un-american. yesterday hank sort of apologized. he said he was very sorry, quote, if it offended anyone, and then he added this was not written by some publicist. we can tell, hank, because a professional would have told you to take out the qualifier "if." if you offended? clearly you did, and for good reason. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. hey, republicans, the people wants fairness. can't you hear them? >> this is called an uprising. we are taking back what is ours. >> people across the country standing up to big business, while do-nothing republicans try to cut benefits for working people and give tax breaks to millionaires. >> america's middle class has been hammered, squeezed and chipped at for a generation now. it can't take it much longer. >> and stalling the president's

jobs plan. >> what's the problem? do they not have the time? >> tonight, the rallying cry heard around the nation. we're lived from the heart of occupy wall street. plus senator sherrod brown on the democrats' new plan to give millionaires to pay their fair share. and texas stonewaller just can't bring himself to talk about a that racist rout. texas congressman coleman, and msnbc analyst alex wag first on rick perry's disturbing record. >> the political leadership in this country need to understand the angst that exists in the heartland. >> former ohio governor ted strickland, and former obama aide brill britton, on how republicans are stacking the deck against you. as we honor civil rights pioneer fred shuttlesworth, a reminder of why we carry on his battle.

outrageous deny a 96-year-old woman her right to vote. we must fight back. "politics nation" starts right now. welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. anger in the streets, thousands of people from a dozen unions join the protest in downton manhattan, railing against corporate greed. the murder that started two weeks ago is growing. protests are being held and more plan planned and college students are walking out of class in solidarity all across the nation. the protesters say they are fighting for the vast majority of americans.

they fall themselves 99-percenters, as opposed to the 1% controlling most of the wealth. while traders in chicago today taunted protesters with this sign reading "we are the 1%." today an astonishing reaction to the protests, from republican presidential candidate herman cain. he says the unemployed should blame themselves. you have to hear this to believe it. >> i don't have facts to back this up, but i happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the obama administration. don't blame wall street, don't blame the big banks. if you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself. >> well, i think that speaks for itself. blame yourself. not the fact that many of these

people have been working for years and have been laid off, many of those that are there are union members that now states are trying to lock out collective bargaining. blame yourself? you just don't want to work, you're just lazy and you are just irresponsible. they used to say lazy and shiftless. they did blame themselves. that's would you we're organizing and mobilizing all over america. mr. cain, we're going to change things, because we're going to start blaming ourselves for not doing more. joining me now, from wall street michael mulgrew, president of the united federation of teachers. michael, how does it look? >> it's looking night. i have to tell you, this is an amazing thing that's going on.

two days ago we sent out notices, expecting a couple thousand of people. there were over 15,000 people easily filling up the square and marching down broadway. people say enough is enough. we want fairness, we're going to stand up until we get it. >> now, the fight is about economic inequality. i remember not long ago you, i and others marched down, talking about unions. now you are there, as unions supporting the occupy wall street. this seems to be taking form for those that have variety of political perations, but are united around 1% of this country should not be controlling the wealth. >> correct. >> the message has been clear all day. 1% have continued to get richer and richer. 99% of the people are getting poorer. more people are falling into poverty. i'm standing in downtown new york city, which is the economic

disparity capital of the united states. right now yesterday the mayor announced another 2% cut to the school systems, to the social safety net, and at the same time he's saying he won't stand up and support the continuation of the millionaires' tax here in new york city. that's what we're dealing with in new york, but we're getting this across the we want fairness, a country that's strong, and we want it to work for everyone, not just the 1% on top. >> the average public schoolteacher's salary is $55,350 nationally. that's the average salary, $55,350. the average wall street bonus, not their salary, bonus, is $128,530. that's just the bonus. when you look at what we pay our teachers, compared to just the bonuses they get in wall street during hard times, there's no

