this can stop from now on. these kids need love, not hate. >> that's no doubt. dr. jeff gardere putting it down as usual. thank you so much for your time. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. tonight on "politics nation," the deadline for the first gop debate. who makes the big stage and who doesn't? also, a key announcement in the sandra bland case. a legal fight over disturbing video of a third grader in handcuffs. and the voting rights act. 50 years later. i'll talk about the fight ahead with martin luther king iii. welcome to "politics nation." we begin tonight awaiting the official word on which republican candidates will take

the main stage thursday night. for the first debate of 2016. fox news said it would take the top ten candidates from an average of polls released by 5:00 p.m. eastern time today. that deadline has come and gone. according to nbc's calculations, these are the top ten. but could there be a tie? will rick perry climb into contention here and be on that main stage? and how will candidates react to being in the second tier debate? those are the questions at this hour. one thing we know for sure, this debate is going to be all about one man -- donald trump. >> my business has been phenomenal. and i've built a great business. the only reason i say that is i think people concur with that.

i think people are tired, they're sick and tired of incompetent politicians. nobody knows the politicians, you know, better than me. don't forget, three months ago i was on the other side of the ledger. i was the fair-haired boy in the rnc. when i get up and speak, i get the biggest crowds, get standing ovations and all we do is talk about how great our country could be. >> joining me now are msnbc political correspondent kacie hunt, dana milbank of "the washington post," and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. thank you for being here. >> we're still waiting for the official announcement, but is the stage basically set? >> well, at this point, reverend, we know that the people that were worried about our governor, rick perry, former governor rick perry of texas and sitting ohio governor john kasich, those seem to be the two that in our analysis go back and

forth. it's possible that there could be 11 candidates on stage. fox didn't rule that out. but we'll find out what their analysis looks like. a little tricky. if you leave out the governor of ohio, somebody who has been on the moves. or do you deny rick perry the chance to make a little bit of his redemption tour on the kind of stage that, frankly, caused his campaign to implode last time? >> well, we just got the official word, kacie. dana, fox announced that kasich is on the stage and perry is off the stage. dana, what does that mean? >> well, it shows that kasich wasn't too late in getting into this and spent enough money to get his name recognition out there. and that poor rick perry's going to have another oops moment here, but it is kind of crazy that it's being called the first

primary, that basically this is decided by a news network and who is really going to be a contender here and who will be at the kiddie table. in fairness, this is a debatele involving one person and the other 16 people wherever they happen to be seated because it will all be about donald trump. >> jonathan, the polls say that most republicans are saying that, well, let them all debate, but then a substantial amount agreed with this setup. but it is going to be all eyes on donald trump who will be center and who, by most of the polls, is leading the whole race right now. >> yeah, but you got to remember that in a big debate like this, trump doesn't get any more time than anybody else. they'll all be out there trying to show their stuff, take shots at hillary clinton and barack obama. and that's what you'll hear most of the night. you'll hear obama and clinton's name mentioned much more than donald trump.

a couple of them, like chris christie, they need to show that trump doesn't belong there and they do, that they're the truth teller, quote unquote, the blow hard in the race. but the rest of them really don't have any need to try to knock trump out. trump helps bush in the race right now, and somebody like john kasich, he's going to try to stay as positive as he can. he's bush without the baggage and has a very decent shot. >> you have two levels. those that will be presidential and those that will try to outblow hard the blow hard. >> you won't see ted cruz do that because he's not dumping on trump. trump could come out of this debate enhanced where i'm looking for and i hope the moderators ask is his description of those who went to pay homage to the koch brothers as puppets in a tweet yesterday, i want to see chris wallace and the other moderators ask him are

these other gentlemen up here, are they puppets. >> do the moderators really come after him and others on things they've said. but you know, kaci irkkacie, moe republican candidates were at a forum in new hampshire last night but donald trump wasn't there but the rest seemed a bit rusty. listen to this. >> in fact, i got a t-shirt that says -- the jeb swag store that says i'm the -- my dad's the graets man alive. if you don't like it, i'll take you outside. >> i'm fluent in clinton speak. you want me to translate? when he says, bill says, i didn't have sex with that woman, he did. >> are you saying i'm washed up? >> no. >> the next president needs to be sure of who or he she. i'm sorry, i can't talk. the next president needs to have their act together. >> talking about act together,

