and msnbc contributor goldie taylor, who is managing editor of the goldie taylor project.rning to both of you. >> good morning. >> if mitt romney had gotten the same percentage of the latino vote as john mccain, he would be president-elect this morning. victoria, what happened? >> a number of things happened. what happened with the gop is that there wasn't enough outreach to the latino community, and that is based on the lack of ideological and policy similarity. let's start with immigration. we're always talking about immigration. the republican party decided to take a very hard line against immigration early on in the campaign season. we saw from a recent latino decisions poll that the republican party in 2012 had taken the approach that george bush did in 2000 and 2004, advocating for comprehensive immigration reform, 30% more latinos would have voted for the republican candidate. the second is economy. we know that latinos prefer a more active government, and that just was not meshing with the line of the republican party. and finally the emotion of it. there was a lot

managing editor of the goldie taylor project.egin with you, do we need a full-scale watergate style investigation to discover the truth about the so-called benghazi cover-up? perhaps even the bedroom antics of our top intelligence offer, john mccain, lindsey graham say we do? >> it's so pathetic. why don't -- >> so pathetic? >> yes. they lost the election. they're mad about it. they want to find a way to relitigate it. look, after he got his intelligence briefing, classified intelligence briefing, in the middle of october, mitt romney shut up about this. because when he actually found out, you know, that it was the cia that was giving both the union ambassador, susan rice, and the white house whatever information they had, you didn't hear him talking about it in the third debate. he was asked the first question about it and he didn't say anything. john mccain and lindsey graham know this is much ado about nothing. are there legitimate questions to ask, bureaucratic questions about how information moves up the chain of command? of

michael scherer is white house correspondent for "time" magazine and msnbc contributor goldie taylorwith us, too. krystal, i'm not a gynecologist so i'm not going to look at things through that particular prism. but please tell me what you think of this line from the romney tapes. are you ready for it? >> i'm ready. >> okay. here it is. free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. the man is a genius. >> well, here is what's so funny to me about that line, too. you heard from republicans during the campaign, oh, democrats are just reducing women down to abortions and birth control, but now apparently ex post facto in the analysis, they desaied women were just voting on contraceptives and birth control. they should have just been sending out free condoms. >> another choice bit from mr. romney. take a listen, goldie. >> the president's campaign focused on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> goldie, when mr. romney refers to, quote, certain mem

as girls read along, they get to build with goldi blocks, using her tool kit. >> it's a book/toy setallows the readers to build along with the main character of the book. and solve basic engineering problems. >> it looks like it's directed towards girls to try to get them interested in engineering and math. >> goldiblocks, with a toy company that was founded this year by debby sterling. she was a female engineering student at stanford university. her whole goal was to create toys that teach spatial awareness to get young girls interested in engineering. you know what? this is the exact kind of thing i would have loved as a kid. this is really, really cool. >> the woman who created this was an engineering student, she realized that engineering, it's a tremendous field. engineers are solving the world's problems. but the problem is -- 89% of engineers are males. and she wanted to make sure that as engineers build our future, that the female perspective is also in that. >> what an awesome erector set for girls, it's like a rube goldberg device. >> is it weird that i'm a grown man and i

goldie, it's worth saying that mr.he military, although he also had some problems there, including a mock execution that he carried out. so hation mr. west's ludicrous rhetoric overtaken anything he might have actually given in public service? >> you know, i won't decry his subpick service or his service as a man of the military, but his inability to serve honorably at the end of his enlistment, his inability to serve this country well in the halls of its congress, to serve in a nonembarrassing way to his district is really what i have got to focus on here. allen west is going away, but the fact is there's going to be another allen west. if we're able to send michele bachmann home, trust and believe there will be another michele bachmann. as we see race and socialization and economic strata all take place, they play themselves out in class warfare, and allen west was just a symbol of that. he allowed himself to be used by the tea party as a symbol to help them advance that cause. and, unfortunately, you know, he got pl

