the bottom line, elizabeth colbert-busch could give the democrats a chance at winning this house seat the first time in two decades. and she joins us tonight here on "the ed show." elizabeth colbert-busch, thank you for your time. nice to meet you. and i guess the first question is how is it going? >> it's going very well. i'm just delighted to be with you. but it's going very, very well. >> well, you know, the district, 40% went for obama. will your district, do you feel confident that they'll elect a democrat? >> i feel very confident they'll elect a democrat. and one of the reasons is a recent poll releases from the winthrop poll i think you'll find fascinating is that 12% approval rating for state of south carolina for the performance of our congressional leadership. and just as you had just recently mentioned with the dominance of the republican party in the state of south carolina, i think that speaks for itself with the polls. what do you think? >> well, i think you got a shot at it because of your brother and because you are smart as well. it's always great to get that attenti

she's being courted by the elizabeth colbert busch campaign. game changing move in this race. what mark sanford is desperately trying to avoid is any mention of family values, marriage, or t -- >> elizabeth colbert busch seems is silently rooting for mark sanford to win the nomination. she polls in a tie at 43-43 with the other guy. >> this is a district that's conservative. you showed polling numbers for barack obama, john mccain versus mitt romney, so it is a conservative district. bostick fits more with the district, but tough to overcome the name recognition that mark sanford has. bostick would run better against elizabeth colbert busch, but the reresponsible date rate was huge for women. what she has going for her she says in the ad, she's a mom, raised her children, she's a business woman, doing jobs, jobs, jobs, and running on girl power. i think she actually has a shot. >> she's

tonight, elizabeth colbert busch easily won in the first district special primary. colbert, says he will do what he can to help his big sister win the general election. >> she's my sister. >> right. >> and i'm willing to, you know, break the jewel of my own creation to try to do something for her. like i'm not worried what it would do to me or my show to try to help her as myself, not as my character but as myself. you know, if people don't think that's the right thing to do, i don't care, it is my sister and i'm willing to help her. >> south carolina still hasn't decided who colbert busch's opponent will be. the field will be whittled down from 16 contenders to just two. former south carolina governor mark sanford won the most votes in the republican primary. because he did not win more than 50% of the vote, sanford will face a challenger in a runoff. it is too close to call who his challenger will be. the winner of that will face colbert busch in the general election may 7th. joining me now, gene robinson and political analyst, dick harpootlian, chairman of the so

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. >> jimmy: your sister, elizabeth -- >> -- colbert-busch, she's running for congress.> yeah. she's going to be the democratic -- >> woo! >> -- nominee in the first district of south carolina, so -- >> jimmy: this is major. >> yeah. this is huge. >> jimmy: how exciting is that? >> it's -- it's fantastic. it's kind of weird for me because i talk about politics all the time on my show. and i've -- you know, i've run for president a couple of times. >> jimmy: yeah. [ laughter ] >> but i don't actually -- >> jimmy: sorry about that, by the way. >> thanks, very much. you know, you want to give. but -- [ laughter ] i don't actually have anything to offer people in a public office. >> jimmy: no. >> you know, it's natural for her to run because she has skills and something to offer society. i am professionally ridiculous. [ light laughter ] and so -- i just that what i do for a living doesn't sully her good character. >> jimmy: no, i don't think so. i think it should help. >> really, have you seen my show? [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i listen to the audio books. >> did you? >>

the democrats had a clear winner in the primary, elizabeth colbert busch who is the sister of comedian stephen colbert. >>> all right, as we mark the ten years since the war in iraq began we learned of an incredible fact about the cost of war. the u.s. is still paying benefits from the civil war, the u.s. civil war. the payments are going to two children of civil war vet, one in tennessee, one in north carolina who get about $900 a month. the children would have been born when their fathers were in their 70s or 80s. unusual but possible. is that crazy or what? civil war benefits. >> that's pretty crazy. >> wow. >>> moving on to the weather across the nation now. lingering snow in northern new england and snow around the great lakes and the upper midwest. heavy snow in the cascades and the rockies. rainy in the pacific northwest and northern rockies. showers from the carolina coast all the way down to florida. >> 82 degrees in miami. upper 60s from dallas to new orleans. teens and 20s in the upper midwest. phoenix, the hot spot getting to 86 degrees. >>> and coming up, twinkies set to m

