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no, i will not quake like a duck for you melissa harris-perry.getting po'd a lot of times. well done. >>> debunction junction. today was day one of bob mcdonald's prison sentence. a judge later announced that governor mcdonald would be allowed to stay free on bond while he pursues his appeals to it didn't have to be day one in prison for him. it was also the day to learn the federal sentences recommendations for bob mcdonald's wife. today we got that news for mauren mcdonald about her recommended sentence. it was shocking. look. 18 years. 18 years. her husband governor bob mcdonald got two years. they're trying to locker up for 18 years? that was the news today. is that true? or is that false? false, actually. prosecutors are not searching for a sentence of 18 years. that was literally just a typo opinion i'm sure it was terrifying for mrs. mcdonald. that misinformation got repeated in politico, salon, and ap. it was put around in the news faster than a politician in a ferrari. they don't want to seasons her to prison for 18 years, but they're as

>> i guess the attorney general would rather have melissa harry perry on msnbc saying you're as smooth as a duck and would you please quack for us. i'm sure eric holder doesn't want to be pressed on fox news about why he said we're winning the war against isis, his role in ferguson his relationship with al sharpton. but what he really doesn't want to be pressed on shannon is outrageous assault on press freedom that was the james rosen case where the attorney general authorized, as you know, surveillance of our fox news colleague. and in a separate case reporters at the a.p. and even authorized james rosen to be named as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job. >> yeah, going through james' e-mails and those of some family members and certainly he would have to address that. i would imagine by any of us at fox that would interview him. but does he help us by walking out the door and slamming it in our faces essentially saying i'm not going to try to address your audience. it is by far the largest cable media outlet for news. maybe he could make some new converts. >> maybe he could r

melissa harris perry is the only choice. >> i was going with whoopi goldberg. >> that would be great also jewish. >> also tends to wet herself which i find interesting. can we defeat their every twreet? tweet. on tuesday isis supporters threatened the obama family. how dare they? the magazine's twitter profile was changed to show a masked militant, and it is probably snowden, and the hackers wrote happy bloody valentine's day michelle obama. we are watching you girls and your husband. meanwhile, the day before the president was asked if the media over states the terror threat and he said absolutely. how did i read that? >> absolutely. i don't blame the media for that . what is the famous saying about local news casts right? if it bleeds it leads, right? >> never heard that one before. where is he being interviewed anyway? that's incredible. he did acknowledge that there is reason for concern. >> it is entirely legitimate for the american people to be deeply concerned when you have a bunch of violent, vicious zelits who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in par

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. >> the other thing, it comes on the heels of melissa harris-perry asking the attorney general to quackike a duck because that's what they nickname him and thankfully, he was smart enough to say i think i'm gonna pass on that one. >> all right all good? ready to go? >> yeah. >> yeah. the. >> oh, you just spit it out of your mouth into the bowl. >> popcorn flying everywhere. >> switch this one. >> senator and republican -- [ inaudible ]? >> military service after a columnist at the very liberal "huffington post" called into question. that's up next. seriously? where do you think you're going? to work, with you. it's taco tuesday. you're not coming. i took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. oh, right then i'll swing by in like 4 hours. forget the tacos! one pill lasts 12 hours. i'm good all day. wait! your loss. i was going to wear a sombrero. only mucinex has a bi-layer tablet that starts fast, and keeps working. not 4, not 6, but 12 full hours. start the relief. ditch the misery. let's end this. >>> she is one of the gop's newest stars senator joanie earnst made history as

melissa harris perry divulged a nickname she has for the nation's top cop and then made an interesting you the duck in nerd land. we say you have a very even way of presenting but you are working for justice underneath. would you quack for us? >> i'm not sure i'm going to do that. >> to the attorney general's credit he did not bow to the pressure and worked his way out of the decidedly awkward moment by saying he appreciates the analogy. the question was dubbed another stirring moment of journalism. another twitter user keep pounding the pavement. and another i'm glad mr. holder cleared that duck quack thing up. i thought melissa was getting all green on us. >>> last year the pentagon spent on viagra. the department of defense placed more than 60 orders for the male enhancement drug in 2014 totaling almost $505,000. several thousand dollars went to similar drugs. the military has been providing the drugs to soldiers with a doctor's prescription since 1998 at $25 a pill viagra is not cheap. military doctors have been instructed to prescribe the drug only after making sure it is the best

>>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. and let's just be honest. there's one question that has consumed our attention for the past 48 hours. what color is the dress? now we paused the debate briefly on thursday unified by the compelling spectacle of lamas race ing racing for freedom, but then we turn to the question of the week. blue and black white and gold, kim kardashian and kanye west are hardly distinguishable, but they revealed their disagreement. i see white and gold. kanye sees black and blue. who is color blind? some are content to ensure the fascinating consequences of human variation. others are determined to stake their claim and join a team. by the way i'm totally blue and black. others want to find the one indisputable truth and deberate others with those facts. john boehner tweeted. facts, the dress is blue and black. well, there you have it. the dress is political. now president obama may be right that we are more than a collection of red and blue states, but this week revealed in the words of an ellen degeneres tweet from this day

>>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. and let's just be honest.as consumed our attention for the past 48 hours. what color is the dress? now we paused the debate briefly on thursday unified by the

i'm melissa harris-perry. here's a head line for you. it's cold.phone's weather app in disbelief. minus 5 in johns town new york. this recent slew of winter storms has delivered a double-edged sword. first, the good sledding like my little girl here. many of us have grabbed our snow gear and headed outside for some fun. she's like what in the world? north carolina rarely sees much snow, especially the kind that sticks. so we made the most of it. nbc news wanted in on the fun too pushing #itssocold. they asked for your stories and the results were ice cold. check out this snowman. can we catch a ride too? this woman found her iced coffee had been frozen solid and how about them playing a game of where's waldo? that's the good. what about the bad? the winter storms have pummelled some areas one right after the other. places like boston are still struggled to dig out. the dangerous conditions with being blamed for the deaths of 25 people, 18 of them died in tennessee. more than half were due to hypothermia. the others were car accidents on icy roads.