taking the politics out of it, i know you don't get into the politics. just based on delivery, are they ready for prime time? they seemed a little rusty to me. >> well, reverend, i think that many of the people on that stage in new hampshire were probably glad to have that as a little bit of a warm-up for what's coming up on fox as the actual prime time event. it is pretty clear that, you know, some of them were rusty in that particular setting. i think jeb bush in particular, if he's going to not get damaged coming out of this debate, needs to really step up and show that he is the front-runner, that many in the establishment believe him to be, that his bank account shows him to be, for example. we also have today him talking about cutting millions of dollars in women's health funding. and he's since just recently acknowledged that he misspoke in saying he would cut that. that's another one on the list of things that bush has in some way struggled to talk about. we had iraq earlier in the

campaign. it's going to be in many ways telling to have all these candidates lined up next to each other. we'll get a better sense of who is able to take a step up and forward and who might take a step back. it has the potential to reshuffle the deck a little bit. even though there is going to be so much focus on trump. >> now, dana, today the president, president obama, sent out an e-mail about the debate to members of the democratic national committee. and he said, i'm quoting, listen carefully to what the republican candidates for president say, and then hold them accountable for trying to undo all of the hard work we've done to move this country forward. i can't overstate what an important difference you can make by doing this. could thursday night's debate be good for the democrats, dana. >> well, i think it could in particularly be good for hillary clinton who has been sagging in the polls because a lot of the attention has been on the

republican side, because frankly, it's more interesting than talking about hillary clinton's e-mails. but when the public gets a look at who the likely republican candidate is and now we're going to get a look, it's going to presumably be one of these ten people on the stage, you start to hear what they're about, what the contrast is with hillary clinton. and in order to appeal to the republican primary electorate which is a fairly small sliver of the overall electorate, they have to say some pretty extreme things as they have been doing. if they want to get recognized when they're on the stage there, maybe they need to ramp it up and be a bit more incendiary. and that, i think that's what the democrats are hoping and counting on them doing. >> jonathan, he mentioned hillary clinton, but hillary clinton has been under attack, but it seems like the attacks have gotten harsher lately. listen to what scott walker recently said. >> as long as as most of our

attention is focused on how bad hillary clinton would be as a presidential candidate, i love to point out that she'd be a pretty good deceiver in chief, certainly not someone you can trust to be the commander in chief. that's where i'll focus my time, on how bad hillary clinton would be. >> if everyone spends their time attacking hillary clinton, how will they stand out? will they spend their time attacking hillary clinton or each other? >> i think more hillary clinton. but the problem for the republicans is similar to what happened to mitt romney in 2012. remember when he went down that road of self-deportation and then barack obama got 70% of the latino vote? so if they talk about trump's issue and trump is a front-runner, which is immigration, and there's a lot of conversation about immigration in this debate, they will lock themselves into some positions that is going to make it very hard for them to win a general election. if they can't get better than 30% of the latino vote, they

can't win a general election. >> thank you all for your time tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> ahead, big news in the sandra bland case. the family files a lawsuit against the arrested officer. what happens next? also, the disturbing video showing an officer putting an 8-year-old boy in handcuffs. is there any excuse for it? >> you can do what we asked you to or -- >> ow, that hurts! >> sit on the chair like i've asked you to. >> plus, the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. i'll talk to martin luther king iii about the legacy and the new fight ahead. big show ahead. so stay with us. >> donald trump still leading the republican polls with support from 19% of voters. of course, it's only a matter of time before trump slips up and

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time now for the justice files. we start with big news in the sandra bland case. today her mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the arresting officer accusing him of assault and battery for the traffic stop that landed her in jail. the suit also faults the department -- the texas department of public safety, waller county, two waller county officers alleged they didn't properly monitor bland while she was being held. >> we are looking for waller county and the individuals involved in this situation to take accountability. mr. ensenio is still employed. it doesn't make sense that taxpayers are still paying for the service he offered on the 10 t of july.

