host: joan walsh is our guest.f you would like to join the conversation -- of thealso the author book that came out last year " what is the matter with white people? it is newly out in paperback. you mentioned sequestration. fix to the a aviation industry -- issue. blinked first" is the way politico reported it. what are the credits and the president doing right and wrong in your opinion? guest: this is where i am critical. there is hand wringing in the white house where they say we will not waste political capital. if he had said hang tough, i do not want nancy pelosi, maxine waters -- people that voted for this fix, people like are really -- a black bar -- people like barbara lee. they have been saying no to little fixes. we will have a big fix, not let the powerful people get their fix. i know that it hurts. we are not going to let people who fly feel no pain while we are kicking kids out of head start. this is where democrats do not stand up for their own constituencies and do not have a strategy. it is entirel

joining me now, joan walsh editor at large for salon.com.hor of the book "what's the matter with white people." she is coming to us from new york. thanks for coming into "the war room"." >> thanks for having me. >> michael: it's a pleasure to have you on the show, and there is so much to talk about. but as we near the end of this fabulous week how would you rate the white house's performance in the way they've dealt with all of these scandals this week's? >> you know, michael there is a part of me that resists rating their performance. there is only one scandal in my mind, and that is the questions around what the department of justice are doing with the ap records. the other two are faux scandals. they're made up,, and con confectionary can exactlies acting as if president obama is culpable and if he acted tougher, earlier or got the e-mails out sooner he could have some how for stalled this. i'm sure there are things along the way that he could have done, and we can talk about some of them, but really this is what republicans do. they're a

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let's bring in joan walsh, martin bashir and joy reid here this afternoon.ave you with us. joy, can republicans use the irs scandal to bring down what they always wanted to get rid of, obama care? >> no, it's just as futile as the 37 votes to repeal obama care. if you want to set up a quote/unquote scandal to bring down a program you don't like, the message has to be simple. i'm not sure how you get a tea party group called bring down the government.org, didn't get to be a nonprofit for a year, had to wait, and now i want to get rid of your health care insurance. now you're going to be bumped off your partner's health care because some group had to wait a year to get their c-4. >> so why are they picking obama care and pinning it early on in 2013 as this is what they want to do. >> the economy is getting better, it's not getting better fast enough or better for anyone, but i was really interested when mitch mcconnell said that today. i half expected him to say, we're going to run on this economy and the unemployment rate is still too high and all the twelve

joining me now are david corn and joan walsh.nk you both for being here tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> good to be with you. >> david, are republicans more interested in finding new so-called watergates than in finding the facts? >> oh, god. when you put it that way, reverend, i don't know which one to go with. "a" or "b." as a watergate baby, i'm kind of in this business because i grew up at the time of watergate. i know that's hard to believe. you know, it kind of to me is really insulting to watergate to compare any of this to watergate. then you had a break-in that was covered up by the president himself who told the cia to tell the fbi to obstruct justice so they wouldn't figure out it all led to his secret money campaign to re-elect himself. that's watergate. watergate was big. watergate -- we did have nixon trying to use the irs to get enemies. but since then we passed laws so the president's not allowed to talk to to the best of my recollection -- to the irs. even says he should start firing people in the irs, that would b

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joan walsh is "salon's" editor at large and msnbc political analyst. of all, i got to go to joan first on this. i want to go back to this other fellow, to glenn. let me go to glenn first. i'm sorry. did you step on your lead here? it seems like you went around saying is she going to have a new team, old team, what hybrid mix of team to win this time? she almost did last time. in fact, the lead is apparently what i hear through the buzz, every you talked to acted as if she's definitely running. >> thanks, man. no, there is a sense. you know, we talked to 20, 25 people on this story over the past few days, and we really much to our surprise didn't get any red lights on writing this. we talked to people in her orbit and folks she's been talking to. there was no real sense of people saying to us, no, stop, don't talk about this. it's too early. i think there is a real sense, at least internally, the calculation is she's far more likely to run than not. >> yeah. the fact is, the idea of her thinking about who should run the team is not premature at all. beca

