blox that came out with the first suit come on goldie blox that i want to be on goldie blox that is yet and i am going to absolutely exactly that it really was a surviving beastie boys who said we have always said that we don't want to be used for advertisements interesting lee because so many musical artists they are realizing that the only way they can make a profit these days is by selling their song rights to motorola i can't think of one like quote unquote indie music that is in the car commercial so i think. no that's very well i guess the beastie boys they made their money and eighty's and ninety's when the music industry still was. they're to make a lot of money and you know you will still have records i bought a beastie boys cd i love i'm aging myself. and we love the beastie boys now despite the lawsuit the question is does goldie blox have a buyable business strategy on their hands yes goldie blox was actually funded largely by kickstarter i know we've talked about that before and already had twenty two thousand orders in place before they've even launched this new commer

and we love the beastie boys now despite the lawsuit the question is does goldie blox have a buyable business strategy on their hands yes goldie blox was actually funded largely by kickstarter i know we've talked about that before and already had twenty two thousand orders in place before they've even launched this new commercial which is also come out to much acclaim as you mentioned before nearly ten thousand or ten million people have already watched this commercial i'm sure the fact that all this controversy this was around is only helping them in terms of getting more eyes on their website on their commercial and people talking about them as you said just in time for the holidays you know they already have that built in audience of a lot of people who are saying this is really great we would like to buy this stuff so much so that we're willing to fund development of these toys well said ms perseus and happy post turkey day to you that's all the time going to have are going to. be but you can see all segments featured in today's show on youtube at youtube dot com slash boom bust

>> reporter: the verbal hook is a book starring goldie and her grandmother was one of the first woman cartoonest in the '50s drawing mr. mcgu. toy makers were stuck in time. mr. magoo's time. the message over and over again was looking at me with pity saying oh, this girl doesn't know that construction toys for girls don't sell. suddenly, i'm walking around like i'm in the twilight zone, i feel like i'm in the 1950s. >> reporter: to prove them wrong, sterling and friends team tested prototypes all over the san francisco bay area. >> you learn that there is so much more complex than what the pink isle makes them out to be. >> reporter: princess dolls, makeup kits, play kitchens and a target for disruption she says. her message was a hit on kick starter, the crowd funding website on 2012 where she roped to raise $150,000 to make 5,000 units. >> we hit the goal in four days. >> reporter: in a month she raised about 2 $85,000. the first production run, 40,000 units. toys r us ordered and soon in barbie shadow, there was a new kid on the black. >> its sure rereal and it gives goose bumps.

strategy on our hands yes goldie blox was actually funded largely by kickstarter i know we've talked about that before and already had twenty two thousand orders in place before they've even launched this new commercial which is also come out to much acclaim as you mentioned before nearly ten thousand or ten million people have already watched this commercial i'm sure the fact that all this controversy this was around is only helping them in terms of getting more eyes on their website on their commercial and people talking about them as you said just in time for the holidays you know they already have that built in audience of a lot of people who are saying this is really great we would like to buy this stuff so much so that we're willing to fund development of these toys well said ms perseus and post turkey day to you that's all that's i'm going to have. but you can see all segments featured in today's show on you tube at youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. we also love hearing from you so please check out our facebook page at facebook dot com slash boom bust our teeth from all of

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joining me now are ryan grim and goldie taylor.ou goet for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> ryan, what do republicans hope to gain by talking about impeachment when they know it's not going to happen? >> well, people like congressman farenthold are people that think the president wasn't born here. that he's not legitimate and they want him out one way or another. they couldn't beat him in '08, couldn't beat him in 2012. he'll leave in 2016, but they're too impatient for that. this is something they'll be on i think until the day he finally leaves office. >> you know, goldie, when the gop rolls out the runs they wanted to impeach the president, i mean, for any variety of reasons. because i wasn't born here. because of immigration reform. fast and furious, not extending bush tax cuts, dream act, war in libya, gun control, benghazi. and quote, all the czars he's appointed. it's amazing. >> it's amazing that the kitchen sink isn't in there. >> i didn't get to it. >> maybe it is. maybe we haven't loo

