joining me here in studio keith ellison of minnesota.e champion of civil rights and defending voter rights and addressing this in his new memoir "my country 'tis of thee." first, let's get your reaction to this decision in pennsylvania. it's one of the first laws that really got national attention because of the obvious controversy. and now you've got this judge striking it down. >> good decide. i think these voter i.d. laws are costly, don't do any good. don't improve the process, there's almost no cases of voter imposter voting anywhere in the country. and basically designed to exclude, depress the vote. and i think based on the statements of the republican-controlled pennsylvania legislature, it's clear that the court was right to strike it down because it was partisan and designed to repress. >> here in this ruling, the judge said an unreasonable burden on the fundamental right to vote. and that brings me back to your book. who would have thought, you know, 2013 we're looking at what some see as lawmakers who want to keep people from

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joining me now is congressman keith ellison of minnesota.gressman, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. >> you bet. let's talk the economy. we have two different philosophies here. marco rubio says the focus should be on opportunity inequality instead of income inequality. do the republicans have a plan for either? >> no. marco rubio is for the rich getting more. his idea is poor people have too much money and rich don't have enough. he argues if you cut the taxes and don't have health and safety regulations, that rich people and big corporations will take the extra money and put it into jobs but there's no proof of that. as a matter of fact, for the last three or four decades we have seen serious wage stagnation, wage decline. yet we've seen corporate profits exploding. we have the highest gross domestic product per capita in the history of the republic. yet the productivity gains that workers have helped corporations make more money have not been shared. we need stronger union, a better minimum wage, stronger education. >> m

>> yeah, part of the problem, keith ellison was on the other network this morning. i was listening to him, and they were talking about other things, and he said definitely not the keystone pipeline. i was waiting for one of those idiots to say, why not? just ask the question, and no one could do it because there's no answer. he's talking about creating jobs. he said definitely not with the keystone. why? >> also for saearlier this week big report and a lot of news articles about the hazards of moving all this energy by rail. >> right. >> if you had keystone pipeline, it's a safer way to do that. >> you still have to move by rail, though, right? >> not as far. >> okay. >> i have a feeling that this topic is now over. >> dead. >> we start to talk about how oil is moved -- >> why did you pick this topic? >> i didn't. they told me. no, they didn't. i love climate change. next on "the five," the most awkward "today" show moment since matt lauer ate that squirrel. we'll show you what happened when kate gosselin sat down with an interview with her twins, her children. it d

congressman keith ellison, thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> eye wi'm wondering what yourn the statements of the president on the nsa. >> he admitted that we were overclassified. i like the idea of a public advocate, someone who will safeguard privacy and human rights to judges and liked the idea of a judicial finding before the database gets searched. there's things to like and a lot yet to be determined. >> one of the criticisms has been it doesn't go far enough. obviously congress is going to be involved, which is hopefully a good thing, you never know. but will you be looking at ways to go farther if you think that there are -- that's justified? >> well, you know, section 215 of the patriot act you could drive just a truck through. it just says any business record the government can look at and of course the government took full advantage of that. i'm going to engage the process and i think members of the progressive caucus are going to be engaged in the process. we don't want to prejudge what we can do but make sure what is offered is followed through on. i would enco

keith ellison says we need to do the same thing for our national policy.mbo in what he calls a politics. me called his book "my country 'tis of thee," he shares his story from his detroit roots. he also outline as what the politics of generosity look like. so representative keith ellison, tell me what are the politics of generosity? what does it look like? >> well, the politics of generosity stem from the idea we all need to eat, we all need to retire, we all want to see our kids get a good education, develop our minds. our country is the richest country in the history of the world and it's never been richer than it is now and we can make sure that there is a reliable economic security for americans. >> there's enough gumbo in the pot. >> there's enough. we don't have to send anybody out. the thing is we have a politic of scarcity and the politics of scarcity is there's not enough, we have to cut head start, we've got to have trained cpis because the seniors are getting too much money. this is all driven by the idea there's not enough, but i believe there

. >> host of ms nbc "all in", keith ellison, there's the book. thank you. bringing in historian of the presidency now director of the library at nyu. michael rad nor, human rights attorney and counts julian asank and wikileaks. did he do what was necessary to put this message behind him? >> two things. one, he gave an unprecedented speech for an american president. it doesn't -- it's not often this happens. by definition a president should be -- no american president has ever spoken about signals intelligence and our obligations as americans in spying on the world in the way that president obama did today. he's taking in some -- to some extent a risk. whether or not he's done enough, that's going to depend on what happens in the implementation of these changes. as chris hayes mentioned, a lot of what he's done is promise change. the government hasn't decided how it's going to move this database and where it's going to move the metadata 215 information. there's a lot of details -- the devil is in the details. the other thing we don't know about is the nature

