i've got a really good feeling as e.j. said, we haven't seen this much preparation for a november election on an off year out this far in a long time. so i think there's a mighty battle coming. >> all right. i'm going to the to leave it there. thank you for your time this evening. have a great weekend. >> you too, reverend. >> and thank you, reverend. >>> coming up, ding, ding, ding. it's scandal mania in the gop. all the big names spent the week battling it out to see who had the kookiest anti-obama conspiracy theory. and 7.5 million people enrolled. but there's a new reason they're whining about repealing the health care law. and buckle up. scott brown is getting back in his truck and he's trying to new hampshire for a senate one. -- run. but he might need a gps to get there. and plus, he broke the color barrier. in baseball. and became an american hero why tonight, yes, tonight is a night to celebrate jackie robinson. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take

e.j. dionne and is a lo and salon.com's joan walsh. e.j., what does this controversy reveal to the mainstream about the republican party? >> well, i think this shows that there are a significant number of republicans, including those senators you saw, who at this moment are willing to identify with what you might almost call a neo-confederate view of the federal government. he is saying the federal government doesn't exist. i don't like the word treason because people throw it around at anyone they disagree with, but i think he falls within the technical definition of that. and the notion that someone who doesn't want to pay the federal government what he owes it doesn't recognize the federal government, the notion that this person is lifted up as a patriot tells us something really terrible about how some people on the right are thinking these days. and i hope that this episode actually causes some conservatives to say hold on, we've got to stop this and stop trying to delegitimate the fe

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as e.j. was pointing out about the republican governors who are keeping millions of their own constituents from having that medicaid coverage, because it is expansion of medicaid that covers that gap between these folks who are kind of available for the aca versus the poorest of the poor. >> when you look at the fact that this week right before the numbers came out, the right wingers were already accusing the white house of cooking the books. listen to this. >> i don't think it means anything. they're cooking the books on this. >> with millions of obama care applicants appearing out of thin hair in the last few days, kath theen lean sebelius is fighting allegations they're cooking the books. >> when have they not lied when it comes to obamacare. >> they said they had 7 million start-ups. does anybody believe that? it's an absolute possibility. >> no evidence, not on the hint of evidence, then a afind out that they were even underestimating the real number, which was 8 million. this was leadin

e.j., another component of this. running on religion.h voters are going to make voting decisions based on religious claims by guys like this, they are simply begging to be lied to. you know, talking. i think both of us have known politicians who are genuinely religious. some occasionally talk about it. some don't talk about it at all. and i think that what, the problem, the line that has been crossed is, we seem, at least in some districts, some voters, don't want to vote for somebody unless they are religious. unless they make public displays of religion. when people talk too much about how religious they are. i say that as somebody sympathetic to religion. >> not supposed to have a religious test for involvement in the government. we do. in politics we have hey religious test. it has become virtually impossible for someone to run for president as a nm knee crystal and not discuss his or her religion. >> absolutely. it would be unheard of to imagine at this point. some one who publicly claimed to be an atheist. >> worst thing you can be

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joining me now is e.j. dionne, political analyst and columnist for "the washington post" and nia malik-henderson, also with "the washington post." us collectivists had a very bad day in the david koch op-ed piece. i think he have used the word collectivist or collectivism. when he was in elementary school, that word was used here and there before people started using communist and socialist. but the thinking in that op-ed piece was captured completely in the title. >> first of all, if that's the best we can do, i don't think we collectivists are in any trouble at all. i found it an astonishing piece. in the first place, this is a guy who's spending tens of millions of dollars attacking other people, and then he is suddenly offended that people might hit him back? and, you know, i write an op-ed column. i will share with him the comments written under my column or the e-mail i get which i can't recite on this family show. if you get into the debate, people are going to hit you back. the notion he can attack

e.j. hit it right on the head.king questions when sterling had to settle that lawsuit for racist practices and behavior. in terms of not renting to black and latino residents. by the way, kevin johnson is not off the hook here either. he also has been accused of being a slumlord when it comes to black and latino residents of sacramento. e.j.'s point about power in this regard. not having a discussion who should own the clippers. hey, why not ask the players to pool their money and buy the clippers. that will be a show of power as well. instead we are saying, maybe magic will buy it. let the players buy the team and own the team at the end of the day. >> i love the idea. in fact one thing i was thinking, let's do the green bay packers model have the players own it or have the fans own it. you know, makes you ask question about the ownership structure. >> residents of l.a. >> an idea here born on the last word for a l.a. clippers co-op. i like it. thank you both for being there. appreciate it. >> good to be with you.

