>> darrell issa's political for-profit insurance companies who have not shown goodwill to witch hunt turns into a contempt their customers in the past. hearing for attorney general we reached out to a former vice eric holder. >> no, mr. attorney general, president of cigna and noted you're not a good witness. >> congresswoman eleanor holmes whistleblower wendell potter. this is what he had to say. norton will refute issa's claims "this is a carefully co lly orchestrated pr campaign to get tonight. new york mayor michael lawmakers to think they'll do bloomberg is trying to save stop the right thing without the affordable care act. and frisk though it's backers fully admit it's racially they're anticipating the supreme profiled. court will rule the individual >> it's racial profiling but really criminal profiling. mandate unconstitutional leaving the rest of the law to go >> we'll bring you both sides of forward. that is the insurers' worst the debate tonight. the obama campaign wants to nightmare. they're laying the groundwork to make sure americans remember get congress to think the mitt romney's plan for public service employees. consumer protections in the law especially when it comes to can and should be repealed." teachers, firefighters, and police officers. these are private companies. their missions is to make as >> instead he wants to add more much money as possible. to government. he wants another stimulus. for example, united health group he wants to hire more government made $8.5 billion in profit last workers. he says we need more firemen, year. so they could keep these more policemen, more teachers. provisions in place and lose did he not get the message in money. wisconsin? or they could do away with them the american people did. and push those profits even it's time for us to cut back on higher. government and help the american no one knows. what to you think they're going people. to do? tonight in our survey, i asked >> president obama used his weekly address to touch on the you, does mitt romney really importance of hiring more public believe public servants are the

employees, namely teachers. problem? 91% say yes. >> the point is, teachers matter. 9% say no. coming up, former florida one study found that a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom governor jeb bush says there by over $250,000. would be no place for his father a great teacher can change the or ronald reagan in today's course of a child's life. republican party. joel walsh will join me to so the last thing our country discuss that and much more. this is $100,000. needs is to have fewer teachers in our schools. >> the obama campaign is not taking this one lightly. a new web ad highlights state and local officials in massachusetts, questioning the job cutting policies of mitt romney, when he was governor of the state. >> local government was cut dramatically. we lost police, firefighter, teachers, at rapid rates. people that directly impact the lives of every citizen. our cities were less safe, not as clean, larger class sizes. >> republicans want to pretend government job losses don't hurt the economy, but the facts are not on their side. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. we are currently experiencing the only time in the last 30 thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. years in which public sector jobs have not been part of the post recession recovery. they didn't take a dime. and they wonder why the current how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ?

recovery is sluggish. even ronald reagan added public sector jobs coming out of the if your bank takes more money than a stranger, recession. public employment was up 3.1% you need an ally. under reagan but down 2.7% under president obama and the ally bank. republican congress. those jobs make a difference in no nonsense. just people sense. the overall unemployment picture. according to the "wall street journal," unemployment would be a full percentage point lower with those public sector jobs factored in. it all has an effect on the economy. the center for budget priority says, quote, private and public sector workers who are laid off or who see their pay reduced by less and further reduced economic activity. today the romney camp remains steadfast in its denial. here's romney supporter john sununu on msnbc. >> you have cities in the country in which the school population peaked 10, 15 years ago and yet the number of teachers that they have maintained has not changed. i think this is a real issue and people ought to stop jumping on

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i won a scholarship to the i support it because it's fair. prestigious school. i saw the small classrooms, i support it because it will, individual attention paid by when combined with our cuts in teachers. the constant nurturing of government spending, reduce students and the freedom to interest rates and put more americans back to work again. range widely in academic the measure that congress is pursuits. this was unlike the experience about to vote on, while not at the school i eventually perfect in the eyes of any one graduated from in detroit's of us, will bring us closer to inner city. we had secondhand textbooks, the goal of a balanced budget, dilapidated facilities and overcrowded classrooms. the contrast was dramatic. restored industrial power and limited economic investment did not allow northwestern high employment for all who want to school to provide the same work. together we can reach that goal. >> that was ronald reagan back service. but i believe the teachers at in 1983. northwestern high school were even more inspiring. making the case to raise taxes. because they had to transcend now one republican says there their resources, often paying would be no room for reagan in out of their own pockets to make today's republican party or room sure the students were prote for his successor, president george herbert walker bush. protected. president bush's son, former they have to do more with a lot less. florida governor jeb bush, told these teachers, like most people who go into public service jobs, provide great value to our a group of journalists today, society. i understand why mitt romney and "ronald reagan would have based others from his background have on his record of finding a hard time seeing that. get your cell phones out. accommodation, finding some tree i want to know what you think. of common ground, as would my tonight's question, does mitt dad, they would have had a hard romney really believe that public servants are the problem? time if you define the republican party, and i don't