it's just not fair. this family needs an answer to the principal question, what happened to sandra bland. and that's wa we're looking to do. it's why we're going to continue our investigation. it's why we filed suit. >> bland -- police say bland hanged herself in her jail cell last month, but her mother says she's not convinced. >> as a mother, my inner is telling me that she did not do that. now, i'm the first one to tell you if the facts -- the facts -- i'm not talking about the fiction. if the facts show without a doubt that that was the case, you know, i'll have to be prepared to deal with that, but the bottom line is she never should have been inside of a jail, period. justice is going to be served if the justice system will do what it's supposed to do. >> a spokesperson for the texas

department of public safety said it had not received notice of the suit and would not be discussing pending litigation. the fbi and state officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding bland's death. joining me now are eric guster and seema iyer. thank you both for being here. eric, does sandra bland's family have a case? >> they absolutely have a case. this is a case about who was at fault and who did not pay attention to sandra bland. because any person who is in police custody must be supervised, they must be looked after to protect them from other prisoners as well as themselves. so someone dropped the ball in making sure she was okay, that even if she did something to herself, they were in a position where they were supposed to prevent that from happening. >> and she was in their custody? >> she was in their custody and care. >> but seema, the family also wants the justice department to

get involved. and they made that clear today. listen to her sister discuss that. >> the level of inconsistency that we've seen whether a secondary dash cam video when we were expressly told there was only one, coming out with booking documents that we were told were not signed by sandra, then we see something different. these are things that give us a level of consternation and we don't have a level of confidence that the investigation is being looked at through a clear lens. so that's what we're seeking in getting the doj involved. >> seema, should the justice department get involved? >> absolutely. that is because there is a standard of care, this police department owes to its citizens. so now there needs to be an independent investigation by federal authorities to see was that standard of fair breached. eric was explaining the duty, the deputy that's owed to not only citizens in the community but your defendants. and was there any negligence, right, in that cell, that garbage bag, was it supposed to

be there? if she had access to drugs she shouldn't have. and when she was crying out, why wasn't someone answering her call? >> eric, bland's family says there's a lot of information they still haven't received from the police. i found that interesting. that includes police reports, a full toksology report. they say they don't even have the time of her death. why hasn't this information can given to the family? >> i'm not sure why it hasn't, but this lawsuit will force them to give this information. because when you file a lawsuit, you can issue subpoenas which are court required documents -- >> but the toxicology report, the time of death. >> that's not necessarily true. because toxicology and autopsy comes from a different department. the medical examiner's office. >> but they can issue subpoenas. >> but if it's not available, it's not available because the doctors and the biologists could still be testing the necessary -- >> they could be -- >> -- fluids.

>> but the people who do the toxicology reports little you're not going to force scientists and doctors. >> you can force them to testify. >> we'll stay on top of this, but let's move to another story that's getting a lot of attention. a kentucky sheriff's deputy faces a federal lawsuit after allegedly using handcuffs to restrain school kids with disabilities. we warn you that images we're about to show are disturbing. this cell phone video apparently shows kevin sumner who works as a school resource officer handcuffing an 8-year-old boy in 2014. the lawsuit filed by the aclu claims the boy has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. in the video the officer says the boy tried to hit him. >> you don't get to swing at me like that. you can do what we've asked you

to or you can suffer the consequences. >> god, that hurts. >> sit on the chair like i asked you to. it's your decision to behave this way. if you want the handcuffs off, you have to be hav. i'm asking nicely. but as long as you're acting up, you're not going to get them off. >> the lawsuit alleges the handcuffs were around the boy's biceps because they were too big for his wrists. and a 9-year-old girl with adhd was also handcuffed. the sheriff responded today saying deputy sumner responded to the call and did what he is sworn to do and in conformity with all constitutional and law enforcement standards. sumner's attorney told the "lexington herald leader" his client handcuffed the children because, quote, they were placing themselves and other people in danger of harm and that's what the book says to do.

