joining me now is missouri congressman emanuel cleaver, chairman of the congressional black caucus and karen finney, former communications director for the democratic national committee. thank you both for being here. >> good to be with you. >> thanks, reverend. >> chairman cleaver, let me start with you. why did romney make this speech today? you hear my feeling. what do you feel? >> well, i don't know whether that were strategic moves that dictated this speech be made to the naacp and he would then offer something to the base. i'm not sure. i would choose to believe that he legitimately wanted to go to the naacp. i think that all presidential candidates ought to do that. even republicans who are not generally going to receive a great deal of african-american support. for variety of reasons we don't have time to go into on the show. but i do think that his advisers

>> it's like demonizing ward cleaver. >> really. who would do that? >> i mean -- >> i hated that guy. >> you did not hate ward. you are so -- >> it's a sidebar issue. bain, bain was a successful venture, legal. it's a sidebar issue. the key bar issue is the economy. >> okay. what's his plan? >> the very thing that drives a conservative like me crazy, that he done have the plan to transform the government. >> he's getting there. >> he doesn't have it, that's what also makes it so hard to lay a glove on him. >> because he hasn't stuck his neck out on a lot of issues. and i think it's very frustrating for the obama people. but i agree with the question and the answer, if i were in mitt romney's place, i'd say, listen, i turned around businesses. i changed the way operations like bain work. >> right. >> i turned -- i turned around bain. i turned around all of these companies. i saved the olympics. >> that's right. >> i turned around massachusetts, i did this, i did

today, cleaver likened it to knee surgery.se majority whip steny hoyer said jackson should advise constituents about his illness. minority leader nancy pelosi said jackson will talk once he knows more about his situation. >>> still ahead -- robin hood tax. plus, house republicans say they are not giving up, next. >> bret: house republicans took another shot today at the president's healthcare law. minority leader nancy pelosi calls it legislation to nowhere. republicans who campaigned on the issue say they are sticking to their presence approximatelys. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the update. >> the bill is taxed. >> as expected, house republicans in a few of their democratic colleagues voted to repeal president obama healthcare law. ahead of the vote, speaker boehner extented this invitation to democrats. >> for those who still support repealing the harmful healthcare law, we are giving your colleagues in the senate another chance to heed the will of the american people. for those who did not support rep

i want to go back to congressman cleaver. he's congressional black caucus chair.is in mind, too, mitt romney was kind of in a box. what would have happened if he didn't accept the invitation? that could have been a worse situation. but let's listen to congressman cleaver about what his thoughts were about the booing. >> i didn't support the booing. i think that was inappropriate. but predictable when he starts saying i'm going to eliminate something that the african-american community has embraced in numbers larger than any other component of american society. he should never have gone there in the first place. >> gretchen: do you agree with that? do you think he should not have brought up the fact that he would repeal observe eastboundcare to avoid being boo'd? >> what congressman cleaver is basically saying is that he's demanding that romney have pandered to this audience. let's back up a little bit more because i disagree with another premise that he stated and that is that the african-american community as a whole, as a collective supported obamacare. i think

thank you both for being here. >> good to be with you. >> thanks, reverend. >> chairman cleaver, let me start with you. why did romney make this speech today? you hear my feeling. what do you feel? >> well, i don't know whether that were strategic moves that dictated this speech be made to the naacp and he would then offer something to the base. i'm not sure. i would choose to believe that he legitimately wanted to go to the naacp. i think that all presidential candidates ought to do that. even republicans who are not generally going to receive a great deal of african-american support. for variety of reasons we don't have time to go into on the show. but i do think that his advisers even if he was serious, even if it was genuine, his advisers all should be fired today. for allowing him to speak to the naacp and then attack obama care or romney care however you want to put it. because you know that that audience is not going to embrace that. so i would hate to be cynical to the point where i believe that he wanted the booing to take place. i hope that that's not true. but for him to c