joining me now is msnbc contributor goldie taylor and susan milligan.nk you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> susan, how significant is it that we're finally seeing nominees like jeh johnson get confirmed? >> i think it's very significant. because the filibuster had become so abused that it was no longer a protection for the minority. it ended up being minority rule. and with preventing the president from just administering his government and from enforcing laws that the republicans didn't like and they're unhappy. they're very unhappy with this whole, you know, row of nominees that are being pushed through. but i think that will slow down when they get through the backlog and maybe some of the resentment will diminish a bit. but it's important. >> goldie, let's not forget they had to go nuclear to get this done. senate democrats literally had to change the rules on blocking presidential nominations. look what they did. under all u.s. history under all previous presidents, a total of 86 presidential nominees have been filibustered. in all of

joining me now former governor ed rendell and goldie taylor. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >> our pleasure. >> governor rendell, less than two days away from over 1 million losing benefits, you see the pain. you see what it will cause for families. what will it take for republicans to come around on this, governor? >> i think they have to be forced to vote on it, rev. i think if we can get a vote on the house floor, there are enough republicans in swing districts if the democrats stay solid and i believe they will, to pass it. because it's simple. for all the reasons you say plus one other one, it's very stimulative to the economy. this money that goes into the unemployeds' hands, it's spent on food and rent and clothing. it's not put in savings. it goes right into the economy and stimulates the growth and level of the economy. so it makes sense from -- you know, the republicans always talk about getting the economy back on track. not only are you hurting people which in my judgment is almost criminal, but you'

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also joining us, msnbc contributor, goldie taylor.u know, i said as soon as i saw that, that that was a violation of the deadly force rule, and i didn't have to see new mexico's deadly force rule, which they were withholding from me for a couple of days, because the supreme court in 1985 ruled that shooting illegal. that they made it finally illegal in all 50 states, police deadly force rules had to comply with the supreme court finding that you do not have any legal authority to shoot at fleeing suspects. and that is what we were watching there, wasn't it? >> and every police commander in the country would agree with you, lawrence. it's a bad shoot, and just from looking at the video. he should have never even broke leather, that officer. there was no reason to break leather in this situation. >> goldie, it seems to me that that police officer and the others who joined him had no comprehension of what it might feel like to be a mother from out of state in that situation, with her children, not familiar with local laws, not completely

goldie, what's your response to that? a very long conversation with a pastor friend of mine who happens to be incredibly conservative. and his words to me were, goldy, they are seeing this not through their christian hearts, but through their political minds. that this has very little to do with the jesus christ you and i know. this has everything to do with tucking your bigotry into a bible and trying to hide it. the bigotry here, the pure hatred here, you know, is much bigger than any bible i think can hide. and so i think that i'm offended on a number of fronts. but i'm offended as a christian, first and foremost, that you would lay this out as some kind of religious tenent, that he would hide behind that, rather than the kind of, you know, compassion and love that this current pope has called us to be. >> yeah. goldie taylor, mike papantonio, great to have you with us on "the ed show." coming up, time is running out to sign up for full coverage under obamacare. we'll tell you about a real surge that's taken place. sta

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goldie, i will start with you.hrough there, the story of urban america, the story of african-americans' relationship with the republican party, if you start in the days and decades after the civil war, the republican party was the home to african-american voters, that was lost during the civil rights revolution. you had republicans like jack kemp trying to rekindle that and now you see where we are today. when you see the news of rand paul going to detroit detroit and what reince priebus is now saying, what do you think of that? >> african-americans voted solidly republican for 100 years. and no one really thought -- gave a second thought to it. it wasn't that african-americans walked away from the republican party. it's that republicans, dixie crates specifically, walked away from them. they decide the african-american vote was not a vote they needed at that time. during the -- as the '70s progressed into the '80s, african-americans specifically began to take a second look at the republican party. it was because o

