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krystal, i didn't know about this story. >> really? lodged in the back of my head. that's exactly the thing. you succeeded in bumping that off the front page of your google results. for people who don't know, what went down? >> i was the democratic nominee for congress in the first district of virginia in 2010. not the best time to run as a democrat, anyway, but i was very serious campaign, raised over $1 million. it was a long shot to start with, but, you know, really proud of what i did to establish a serious and credible campaign. and about a month away from election day, a right wing blogger released these pictures of me at a party, fully clothed with the standard red solo cup that we all know so well. >> i've been there. >> in some fairly sort of provocative poses with actually my at the time husband. overage, no drugs. >> they're not that provocative. they're sort of tongue in cheek and jokee. >> it was a costume party. and the thing went crazcrazy. within days i was once of the most googled things on the internet. it was just ab

>> krystal, dear, i hope not. hasn't he said enough?ime we've seen that man in court, he's basically getting bleeped for cursing. so can you just imagine what he's going to say? >> it would be great tv. >> of course, of course. that's why we're here. however, at this point president defense has done enough to set up some sort of reasonable doubt in this case. if he testifies like within every other case, state or federal, in this country, when a defendant testifies, the case becomes all about the defendant. in this case, whitey bulger has said so much damaging that's not on the record it could only get worse. my advice is he won't. let's see what murphy says. >> i want to talk about edward snowden, the man we say has been eating cinnabon after cinnabon in the airport. can you walk us through the process of granting him asylum? it looks like, you know, the russian government, it's in their hands. they're now taking the steps necessary to grant him asylum. what are we looking at? how many days? what is the end game? >> well, he's really i

krystal ball, this discussion was just empty without you. we needed you here -- >> you know, i actually watched you guys last week, and i was like i want to be there. >> thank you very much. krystal ball and ari melber, both. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, mitt romney is trying to rewrite his most amazing moment as a presidential candidate, that 47% thing. now he says "actually, i didn't say that." the delusional mitt romney has worked his way back into the "rewrite." and today the pope had some extraordinary things to say about gay people and women's role in the church. sister simone and jesuit priest james martin will answer the question, which is not only half a joke. is the pope a catholic? >>> and north carolina has passed an extreme voter suppression law. today the president and attorney general met with civil rights leaders to strategize the way forward under the voting rights act now that the supreme court has limited its use. and later a real fight, this is real, erupted between chris christie and rand paul. you've got to see i

. >> but the specific complaint by house conservatives distill bidwill yam krystal and rich lowry, and they write this -- "the bill's fatal deficiency is it doesn't solve the illegal immigration problem. the enforcement provisions are riddled with exceptions, loopholes, waivers. every indication is they are for show and will be disregarded just as prior national requirements to build a fence have been and just as president obama has recently announced he's ignoring aspects of obama care that are inconvenient to enforce on schedule. why won't we waive a requirement for the use of e-verify in the workplace just as he's unilaterally delayed the employer mandate?" >> if we were in the courtroom, i would object to your question because there are so many different questions, but i'll try to answer. first of all, obama care, whatever comes up, republicans throw that in. you realized they've voted to repeal it 40 times? what's happened 40 times, of course it's failed. obama care has been wonderful for america. 6 million seniors get wellness checks now. 3.1 million young people now have insuran

we're glad to have krystal back as part of our family.cyclist will be abby huntsman. this is how she announced it just under a two hours ago. >> i am leaving. you heard it here first. i am joining msnbc's "the cycle." you know, it's this next chapter of my life i'm very much looking forward to. >> this basically means you're leaving me for toure. >> no, we'll have a long-distance relationship. this is the next chapter of my life. i'm excited to join the team. i'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to "the cycle." i think that's needed today. >> wait, what was that last bit? all right. we're going to have to talk about that. but in addition to huff post live, she's been a familiar face as guests both on for abcnous. she is a journalist who first burst on the scene in 2012 as a media advisor for her father jon huntsman as he was running for the presidential nomination. she has already befriended crystal. it's only a matter of days before i ari and i come between the two. but we are thrilled to have abby. she's a frie

if i had a krystal ball, i think her mom and mrs.u go tell that mom what happened to her son now. brought her into it. she modified it in the absurd interview with mr. crumb. >> that was crazy. >> it happens again with mr. dell rionde do it right next to the witness. >> didn't you think it was helpful, both the walk through that george did with the police and then the interview that he did with me and that the prosecution brought george's own story in twice in full. helpful to your defense? net plus? any negative to that? >> video is pretty powerful, isn't it? george zimmerman told the story for you to see and told it to you, too. >> the prosecutors said it was cowardly for george zimmerman to take the stand. he told your story twice. you showed it twice. >> how dare they denigrate the verdict. >> did the comment in my interview about god's will, as a religious person, god's will, that's a state of mind. does that worry you? because they've said it several times. >> i've said it several times. when you don't understand why something

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. >>> i'm krystal ball.day, the president proposes and the republicans, yeah, it's just another no. >>> i'm toure. a decision in the bradley manning case. reaction from the pentagon. >>> i'm abby huntsman. counting calories, do you do it? do you care? we'll keep it light. >>> if all that isn't filling enough for you, how about the politics of the right and the politics of business. it's a battle royale on "the cycle" for tuesday, july 30th. >>> we lead off with the president, who kicked his summer economics road tour into high gear in tennessee today. he announced a proposal for a middle-class jobs grand bargain. among his major selling points to the gop is a corporate tax break that would cut taxes on most corporations from 35% to 28%. and what does he want in return? come on, mr. president. what's the catch? >> i want to use some of the money that we save by closing these loopholes to create more good construction jobs with infrastructure initiatives that i already talked about. we can build a broader netw

i don't have a krystal ball. i don't think either side knows how it will end up.s your reporter outlined, the three points, those are exactly the three options where the deal can go. i mean, hopefully, it will be a win-win situation. what's interesting here is it's in the middle of summer. there's not any big television event hanging out there, which typically happens when these negotiations happen. like a super bowl or an academy awards or some big event. so no one has a ton of leverage in the negotiation. i think cbs, probably the scale is tipped a little bit to their advantage. but, you know, my hope, and i'm sure the hope of consumers in nark, dallas, los angeles, the three markets impacted here, that they will figure it out sooner rather than later. >> justin, can't you make the argument that cbs has much more leverage? i mean, at the end of the day, if you're a customer of time warner cable and you're sitting at home and one of your favorite shows happens to be on cbs, you're going to be calling up time warner cable, yelling at them as to why you can't get y

. >> and i'm krystal ball. it's iced by in d.c. what is secret no more and now it's all a game of gotcha. speaking of gotcha, we've got you in the cycle for the last day of july, 2013. >>> every family has its dysfunction and this is theirs. president obama made the long haul across town to capitol hill today to meet with the house and senate democrats. the goal, as you may have heard, is to get this entire family on the same page before the august vacation. all of congress heads back to their home districts for the month, bringing the party's message directly to citizens and delegates. the dems seem to be in agreement on a short-term strategy. focus on the economy and middle class. but, like any family forced in the same room for a summer reunion, other bickering could always break out. and with this family, it's the long-term plans to tackle the sequester, the funding of the government, and of course, these battles over the debt ceiling, among other things. today's reunion, i should say, though, did end on a sweet note. a dark ch