let's bring in goldy taylor. goldy, you've been listening. what is your reaction to this verdict today? >> you know, i think that having a mistrial declared at least on that first count is probably the best outcome that we could have expected from this jury. you don't know what happened inside that jury deliberation room. but you can judge some things based on the questions they asked. from my perspective, i think they separated this incident into two separate events. an event where he fired into the side of the car and maybe some of them believe that was in self-defense and others did not. the separate event where he fired into a car that was pulling away. clearly that was attempted murder. and firing into a vehicle with a gun. so they were clear about the second incident. but there were some jurors who weren't so clear about the first incident. i believe it was abundantly clear, this myth cal gun -- this mythical shotgun they say existed, nobody placed a gun in the hands of those boys that evening. no one said there was a gun other than mic

joining me now are goldie taylor and ryan grim. the show tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks, reverend. >> goldie, the speaker of the house once said he would rather commit suicide than raise the minimum wage. that what americans want right now? >> well, it certainly isn't what america wants right now. and it certainly shouldn't be what speaker boehner wants right now. what we should want is a social safety net for the least of these, for those people living on the margins. what we should want is meaningful, smart regulation on business, and that includes regulating a minimum wage that becomes a living wage. i think michele bachmann said those that do not work, neither shall they eat. i think she wants them not to work and not eat. there are people like walmart out there paying people at minimum wage levels. and then we the taxpayers are picking up the dime for those companies. we're subsidizing them with food stamps, with medicaid, with programs that are really helping these families to subsist. so they're working a 40-hou

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joining me once again, zirlina maxwell, goldie taylor and susan del percio. oney. then they were thrown in the trash right in front of them. i talked with the mother of one student earlier today. let's listen to that. >> the woman informed her the balance was negative and that she could not eat. she then had to put her tray to the side and it was taken and it was thrown in the trash in front of her. >> i know how many kids you have. if that happened to either of my kids, i would go ballistic. what is your reaction when you hear this? >> i think i probably would have had the same or similar reaction as you had. this is what they call grown-folk business. you just don't get children involved in things like that. if you've got a financial issue with the parents, there's a note that's sent home. if those parents cannot answer or cannot pay this debt, it's a social services issue. but under no circumstance do you deny a child lunch in a school, let alone take it from them and throw it away in front of them. >> i know. and take it even further. you have people in th

goldie taylor says millard fillmore signed the fugitive slave act.side from that, the most ineffectual and forgettable president ever. >>> we're back, duking it out over the worst president ever. a crowded field. here with dorian warren, joe nichols. who do you think is the worst president ever? >> actually whoever becomes president, chris, thinking they're going to end up behind millard fillmore. i come into this with a perspective of former long haired hippy vietnam era war protester. and i think what matters the most to our country is when a president comes in and executes geopolitics that have this sort of global impact but also ruin things for all of us at home, and i think what happened under george w. bush is that they cooked intelligence, they created a case for a war to invade iraq, to get even for his dad. and as the former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld said, we had no choice. the country floated on a sea of oil. the idea was to get oil. to avenge his dad. and hopefully end sectarian violence. and we look at this years later and we

joining me now are michelle cottle and goldie taylor. r coming on the show tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> thank you, reverend. >> goldie, how can an elected member of con hear vicious rhetoric like this and simply let it go? >> he can do it if he has a very, very conservative base with his county gop. he can do it if he has a very conservative red district. he can do it if his national party, people like reince priebus, you know, fail to call him out on a daily basis. i mean, he can get away with this kind of thing. the fact of the matter is the people who are uttering words of impeachment are people who don't understand the standard of law that it takes to bring an impeachment, articles of impeachment. they don't understand the process that it takes to work its way through the house and through the senate. what they really don't understand is what an impeachment process really does to this country. it shuts down everything. it shuts down the talk about jobs. it shuts down talk about growing this economy. >> but before they can shut it

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goldie taylor. republican strategist and publisher of mullings.com, rich gayland and laura reid.the marines enmemo from new jersey governor chris christie's office attacking former ape point he david wildstein was not seen ahead of time by governor christie. sources telling politico christie's aides do not run the document before the governor before they sent it out. we reached out for comment from christie's office. rich, this memo was last weekend's story. isn't this the last thing the governor's i'm wants now to stir this up again? >> i'm not sure they did stir it up. number one. number two, look, i mean, it was -- like anything else when we were -- maybe -- not when you were in school but when i was in school, one of the things we would have in my weekly wre lly take a microscope and focus it on something and say what is this. it looked like a horrible monster. it was a piece of lint or something. that's what happens when you take these -- events like the christie situation and look at it under a microscope and looks like the most horrible monster but in -- in many case, as y

msnbc contributor goldie taylor, whose column "breaking black" is featured on the grio every monday. msnbc contributor susan d delpercio. republican governor jan brewer will have to decide whether she will sign into law the controversial bill that would allow business owners to refuse service to gay customers, based on religious beliefs. all right. she signs it, she doesn't sign it. weigh both sides for me. >> i don't think she can sign it. i think that this is an absolutely dangerous trend for arizona to take. i call them the gay codes. what if i decided that in my business i didn't want to serve eadvanta evangelical christians. wouldn't they claim tyranny? what if i wanted to discriminate based on my religious beliefs against people who have blue or green eyes. wouldn't people with blue or green eyes say that i was moving on tyranny here in the united states? i think that is absolutely dangerous. i think there are two takes. number one, is this constitutional. that question has to be answered and i don't believe it is. and secondly, people have got to vote with their wallets. i thi

let's bring in my panel, msnbc contributor, goldie taylor, whose column breaking black is every monday does she belong? we're talking about barbie appearing on the cover of the "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition. we have some video of the photo shoot. remember, this is a doll being photo shot here. the theme of the campaign is unapologetic, about the unrealistic perception of a woman's body. so goldie, what do you think, and should "sports illustrated" be unapologetic? >> i think magazine covers of all stripes are as much inspiration as aspiration. let's take a look at barbie. if she were real, she would be 6 feet tall and 100 pounds. her breasts -- mostly comprised of her nearly 40-inch breasts. she would have a size, 21-inch waist. and so to say that barbie, who would not be able to support her neck or back and have to crawl around on all fours really is sort of the inspiration for women or men everywhere, i think really is a falsehood and we ought to recheck our values. >> juanda, an opinion piece in "time" magazine, jonathan alter's daughter. she says barbie has worked every sec