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. >> my colleague melissa harris perry is there and a new professor at wake forest.now you spoke to jill abramson before her speech. wonder if she suggested to you that you she was going to be addressing this vcontroversy as head-on as she did. i was kind of surprised. >> i was, as well. i did speak with her very briefly. she said she would for the have missed this for the world, that it was very important for her to be here. but that was actually part of what keyed me off that i thought she's likely to simply speak to the graduates about the issue of a trfree press and a democracy. but she really clearly made a decision to use this as an opportunity not only to speak with the students with a lot of humor, but also to make very clear that her position has not changed, that this ouster from the "new york times" was painful, was personal and was gender biased. that's clearly what she was saying today about th. >> what was it like to be there? because it's not necessarily unusual forget a high profile speaker at wake forest, but to get someone in the middle of a convers

i'm melissa harris-perry and we begin this hour with a mystery. right here in america. one we first read about in "newsweek" magazine. now, before we get to this mystery, i'm going to ask you to come back with me to april 26th, 1986. when workers were conducting a routine test on a nuclear power plant located just north of kiev, ukraine. a series of issues led to a large power surge, one that triggered an explosion. >> in the soviet union, a major nuclear accident. there are casualties, perhaps many. the accident occurred at the chernobyl nuclear plant. one of the four reactors is the cause of the accident. the fact that it happened became known when radioactivity reached scandinavia. >> the explosion sent radioactive material into the air and it took that material as far as western europe. the region was evacuated, displacing 115,000 people. another 220,000 were relocated more than four years after the accident. the explosion led to concern about the health impact of the radioactive fallout. especially for the most vulnerable, including children.

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i'm melissa harris-perry. even after all the budget standoff and congressional obstruction in washington, there was one result we were certain election 2012 would bring, comprehensive immigration reform. the expeck taxs were so high it was all anyone could talk about. especially the presidential candidates and their running mates. >> when it comes to immigration, politics have been put ahead of people for far too long. i will work with republicans and democrats to permanently fix our immigration system. >> the goal should not be to treat the symptoms of the broken immigration system, but to fix the broken immigration system, so that we have good, legal immigration. >> what i've said is we need to fix a broken immigration system. and i've done everything that i can on my own and sought cooperation from congress to make sure that we fix the system. >> they support it, the action taken by the president to lift the cloud of deportation off millions of kids who were brought here. as if they're going to say at 2 yea

i'm dorian morn in for melissa harris-perry. you may have seen me as a guest before, but as it's my first time hosting, a quick background note. i'm a professor and i am involved in community organizing and labor organizing. in the past i have informally advised the fast food worker efforts, which is why this morning i'm especially eager to dive into our lead story on the growing fast food striker movement which this week went global. on this thursday hundreds of employees of at least 17 fast food chains across the country walked out on their jobs calling for a wage increase to $15 an hour and the right to unionize without retaliation. >> this is not enough money to be working for $8 an hour. if i have to come twice, third time, five time, i'm going to be here. zble want common respect. we want the ability to unionize without anything coming back to harming our families. >> we have to make a change. >> from los angeles to pittsburgh to chicago to new orleans, workers raised the call to fight for 15 in cities across the country.

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i'm melissa harris-perry. everybody look out for flying fruit! are smack in the middle of a full-fledged food fight. and the stakes, namely the federal government's role in the nutrition and health of american kids, couldn't be higher. on one side we have congress, and more specifically house republicans, who are at the urging of an influential food industry interest looking to let some schools off the hook from the white house's new rules to make school meals healthier. in the other corner we have first lady michelle obama, who has been america's most visible and vocal advocate for healthy kids since she first launched let's move campaign against childhood obesity in 2010. the food already has been flying for quite some time. think back to 2011, just a year after the first lady's campaign first got moving. and a year after the passage of the healthy hunger-free kids act, championed by the first lady. at the time there was no shortage of conservative backlash and response to the campaign and the first lady herself. there were critical comments ab

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i'm melissa harris-perry.in scored a big win on tuesday when federal judge lynn addelman struck down the state law requiring voters to provide state approved voter identification before they could cast a ballot. check that up as a "w" in the calm um in the series this week in voter suppression. but this week in voter suppression, it is not all good news. for now voters in the badger state will enjoy relatively unfettered access to the polls. but a little farther south a different effort is under way. welcome to texas, or as a new group of democratic volunteers has dubbed it, battleground texas. these volunteers led by former obama for america staffers are fanning out across the lone star state trying to register new voters with hope that say they will turn out in the fall for a democratic gubernatorial candidate wendy davis. this effort is not just about 2014. battleground texas is hoping for something much bigger, texas-size big. they hope that by tapping the large unregistered population of latino texans, th

