eight decades taffe harlem's renaissance.rsonality and cookbook author, he was cash poor from a dissolved business partnership. he was selected to cook the obama's first state dinner while having no new york restaurant to call his own. >> the financial downturn taught us a lot. it taught me, i have to recorrect different. i have to be in a neighborhood which i love which is harlem. >> how did you get that first round of financing? was it tough convincing people to believe in you as you stuck to your passion of cooking? >> i said it's not so much me. the most important is do you want to be part of something? changing dining in new york city. new york can do that. there's a harlem in every city of america. for me, very clear. a merging new market. we culturally understand and have responsibility to bring the innocence of america much more than we have to brazil, russia, china. right here. people have the same inspirations. find the connective tissue. hire in those communities. go in. >> some half million people live north of th

. >> taffe is smiley and dr. cornell west are here on the assault on the working class. good to have you with us tonight, folks. this is a classic. you've heard the saying. you can't see the forest because of the trees. i'm going to show you some numbers tonight that you're going to want to consume. this is where the election is. republicans are trying to gain the system in florida and win the election by purging votes. that's right. but their efforts are falling short. that is the good news. the palm beach county election supervisor rejected rick scott's attempt to remove voters who are flagged as possible noncitizens. they determine the list's documentation to be not credible. hillsboro county also put an end to the voter purge request by the state. county elections chief spoke about the governor's purge list. it was obvious it wasn't very credible and reliable information. so we suspended any further action. that's the good news. because we're shining a light on this, this is why it's happening. the media is on it. in past elections, you see these voter purges happen

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megyn: that was president obama last hour speaking publicly for the first time taffe supreme court uphelder the supreme court upheld his law, but republicans saying they will do anything they can to repeal and note the law's mandate now referred to in this court opinion as a tax is still deeply unpopular with voters. joining me now for reaction, michael mukasey, the former attorney general of the united states under president george w. bush. general, welcome back to the program. >> good to be here, megyn. megyn: your thoughts on what the supreme court did today? >> well, um, i guess judging from that last clip, the president thinks the supreme court offered him a cigar. i'd be very careful if i were him smoking it because it's an exploding cigar. what they said is that this can be defended only as a tax. it can't be defended as a penalty because if it's a penalty, a violation of the commerce clause. so it's going to to have to be defended as a tax. they also said that the medicaid mandate to the states, that is that they had to offer insurance to single people under 65, all single people

i want you to talk about the trcs at the library. ..taff they don't have come which a library does. can you share some thoughts about god and the trend of funding to assist institutions? >> okay, well i can tell you -- what night where we at the library, can be? tuesday night at this week? we were at the main branch of the baltimore library. it was actually a thank you for candy and myself and some other philanthropists in the baltimore area who had done a lot for the library system. the reason i bring that up is because the libraries are so important we shouldn't depend on government. you know, we should take care of our own libraries in our own communities. people should get involved in something that cannot such a profound effect on the job people. but that stuff depending on the government to do everything. we can do this ourselves. if you go back to early america, where we had a large number of libraries established, they were maintained by the communities. we need to get back to doing ery su.i k thatwh >> and now we have a situation the government competes with the two rich's