seema, should this officer have ever been allowed to handcuff these children? >> absolutely not. this is what the rule says, school officers are not allowed to use mechanical restraints. the only exception is if the child is causing some type of danger. and they weren't. that little girl, rev, that incident happened october 2014. and the officer ended up lying saying the kid was threatening and didn't fill out a report till months later. >> eric -- >> that's going to be one of the problems. if you're filling out police reports later on to try to cover yourself, that's going to be an issue for the officer to try to prove his point. and this video, you see this little boy being handcuffed behind his back, which looks painful. the child was hollering out, this hurt, this hurts. and it looks like it hurts. that's going to be one of the biggest problems for him. because even if restrained, you should never be hurting someone. >> i don't know why the officer

is not being arrested. i'm being honest. this is an assault. >> you see criminal law exposure here? >> i think the more attention this case gets would perhaps get the d.a.'s office to get, the prosecuto prosecutors, to get involved. >> let me ask you another question. i don't know who all has been charged in a lawsuit. but what about a training, what about whether an officer like that was even supposed to be in that position especially when you're dealing with young kids with disabilitiedisabilities? >> that's one of the biggest situations with lawsuits like this. when adhd and other children with other issues, they have to have special training. that's where the police department could be liable. because they have to train their officer, make sure they're prepared for every situation and make sure that they going into the situation, they know exactly how to handle each individual issue. that's going to be a problem for them later on. >> eric guster and seema iyer.

catch seema on the docket on shift by msnbc. ahead the new threat to shut down the government over planned parenthood. and it's coming from someone republicans have to listen to. plus, i talked to martin luther king iii about the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. but first, watch out for pranksters on the campaign trail. donald trump and scott walker didn't, and they wound up in tonight's got ya.

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stage and responded moments ago with this tweet. quote, i look forward to being at the fox news 5:00 p.m. debate for what will be a serious exchange of ideas and positive solutions to get america back on track. and rick santorum said, quote, the idea that they have left out the runner-up for the 2012 nomination, the former four-term governor of texas, the governor of louisiana, the first female fortune 50 ceo and the thir third-term senator from south carolina due to polling seven months before a single vote is cast is preposterous. here's who made the cut for the main debate including donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker and ted cruz and chris christie. and for the guys it will be all

guys -- who will appear on the big stage, here's what they can expect to be dealing with. >> obama care's going to start kicking in. that's a disaster for the country. in many ways. one of the things people like about me, nobody's taking care of me. i don't need anybody to take care of me. the nice thing about an executive order, the new president can come in and sign it away immediately. you don't have to worry about congress or anything else. i have great relationship with mexico. they buy my apartments. i think i'm going to win the hispanics. and i think i'm going to win the african-american vote. >> joining me now are ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the huffington post and democratic strategist jamal simmons. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> is it better to be the last candidate at the main event or the first candidate at the kids' table? >> you know, you can probably -- look, they're stuck with what they're stuck with.

it's bad. what you want to be is at the main event always. it's better to be the 11th man on the michael jordan bowls than first person at a losing squad. but you got to play the hand you're dealt. now i think you've got these candidates who are in the second tier, lower tier, they've got to find a way to make some news in that tier that the rest of the media has to cover so people watching it on news later on, they won't know the difference between who is where. they'll just see the clips. >> you know, ryan, wmur in new hampshire conducted a poll of the gop candidates with some surprising results. republican voters name trump the candidate best able to handle policy issues on the economy, terrorism, illegal immigration and health care. do trump's views match beliefs held by the gop base? >> to the extent that he reflects anger, then yes. i mean, you know, nobody really

knows what his precise kind of policy positions are. it's not like he has any nuanced white papers he's putting out that says this is how i would address this issue or this is how i would implement a certain policy. what it is, it's kind of anger and frustration with the establishment. and they're saying, look, you know, whether or not they're actually going to vote for him on election day, just telling a pollster that they're going to vote for him is saying something to the republican establishment. you know, that the establishment is not giving these people what they want. so they're going to go to somebody like donald trump to find it. >> jamal, you know, donald trump recently talked about defunding planned parenthood. listen to this. >> the only way to get rid of planned parenthood money for selling off baby parts is to shut the government down in september. would you support that? >> well, i can tell you this. i would. and i was also in support if the republicans stuck together, you could have done it with

obamacare also. i think you have to in this case also, yes. >> so trump would support tr shutting down the government, and this came just a few days after he wanted to deport every illegal immigrant in the country. is trump drawing lines in the sand and dragging the field to the right, jamal? >> oh, absolutely. and full disclosure, the firm where i work at the raven group is working on this planned parent hood issue. i'm not, but they are. the issue around this planned parent hood thing is you got to not think about the abhorrent things you hear on tv that are coming out of these videos, but think about the young women who are stuck in these situations that need the help. for donald trump to say to the young woman who can't get a mammogram, she can't get cervical cancer screenings because he's upset about this political issue, he's cutting out one of the core constituencies in american politics. are american women who have all

