republican governor bobby jindal, though, supported it. he said, it's time we protected our freedom. now that it turns out that what he was protecting was the ability of convicted felons to legally possess ak-47s, governor bobby jindal put out a statement, quote, we disagree with the judge's ruling. he never thought this law he was joining with the nra to support would protect laws from felons owning guns, but it does. now thanks to the legislation you let the nra write for your state, the convicted felon who was in jail because he was found to be in possession with an ak-47 and handgun has been sprung from jail, and when the state supreme court hears the case soon, the people who warned against this nra law in the first place are warning one of the possible outcomes at the supreme court would be the law banning felons from having guns won't just be struck down permanently, it will be struck down retroactively, which would result in a mandatory springing from prison every convicted felon who's in jail in louisiana right now because he was

it's not -- [cheers and applause] hitting you here -- didn't you hear what republican governor bobby jindald this year? >> we've got to stop being the stupid party. >> jon: yes, exactly. [cheers and applause] now that guy is an up and comer. that is the kind of inclusive smart moderate tone that is going to take this republican party into the 21st or late 20th century. jindal how are things for that cat? >> a statewide poll released today shows governor jindal's popularity is in a political tail spin. >> his approval rating has sunk to 38%. >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight she's the coo of facebook. her new book is called "lean in women, work and the will to lead." please welcome to the program sheryl sandberg. hello. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for having me. [cheers and applause] >> jon: how are you? >> i'm great, thank you for having me. great to be here. >> stephen: i'm delighted you are here. the book is called "lean in." you are the coo of facebook. >> correct. >> jon: curiosity for my sake, what do you do with people at work messing around on facebook? >> we encourage it

but also added both sides have their own homework to do. >>> back at home, louisiana governor bobby jindalhis controversial plan to eliminate the state's income tax, saying he hears the criticism he received and is now acting accordingly. jindal wanted to eliminate income tax but increase state sales tax to make up for the lost revenue. the plan was slammed by state lawmakers and business executives who argued it would hurt their companies. the governor said he'll propose other ways to get rid of the income tax. remember we shared with you last week about some poll number plummeting that was going on there for jindal himself. and that may be part of the reason. >>> finally, florida senator marco rubio is the latest lawmaker to voice concern about beyonce and jay-z's trip to cuba. after hearing the trip was fully licensed by the treasury department, rubio said, quote, the obama administration should explain exactly how trips like these comply with u.s. law and regulations governing travel to cuba and it should disclose how many more of these trips they have licensed. according to reuters th

. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal is heading to new hampshire next month. he's frequently touted as a 2016 contender but has raently seen ha proval raeths tumble. >>> mark pryor has raked in $2 million since the beginning of the year for his 2014 re-election campaign. he's considered to be one of the most valuable democratic incumbents in the senate. >>> chris murphy is asking fox not to air a nascar race sponsored by the nra. fox sports is scheduled to broadcast the nra 500 tomorrow. >>> meanwhile, president obama called for family members of newtown victims after thursday's historic senate vote on gun reform. he thanked them for their work in pushing legislation and for lobbying members of congress. >>> the president's home state might soon have one less public official. state lawmakers are moving to put a measure on the ballot to apolish the office of lieutenant governor. the current lieutenant governor has already said she will not run again. >>> and call her mama grizzly. cindy mccain is taking to twitter after writing ann coulter because she penned he

that was bobby jindal advocating that schools teach creationism.2008, he signed the louisiana science education act which allows public school teachers to do just that. and thanks to a new law, millions in taxpayer dollars are going to teach this pseudo science. things like nessie, the loch ness monster was a dinosaur. a repeal failed, but that has not stopped them from fighting this good and necessary fight. joining me now is zack kopplin, who is a sophomore at rice university and is fighting to keep creationism out of public schools. he comes to us tonight from houston, texas. thanks for being with us. why did you decide to take on this issue? and what do you find troubling about the act? >> the louisiana science education act is a lou that allows, quote, critiques of established science like evolution and climate change using [ inaudible ] materials, and in that statement, he also indicated this to the louisiana science education act. this law allows do you critique these science with supplemental materials. the evolution issues aren't controver

you wrote about bobby jindal. he scrapped entirely his plan to replace his state's income and corporate taxes with a higher sales tax. what is the cautionary tax tale here for republicans, bengie? >> well let's put the lower taxes on rich people and corporations, and higher taxes on lower incomes. >> michael: yes, absolutely. >> so it doesn't help for house republicans that they have a governor of louisiana really pitching not exactly their plan but gets the same kind of principles the same kind of criticisms, and it has just gone down completely in flames, and he finally scrapped it. that may be a cautionary tale for republicans who think their message is fine they just need to tweak around the edges a little. it could be that it is the economic principles that they are espousing that is the problem. >> michael: yeah, it didn't work for his approval ratings, so i think it is the most cautionary tail, but you think it has already been told before. benjy sarlin thank you so much for coming on the show. most of the