john feehery and joan walsh are here.e house snapping across the aisle, a reference to people who are republican but believed there is a reasonable agreement for wider background checks. could your party veer that far over that they'd go to somebody as tough as this guy, as hard-lined? >> it could. he's got the party tied up. i think it will go to the governor. it could be a governor like mike pence who is very conservative. i remember people talking about mark sanford being a presidential candidate. >> what about the political spectrum? my hunch, as i've said, i think hillary will run a notch or two to the right of president obama. that's the sweet spot for any party. will your guy be to the left or right of mitt romney? >> he'll be to the right but not as far right as ted cruz. he would be somewhere in the middle. although i will say, chris christie could get the -- >> well, he wouldn't be to the right. >> no, he won't. >> he could possibly beat hillary. >> republicans don't win primaries. you know that better than i do

"salon's" joan walsh is in the da's position tonight. what do you do when you're stuck with a lieutenant governor candidate? cuccinelli said i will not answer to that guy. a state, you and i know, and joan knows is the average state. the results coming out of virginia these days are about the same as the national average. it's not right wing, not left wing. it's in the middle. >> what you need to do is make this about terry mcauliffe and not about your lieutenant governor. i don't think most voters in virginia are going to vote for the lieutenant governor at this race. they're going to vote at the top of the ticket. you raise some important points, chris. that is the virginia selection system is broken. they cannot do a convention anymore. they have to go and let everyone have a chance to vote in a primary. if they voted in a primary, a guy like pete snyder could have been very competitive in a general election. and we wouldn't have this problem. it would have been easier for our candidate to keep the focus on terry mcauliffe who's a ver

michael steele, ann, and joan walsh. tle bit about the 2016 election, something that is very consequential. new polling out today shows hillary clinton, 65, joe biden, 13. question for you, joan. emily's list started at 9:30 today. this whole push to have a female president. i have to suspect that's not trying to recruit kirsten gillebrand. >> there's one person i think they have in mind. >> the glass ceiling has got a lot of knocks on it today. >> 18 million cracks and now a little bit more. i think it's going to be hard for her to resist this. she may well resist it. we always have to say that. the claim of history and the claim of women, it's just going to keep getting louder. then you see these numbers. poor joe biden would be a runaway front runner. doesn't mean much at this point. she just knocks everybody, you know, back into the barnyard. >> ann, you've covered a lot of campaigns. barring something coming out of the past, the clintons are more embedded in the history of american politics. this field is clear. >> w

>> and we have joan walsh and msnbc political analyst as well as the author of "what is the matter with white people?" i am excited about our panel. joan, there is a fresh piece up by you talking exactly about whether or not we are witnessing the lame duck dynasty of president obama. you say obama's real leadership challenge is democrats. the president must rally progressives. are progressives that fair weather? >> i don't think progressives are fair weather but i thought there was a lot. he did not help himself with that press conference. he sounded tired. the larger issue is he can't work magic with republicans. he can't change their desire to filibuster him and keep him from having his agenda. he can work more with progressives. the faa, the whole faa fix was really undermining the whole democratic strategy on the sequester. >> we are going to work on that audio you. we will work on that. he has really more than 250 days, considerably left to really get something done with some pressure before we start to get total mid term concentrated. is it fair to say that the president has lost

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wayne slater is political senior writer for "the dallas morning news," and joan walsh is msnbc political analyst and editor at large for "salon." thank you both for joining us. a couple things i want to get in to here. what is this 47%? i think we both know during the campaign last year, that was the killer for romney. it wasn't just that he talked about it. >> we are seeing a new generation of leaders step forward. >> the national narrative of the last election was the 47% of americans who were not currently paying income taxes, who are in some ways dependent on government, we don't have to worry about you. that's what was communicated in the last election. i've got to tell you shall as a concern afternoon, i cannot think of an idea more opposite what we believe. i think republicans are and should be the party of the 47%. >> well, that was kind of a dutiful set of applauses there, joan. i mean also, by the way, they did implore romney when he said we're against the 47% so i'm not sure the big "we" he's throwing around represents the thinking of the republican party. the republican party