over on the democratic side business elizabeth colbert-busch is looking like she will get the nominationg us to talk about this is "charleston post & courier" reporter robert behre. >> thank you for having me. >> michael: i can't believe that mark sanford is running. have people forgotten his affair? >> they certainly haven't forgotten it, but he has done a lot of work in the last three or four years to try to make amends, when the scandal broke he was very active in calling, writing, and apologizing. he did an apology tour when he was still in office as governor and started to mend fences. he showed up at the republican national convention in tampa this past summer to mend fences and he wrote yet another letter laying out his shortcomings asking forgiveness, and he has even turned this whole incident in 2009 into sort of a campaign talk point saying that it has humbled him, and somehow wisened him and given him add perspective. >> michael: and didn't he even try to enlist his wife to work on his campaign. >> yes, she ran his campaigns the first time around and was really kind of the bra

they have elizabeth colbert-busch. this one has a reality show written all over it.ng me now for the robert behre. he's a political reporter for the "post" and "courier" and is coming to us via skype from charleston, south carolina. welcome back inside "the war room," robert. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> michael: so what is the feeling on the ground about sanford now? have people forgiven him for everything? >> 37% have. many are thinking that he is a shoe-in to win in two weeks when the april runoff rolls around. but i think the former congressman has a fighting chance especially if he can pull together some anti-sanford sentiment that still exists here. >> michael: but how much anti-sanford sentiment is there, if he actually went out and won. >> well, he -- he did win -- did get the most votes by far yesterday, but we'll just have to see what happens in two weeks. >> michael: and robert there's some speculation about whether his wife jenny sanford -- his ex-wife will get into the race? will she get into the race? >> i don't see any signs of that. his sons were w

so elizabeth colbert-busch has some work to do ahead of her. >> bill: yes.utive producer is from charleston. >> yes in need. it's elizabeth colbert, not colbert, right? >> right. >> bill: i didn't realize that. elizabethco -- elizabeth colbert. i'm such a huge fan of charleston. every meal i have down there is one of the best meals of my life. robert i want you to know but when i think of south carolina tell us about lindsay graham. what is happening -- is he really going to have a primary battle? >> well, if he's going to have any reelection trouble whatsoever, it is going to be in the primary. the democrats here just don't have a bench to put anybody credible up against him, not considering his war chest and things, and not considering they would be a democrat and working with harry reid instead of mitch mcconnell -- >> wait, wait, wait. you forgetting about alvin green. >> oh, yes. [ laughter ] >> there are a lot of people who have forgotten about him. he ran for the state house after that and just got trounced. >> did he really? >> yeah. >> bill: oh, he

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. >> public policy polling shows elizabeth colbert busch polls at 47%, mark sanford at 45%.rtis bostic, 43% each. ann coulter wrote a very ugly endorsement of curtis bostic today. republicans could nominate hitler and win south carolina's first district. ann coulter really knows how to ingratiate herself to south carolina republicans saying they would vote for hitler for congress. after that endearing beginning, she added if sanford is the nominee, republicans will either lose or win at a cost of $50 million that could be better spent elsewhere when curtis bostic tells his staff he is hiking the appalachian trail. joining me, nia malika-henderson. imagine the scene in bostic headquarters when the staff says we have good news and bad news. ann coulter has endorsed you, that's the good news. the bad news, she did say that your district would vote for hitler. this is as ugly an endorsement as you could possibly get, isn't it? >> yeah. and i'm guessing bostic doesn't want that endorsement, and barely to be quite frank doesn't necessarily benefit that much even from santorum's en