this issue, bobby jindal has been critical of this.ington sound like book keepers. seems as if the white house polls a lot better than house republicans. >> i don't know that it's house republicans. take a look at how they did in the 2010 elections. where are the jobs? they got this this was the dynamic. >> that was in 2010. you bring up the point. >> they are still focused on that. they have a caucus that is focussed on 16 trillion. there a lot of priorities. they think it's a challenge to get everyone to focus on the number one issue. >> where are they today is a good question. where are they today applies to the republican party with respect to a wight range of issues. even talking about the accountants and the american people talk about the anxiety. they are not hearing what the american people are saying. that's one of the reasons that they won more votes. they picked up the seats. >> they were never able to make a convincing argument as to how it connects to people's lies and jobs. >> you feel the president is speaking to the ave

bobby jindal. and we'll just have to keep looking andpi hoping that people are courageous and forward-thinking. heather? >> does asa message of personal responsibility sell politically anymore? we've seen president obama suggesting universal pre-kindergarten care, basically telling parents it's not their responsibility to prepare their children for school, but rather the government's. i don't think your mother would have bought thatha message. she understood it was for you to do that. we seem to be expanding things the government can do instead of individuals. can a politician stand up and say sorry, we're not going to give you any more programs for you to take care of your lives? >> i think it can sell, but we have to start talking about it. the political -- the politically correct police have silenced the debate. we have to create the debate again and allow the people who are in the middle to have an a-ha moment. >> the speech, the part about your mother touched med so deeply as a mother of young

by the way, gregg, i talked to bobby jindal about this a week or two ago. steve, he said, we passed ethics reform in louisiana a few weeks ago. if we can do that we can get rid of the income tax. gregg: yeah the proof of the pudding is in the tasting i suppose. if you look at states, i believe we put it up on the screen with low or no income taxes, there is the map, they have done better economically. you probably read art laffer's study, his group, 62% of three million net new jobs created in the nine states without an income tax up on the map. even though they account for only 20% of the population. >> a lot of people, i worked with art laffer on a lot of these studies and a lot of people respond, well, you know, those states in the south, they have better weather and people are naturally migrating to those place. there is some truth to that, greg. my favorite example, look at the difference between california which today has the highest income tax rate in the country. they voted for a 13.3% income tax. versus texas has a state with no income tax, over th

look, marco rubio, and bobby jindal. >> you talked to her spokesman, who doesn't give many interviews i would like to meet the folks who are saying this because they seem to know more than she does. >> she hasn't decided and we are not even 100 days into president obama's second term. >> right. >> and basically the lefu said s to make up her mind. >> we don't care she hasn't made up her mind. almost like we're making up her mind for her. >> maybe she will be drawn into a race because she's drafted. that certainly is possible. of course, she will consider it. why wouldn't she if she is this big figure who is polling as well as she is right now. of course, she'll consider it. it's wrong for everyone in the media to say it's 100% certain she will run because she may have health concerns and bill clinton may have health concerns and that takes it from 100% to something much less than that. >> a million things can happen in three years. a couple lifetimes in politics. >> if we're going to do premature stories on secretary clinton, let's do ones that are what she's going to realistically fa

. >> bobby jindal the governor. honest guy. got a new mayor in there. >> landrieu.he brother of -- the sister is the senator. >> the former mayor of katrina has been indicted. >> he is in trouble. >> corrupt city and always has been. and i don't -- why can't it improve? why doesn't it get better? >> i can't answer that i think when you consider that what new orleans really is, aside from -- someone talking about manhattan. there is times square. that's the french quarter that's where the tourists go and everything else was a vast urban waste land. that's what the story of new orleans is. >> bill: there is enormous amount of poverty in the city. again, there is a service industry there that can support the population. so, all right. you have got bad guys in there. clean them out. you know -- >> -- i agree. >> bill: this city was a disgrace at one point. and giuliani came in with bratton and they cleaned it up. but in new orleans. >> they never clean it up. >> new orleans, the problem is that the police are considered corrupt. there is no relationship between. >> bill

