let's bring in our rapid response panel tonight, michael, karen an james peterson.pressure to have you with us. >> welcome back, ed. >> it's good to be back. michael, what about christie on this. >> welcome back. it's so great to see you on an have your voice back on these air waves. >> this is how you prove yourself oz a republican. you got to dprks iss somebody. chris christie is feeling he's alienated from his base or at least one of them so he's got to pro he's really a republican republican, me's true conservative by proving he's against early voting. we know the codes here, we know who's most vulnerable here. and again despite the fact that such tactics in the past galvanizeds the african-american voter to turn out, the republicans haven't learned their lessons and continue to lick their chops but refuse to engage in sensible politics. >> karen, the one thing, he is in favor of mail in votes which of course favor heavy conservative response. is this a tra teejic move by the governor. >> of course it is. welcome back, by the way. i agree this is about street kr

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joining us now is msnbc contributor james peterson of lehigh university.y msnbc political analyst jonathan alter, columnist for "bloomberg view" and author of "the center holds: obama and his enemies" which hits bookstores next month. professor peterson, republicans have really raised expectations for their congressional hearing tomorrow on benghazi. no less an authority than representative trey gowdy of south carolina says "they're going to be explosive." given how much we already know, how are the hearings supposed to live up to that kind of hype? >> i'm not sure the hearings will be able to live up to the hype. i can tell you, though, i think the hype is part of the political strategy here on part of those folk on the right who are very much interested in making sure this story or nonstory, if you will, continues to live and breathe. just from what's leaked from mr. hix's testimony, it doesn't seem to be condemning nor proof what their essential case is which is the obama administration is somehow covering up or obscuring some piece of information that

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lehigh university professor james pettersso peterson.ian, as you know, republicans are champing at the bit to tie this irs mess to the president. some are seizing on ms. lerner's pleading the fifth amendment as evidence of wrong doing. despite the problem with perception, i'm assuming that's the same advice a lawyer like you would give anything if you knew the fbi was conducting an investigation. >> you nailed it. that's exactly right, martin. the fundamental finding of the inspector general, which is that no one in the white house, nobody in the treasury department, nobody in the president's political operation knew of, directed or condoned any of the irs activities, that fundamental finding that be contradicted by nobody. in fact, that fundamental finding has been born out by all the witness testimony incloo colluding the bush appointed irs director. the reason lois lerner is invoking the fifth amendment is for a very, very narrow reason that applies only to lois lerner. she learned of this problem back in june of 2011. she briefed the

joining me now is dana milbank and james peterson.ing on the show tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> what do you make of what rush is finding himself? >> i'm not going to do a tap dance on rush limbaugh's grave yet. this is what happened to glenn beck. advertisers got more and more obscure advertisers paying less and less. you see a smaller version of that happening here. now, beck's situation was with fox news. this is different but it does show when people vote with their wallets that is does have an effect here. this is not going to be the end of limbaugh but it shows even if he's able to say outrageous things politically, sort of the offensiveness with which he's able to say things, this may serve some warning to him. >> and i think you raise a good point about beck but i don't want anyone to think that you were tap dancing on anyone's grave. but i'll let that go. james, let me say to you one thing i think that comes out of this that is already positive for those of us that talked to limbaugh and his advertisers, this does confirm tha

let's bring in james peterson and peter goldman. being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> james, you can't deny the economy is back. here's the recent headline from "forbes" magazine. "economically, could obama be america's best president?" what do you think? >> well, when he's one of only five presidents to double the stock market over the course of his tenure and when you think about the place that we were and the recession that he's pulling us out of, his marks are fairly high here. as you mentioned, housing surged, unemployment still ticking down, stock markets at record highs. we want to keep our attention on this, not just because of president obama's success but to make sure that the economy becomes whole for the poor folk and everybody. at the end of the day, it's very difficult to argue with president obama's value in terms of wall street and bringing the economy back from the brink. >> the numbers speak for themselves, peter, and james is correct, it is now equal because in poor areas and in areas in african-america

james peterson, an associate professor at lehigh university and msnbc contributor.view is out with a damming cover story on mr. rubio and his immigration bill. it references the elites and obama care and even throws in a reference to alinsky and some version of amnesty 23 full-times and calls it the schumer rubio bill saying at one point, the schumer rubio bill seeks to implicate -- at the table by handing out more visas. what happened? >> if it continues, he may want to consider self-deportation, a little bit safer. right, he is supposed to be the savior of the party. we see what's happening with the -- doing to its savior and in a way, it's worse for the republican party now than if this whole thing had never happened because now, they have the guy, their guy, on immigration, a latino who came out and said this is what we need to do on immigration and he's gone from being the party's best hope for 2016 to being excommunicated and this is going to be, wind up being more damaging to the republican brand in the long run, turning off latino voters for a generation or

joining me now our rapid response panel tonight, michael die son, james peterson an karen held man. between disasters? >> well, the difference is it happened in their back yard and the other one happened in new york's back yard. it's moral hypocrisy at its worst. they voted against the $60 billion that was to be given in the aftermath of sandy. the 1 is billion that's left over, they want to tap into that. they want to have offsets against the $11 billion which was specifically said not to have the need for offsets. to they're trying to attach a rider that would pun tifly punish those other people that they would take the money from, from the poor, the needy. so the has packcy here is extraordinary. >> carecaroline. i want to play this for you. what duds it say about republicans when i comes to disaster relief that they're willing to pick and choose who gets relief? what we saw happen with sandy was, i think, very politically motivated but when i happens in their back yard, obviously they have a different opinion. how do we break through that? sh should we have some kind of natural

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in philadelphia, lehigh university professor james peterson. julian, the attorney general maintains he was recused in this case involving the associated press records. and yet he also says he has confidence in the decisions of those who handled the matter. i ask you, julian, can he have it both ways? >> that's not having it both ways. he was recused because he was a potential witness by fbi agents who were looking at the source of the leak. he has access to the information about this case which involved an al qaeda double agent in yemen who foiled a plot to bring down an airline over the mediterrane mediterranean. the leaking of that information could put hundreds, thousands of americans at risk. this was one of the worst crimes against this country imaginable. as you pointed out, lots of people, republicans and democrats, calling for a vigorous investigation. he had information about it, so he was properly recused. he followed the rules. what the justice department did here, it's very important to understand, was they exactly followed the lett