goldie, you were there today. a lot of questions about this funeral director.e parents say today? >> i think the parents are simply looking for the truth surrounding the death of their son. i don't know that they believe that the missing organs have or do not have anything to do with how kendrick died, but it certainly presents yet another barrier in finding the truth in this matter. and so, to go back and to do a second autopsy, to do a coroner's inquest, certainly, having all of his organ, the entire body there in tact would be something that is preferable if you're going to be an examiner, but at the end of the day, no one knows whether or not this particular funeral director was working in concert with the gbi or whether there were some extraneous issues. what we do know is this body was miss handled in a number of ways and the missing organs is just one of them. >> the first issue is he was found in a rolled up gym mat, and they say that was an accidental death. i remember early in the case i went down and spoke at a rally there saying this made no sense.

joining me now are goldie taylor and jimmy williams.th for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> good evening, reverend. >> goldie, let me rush to you. these right wingers really want homophobia and "duck dynasty" to be the new face of the gop? >> i think it's quite interesting that, you know, we are claiming or they are claiming that religious liberty is at stake in terms of, say, affording the woman a right to get birth control pills through her health insurance with her corporate employer, but at the same time a & e does not have the moral authority to decide what's right for their brand. so i think there's a bit of hypocrisy going on here. in the words of gomer pyle, surprise, surprise, surprise. they're going to use this to drum up their bases. the unfortunate thing about all of this is we are trumpeting this as a first amendment issue when it couldn't be anything further from that. no one has a constitutional right to a reality show or a paycheck or anything else. free speech is when you get out on the street corner and you can say

joining me now are richard wolffe and goldie taylor. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> richard, let me start with you. on a day when we're honoring a man like mandela, don't these attacks seem particularly small? >> well, reverend, they do seem totally small, but there's something worse than that. even if you don't want to respect the message of mandela and what he represents and how the president talked about him today, there's a fundamental misunderstanding i think for someone who is supposed to be serious like john mccain about national security. we shook hands, presidents, great presidents of this country shook hands with even more brutal dictators for the soviet union. fdr was a friend of joe stalin. we were useful when -- ronald reagan, john mccain's personal hero shook hands with dictators of the soviet union. so it's wrong on national security. it's wrong when it comes to mandela's legacy. >> well, you know, goldie, president obama today, he actually called out repressive leaders for not tole

they're really not. >> goldie, we looked at the alternatives.at some things like how about closing some corporate tax loopholes? how about subsidies to oil, gas and coal industries? that would over $100 billion in the next 10 years or depreciation, cut the accelerated decelebration program, $24.5 billion. you have republicans saying what's to pay for? the point is there's plenty to pay for the idea of not, again, not just helping americans who have w.h.o. are needing unemployment insurance and what that does to the economy but also invest in some of the things like infrastructure for jobs. >> well, absolutely. this extension of maybe another 90 days i think democrats are proposing costs about $6 billion. you can get it from offsets of the farm bill and this is something that can be paid for and paid for easily and an investment in the american people. it's an investment in families and households. the check in georgia is about 100 to $300 a month based on the previous wage that you earned. every dime of that money is spent towards rent, spent to

. >> hbo took 3 years when goldie hon left they stopped prodyings -- production. i believe cbs will get it on air. >> they have other shows that are really good. on two and half men the mother is on the millers now and she's so funny. they are not none -- n u --nuns. >> you can see barbara at the commonwealth club. for more information check out commonwealthclub.org. >> this book is available on e books. i'm suzanne. thank you for watching. ♪[ music ] i'm phil matier. i'm mark kelly. there s a lot to talk about in our ne hour... ter asiana >>> good morning it's 8:30. thanks for joining us. >> there is a lot to talk about in our next hour. >> we know what cause the crash of the flight 214. we'll take a look at what has changed and what has not changed. >> we'll take a look and why and how foreign pilot are qualified sm nch qualify. >>

