and not give a pitch to john nichols. if you read john nichols but if find a solution to this which was journalism masson operated in the 60's and 70's that actually call people -- there would not let individuals get away with the kind of things that journalists seem to let people get away with now. you can find out if you read the new york times and the washington post. there are ways in this country find out, but it is leaders completely ignoring facts. aaron brown senator john kyl he talked about planned parenthood as 97% of the funds went to abortion when it was 3 percent for 10 percent of something like that. he said, well, he did not contend his statement to be factual. [laughter] and the leader not he was embarrassed. the preston follow upon a. it was just reporting as we said . >> i think the idea that what the press doesn't call up one side verses the other is exaggerated. a place like the post of the new york times does operate under a different set of standards and values set ben does a more partisan media. tha

on my immediate left is john nichols, a pioneer blogger is washington correspondent for the nation and he's a contributing writer for the progressive spirit his articles appear in newspapers across the country it is a frequent commentator on msn received and other radio and television venues. his latest book is an extremely thoughtful, yet also quite troubling analysis of the demise of democracy in america today, entitled accuracy, have the money and media election complex is destroying america. baxter had on his left is arbor carson, an award-winning author playwright and activist who is what among other books, money makes the world go down, or the global economy. her latest book jampacked with powerful insights about life in america today who earned from her portrayal of the individual lives of americans is entitled down the up escalator, how to 99% live. finally, william d. cohen is a former wall street banker who has written for the nation's newspapers and appeared as a guest on "the daily show," and the news hour among many hours. author of many books, he's one the "financial time

joining me now, karen finney, host of disrupt here on msnbc, and john nicholls, my colleague at the nation. i want to start out with the ground rules that apparently rand paul is pursuing about who gets to answer questions about what. this is senator paul asking questions about the clintons. take a listen. >> i think it's a factor. now it's not hillary's fault. >> it should be an issue -- >> but it is a factor in judging bill clinton in history. >> right, but is it something hillary clinton should be judged on if she were a candidate in 2016? >> i'm not saying that. this is with regard to the clintons and sometimes it's hard to separate one from the other. i would say with regard to his place in history, that it certainly is a discussion ---. >> all right, so here's my feeling about it. you want the benefits which are benefits, i mean when rand paul ran for senator, he was an o opthalmologi opthalmologist. >> are we really saying, to a woman is responsible for her husband, but a son is some partialonly partially responsible for his dad? >> another thing is go years ago, he was supporting h

joining us now is wisconsin resident and correspondent for "the nation" john nichols.consin resident is one of the highest titles you could have. the highest. you know this senator. tell us about him. >> he's more than 30 years in the senate. he's always been a republican, a pretty conservative republican. he was the leader of the senate briefly. and he's not a guy who picks fights. in fact, he comes slow to them. it's interesting, you were saying there for a moment that, you know, he should have spoken out sooner. the truth of the matter is i think he's, like, a lot of conservative republicans, right up to judge richard posner who recently wrote a book. he was the u.s. federal court of appeals judge who wrote one of the key rulings on voter id. last year he put a book out and said increasingly, it's starting to look like these laws are more about suppression than about dealing with fraud. >> you mentioned that. let me read. we pulled that. and it's very much relevant. he wrote it's now clear some photo id requirements are more a means of voter suppression rather than

joining me now, my colleague john nichols at "the nation."n issa got the chairmanship, there were laudatory profiles that said this guy is going to be serious, he was very intent on making sure his image wasn't going to be seen as a partisan warrior and that this was someone to be feared because he was going to be tenacious. what happened? >> i think fox news happened to some extent. the complexity of issa's position is this. when he came in, he suggested that he was going to be an incredible powerhouse. that he would do seven hearings a week. times 40 weeks. that this would be the busiest committee. his basic assumption from the start was that there was so much scandal in the obama administration -- >> right. >> -- that you basically just had to cast your net and things would turn up immediately. what happened very, very quickly is that, you know, he had trouble finding scandal. at least not at the level he was hoping for. and so then he started watching television looking for people speculating about scandal and then, you know, going and in

next to him, john nichols, one of the great voices in american politics, someone who then is to sort out their charging away at inequities and injustices in our country, author of how the money and media elections complex is destroying america. he will be talking a lot more about exactly what that all means. and next to me, john schwarz, professor emeritus at a school that some of you have heard of, university of arizona. it is good to have the hometown crowd on this side. author of six books and one of our leading voices in rethinking permissivism for the 21st century. his most recent book is the common credo to american success. so please give a nice welcome. [applause] fuss to let me start with dan. uni were here four years ago talking about your previous book , the 2008 campaign. that campaign was one with some really incredible personalities, barack obama, hillary clinton, john mccain, our home state senator, sarah palin. and it was one that think a lot of people came out from my standpoint inspired and excited about. my sense is that 2012, no matter what you thought of the outc

