joining me now are krystal ball and richard wolffe.or coming on the show tonight. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> krystal, there are 55 million single women eligible to vote. why is the gop now just realizing that these 55 million women exist? >> that is an incredible question. i would have to think that last week's election results in virginia in particular have to be even more of a wakeup call. terry mcauliffe won single women by 42 points. you can basically look at the results and attribute mcauliffe's win to single women who were terrified of ken cuccinelli's extreme policies. and on this republicans are delusional if they think they can just do things like oppose the contraception mandate within the health care law and be able to do it without talking about it. which is sort of what they're proposing. we'll do all these things under the table and just not focus on it. then women will be fooled into voting for us. on the contrary, democrats are going to be able to message and are going to be able to get the word out to women voter

krystal made that point at the beginning and she's absolutely right. >> but krystal, the politics of this big picture, it really makes the republican party's attempt to rebrand itself almost taken less than serious. it's a joke, to be candid. and how do you win? how do you even become competitive when you see that they are inflexible and won't move off this position? >> that's exactly right. the more they go in the direction, the more they're going to become essentially a regional party. if they are going to figure out how to win and be a national majority governing party again, they're going to have to find a way to win with women. and you were so right to start the segment talking about virginia and ken cuccinelli because the message could not be any more clear. abortion was a major issue in that election. 20% of people said that was their number one issue in virginia. and terry mcauliffe won them overwhelmingly. >> go ahead, jess. quickly. >> in virginia, black women, latinas, and unmarried women all came out in the same numbers in this election as they did in 2012 for a president

joining me now to discuss this ever growing war on the american worker is the cycle's krystal ball, atributor and rashad robinson. thank you all for being here. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> krystal, you were there yesterday at one of the protests going on around the country and give us a sense of what it was like on the ground and, you know, we have heard varying versions from those who support walmart and those who support the workers. >> yeah. well, i can tell you from my perspective there was a great energy there. i was impressed by the large number of people that showed up. i had the chance to talk to a few walmart workers literally risking their job to speak out in support of better wages for themselves and for their co-workers. i poke to one woman who was supporting a family, a baby and an older daughter with her husband. but she recognized she could lose her job and she said she got over that fear and out there because it was the right thing to do. so, that energy was remarkable just being there on the ground and i spoke to some of the organizers today and they tol

joining me now are krystal ball and james peterson. for being here. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> krystal, a koch-backed tea party group getting involved in iowa city council race. what's the strategy here? >> the kochs have always been willing to push their ideologies at all levels. these are the guys also behind the american legislative exchange council. and they pushed their agenda through model legislation that was anti-worker and pro-big business at the state level across the country. so this is something they've been doing in different ways across the country. i think the focus on the local, local level is relatively new, though, and particularly insidious. >> you know, james, if you look back at just how involved the kochs were in 2012, nay personally pledged to spent $60 million. a koch operative ran a secret bank that donated $236 million to conservative causes. leaders of the party go to their events. and even sent a letter to thousands of employees telling them to vote. including a friendly reminder that the company endor

you do, krystal does. you have all been critical of it. but here's what they're doing. they're now introducing this marco rubio bill that is going to target navigators, so that they should be -- it's called the privacy and anti fraud act and targets criminal background checks, fingerprinting and a credit report. what they're doing is swamping the process in plenty of red tape, again, to achieve their goal, which all along was that they didn't want this to work. >> make it break down, all this stuff about criminal background checks, fingerprints, all of that. same kind of thing they're doing with voting. they want to take away people's right to vote. they want to take away people's right to health care. and look, when the bush prescription drug benefit was introduced, in the first few months, "slate" magazine had a piece that was typical, called it a fiasco. only 1 million of the 21 million seniors signed up on their own for the prescription drug benefit. the prices weren't what was promised. democrats worked with the bush administration to fix the process. it got fixed.

joining me now are krystal ball and angela rye. thank you for being on. >> thanks for having us on. >> krystal, let's put up that chart again. showing filibusters against president obama's nominees versus all other nominees from all other presidents in u.s. history combined. doesn't that show why this change today was so necessary? >> yeah, it does. i mean, it shows in essence why we can't have nice things. right? maybe we would like to have an emergency brake as the filibuster was meant to be on things that really go beyond the pail. but as you point out, it's not just recent obstruction. we have all this nostalgia about the filibuster and senate tradition. but the filibuster throughout history at times has been used for very ugly things. >> very vile. >> so as republicans try to mount this charge that democrats are changing the rules and appeal to the history of the senate, it's important to remind people of that. but absolutely in the obama era, republicans have forced the hand of harry reid who did not want to go to this place.

