it's time for the martine bashir show hosted by karen finney because martin is still ill. >> good afternoon. i'm karen finney in for martin bashir who is out sick on this friday, the first day of february and it's also the first day on the job for john kerry and it is a very busy one at that. ♪ >> an explosion this morning outside the u.s. embassy in ankara turkey. >> witnesses say a suicide bomber tried to enter the u.s. embassy. >> a bomb explodes near the u.s. embassy in turkey. >> a suicide bombing on the perimeter of an embassy is a terrorist attack. >> right now we are all dealing with our sadness at the loss of our fellow member of our embassy. >> i don't have much detail you but it was characterized as a terrorist attack on our embassy in ankara. >> there is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the united states anymore. when i came into office, did we worry about governments changing in north africa and the middle

karen finney is a columnist for the hill. emily author of the new book "coolidge" and john mclake lynn. you know we're man is so wrong. you and you know that i'm right on this issue. police fess up. >> what i'm going to say, i disagree with the premise which is that the whole point of the sequester deal is because both sides were so childish when the president signed the budget control act, this was the only way for both sides to come together and say we're going to handcuff ourselves and major it really ugly so we have to actually get a deal done. that's the clip that the president was talking about. no easy off-ramp means sitting at the table and getting a deal done, but need side want that conversation. they're sayinged president already has his revenue and the president who has been consistent and i'm willing to do more spending cuts, but we have to have more revenue. >> this round is the spending cut round. the president -- >> he made clear. >> which would reallocate this money from the defense, but what the heck. emily,

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now let's turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former communications director of the dnc. and also with us dr. james peterson, a professor of english at lehigh university. karen, you first. today was just a bad sign for the future of voting rights in america in the voting act? >> it was very disturbing. certainly what we heard from the court a fundamental lack of understanding from the practical reality of what is happening in this country. remember, part of the reason we had to have these laws about preclearance is the tactics that were used from beating people as we saw to these kinds of insidious poll taxes and tests. and now we know we have plenty of evidence and data from the past election and previous elections that again the tactics have shifted. and it's not about voter registration. i think that's a really important point here. it's about the opportunity to exercise your right to vote and what it is you have to go through. sure, more african-americans turned out than ever before, but many of them had to wait eight and nine hours to be able to vote. that is -- the

i'm karen finney in for martin bashir who is out sick on this friday, the first day of february and it'she job for john kerry and it is a very busy one at that. ♪ >> an explosion this morning outside the u.s. embassy in ankara turkey. >> witnesses say a suicide bomber tried to enter the u.s. embassy. >> a bomb explodes near the u.s. embassy in turkey. >> a suicide bombing on the perime

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karen finney and michael steele on clinton's right-wing call-out. >>> the stock market closes over 14,000. exxon has record profits, and income inequality has never been worse. senator bernie sanders on the fight ahead. >>> scott brown is out, and geraldo is in. >> this is a real-life horror story, and it will give small children bad dreams. >> we've got rivera's first senate campaign commercial ahead. >>> michelle goldberg, michael tomasky and gene robinson are here to talk about the legacy of ed koch. >>> beer prices could rise, but not if president obama has anything to say about it. we've got the details on the next move by the department of justice on anheuser-busch. >>> ten years ago today, the space shuttle "columbia" tragedy rocked the country. today a new shocking story of what nasa knew has america talking. we have the real story here tonight. good to have you with us tonight. folks, thanks for watching. a big thank you tonight for hillary clinton for finally saying what really needed to be said. today was clinton's final day as secretary of state. she begins her life as a priva

joining me now, msnbc's karen finney and hugo, editor of the times magazine. are many democrats who would say, dick norris, please, go ahead, give all the advice you want. at the end of the day, it's a really interesting dynamic in the house. democrats actually have some power here to pass legislation. >> right. that's exactly right. i mean, even in the last session, we know that a majority of the things that actually got done got done because nancy pelosi helped make sure it happened. the reality is john boehner is very ham strung here. he does not have a lot of power in terms of his own caucus. he does rely on pelosi and the democrats to get some things done. so, part of what that means, though, that gives democrats leverage going into this legislative session. and we're already in a position where somehow the republicans missed the whole huge, glaring, neon sign of a message coming out of the last election and thenk they can -- boehner, you heard him. it's the same talking points that they've already lost on. i think democrats are in a much better, stronger

with us from washington is msnbc political analyst karen finney. chicago tribune columnist clarence page and louis russert live from capitol hill preparing for the great john baper to speak at another of his magnificent press conferences. karen, you have agreed us to preview your column for the hills in which you blast the republicans for trying to cast blame on the white house. you write at some point the gop -- i'm afraid i won't be able to quote any longer because we have the gathering of the magnificent gop and in a moment or two speaker boehner will speak. but, karen, on your point before i go to that, you say the blame shifting is a pointless exercise. >> it is a pointless exercise because we've had a number of reports both from the congressional research service and the congressional budget office that have pointed out that different parts of what republicans are fighting for in terms of their ideas about territorial tax policy with regard to multinational corporations or this idea that tax breaks at the top trickle down, that those just aren