cnn cannot project his opponent and cnn can project that elizabeth colbert busch is the winner of theemocratic primary in the state's first primary. congratulations to her. back to michael moore who hasn't won any primary apart from angriest man in america. >> all for stephen's sister winning in south carolina. >> absolutely. >> two more tweets have come in in the break tlmt one from yoko ono. over 1 million and 50,000 people have been killed in america since john lennon was shot and killed on the 8th of december, 1980. tweeted to you. >> over 1 million. >> since john lennon, her partner and husband was killed in 1980. absolutely shocking and suze orman said i agree. this is a terrible day. the more and more people who get animated and bloody angry about this, the more chances, people like harry reid will not be able to park this away because there will be more outrageous this year. >> right, and so, again, let me say, it by the way, getting bounceback on the e-mail that i gave. go to senate majority leader harry reid's website, an e-mail form. >> go to the official form. >> or if you

elizabeth colbert-busch, great to have you with us. best of luck to you. we'll visit again. thank you. and that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, ed. thank you, my friend. >> you bet. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us on a news day in which it does not seem possible that all of these things happened on the same day. today is the day that the dow set an all-time record high, all-time. it's also the day that hugo chavez died. today the united states government said we might conceivably use drone strikes to kill people inside the united states. they also said today the last drone strikes in pakistan were not done by us. who were they done by then? today arkansas teetered on the edge of doing something outrageously unconstitutional. today an msnbc host's book came out. today jeb bush's new book also came out, although the msnbc host is not disavowing her book already the way jeb bush is disavowing his book the day it first went on sale. north korea threatened to restart the korean war today, the one from the 1

whoever makes it out of the march 19th republican primary is almost certain to meet democrat elizabeth colbert buschouncing it without the "t." . holy cow, my sister is running for congress. >> by the way, joe, elizabeth colbert busch actually donated $500 to mark sanford's campaign back in 2001 and she would face an uphill battle because the district hasn't gone blue in more than 30 years. >> no doubt mark sanford does have a battle, but he seems to be doing well. what i always liked about mark sanford he went off big-spending republicans as much as after big-spending democrats. you had that part in the package where he was carrying the pigs into the chamber. guess who was in the chamber? >> who? >> republicans. they were all republicans, and man, those career politicians in columbia, south carolina, were not happy that a governor in their own party was outing them and basically exposing their pork barrel projects. i think at the end of the day, the people in south carolina are going to be forgiving and like me, they're very concerned about the size of the debt, the long-term debt and deficits, and

the general election in may, where he's likely to face off with elizabeth colbert busch. we'll follow candidates all day long as they cast their own ballots in the first congressional district. we've been told by political insiders, we my see results pretty early on. with so many candidates, we'll fate for the final results to put those out. when they finally come in. >> probably a good idea. jim acosta, live from south carolina. thanks so much. the polls for the south carolina primary, close tonight. 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> just ahead on the newsroom, defending jodi arias, doing head stands in an interrogation room. and her defense uses, well, a rather interesting argument to explain amnesia about killing another human being. [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4.99. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. [ sneezing ] she may

. >> so if sanford wins a runoff elections in two weeks, he'll face democrat elizabeth colbert buschedian stephen colbert. >> a gas explosion in grand junction, colorado, has left at least three people injured and forced evacuations. the mesa county sheriff's office says a natural gas leak caused the house to explode on tuesday afternoon. the house next door then also caught fire and that explosion forced the evacuation of two nearby schools and all the homes within a 10-block radius. >>> a 911 call may have prevented a massacre at the university of central florida. and now the man who made that call is speaking out. police say suspect james oliver seevakumaran told -- when his roommate came out to investigate the suspect allegedly pointed an assault rifle right at him. here's what he had to say to cnn's anderson cooper. >> i was not going to let him shoot me. i just slammed the door, locked it, and i moved away from the door in case he fired at the door. i took some cover in my room so he wouldn't like be able to -- bullets wouldn't be able to penetrate anything and i called 911. >>