. >> all good stuff, krystal. let's hang out. >> i'll come over. >> sounds good. >>> good afternoon, it is wednesday, november 27th. and on this thanksgiving eve, pardon our interruption. >>> thanksgiving might be the best holiday we have here in america. >> house full of people. everybody getting along. >> 43 million of you are hitting the road for thanksgiving. >> by mistake, i had picked up the wrong family at the airport. >> gosh, i hope you have a sandwich or a pillow or something. >> top ten things to look for now. >> got over 34, the biggest balloons, like snoopy, will be grounded. >> for example, speaker of the house, john boehner. >> yes w he decided to fix the broken health care system, when they prepare the turkey at his house. >> republicans see the health care law as the gift that keeps on giving. >> they know it's done when it's the same color as his face. >> the gift that keeps on giving the whole year. >> perfect. >> generally speaking, thanksgiving it a bad day to be a turkey. >> a lot more calm t

joining me now are krystal ball and angela rye. thank you for being here.al, comparing a senate-ruled change to allowing rape. i mean, what's your reaction? >> it's unbelievable. and unfortunately, his spokesman said he has been doing this absurd analysis for 25 years. unfortunately that's true. rush limbaugh uses rape in a variety of circumstances to describe things across the board from workers organizing to changing the rules in the senate. i mean, this guy has a pattern of misogynistic, offensive, racist language that he has no intention of backing down from. and the one thing we should be encouraged by is the fact a lot of advertisers have realized they don't want to be anywhere near associated with this guy. and they pulled their ads from his programming. that's the one encouraging thing. >> people say they're offended. i've said things where i had to say wait a minute, that's offensive. but they dig in and go worse. angela, a lot of people raise the question to me -- i get e-mails and tweets all the time. why do you even mention rush limbaugh? presid

krystal, take us out. >> thanks for watching.ill give special advice to anthony from queens, elliot from manhattan, bob from san diego, and my man, the kooch from virginia. that does it for the ridiculo ridiculousness of "the cycle." martin bashir, good luck. >> good afternoon, it is friday november the 15th. and anyone for substandard health insurance? ♪ >> it's called the upton bill. >> it's an escape hatch. >> this one takes the cake. >> to allow insurers to keep offering plans that would be considered substandard under the law. >> a trojan horse coming in to undermine the affordable care act. >> we have got to get away from these junk insurance programs. >> do you think the president saved obama care yesterday? >> was a great first step. >> the americans' whose plans have been cancelled can choose to reenroll. >> this is the most the president could do. >> the president cannot go around waving a magic wand. >> red solo cup. >> what starts twisted stays twisted. >> do not underestimate the presidential directive. >> she is one

joining me now chaka fattah and krystal ball. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having us here. >> congressman, let me start with you. the president offering an honest assessment of the problems with the law while boehner calls for total repeal. let me give this to you, krystal. are these guys serious? he's giving an assessment of the law. they're saying repeal, repeal. >> they've been about that from the beginning. they know they can't repeal it because the democrats hold the senate. the president is in the white house waiting to veto it. but it's the thing that feeds their base. they keep saying repeal. and the part that the republicans have never addressed, let's say they did magically get their wish and this law was repealed. what are they going to do about the millions of americans that don't have health insurance? that's what they've never answered. they have all this faux concern for the people whose rates are going up or getting cancellation notices with absolutely no concern for people who are dealing with pre-existin

here in new york, my friend and colleague, msnbc, krystal ball.resh off co hosting "the cyc cycle." and in washington, matt lewis. and msnbc political analyst, professor michael eric dyson. krystal, you and i have discussed for a while this division between some tea party extremists and more establishment republicans. >> but isn't it the case that the establishment republicans are actually obstructing everything? this is not a party that's divided. this is a party that's united in stopping the president. >> they're united in stopping the president. and they're united on having nothing substantive in the way of a policy platform to offer. >> so there is no difference -- >> as an alternative. and as we talked, during the government shutdown, for example, john boehner had the ability at any time to bring a clean, continuing resolution to the floor and end it. and with immigration reform, he has the ability at any time to bring up the senate's bill, the comprehensive immigration reform bill that would pass the senate, would likely pass the house today