text "a" for yes, text "b" for say as having an orthodoxy that no to 622639. doesn't allow for disagreement. doesn't allow for finding some or go to our blog ed.msnbc.com. common ground." bush went on to say, "back to my i'll bring you the results later dad's time or ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff in the show. joining me now is e.j. done with a lot of bipartisan dionne, msnbc contributor, support that right now would be difficult to imagine happening. "washington post" columnist, fellow georgetown professor, and author of "our divided political heart." reagan raised taxes. he compromised with democrats in welcome to the show, e.j. dionne. >> good to be with you, congress. policies the republican nominee colleague. >> all right, my friend. look, is the romney camp way off for president mitt romney won't track with their message on this campaign on." jeb bush's comments are now one? they seem to be ranging far being called bizarre and foolish afield of the facts and the by the character of modern gop's truth. >> well, i think that they are very much on the line of the anti-tax pledge norquist and republican party and modern argued reagan would embrace conservatism which has turned its largely into an gop's points telling "talking anti-government creed. points memo, "he didn't have a conservatives didn't used to be republican house committed to not raising taxes as president and had a pre-reagan senate. quite this dogmatically this is the republican party anti-government, but they are that reagan created. now. i think one of the reasons this that he envisioned." happened is that progressives let's turn to joan walsh, editor weren't tough enough in actually at large for salon.com. defending government's role. welcome to the show, joan. i mean, conservatives say all >> thanks, michael.

the time, government doesn't >> is grover norquist engaging create jobs. the answer to that is, yes, in some revisionist history government does create jobs. here, joan, that really misses the point of what we clearly saw there was a report from the cbo that showed without the stimulus, we probably would have reagan doing? >> well, yeah, of course he is. of course he wants to claim had something like 3.3 million reagan for this party that he's created that has brought the fewer jobs and we might have fallen into recession back in country to the brink of a debt 2010. crisis and continues to mire the so it's not just that these jobs country in a terrible recession, are important, they're important as in the case of teachers, to michael. he needs to say, ronald reagan economic growth, so are the wanted that. ronald reagan would have construction jobs government endorsed that. creates. but as you suggested, they're but i think it's actually more interesting to look at what jeb very important for the money that people spend and put into bush is doing because while he's the rest of the economy. declaring his independence from the republicans, right now, the grover norquist and his party, republicans along with he's also delivering a kind of conservatives in europe are vote of no confidence in mitt arguing for austerity and saying romney even though he's endorsed cutting government is the key to him. because i see that as -- it is a everything. but that sort of -- that goes bizarre statement for someone if right against all the lessons we you think -- it's not something learned, for example, in the you say if you think your party is headed to a great win in great depression. >> yeah. well, look, e. j., if you get november. it's really the kind of thing you hear the morning after an that message and if you understand that as a prominent election where you've done very political columnist and professor, why can't the badly. i really wonder what's up with democrats really make that that. >> he's already anticipating a