. >>> democratic congressman emanuel cleaver of missouri sent a letter to colleagues dissing the tweenampire series "twilight." everyone knows that real vampires and real ware wolves don't date the same girl and expresses concern that millions of young kids will think that "twilight movies are as accurate as dracula." 22-year-old mindy meyer was inspired about it movie "legally blonde" when she designed a bright prifrpg website for her campaign for state senate in new york. meyer, a republican conservative calls herself the diva of the district. her slogan is "i'm senator and i snow it." and that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. . >>> and just a quick correction. it was actually a $250 donation, not a $250,000 donation. now here is your first look at how wall street is going to kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,721 after falling 101 points yesterday. the s&p 500 sank 12. nasdaq tumbled 35. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, ne the nikkei was dow points and in hong kong they sank 50. spain's borrowing costs soared. safety seekers pushed bond yields t

joining us from kansas city, missouri, emanuel cleaver, chair of the congressional black hawaii kau cuthis? what in the world were the 17 democrats who did not join you in the walkout, what were they thinking? >> well, i had made the -- the appeal to the democratic caucus on thursday morning, jim clyburn of south carolina had had suggested at the cbc meeting the day before that we walk out, and we thought that we would have over 100, which we did, but we also alized that there are some blue dogs who simply believe that, you know, the people backç home would think kindly of them if they went along with the -- the contempt citation. obviously, i disagree. steny hardy asked if they would at least vote and go to the cloak room in the back so our side would be teem, soempty, ank most of them did. each person who voted with the other side obviously believed it would be a good move back home, particularly those who are in close races. >> congressman, let me ask you about that exactly. are democrats better off with or without the blue dogs? they ovide a majority and help to create the sense o

there is cleavering along remainder of the coast. there is readings at 64 degrees in san francisco. and there is some low to mid-80s in the east bay and there is fog near the coast and bay. warmer weather develops this weekend. there is a similar pattern to yesterday z this will be the pattern for next few days, quiet pattern. a nice snow there. breezy. and wednesday lieu friday, mild pattern continues. let's take a look at lows tonight. fog moving across the bay. lows into mid-50s and narrow range of lows tonight. tomorrow morning at 5:00 we'll see fog present and will burn back to the coast and away from the coast like today. there is low 60s on the coast to low to mid-80s inland. in the south bay will be sunny skies with highs raininging from upper 70s to low 80s and looking for highs in 76 in palo alto. and there is highs of 66 tomorrow, 62 into the sunset district. north bay, sunny skies except a spot or two of low clouds. high temperatures from 72 in san rafael up to 75 in santa rosa. 90s up north. upper 60s to low 70s, 73 in union city. inland east way warming up to 79 and do

middle of some crazy -- when i first met chynnas family, mackenzie phillips and we were sort of the cleavers and all of a sudden over the 20 years, we jumped the shark and they got older and became more grounded and more normal and we became the crazy neighbors that nobody wanted to live next door to. >> you've got three kids. if they all wanted to get into the business, it's not unlikely. because a lot of kids do. would you be happy about that? or given the way modern celebrity is, with all of the new weird pressures that come with it, would you prefer to be a doctor or something like that? >> you know, i would probably avoid -- i would probably prefer that they not go into the business but i certainly would not be disappointed if they were. you know, i definitely want them to get very, very good educations first and if they want to study acting or something, it's not going to be at julliard. stanford has a great department. they are going to go premed and take acting classes because i want to make sure that they have a fallback plan. >> what advice would you give anybody about fame, about

epidemic of our times and i think that the reason we should find pride in that and not reach for the cleaver>> nick kristoff, another great column of course, and our viewers can find it at new york times.com. thank you very much. have a great sunday. >> thank you, randi. >>> new information this morning on the deadly outbreak in cambodia. it has killed 64 children so far and officials think they may have found the source now. it is a virus that call ev-71, and effects are range from a cold to polio-like paralysis to the death, and there is no vaccine for this virus. adults with a healthy immune system can fight it, but children are more vulnerable. >>> back here in the u.s., it is one of the amazing stories to come out of the fires in the southwest. a burned golden eagle, but found alive on the fourth of july, and wait until you hear how he survived. >>> checking on some stories make making news cross country now. when a truck driver in ohio made a turn off of the freeway, he probably didn't expect this. his rig overturned there at the gas station right near that set of pumps. there are repo

