joan walsh is an msnbc political analyst and editor at large for salon.as i read your piece, wiz thinking to myself that the pain is so scattered that politically speaking, maybe that's the reason for a lack of mobilization thus far. small groups are what you document who are feeling significant pain, but there subject seem to be anything or anybody tying them all together. >> yeah, you have a very valid point there. there is an organization in washington, d.c. called ndd, which advocates on behalf of those groups affected by the nondefense discretionary cuts by sequestration. but you're right. i think the pain is so scattered that we're not really seeing a mobilized effort to get these cuts replaced. the other problem that is happening is that a lot of these groups, including head start organizations are doing everything that they can to back load all of the pain. and by that, they're putting off the suffering. they're making sure that parents in the system, stay in the system. and they're ensuring that parents who want to get in the system don't get in

joan walsh is editor of "salon" and michael shear is with "time" magazine. joan, i am laughing, because a sixth of new york still wants this guy with it all. he's still my guy. eye just wondering -- is this the unbreakable core of his support? >> no. >> there's nothing he could do. >> no, it will drop. he will lose. he will lose that one sixth. i don't know how low it will go, but he already lost a significant chunk of his sport. and let's remember, this only rely reflects about a day of reaction to this new set of revelations so you're capturing people who don't necessarily know, for example, as we've parsed many times, that this is after he resigned, that this is as recently as last summer, after the supposed rehabilitation and therapy and healing his marriage, so you get a lot of people who think it's part of the same garbage, i already dealt with it, and i don't care. as more and people of it comes out, and it will come out, you're right, people are going to peel away from this man. >> aren't you little miss sunshine tonight? >> yes, i am. you might vial

thank you, joan walsh. i guess it's catholic school coming back to haunt you. >> yes. >> this guy is too much. you didn't like to hear that? >> that's fine with me. >> you don't like being called prudish. thank you so much for coming on. as always, joan walsh from salon. >>> coming up, anthony weiner on the couch. we're going to talk to experts about this strange kind of sexual addiction and what it is that drive people to gout and become these digital streakers. i'm not sure it is sex, but they think it is. >>> president obama has essentially declared war on republicans in congress. you might say finally. they have been waging war against him since day one, since they heard of the guy. we know the republicans are up to this. is the president? does he really want to do battle for the next three noof years? with a court filing, eric holder has now joined the fight to restore the section of the voting rights act that the supreme court struck down about preclearance on voting changes. >>> finally, let me finis

joining me for a couple minutes to talk about it is msnbc political analyst, ron reagan, and joan walshjoan, i think one of the reasons, i'm going to say this, an effort of george w. bush, michael gerson pushed him to do this, maybe laura did. the united states really helping to wipe out aids in east africa. really working on it. >> hugely important. also this issue these two women have come together on, chris, hugely important. when we invest in women and girls, those countries do better. the women wait longer to have children, to get married. they get education. their children are healthier. their children get education. there's such a multipliers effect. it's so important. to see these women come together around that issue is really heartening. >> it's been my experience in my two years over there, ron, the women do the hardest work over there. the childbearing, child raising, paying tuition bills. making the beer for their husband. they do all the work. men once a year do the plowing. the women deserve the credit i think. your thoughts. >> yeah, absolutely. this is a short of issue

and joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> good to be with you. >> congressman, let me go to you first. what is your reaction to these attacks on the president's speech? >> it is so sad and in some ways amazingly so. the president said simply and unagitatingly that our nation is better than the racial rancor that all too often creates a problem with us. he addressed an issue, and he did it i think in a very personal and very profound way. >> very personal. >> i can't imagine anybody of good will becoming angry and hostile over the way he spoke. but i hope that the people around the country understand that -- that, you know, rejection of a fault-finder is what garlic is to a vampire. i think we just reject this kind of thing and continue to erase the racial divisiveness that has been a part of our country for too long. >> and i think regardless of one's opinion, you have yours, i certainly have mine. others certainly have theirs. i think if we're going to heal the nation in term