message very clear and visible? why aren't they more articulate potential loss of mitt romney, about that? >> well, i think there's a lot should we say? i don't want to put words in your mouth. do you think he's ginning up to of fear because first of all, we that point? >> that's the way i took it. went through periods when people if you're saying we need to race revenues and you -- he also went lost faith in government, all the way back beginning with on to criticize him, you know, vietnam and watergate. quite directly for his and the conservatives have been immigration, for his really anti-immigrant policies. at the anti-government message >> right. >> you know, those are not the for 30 years. kinds of things you do if you and so it's not that they're are competent in your candidate and you think your party is inarticulate. i think they're constantly going to prevail in november. trimming a little bit to play to they're really the kinds of the anti-government sentiment thing you do if you're worried they know is out there. you're headed for a great defeat so, yes, yes, we like and going to be regrouping in government, but i really love december and january. >> right. let's stick to that point. the private sector, or, well, he's also questioning the gop's yes, i know there are problems approach to immigration. with government, but -- and i do he says romney needs to change his tone on the subject matter. think that there should be two halves to this message. now, some of this may be you know, the first half is existential given the fact jeb government has done and can do good things. bush is married to a woman of and one of the points of my book is to look back to people like latino descent. alexander hamilton, henry clay, and abraham lincoln who saw a will the republican party heed his advice? >> no, not any time soon. very robust role for government it will be interesting, if mitt in building the country then that has to be accompanied with a message of government reform. romney loses in november, i we care about government so much think that there will just be a

bloodbath and there will be a that we want it to work even better. lot of blame and finger i think that's the kind of pointing. message progressives and but it's going to come in two liberals have to put out there. directions. you will see people like jeb >> absolutely. bush saying we went too far, we wisconsin governor scott walker have to take the party back from responded to romney's comments the tea party. but then i think you'll also see on "face the nation" yesterday. tea party people saying mitt >> i think in the end, the big romney was never our guy. issue is that the private sector mitt romney was a moderate and still needs more help and the what we really need is somebody answer's not more big government. to the right of ronald reagan. i know in my state, our reforms but i do feel that jeb bush is stepping out there, whether it's a allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers and teachers. that's not what i think when i think of big government. hoping for 2016 or hoping to be >> do you think romney made a party elder reshaping in his things difficult for republican party in advance to what he governments who made the case thinks is not a positive they're cutting nonessential services? that's clearly not the case. >> first of all, i think when electoral direction for mitt you find yourself to the right romney and the party. >> this isn't fair. of scott walker you might want we only have 30 seconds left. you can do it. you're joan walsh. to reconsider your position. president obama has been mocked you know, i think republican by the right for making the same governors are split on this. i think there were some who argume arguments. really welcomed the stimulus will we see other republicans come to the president's defense? assistance. >> no. that was the most shocking thing he said in the whole line of governor mcdonnell out in virginia who's very conservative remarks. it really does help the recently said the stimulus was president. helpful. i think there are others who does not help mitt romney. but all three things are really really are ideologues and want a dose of realism for this party

to cut government and are going that is stuck in a fantasy. to stick to the party line, but so we'll see. it is amazing that scott walker >> no revisionist history in is somebody you think of as a joan walsh. thank you so much for come iing. very, very conservative governor, but he realized the >> thanks, michael. that's "the ed show." costs of coming, of looking like you're get cops and firefighters and teachers. i'm michael eric dyson in for ed >> all right. schultz. ezra klein is fill in for rachel e.j. dionne, thank you so much, maddow tonight. my friend. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> how are you doing? >> remember to answer tonight's >> always good to see you on tv question at the bottom of the screen. or in the crib as they say. share your thoughts on twitter >> great to see you. @edshow. we want to know what you think. good job. republican congressman darrell issa is on a political thanks to you at home for witch hunt with attorney general sticking around the next hour. eric holder his target. that's next. and later, go back to kenya? rachel has the night off. what if i were to tell you the supreme court busts a there's a surefire way to put people back to work right now, birther lawsuit. but the believers are alive and tomorrow? what if i were to tell you this well. we'll be right back. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right. surefire job creator is something that's been embraced even by republicans going back decades? what if i were to tell you over do you have any idea where you're going ? the last three years we've been wherever the wind takes me. doing the exact opposite of this this is so off course. tested proven thing that helps end recessions? >> i have a graph for you tonight. it's an unusual type of graft. it's a mystery graph.