. >> now let's turn to karen finney, former communications director of the dnc. steve benen with us as well, msnbc political contributor and producer for "the rachel maddow show." great to have both of you with us. karen, you first. it's hard to believe this would be a long-term strategy. but this power point strategy that has been unearthed from the summer of 2011 is very telling. what do you make of it? >> it is very telling, ed. but one of the things we have learned about this republican party for some time now is they are very comfortable speaking out of both sides of their mouth. i mean, here you have on the one hand they're saying we know part of the reason we lost. we've got to get out there and talk about working people and talk about middle class people, and yet on the other side, as we just were hearing from the chairman of the democratic party, they refuse to name even one cut that would impact some of those higher earners. they refuse -- you know, they refuse to accept the fact that we need more revenue. it's not just -- we can't cut our way simply to

from washington karen finney, a columnist with the hill, and michael o'hanlon, senior foreign policylows at the brookings institution. welcome to you both. mike, if i can start with you. in addition to the many other responsibilities that you yourself carry, you're also a member of the cia's external advisory board. are you satisfied with john brennan's responses, particularly in relation to the drone program? >> well, you know, martin, i do think we need checks and balances in our system, and i think groping towards the right way to handle a question of whether it be drones or some other kind of use of force, the broader question here is using force in a country where we haven't before or against a person we haven't before, possibly an american citizen when you have got this very broad authorization on the use of force against an enemy that's very generally defined going back to the 2001 legislation. so it's bigger than any one technology that might be used. but, no, i'm not totally comfortable yet, martin. i still wonder if we need some kind of internal executive branch but totally

now, friends of hillary, here in the studio, msnbc political analyst and columnist for the hill, karen finney good morning. >> and even before stepping down, there is a new hillary clinton super pac that launched for 2016. and there's a headline from today's "washington post" that asks, what is clinton's legacy at stake and her future? so after a rest which she said she wants, huge poll numbers, donors waiting to get on board. what tongdo you think the chanc are hillary clinton will seriously consider running for president again? >> i don't think we have any idea of that question until hillary does what she has said she will do. and hillary, in my experience, does what she says she'll do. first she is going to take a rest. you gave the numbers. she has really worked so hard for the last four years. this is literally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week job. and she is going to take some time. put her feet up, take a nap. but second, i think this is also important, she wants to write the book. you know, we can all learn so much about the world we live in. when she talks about her experiences in the l

. >> let's get to our guest, democratic strategist bob shrum, and karen finney.pected to use the speech as a way to frame the debate over the so-called sequester which would mean $85 billion in cuts that republicans claim are entirely his fault. take a listen to this. >> you know, the president, he's the one who proposed the sequester in the first place. >> it's what president obama proposed in 2011. >> it is inevitable quite frankly. now these cuts are coming by law and it's law the president signed and advocated. >> okay, professor shrum, on march 1st, the sequester cuts take effect. now republicans say they can't be stopped and they're all the president's fault. is that right? >> no, it's completely wrong. to make that argument requires a sequestration of memory and i mean recent memory. john boehner, when sequester passed, said he got 98% of what he wanted. >> that's exactly what he said. >> the majority of republicans voted for it. they used it as a way to hold the debt ceiling to ransom. the only leverage they have is leverage to lower their poll ratings an

david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine, and karen finney is former dnc communicationsirector. both are msnbc political analysts and i'm delighted to say karen has joined us here in new york. if i can start with you, david, james clapper, the director of national intelligence, told reuters that just the cuts scheduled for our intelligence services would be, in his words, the budgetary equivalent of emergency amputations. can you explain to our viewers, david, why republicans are so happily trumpeting the idea that we should take these cuts on the chin when they could provoke a national security crisis? >> well, i'd like to come up with a anatomy analogy when we go from emergency amputees to chins but nothing comes to mind. i think playing boehner's remark over again, he got 98% of what he wanted it. this is it. >> 174 republicans voted for that. >> in washington history tends to start about five minutes earlier when you're talking, and you got to go back to what happened that led to that press conference that john boehner said that. it was the republicans saying we're n

let's bring back karen finney.be -- looking this par out if it is not a republican governor, it would be hard to imagine it not being a governor. considering where the party is, there is a republican governors on one page and congressional -- >> sure. it is true the conservative senator could really rise to the fo fo fore. scott walker, not only did he fight the public unions in wisconsin and win but he also was from wisconsin. wisconsin is a state the republican had trouble winning in presidential elections and ought to be able -- >> and got refarm. >> northern midwest is the key for republicans. >> theit has been interesting. martin o'malley telling people no, no, no, everybody agreeing you defefr to hillary declir tot she not going to get a preride. >> it is in her interest to have it not be this inevitable she will run and be the nominee messaging out there. at the same time, these guys are trying to track some donors. he is there to make sure they balance that message of, of course, we would be respectful of h

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