and then for a series, goldie hawn was going to play the part of annie appleo baum. she left, i don't know what the deal was, she is gone and things fizzled. >> did she get a better offer in. >> no. no. >> however, they renewed the option and they looking again for someone to play her. >> uh. >> diane keaton? >> they talked to her. who knows. who knows what really goes on. they don't talk to me, the producer tells me what is going o. >> meanwhile, you were in the process of writing two other books. >> i finished them. >> love sometimes. >> yes. >> and the other one, you have to tell me the title. this is the one that was the head turner for the other, was it abc? >> abc. >> okay, and the title is called? >> should i sleep in his dead wife's bed. >> all righty then. okay. [ laughter ] >> that is catchy. >> well that is good, because, susan, all of these boomer men, when you're out, there they want to replace you in their dead wye's bed and they want younger versions. >> uh-huh. >> so ied to someone one day, i am tired of dating these boomer moreons, you know, they wan

msnbc contrib goldie taylor and msnbc contributor joy reed is manager of the grio.com.sonalizing it. you appear to be the emben of modern america but it's something mitt romney, republicans, fox news don't seem capable of far back as maybe 1996 whe newt gingrich was pulling people together like j.c. watts and wanting to expand the big tent that was supposed to be the gop. ironically enough or unfortunately in the time since, that tent has only gotten smaller. they're playing to a more and more extreme base that is getting, you know,nd all of the time. meanwhile the rest of the country is getting younger, more brown. women are growing in economic power and political heft, as we saw last evening with the election of soannators across t. and so the country is literally growing against the gop base. it's unfortunate that even today many, many years after 1996 that this gop still has not recognized that it is not about whether or not they're reaching out but whether or not they're listening to those constituencies they want to represent. do you agree? >> i think what we're

goldie, of course, petraeus was to testify on benghazi later this week.aula broadwell spoke about the region in denver just before all of this broke. let's take a listen. >> i don't know if a lot of you have heard this, but the cia annex had actually -- it headachen a couple libyan militia members prison and they think the attack was an attempt to get the prisoners back. >> it does raise questions of what she knew, doesn't it? >> it may raise questions about what she knew. one of a couple things is happened with mrs. broadwell in that clip. either she is telling something that she heard and was not supposed to hear from general petraeus or someone in his command or she's frankly making it up and i'm not clear which it is at this moment. at the end of the day, you know, we do look into people's personal lives when it comes to national security because that's one of the questions, you know, as we advance clearances in this question. general petraeus in this particular affair used his personal e-mail, you know, to cavort with a woman who was not in his comma

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here with msnbc contributor, goldie hayes. avik roy. from the atlantic magazine and lorella. we are talking about the demographic structure of tuesday night's victory for the president and the two coalitions in american life and the ways in which senses of multi-tult turllism and cosmopolitanism and endangeredness seem to be some of the subtexts that happened on tuesday night and the reaction to it. i gave a little bit of data about latinos who are generally democratic voting and liberal in the polling. goldie, you wanted to say something. >> i think that african-americans and latinos alike report more frequent church attendance than any other demographics in this country. i think where social conservatives, white evangelicals get it wrong is trying to attach their politics in that way. after ams and latinos don't take their front beyond their front yard. if you find a white evangelical running in georgia who is trying to get more of the black vote based on being pro life or anti-gay marriage, those are not functional bonds to make beca

particularly her favorite chickenning with goldy.er and her family are going to lose their farm, but what's so remarkable is alair has a plan to help buy another farm for her family. she wants to sell 50,000 copies of her autobiography. a book she dictated to her mother when she was 12 years old. >> i love it. >> so answer all of our questions, we have alair and her mother. >> alair, how did you figure out that chickens were so calming to you? >> with the chickens on the little farm stead, and it was fun to play with them, an later on in my life, when i was ten, i went to a 4h group and majored in chickens. >> how do you feel about this reremarkable goal that your daughter set? >> i thinkt's very we met people at the living with autism book, so in 60 days we got it reworked, published, and i'm so proud of this girl. >> tell us about the autobiography, why should someone pick it up? >> it's a inspiring story, it gives hope to people like me with autism. >> if you want to order this book go to createspace.com or amazon.com. it's only $