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coming up on "the ed show," congressman darrell issa wants to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt over the justice department's fast and furious program. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton is calling it a political hit job, and she's next.

mayor michael bloomberg is defending new york city's controversial stop and frisk law. critics and proponents agree. it's racial profiling. so why is it allowed? that tdebate is ahead. the justice department is suing the state of florida over its planned voter purge. the latest on that breaking news is ahead. share your thoughts with us on twitter using #edshow. thought they were dead. [ laughter ] [ grunting ] huh? [ male announcer ] should've used roundup. america's number one weed killer. it kills weeds to the root, so they don't come back. guaranteed. weeds won't play dead, they'll stay dead. roundup. no root. no weed. no problem. weeds won't play dead, they'll stay dead. havi ng a roundup. no root. no weed. no problem. n irregular heartbeaty dead, they'll stay dead. havputs you at 5 times calgreater risk of stroke. don't wait. go to afibstroke.com for a free discussion guide

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today, issa announced his committee will consider a contempt resolution on june 20th. he claims it's not a political witch hunt. >> but ultimately it's not about going to contempt. it's about getting cooperation and legitimate discovery and in this case they're not asserting privilege, they're simply not giving the documents the american people deserve. >> this revolves around the justice department's fast and furious operation. today the deputy attorney general sent chairman issa a letter calling the contempt resolution premature. chairman issa wants to grandstand as he did last week. >> i want to ask you, first of all, today, have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoe subpoenas? >> we believe that we have responded to the subpoena -- >> no, mr. attorney general, you're not a food witnegood wit. i appreciate there was hostility between the attorney general and myself. >> can i just make -- >> i'd like to yield to the attorney general at this point, please.

>> well, i -- with all due respect to chairman issa, he says there's hostility between us. i don't feel that. you know, i understand he's asking questions. i'm trying to respond as best i can. i'm not feeling hostile at all. i'm pretty calm. i'm okay. >> thank god for calm, black men. here's part of the justice department's official response. "chairman issa's latest maneuver is unfortunate and unwarranted, particularly given the ongoing discussions. from the beginning, chairman issa has distorted the facts, ignored testimony and flung inaccurate accusations at the attorney general and others. and this latest move fits within that tired political playbook." let's turn to eleanor holmes norton, congresswoman from the district of columbia and another georgetown colleague on the house oversight committee. congresswoman, eleanor holmes norton, thank you for coming on. >> of course. good to be with you. >> the ranking democrat on your committee, elijah cummings, said, "holding someone in contempt of congress is one of the most serious and formal actions our committee can take and it should not be used as a

political tool to generate press as part of an election year witch hunt against the obama administration." what are your thoughts about that? do you agree with congressman cummings? >> wholly. moreover, it shouldn't be used as a negotiating tactic. chairman issa virtually admitted that in the clip you just showed. he said, oh, it's not about going to contempt, it's about, quote, getting more cooperation from the attorney general. the documents is a subpoenaed pertain to ongoing criminal investigations or part of a fishing expedition to see if there's anything there. and what's really important i think to know here, the american people must think fast and furious is all about stone throwing between republicans and democrats. i bet you the 99.9% wouldn't know what fast and furious was all about. so i would like a minute on that. because this is a double

tragedy. the first and foremost, by far, tragedy, was the killing of an agent, a border control agent when some guns kept coming from the united states. the second tragedy, to be sure not nearly as tragic, but it's important to understand, the bush and the obama administration felt compelled to use what are called gun walking tactics. because they -- that is to say, trying to let the guns go in a sting operation because the republicans bought and paid for by the gun lobby refused to fill a gaping hole in federal laws that makes it impossible to prosecute people who engage in purchases, mass purchases, of guns or gun running. the law simply doesn't allow that so that they try to follow these guns. one of these guns killed a

devoted agent. we had heard nothing about that in committee. and i'm on the committee. that's because they've been trying to see who struck john. and in something that began, tactics that began in the bush administration and continued into the obama administration. >> sure. that's very clear to make that point that this began under the bush administration with a different name. it's continued under the obama administration under this rubric of fast and furious. here's chairman issa recently calling the obama administration corrupt. >> but, again, we're very busy in washington with a corrupt government, with a government that i said more than a year ago was perhaps, because of the money, because of the amount of t.a.r.p. and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government in history and it's proving to be that. >> now, chairman issa has tried his best to create corruption where it doesn't exist, hasn't he? >> he does.