wonder why we're marching in wall street. >> this is -- you know, and teachers -- as a teacher myself, you know, it's about educating kids, but it's also about fighting to make sure that when children are educated, that there's a society that's working for them. so what are we doing when children are going through high school, going through college, and in the end we don't have jobs, we don't have a society that's set up to work for them? where entrepreneurship is really being tamped down because of the policies that have been going on for the last 30 years, and specifically right now we're dealing with all the austerity measures that so many people cried out, we need to cut, cut, cut. well, we have cut, and now the children, the human cost to those cuts is being felt across this city and across this country. that's why i think people are saying enough is enough. we need to do the right thing. we want our country strong, but the only way we're going to do this is to stand up and make government work for us, and stop working against 99% of us.

>> well, i think that's going to continue. as you know, civil rights leaders, we are coming down, marching in washington. you, randy weingarten and others, but let me bring into this discussion, msnbc political analyst richard wolffe. richard, you are watching what is going on -- michael, stay with me, don't go anywhere. the politics of this is what? could this be on the other side of the political spectrum, the balance to the tea party? >> well, it's certainly the energy and organization you were talking about at the top of the show. it also frames what we're seeing. actually we start with the tea party itself. there's this enduring resentment at how wall street and the financial sector has behaved, not just because of the meltdown, not just because of the profits, but also because of how they're behaving right now. you know, some of the president's most strident

critics right now are the banks, the financial institutions who say he's antibusiness, he doesn't get it. how dare he even question whether bank of america could charge people for using the debit cards. they want to roll back everything that's been done, which by the way most of the people on the streets would say isn't nearly enough. so you have a really clear line that runs through the last several years on the right and the left in terms of the resentment of the people who are to blame for the financial meltdown and how they're behaving right now. all of that is being played out, and i think it's still open for grabs for elected officials to align themselves with a strong strain of public opinion. >> now, richard and michael i showed herman cain and what he had to say, but let me show you another candidate, willard mitt romney. let me show you what he said. he said, i think it is dangerous

this is class warfare. how is it when working class people are saying we need to deal with unemployment, with el need to product or benefits whether they get loopholes and all kinds of tax cuts, that's fine but if the working class won, it's class warfare. >> we're in a first-grade classroom that used to have 22 kids in it, now 32 or 34. those children are being hurt. if we're standing up saying these policies that created this or allowed wall street and the banks, if this is hurting children, then so be it. we're going to stand up for the kids that we serve every day.

but at the same time, let's be clear here. whatever happened on wall street, no one was held accountable. they got bailed out and the rest of us got sold out. now it's the kids being hurt because of it. if myoromney wants to say that, i say why not come to new york city and talk to us about the real people actually dealing with the cops or the children being hurt because of the policies that i allowed this to happen in the first place. >> richard, elizabeth warren running for senate in the state of massachusetts, last night in a debate, look at what she said. this might be what you are referring to. shinchts people on wall street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. there has been no real effort to fix it. >> was that what you were talking about, richard? >> sure it is. she's been a forceful advocate for this, but before any of my right-wing friends go after me for suggesting that tea party

folks are like these people, remember how unpopular the t.a.r.p. and bailouts were, elizabeth warren is speaking to the same thing. there's another piece of this for a politics who wants to move ahead. it's not about the anger and punish the people who were responsible, but help people out. there has to be a wait out for the middle class, who are stuck in mortgages that are too high, they cannot refinance, because the credit ratings are so tough for people even though they've kept up with the mortgage payments and even though they've got good jobs. so you have to have a positive piece, as well as the negative piece, which is frankly about justice in terms of people getting bailed out when they were responsible for the meltdown that leads to 9% unemployment. >> richard wolffe, thank you solve. michael mulgrew, great work. i'll be seeing you soon. you'll be joining us in washington saturday october 15th, march for jobs and justice around the same thing, and it's

the theme of the martin luther king memorial weekend. it's about economic equality. michael mulgrew of the uft in new york joins others as we march with national action network. coming up, day 4, and still rick perry has not commented on the story about the racism and the range he leased. plus a dramatic move today makes the case for president obama's jobs bills even stronger. and voting outrage. a 96-year-old woman is denied the right to vote because of a new republican voters i.d. law. it's incredible, and we'll get it right after this. stay with us. at adt, we get financing from ge capital.

