goldie taylor, and the managing editor of the goldie taylor project. and also an msnbc contributor and political editor for the grio. and the daily caller writes for u.s. news and world report. good to have all of you with us on a sunday afternoon. goldie, the fallout from the nsa leaks by edward snowden, cancellation of talks with russia's president vladimir putin. it has put u.s. relations with russia under a microscope. senator john mccain said this morning that be russia has no interest in maintaining a good relationship with the united states. >> clearly mr. snowden's being granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia. and mr. putin putting his thumb right in america's eye. >> goldie, who has more to lose here, president obama or president putin? >> i think actually we do. at the end of the day, we've been coming to this point for quite some time. in terms of russia, we have seen what they are. lack of support for what we're trying to do in syria. we're watching in terms of what they're doin

and joining me is managing editor for the goldie taylor project, the one and only goldie taylor.ording to a recent poll, the majority of americans think obama should cut off aid to egypt and 50% say his response has not been tough enough. so what political calculations is the white house facing in trying to manage the crisis? >> it isn't quite so simple. i was one of those people who remained very concerned about sending is.5 billion effectively to pay the general in egypt. but if f. we do cut off that aid, we lose all of it. at the end of the day, if we do cut off the aid, the people in the middle east are willing to cover that money. so the general loses nothing and we lose every positioning that we have in the region. >> turning now to domestic politics, we've been hearing a lot about ted cruz's citizenship and his eligibility to run for president. if he does make a run in 2016, how does that affect the whole gop field, does it move everyone a little bit to the right to try to keep up with him? >> i really think that it does. i don't believe that his citizenship at birth in ca

since goldie taylor has worked with npr, we know that visual articulation is a poignant one that getse heart of the matter. i believe it's a very powerful piece. >> and goldie, i'm wondering whether or not what you feel went too far was just that end shot which is just so arresting of seeing all the bodies where you expect the ending which is trayvon martin's body laying on the ground but you see all the bodies adding up. i felt like what they were trying to do is to show laws like this that open the door to using deadly force because you're supported by law, they do cause an escalation in violence because it takes away that sort of fear that if i use my gun, i might go to jail. did you get that from the spot at all? >> no, actually get that part of the spot. you have multiple bodies laid out as victims of gunshot wounds, i think at the end of the day, you've got to be cognizant who the person who is receiving the message is. if you're looking to grow your tent, to grow your base and audience of people who are receptive to these messages, you have to give them messages they can embrac

in atlanta is contributor goldie taylor, and here with me in new york is msnbc political analyst michael eric dyson. >> goldie, you're a former marine. if i can, i would like to play you something the president said just minutes ago. take a listen. >> i want you to hear it directly from me, the commander in chief. it undermines what this military stands for and it undermines what the marine corps stands for when sexual assault takes place within our units. and that's why we are going to work together, all of us, to stop these crimes of sexual assault and uphold the honor and the integrity that defines the finest military on earth. and that message is coming all the way from the top. >> there you had it, goldie. he said that message is coming to you from your commander in chief. no tolerance for sexual assault. >> sure. three words, ooh, freaking rah. marines are excited about that notion. i mean, there were a number of my sisters and brother in the marine corps who endured those kinds of tragedies. it has a huge negative impact on troop readiness, on troop cohesiveness, on the kinds of t

joan walsh, salon.com and msnbc contributor goldie taylor. ann, we're used to that. but tom coburn? i want to read you what the president wrote about tom coburn not toot long ago when coburn was selected as one of the most influential people of the year "after i took office, tom received dozens of letters from oklahomans complaining we looked too close on tv. tom's response was how better to influence somebody than to love them. each of us hopes the other will see the light but we'll settle for being friends. what kind of friend is he? >> with friends my those, you don't need no enemies. . at the end of the day, it used to be a time when you could step into your very small saturday morning gop breakfast and say what you wanted to say without any real repercussions because what was said among family stayed among family. then they invented videotape. it's very difficult to have one conversation in the public square and then one conversation with your very localized constituents. in this case, they're sort of bleeding over for coburn, in up to hi