when you use a word like that -- i thought chairman issa had moved off that kind of language. you better be able to come up with a fast and furious, or all the evidence to back that up. we don't throw around words like that especially when we're talking about the attorney general of the united states. nobody has ever tied him to fast and furious or to any subpoenas or to knowing anything about this. it's a reckless charge that leads the american people to say, who cares. they're looking at the economy to see if anything's going to happen to it and paying no attention to this. i wonder if the subpoenas will ever go to the house floor. no, never has a cabinet official been -- has a contempt citation against a cabinet official been enforced by the courts of the united states. do you really expect the courts to come forward now and be dragged into partisan subpoenas? i don't, eric. i don't. >> i don't think we're going to see that at all. congresswoman eleanor holmes

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carry pot and other drugs and they stop and they frisk and they fine them and send them into the system. that's what drives crime down. get them off the street. the left hates that. hates it. because it is racial profiling. but it's really criminal profiling. >> to hear bill o'reilly tell it, stop and frisk not only works, it makes sense. but the numbers don't lie. stop and frisk, a policy that gives new york city police officers the authority to stop and search people they consider suspicious disproportionately affects young black and latino men. now major michael bloomberg is defending the controversial strategy. >> there's no denying -- takes guns off the streets and save lives. to borrow a phrase from president clinton, i believe the practice needs to be bended, not ended. >> bloomberg conceded while policy is not perfect, it's a legitimate price tactic that works. think progress points out, of

the people that were stopped and frisked last year, a weapon was found 1.9% of the time. new data projects officers could make 8,000 stops this year. 85% of those stopped were black or latino, even though the groups make up half of new york city's police population. in fact, the number of stop and frisk among young black men exceeds the city's population of young black men. bloomberg insists the nypd does not racially profile people and will not tolerate profiling. >> no person should ever be stopped because of race. stop should be based solely on suspicion of criminal activity and nothing short of that will be tolerated. so -- >> i'm joined now by donna lieberman, executive director of the new york civil liberties union and heather mcdonald, senior fellow at the manhattan institute and author of the book "are cops racist?"

thank you both for coming on. so is this racial profiling if. >> you bet it is. you know, the mayor says this is all about stopping criminals. well, do you mean to tell me that the nypd, new york's finest, is wrong 90% of the time? 90% of the people that they stop are so innocent that in an era of zero tolerance, they walk away without even a summons for disorderly conduct. so the nypd isn't stopping suspecting criminals. they're stopping suspected black and latino people. and that's racial profiling and it's illegal. >> miss mcdonald, what do you say? >> race has nothing to do with the way the nypd developed its tactics. it's going into neighborhoods where people are being most victimized by crime. that crime is what drives where the police go. and nothing has had as large an effect on saving minority lives as the new york proactive policing.

you mentioned the statistics, michael, about the proportion of people who have been stopped and their race. what really matters is the proportion of people who are being victimized by crime. blacks and hispanics are 96% of all shooting victims in new york city. but they also commit 98% of all shootings. whites commit 1.4% of all shootings. brownsville, brooklyn, is a particular target of critics now because it has a high stop rate. what you never hear is the per capita shooting rate in brownsville is 81 times higher than baybridge. what does that mean? last october a woman was shot to death picking up her child from elementary school by a thug shooting from the roof at groups of people. >> all right. let's let miss lieberman respond. all right? >> you know, how on earth does it make us safer to subject innocent young people to be stopped by the police, detained

by the police, patted down by the police, subjected to a full-blown search up against the wall? that doesn't prevent crime. that simply terrorizes honest, innocent people. >> heather, what about that argument, in this sense, that the concentration on black and latino people as a result of racial profiling could be a circular argument. that is to say, duke university study just proved many many white people do drugs than black people yet they're not racially profiled. had they been racially profiled the number of arrests would be up. what about the consideration racial profiling is a predictive pattern of going after, rather than a resolution of the problem? >> homicides and shootings don't lie. that is where people are being killed. they're not being killed on the upper eastside by gunshots. i agreeing with stopped and frisked when you're innocent is an extraordinarily humiliating experience. >> has it happened to you? >> it has not. i don't live in a high crime