. >> congressman emmanuel cleaver, chair of the congressional black caucus. appreciate your time today. >>> more with the political power panel after a break. and later this hour, reaction from congressman james clyburn as well. ale announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role throughout our entire lives. ♪ one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day men's 50+ healthy advantage. test test test >>> let's bring in today's political power panel. april ryan. a white house correspondent for the urban radio network. democratic strategist chris and chip saltsman. i'll start with you. you were just listening as well. i to believe what mitt romney was saying. i spoke directly with the president this morning. let's listen to this first and i'll get your reaction. >> someone had told us in the 1950s or 1960s that a black citizen would serve as the 44th president of the united states, we would have been proud and many wo

everybody gets along like a beaver cleaver family.hat's the intent they have, show folks their dad is a real guy, a nice guy, raised a good family and can have some fun. >> and what did you learn as well about the pressures of the campaign on the family, their mom, who's had her challenges with illness, and how they're coping as a family. >> i think about their mom's challenge. one of the questions i asked them was the simple fact that a family that has as much money as they do and is as privileged as they are, a lot of people believe it's impossible for them to be in touch. i said, are you out of touch with the american people's needs? and they say that while financially, obviously, they're in very unique positions, they say they have challenges, too. they talk a lot about ann romney's multiple sclerosis and impact that's had on them and how tight it's made them as a family. one of the stories i thought was interesting came from tag's daughter, ali. we see her on the campaign trail. any of the grandkids, there are 18 grandkids, mind

. >> emanuel cleaver was on msnbc on the thomas roberts hour talking about that being someone on the speech writing team did not understand how that would play with the audience. david corn, we talk about sort of the political reality here. was the naacp speech for an african-american audience or for those independents who just want to see this guy extending an olive branch to the minority community? >> the people i know in the romney campaign are not fools. i don't think they can get -- they believe they can get to 10%, 8%, 7% of the african-american vote. i would give him an a-plus for the speech today, only because he did not say some of my best friends are african-american nascar owners. but the speech was really about showing that he's not severely conservative, a tea party pandering, you know, racist to moderate suburbanite. he wants to be able to say i can go talk to people who i don't agree with, i can get booed and i can be reasonable. i can tell them what i think in a polite, respectful way. i can take their criticisms and just show them that i care about what they think an

. >> reporter: one cleaver youtuber played it backwards and entitled it happy man appears to repair damagedmpages. the doctor who rammed his car into showroom vehicle after vehicle after he got fed up with waiting for his car to be fixed. the woman who stiff arm bottles at a liquor store after she said the clerk used the phrase you people while refusing to let her use the restroom. the t in t-mobile stood for trashed. their slogan, life is for sharing, this cell phone video is getting shared along with comments like can you hear me now. >> i don't recommend it, but what that guy did. kudos to him. >> oh, my. we're going to keep our cool here in atlanta. they're keeping their cool in new york too. much more with ashleigh banfield now. >>> we are keeping it cool here. there's big story right throughout the country. i'm ashleigh banfield in for brooke baldwin. let's get started. parts of the country wilting today. it's one of the hottest 4th of july holidays on record. chicago, st. louis, cincinnati and minneapolis, extreme heat paralyzing much of the midwest. the heat index, are you ready? up

this was a cleaver advertising scam orchestrated by people from astonia.f dozen people from astonia were able to infect 4 million computers worldwide. they infected computers with malicious software. that software forced unsuspecting users to fraudulent websites and fraudulent advertising. the fib were able to break up this ring late last year. but when they discovered things, they realized that if they took down these bad internet servers they would cut people off entirely from the internet. they did something extraordinary. they took the bad servers down and put up good servers so people could stay online. that was a temporary band-aid, now that band yad, if you will, is coming off. >> here's what we're trying to figure out. i didn't do this on my computer. i'm a denier. if i'm infected with the virus, is it too late now? or is it possible i'll be able to get on the internet and in the next few hours or days it will conk out. >> at this point you could not get on to the internet. this is a serious problem. the best advice i could give folks is contact yo

this is something that is pretty cleaver because it's not a secret that the jewish community has beenpresident obama. they have critical votes in swing states like florida. this is a trip that mitt romney is going to take to try to make it clear to those very small but important sector of the ele electorate that he is with them. >> we know today mitt romney just wrapped up this town hall in costa mesa, california. he's hammering obama over how he handled small businesses. >> reporter: that's right. i think we have a picture of the banner that was behind mitt romney at this event that wrapped up. it said we did build it. that's sething new from the romney campaign. it's up there to try to take a little bit of a whack at president obama which they have done in an ad for saying a short clip of him saying if you got a business you didn't build that, somebody else made it happen. like many of these short clips that the candidates give that was taken out of context. it's not necessarily what he meant. it was a long riff about making the point that this is a society that everything matters a