, the honorable lois capps of california, the honorable sam farr of california, the honorable keith ellison of minnesota, the honorable lucille roybal-allard of california, the honorable susan davis of california, the honorable gwen moore of wisconsin, the honorable jim mcdermott of washington, the dinatitus of nevada, thank you for your appointments, signed, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. rush of illinois for january 27 through january 29, and mr. westmoreland of georgia for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. he house will be in order. after consultation among the speaker and the majority and minority leaders and with their consent, the chair announces that when the two houses meet tonight in joint session to hear an address by the president of the united states, only the doors immediately opposite the speaker and those immediately to his left and right will be opened. no one will be allowed on the floor of the h

also joining me in the studio, chris hayes and keith ellison stuck around. the president's political problem going into the speech, did he solve the problem with the speech we just heard? >> it's hard to imagine that he did. i've always gone back to anybody that -- the people that care the most about this privacy issue and what the nsa was doing, i don't know there was anything the president could announce short of halting the program completely that was going to satisfy some folks there. the fact -- if you look at it through the idea of okay, is he open to more change, he made that clear. but this speech is not a definitive speech of anything. he announced a lot more steps of what they are going to do next than he did of actually reforms. let's have this review process and figure this out and have this review process and i'm going to point this person to look at how we do this with big data and do this overseas. we've got a long way to go. politically, craig, the goal was how can they get this into the the rearview mirror as a political problem and perhaps

. >> up next, congressman keith ellison is standing by and he says it's time for republicans who remember." we will be right back. we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on the... [ both ] chicken pot pie diet! me too! [ male announcer ] so indulgent, you'll never believe they're light. ♪ >>> 26 past the hour. here with us now is democratic representative from minnesota, congressman keith ellison who is the author of the new book "my country tis of thee my faith my family our future. >>." congressman, great to have you here. >> congratulations on the book. >> thank you so much. >> let's talk about your faith first. you're the first muslim elected to congress. actually you're from a district that is 1% muslim. you wrote the book that you didn't wear it on your sleeve a whole lot, but you've learned in time that you've needed to step out of your comfort zone. talk about that journey. >> well, you know, it's interesting. i was elected a few

secondly, with regard to the progressive caucus, led by congressman keith ellison and raul gri hal virginia we have been around the country with fast food workers, raising the level of awareness with regard to minimum wage workers making $7.25 an hour. having to rely on food stamps and medicaid. and why we needed to raise the minimum wage and make sure there's low-wage workers benefit from this economic growth that is beginning to take place. and so i'm sorry you're not hearing it. we do have a republican-run house of representatives. so you have to engage in working with the majority t hopefully next november that will change. and speaker pelosi, leader pelosi was a phenomenal speaker. we passed many, many bills and many -- the recovery act, for example, was passed which saved millions of jobs and created jobs. and so as a democrat we are fighting to really take back the house and to win the elections next time. right now i have to just defend and say the progressive caucus and the congressional black caucus, congressional asian pacific american caucus, hispanic caucus, and democratic cauc

. >> cece, i want you to know that we had your congressperson, representative keith ellison was on thestatement, and i wanted to read it to you, because i thought it was lovely. mr. ellison says, it appears that cece mcdonald defended herself after a bias motivated attack came on her. however, any loss of life is tragic, and therefore i have sympathy for the family of deceased. cece's case reveals the disturbing intolerance of transgender citizens, and i hope through her struggle, the plight of trans people has come to greater public awareness. so i wanted you to know that your representative sees you in exactly that way, as a role model to give us an opportunity to talk about the inequalities facing trans people. >> and that's very, exciting and good to hear, because a lot of times, people don't even acknowledge or understand the lives of trans women, especially african-american trans women, because we always are faced with such hardships. and it seems like, i feel like sometimes we're just taken as props or people just see us as gimmicks and a lot of times, we're misunderstood and, y

here is congressman keith ellison, saying "diplomacy is toing off in the p5 plus one reach a final dealthe nuclear program for six months starting january 20, and he links to a "new york times" story about those efforts. one comment on twitter, mr. rigell, how much longer can we afford to police the world while our kids and old people are starving and homeless? guest: well, john, i introduced an amendment before what was then known as operation odyssey libyas intervention in and outing the leadership there. we put 200 cruise missiles into that country, and hundreds of rockets, and just a massive amount of ordinance without congressional approval. to me, the president was acting outside of his constitutional lane and bounds, and actually had bipartisan support for that and i voted for an amendment of dennis kucinich, who was then in congress, and we actually partnered together, dennis and i did, to try to stop that. i felt like we needed to exercise more strength there. to syria, i led an effort, a letter, calling upon the president to come before congress, and to not just get guidance,

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