these governors, bobby jindal in those rare moments of candor, knows that they have lost two elections president himself won a big re-elect on the issue of taxes. he has broken generation, a decades long argument where republicans beat democrats every single time on taxes. this president just won an entire election constructed around the proposal that he could raise taxes on the 1%, on the super wealthy, and people would find that popular. so if you're a politician and you are in trouble as these governors are, you should take a look at what the electorate is actually doing and saying, and they have real life examples from this last election. so it doesn't make sense from a progress point of view or politics. because in the end, their own fate is up. and voters have said, we don't mind the rich paying more. in fact, we quite like it. >> and cynthia, it is also where people want to see leadership work together, reach across the aisle, and show that they're mature enough to do what's good for the people. look at chris christie. not a democrat. 70% approval rating. in fact, he had four st

you take someone like bobby jindal who says stop being the party of stupid.denly his poll numbers are falling. but then you have a republican member of congress saying this about limiting gun magazines. take a listen. >> why would you draw the line at ten? what's wrong with 9 or 11? and the problem is once you draw that limit, it's kind of like marriage. when you say, it's not a man and a woman anymore, then why not have three men and one woman? or four women and one man? or why not, you know, somebody has a love for an animal? >> so if you can't have 30 rounds in your rifle, you might end up having sex with a donkey. what is he talking about? >> well, and, again, i don't know, martin, how he quite equated those two. let me make a point. >> well, sorry, mr. walsh. just to mention, though, mr. gohmert is not alone in making this absurd analogy between gun control and somehow ending up with bestiality. >> okay. and i won't go there because i won't make that analogy. >> so you don't agree with -- you don't agree with what mr. gohmert says? >> no, i don't agree,

louisiana governor bobby jindal from criticizing the gop. did it again at a republican fund-raiser in mississippi this week. he also talked about 2016. >> the party tried to run an election with just criticizing incumbent without offering enough of a proactive vision connecting with every voter showing how fiscally conservative policies could help every american join the middle class. anybody thinking about running for president needs to have their head examined. we, as a party, need to be focused on winning the debate. way too early for folks to think about that. >> the public call for the senate to go slow over the weekend. that didn't stop colleague ted cruz from ripping rubio's cause on hannity's show on monday. >> the part that i have deep concerns about is any path to citizenship for those who are here illegally. i think that is profundally unfair. anyone who has a green card is eligible for citizenship within five years. and so if someone can get a green card, that is a path to citizenship. >> potential 16ers just happen to find thems

more and more of the party's leaders and up-and-comers, not only paul ryan, but eric cantor and bobby jindalvernor of louisiana, sounding much the same note. which is one, we're going to have to present some fresh ideas. and two, we've got to quit you know, excluding people who don't agree with us on absolutely everything. >> and anna, do you get the sense -- you're covering all the sort of influence industry. these members of congress, particularly on the republican side, their biggest worry are primaries do they care what national polling suggests and what their national leadership suggests in terms of direction for the party? >> it's going to be something to watch in the house. house republicans on immigration reform, it's unclear what the path forward is there. and that has a lot to do with you know being primaried on the right. that is where their concern is and they don't necessarily have the appetite when they go back to their districts and hear on the grassroots level that you know people feel like these bills are going to be amnesty and that kind of talk is very commonplace, you tal

. >> what's interesting, there, and we've seen bobby jindal, paul ryan yesterday with a very, perhapseech on the issue of abortion, and what he told some pro-lifers about the issue, it seems the leaders want to move the party in a different direction. but republicans are in a different place. >> look, the republican party is a pro-life, pro-gun party. and it is a party that has these kind of values that are part of our coalition. and as a party, we have to respect those values. it's part of who we are. it's in our dna. but at the same time, we have to demonstrate to people that you understand their economic troubles and that you are open and tolerant and understand that people are living different lives. and i think that can be done. >> that's what's interesting here, the independents. let's look at the swing voter, the independent. they're moving not as fast in the direction that the democrats are moving, but they're moving in that direction culturally, while republicans in some ways are swinging against the current. >> moving away, not as quickly as democrats, obviously, but moving

. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal scrapped plans to eliminate the state income tax and replace ity raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations of the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. thto fight chronic. osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your

. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal scrapped plans to eliminate the state income tax and replace ity raising the sales tax. that would have shifted, of course, the tax burden away from corporations and the wealthy and disproportionately hurt the poor and working classes. jindal's poll numbers have taken a beating over his plan and he abandoned it just last night. if states are laboratories of democracy, this is one experiment that blew up in jindal's face. we'll be right back. >>> help this be the moment when real change begins. help this with b the beginning of turning tragedy into transformation for us all. >> we're back. that was nicole, who lost her son in the sandy hook tragedy. this week, family members of newtown victims are bringing their fight for tougher gun laws into washington and today, they kicked off a series of meetings with democrats and republicans. jillian joins me now. she traveled from connecticut to washington. last night with president obama as you can see in this photo. her sister was a first grade teacher at sandy hook elementary who died while trying to pro