we're also joined by joan walsh, the editor of salon. and jim warren of the new york daily news. thank you, all. i want all of your views. in his press conference late today, and it was just about an hour ago, weiner said he was not withdrawing for the mayor's race, telling throngs of reporters that his past was behind him. he spoke about the timeline in which he engaged in that second round of inappropriate behavior. let's listen. >> now some have asked the question where does this fit in, some timeline, some timeline of the continuum of the resignation, the resignation was not a point in time that was nearly as important to my wife and me as the challenges in our marriages and working through them. some of these happened before my resignation. some of them happened after. but the fact is that that was also the time that my wife and i were working through some things in our marriage. >> jim warren, in the universe of this fellow here, anthony weiner, see what he did with the hand? i can shake away a timeline. the key question we all knew was the question from reporters tonight,

thank you, joan walsh.nk you to the viewers who tweeted us with an example of how these cuts are hurting them. chris works at oasis youth center in with washington. we provide key services lgbt youth 14 to 24. our funding has been slashed. i want to the hear more how congress cuts are affecting you. tweet us with the #unkindestcut, or facebook.com/hardball. we'll be right back after this. [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars. [ major nutrition ] ensure! nutrition in charge! [ herbie ] eh, hold on brent, what's this? mmmm, nice car. there's no doubt, that's definitely gonna throw him off. she's seen it too. oh this could be trouble. [ sentra lock noise ] oh man. gotta think fast, herbie. back pedal, back pedal. [ crowd cheering ] oh, he's down in flames and now the ice-cold shoulder. one last play... no, game over! gps take him to the dog house. [

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joining me now is texas democratic -- democratic texas state representative johnson and salon's joan walsh on the show tonight. >> thank you for inviting me. >> you were at the rally today along with wendy davis. what was the message for governor perry? >> i think the message is we don't understand why men cannot understand that we have rights of our own, and they shouldn't be trampled upon. i know that men understand that we can make decisions for ourselves, and it's not necessary for them to make them for us. and we are not going to be bullied. and that is the message. we will not be bullied. our constitution rights would l not be trampled upon, and we're not going to take it sitting down. >> now, joan, we see governor perry making this move. last night governor kasich signed into law, a law that is extreme, a law that says rape crisis counselors face new restrictions. women seeking abortions must undergo medically unnecessary ultrasound, even if they don't want one. and their choice and their doctor doesn't recommend one. and they must pay for these ultra sounds on top of that. it's ext

joining me today, salon.com editor at large and msnbc political analyst, joan walsh.d economics correspondent for slate, matt u ig glasous. joining us from austin, the texas state senator leticia vandeputte. if the bill passes, what's the next step for opponents of the legislation? >> i am so afraid that this bill will succeed. . the republicans have learned from their errors of the past they're starting early on their timeline. i think that we will see passage maybe in the next two or three weeks and it will really harm the women of texas. i don't know that there is a recourse except maybe at the ballot box because when the ill effects of this legislation are felt across the state, then the outrage of the citizens -- just like the 5,000 that showed up yesterday. i think they will be heard. >> i want to ask you, are pro-choice advocates losing this battle? you are seeing state after state enact really draconian laws that seem to fly directly in the face of row vess wae versus wade, ane will of huge crowds of women saying no? >> i think what you have to look at is that

joining me now is democratic congressman emanuel cleaver from missouri, and joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. thank you both for being here. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> congressman, let me start with you. are these republicans in other states, because they're not just southern states changing these laws, now on notice now that the obama administration is not going to let them get away with taking away our right to vote? >> absolutely. this is a socio political abomination to mix theology with contemporary psychology language. but what they need to understand is that the president is not backing up. as he said two days ago, he doesn't have to run for election again. and he realizes that one of the worst things that could happen under anyone's administration is to remain silent when there is a very overt attempt to push people away from the ballot box. this is a democracy. and we should be doing everything we can to encourage people to vote. and i am so proud and pleased that the president is standing up and saying this is where i stand, and bringing the civil rights com