goldie? >> tom chris.er way to africa, but she wanted, that's what she was glad she was white and wouldn't get aids and so her twitter account has been shut down and she's off the grid and who knows if she is still director of public relations. >> that is just deplorable, that one. susan? >> senator cornyn out of texas. looked like he was going to have a competitive primary. worst week goes to pajama boy. that sums it up. he certainly got people talking. >> he did. >> morris? >> putin had the best week. he's the winner. took ukraine from the europeans and the worst week is u.s. india relationship strip search and diplomat. she's a diplomat, not a drug dealer. >> thank you so much. that's a wrap everyone. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. up next t.j. holmes in for craig melvin. life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of "what if's". what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night before it even starts? what if i eat the wrong thing? what if? what if i suddenly have

goldie, we begin with you. the best and the worst?imself to destroying the racist apartheid system in south africa. as we lay him to rest this week, he is my winner. my loser of the week is texas judge jane boyd who found it in her infinite wisdom to allow an affluenza defense, to allow a child who killed four people in a drunk driving accident to go free with simple rehab. >> yeah, something we were discussing with lisa green prior to this segment. susan, best and worst? >> the best i gave to the house of representatives. granted, it's a low bar. but they actually did get something done with overwhelming bipartisanship. >> and in advance, by the way. i was going, what? they haven't pushed it all the way to the end? >> and we're going to actually not have the chance for a shutdown for two years. again, the bar is low but they did something. the worst week goes to congressman steve stockham. he's a congressman who at the last minute got zero support from the right. the second he announced, everyone was running away from him. >> morris,

. >> the goldie locks condition for macy's or kohl's is colder than normal weather, not too cold, some snow, feels like holiday gets people really sort of in the mood for christmas. weekends, they don't want anything falling out of the sky. >> reporter: the weather channel forecasts the colder than normal temperatures will continue for at least the next two weeks. while current winter storm cleon will hurt foot traffic temporarily, it is christmastime. gifts have to be bought somehow so retailers with strong online offers could benefit. >>> and finally tonight, news week is making a come back. the struggling magazine ended the print edition last year producing only an online version but now it plans to turn the presses back on. starting as early as january, news week is planning to print a 64-page weekly edition and they will rely on paid subscriptions for revenue instead of advertising. i don't know how that will work out. >> make a try and come back. >> that's "nightly business report" for tonight. i'm susie gharib. we want to remind you this is the time of year your public televisio

oh there were a few of us on stage goldie hawn anyway we took her off backstage and we were walking down this car door and there are all of these photographs on the. side of past winners and put be turned to be in that beautiful voice of war peace and said you're never going to be the same person again now you're penelope cruz osco. and that's what it is it's it's like being reborn i'm someone who would not have the ridiculous thing is who announced your name. richard dreyfus and martha. marshall mason when they were very tiny i remember there were you know there was a stage. it took forever to get up there was like waiting for water it was great i guess is the great and josie used to maybe she would pass it from the story would be to do with. technology innovation all the developments around. covered. wealthy british. writers. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two counties a report. on the new. policy just like people. like to have you with us here on our team today i rol

they refuse to see that. >> goldie, do you get surprised when you hear something like this?ms strong thurman who were fighting against levying sanctions against south africa. but it was people like newt gingrich and mitch mcconnell who went against president reagan to overturn the veto. so i'm not surprised at this brand of conservatisconservatis surprised and you at how they reconstruct the history. i've heard people compare reagan to nelson mandela. or to sort of compare obama care to apartheid. i think that once we get the history right, i think a lot of truth comes out. >> 15 seconds to add anything. >> simple. they're racists. they're jeust raicists. people who are racists don't like to see people like machine daily la happen. we can talk political stuff, but there is always that level hostility. i'm glad leaders like gingrich won't stand for it. >> all right, guys. high speed train, the big three's must reads next. your stomach. try pepto to-go. it's pepto-bismol that fits in your pocket. relief can be yours, but your peanuts... are mine. ♪ but your peanuts... are mine