. >> joining me now, goldie taylor. and cindy southworth. goldie, you've written very powerfully about having been a survivor of domestic abuse. i just wonder when you watched this today, what was going through your mind? >> you know what, it felt like an issue of domestic violence really on steroids. the depth of his depravity, the depth of his disconnection with the women's humanity. his disconnection with the cultural norms, the things that all of us know are really right and wrong. you know, it just felt like he believed that he was collecting women that he could keep in total control and people that i think he thought he was doing something good for them is what i heard from him today. that's what you hear from nearly every abuser. they feel like they're doing something good for them, that they need this kind of parental care. >> that, cindy, that was the thing i think was so striking was watching this with our jaws open in the office of someone who really didn't think they had done anything wrong, and i know as a reporter, i have interv

goldy taylor is managing the goldy taylor project who herself recently received violent threats overith a good morning to you, what happened? i'm going to show a couple of these tweets because i want people to realize these are not minor harassments. there was a tweet to the parliament member that read you better watch your back because i'm going to rape you. and i know where you work. better watch over your shoulder. you won't know before it happens. racial slurs came your way that i'm not repeating. talk about what you saw and what happened? >> this was one of those people who engaged me and others in a negative way. typically we just lail them as patrols and we move along. some of my followers spotted other things later on. he posted what he believed was my office address. he posted later that he was going to send two after me. two were on the way. which is double tap to the forehead. so there were a series of tweets over the course of the night. and we decided we needed to turn them in to twitter. this was clearly a violation of their terms of service. as a self-policing communit

joining me now is msnbc contributor goldie taylor, also a contributor to the grio.com. ldie, given that last statistic which i thought was interesting, i wonder whether you think this political attack is effective or whether the program is now so broadly used in america because of the grinding misery of the great recession and the low wages that republicans actually risk alienating people who have come to know the program and to feel warmly or fondly about it. >> chris, i really think there's something to that. this really is a double-edged sword. so on the one hand, you are harkening back to the archeotypical welfare mother, eight children, overweight, gets by on food stamps and other things all at our expense, so you're looking to demonize a sector of society who's out there trying to survive, cope and make it among the least of these. on the other hand, you don't know who is your neighborhood qualifies for s.n.a.p. >> that's right. >> you don't know if your next door neighbor is paying for those groceries with the s.n.a.p. program because they lost their job two month

joining me now are goldie taylor and joe madison. bill o'reilly, goldie, is complaining that republicans weren't invited. we know he is wrong. how can a party claiming to reach out to minority voters not show up for a commemoration like this? i'm not talking about the march saturday? i'm talking about the commemoration with three presidents of the united states. >> you know, and they really were two different events. the march on saturday was about bringing the youth together and advancing the cause by getting a critical mass of people on the mall. and the second day was the actual memorial, where it would have been an opportune time for members of both parties to come together united to commemorate this transformative speech. it is a missed moment. and to have some of these talk radio hosts. i saw herman cain on twitter last night complaining that senator tim scott from south carolina was not invited, was not invited to speak. neither of those things is true. so this really is a missed moment. if this gop is going to remain a nationa

. >> let's bring in msnbc contributor goldie taylor and managing editor of the goldie taylor projectrepublican strategist hogan gidly. you heard the explanation there from the senator. is your thought here the controversy is over? sealed? done? >> i don't think the controversy should have ever started. the fact is that ted cruz was born in canada to an american citizen and by birth right is a natural born american citizen. did he by that birth have citizenship? he did in canada. because his father was a cuban citizen at the time he has a cuban citizenship. should he denounce those things and say i renounce thee, i renounce thee? he should if he running for president of the united states then we don't want any ties with other countries in that way. but is this silly season? absolutely. >> silly season as you say. hogan, comment on this. it was just a couple of weeks ago that oklahoma republican congressman mark wayne mullen said he agreed with the birther who claimed she had evidence that president obama was not born in the u.s. when you look at this, why aren't birthers going after c

joining me now are goldie taylor and patricia murphy. u both for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> goldie, is this for real? attacking the first lady for trying to keep children healthy? >> unfortunately, it is for real. first lady obama actually launched the let's move program at my church here in atlanta in alpharetta. she came down here to talk about healthy eating, eating right, exercising. i remember when the trend was against including exercise and recess in the elementary schools. and so this isn't about new regulation. this is about inspiring parents to do what's right by their children. and at the end of the day, it saves us all money. it taxes the public health care system less when a person learns good healthy habits early. they take that with them throughout life. so there are fewer incidents of diabetes, heart disease, asthma gets checked. there are other pathologies that stream from childhood obesity that this helps. >> patricia, you know, when you really look at it, they've attacked this firs