. >>> i'm here with joan walsh of salon, and harold fineman of the washington post.g stock of scandal gate here and scandal management. i want to go from what i think is the least serious to the most serious. then to the goldilocks one that's just right in the middle. the most serious by far to me is the story about the department of justice having secretly subpoenaed the phone records of the associated press for two months, 20 different phone lines, including the homes of some reports, carl bernstein calling it outrageous and totally inexcusable. what we know so far is that the eric holder says he recused himself from this as part of the leak investigation about a story that appeared in may of 2012. eric holder accused himself but the actual conduct here i think is just profoundly chilling and troublesome and shows complete disregard for the department's own guidelines about how they're supposed to go about doing this. joan, you've been on the same page. >> right. they had other options. they could have and should have gone to ap. this was not a secret investigation

joining me today is the editor and chief of think process, joan walsh and he is founder and publisherat to have you all here. let's talk about what we have going forward with president obama because you have this highlighted on your website talking about the president is going to soon accelerate his efforts to nominate three people to the courts, the high courts. the important federal court a move that is certain to release fierce opposition. this is from the new york times. how effective is the president trying to be right now? is this to create the divide or a lasting imprint with the courts. >> well, what he is fortunate right now is that there's a change of discussion right now. there's a change of topic. he is going to new jersey to meet with governor christie but in washington at the same time he is exploiting what he sees as a weakness in the republican party. we saw senator john mccain and lee divided on whether to move forward on the budget. when it comes to the judicial nomination he sees a chance to divide republicans in the senate about what the president's power are. ther

. >>> joining me today author and public radio host curt anderson, msnbc political analyst joan walsh, and glen thrush. joining us from cleveland is craig melvin, also joining me is former fbi profiler clint van zandt. craig, you are on site there. it seems to be obviously understandably a very emotional time for this community in cleveland. give us a sense of what it is like. we are actually in front of the home of the three girls. for where they were held for about a deck dade. we saw the image a short time ago of amanda berry's sister coming out and wiping her eyes, clearly overcome by emotion. we had suspected. in faked we heard that amanda berry was going to be coming out to give a statement, but then we found out about ten minutes ago that according to the police and their initial conversations with these three women, that the three women have not seen an adult outside the house where they were being kept for close to a decade. to one might deduce that if you haven't seen an adult for that long of a period of time, then seeing the crush many cameras, seeing the crush of people m

joining me, joan walsh, author of "what's the matter with white people," that includes michele bachmann, and dan savage, author of the brand new book you should check out "american savage." all right, michele bachmann, i guess i was sort of surprised she did this, but once we sat in the editorial meeting, what would you do if you were michele bachmann, it makes perfect sense, right? >> yes, it does. i mean, she's also facing -- i love the whole pay no attention to the fbi investigation behind the curtain part of her word salad generated video. >> and she led with that. >> that was the beginning. the beginning was this whole long thing about all the reasons she's not quitting, not because of the fbi and she's going to get her butt kicked. >> i'm glad it was at the beginning, i went through four minutes before i had to go back to watching porn. only four minutes of michele bachmann before i got a palate closer. >> i watched more of it. it's tempting to play this exclusively for laughs, but we have to remember when she showed up on the scene, it was a very ugly time in american politics. b

our good friend joan walsh writes beyond that they lied on the form. that's where the scandal is. to talk about some of the sthauf was revealed in the "new york times," some of the conservative groups identified told the irs they did not engage in electoral politics and they did. so maybe that's who is going on jail john boehner. the wet lump alabama tea party, they participated in code red usa, not the kind that jack nicholson -- not that code red. >> you ordered the code red. >> i did the job -- >> did you order the code red. >> you are [ censor bleep ] right i did! >> stephanie: see, that is who is going to jail. they were aimed to defeat president obama. and they said oh that was just educational. >> if you are going to lie, at least be good at it. >> stephanie: oy vey. fifty-eight minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ ♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello, hour number two. michael tomasky of "the daily beast" coming up. jacki schechner? >> yes. >> stephanie: we did just your future husband stack, would you pick the guy with the pin sill stuck