goldy. those meetings cost $16,000 last year. >> i think the board members work pretty hard. >> reporter: for that hard work santos says he deserves a raise. >> do you feel like $286 is a lot of money to attend a meeting? >> for the meetings i go to, absolutely not. i think we're underpaid. >> last year 50,474 with benefits. you feel you're underpaid? >> i feel i got what i deserve pd . >> we called nine other water districts in california. the most any member got paid to attend a meeting was $237 a meeting and the one most made in a year was $27,000. all well below the board members of the santa clara water district. coming up after the break. >> it's just wrong. >> we ask for the cancer rates near the toxic site. the unexpected results. that's next. >>> welcome back. our next investigation is an eye opening discovery in the heart of silicone valley. california cancer registry says they have found higher than normal rates. the investigative unit reported on the site earlier this year prompt

paris or wherever they want to be doing the buying on their behalf because clearly they have the chit goldie but they go find it i don't know what's also fun and potentially slightly amusing about it is the fact the hugo chavez led the lead the way with this movement. recognizing some of the structural issues with the global economy and actually moving against it and i think you know he probably needs to. a little bit of credit for making the subjects a bit more. broadly understood and i think one thing i will say max is it's very interesting the germans on likely to let this go now i feel you know a dog with bone and one would hope that the story will be pushed forward by the germans and despite the language of the bring this point which is pretty bizarre they use the word bizarre and and crazy and all this sort of language which to me suggests they're a bit nervous but we're not going to let go of it now you know we were there and they told us in person face to face that the gold was not there was a new york and that was a revelation and now they're trying to downplay it as if well of cour

are they will be like meg ryan in "courage under fire" tiny and tough or goldie hawn in" private benjamin" where they are cracking jokes. >> there is actually a question here. >> thank you, ambassador. can you expand on that? >> if i can get it out. there is unit cohesion and what happens in combat and what would be the affect of men and women in actual combat units. there may be an argument for all female combat units serving next to all male combat units. that's on the possibility. but i'm sure the aclu would reject that. >> and you could argue that that goes back to having separate white and black battalions which was also for similar reasons. >> except for many years in the racist army in world war ii they wouldn't allow blacks to serve in combat. that was a perverse irony for a racist. >> there was the men and the woosey section you were in. you did well in that situation. feel free to laugh at that if you want. >> i am laughing at the fact that a person who never served his country -- >> i was a boy scout. that's like serving your country. the days of thinking women are delicate flo

goldie hawn and kate hudson. martin sheen and his two sons.ere's a lot of things to be concerned about. but i think the most important thing is to have the right people around you and helping you. you know? have the right support. >> reporter: alessandra says she would not mind if one day, in the very faroff future, anja wants to model for victoria's secret. but dad, he might have something different to say about that. for "good morning america," cecilia vega, abc news, los angeles. >> and they have a whole lot of time to debate it. lara? >> hey. >>> i was just asking josh and sam to come on in. it's time for tory johnson. you guys -- the boxes. it's very special edition of "deals and steals." this is our celebrity edition. our friend, tory with great gift ideas. remember, everybody, go to our website, as supplies last. they always go quickly. goodmorningamerica.com for the links, the codes, everything you need. tory, can i lift the box? >> yes. although, it looks like sam will do it for you. >> these bags from core and pelley. huge celebrity

today is also the birthday of marleau thomas, goldie hawn troy aikman ken griffey jr.een really thrilled to work here this week, and one of the great things when i get to take over the "bill press show" is to pull it down to my level. yesterday i had muslim dean oh bah doll la and today i have a guy who works with dean, scott blakeman who is one of the stars of laughing liberally off breadway. and scott, i want to thank you for calling happy thanksgiving welcome to the "bill press show." >> happy thanksgiving, john. >> john: you are a jewish comedian who is also liberal, so why do you hate the people of israel? >> ask the people on facebook. >> john: by the way it's amazing your material is so brilliant, and dean is a liberal muslim and i'm a liberal christian, which i sort of the is redundant, but tell us about your take and perspective. >> we just did a stand up for peace show and for about nine years now we go to college campuses. and even before the show we bring together different groups to come together and this is a topic as you know you can't have a civil discu