in that. >> and then there's this whopper, north carolina precinct chair said this to "the daily show" back in october about his state's new voters suppression laws. >> the law is going to -- if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks, so be it. >> it just so happens a lot of

those people vote democrat. >> gee. >> well, a sarcastic son of a whatever, but he says what he thinks. yetten later resigned. joining me is michael steele, a very much different cut. nia malik, and wesley. wesley, what do you make of this two-faced thing going on, the effort to sort of make the deal with the demographic changes by one way, which is making it harder to vote for older people or who don't have cars or licenses, instead of bringing it slowly, 83-year-old, give me your card. i just think it's an effort to screw the voters. your thoughts? >> especially when you talk to democratic operatives about this gop push to bring in some black voters, with you things they obvious race is they make the argument that more people voting, good for democrats, fewer people voting, good for

republicans. they point that to a level of inconsistency or hypocrisy. they're not talking about wins 25% of the black vote, not competing for the black vote as large, but talking about the 11% that george w. bush got in 2004 -- >> where do you get this 23% figure we heard? >> john kasich, in the midterm elections this round won 23% -- >> a pretty good candidate, let's be honest. >> that's what a lot of democrats in cleveland, my hometown point to often. they'll make the argument you can get democrats to make the argument that black democrats vote against fitzgerald because he was such a bad candidate. kasich was also a relatively -- >> it seems to me the logic of this thing, they're obviously going for better off people who are -- they can see themselves with republican values, those are my values, not the down-and-out person, but doesn't everybody in the black community

know that this voter suppression thing is going on? >> yeah, they know. it's targeted at them. there is a pretty i think widespread perception among african-americans, they feel like this is voter suppression. it's about voter suppression, and if you look at a recent study out of the gao over the summer, some of the stats suggest that it does actually suppress some of the vote anywhere from 2% to 4%. if you look at the states of kansas and tennessee, there was a drop-off from 2008 to 2012, particularly among young voter and african-americans, so there is some suggestion and some proof that this is actually working to keep african-americans and young folks away from the polls. >> is there a sense -- and i grew up in the city, but far end of the city, it wasn't exactly urban, but northeast philly, greater northeast philly. i think there is a perception in the suburbs that in the inner city, there's cheating on voting.

they say all we're doing is trying to cut out the cheating. what do you think? you lid the republican party. is there a real perception there's cheating, substantial enough that justifies the bad pr? enough cheating to justify the pr, which is terrible? >> there is a perception, there is some evidence of it. i mean, look, we don't have to go around the country, we is stick in the '94 election, ellen was living at 11:00, lost it by 1:00 a.m., on finding 11,000 ballots, you know, in a locked classroom in baltimore city. >> like "the good wife." >> it's not -- [ laughter ] >> so there is that aspect of it that drives a lot of this, but i think the more important important point in any effort to have a conversation with the black compliant really goes to where nia left off. that's the perception and the reality have merged.

and whether there's actual or perceived efforts to block my access to the ballot box, that's what i'm thinking and feeling. for all the lunches that you want to have, for all of the efforts of outreach, which i hate that term. i banned it when i was rjs chairman, because it means nothing. at the end of the day you have to stand in the well of the community and address those concerns. when you have the voting rights act sitting on the floor of a republican congress and the party which was the arbiter, the part of making this law reality is doing nothing to address that, that continues the perception that you really don't care about what's fundamentally important to us. >> do you think there's a perception that the republican party, though it may offend the black community and liberals are offended about it, they're getting the backlash vote anyway? that they figure they can always offset it, always offset the black vote with an angry white vote?

they must be thinking that, because it makes no sense otherwise. >> certainly some of that perception no matter what, and there will be demographics within both parties that will show up, no matter what you say, for whatever questionable or questionable bigoted reasons on any side. the republicans know they can take advantage. think know one of the largest pathways to victory is through white voters, but there is a real question here of on the margins with hispanic voters, that seems unlikely republicans in our lifetimes will ever win 8 out of 10 black voters, can they win two? three in four? >> in my lifetime, my friend. until '60, with kennedy writing the letter to mrs. king, sell here's your chance, side with martin luther king. he didn't on do it. he took his chances on that theory, because he went to a lunchtime rally in georgia and all the white guys working downtown are waving at him.

>> nixon did relatively well. >> but guys like eisenhower were getting like a third. i think they say in movies, plot points. when you move. the roundtable is staying with us. up next, why is president obama breaking out to the selfie stick in a new buzzfeed video? i don't even know what i'm talking about. this is "hardball," the place for politics.

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seconds left in the game, down by one, he gets it! >> mr. president? >> can i live? >> you do you. >> yolo, man. all right. a two happened set from the president. that is part of a video released by buzzfeed. president obama just like all of us does things he doesn't talk about like pretend to make a basketball shot at the buzzer. there is a real message. sign up for health care. here is the president practicing that pitch. >> the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- >> not like any other wednesday. >> wed-nes-day. >> february -- man. >> february 15th. february 15th.

in many cases you can get health insurance for less than $100 a mont. go to healthcare.gov and sign up. >> i'll say this is original stuff. in just the past few weeks, president obama has done interviews with youtube stars including glozell who wore green lipstick. vox. he did a psa during the grammys. is he changing the game for future presidents? i don't know what the argument is here, i don't think there is one. you two are the youngest, so what does this mean? who are the people that watch this show, i'll forgive them, they're young and busy with social lives. these people, this is a way to get to them. that is apparently why he is doing it. he will go anywhere to find you.

>> as the ambassador of the youth -- >> it's generational. i said chris, and he said i'm a generational spokesperson. >> are you a generational spokesperson. >> i think that we're seeing this with other politicians. we have never seen the president handle quite this way. what we are seeing is politicians trying to use snap chat, mobile apps, and meeting people with nontraditional media outlets. buzz feed will do hard journalism and produce a funny video. >> who will watch the video? >> a bunch of people. >> who came up the with the idea? local accents, you don't say the "r." >> it is funny, was memorable. >> are you one of the kids? >> i'm in between these guys here.

>> it will drive republicans nuts. >> how are some of the stiffer parts of your party doing this? >> at a certain level, all of this is beneath the office of the president. but it is opening a new landscape for communication. you have a growing segment of our voting age population that is increasically disconnected and you want to find a way -- both parties need a find a way to connect them. the rand paul's, the marco rubios, the next generation of republican leaders, here is part of the buzz feed video, mocks the president's seeming ability to be blamed for everything that goes wrong in this world. >> oh -- thanks, obama.

>> thanks, obama. >> blaming himself. thank you, michael steele, leslie lowery. when we come back, i will finish with a switch of massive resistance.

>> let me finish tonight with the republican pafrty's plan to remain competitive with the democrats as the demographics of the country shift. minorities, poor, older people,

do it by requiring voters to issue an id card. if they don't show a card, they would not get to vote. you would think no party would want to be seen as the declared enemy against a voting group. the g.o.p. has made no bones about standing up for i.d. requirements putting a burden on a group that largely votes for the other party. the person leading this movement is someone named ranks previs. he is the reason why the talk is so deep in deceit. the party of abraham lincoln is now the party of massive resistance. that is "hardball" for now, "all in" with chris hayes starts right now.

>> tonight on "all in." >> she told us she felt that man hated them for the way they looked and the muslim garb they wore. the family of three slain muslim students are repealing for legislation. plus, a major measles scare in silicon valley. my interview with the best selling author and pediatrician who thinks it's okay to delay vaccines. on the eve of the all star game, an interview with the first openly gay player. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes.