joining me now is melissa harris-perry, also lauren ashburn. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you. >> tonight, melissa, let me ask you, did republicans flunk those classes they took earlier on how to talk to women and minorities? i mean, minority. >> you know, it's funny. it's like listening to the rand paul lecture very closely. it's like they were excited about this moment in american history when republicans were, in fact, the party of progressive, racial change. right? so they are thinking, all i've got to do is remind people that this label republican used to be on the people who were for integration or at least for full human equality against slavery, that sort of thing. the problem is, we already read the books. we already know that history and the way in which it shifted. the party now is going to have to make a claim about the party that it is today, not the party from the 19th century. >> lauren, not only read the books. i mean, we talked to our parents, our grandparents, my mother, father, and bishop were repub

joining me now, lauren ashburn, editing chief of "the daily download." here tonight. >> thank you. >> lauren, two forces colliding, what does hillary back speaking for women in public mean for women who want to attack women's rights? >> first of all, i think any move that hillary makes, anything that she says is going to be new. so that number one is tough for republicans because they don't have anybody in this gat gore the way that hillary is. you have the governor of new mexico, nikki haley, governor of south carolina, but you don't have anyone who has been the first lady, who has been a senator, who has been the secretary of state and has this popularity. so that, number one, is cause for concern. politically speaking. for the republicans. >> but dana, it's not only that they don't have anyone. it's at a time that they are actually attacking women's rights in certain states, coming with votes that are clearly viewed as anti-women. >> sure, reverend. if hillary didn't exist, the republicans would have every bit as much of a problem tripping over their o

thank you very much, howard kurtz, lauren ashburn. daily download. >> thank you. >> reporter: you can get the how-to guide for what to do if you are hacked on our web site. >> ifill: finally tonight how technology has changed the foods we eat. hari sreenivasan has our book conversation. >> sreenivasan: human eating habits have changed in more in the past century than in the previous 10,000 years. americans are consuming double the fat, 3.5 times more sodium, 60% more sugar, and more corn and soybeans than in the year 1909. one culprit: processed foods. 70% of our calories come from them. it's a topic of a new book by melanie warner called "pan dora's lunchbox: how processed food took over the american meal." thank you for joining us. define it. >> it's a term thrown around a lot. i like to think of processed food as something you could not make at home in our own kitchen with the same ingredients. packaged food, fast food and i think it's a good benchmark. >> sreenivasan: you did this interesting experiment. you wanted to see how proc

. >> for that look at how technology factored into yesterday's tragedy i'm joined by lauren ashburn and howard kurtz, "newsweek's" washington bureau chief and host of cnn's "reliable sources." thanks for being here. after 9/11 we saw people physically putting up photos of their missing loved ones in lower manhattan. yesterday the internet provided a sense of comfort for some. what did we see? >> well, google person finder factored into this. we have a graph that i can show you what it looks like. there's a big button that says "i'm looking for. requests you can type in the name of somebody. or "i have information about" and you can also type in the name of someone. then you can take this tool and embed it on your own web site. so in the aftermath of disaster, howie, it really seems like this tool and others are much more effective than going to the bulletin board near the world trade towers and scanning the pictures. >> and the tone of twitter where there were about five million tweets in 24 hours accord to the weapon site was very striking because in the beginning when twitter was youn

joining me now, lauren ashburn and joe madison. o both of you for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> lauren, there was a lot of tears in this interview from anthony weiner. how do you think people will react to it? >> people love to forgive once they have ripped them down, which is exactly what the press and the people in his district did by voting the bum out but what is happening now, when people and if i were a media strategist, i would say they picked a perfect venue to ask for forgiveness. you can't look at his facial expressions, you can't tell if he's really, really truly sorry and you get your message across, obviously. >> not only is it a perfect place to do it, we are in a climate of governor sanford who had an affair and other than the way he was and he was a republican primary for congress and on and on and there's a lot more serious morally. >> a partisan issue because we've seen it on both sides, haven't we? you know, i live in a town, washington, d.c., where marion barry can walk into a room and people still recogni

and lauren ashburn, editor in chief of the daily download.in with you, since i butchered your last name. it might prejudice the trial. do you think that's a fair argument? >> i'm really confused by the argument. it seems like the administration and pentagon are not consistent when it comes to how they interpret terrorism. i think it is important we remember that the government, you know, deemed this to be a work place violent crime as opposed to a terrorist attack. this was a situation where 13 u.s. servicemen were killed. there were 32 others that were injured and, you know what is worse is not just are we now going to be preventing people from having, you know, people who need it, people having medical veteran benefits because we're not going to be giving them purple hearts, but it really raises a broader question of how we interpret what terrorism is, not just our government, the pentagon, but also as americans. because this man not only did he scream god is the greatest when he was committing the crime and shooting these people, but what

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joining success howard kurtz and lauren ashburn.n, more and more people opining about politicians and media personalities about the whole event. >> it was the week last week, and that's when it seemed most appropriate. finger pointing, feuding, and politicians were using this as an opportunity to raise their profiles. >> we had a few precious days of unity and now people, both in the media and politics, you know, riling up their base, playing for ratings. >> one of the example, arkansas representative nate bell, he tweeted last friday, before the suspect was caught, boston liberals are cowering in their homes, i bet they wish they had an ar-15 with a-capacity magazine. later after a call for his resignation says he was sorry, not for the words, but the tile timing. >> bill oech'reily taking on to brock c brokaw saying we should be worrying about those innocent killed by u.s. drones. and sniping, saying it's one step from calling president obama, and o'reily never gone anywhere near there. >> do we want to allow more muslim students