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i'm melissa harris-perry. and this book is hot off the presses. it is full of intrigue and turmoil and lots of finger-pointing. who wrote this must-read? none other than former treasury secretary tim geithner. really, he did. in his new book appropriately titled "stress test," geithner recounts the financial crisis and the white house's response to it. geithner also writes about the anxiety caused over one major administration decision. whether or not president obama should appoint elizabeth warren to head the consumer protection finance bureau. though the bureau was her brainchild, everyone in the room knew she had no chance of being confirmed. so president obama ultimately chose to do this in 2010 -- >> secretary geithner and i both agree that elizabeth is the best person to stand this agency up. she was the architect behind the idea for a consumer watchdog. so it only makes sense that she should be the architect working with secretary of the treasury geithner in standing up the agency. >> did you hear what

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. >>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. russian president vladimir putin has earned an international reputation for displays of vigor and manliness and friday's was epic as he arrived in crimea to mark victory day, the 69th anniversary of the day the soviet union announced the surrender of germany in world war ii. it was putin's first visit to crimea since russia annexed the region from ukraine in march and he looked every bit the conquering leader shouting out hello, comrades, to neighboring ships and promising the crowd that 2014 will be the year when the people of crimea firmly decided to be together with russia. the u.s. and its allies had a very different take on putin's visit. they called it escalating tensions. nalt owe's secretary general called it inappropriate and white house jay carney echoed that sentiment on msnbc friday. >> president putin's presence in crimea is certainly not helpful. the international community, including the united states, does not recognize the illegal annexation by russia of crimea, part

i'm melissa harris-perry. it's been nearly a month since michael jordan spoke out about donald sterling's racially charged comments. michael jordan, who rarely has much to say on messy issues like politics and race, was compelled to discuss donald sterling, saying, quote, there is no room in the nba or anywhere else for the kind of racism and hatred that mr. sterling expressed. we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level. so if you want to measure the severity of sterling's transgression, we could look to the punishment. nba commissioner adam silver banned him for life and fined him $2.5 million. on monday, the league formally charged sterling with violating the terms of his constitution and bylaws, giving him until may 27th to respond. the board of governors will meet a week from tuesday in new york to vote to end sterling's ownership of the clippers. but maybe the best indication that donald sterling's comments were far beyond the bounds of socially acceptable behavior is the fact that michae

last year she spoke about that to melissa harris-perry. take a listen to that. >> now there are 40 schools around the country named for me and libraries and homes and things, areas in cities. in fact, in harlem, areas named for me, that people have been told, if you name them for maya, maybe the people will take it back, and, you know, oppose the druthers. and the brutes. it's a blessing to work hard and be given such kudos, such responsibility, such honor. >> she did have that formative influence on so many communities and so many individuals. sapphire, what kind of an influence did she have on your work? >> one of the things that was really important about maya angelou's work in general was what you just mentioned, the emphasis on education. there's a part in "why the caged bird sings" where a white principal comes in and he humiliates the african-american students and recommends that they will go on to do, you know, manual labor and farm work and stuff like that. and the minute that white principal leaves the room, the black teacher tak

two former unc students spoke out about their own experiences this weekend on "melissa harris perry". assault experiences and filing complaints and helping students at dozens of other colleges, it's been a long way. initially when we first did it we were ridiculed and said it was all in our heads and we were in over our heads. now the white house and senate is talking about it and clearly we're in this together. >> joining me for the first joint interview, claire mccaskill and new york senator kirsten gillibrand. i'm struck by the bravery of those two women. it wasn't that long ago it was very hard for women to speak up. it is only because of people like you and the valerie jair receipt and white house task force beginning to make it easier, still difficult but easier for women to speak up. >> there's no question, andrea, we both understand this has been a silent epidemic for some time, that young women have not felt empowered and haven't had the conference and there's been way too much self-blaming going on. i like to say over and over again, you do not have to have perfect judgment

and melissa harris perry, msnbc's own, will be right here with us to discuss the plight of some 200 kidnappedprotests in new york today near the u.n., and we'll have more on that and what, if anything, the u.s. is doing to help. but we start with that joint news conference in front of the white house rose garden where president obama began with the jobs numbers and a few words on a devastating landslide and in afghanistan. both he

msnbc's melissa harris-perry, is at wake forest, new member of the faculty there and alumni and attendingy's commencement and as i understand it she spoke to jill. what did you talk about today? >> i did. i spoke with her very briefly as the faculty we are lining up in order to process out for today's commencement. i just asked her if she had considered not coming -- to not give the commencement address, given all of the media attention around this moment and of course the painful moment that she's in personally having been fired from the new york times. she said i would not have missed this for the world and she was very happy to be here. as you played a few moments ago, she made the joke about it being a media circus but made the decision -- you can tell she revised that talk and moved away from a conversation about the importance of a free press and decided to go ahead and take the opportunity of having this platform to tell her side of the story a bit. >> yeah, and the theme there was definitely resilience yens and the theme was not an explicit focus on disparate treatment tore gender

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