wayne slater is political senior writer for "the dallas morning news," and joan walsh is msnbc politicaln." thank you both for joining us. a couple things i want to get in to here. what is this 47%? i think we both know during the campaign last year, that was the it wasn't just that he talked about it. we are going to show it here. it's what he looked like and seemed like. he did seem like a guy who was interested mainly in the wealthier americans and helping them out economically and not particularly attuned to the needs of the people who weren't so lucky. here by the way is ted cruz identifying with republicans in november 2012 and suggesting a solution that actually contradicts the positions of hill and other tea partiers. let's listen. >> the national narrative of the last election was the 47% of americans who were not currently paying income taxes, who are in some ways dependent on government, we don't have to worry about you. that's what was communicated in the last election. i've got to tell you shall as a concern afternoon, i cannot think of an idea more opposite what we believe.

joan walsh of salon.com. and as part of our spotlight on magazine series, we will discuss ted conover's discussion on the meat industry. "washington journal" is next. >> good morning and welcome to ""washington journal," as wednesday, the first day of may, 2013. president obama marked the of 100 day of his second term where he fielded questions on topics from syria to guantanamo bay to the health care law. we want to hear what you think of his second term so far. the numbers to call are on your screen.

joining me at table, joan walsh, and dan savage, syndicated columnist, author of the brand-new book you should check out, "american savage." michele bachmann, i guess i was actually sort of surprised she did this, but once we sat in the editorial meeting, we were like, what would you do if you were michele bachmann, it makes perfect sense, right? >> yes, it does. she's also facing a -- i love the whole, pay no attention to the fbi investigation behind the curtain part of her word salad-generated video. >> and she led with that. >> that was the beginning. the beginning was this whole, long thing about all there is, she's not quitting, and it's not because of the fbi, and it's not because she's probably going to get her butt kicked. >> it was none of those things. >> and i'm glad it was at the beginning, i got through about four minutes before i had to go back to watching porn. >> i watched a little bit more of it, but didn't get very much out of it. but it's really tempting to place this exclusively for laughs and let's play it mostly for laughs, but we have to remember, when she showed

>> again when i say, "serious wued i saw joan walsh column when she says the guy is never going to beresident. i think they are pretty compelling reasons why not. think about this. as we approach 2016, you go to places like south carolina and iowa and some areas in northern florida and iowa and am it seems like it you have the true believers, the patriots and they are looking at ron paul and they are saying, he is mixed on libertarian issues. he is not with us on everything although i like him on some things. chris christie acknowledged that obama is a decent guy. jeb bush, you know one of the bushes, too moderate. marco rubio is disappointing us on am nestnesty and immigration. that leaves the potential of someone who is true blue and let me tell you who has been totally consistent on the far right agenda and that could be ted cruz. >> bill: so but he could -- you know, for republicans, karl rove, whom you know very well? you write a book about him. he is he going to look at a ted cruz and say this is a guy we could win with? >> no. >> bill: that could be a problem. >> it is. it's ha

onn joan walsh of salon.com a progressive agenda. as part of our spotlight on magazine series, ted connor who went undercover as a meat inspector, will discuss his article on the u.s. meat industry. we will also take your phone calls, e-mails, and feed. boston to journal, each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern -- washington journal, each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> general martin dempsey said u.s. military forces stand to take action in syria is called on but says a no-fly zone could be hard to implement. he sat down with reporters for an hour. the christian science monitor hosted the event. >> i am dave cook from the monitor. our guest is general martin dempsey. this is his first visit with our group and we are grateful to him for making time in his busy schedule. he graduated from west point in 1974, and since then has served his country and a wide range of places and positions. early in his career he was an english professor at west point. more recently his assignments have included being commander of the first armored division in