decided on the last multiple decades that they need to have these services be legal and safe for them to access for their own health care. he's on the wrong side of this. >> in addition to the politics and policy aspects of donald trump saying that, he'll be saying it if he says it or any of the candidates on a stage of all men. how is that going to look to women voters in this country? all men standing up there taking shots at planned parenthood? >> it's just suicidal politics. planned parenthood was actually a quite well liked organization. i think its approval rating is certainly much higher than washington or congress or donald trump, for that matter. almost 50%. which in this country is extremely -- in this polarized country, that's extremely high. so saying you want to shut down the government in order to defund obamacare is just insane politics. and also he's factually wrong

about obamacare. no matter what republicans did when they shut down the government to stop obamacare, it wouldn't have worked because of the way obamacare is funded doesn't have anything to do with the discretionary funding that comes through congress. that's just false, but that's kind of par for the course with donald trump. >> let me quickly, jamal, rush limbaugh weighed in on the debates. he thinks the right needs trump on the stage. watch. >> i wouldn't be a bit surprised if trump's objective is to blow up this whole format because it's predictable. it's stale. at some point trump's just going to say how stupid he thinks this is. it's going to be fresh. it's going to be new. it's going to be, to use the cliche, a breath of fresh air and people are going to be applauding it. >> is donald trump a much needed breath of fresh air as rush claims, jamal? >> well, he's a little right to be a breath of fresh air.

he's been around for a long time. but what he does understand is that donald trump understands message. as much as he captures all this fear and taps into that, he talks about making america great again. he's going to be willing to upset the apple cart in order to do that. there aren't other republicans who seem ready to do that. you know who might be? joe biden, if he got in the race, he could upset the apple cart. voters are looking for people like bernie sanders who are going to be pushing the envelope and try to make this a more interesting context. >> brian grim and jamal simmons, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> still ahead, dramatic rescue. a deputy saves a man from an oncoming train just moments before impact. but first, the fight ahead as we mark the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. i'll talk to martin luther king iii next. ♪

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we know the march is not yet over. we know the race is not yet won. we know that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged, all ourself, by the content of our character requires admitting as much, facing up to the truth. >> president obama in selma earlier this year marking the 50th anniversary of bloody

sunday. this week we commemorate another important day, 50 years since the voting rights act was signed into law. the beating of civil rights activists on the edmund pettis bridge spurred the nation to action on voting rights. just weeks later, the marchers tried again with dr. martin luther king jr. leading the way. they marched from selma to montgomery where dr. king spoke from the steps of the alabama state capitol. >> i know you're asking today how long it will take. somebody's asking how long will prejudice blind the vision of men. how long? not long. >> yes, sir. >> because no lie can live forever. >> yes, sir. >> how long? not long. >> how long? >> because you shall reap what you sow. how long? not long. because the march to the unioner

verse is long but it bending towards justice. how long? not long. >> and it wasn't long after that speech that president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act on august 6th, 1965. 50 years later, the voting rights act is under attack since conservatives on the supreme court gutted the law in 2013, states have rushed to pass new voting restrictions. now republicans in congress are holding up a bill that would restore the strength to the law. we need action because, as dr. king wrote in his letter from a birmingham jail, justice too long delayed is justice denied. joining me now is civil rights activist martin luther king iii. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> martin, 50 years since the voting rights act was signed

into law, tell me what's going through your mind reflecting on this landmark achievement. >> what's going through my mind is basically how we have to remobilize again to get fair and just legislation put back on the books. it is clear to me that there is a consciousness even in the nation, but the consciousness does not exist in the place it needs to be, which is in the united states congress. >> now, when we saw the shelby versus holder suit go before the supreme court, many of us, you and i included, were in the courtroom when the oral arguments were made which, in effect, gutted the voting rights act. and we heard justice scalia say that voting rights act was like a racial entitlement. so the gap between the court and the congress and people around

