melissa harris-perry, associate professor of politics, at tulane university. let's jump into the heat of the battle and talk about the significance of this book and argument around the significance. clearly it is adding something huge to this discussion but what is it? before i throw out those ideas with the we agree or disagree i am curious starting with sherrilyn ifill, what is it for you that malcolm x, the life and the invention? >> first of all the significance is that manning marable wrote it. and manning marable himself really represents an example for many of us who became scholars and entered the academy of how one can live as a it relevant scholar who is relevant to the lives of african-american people, who is focused on bringing truth in great detail. this is my kind of book. put that in a footnote. i love it. i remember the night the news came out that manning marable passed away i was in an arbor michigan giving a talk about slavery and preparation at university of michigan. the woman who was hosting me told me about it. she teaches at university

melissa harris-perry will join me. >>> time for tonight's rewrite.se are difficult days for everyone working in the rupert murdoch media empire, including those who haven't in any way yet been tarnished by the british phone hacking scandal, including, of course, our good friends over at fox news. it is an especially tough time to appear on the show "fox news watch," the network's program tasked with covering the news media. imagine how wicked it is to sit there on that show and not dare say a word about the single biggest story in the news media since the saga of who in the bush administration leaked what to whom about valerie plblame - plame and wilson. and, it is a truly terrible time for that show to have employed the otherwise fascinating device called "behind the breaks," an online video stream showing what everyone on the show talks about during the commercial breaks. here is a "behind the breaks" reality moment from the july 9th edition of the show. it begins with allen kohns asking cal thomas a question we all knew the answer to already. >> c

joining me now, columnist for "the nation" and msnbc contributor, melissa harris-perry. tonight, melissa. >> thanks, great to be here with you. >> i just mentioned a fact, i thought everyone knew, and a panel discussion that the black unemployment rate is always double the white unemployment rate, there is always a recession, a depression level of unemployment in black america, and that was greeted as news and unknown. these are the kinds of numbers that america doesn't get in its normal consumption of how's the economy doing. >> sure, look, i've said the same thing. when we got to, you know, coming up towards 10% unemployment in america overall and particularly when we saw, for example, tea party activists just angry about this, and i thought sure, we should be angry about that, but man, black folks would have been angry for a couple of decades now, beside ourselves with anger. 10% would look like huge success, but part of what we want to remember is these stats are worse than the unemployment stats, worse than the wages. wealth is not a wage. wage is we assume will eve

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i'll be joined by chris matthews, howard fineman, and melissa harris-perry, as well as white house senioradvisor david plouffe and tea party freshman republican congressman joe walsh. president obama tonight will likely reiterate his positions that he has taken in these negotiations, including his politically sensitive offer, revealed last week, to make changes to medicare and social security in exchange for a republican compromise on an increase in government revenue. here now, the president of the united states. >>> good evening, tonight i want to talk about the debate we've been having in washington over the national debt. a debate that directly affects the lives of all americans. for the last decade, we've spent more money than we take in. in the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus, but instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation's credit card. as a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year i took office. to m

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melissa harris-perry is tonight's guest show of "the rachel maddow show." hi, melissa. >> really great to go from talking with you to talking even more on these central questions, so thanks to all of you at home for staying with us for the next hour. rachel is just off tonight, she's on vaca and i'm excited to be filling in on another busy summer news day. where we begin tonight is t-minus seven days and counting. one week from today, next tuesday, is deadline day in washington, final day for republicans in congress and president obama to strike a deal on the debt ceiling and avoid sending the country to default for the first time in our history. at this hour last night, the latest turn in a journey that's had a whole lot of turns, a primetime address from the president aimed at -- shall we say, pressuring republicans, into finally reaching some sort of agreement. but if you were tuning in last night as i was, hoping that you would see some grownups really close to compromise, that's not at all what you saw. instead, it was president obama and speaker john b