goldie, first up to turning the corner.n. >> every president in their second term is, you know, mindful that you've only got a limited amount of time left, and you want to make sure that you are squeezing every last ounce of energy that you have to try to deliver on the commitments you made to the american people. >> give me your best guesstimate as to how much the president will be able to accomplish in his remaining three years. >> with what we've seen from this current congress and what we expect going forward, it's going to be tough to execute on any number of policy issues. chief among them, immigration reform. we talked about earlier, environmental stewardship and our energy policy. i think it's going to be very tough for the president to formulate a legislative proposal that this congress will pass. i think they're not interested in negotiating, but i think we'll have to see what happens after 2014 and see what this new congress, if there is, in fact, a new balance in congress, what it might bring. >> so you think wi

comes with a book and the main character of goldie block. >> very cute. >> morgan is busy at work. >> i love this. the gift that keeps on giving. this is a monthly subscription. you want that kid to get something from you every month. this is the activity kit. right here he is doing the holiday kit. the polar expedition kit. >> it's a little bit of instruction and something to play with. >> over here, somebody is destroying things. >> this is fantastic. i think we are missing kids. >> they are fine. you and i are kids. what do we do? >> kids love to play with the boxes and this is play from scratch. this is yoxo done with recyclable materials. this is a box of boxes and a tube of tubes with connectors. >> fine. >> you can connect it. >> oh, my gosh. >> you can connect cereal boxes. it gets them creative. >> okay. >> this is another one of my favorites. brand-new out this year. >> david. this is the park up magic reader. you can send this to the grandma and grandpa and they record themselves. holds 50 books. you turn this button on and it sen

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goldie said this is worth talking about. made of it and is this an opportunity to make some good and learn more about each other and be a little more sensitive? should we take advantage of this moment? >> sure. >> well -- >> everybody does. bob, you go. >> first of all, i think that the next development will be that he's going to announce he's a candidate for the republican nomination for president. i mean, he's gotten all the publicity. he appeals to the base. do not be surprised when that happens and if he doesn't go that high, he would fit in in the congress. >> matt, you sounded like you wanted to get in there, as well. >> it is a great moment to have the daeblt about the conversations and said things over the line but you won't have a debate quh you shut him up. if people think that kicking him off the show and everything else, that does nothing but make him a bigger cult hero than he is. shutting the debate can't help start a debate. >> angela, your initial reaction was to roll your eyes. you tell me. >> sure. you also

goldie, let me start with you on this because i know this is something, a case that you've been followingart of it. bring us up to speed because i know the family had been patiently waiting and waiting for the district attorney's office to come forward with charges and now we have this development. >> you know, i think the family in this case has been -- they really have to be commended because all they asked for is a thorough investigation and if that will would warrant charges that that would go forward. what they wanted was the truth about what happened to their daughter. it looks like they're going get it. probable cause here and it is a very low bar in which you have to show that there is just a decent amount of evidence that shows that wrongdoing may have occurred and prosecutors clearly did their homework and clearly met that bar and that this case is going to trial. >> okay. jamel, let's just remind everybody, this was an incident where this young woman had been involved in an accident after a night of drinking so she was allegedly drunk, had stumbled on to this man's porch. the m

it is kind of mini, mini goldie lock, 2, 2.5% growth and 0% inflation.that environment, long run investors which is the only kind of investing makes stones me, hang in there, ignore these blips and stay with it because the situation is not nearly as bad as professionals and others say it is. >> if you're a long term investor in the stock market, larry, absolutely agree with you. the s&p pe, that is how much you pay for each dollar of earns at not quite 17, we'll call that fairly priced, maybe fully priced but not egregious. bonds are a very different story. i don't know why any long term investor would want to be an owner of u.s. government bonds right now. why? bond yields, ten year yields bottomed out at 2.5%, made this nice rounded bottom in ten year yields and going nowhere but up and i don't think anybody would be a long term investor happy to collect say 2.75 even 3% annually just because you got money invested in ten year government bonds. >> jeff, i acknowledge that when the fed slows down and stops its bond-buying, i acknowledge there will be an