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and joy, it is all yours. >> all good stuff, krystal.ll come over. >> sounds good. >>> good afternoon, it is wednesday, november 27th. and on this thanksgiving eve, pardon our interruption. >>> thanksgiving might be the best holiday we have here in america. >> house full of people. everybody getting along. >> 43 million of you are hitting the road for thanksgiving. >> by mistake, i had picked up the wrong family at the airport. >> gosh, i hope you have a sandwich or a pillow or something. >> top ten things to look for now. >> got over 34, the biggest balloons, like snoopy, will be grounded. >> for example, speaker of the house, john boehner. >> yes w he decided to fix the broken health care system, when they prepare the turkey at his house. >> republicans see the health care law as the gift that keeps on giving. >> they know it's done when it's the same color as his face.

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happy holidays to you, krystal.unced it's considering allowing texts and phone calls in flight and a lot of people are unhappy. on thursday regulators called the current rules outdated and promised to review them. in flight call and texts are allowed in some countries. weeks ago they were cheering the faa for allowing us to use devices on take offand landing. that was a relief to her and most of her colleagues. she said i hate being the police. some liberty is good, too much liberty can lead to chaos which is why some are groaning at the fcc now as they fear a future flight stuck listening to half of someone else's call because listening to other people's phone calls is cabin with devices and phone calls, i love a long flight where i can dig into a book and not have to listen to people at all. listening to somebody else's phone call is perhaps not as bad as the person next to you and bored and wants to talk to you for two or three hours and you can't get out of that conversation. >> that's how i got married, actuall

your money needs an ally. >>> how does the saying go, krystal?r of tware of the woman female trends or is it you can't trust a woman with no female friends. but what are we to say about a man who apparently has no female friends? >> like ari? >> i was thinking more like ken cuccinelli. he sure could have used more female friends on tuesday. he ended up losing the woman vote by nine points. leading up he was down as much as 24 points. so what was the problem? was it his refusal to support a violence against women act as attorney general? >> yep. >> was it opposing abortion even in cases of rape or incest? maybe it was writing legislation to defund planned parenthood. you know what? i'm way off. it must have been his support for parenthood or personhood rather, a measure that's so extreme even mississippi voters rejected it. one thing is for sure, when you have 20% of the voters in virginia saying abortion is the number one issue for them, not the economy, not health care, abortion, and 61% of them saying abortion should be all or mostly legal, you

krystal, at the end of this week, we have an unexpected surge in jobs numbers. why exactly then is the president expected to flaj late himself and beat himself to a pulp? >> you know, i actually appreciate the president's willingness to come out and say i didn't say this exactly right and i understand that people are suffering. i can -- i'm hearing the stories, i hear and you i'm sorry for that. i appreciate this president's willingness to say those words, especially given the fact that the last president wasn't willing to go in that direction. at you will all. and he's also open to let's try to fix the problems that are here, if people are unhappy with the direction that the law is going and if they're getting worse options under the law than before, let's see if we can fix that. now, on the flip side of this, republicans are claiming that they knew all along that this was going to be a problem. right? so i would ask them, instead of voting to repeal the law 40 times or whatever they did -- >> 43 times. >> why didn't they propose a fix to this glaring problem t

joining me now are cynthia tucker and krystal ball.thanks for being here. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> cynthia, do you agree the feud between the cheney sisters is part of a bigger republican sic civil war? >> well, of course it is. let me first say i have sisters and i'm sad to see two sisters publicly fighting this way when they've been close before. but let me also say i don't blame mary cheney at all for going public with her hurt and her disagreement. because, you know, reverend al, gay republicans for years have stayed hidden in the closet, as it were. given their resources, their money, their votes to the party while big wigs went out and pandered to the bigots and homophobes. and people like mary cheney have just said it's enough. i'm not going to take this anymore. and i don't blame her. >> you know, krystal, we're seeing reluctance from even conservative doe donors. down 60% from this point compared in 2011. are conservative groups holding back because of the government shutdown, in your opinion? >> i think they're holdin

