jim appleton. great to have you with us.ht now in the state, it is unlawful to direct sell a tesla. would you be against having that law changed because you point out tesla is only 0.1% of sales in new jersey anyway. so, what's the big deal? >> the big deal is the law's in place not to protect dealers and not to prevent tesla from being able to market their cars directly to consumers. the law's in place to protect consumers. a lot of people and tesla argue this is a dealer protection statute. nothing could be further from the truth. this was put in place more than a decade ago, to ensure and promote vigorous price competition in the marketplace. and more importantly that we put place the fox in charge of the chicken coop. think about it this way, when tesla or any direct retailer, manufacturer, direct retailing operation, sees a warranty or a safety recall claim, what they see is expense. and what they do at this point in time is resist and delay in an attempt not to pay that expense, as vigorously as possible. an auto retai

. >>> joining me now, jim appleton, president of the new jersey coalition of automotive retailers. barro, msnbc contributor, national correspondent for "the new york times." jim, you can tell where i was coming from that the package you just saw. do you agree with the commission's decision to get rid of these two tesla dealerships? >> yes. i do. >> okay. why is this not rent seeking? why isn't this you guys looking out for your interest? >> nobody wants to see tesla close their stores in new jersey. >> no, you guys want to see tesla -- >> no, absolutely not. i mean that very sincerely. what we want is to see tesla comply with the law and play by the same rules as everybody else. you might question the rules. you may wonder if these are good rules and appropriate rules. let me address that. >> yeah. >> the new jersey franchise practices act is not a dealer protection law. it's a consumer protection law. the new jersey franchise practices law exists because the intent is to encourage individual investors to invest in a system of independent businessowners who will compete vigorously

jim appleton president of new jersey car, and josh barro of "the new york times." thank you both. >> taunk you. >> that's "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" begins. ari melber is sitting in. >> good evening, chris. >> go get them. >>> thank you for joining us thus hour. rachel has the night off. we begin with a mystery and map. very latest reporting about the missing malaysian airlines flight. it's been a week since flight 370 left kuala lumpur heading north for beijing. air traffic control last contact with the plane 1:20 local time on saturday. the flight path should have taken the plane over the gulf of thailand. that's where the search began. early on in the search we got conflicting reports from officials about radar data that might have indicated the plane veered far away from the original flight plan west over the strait of malacca and toward the indian ocean. it's been hard to know what to believe in this story with theories and reports floated and dismissed. one after another. check this out. this spot here over the gulf of thailand is the

we love to continue some time and i want to thank you both, dan crane and jim appleton. you very much. on the comeback, changing of the guard at the world's biggest entertainment company, disney's entertainment chief is living. -- is leaving. ♪ >> welcome back. a big shakeup that disney that everyone is talking about. anne sweeney announced she has leaving the company next year and she has been running the company. she is leaving not the retirement or another big job but to try her hand at tv directing. the hollywood reporter broke the story this afternoon. -- thehis down for me most powerful person possibly in tv suddenly says she wants to be a tv director. what you make of this? >> she said this has been a creative passion of hers for many years and has thought long and hard about it. she told the hollywood reporter in her interview that she had been talking to different people in tv and is learned a lot and wants to pursue this. >> have we ever heard this about her before? has she ever mentioned this before? >> she has not and that is led to speculation that perhaps s

. >> here is why jim appleton, the president of the new jersey retailers of cars, this is why you needhis recall. it says they should have never been allowed to sell cars in the first place in new jersey without a franchise, without a dealership, because there's a public benefit to promoting a separation between automakers and auto sellers. because if there's a warranty issue or a recall notice, dealers see it as a chance to help their customers where is the manufacturer sees it as an expense just to get around. bingo. in your face. in your face. in your face. i got you. >> no. this is the first time you ever ever argued in favor of government regulation. >> i like these guys to have jobs in the dealers. and he says the jig is up. now you know, these people, a lot have their dealers who represent -- >> they love when there's a recall because they get to charge -- did it work in this gm situation? >> they're representing their customers from nasty manufacturers that don't do recalls. you see how long it took gm. the dealers would have recalled pp -- >> i think you should allow consumers