joining me now are krystal ball and goldie taylor. k you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> goldie, it's one thing if the talkers support this clown. but it's another when 24 hours no gop leader says anything to denounce it. your thoughts. >> well, sure. we're not very many months away from a midterm election. i've got to tell you, reverend sharpton, the time is not now for political courage. these people are worried about drumming up a base. now, for certain, if you're going to have a road crow clown like that in a forum, you certainly have the right to do that. but what you need to know is that is going to be a reflection on you and your candidates going forward. >> right. >> it seems like this republican party has seemed to hermetically seal the echo chamber on us where they really don't want to get out of this thing. i just don't think that this is the kind of thing that they want to show themselves for. but they seem to be embracing it. >> and let me be clear, krystal, that we're not just talking

for more, i'm joined by contributor goldie taylor and the director of african nap studies as the lehighty, professor james peterson. professor peterson, he says there's not enoughnous coverage of african-americans attacking whites. all we've had for the last three months has been african-americans portray the as criminals, thugs, delinquents. i'm only surprised they haven't blamed dr. horace raines for the sinking of the titanic. >> yeah, you know, i have very little patience for this kind of misdirection what i think are some of the most important actions that we must take to address racial injustices and racial inequality in our society. at the end of the day, it always comes down to these kind of folk like o'reilly comparing apples to oranges. this particular case he's referencing, one please note the three young men have been charged and they're allegedly will end up in an adult court for those crimes. and so that's part of the reason why that this didn't make national news. some of the things he's trying to compare it to like zimmerman or the trayvon martin situation, remember mr.

joining us now, karen finny host of disrupt with karen finny, goldie taylor and jared bernstein, and snbc contributor. goldie, right to you. boehner care. this is the new fetish among the tea party groups. what is this about targeting baner? didn't he hold 40 votes totes repeal obama care? >> he did indeed. this is the gop civil war we all predi predicted. there is a schism ahead. tea partiers are not going to kowtow to the establishment the way they expected they would. they intend to primary those people who don't stand hard and fast on gop principles like getting rid of obama care or repealing or maybe not funding obama care. they're going to stand hard and fast. so people like mcconnell have something to worry about. if they don't pull this together hard and fast, their shot at taking over the senate majority is the at stake. >> and karen, weigh in on this. i am curious as to is what ted cruz's game here is. republicans to goldie's point. they want to take over the senate and win back the senate. how does harming john boehner get them there? >> well, ted cruz is all about ted cruz

and joining me now are north carolina state senator floyd mckissic, james peterson and goldie taylor. thanks for joining me. >> thanks, rev. >> let me start with you senator mckissic. you've been fighting the voting law in north carolina. colin powell says it will backfire. what are you see strong ground? >> well, i hope colin powell is correct. i hope we'll be able to marshall all the troops, 3 to 6,000 people monday after monday while we were in session is, go throughout the state to the most important districts that there are and that we can get people out to vote. and i feel very confident that we can. there is litigation that has been filed in federal court and in state court, basically attacking all the voter suppression practices that have been implemented. the decrease of the early voting period by a week. back in 2008, we had over 700,000 people killed in the first week of early voting. in 2012 with an increase. those people won't have that right when this comes forth next time at the next election cycle. there is a multitude of things that have changed. same day voter regist

we're joined by contributor goldie taylor and fresh from the "cycle" toure, coast host of the "cycle.e, shaun spicer, the spokesman for the republican national committee issued a very interesting statement after tim scott, was he invited imbroglio. he said overlooking tim scott would be like overlooking the president for the state of the union speech. is tim scott at the level of being a president? maybe the fact they both turned it down is what they have in common. >> i congratulate the show on its use of cgi. have you bill o'reilly apologize package.obviously that did not happen in reality because bill o'reilly does not apologize when the facts show he is dead wrong. but you know, obviously, right, tim scott is black,er go he must be there. he was invited. but his you principles are exist at logger heads with everything they're trying to do in the march. look, his people don't want him there. his tea party constituency would revolt the club for growth would raise up and turn him out immediately before is the next election. they don't want him there. and this party has been working f