neighborhood. if there were 34-year-old mothers being shot while picking up their kids in my neighborhood, the police would be there. because somebody has not been arrested or issued a summons after a stop does not mean that stop did not prevent crime. if you're on a drug set and you're casing, you're not going to have any evidence on you that would justify an arrest. you could have been casing -- you're not going to find any evidence -- >> look, you're presupposing the black person is more likely to have the potential to commit that crime and some crime could be averted because they were potentially removed from the ability to do that. that's a classic example of racial profiling. >> and not only that. it's not just in communities of color. unfirefight, bla unfortunately, black and latino people are profiled wherever they go in the city. park slope, which has a vast majority of white people, blacks and latinos constitute way more than a majority of the stop and frisk. the same is true in the west village in new york -- in manhattan.

so this isn't about communities with high populations of color. this is about a policy that follows black and latino people wherever they go in the city and it's about stopping them and throwing them up against the wall. whether they've done something wrong or not. >> we have 30 seconds. heather, the last word. >> police have to be courteous. they have to explain their actions. they're trying to protect people. 10,000 minority males are alive today who would have been killed -- >> that's such a baloney statistic. don't throw around fake numbers. it's absolutely not true. look at the numbers and -- >> 1990, and we have -- >> when did -- >> we're going to continue this discussion. >> come on. >> we better stop and be not frisky tonight. donna lieberman, heather mcdonald, thank you so much. there's a lot more coming up in the next half hour on "the ed show." stay tuned. >> the supreme court refuses to take the alan keyes birther case. >> it's not alan keyes' opinion

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welcome back. the u.s. supreme court dealt a critical blow to the birther movement today. the court refused to hear an appeal challenging the president's citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief. these are the men who challenged the president's citizenship. and got denied today. former presidential candidate alan keyes, his running mate wiley drake, and their party chair markham robinson. while their birther lawsuit is dead, their belief seems to be

alive and well. in tennessee, 45% of republicans polled said they do not believe the president is a citizen. 38% of republicans polled in georgia say they don't believe mr. obama was born here. and in ohio, it's 37% of republicans polled. and then there's texas. oh, yes, texas. where the republican candidate for lieutenant governor is fighting for his political life. he's the end of his convention -- here's the end of his convention speech on friday night. >> we won't stop fighting until we send barack obama back to chicago. [ applause ] >> or kenya. ladies and gentlemen --

wherever he wants to go. >> congo, kenya, zair, what difference does it make? let's bring in tv talk show host, armstrong williams, joanne reid for the grios.com, and kelly goff, author of "the gq candidate." what's it going to take to end the birther allegations? is this not enough, joanne, kelly? >> i think for a certain part of the republican base their sort of hatred of barack obama, really their disappointment at not having had their preferred candidate, really sarah palin, win the last presidential election has caused a lot of people to decide barack obama really isn't president. it just didn't happen. he isn't president. he isn't legitimate. there's really nothing you can do to argue against the birther thing. what's really disturbing is the leadership of the republican party hasn't done more to tamp town this sort of irrational --

it's a combination of fear and hatred of the president of the united states. i mean, alan keyes for him it might be a bit personal. he did get beaten by barack obama for united states senate. >> we happen to think for president obama in a sense. >> miss goff, what do you think? >> if there's anyone more brokenhearted that this didn't make it to the supreme court than alan keyes it would be me. i'm for alan keyes to have as many platforms as possible, for no other reason, it's entertaining. i would have absolutely loved to seen him make his case before the supreme court. it's a bummer for me on that end. all seriousness, you know, we can joke about something like this in this cast of wacky characters including our friend orly, can't get enough of her either. the reality is the southern poverty law center released a study that shows the hate group membership has sky roberocketedr this president. when you hear someone from my home state of texas, again, always making us look good. first it was the last president, then it was governor perry then, you know, it's about jokes and