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day 4, where's rick? questions about rick perry and race amounting now four days after we learned he leased a hunting property with the "n" word in its name, but rick perry is nowhere to be found. taking his longest campaign break since announcing his candidacy. here he was at the last public event in new hampshire on

saturday. then he pulled a magic act, disappears for almost a week. his next public event, a speech friday. alex, you sat in that chair the other night, you said that he had a tremendous opportunity and could come forward and make a powerful speech on race. >> we have yet to hear that speech. >> reverent, there's a couple things here, the practical reality of chris christie's week, and you could argue that rick perry's campaign was doing internal recalibration of what they might have to do. they also want to highlight the

policy, but i think more fundamentally, rick perry has not shown a lot of aptitude or skill addressing complicated issues. and so here is something very hot, which is race. as i want, i do believe it's a chanel to show us more about the fabric of rick perry, but given the fact he's not been able to address these issues in the past -- >> he had an opportunity to bring it to a higher point. all of us have done thing that maybe we need to deal with. even if he had to correct some things, but to do nothing raises a real question. >> the numbs number of times editorial questioned this. this is a national shame, and it is not just some remote hunting town that has a very loaded and

unfortunate name. it's happened throughout the south. it is a national shame that dovetails directly with rick perry's personal history. as someone running for the presidency of the united states of america, it is incumbent upon him to address that. >> i want to bring in texas state representative coleman, from houston. i don't want to get you in trouble. you said in the introyou were congressman. i don't want to start any internal texas political battles, but i want to tell you when i makes mistakes, they usually come true. give us a sense, representative coleman about the governor perry's background. we haven't ahead from him at all, but he started on monday bringing out, trotting out some blacks that said he's been a friend of mine, you know, some of my best friends, never really dealing with the substance of his issues. >> i showed on this show last

night how he defended the confederate flag, and how they're even entertaining some of his appointees of putting the confederate flag on a texas license plate. so that doesn't seem to me to jaw with some of his good friends that are saying, he's a good guy. he might be a wonderful guy, but he has a race blind side, it seems. >> that's right, particularly in his statement about tort reform, when he said any old jose can go down to the courthouse and filed a suit, and didn't understand that that was offensive, just like he should have understood in 1984, that "n" word rock was offensive representative, he said in a debate, in jose -- meaning a latino --

>> correct. >> -- could file a lawsuit? >> -- could file a lawsuit. unfortunate. >> even the defense of the property wasn't that they destroyed the rock, they just painted over it, they say. >> right -- then he said he blamed it on his father. the problem is rick perry has been one of the leaders in the, quote/unquote states' rights movement, when he went on lady bird lake in austin and started talking about secession. he understands those were code words in the past but not now. states' rights was the cry of segregationists, and he's using those words on purpose, and he continues to use them. just the other day he brought up secession again and said that the state had the ability to secede based on whatever.

we don't. so he understands the words he's using. by using states' rights and doing resolutions that if they were law would nullify the voting rights act, the civil rights act, the clean air act, these are things that rick perry has been peddling for the last two years. >> let me ask you a question, representative coleman. you've got in the political arena, in the rough and tough of battle. alex is a journalist. >> more of an -- is he sending a signal to those that believe there's nothing wrong with these kinds of language? when you start talking about secession and jose can file a lawsuit, maybe there's a method to his silence?

>> it's the same reason they painted over the rock or left it there for a long time. it's a wink-wink. i think his silence is a wink-wink. i'm one of you, don't worry about it. i think that's the pattern he's set. but particularly today, if you're going out using states' rights having policies on -- it was his big bill. the same thing applies to sanctuary cities, which there are none, wink-wink. so i think he wants a certain group of people to believe he's very narrow-minded. >> will this play, alex? he can get away with this with certain segments. how will it play on the big screen? >> there's a huge part of population that's shocked that this even goes on.

there are huge parts of the population that didn't even understand this went on, this nomenclature happened in parts of the south. the idea that we are now sort of pontificating and guessing what his motivations are is not good for rick perry. he's still very much unproven and untested. i think he's got to come out in front of this. >> i think he's got to do it, but the question is, will they do it? i think as i talked to representative coleman, i hear him. there's a lot of things he'll have to deal with one he does come out. representative doleman, where are we in this whole fight for putting the confederate flag on the license plates? >> well, we're making efforts to have that removed, but, you know, just like before, perry defended the sons of confederate veterans in keeping statues of the civil war on our grounds at

the capitol. these are the types of things where, okay, i'm not a racist, but i'm going to do these things so people defend a time in the past. and, you know, i've been really thinking about this, reverend sharpton. if that said "whore rock" and he had done nothing about it, would people have a question about his motives as it applies to women? this is very offensive, and offense is in the receiver. as a black man, i'm sorry, i'm very offended. >> i am, too. i want to be clear. i fought hip-hoppers on the use of the word. you know we're not going to tolerate it from presidential candidates. state representative coleman and alex wagner, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, rev. ahead, forget romney and perry. karl rove is president obama's biggest obstacle, and you won't believe what he's already doing.

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is not running for president. she released a statement -- after much prayer and serious consideration, i've decided i will not be seeking the 2012 gop nomination for president of the united states. just yesterday a "the washington post" poll showed two thirds of republican voters did not want her to run. let's bring back alex wagner. alex, in two days, christie has pulled out, now palin has pulled out. what does this do? does this mean there's a significant wait in where the endorsements go, and can have a lot of influence on where the party is going? >> this is not the last we've seen of either, and you can always say that about sarah palin. i will say, however, the white-nubled wait doesn't apply to sarah palin as much as it did chris christie, where i think there was a viable, enthusiasm

about his entry to the feel. sarah palin understands one thing. they jurisdiction stood her expiration date as far as becoming a real player had passed, and thus i think the announcement today. >> do you think there are others that are dropping out that's already in? >> i think everybody's eyes are on michele bachmann. she seems to have stumbled in the past few weeks. herman quan has sort of taken the position as sort of the straight-talking come from behind candidate. so i think it's probably a matter of time before she's out. >> as i said breaking news, sarah palin has announced she's not running. i'm tempted to say sarah, we hardly knew you b. but the reality is she's not running because, sarah, we got to know you too well. alex, thanks. well be right back with sherrod brown, on the fight for

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today senate democrats made a dramatic move to make the case for president obama's jobs bill even stronger. they have changed how the bill is paid for, adding a new surcharge on people making over a million a year. the choice now is clear. either you think millionaires should pay their fair share, or you don't. it's clear where the american people stand. a new "the washington post" poll shows 75% support raising taxes on millionaires. 75%. with me is sherrod brown, democrat from ohio. he's a strong voice for the working class and leading the charge right now to protect more american jobs from being lost to china. senator, thanks for joining me. >> good to be with you again. >> how can republicans, senator fight against something so

popular, as asking millionaires to pay their fair share. >> it's a simple contrast. i was just on the floor with senator harkin, casey and whitehouse. we tell the kids, we send them to crumbling school buildings. do we rebuild, or do we -- and pay for it by a tax on -- just 5%, we're not taking away all their income. or do we just -- it's so clear, as you said that this would put people to work immediately, whether it's bridges, highways, community colleges. it would help us employ, ultimately likely help us employ more teachers, and then put manufacturing employees to work -- for renovating these

school billings. ultimately it sets the stage for long-term prosperity. in the '50s, '60s, '70s, the world had never seen infrastructure like we built, and we've let it decay and fall apart. this is what we need to do, short term and long term. >> we're seeing people march, rights groups coming to washington in a couple beaks. people are outraged. i think part is the arrogance and insensitivity of saying geffen this economy, given that our people are suffering on the ground, they are actually fight you you in the senate to maintain that millionaires having no -- >> i want to say it's better than that and here's why it might be.

mitch mcconnell said yesterday, wet to vote on the president's package. we want to vote on it. we're going to say tomorrow, here's what we want to vote on. we want to vote on the president's jobs package, paid for with a 5%, just a 5% surtax, and let's see if mish mcconnell's let us, if he instruction his republican members to kill us or let it debate it. 6. >> so you're going to call mcconnell's hand tomorrow and say we want to call the vote with the a% surcharge. >> you bet. >> and he said let's vote on it. >> he said let's vote to on it. let's bring it to the floor and debate on it. make the decision. that's what president obama is doing well now. he's saying here's what we stand for, here's what they stand for, and let the country decide, let the congress decide, but bring it to a vote, listen to what people are saying. i'm confident most americans

would want to see us build -- hire teachers, police officers, fix the highway system, build water and sewer projects in places like defiance and perrysburg, ohio, and pay for it with a small increase in taxes, 5%, on millionaires and billionaires. i just don't understand why that's not something that republicans would vote for in the end? >> i don't see how they are going to justify it if they don't. we'll be watching the moves tomorrow and see who stands up and who does not for the american middle class. senator sherrod brown, thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you, reverend. republicans have made it clear they'll do anything, and spend any amount of money to defeat president obama. leading the effort is former bush adviser karl rove, his two super-pacs, american controlled roads and cross roads gps,

funneling vast amounts of conservative money into the 2012 election. rove recently announced they plan to spent $240 million in this election, bankrolling attack ads against the president. >> he raised our hopes. he seemed to understand. >> the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> but today he's different. >> the president proposes tax increases. >> $1.5 trillion. joins me is bill burton, former deputy press secretary for president obama, and cofounder of priorities usa super-pac. bill, glad to have you on the show tonight. >> reverend, thanks for having me. >> what's your plan? >> the plan is to use the truth, to take on what are the bare facts and talk about what got us into this mess, the kind of vision that mitt romney and the rest of the republican

candidates are trying to promote and that i can them on. there's two competing visions in this election. is the american people will have a choice. >> they're using all kinds of distortion, half-truths, outright lies, and codes. you are saying we've got to come with the truth, and that the truth in and of itself will give a clear choice to the american people. all of the polls that i have seen. let me show a "the washington post" poll on who the american people trust to create jobs. let's give you that example, for one, because i think when you say truth, people at home will say, yeah, that sounds right, but i think the american people are already clear. who do you trust to create jobs? 49% say they trust president obama.

only 34% say congress. so clearly you start off with the advantage of the american people's trust on who will deal with this job problem? >> even that add that you showed from karl rove's group is it a complete distortion. anybody who was watching the 2008 election knows that one of the central tenants of the plan was to make sure that the wealthy paid their fair share and we got the deficit until control. think doctor the -- they misled on the president's position, but, you know, like harry truman said, we'll give them the truth and they'll think it's hell. >> let me show you somebody that president obama said last night. for annoyance, is that they

could seem to get past the partisan brinkman ship here and also that people are suffering. >> middle class families shouldn't pay more -- warren buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than warren buffett. >> i think it's a clear case. >> and he's someone, which is dramatically lower than the tax rate of the people he's got landscaping hi mig ondollar mansion. it's just not fair. the president has a different vision for how this country ought to go. if republicans were willing to take the common sense steps that were necessary in order to get taxes in a place where we could get the deficit under control,

we could really make the investments we had need to make and grow the economy and create the jobs we need. >> bill burton, thanks so much for your time. >> thanks, american. voting outrage, a 96-year-old woman, denied the right to vote. it's disturbing, and we need to fix it. stay with us. at adt, we get financing from ge capital.