governor romney, it's not like he's ward cleaver with completely clean hands, they both do it.y both do it. i get the emails from my viewers, they are sick of it, they are sick of this kind of back and forth. >> with all due respect and i appreciate you trying to be fair & balanced, but it has been done by governor romney in response to the attacks that have been made by the obama administration. we could be talking today about the 24 million unemployed and under employed, they are the ones that have problems. when i go to the supermarket and talk to folks and they want to talk to me about governor romney, what they talk to me about the most is the fact that this is a guy that can solve the problem that their son or their daughter, who just graduated from college can't find a job on. they want to talk about the fact that they need a president that can solve problems. i'm very happy to talk and discuss the details of either the budget package that governor romney has put forward, and by the way, and by the way, president obama in almost four years now has failed to present a sin

can describe it is glass spiegel at the time you could kind of define it and look at it as a meat cleaver in which it just sought out to separate essentially banks' access to a taxpayer safety net or guarantee. separate that, separate risky activities away from that. so if you want to engage in trading or various types of other so-called risk activities on wall street you wouldn't have access to the kind of taxpayer safety net. and because of that the thinking goes you would think twice about taking extreme risks because no one would bail you out. dodd frank didn't take that approach. it was more of a scalpl on which they tried to limit certain activities and tried to curb others and just put more rules and requirements on banks to incentivize them not to take these risks. whether it works or not, i mean people are split. it's tough to say why law makers went for this approach as opposed to a more simplified approach. i don't have an answer. host: a couple comments. host: and one other one on twitter from obama games. we'll go back to the phones. atlanta, georgia on the independent line.

way i can describe it is, glass-steagall at the time you could define it and look at it as a meat cleaver in which you saw out banks' access to eight tax payers safety net or guarantee. separate risky activities away from that. if you want to engage in trading or various types of other activities on wall street would have access to the taxpayer safety net. because of that the thinking goes, you would think twice about taking extreme risks because nobody would bail you out. dodd-frank did not take that approach. they tried to limit certain activities and try to curb others and put more rules and requirements on banks to incentivize them not to take human this risks. whether it works or not, people are split. it is tough to say why lawmakers went for this approach. i do not have the answers to that. host: a couple of comments on twitter -- caller: yes, my question is, before the jobs act passed that allow them to be credited to investors, is there anything in the volcker role that addresses had funds and the form of advertising for hedge funds to accredited investors? guest: i do not think

cleaver: every family in this nation knows what it is to make a budget and the reasons behind needing it. this bill blatantly ignores the need and purpose of a budget. certain aspects of the bill are hundreds of millions of dollars above requested levels. if a family tried to live like that, they would be in dire straits. designating money when it's above and beyond what is needed, is nothing more than a gratuitous earmarks. i'm in favor of ear it is marks but i'm not in favor of trying to trick the public. i believe earmarks are right, it is our constitutional responsibility as members of the house. but tricking the public by adding $8 billion more is obscene. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. at a time when the republican majority has in another wasted effort repealed health care reform for the 33rd time, at

cleaver: he told -- mr. carnahan: he told the st. louis newspaper that today's vote is just because, quote, we want to get people on the record, unquote. well, we've done that. 30 times already. the affordable care act is the law of the land. passed by the congress, signed by the president and found constitution albie the u.s. supreme court. this republican health care repeal bill isn't about people. it's about more divisive dysfunctional politics. they know the repeal bill is pointless and there is no way we're going backwards to the broken health care system of the past. let's use the time to pass a jobs bill. let's pass the middle class tax cut extension that we all agree with. let's pass my bill that will protect veterans returning from war zones with the impacts of psychological damage. today our troops are killing themselves at a rate of nearly one a day. they urgently need our help. let's do something for them. let's do something that actually matters for the american people. let's put ourselves on record for the people, for j

easiest way i can describe it is that glass-steagall, at the time, you could define it as a meat cleaver. you basically sought out a separate -- banks' access to the taxpayers see tonight, at separate risky activities from that. if you want to engage in trading or other kinds of risky activities on wall street, you would not have access to the taxpayer safety net. because of that, the thinking goes, you would think twice about taking extreme risks because nobody would bail you out. dodd-frank did not take that approach. it was more of a scalpel. they then tried to limit certain activities and curb others, just put more rules and requirements on banks to incentivize them not to take these tremendous risks. whether it works or not, people are split. it is tough to sit while lawmakers went for this approach as opposed to a more simplified approach. i do not have an answer. host: a couple of comments on twittered. one writes, dodd-frank is a jobs program. look at all the lawyers who will be needed. another one on twitter -- wall street is a complete fraud. how can you regulate a complete fra