irin carmon and sarah hutchison. irin, let me start with you. early voting ended on friday.rsonally and driving around with the truth truck. >> indeed, i was with the truth truck. >> so explain what you feel or what you understand that the voting is shaping up to look like. >> thomas, this is going to be a very close vote by all polling, moet internal and public. this az idivide and conquer strategy. what they're going to do is focus on later abortions which are rare and difficult and which end up polling poorly. they hope they can turn people out. the anti-choice side has been organizing in the churches. they may be able to pull it off but there has been a concerted effort against them. >> let's talk to the church side. sarah, this was certainly an emotional and graphic campaign, as irin is talking about here. national groups and hundreds of thousands of dollars pouring in advertising-wise. is it possible that this could become a trend for other cities across the country? >> well, i think that albuquerque and new mexico are both unique in the way that their laws are set up

joining me here in the studio is irin carmon, who is national reporter for msnbc.com.irector of africana studies at lehigh university, and ryan grim, of course, of thehuffingtonpost.com. so oh irin, we are looking at a theme of i told you sa. paul ryan trying it out over the weekend. what do you make of that, i told you so, as the meme that could run into 2016? >> well, of course, a stopped clock in the sense if what they had said before about obama care was the implementation would be plagued with technical difficulties, they could say i told you so. in fact, they thought the entire idea, which i feel i have to say this a thousand times, started out as a republican idea and was adopted by president obama in the hopes that they would buy in. that this is -- this is not exactly what they said was going to happen. and i think republicans, as they look down the line from whatever the crisis is this week, need to remember they shouldn't be exulting at the fact people are having trouble signing up for insurance. >> do you feel as though they are? >> there is certainly some

irin, is it a surprise that that all came down in one day? it seems as if the move from the supreme court as well as how the public reacted in albuquerque. >> well, for the longest time people have been saying that roe v. wade was the supreme court exerting its will of the people against their will by saying that abortion had to be legal until viability. yesterday was kind of a twist on that. the people voted. they said that they didn't want to see these kinds of restrictions. at the same time, every republican appointed justice voted to allow these medically unnecessary restrictions to go forward. every justice appointed by a democrat said let's wait. let's hold off because women could be harmed in the process of this being enforced. >> so you talk about in one of your pieces that more than 87,000 were able to vote in this special election, but one thing that you were able to look at firsthand was the truth truck. and ride around. these are for people who are anti-choice. and they were very open and receptive to allowing you to ride along. w

thanks to the panel today, judd, irin and bill.r website, join our agenda centers, just log on to msnbc.com/thomas-roberts. gang, thanks again. >>> so his son has been all over the headlines and now ted cruz's dad is getting in the game and he has a message for president obama. time for the poli side bar. rafael cruz spoke to a tea party group and mother jones got its hands on the video in which daddy cruz said this of president obama. >> we have our work cut out for us. we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i'd like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. >> now, a spokesperson for senator cruz told mother jones, quote, these selective quotes taken out of context mischaracterize the substance of pastor cruz's message. like many americans, he feels america is on the wrong track and the pastor does not speak for the senator. however, rafael cruz does speak frequently on his son's behalf. senator rand paul is vowing to be a little more cautious with his words this after rachel maddow found a few of his speeches were mir

msnbc.com's irin carmon going out on the truth truck later today? >> yep, that's true.n, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> sometimes kids do things that are just awesome. house speaker john boehner was confronted by immigrant children advocating for immigration reform while he was eating breakfast this morning at a diner. the video was released by the organization fair immigration reform movement or firm. one child told her story how her dad may be deported. this is how speaker boehner responded. >> well, i'm trying to find somebody to get this thing done. you know, it's not easy. it's not going to be an easy path forward, but i've made it clear since the day after the election, it's time to get this done. >> that's speaker boehner in the red hat. it's been five months since the senate sent a bipartisan bill to the house for consideration. >> 19 ayes, 2 nos, 1 excused. >> senate bill passes final reading. madam clerk. >> mixed reaction there at the sounds of cheers and jeers could be heard was hawaii's marriage equality bill passed its final hurlds. the governor is expe

ism irin and nick, great to have you here. re. tylenol cold®. wout of landfills each year?er mt. rainier by using one less trash bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until they're full.* so you can take them out less often. >>> secretary of state john kerry will be heading to israel to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on friday. to discuss a deal that would curb iran's nuclear program. now netanyahu is dead set against that plan that would ease sanctions if iran suspended parts of its hook work, saying basically that the west would lose its leverage. but on "morning joe" u.s. ambassador samantha power said it's a good start. it would halt progress on the program which is what we seek. it would enhance transparency. this is a rejeem we dough not trust any more than the israelis trust this regime. to imagine down the line going from zero to 60 without some kind of first step i think is unrealistic. >> that has been benjamin netanyahu's point you can't trust them. let me bring in dan killdean, a democrat from michigan. good to have you here. is sa

james peterson, irin carmon and michael tomasky. michael, i'll start with you.he mission accomplished moment. that's the reference to president bush's declaration that the iraq war was over. so if the website is fixed by tomorrow, i mean this is the expectation. i mean the obama administration really isn't going to win points for trying to make a good second first impression. we expect them to have this done. >> that's right. first of all, thomas, you don't know that i'm not in elastic pants. >> that's true, stand up. stand up. >> i'll refuse to take it that far. but anyway, no, i do think that it's -- i think it's largely going to work, i really do. i did some reporting on this before thanksgiving and the things that i heard from people i talked to were pretty good. that capacity is much, much higher, that functionality is much, much better, that the speed of the thing is much, much better. now, of course, it isn't going to be perfect and there's still going to be a percentage of people who are going to run into problems. that percentage has to hit a certain cr

and irin carmon, national reporter, msnbc.com. they're both equally awesome.ou are equally wearing blue and look lovely. zerlina, corporations, we know, are people. >> yes. >> who knew -- >> according to the supreme court. >> according to mitt romney and the courts. and apparently now they're also religious people who can then apply their corporate religious beliefs to the people who work for them. how does that work? >> it's really disturbing. i think one of the things i think about is the phrase slippery slope. and i hate to use that phrase, but it's appropriate here. this is a slippery slope for your boss, who may or may not be religious, catholic, protestant, whatever, to strip away other rights. so if they are, you know, opposed to the fact that you have hiv, and they have a moral objection, are they now going to be able to say, we're not going to cover your hiv medication, or, you know, any other medical things that people need, mental health services, for example. >> transfusions. >> exactly. >> certain religious. >> vaccinations is another. thing is re