. >>> in louisiana, bobby jindal is giving up his plan to eliminate state income tax.ve jacked up the sales tax in louisiana to make up for lost revenue. right now, voters in illinois are picking the replace iment f jesse jackson junior. robin kelly is favored against paul mckinley, ex-con turned activist. >>> when it comes to voting, the average african-american voter waited 23 minutes to vote, according to a new study. hispanics waited 19 minutes and whites waited 12. >>> paul ryan pulled in $600,000 in the first quarter, including a hefty check from condoleezza rice. we don't know what his future plans are, but he has about a million and a half cash on hand right now. >>> former president bill clinton is now on twitter thanks to stephen colbert. >> do you tweet? >> no. i think i'm so sort of insecure, like, you know, what if you tweet and nobody tweets back. >> i took the liberty of opening you a twitter account. >> now, president clinton was taken. william jefferson clinton was taken. but prezbillyjeff was available. >> clinton's first tweet that colbert typed, jus

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and louisiana's governor bobby jindal backing down after intense criticism.ver norquist is with us, i say it's a big hit to your cause. what do you say? >> actually what governor jindal's done has written a plan to abolish the income tax plan and, said to the legislature, here is my plan, what is your plan, let's work. he said he's not wedded to his particular plan, but committed to abolishing the state income tax as are the governors of kansas, and the legislative leadership in north carolina. this movement is moving forward. i think you'll see the income tax gone this year in louisiana. stuart: okay, well, we'll talk more about that in a second. stay right there, grover norquist. now, one of the biggest names on wall street, or they i should say, have a message for ben bernanke, stop printing money. 1 i doubt that ben is listening, but we'll have penny's opening stock price when that opening bell rings. look at this. they are celebrating the death of margaret thatcher in the street. i say that's absolutely disgusting. we'll have a former thatcher speech wri

jeremy, when we come back for a while, they thought bobby jindall was the savior then maybe marco rubiolooks like it's a guy named ben carson from baltimore. i want to find out. we can take a look at him when we come back with media matters on the "full-court press." >> radio meets television "the bill press show" now on current tv. >> [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show." >> you got it. thirteen minutes before the top of the hour, sports cindy boren, early news sports blogger for the washington post joining us at the top of the next hour and we are going to talk texas politics. is texas ready to turn blue? right now, sunday morning talk shows. is there any balance where you think you might find it? media matters says no. jeremy holden is the research director for media matters for american in studio with us. jeremy, good to have you with us on this friday morning. >> you get extra points. >> i need all of the extra points i can get. >> in the first hour. >> top of the list. peter, what's going on in the social media word. >> -- social media world >> bill: i want to make a point.

. >> stephanie: louisiana governor bobby jindal, he said we've got to stop being the stupid party. and it's not going over. >> stephanie: this critical stance hasn't seemed to provide general insight any whether they were pursuing policies along with the outbursts. pretty much all of it. stupid candidates, stupid ideas. for the most part, however the g.o.p. seems content to stick with the plan in 2012. the party still trying to pass the paul ryan budget which is the paul ryan budget, even worse now. flirting with the taking debt ceiling hostage still maniacally averse to revenues in debt reduction deal, we move on to depression, there's no hope. >> but they admitted there is really no debt crisis. boner himself -- no debt crisis. just pulled it out of our ass. >> stephanie: this was fun. ann coulter right after the election. we have no takers than makers and it is over. my country that is no longer -- is interested in conservative ideas is interested in handouts which is what mitt romney's post-analysis was. >> why don't you move to canada? >> stephanie: bill o'reilly lamented the

i think what the deficit hawks have not been able to do -- this is bobby jindal's criticism of the republicans not talking about kitchen table issues. the fact of the matter is what this poll shows you is this is the numbers that the white house is reading. this is why the president always says what he says. we could say it's because he believes this is the right way to lower the deficit but it's also they know that the average american is thinking more about the security of a job, wondering about job creation. the president's message throws job -- makes job creation a larger part of his message. the republican message on the debt here in washington has not done a good job of connecting it with short-term job creation and the economic anxiety that people feel out there. >> chuck todd, thank you so much. we are going to see you at 9:00 a.m. >> yes, ma'am. >> on "the daily rundown." in the green run walter isakson and bob herbert. more "morning joe" when we come back. ♪ to show you how i really feel ♪ ♪ admit to some of those bad mistakes i've made ♪ but i wa customer thought? describe the first