thomas and i look into first class and who is sitting there but charlie rangel. i want a law against me having to pay for this. beyond that, i think it should be painful to serve. it should not be full of perks to be in congress because that means they stay for life. we want them to leave as quickly as possible and join us so they don't spend our money. >> it's almost an insult to the founding fathers that we would have to write a law like this because they were against this sort of thing. >> absolutely. congress isn't supposed to do it but they find a loophole and they're taking advantage of it. to bill's point, you have to have a firm law. they give plenty of laws to us and the other good thing of having him flying coach is they'll want to be in favor of performing air traffic control. >> and carrie, half of congress are millionaires. if they want first class they can pay for it. >> exactly. cry me a river. these people are wealthy. if they want to pay the differential, make hem do it. we're all about welfare reform and means testing. let's make flying first cl

i think this is how charlie rangel stays in office so long. yes, he's corrupt but very likable.ting right next to him, without having to take any responsibility for his dickishness. >> they love him at the, he's very active at the national action network and they like him. they haven't endorsed him, of course not. >> no no no, he didn't kill a woman. well i don't know if he killed her but he certainly didn't eat her. then again, i'm an old man, what do i know about cannibalism? no wonder he's still in congress. there may be no way at all to get these congressmen out of office. >> congressman john conyers expected to run for his 26th term in november is being kept off the ballot in the primary because of invalid signatures on a petition. >> jon: wow, so without term limits, we just have to wait until congress people get so old their lose signatures like keys. how does the constitution even allow for this type of entrenched encouple bantcy? ring, ring. hello? what's that? founding father james madison! what? you never intended for anyone to serve that long in congress? well, oh, w

that should totally discredit any of the comments that charlie rangel has made.have a representative benny thompson who was on the new nation of islam radio show and he called supreme court justice clarence thomas an uncle tom. what you have, greta, are these members of the congressional black caucus who have to create this strawman or this deception because they are really not dealing with the interests and the issues that areng their. when you think about charlie rangel, he should be speaking out about mayor bill de blasio who is trying to dismantle it the charter school program in new york city. the academy right there in harlem. not talking about the 12% unemployment rate. not talking about the g.d.p. growth which obviously means that there is definitely not economic growth within our inner city and urban environments. this is politics as usual. >> why do they do that? because everybody goes into politics whether you agree with a person. i realize some politics an awful long time and lose that thought, but, i mean, why are they doing that? >> it's it's very s

take a look at this, congressman charlie rangel getting down in east harlem.ns latin dance studio and he happens to be in a tough primary fight in his seat and that's when he started pulling out the old dance moves. >> he looks like he's having fun. >> sarah palin told a high school to cling to gun, god and the constitution and she advised them not to shy away from competition. >> when we hear someone whining about maybe claiming some offense or getting their feelings hurt about something we rely on the old saying up there in alaska where we say buck up or stay in the truck. >> but perhaps the group hart isn't thrilled with things like that. the rockers have asked sarah palin not to use their hit song barracuda. they've been asking all of the way up to the 2008 campaign, but breaking news, they're okay if hillary wants to use the song, saying, quote, whatever hillary clinton needs from me, she's got. that wraps up this hour of "jansing & coe." news nation is up next. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduc

charlie rangel on how he see this play out. what do you think of have you.should support it, should sit on it? >> i think it's a great idea. i thought they were going to have a select committee on affordable care because it appears that they've given up on that. now they're going to have a select committee to study what we already studied. i think it's tragic that the republican party would destroy itself in 2016 by not having one issue that the american people believe should be a priority. >> well, could you answer my question, sir, about whether you think democrats should be a part of this committee. it looks like it's going to happen one way or another. >> the only time -- we cannot be a part of having the majority of a select committee where we have not the control to see which direction it's going. >> so no seats at all? you wouldn't -- there are some are worried it might boomerang on you, that no representation at all in that committee doesn't even afford you a chance to challenge some of its final findings. >> at some time you have to be on principle

. >> congressman charlie rangel, it is always good to have you here, and we are never at a loss of where you stand. thank you, sir, for coming in. >> thank you. >>> and this afternoon, president obama will present the medal of honor to kyle white who saved one soldier's life, and helped to get other soldiers out of the line of ambush, but he does not consider himself a hero. >> well, when you are in that situation that you have people that you care about and you serve with and your brothers and they are wounded and need your help, you won't stop at anything until you get them that help. >> we will have the full coverage of the medal ceremony right here on "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. on msnbc. >>> clay aiken has temporarily s suspended the campaign after his challenger keith chris coe suddenly died. he was found dead in his home after some kind of fall. akin put out a statement saying that he was stunned and deep ly saddened. and kelly o'donnell says that crisco was going to concede in the tight race, and he was trailing in the polls. >>> in a messy race in nebraska three republican candidat

i yield now time to the gentleman from new york, representative charlie rangel. mr. rangel: let me really thank the gentleman from nevada for constantly reminding us what a great country we live in and .ow it can be so improved having fought in the war, screaming and yelling and complaining, but recognizing how great this nation is, and it was an opportunity to say thank you for the blessings that have been bestowed on this nation, and thinking about those who drafted a constitution that didn't include slaves or women or people who didn't hold land, and yet they drafted a document that was flexible enough for us to be able to say that that great statue of liberty meant talents ould bring from all over the world to come to make us the largest democracy, the strongest military and the greatest economic force in the world. and we've done that because we've always felt that no matter what your background is, that if you could get here could you make it here -- you could make it here. you know, when we talk about he brown decision, nobody ever thought that just sitting ne

what about benny thompson, a congressman, as well as congressman charlie rangel.you the reaction. clarence thomas, this man doesn't even like black people. >> i have never seen so many confederate flags that represent groups that are proud of the fact that they call themselves the tea party. >> so some outrageous statements. first, do you think these are big deals? >> they are big deals. the media should have covered it. it's just so wrong for these men to make these inflammatory racial statements. we can't have two sets of rulings here where if you're in the private sector and you're the owner of the clippers and you make inflammatory, hurtful statements you get persecuted and crucified. you get fined millions of dollars, get your team taken away, but yet you're an elected member of congress, you get away with it. that's not right. >> you got no coverage on rangel, zero. zero coverage on benny thompson. by the way, he doubled down with cnn yesterday and said he is an uncle tom, what do you want me to say? 165 minutes and 22 seconds on the owner of the clippers. n

and as far as the draft goes, that's something that charlie rangelle kicked around for a while and peoplerazy for suggesting that. if we get a draft, after we went to iraq, we still would have gone to iraq. because 75% of americans believe that it was weapons of mass destruction, a year and a half after 9/11, we still would have gone. but when we found out they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, our boys and girls would have been home in 2004. we wouldn't have stayed there. we would have been out of afghanistan in 2006, 2007 after we hunted down most of the terrorists. david gregory, as mike said, it's been a dozen years or so where we've asked way too much of our military. they've delivered because they're extraordinary. but it's been the age of occupation. we've got to move past the false choice that we were given back in 2001 which the pottery barn rule, if you break it you own it. no that suggests if we go into syria and there's a slaughter going on there or iran and we find out they have nuclear weapons to destabilize the world. that somehow to fix a broken country means that w