. >> i wish you could have seen a split screen to see how krystal was laughing and john stanton.entucky, things are getting a little tougher for mitch mcconnell as brian boyler has pointed out. mcconnell has to be leading the van guard of the aca coalition. with a candidate with a strong general election opponent ahead of him, he'll run on platform of taking insurance away from tens if not hundreds of thousands of his own constituents. how is this going to play out will depend on where you are? >> i agree to a certain extent. however, i would point out, if you look at the way people view these kind of thiksz, often times people conflict local regulations with epa. and i think republicans are banking on that happening here, in a state like kentucky where there is an operating system, that there is essentially obama care and starting to get up on its feet. people look at that as a state thing and not going to complete the two things even though they are the same thing and mcconnell can continue his obama care attacks. it's going to be tricky if that doesn't play out. >> people may

>> yeah, krystal, i agree.hink moving and using our body the way they are designed to be moved, we're 200,000-year-old species and we're walking machines designed to move about 3 miles an hour. when you use your body like that over extended periods of time, you do go into a meditative state. i've been walking on the high pilgrim roads to mecca in the western part of saudi arabia. moving along the coastlines, it just feels good and feels normal. doesn't feel extreme or radical at all. >> fascinating stuff. paul, thank you so much and good luck on your journey. >> thank you for having me on. >> we're still waiting on the president and we'll have that as "the cycle" rolls on. ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review. of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor

. >> krystal, that's something the country looks to and takes cues from. >> a lot of people for betterworse do look to the nfl and the conduct of their heroes on the field for how they should be behave. >> i want to point out, there are no rules of the road for this. you need to say, where do you draw the line and say this is considered abuse? >> which is a whole other conversation. i personally think hazing in any way is unacceptable. we are not the only ones with thoughts, we threw it down to our friends online. if richie incognito should be banned from the nfl for his actions and the response was overwhelming, 91% of responders say yes, he should be shut out of the league. do you agree? where do you think the line should be drawn? head to facebook/the cyclemsnbc and join the debate. >>> when votes are counted in virginia, 300,000 citizens will be missing from the rolls because they are convicted fel n felons. does that mean you should lose the right to vote forever? we'll dig into that timely topic next. jackie: there are plenty of things i prefer to do on my own. but when it comes

msnbc analyst and nency pelosi doesn't have a krystal ball but we do -- >> got to love the crystal ball jokes. >> we saw obama care making some folks get a little bit nervous. but obama care remains popular among democrats and as pointed out today, if dems help republicans obliterate it, it will be an enormous admission of governing incompetence and repud yags of poor progressive philosophy. so i'm wondering how many folks will be willing to give this up at this difficult moment of implementation. do you see more dems jumping ship in the future to perhaps where we get to veto proof number? >> i do not. the key thing to look forward to what actually happens in terms of the law. if the website is working for 30% of the people next june, then we have a different conversation of course. right now 39 democrats defected and they also know in the house on friday and they know mostly democrats that that vote was symbolic vote. it's an easy vote for them. they know the bill will not pass the senate and senate democrats know it's not going to pass the whole senate right now. any kind of broad rep