the country, how do we close that gap, martin? >> well, i think one of the main things we've got to do is to deal with the facts, more of the facts. i think anyone can say anything, whether it's a member of the u.s. supreme court or some documentation, but we have the documentation that shows there's consistent discrimination. i don't think the issue is, for example, an i.d. i think it's that we created the new i.d.s and we have the capacity to get them out to the masses of people. it also creates a new poll tax. there are a number of things we have to do and most importantly it really is mobilizing young people. the changes that we seek, as always, are going to come from the energy of the young, perhaps guided by some of the vision of the elders. >> now, the voting rights act and voting rights as an issue didn't used to be a partisan

issue. it was a bipartisan issue. you had republicans and democrats worked together across the aisle to make the voting rights act happen in '65, restore it. i remember in 2009 when president george -- 2006 when president george bush signed the voting rights act renewal and made a very passionate statement about it. let me play that. >> four decades since the voting rights act was first passed, we made progress toward equality yet the work for a more perfect union is never ending. today we renew a bill that helped bring a community on the margins into the life of american democracy. my administration will vigorously enforce the provisions of this law and we will defend it in court. >> now, that was just nine years ago where he then sat down and signed the renewal of the voting rights act.

i was there on the south lawn that day. i think you were at the white house. how have we gone from that, george bush, who many of us opposed his policies, but stood with all of us on voting rights, to this partisan divide around it today? >> well, i think part of the -- the major problem is we fell asleep in the election of 2014. and although the court passed -- rendered their decision in 2013, had we voted in a different way than we voted -- because someone still needs to explain to me how people around the country wanted and voted for the minimum wage increase as well as not for abortion but for choice and then everyone who was elected was people who were against the things that people wanted. so something is not clear to me as it relates to what happened, but the reality is when we look at participation, participation in the 2014 election was so shallow that we lost a lot of

seats. and at least we could have had some balance where at least we could get a hearing in congress. but the way congress is comprised at this moment is going to be challenging to get a hearing. >> and you also look at the fact that in the 2010 election the 21 states passed the new laws you referred to some of the voter i.d. laws, but all kinds of new laws restricting voting rights. and 14 of those states will see those laws in effect for their first presidential election in 2016. so what we were able to get by in 2012 in some states you have 14 new states that for the first time will have new laws in place in next year's election. how do we fight back and make sure that we get our voting rights protected and get people out to the polls? >> rev, the only thing that i know is the same thing that you know. and that is we have to mobilize and mobilize and mobilize again. and the bottom line is if large

numbers of us participate in the upcoming election, at least we may be able to regain a partial playing field. we have a tough task ahead of us because we have to vote in numbers as big as when the president was elected on both teams and maybe even higher. so we have a significant bar to overcome. and i think we have to find a way to galvanize the energy that we've seen when folks have demonstrated in atlanta around the killings when it relates to african-american men being killed. if we mobilize that energy, i think we'll begin to see some of the changes that we want to see. >> and that was the dream of your father, and it's a dream we must still fight for. >> absolutely. >> martin luther king iii, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> ahead, dramatic video showing a deputy rescuing a man from his

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if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist, federally sponsored community health organizations to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues, but abortion should not be funded by the government. any government in my mind. >> he's not sure if the government needs to be spending this money. the comment is already sparking an outcry. hillary clinton tweeted at jeb bush, you are absolutely, unequivocally wrong. bush said he misspoke and responded, quote, what's absolutely unequivocally wrong is giving taxpayer money to an organization that practices no respect and regard for the lives of the unborn. now, this is going to be a big issue in 2016. it's going to be a big issue on

that stage at the debate thursday night whether it's trump talking about closing down government to stop planned parenthood, whether it is bush and others doing the same. but don't forget, they'll be standing on the stage, all men, debating this issue and other issues that relate to women. the picture tells the problem. they are talking in a very narrow way about broad american problems that should include all americans based on gender, sex and vision for what would serve this country. women are more than half of this country. they should not be treated like they have no place on the stage and no seat at the table and their issues and their rights should be protected by whomever

is the standardbearer for either party. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. the trump tenor in peres out, yes it's oops again. let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. well, we've got the lineup. it's trump at the top, john kasich just squeezing in. we now know that ten republicans will meet in a primetime debate two nights from now that could well decide who goes on to iowa and new hampshire and who begins to fall by the wayside. here's the lineup announced by fox just in the past hour. front and center, donald trump, he's followed by jeb bush, scott walker, mike huckabee, ben carson, ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul, chris christie and finally, yes, john kasich made the cut.