joining me now is melissa harris perry and e.j. dionne. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having us. >> melissa? >> they couldn't decide who gets to be president. president obama gets to be president. right? and the reason he gets to be president is because he won a majority of not only the electoral college, which is sufficient, but also the popular vote. >> he would have won more if they had teamed up. >> i'm telling you, there's two or three states i'm certain we could have given over. >> right. >> look, i am convinced that part of what we're seeing now in the republican party is a kind of -- like they were so sure that they could not change the minds of voters but suppress voters from having an opportunity to put their own opinions on those ballots that they are at a loss because they didn't know what to do on the other side if they were going to lose. we really saw that shock from republican operatives on election night. >> we saw the meltdown of rove on fox. >> right. >> you know, e.j., when you look at rnc chairman priebus

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i'm joy reid in for melissa harris-perry.entary "hubris" here on msnbc which rachel maddow hosted. it reairs this weekend and you will see matt lauer ask former president george w. bush this question. >> was there any consideration of apologizing to the american people? >> i mean apologizing mean that the decision was a wrong decision. i don't believe it was a wrong decision. >> there are no signs on the horizon that an apology from the iraq war from those who got us into this week. whether it would help our understanding abroad is the subject of our round table. with us at the table is ru rula jebreal and marc ginsberg and patrick murphy as well as david harris and andy shallal. i was asking you before we went to break, rula, how the iraq war and the bush administration going into it and the obvious lies that were exposed not long afterwards, how did that view the country? >> it was considered an illegal war because suddenly they wanted to bypass the yunited nations. >> punishing people. >> even journalists around the world

melissa harris-perry a host at msnbc, and nation magazine, left wing publication saying it would be tragic -- as they seek to create a new kind of family and this issue will keep going and cal was making the point for years, and why, why logically, why stop gay marriage. >> i think i have a problem with the identification of someone who claims to be an objective journalist, who changes his or her avatar on facebook or twitter as to-- take a position. >> and some have been doing this. >> and they have been doing this and they say on the other hand, oh, well, there's no problem here, i can still be objective. well, no, you can't be. if you're an opinion journalist, you have the right to have an opinion. if you're trying to cover something straight, you shouldn't take one side publicly. >> jon: it will be interesting to see what the court decides and how the media reacts to this decision. that's in the months to come. next on news watch, the gun debate goes on. . >> the gun control debate heats up. anti-gun advocates pushing their agenda with media help. but is the coverage ignoring real caus

coming up next, it's the one and only melissa harris perry. but today joy reid is in for melissa. ult case in steubenville, ohio. that is joy reid sitting in for melissa harris-perry. we'll see you right here tomorrow. thank you as always for getting up. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. savor and explore, s plua the great indoors ♪ ♪ ♪ friskies indoor delights. ♪ feed the senses. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love.

i'm melissa harris-perry. ladies, it is time to gird your loins again.emember that hibt that we dropped to the national republican lawmakers on election day, the one that responded to their attempts to man handle our uterus by a resounding defeat. it seems the friends at the state house level have missed the memo. while congressional republicans finally managed to make nice tw the ladies by passing the violence against women act, state lawmakers have been outdoing themselves in acts of policy violence against women's reproductive rights and your yut rous should be very, very afraid. this month there has been such unrelenting on slot of state-level attacks against reproductive choice, some of them bray tantly unconstitutional that it inspired mother jones magazine to create their own anti-choice march madness championship brackets. you would think after beginning the month of march with the state passing the most restrictive abortion ban in the country that things couldn't get much worse, but oh how wrong you would be. arkansas kicked things off on march

i'm joy reid in for melissa harris-perry.ion catholics was chose in a confidential vote witnessed by none but the 77 men who decided who among them would be the vigor of god. we only knew the outcome when we saw the white smoke billowing from the chimney place atop the chapel after 2:00 p.m. eastern time on wednesday. after only a two day conclave and just in time for easter, a new pope had been chosen. soon after we knew his name or names. now pope francis. a 76-year-old from argentina, and the o crowd went wild. pope francis is historic. like more than 40 pk of the world's catholics, he's from latin america, specifically argentina, making him the first in a millennium not to be born in europe. but despite that no other known entity, especially one this large chooses its leaders like this, the decision of who will be pope is intensely political. pope john paul ii, elected in 1978, continuously took his message on the road. and he took his political positions to the biggest issues of the day. he spoke out against the arms rac

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i'm melissa harris-perry.ithin the 2400 pages of the affordable care act in section 3510 is a word that might seem more at home in transportation policy than a health care law, navigation. it's used in reference to the patient navigator that the law reauthorizes through 2013. you have probably never heard of it. it received barely a mention in the back and forth of the drafting and implementing of the aca. a fragmented health care system for medically underserved population is what the practice of patient navigation is about. patient navigators are guides to help people find their way through screening, diagnosis and treatment, sticking to a regime for care. navigators lead their patients from beginning to end and scare them toward quality care. a george washington university study found women who used navigation services received life saving early diagnosis four times faster than those who didn't. in the health care policy, patient navigation is an approach that actually works. at my table is the man who star