it's great to see you, melissa harris perry, you're doing a great job, we're watching you tonight in my household. you're filling in for raich che maddow, and you'll be on again tonight. rest your voice. thanks, melissa. >>> we want to talk about whether or not speaker boehner gave a coy indication of whether there may be a deal. he walked by our stakeout cameras on capitol hill moments ago, and when asked about it, he said, i'm smiling. we'll have much more ahead. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. >>> why take a chance with something as important as our national economy, so therefore i think most of us are willing to accept a good deal less than we'd like to see as part of a beginning to alter our debt course in am

i am melissa harris perry in for rachel maddow and you can follow me @mharrisperry on twitter. john boehner tries to salvage his debt ceiling plan after it comes short on spending cuts. >>> teetering on disaster, an english woman spends 20 hours trapped in her car on the side of a cliff. >>> and fashion first. meet a 12-year-old amateur fashion designer with an executive dream. >>> good morning. i'm amara soechblt those stories and more on "first look" straight ahead on msnbc. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> we begin this morning with back to the drawing board. as the clock ticks down on the country's spotless credit rating, house speaker john boehner is scrambling to reite his bucket bill after the congressional budget office said his proposed spending cuts failed to meet his estimates. tracie potts joins us from washington with the arrest latest. >> reporter: good morning. everyone. boehner put off his plan after staffers determined it won't save as much as he thought. republican john boehner is digging for more money. he said his plan is $150 billion short

joining me now is msnbc contributor melissa harris perry, a professor of political science at tulanewell as a columnist for "the nation." it's great to have you on this morning. this really is a tangled and messy web. i want to prove that to everybody because those involved include key players in murdoch's media empire. so from the outside looking in, and especially after watching what went down yesterday, what does this tell you about how we can truly get to the bottom of this? >> it's interesting, i think about our own founder, thomas jefferson, saying that if he had a choice between government without newspapers or newspapers without government, he wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter. in other words, actually thinking of an independent media as more important to our well-being even than a quality government. and so when you look at this and you see that not only is media not independent, but government here clearly is not either, nor law enforcement. you know, when i teach this, i kind of show here are the people, here's the government and here are the media in between filterin

"the rachel maddow show" is up next with guest host melissa harris-perry. good evening, melissa. >> hi, lawrence, thanks so much. and thanks for you at home for staying with us tonight. all it took was 24 long hours, but tonight, the top republican in the country, the man who is third in line to the u.s. presidency, finally managed to gather up enough support from his own colleagues to save his speakership. now, just a short time ago by the slimmest of margins, the house of representatives passed house speaker john boehner's bill to raise the country's debt ceiling. but raise it with a whole bunch of asterisks. as you'll recall, this was a vote that was supposed to happen last night, but just minutes before it was set to come to the floor, john boehner found himself with an all-out mutiny in his own party, so today as we sit just four days away from cataclysmic default, today was a day spent by representatives in washington, not negotiating to see if a deal could be reached to avert catastrophe, but rather watching and waiting to see if john boehner would be

. >> melissa harris-perry, great to see you. >>> the picture of what the american family looks like continuescapes. moms building their careers and dads spending more time raising their own kids. who really does most of the work at home. for years, conventional wisdom, wives pick up most of the house work but new research shows that may not entirely be the case. the cover of this week's "time" magazine cover story. ruth is author of "the chore wars" and joins me. great to have you here. i like that cover, very mr. and mrs. smith, dealing with mops and baby and spray bottle. >> exactly. >> the women today had their moms to be the role models, the first generation of women that had working mothers. men had their dad when it comes to work and careers. when it comes to child rearing, who can men look to as a role model especially when the roles were so defined for gen xor's parents of probably dad working? >> that's one of the interesting things we found, to the new dads today really didn't have models of men who were both doing the upbringing and raising kids and women since '70s have been learn

that followinged took a far greater toll on the wealth of minorities than it did on white, melissa harris-perry, is a columnist for "the nation" she joins us live. great to see you. >> good to see you. >> as always. let's get straight to this. it's clear from the study thathood spans were hit the hardest. as we look at the numbers here, wealth dropped 66%. it dropped 53% in african-american households. in white households meanwhile, it only dropped by 16%. what is the impact economically across the board? >> i mean, i almost can't think of anything that could have a worse impact. remember, income is what we get from our wages or maybe from your investments, but it really can be made up. your income can drop, but you can get another job when the recession comes back, and when the recession ends and we come back financially, but this wealth gap can't be easily made up. the wealth gap compounds, so when your house loses value, which is largely why we see for hispanics and african-americans a much bigger hit, because almost all of 9 wealth of minority households exists in their one piece of propert