the stanford educated ceo of goldie blox is right here in studio 57 because the news is back in the mornings, we'll see you guys at 7:00. we have a great show ahead. >> we will see you at 7:00. thanks. >>> 6:51. coming up next new developments in the latest legal trouble for george zimmerman. why his girlfriend now claims police got it all wrong. >> and today the world bids its farewell to nelson mandela. thousands of people world dignitaries, celebrities gathered to celebrate the civil rights icon, we'll give you the highlights from the memorial service. ,, a subaru... ...are the hands that do good things for the whole community: the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. that's why we created the share the love event. by the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. you get a great deal on a new subaru. we'll donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. it feels good to be a helping hand. customer appreciation month at subway. we're saying thanks with two of your favorite six inch subs. the six-inch cold cut combo, or the si

but as we look at the socioeconomic aspects of all of this, the grio's goldie taylor wrote about this using the example of a poor black teen convicted of fatally shooting a man. clearly two different stories. but how does the public, particularly those on the lower rung of the economic ladder in our country, look at this and how does it rock the faith of our justice system when people look at this and just think, well, this kid bought his way out or his parents bought the kid's freedom. >> people have an expectation that the criminal justice system is going to be fair, so this case raises the issues of a popular topic right now which is the income inequality. and you have to ask the question in a case like this would another defendant that would be otherwise situated have the same opportunities that this kid had. would they have the opportunity to pay $450,000 a year to participate in the program that this kid is being sent to, you know, where they have horses and hikes in the woods and i think the answer that most people are coming up with is no. and then that raises the issue of how

good news, as long as it doesn't get too hot, i hate to say goldie lock's people said before me, not too hot. >> all right. moderation in all things. what do you think, jeff? >> sue, certainly adding jobs to the u.s. economy is good news, but i'm going to disagree slightly to my friend mr. your rio here. we saw that underscored on the nonfarm payrolls, we saw it go to 293 and the pits all of a sudden started selling and then crickets. why the equities not dropping here and then they started buying the treasuries. we see uncertainty out of the if snead uncertainty for ten minutes, it takes about an hour it figure this out and come to a reasonable conclusion. >> fair enough. >> but to the point of -- >> occurred -- >> brings us to the point of whether or not the stronger economy is stronger than free money from the fed. go ahead. >> if you beamed yourself to this point in time right now and all you had was a current economic data, you'd say is the fed's policy appropriate and the answer to that is absolutely it's not appropriate. but the fed is worried about where we've been the last f

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to girls and what is interesting in engineer bhiei found goldieblox, a series of books, starting goldiemother of three kids, two girls, one boy early on. you see the divergence of toys that they play with. girls are very interested in creating things but there are a dearth of toys to meet that need. >> i grew up making things. i built forts and huge towers out of sugar packets. engineering can be a great route for them. >> let's bring this out and why it's important to have women as engineers. there's so few women in stem careers. >> science, technology, engineering and math. engineers build our entire world. everything is built by engineers. and these things are things that we use every day. and when half of the population is female, the majority of things we used designed by men, we're simply missing the female perspective. >> i love what you're doing. i love the name of the company. i love what you're trying to do. i'm curious with the reaction you're getting, from little girls. >> from little girls, the reaction is amazing. at the end of the day this is what this is all about. they'

it comes with a series of adventure books about goldie, an inspiring engineer. >> it gives them the aboutn make up almost half the work force but fill less than a quarter of jobs in those fields. goldieblocks isn't the only company giving girls serious play things. >> lego friends. >> reporter: lego has gotten in on the game. barbie is a computer engineer, and roominate, a doll house construction set that comes we electric electrical s electrical curcuits. talk about girl power. >> reporter: a future where girls can dream big. >> girls are out there making a difference in the world too. >> now you promise notice there is pink in goldieblocks. pink and purple are the most popular girl colors. it's not about that but giving them toys that use their brain. >> gift ideas for my nieces. >> it's great. thank you so much. coming up next, we heard of therapy dogs but how about therapy chickens? one family is fighting to keep their young son's beloved animal. it helps this little boy. we have the story coming up. but first, this is "today" on nbc. [ female announcer ] for those who love sweets you