joining me now, goldie taylor and gloria. for being here. >> goldie, it turns out, it may take senator cruz eight months to officially stop being canadian. is there anying we can do in the next eight months to convince him to move up north? >> you know, i thought that it was quite curious to me. i certainly had never heard of it. but in his case, he was born to an american mother on canadian soil and to a father who was at that time a cuban citizen. so at birth, he had three citizenships. one in america, one in canada, one in cuba. according to the cuban constitution. we were so lucky that he chose us. i just think that a lot of this is silly season. i think that he is right. that he does have to renounce both citizenships in canada and of course in cuba, if that becomes a question as well. as someone whoo he think will probably run for president, he should have one allegiance and that'sed to united states. >> well, let me ask you. texas congressman steve stockman wants a congressional investigation into president obama's bir

. >> well, i'm going to have to leave it there, but there is hope, kris add when goldie taylor starts quoting mitt romn romn romney, we. thanks for coming on the show. you can catch crystal on "the cycle" week days at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here. >>> ahead, a true hero, a schoolbook keeper talks down a gunman, saving dozens of children in the process. and it's all on a dramatic 911 call. >>> it's going to be all right, severe weather heart. i want you to know i love you. i'm proud of you. don't worry about it. we all go through something in life. >>> plus, an outrageous new poll shows exactly what republicans think of president obama. you need to see this one. >>> and the greatest of all time, a revealing new look at muhammad ali's battles outside the ring. >> you are mea opposer when i want injures, you won't even stand up for me in america for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight when you won't stand up for me here at home. >>> and don't forget to tune in tomorrow for a special two-hours edition of "politics nation." i'm live from the linking memorial, fo

joining me now are goldie taylor and ari melber. k you both for copping on the show. >> thanks, rev. >> thank you, reverend. >> goldie, let me start with you. is it any wonder we can't get anything done? i mean, the other side keeps trying to delegitimize the president. >> i think, you know, i am all for a strong two-party system. in fact, i wish there were a strong third party. i think that's where the real work gets done in terms of moving this country forward. but, you know we have a system with checks and balances where our president gets together with this congress and tries to really work it out. we haven't seen any of that over these years since president obama has been in office. i've called it obama derangement syndrome. there were people in this country who did not believe that we would elect an african-american president. in fact, they were outright stunned by it. they said he must have gotten in by fraud. and if not by fraud or a.c.o.r.n. or some other notion, then he must not be a legitimate president. so there were peop

joining me now, goldie taylor and ryan grim. both for coming on the show tonight. >> good to be here. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >> goldie, let me start with you. is that what all this gridlock in washington is about, appealing to this far right base? >> well, it certainly is. you know, reverend sharpton, i've been on campaign trails in and out for nearly 25 years. this used to be the stuff of whisper campaigns, the kind of things you kept inside of the campaign at the local and grassroots level. we have watched it manifest itself on the national stage over the last five to six years in ways that are really quite surprising to me, that these kinds of rumor, innuendos have taken on sort of mainstream prominence. and so you're watching the daily caller. you're watching news busters. you're watching websites out there that are pushing this stuff actively. and then you're watching it make it to mainstream media in ways that the gop establishment cannot contain really the way that they used to be able to. this used to be a tool.

and joining us now, democratic congresswoman louise slaughter of new york and msnbc contributor goldie taylorresswoman, doing democrats just high five every time they hear things like what priebus is saying? it's not as if the rnc puts on the primary debates anyway. he is just trying to placate a base that isn't helping him win elections. >> i watched all the debates of theirs and they were so instructive. presidential candidate who couldn't remember three cabinet posts recommending people self-deport and telling critically ill people to just die. where else could you hear things like that. i'm going to miss is very much if they do that, but it is going to hurt them. democrats wouldn't even think about telling their candidates a thing like that. and goldie, politico had a scathing assessment of what's really wrong with the republican party. the sense that they're alienating every group they need to grow with, whether it's women, whether it's african-americans, latinos or gays. shouldn't they focused more on trying to stop offending those people rather than worry about who is producing an i do