joining me now is a democratic congressman from minnesota's 5th discorre district, keith ellison. ys great to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> let me start with news of the hour, the president weighing in on his administration, the fact they ended torture, and as co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus, would you like to see more from this white house on the issue of intelligence gathering, oversight and transparency? >> yes, and as a matter of fact, in our budget, in the better off budget, we call for greater transparency and spending by -- in the appropriations for the clandestine agencies. we asked for the top-line budget, not just overall intelligence budget but the top lines on the agencies that are beneath that. we think more transparency, more disclosure will bring about greater accountability. >> congressman ellison, i talk a lot about the cpc budget, because i've long thought, this isn't about me statements, but the republicans have moved budgetary goalpost so far to the right, why do democrats not go with your budget, and why not in previous years past? if

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. >> congressman keith ellison, thank you as always. >> thanks, alex. >>> that's all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. "the ed show" starts up now. >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. ♪ >> as the first real test for obamacare at the polls appears to spell trouble. >> they were not the results that any of us wanted. >> trouble for democrats. in 2014. >> a big win last night in florida. >> folks, i got very good news tonight. no more commercials. >> words that i have waited months to speak -- >> don't push me, bob. now is not the time. >> some wanted to make this a referendum over the affordable care act. >> david, you have made the law and all its problems a centerpiece of your campaign. >> congressman david jolly come on down! >> the price is wrong, [ bleep ]. >> a republican has held the seat for 43 years. >> continuing with tradition, a republican will fill the congressional seat -- >> it's about obamacare. >> a republican has held the seat for 43 years. >> i've stood here after losing some spec

it's conversations with great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison. it's pretty tough. it's about story. but if this guy like it would smear that guy in stead of working for the people most issues in the mainstream media were for each other bribery most vision. problems. of a good writer let alone. if . it was a. very hard to take. once again to come on here to play live happy ever had sex with that her thick hair cut. if it was what if if . and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with keith ellison representative from minnesota's fifth congressional district and author of the new book my country tis of thee my faith my family our future i want to go back to to you if i can i just because there is such a rich why and this book is so i mean there's so much of. your father came back from world war two and out of the g.i. bill became a physician you know he taught you all kinds of things and he and your worldviews were in some ways kind of different you know i'd like i'd like you to talk a little bit about that and what that how that has informed yo

. >> congressman keith ellison, thank you so much. that's "the ed show." time now for "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton. good evening, rev. >>> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, paul ryan's sorry excuse. congressman ryan is supposed to be the gop's expert on poverty, the one who supposedly is going to convince america that republicans are the ones who really want to help the poor. but over the last 24 hours, he's been hammered for those explosive and offensive comments, blaming poverty on a culture of men not working in inner cities. >> we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work. so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with. >> culture of working in inner cities? really. today congressman ryan was desperately trying to backpedal. first congressman ryan told a blog, quote, this has nothing to do whatsoever with race. it has never even occurred t

stations and great minds i'm joined by one of the strongest progressive voices on capitol hill keith ellison is a us representative for minnesota's fifth congressional district as the first muslim ever elected to congress he's also the first african-american ever elected to congress from minnesota and outspoken advocate for peace abroad and equality at home congressman ellison is the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus and is a leader comes to issues of civil rights and religious freedom his new memoir my country tis of thee my faith my family our future is a fascinating. look at the values and experiences that have shaped disbeliefs irishman allison joins us now in the studio congressman ellison welcome back good to see you great to see you again. i love this book i have not read the entire thing but i've heard. chunks yeah like a large chunks of it your father just pops up throughout the book you know the stuff about adam clayton powell father. anyway but let's start out with you what got you into pop what got you interested in politics you know i was interested in politics wr

minnesota congressman keith ellison said "this case is scary territory for employees." >> let's step back from the whole obamacare affordable care act debate and ask yourselves what this would mean. do we really want a corporation to be able to have its own religious views and impose them on its employees? what does that -- what would that mean for our -- the separation of church and state? for individual libber any what would it mean about corporate person snood this is scary territory and people need to win. >> absolutely. the supreme court will be hearing arguments on the case tomorrow. meanwhile, after four years, eric cantor says he's finally, finally working on an obamacare alternative. cantor told members at a private meeting on thursday "house republicans will rally around and pass an alternative to obamacare this year." how about that? they're going to have a health care rally, that's what they're gonna do! they're going to rally because it's taken them four years to put something on paper. i'd like to see this alternative from cantor. four years later and the republicans ha

of the progressive caucus, a great representative from the state of minnesota, representative keith ellison. mr. ellison: i do appreciate the gentleman for yielding. you have been a voice for working americans all over this country and i thank the gentleman for your great work. our states are next to each other. we share a lot. so i'm really honored to be here with you today. let me start out, we are going to talk about fracking, but i want to set the stage for the conversation. we are in the united states house of representatives. and we have stagnant wages for 40 years, yet, we can't see a bill to raise the minimum wage on the house floor. we see that unemployment insurance has been stalled since december 28, 2013. r. pocan made this point abundantly clear and over two million people are now without that unemployment insurance support and yet we see no action on the house floor here. we see our infrastructure crumbling across the united states. i myself come from a city where we saw a bridge on i-35 fall into the mississippi river. we have seen water mains break. we have seen problems wit

rationally progressive caucus of seventy three member organization co-chaired of minnesota congressman keith ellisonan arizona congressman raul grijalva releases a budget proposal of its own this year's c.p.c. plan came out yesterday the better off budget as it's called would undo all sequester cuts provide four point four trillion dollars worth of deficit reduction and create eight point eight million jobs by twenty seventeen it's exactly what we need to do to get out of the age of austerity and back onto the road to prosperity but will republicans in the house congress pass it joining me now for more on this on the c.b.c. budget is wisconsin congressman mark polk in a member. of that conference congressman polk and walking back yeah i think you better be here great to have you with us last year we went through this with jan schakowsky one of your colleagues for whom i have great admiration it's is so great that all of you. on the progressive caucus in the progressive caucus are working on this kind of stuff give us if you could narrow the budget the better off budget down to a few main ideas will