. >> adam, let me ask you, john nichols in analyzing the race last night talked about alex sink's messagei'm paraphrasing a little bit, he said she didn't in any sense run a populous campaign, it was a soft appeal for bipartisanship that sounded nice enough, but had the feel of a candidate appealing to a small number of swing voters, rather than expanding the electorate, and it was an insufficient effort. do you agree with that? >> i partially agree with that. no question she's a moderate democrat, a businesswoman, and democrats knew all along this was a special election, an off-year election where republicans were likely to have a far better turnout than democrats, so she felt the need to really focus on those independent voters, roughly one in five of all of the votes, and peeling off some of the soft republicans. clearly, it didn't work. i will say, you know, below the radar, there was a lot of targeting -- this was an overwhelmingly district, 4% of the district is black. the democrats really threw the kitchen sink and everything else at this race, and it wasn't enough. >> e.j., what d

nichols, and michael fortier were involved? because there were most assuredly others. >> much of the speculation centers on the man reportedly seen with mcveigh at the truck rental company. known as john not fit either terry nichols or michael fortier. investigators concluded that john doe number two never existed. >> we found a gentleman that had been in there that generally fit the description of john doe number two but it turned out it had been on a different day. he'd been in there with a friend who had rented a ryder truck. so we now realize it was a misidentification of people transposing two different events and putting two different occurrences together. >> mcveigh swore to us over and over again that there was no john doe number two, no one was with him on the day of the bombing. >> the biggest misconception out there about the oklahoma city bombing, in my view, is this is something that sprang from the brain of timothy mcveigh, was masterminded by timothy mcveigh and substantially carried out by timothy mcveigh with very little help from terry nichols. >> if there were other people involved with the bombing, who were they? some believe there may have been a connection betwee

john. >> mike viqueria, in washington, d.c, thanks mike. >>> especially with the white house reporting the movement of russian forces, joining us is thomas nichols, the professor of u.s. security, specializing in russian security. great to have you on the program, thomas, thank you. >> thanks john, nice to be with you. >> can you tell me, what do you think of these -- there have been lots of questions about who the forces are that they don't have any parkings on their uniforms. do you think their russian -- they're russians? >> i definitely think they're russians and i think they're not just russians from the ukraine, from the the crimea but russians that have come from the russian federation which is what has everybody so disturbed. there are russians, there are ethic russians who live in the crimea but i think these are russian military and security people from the russian federation itself. >> so what do you think the plan is? >> to some extent i think there isn't a plan. i think the crÈme li kremlin wat completely by surprise when yanukovych was ousted. it was a significant humiliation to have putin's personal ally pretty much run out of tow

john focuses on the business impact of sanctions against russia. >> hans nichols is in berlin digging draghi's comments. details on what's could be the worst asian markets in more than half a year. do not miss our exclusive interview with the ceo behind the visual effects for "gravity." is the next hour. hisohn seri -- kerry meets russian counterpart. as western nations russia russia -- pressure russia not to annex crimea. business impact of sanctions on russia, we are joined by jonathan. >> the morning. it is quite speculative as to the shape sanctions will take. particularly in the u.k. and germany. sanctionsge of appears to be the likes of visa bans, asset freezes, trade sanctions still very much a threat. and russia, germany the biggest supplier of their gas. if you look at stocks, you city impact. russian equities down 2.5%. down over seven percent this week. the biggest selloff since november, 2009. this will hurt russia. wealthy individuals a lot. >> we will tell you later how much money has been wiped off the wealth of russian billionaires. many billions. >> they say that is t

. >> john kerry is just arriving in london today for crisis talks very at mario draghi -- for crisis talks. ands get over to berlin bring in our international correspondent hans nichols. good morning, hans. >> what we saw for last week from drug he was a hint about what the euro could mean -- from mario draghi was a hint from what the euro could be doing. the quiz later on how many basis points it actually dropped. what this is is an attempt by mario draghi to lower the strength of the euro. here is what he said. of inflationrisk expectations becoming an anchored will be counted with additional monetary policy measures. it is countered. that is the key verb there. that suggests action from the central bank. >> yesterday, you spent some with the bundesbank president. would he have to say about the strength of the euro? >> he is talking once again about when you look at the euro and what impact it has on inflation. we have clearly seen that inflation has not moved as fast as many economists predicted and hoped. yet again, another influencing factor. the question is, is it the influencing factor? we will see that coming out over the course of the next couple of days. >>

nichols, thanks for joining us from berlin. kicksn the alibaba ipo off with an estimated $18 billion valuation, john dawson has more.morning, john. >> sources telling bloomberg the interesting story, some sources without being named, this goes back to the bid for softbank. $21.6 billion. backed thetually person who lost the bid. upset,t a little bit felt betrayed. alibaba, do not use barclays. top bank has a stake in alibaba. the last time this happened was june of last year. guess what, they used 13 banks, but did not use barclays. the next is the ipo, which could be worth $18 billion on the come to market. haver come using thanks we mentioned already, which includes credit suisse, morgan stanley, goldman sachs, citigroup, morgan stanley, but not barclays. >> when one door shuts, another window opens. let's look at the positives for barclays. >> the positive perhaps is it is not involved in alibaba, and therefore other options are available. in jd.com, the stake my name, obviously, and when the company goes to market in july of this year, barclays could be the underwriter. i could be the upside. analysts a it is wo

nichols. that does it for today on "in the loop." tomorrow we will dive into banking, my cohost for the hour. johnhe state of retail banking tomorrow all morning long starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we will be back in a few minutes "on the markets." ♪ is 56 minutes past the hour. we are "on the markets." as its pushing higher. retail sales and jobless claims surpassed economists estimates. the reports were enough to turn treasuries around. prices are falling for the first time this week. traders said the fed will stay on course with its plan to reduce bond purchases. risk on, less need to hide out in gold, which backed off a six-month high. copper under a little pressure after more evidence of a slowdown in china. for more on the markets and where to find returns, i'm joined by the chief investment officer of the elements financial group. he says it is critical for investors to reembrace and manage risk in the portfolio's. where should they get the risk right now? >> great question. consider the environment we're in today. we think about low treasury yields, many investors are forced to reach