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ohio, ted strickland. welcome. >> reverend al, thank you for having me. >> i was in your state over the weekend, going back to saturday. you have been the champion fighting there against against sb 5, a union-busting law really, as well as house bill 194. explain to the national audience, because it's a national problem. there are similar state legislative bodies doing these kinds of things under different numbers. tell people what they're trying to do and why. >> two terrible things. first of all senate bill 5 is an attacks on ohio's working people they're being made the villains. they had nothing to do with this recession or causing it.

it was greed on wall street, but the kasich administration and republican leadership here in ohio is trying to focus on these public employees, making them the villains. we're fighting back. the good thing xw ohio right now is the working folks understand what's happening, and they're standing up for themselves. so senate bill 5 will be issue two on our ballot. the second issue you raised. >> that referendum is back people went out and got signatures and mobilized. people need to know that wasn't an automatic referendum. people mobilized, organized and put that on the ballot in ohio. >> they gathered 1.3 million signatures. there are only 11.4 million people in the united states, including children yet they and

to push back. the second thing they're trying to do is to suppress the vote. they passed a draconian election reform bill. here again, the people of ohio gathered together, they put their names on a petition, and this measure now is frozen. in place until 2012. in november 2012, when the people of ohio will have a chance to go to the polls and express their opinion. but these efforts are shameless. one of the things that bothers me is i'm seeing it elsewhere. i was in tennessee over the weekend. they have this photo i.d. law in tennessee. it's going to keep legitimate voters from exercising their right to vote. the people of ohio, and i believe across america, are

starting to draw a line in the sand and say you've pushed us as far as you're going to push us, and we're standing up for ourselves and we're fighting back. >> no, i think when you think of the fact that you have all of these people talking about american democracy, and then they come with voters i.d. laws, ending early voting, doing all kinds of things to undermine the vote, that we say to the world that we represent, it's downright un-american and unpatriotic. >> and reverend al, they have no shame. they should be embarrassed to think of taking actions that would literally limit the ability of people to vote. who will be hurt? poor people? older people? sick people? sick people who are less likely to have the resources to enable them to actually meet these draconian requirements.

we should be encouraging people to exercise their right to vote. we should be asking more and more americans to get involved in our political system, but they want to limit the right of people who have the legitimate right to vote, they want to make it tougher. they want to make it harder. they ought to be ashamed of themselves. i'm proud of ohio, because we are now pushing back and we're seeing a coalition of various groups like the firefighters and the police officers, the nurses, the teachers, the building trades unions, and the people of faith, the social service folks who are concerned about child poverty, all of these folks are now coming together in ohio, and we're fighting back. i think we're going to have a victory this november, and i think that will take us into 2012 with great hope that we can finally start pushing back. you talked earlier about the millionair

millionaires we need some shared sacrifice. >> that's right. >> and the working class has already been sacrifices. >> i'm going to talk about a 96-year-old woman losing her right to vote in the next segment. i was in cleveland and akron, i keep hearing run, ted, run. you've got to make up your mind. >> i want to join you on october 15th, if i possibly can in washington, d.c. >> you've got to be there. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend al. >> we'll be right back. i habe a cohd.

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nearly 50 years after the voting rights act, tennessee republicans seem to be trying to roll back state laws, back to the jim crow era. the latest victim, dorothy cooper one in nearly 70 years, but now she may be disenfranchised by a new voter i.d. law, she had a birth

certificate, rent vets and voter registration card, but the state told her she couldn't get a photo i.d. card, because she didn't have her marriage license. i wonder how reverend shuttlesworth would feel about that. he died today at age 89. he was the cofounder of the southern christian leadership conference, and led the fight side by side with martin luther king jr. the house was bombed, he was beaten, arrested, too many times to count, and he led the charge for justice. he knew the vote was key in the fight for justice. >> i'm the first church that got all its members registered. i was chosen for this thing. >> 34 125i9s have preepd new voter i.d.