. >> joan walsh is editor of salon. she looks like she has cheered up a bit there watching as a person and a new friend of mine. i'm impressed by she is upbeat. she is cheerful. this is a weird race to be in, i think uncomfortable for everybody. but she seems to be doing pretty well right now in the polls. your thoughts about the women's issue. i want to get to that. is there something aggressive about this behavior by -- nastily aggressive by mr. weiner? >> you know, i think there is. i think there is a problem here when he said last week he was sorry to the women he inconvenienced. you know, the young woman who has come forward now, sydney leathers, she may have some issues in her own life, but she is only 22. and i think to reach out as a public figure, to start poking her on facebook like an idiot juvenile, and to lie to her, to lead her along as she says he has, and she has the text or the sexts to prove it, i think is degrading to women and disrespectful to women. and i would also say quite honestly, i think it's

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and joan walsh is the editor of salon and msnbc analyst. steve, this thing, it's has astounded me that new yorkers are willing to accept a pretty low level of behavior by their potential mayor here. i don't know whether the numbers will hold but he's been very competitive with christine quinn, the speaker of the city council all through this mess. is this too much for new york? >> i mean first are of all, part of the reason he's been so competitive, he's been eb at selling the redemption narrative that he went all this turmoil a few years ago. he got help. he's emerged as a better person and one of the threats obviously is that it disrupts that narrative. wait a minute, instead of going through this and immediately getting help, this extended now for potentially for a year, whatever it was. it disrupts that basic narrative he's been effective at selling. i think the other real problem is this. all that he's done right now in terms of getting into this rates competitively in the polls has been without any establishment support in new york ci

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. >>> i'm here with joan walsh and jerry nava. we're talking about implementing obama care.nd the place i think this is the most perverse is on medicaid expansion. it also seemed the political incentives would get republican governors and republican state legislators to go along with medicaid expansion, partly because of the power of doctors and hospitals in the states. we saw this in florida with rick scott, where the head of -- he used to run the hospital chain. and when the folks from the hospital industry started testifying in the hearings, rick scott saw the light on this, jan brewer, same way in arizona, a shocking number. if you had bet me on this, do you have the map with the different states? here we go. a shocking number of these states are refusing it. how do you understand the politics of this? >> i think they really are determined to make this legislation fail. and they don't care. these are not the people they care about, and they don't believe the government should be in the business of doing this, and so it's a totally ideological thing. it's so many governor

anyway, thank you so much, joan walsh. this isn't a very savory story to be covering. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. we'll be right back one hour from now with another edition of "hardball." "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live in miami. tonight's lead, breaking news. former congressman anthony weiner currently a candidate for mayor of new york city just gave a press conference apologizing for additional photos and texts sent to a woman who is not his wife. he admitted that his sexting continued after he resigned from congress in 2011. >> the photos were likely to come out, and timeline, some timeline of the continuum of the resignation. the resignation was not a point in time that was nearly as important to my wife and me as the challenges in our marriage and the challenges of the things that i had done and working through them. some of these things happened before my resignation. some of them happened after. but the fact was that was also the time that my wife and i were

here to break this down is jill lawrence, joan walsh, and jed legthen. it is great to have you all here. i want to start out with this. anthony weiner's first event today was mayoral candidate forum small business in the bronx. he gave an opening statement and answered five questions from the panel itself. the clinton question came up. obviously, because his wife huma has worked so closely with secretary of state hillary clinton. they have long-lasting ties there. but the question was if not the clintons, what would it take for you to get out of this race. let me make it clear. i have an enormous respect to the clintons and it should be no intent to disrespect but what i want to make clear is important to forme in this race is what animated me to run. i recognize i am not a perfect messa messenger. there are rumors this is bad press. you got to wrap it. it's not just going to happen. gracefulness needs to be your next execution. how to get out of this. >> yeah. i mean, he is really in a bind with the clintons but he has said i'm going to listen to the vo

joan walsh, and retired u.s. army captain and author of "the other wes more," wes moore.e have the sound bite. let's take a listen. >> the government's going to launch an investigation. i think they're going to say i've committed grave crimes, i've violated the espionage act, they're going to say i've aided our enemies in making them aware of these systems. but that argument can be made against anybody who reveals information that points out mass surveillance systems. >> richard, it's interesting that they're choosing to release this now. don't know if there was a media strategy in place. there seems to have been some forethought in terms of holding this for a later date, this is now in the midst of all of the asylum talk and obviously opinions have changed and evolved in and around edward snowden and exactly what place he occupies in american history. what do you make of his sort of counter -- what is now a counterargument to an argument that most certainly has been made on the national stage. >> well, for a start, i don't know what "the guardian" sequencing is but i thi