kenya and the congo and ore president. in all seriousness, there's something very serious where this is all connected. this is not disconnected where you have people making jokes about where the president's from and the rise in hate group membership, white pride groups. there's a connection there. >> right. armstro armstrong, i'm interested in your perspective. you're a conservative prominent host. do you find the birther business all much adieu about nothing? do you think there's a legitimate hook here? is it time to move on? >> definitely it's time to move on. the supreme court's decision today was unanimous. i wouldn't dare demonize americans who continue to push this birther issue as being hateful to the president. >> why not, why not? >> i just think adisafr dis dia his policies. they were hateful toward clinton, hateful toward bush. >> he asked where john mccain was born, the potential he wasn't born in the united states. >> and he wasn't. >> right. why the cloud of suspicion over obama more legitimate than it is over anybody else? that's all i'm asking. >> professor dyson, it's a

nonissue. he's a president of the united states. he was elected by plurality and they will begin decide his fate. >> mr. williams, you don't want to hold your fellow conservatives accountable? >> this is a free country. people have a right to free speech and express themselves -- >> do you think they're right? >> i don't think it's right. i think it's definitely legitimate. i think he's an american citizen. i have no doubt about that. >> somebody might pull papers out on you and me and ask where we came from. if the president can't get, we can't get in either. the florida voting purge. justice department sent a letter to the secretary of state asking to stop florida from purging. it says it has imperfections that could confuse voters. governor rick sotcott says flora is suing, so it can keep purging the voter rules. the attack on holder on the one hand then this move. the state has been using florida

driver's license records so far. why does governor scott keep pushing this issue? can anybody tell me? >> you know what, i think we have two issues here. we have an election issue and we have a political issue. i think it's very legitimate for any state to want to make sure they purge and make sure that everyone who's voting is legitimate, that if people have died they're off the rolls. i think that's a legitimate issue. the political issue is neither side wants to give up an inch in the state of florida. ever since bush versus gore, florida has become a very controversial place for voter fraud. with an election this cycle where florida can decide the next president, the republicans don't want to give up an inch. that's why rubio and many of the party faithfuls are not supporting it. it's become a political issue. >> joanne then kelly. >> just having spent the last 14 years in the state of florida, i can tell you when kurt browning the former secretary of state, he put together this there a182

person purge list. how many cases of voter fraud have there been in the state of florida that back up the need to do this? he had to answer none. in the current purge that's going on in florida, the number of people who actually admitted to not being citizens as a result of the purge is exactly two. the number of people who could have been disenfranchised when they had not returned the letter, literally because they had a hispanic surname, was in the hundreds. this is literally republicans reacting against a demographic reality. they're not able to win over his panic votes so they're trying to keep hispanics from voting. it's an insidious form of voter suppression. i think it's a big problem for the republicans image-wise with hispanics. >> getting back to your original question, professor dyson, you asked why is governor scott pushing this so much? the answer is pretty simple. there were 5 million new voters in the 2008 presidential election. overwhelming joer ining majorit voters of color. >> it's a purge of the obama re-election campaign? >> it is. absolutely. 2 million of the voters were african-american and latino, 600,000 of them were

asian-americans. you do the math on who we're looking at in terms of the data, the green card data and other data they're seeking from the federal government and see a lot of overlap. >> listlisten, the republicans >> we have to end it here. jump in real quick, armstrong. >> the republicans are not supporting governor scott in this effort. governor scott is on his own. >> some are. marco rubio happens to be latino and recognizes -- >> wrouyou know, the reality is diminishing return on cuban-american voters who tend to lead republican in the state. younger cuban-americans are trending democrat. now half of hispanics in physical aflorida are the ones that don't vote republican. >> armstrong, kelly, joanne, thank you very much. the supreme court is set to rule on the health care law later this month. it could be a pr stunt. we'll have the latest next.

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welcome back. later this month, the supreme court could roll back parts of president obama's health care law. the three major insurance providers say they will keep key provisions in place. regardless of the court's decision. however, this could be just a bait and switch. united health care and humana announced today they plan to let customers keep children on their plans until the age of 26. keep free preventative care. do away with lifetime benefit limits. eliminate retroactive termination of coverage. and continue independent appeals of coverage decisions. edna plans to do the same except

for benefit limits and early termination. they will not uphold the most popular provision that bans discrimination of children with preexisting conditions. a recent "new york times" poll shows s 85% of americans believ insurance companies should cover people with pre-existing conditions. we here at "the ed show" are a bit skeptical of large