. >>> so sanford wins the runoff election in two weeks he'll face democrat elizabeth colbert busch in may. she is the sister of tv comedian stephen colbert. the next hour we'll be joined by teddy turner the son of cnn's founder ted turner. he ran last night against sanford. didn't fare too well. >> yeah. >> what a family story, stephen colbert's sister, who is colbert. ted turner's son teddy. >> you know why? >> his name is colbert. he changed it for the tv. >> what i was told was that the parents offered up to the kids the decision, you could say colbert, you could say colbert. so there we have it. >> all right. thanks, zoraida. >> so next on "starting point" the fight to put disturbing pictures on cigarette packaging comes to an end. we'll tell you why the government is giving up. >> and more on our top story this morning. we're talking to israel's government spokesperson mark regev about the reports of chemical attacks in syria, and what these concerns could mean for the region. [ man ] i got this citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. we' leave that there. you got

believe he could lose the seat to a democrat, especially a business-oriented woman, such as elizabeth colbert buschplatform is pitched perfectly toward moderates." karen, she is fiscally conservative. she is a moderate without baggage. she talks about protecting retirement benefits, talks about an expansion of engineering and science education, talks about reducing the deficit by eliminate willing waste. how concerned should the gop be about mark sanford's ability to win in the palmetto state now? >> i think they should be very concerned. she is a very impressive candidate in her own right. take away who her brother might or might nop not be or is. take away the baggage that mark sanford has, she is an impressive candidate on her own. an important point to make. that being said, it is likely that sanford will have challenges with women voters in a general election. newt gingrich won the primary. >> what are you trying to imply about our state? >> any time we predict what voters can do they go and do the exact opposite. >> especially in south carolina. >> exactly. no question. my point is even with

. >> the winner will meet democrat elizabeth colbert busch the sister of stephen colbert in may. >> shes a different side of the family. like missouri and missouri. half of them pronounce it one way and half of them pronounce it the other way. >> an interesting race for sure. >> you listened to mark sanford talk and the way the guy has always talked. just like that. i remember after his crisis happened, we were down in south carolina and i invited him to lunch and we sat and talked. he said, he was talking about how stupid he was and how sorry he was and we talked about the personal side of everything. and then i asked him about politics. i said do you think you'll ever get in sf he is like, i don't know. this was a couple of years ago. he goes, all i know, i'm such an idiot. he said this is our time, talking about me and him. these are the things we have talked about for 20 years, joe, nonstop. he said i can't believe -- i shot myself in the foot this way and was this stupid. well, he is back and he is talking about these issues that everybody else is talking about right now. >> it's a

elizabeth busch. yes, she is steven colbert's sister and won easily. she cleared the 50% hurdle and then some.l be in the general election. that's your update on election day today. but we will be right back. >>> we have a news update for you as promised. today was election day in the great state of south carolina. poll closed in south carolina roughly three hours ago. it is the special election to fill the tim scott congressional seat. he is now a senator. they moved him to the senate when jim demint resigned to run the heritage foundation. that left tim scott's seat in congress open and today was the primary to figure who was going to get to run for it. the most interesting thing is that one of the republican republican establishment is in full pr mode to try to make it seem like the war in iraq thing was actually a great idea and not the worst foreign policy disaster in maybe a century. there's paul wolfowitz defending it over the weekend, and michael o'hanlon. and donald rumsfeld saying ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberating 25 million iraqis, all who played a roll in hi

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elizabeth kolbert busch. familiar name, because she's the sister of steven colbert. she's going to face the republican runoff winner in the may 7 special election. >>> michele bachmann nearly ran through the halls of congress to avoid some pretty tough questions from one of our own, cnn's dana bash. there you have it. take a peek. this is what you call at haste. dana bash was asking michele bachmann about the comments she made at the conservative conference cpac. mrs. bachmann used president obama of very frivolous and lavish spending on a lifestyle within the white house. have a listen to how she characterized it. >> now we find out that there are five chefs on air force one. there are two projectionists who operate the white house movie theater. they regularly sleep at the white house in order to be readily available in case the first family wants a really, really late show. we are also the ones who are paying for someone to walk the president's dog. >> all right. so i'm going to re-join that story in a moment. but i want that take you right back to israel right no