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. ♪ but the fire is so delightful ♪ ♪ and since we've no place to go let it snow ♪ >> i'm krystal ballg winter weather news. we knew it could be bad and that's exactly right. you're looking at what is predicted up and down the east coast. if you're seen the graphics package, we're a fan of colors, but not in this particular instance. dangerous ice and wind. tornado watches and warnings down south. this system has it all and it could not come at a worse time. nearly 39 million americans are preparing to hit the roads for the thanksgiving holiday. only problem is, old man winter decided he's coming to dinner as well. if you know "the cycle", you also know we go big or go home. we've got you covered on any angle. gabe gutierrez is at hartsfield-jackson where we're seeing ground stops already. sara is in chicago, living up to its title of the windy city. let's start with you, gabe. >> we've been getting a lot of rain throughout the morning. a whole lot of rain. the good news is temperatures have been hovering about the upper 30s. no ice. throughout the morning we haven't seen

bill krystal, a.b.ddard and charles krauthammer whose book is once again atop "the new york times" best-seller list. how important is it that this relaunch, although the administration is not calling it that, be successful tomorrow, bill? >> i thought you were going to say how important is it that charles' book is number one on "the new york times." >> we know how important it is. >> very important. top of the news. congratulations again. they're going to say the relaunch is moderately successful, more people can get on. i don't think it changes the fundamental dynamic. it's that people are looking at the actual insurance plans that they're being offered at the price of them, at the lack of choice of doctors and hospitals, at what -- compared to what they had before and saying, wait a second, this isn't what we were promised and that's not going to change tomorrow. >> a.b., they're saying 80% success rate would be -- is what they're forecasting and would be acceptable. 20% failure rate. republicans say

krystal, i know you care about this deeply. >> the thing is they're willfully out of touch. walmart earlier in the week. now this story with mcdonald's and they're sort of funny, but they're also sad and incredibly callous. last year on black friday, walmart workers organized strikes and protests outside of the store. a lot of those workers were fired, they were bullied. they were intimidate and they were harassed. fortunately, this week the national labor relations board which thanks to the last filibuster deal actually has a full membership now, they just found that walmart did exactly that. that they fired people, they intimidated them. they retaliated against them. so this is about so much more than just raising the minimum wage which is critical. this is about the fact that workers have no power in our democracy. and they have no voice with their own employers. and it is a willful silencing of those workers. >> i'm so glad you're going to that piece, because what we do with people who are working hard all day, all week. can't afford vacations so they're being told to ta

krystal ball and jonathan gruber, thank you. >>> coming up the latest on a defeat of a 20-week abortion ban. >>> and toronto mayor rob ford is joined in the re-write tonight by america's very own cocaine using congressman. do you think that congressman should be forced to resign? i'll give my answer coming up. we are standing by for a live news conference from that florida republican congressman in this hour. and we have more video of that wild police shooting in new mexico that one police trainer is already using as an instructional video for how officers should not use their firearms. i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart. >>> a massachusetts state senate voted to raise the state's minimum wage to the highe

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everyone's sort krystal ball in that regard. i hope it's accompanied with stronger environment in the economy, and better job growth. to be honest, one of the reasons that we are not overly aggressively investing in land is because we're running a very return-based model, and i would say the housing market right now has got long-term upside, but we're not expecting things to go back to the -- you know, back to the days of '04 and '05 anytime soon. >> right. >> we're trying to be cautious with regard to that. >> is the market strong enough for the fed to taper, in your estimation? >> you know, i think it will depend on what happens with the jobs. we got a good jobs report last week. if things continue in that 200,000 a month range or better, i would say probably so. it's a little difficult to say. either way, we're running our business with the focus on return as opposed to growth, growth, growth. >> and i just wanted to ask you one more thing. are you seeing a real slowdown in the entry-level market? because you talk about that

. >> i think krystal's point is apt in the sense that if you want to do something here that's about action, you have to leave some space for your side to take action. you know from running for congress, and i have some sense after working for two senators. it's harder to go around the country and say to people, no, no, we have this feeling and here's the press release that explained it. you want to have a vote. you want the vote to become federal law and say, we changed the law. >> there was a problem. we worked on it. >> exactly. i would associate myself with that analysis. where i come down a little different on the broad context of all this is there is tremendous resentment. we've talked about the president's aprol rating dropping. you mentioned that, abby. the congressional approval rating is down around 9%. that means the president's quadruple the rating of congress. if you forget the wider context, oh, the president dropped down to under half. okay, you've got diseases that are slightly more popular than the republican congress. speaking of health care. the other piece of it -- the o