i'm melissa harris-perry. i often recount the story of my father.g time activist who always signed my birthday cards, even when i was a very young girl, with the phrase, the struggle continues, daddy. it was his reminder to me and to all of his children that we are part of a long effort for greater freedom and equality and our struggles rarely begin or end in a single lifetime. struggle, well, continues. but sometimes you end up in the generation that has an extraordinary opportunity to be alive when the watershed comes and when everything changes. it seems like many people realize we are in such a moment right now. because they are already lining up outside the u.s. supreme court building in d.c. hoping to gain access to the public seating of this week's oral arguments on two cases consequential to the future of marriage ee kwaumt. on tuesday, the highest court will hear the legal challenge to proposition 8 amending the constitution in 2008 to bar same sex couples from getting married. it will have the most significant effect on whether any state c

i'm melissa harris-perry. this has got me irritated.zine bluhmberg business week found itself in a racial pickle thursday when images of the new cover went viral and i can't imagine why the cover, as you can see, teases a story about the great american housing rebound and guess who is shown benefiting? yes, the grinning barefooted black man clutching mad loot along other assorted characters with exaggerated racial features burk i can't figure out how he has all of the money, and none to buy the shoes, but it is not a good look for business week and something they know, because the magazine did apologize on thursday for this cover. but it is not so much the grinning bug-eyed sambo with the new home, it is the lie it represent represents namely that whatever housing crisis there was, it was short lived and those are the minorities back out there making out like bandits, and we know that the rheale the ti is quite different. the subprime crisis that hit those homeowners only caused further systemic damage. and this week with a new study ou

msnbc will be covering it as the verdict comes in on today's "melissa harris perry." pope francis conducted his first mass. i'm joined by kyrsten sinema. and heidi more from "the guardian." democratses and republicans release competing proposals for the fiscal year 2014 federal budget. big headlines are about two plans in particular. one released by republican congressman ryan and another released by senator patty murray, chair of the senate budget committee. ryan budget is like previous it rations of this particular product and a conservative wish list. turn medicare into a voucher program, make medicaid a block program and repeal the affordable care act. murray budget is a much more cautious proposal, one to one ratio spending cuts and new tax revenue. with all the coverage focusing on these plans, what you wouldn't know a third proposal, one that constitute as much stronger weight to the winding conservatism of the ryan budget. that alternative is the budget proposed a congressional progressive caucus which would add $2 trillion in new spending to create jobs and p

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i'm melissa harris-perry. primetime saturday in 1974, and the country is tuned into cbs, and the network is airing the popular sit-crom about a single white woman in her 30s making her way in the world of work. we had been introduced to heroine mary richards when these opening credits rolled for the first time. ♪ you're going to make it after all ♪ >> and with that hat toss, we became equated with mary as played by mary tyler moore on the e upon mouse show of a spunky show that who was the smartest nern the office, and in the seven years she son air, she con fronts issues like equal play and sexual liberation, and a host of other personal, and ethical and political struggles. also in 1974 on a friday night, cbs debuts a different kind of show whose opening credits rolled over a very different kind of song. ♪ good times ♪ ain't it time to meet the payment ♪ ♪ ain't it time to be afraid ♪ in a time that you are out from under ♪ ♪ not getting hassled ♪ not getting hustled >> extra points if you know the words. yo

i'm melissa harris-perry. there we all were. party. no, not talking about the oscars. i'm talking about watching our twitter time lines while watching the oscars. it wasn't so bad as far as parties go. there's lots of noisy conversation and boisterous back and forth about host seth mcfarlane's performance and red carpet fashions and acceptance fashion and the "jaws" theme music that cut many of those speeches short. like most parties there's that one funny guy who keeps everyone laughing, until he just takes one joke too far. this time that guy was the satirical news outlet the onion. unless you have been living under a rock you know that 9-year-old quvenzhane wallis whose poise and performance in "beast of the wild" earned her a best actress nomination and she game the youngest person ever to be nominated for an academy award for best actress. it is an achievement for which she should be rightfully proud, and her joy on oscar night was palpable. there she was working the red carpet in her sparkly blue dress and pressing curl an

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i'm melissa harris perry. 48 years ago this month americans watched as video of the day that would become known as bloody sunday was broadcast live to television screens across the country. on march 7th 650 people attempted a protest march to the state capitol building to advocate for voting rights. as the cameras rolled the peaceful protesters, just six blocks into their march were stopped at the bridge and violently attacked by alabama state troopers. the televised images of american citizens tear gassed and beaten with clubs sparked outrage as viewers watched in horror. among those was a woman who did more than just watch. and joining the people who answered the call was a married mother of five from michigan. this 39-year-old teamster's wife divided her time between raising children, attended classes and being an activist. she worked to bring attention to education and economic justice issues. but only days before she arrived in selma, a boston minister was beaten to death by a group of men armed with clubs, but stilt viola came, joining thousands of others who knead the four-day walk

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i'm melissa harris-perry. now, you've probably heard the news that our country is facing an he can which sengs threat to national security. you might be thinking i'm talking about the saber rattling out of north korea, but in fact i'm referring to the so-called welfare queen. yes, that welfare queen made infamous by ronald reagan who focused our national attention on the waste, fraud and abuse at our federal and state welfare agencies were engaged in. letting those cadillac driving single mothers of this country collect medicaid, food stamps and welfare under dozens of different names and social security cards. heck, these ladies were racking in over $150,000 tax-free a year from the government or so we were told. that early helped ronald reagan capture the republican presidential nomination and eventually the white house. is remains with us today as part of our popular lohr. whether it's in the frame of that pesky 47%. while the irs was hunting in the back alice of the south side of chicago in the south bronx