our friend, joan walsh, said, why can't they be right on both wars? usually the ones who are right about the civil war were wrong about iraq. and i think you're seeing other conservatives getting upset, but i think they -- and let's be clear, we're not talking about free speech here. the neoconfederates and everyone else is free to say what they want, but a political movement needs to tell people who we are and who we're not. bill buckley made a point of the conservative movement in the '60s. he, himself, corrected himself on race over time. and so i'm looking for more conservatives to speak out and say this isn't what conservatism ought to be. >> do you feel like there is anything constructive that is coming out of the discussion about the george zimmerman and trayvon martin trial, specifically about the stand your ground laws? you wrote really eloquently about cory booker and president obama and the way they've responded to that in personal terms, in terms of, you identify real leadership there. are you seeing signs of constructive discourse there?

thank you, joan walsh, for coming on again tonight. coming up -- you're in new york. one reason to care about anthony weiner's behavior is it does involve hillary clinton. she's such a pro now as she had lunch with the president yesterday. future presidents having a chat together. beautiful pictures of them in the rose garden. breakfast today with joe biden perhaps telling him the bad news she is going to run. what was a underground campaign is now becoming it seems to me, a develops transparent thing to get us used to the idea. this isn't a guessing game. she's going for the presidency eventually. president obama makes the republicans i think an offer they can't refuse. it's a pretty good offer. certainly a good deal starter. they can can actually get somewhere. i don't think they they're going to do it. and bradley manning, talking about good news, bad news. found not guilty of aiding the enemy but convicted of multiple charges that could add up to 100 years in prison bibi my calculations is more than life. let me finish with the offer of republicans, well, it's an

my name is joan walsh, i am editor at large at salon.com, and i am an msnbc political know some of you and i am happy to see all of you here. we have such a wonderful panel that i will limit my remarks. one of the thing that is so fun about being here is we can be really honest with each other and talk about how the going, how's it working, what is working, what is not working and buck up each other's spirits in case anybody is feeling the solution.-- disillusioned or disappointed right now. i had that experience yesterday. i did a really fun book panel yesterday. i guess i found it a little bit negative about our current political climate. this wonderful woman stood up and said i want you guys to remember that we did some amazing things in a 2012.we beat back voter suppression. president.d the we made strides in the house and senate. you are talking as though we lost. and i was like wow, you are right, we won. we won. why does it not feel that way sometimes? so this is a panel that really looks at maybe why it doesn't feel that way, and what we need to change. we know that we made the

my nana's joan walsh become editor at large of salon.com and an msnbc political analyst. i know some of you and i'm happy to see all of you. we have such a wonderful benefit of going to limit my remarks. but i think one of great things about netroots nation, this is my first time, one of the things that's the fun of it being here is weekend be honest with each other and talk about how is it going, how's it working, what's working and what is not working? and also sort of bug of each of the spirit in case anybody is getting disillusioned or disappointed right now. i had that express yesterday. i did a fun book panel and i guess i found it a little negative about our current political climate, and this wonderful woman stood up and said i want you guys to remember that we did some amazing things in 2012. we beat back voter suppression. we reelected the president. we made strides in the house and in the senate. you are talking as though we lost. on my, you're right. we want, okay, let's remember that. why doesn't feel that way sometimes? and so this is a panel that really loo

delores mcgee, margaret gray, marcia, karen, joan, mira, janice, jennifer walsh, fudyjud, candice. are you in the room or are you busy in the other spots? if you are here, please stand up. and a round of applause. [applause] so, all of these folks are listed in your book, and you all have nametags and so do they. as you go out throughout the day, if you see any of these people, i really encourage you to thank them for all the work they have done because it has been an enormous amount of work to a poll today off. but there are two people that i want us to single out for today's event. that is marie jopling and judy otto. [cheers and applause] you know how you read in the paper about most famous folks in technology? there are those names, right? those companies and those names we read about every day. but we should all hope for having one of those famous people in our lives, and that is to marie and judy really are. these other two women who i think single-handedly moved me into social networking, kicking and fighting the hallway. because i was not born into technology. i really had