. >> e.j. dion, a note of reality about the road traveled by l.b.j. to eventually signing the civil rights act. >> you know, it its very rare that one politician will acknowledge of another or of any of us as human beings that we are flawed, we do some things sometimes for our own interests, and not -- not for some higher cause that we later get associated with. i just think it is wonderful for a politician to acknowledge sin. with the amazing thing, isabelle just said. here its the most successful politician of our moment acknowledging his debt to a group of politicians of 50 years ago, and who were imperfect, who did things for all kind of reasons other than the lofty. who nonetheless, were able to pass a piece of legislation that fundamentally transformed our country and transformed it for the better. i remember that time i was very young. people would say, you can't legislate morality. the opponents of the civil rights bill would say. in fact they did legislate morality. they fundamentally altered the kind of racist leaning that the country had ha

let me bring in e.j. dion, columnist for "the washington post." let's talk about obstruction. i want to read a quote from president obama from last night. he said, obstruction may actually be a good political strategy for republicans if democrats don't vote in the midterms. i mean the president is openly saying, i'm the most obstructed president in the history of the countrier. is that going to wake people up? what do you think? >> i think what you said earlier is really important, i can't remember an election cycle people were talking about turnout early in the cycle. what matters is that you've got a lot of democrats who might not vote so much in offyears realizing that there are big stakes in this particular election. the senate is on the line. i thought it was really good you had governor beshear on, who has done an extraordinary thing in kentucky. when talk about obstruct, we're not talking about congress. we're talking about all of the governors, mostly republicans who refuse to help on obamacare. if you had every governor in the country saying, i may not have liked this

. >> reporter: he's blamed for one of the worst maritime disasters of all time, but to some captain e.jsmith a hero. he turn in for the night aboard the "titanic" when his crew told him they hit an iceberg. april 1912 and the "titanic" was on its maiden voyage. when the ship stoortd sink off the coast of canada captain smith ordered the crew to prepare lifeboats. >> they gave an order for all passengers put on life preservers. >> reporter: captain smith ordered women and children be evacuated first. and helped save more than 700 people. he was on the bridge as the ship disappeared, lost among the 1500 people who perished. decades later in 1956 an italian vessel the andrea dompb ria collided with another ship off nantucket. the captain made a series of errors in dense fog and heavy traffic. yet when it began to sink the captain tried to make sure all the passengers and crew were evacuated. 46 people died. he wanted to go down with the ship and pay for his mistakes. but his officers talked him out of it. the captain was the last person off and never commanded another vessel again. the tal

. >> reporter: he's blamed for one of the worst maritime disasters of all time, but to some captain e.jth a hero. he turn in for the night aboard the "titanic" when his crew told him they hit an iceberg. april 1912 and the "titanic" was on its maiden voyage. when the ship stoortd sink off the coast of canada captain smith ordered the crew to prepare lifeboats. >> they gave an order for all passengers put on life preservers. >> reporter: captain smith ordered women and children be evacuated first. and helped save more than 700 people. he was on the bridge as the ship disappeared, lost among the 1500 people who perished. decades later in 1956 an italian vessel the andrea dompb ria collided with another ship off nantucket. the captain made a series of errors in dense fog and heavy traffic. yet when it began to sink the captain tried to make sure all the passengers and crew were evacuated. 46 people died. he wanted to go down with the ship and pay for his mistakes. but his officers talked him out of it. the captain was the last person off and never commanded another vessel again. the tale o

the best of execution of that's not all he's the screenwriter for the upcoming film south pole star e.j. guildhall one of my favorite people do you think you are responsible for this cable revolution that the shield so. i think that. the shield came along at a time when you know that when cable dramas were really on the rise and we premiered on that station then we were there first a regional program on f.x. on f.x. and. and no one really knew could or could see where it was going we knew we had something different. and something special and obviously and john john lennon graph the president gets you with the network to the most successful show of the shield and sons of anarchy right yeah and i was lucky enough i was i started out as a staff writer on the shield and finished as an executive producer and and shawn ryan who created that show was it was a great mentor for me and. and really you know and i love the show i stayed all seven seasons and clearly i don't like change because i'm doing sons and then my my neck shows that f.x. to do so text ethics i am i think to be a breaking bad