i am melissa harris perry in for rachel maddow and you can follow me @mharrisperry on twitter. now it's time for "the ed show." >>> welcome to "the ed show" tonight from new york. last night john boehner got on tv and tried to sell his radical vision for america. tonight, boehner's bill is going back to the drawing board, because, you see, his party doesn't think the bill is quite radical enough. now the vote on the boehner bill is being moved from tomorrow to thursday. republicans still can't get their act together, and they're holding your economic future hostage. i'll show you what a plablank ck is. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. >> the speaker of the house is lying to the american public. tonight, i'm going to set him straight. congressman john garamendi of california says the president needs to use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling. the congressman is here. scott walker's assault on democracy continues in wisconsin. tonight, senator lina taylor and ben jealous of th

speeches, joining me now, the host of msnbc's "hardball," chris matthews and msnbc contributor melissa harris-perry. chris, your reaction to first the president's speech. >> well, i thought the president used a couple of words, fair and balance, fox commercial, interesting, fair, then balance, then fair and balance over and over again to make a case for his position. i thought he came off as the good mother in the old testament story of king solomon who was willing to give the baby to the other mother, rather than having it killed. where the dishonest mother was willing to kill the baby rather than letting the other have it. i think he's leaning towards compromise and the republicans are leaning against compromise. there was a dishonest statement by speaker boehner who i think is normally straight talk. i don't know who wrote the speech tonight. there was no bipartisan action by the congress on the republican proposal. that vote in the house i believe was 234 votes for the passage of the cut, cap and balance bill. and only five democrats within that 234, which wasn't up to the level of republican s

tonight, and we'll continue our coverage after the speeches with msnbc's chris matthews and melissa harris-perryollowed by speaker john boehner, address the nation. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. just don't feel like they used to. are you one of them? remember when you had more energy for 18 holes with your buddies. more passion for the one ya love. more fun with your family and friends. it could be a treatable condition called low testosterone or low t. come on, stop living in the shadows. you've got a life to live. [ male announcer ] so don't blame it on aging. talk to your doctor and go to isitlowt.com to find out more. >>> we are now 26 minutes away from the president's address on the "stalemate over avoiding default an

melissa harris-perry in for her tonight. >> a breaking news night, huh, this will be fun. thanks to all of you at home for staying with us for this next hour, because this is in fact a breaking news hour. we are going to report on this high stakes, high drama battle over on capitol hill, a battle over whether or not this country should enter into its first-ever self imposed default. at this hour, the united states house of representatives stands in recess as it prepares to vote on house speaker john boehner's plan to raise the debt ceiling. now, this is a bill that called for about $1 trillion in spending cuts only. and it raises the debt ceiling for only six months, at which point we could have another breaking news night, because this could happen all over again. now, this was a vote that was supposed to happen about three hours ago, when we were working on a different kind of show. but at 6:00 tonight, about 15 minutes before the vote was scheduled to happen, it was abruptly postponed. word came down that speaker boehner and house republican leaders didn't have the vote

[applause] melissa harris-perry can associate professor of african-american studies at princeton, but now to the university. [applause] let's jump into the heat of the battle and talk about the significance of this book in the arguments around the significant clearly it is adding something he should this discussion, but what is that? i read this book twice. before you throw some of those ideas, i'm curious starting with sherrilyn ifill, what is for you the significance of malcolm x? >> thank you, mark. first of all, significance of course is that bareboat road and he represents many of us to begin scholars, who entered the academy, of how one can read it as relative scholar of a scholar who is relevant to the lives of african-american people who is focused on bringing truth in great detail. this is my train of thought, 80 pages of footnotes. i love it. i remember the night that the news came out that manning marable had passed away as in ann arbor michigan where i had never been before, that giving a talk about slavery and reparations at university of michigan. the woman who is hostin