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>> well, listen melissa harris perry calls him a duck and he calls her an exquisite waste of a hyphenat's about there. all i know is steadman was blushing it's beautiful. i'm telling you, maybe williams ought to go down to msnbc and tighten that situation up over there this geese down in history to what kind tree do you want to be be? can you quack for us? what do you think he is the attorney general? do you think is he a duck? >> billy listen, you know me, i don't understand the world after the all anymore. it's a fun house mirror and we have fallen through it, my friend. >> somehow we got to work this into the dopey and pinhead show miller. maybe we will bring out a real duck. >> all right. i want to sing sisters this year from white christmas, you and i that's what i want to end with. >> dennis miller, everybody, we would like to thank you, everybody in san jose, san antonio, dallas, west bury long island, cleveland ohio, all the don't be a pinhead shows sold out in those places. about 20 tickets left in memphis, tennessee. we have some good seats for new rio rancho, new mexico, de

. >> the other thing, it comes on the heels of melissa harris-perry asking the attorney general to quackike a duck because that's what they nickname him and thankfully, he was smart enough to say i think i'm gonna pass on that one. >> all right all good? ready to go? >> yeah. >> yeah. the. >> oh, you just spit it out of your mouth into the bowl. >> popcorn flying everywhere. >> switch this one. >> senator and republican -- [ inaudible ]? >> military service after a columnist at the very liberal "huffington post" called into question. that's up next. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. the world is filled with air. but for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acti

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i'm dorian warren in for melissa harris-perry.ery latest on the shootings yesterday in copen haguen that are being described by danish authorities as a terrorist attack. the first featured a -- the second targeted a jewish synagogue. one man was killed. two police officers were wounded. danish police now say the person suspected of carrying out these attacks was killed in a shootout with authorities. joining me now on the phone from copenhagen is peter keldorff. peter, who exactly was this gunman? >> reporter: we don't know for sure yet. the police are not telling much. what we know is that our -- the danish intelligence agency and the police have told that they knew this man in advance. they are not saying anything specific about imh. they they told us they know his name but at this point in the investigation they do not want to tell his name. they are carrying out several operations in the city of copenhagen towards an internet cafe. early reports about many arrests right now and also earlier today in the area where the first at

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>> i guess the attorney general would rather have melissa harry perry on msnbc saying you're as smoothd would you please quack for us. i'm sure eric holder doesn't want to be pressed on fox news about why he said we're winning the war against isis, his role in ferguson his relationship with al sharpton. but what he really doesn't want to be pressed on shannon is outrageous assault on press freedom that was the james rosen case where the attorney general authorized, as you know, surveillance of our fox news colleague. and in a separate case reporters at the a.p. and even authorized james rosen to be named as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job. >> yeah, going through james' e-mails and those of some family members and certainly he would have to address that. i would imagine by any of us at fox that would interview him. but does he help us by walking out the door and slamming it in our faces essentially saying i'm not going to try to address your audience. it is by far the largest cable media outlet for news. maybe he could make some new converts. >> maybe he could reach a differ

over at msnbc, their host melissa harris perry, sat down with the attorney general of the united statesnterview. >> exactly. that's why she wanted him to quack like a duck. listen to this. >> we call you the duck. >> the duck? >> we call you the duck. we say you have a very even way of presenting, but you are just working for justice underneath. would you quack for us? >> i'm not sure i want to do that. i like the analogy. >> you do like the analogy, good. >> i like to think -- i was born and raised in new york city. in the 50s and '60s and for an african-american guy, it would be cool. things don't bother you. so on the surface, i like to think that's the way i appear to be. but you're absolutely right. those duck feet moving as fast as they can underneath and things are going as fast as they can behind the scenes. >> i thought she was going to ask why did you duck the fast and furious stuff for so long, but then it turned into animal impersonations. what did you think of that? >> first of all, nobody watches msnbc, by you putting it o you gave them the biggest viewership in a long tim

remember melissa harris perry at msnbc asking the attorney general of the united states to quack likey does that correspondent have with an embarrassment like that? the reporter on morning show said american sniper chris kyle was a racist on a killing spree. he refused to apologize despite demands from the military. just shows where he was coming from. and don't forget the reverend al sharpton he has his own show on msnbc though he's a tax cheat and sits in the white house advising the president on race. i think the jig is up nbc's credibility is shot, and that will hurt the man that needs their support. president barack obama. >>> i want to get right to this big story. media research center's brent bozell is with us. you heard me say it i think nbc has a credibility problem. i think they skew left, and i think that their credibility problem will hurt president obama. what say you? >> well, you have a good list and i can give you more names. how about ed schultz who called laura ingraham a slut. he apologized for it nothing happened to him. chris matthews hoped somebody would shoot ru

i'm melissa harry-perry. >>> loretta lynch responded to several days of questions by the senate judiciarywithin weeks. if she assumes office she will make history as the first african-american woman to lead the department of justice. making history has been a definitive aspect of the tenure of her predecessor, eric holder. the first african-american to hold this post. after just more than six years in office he's among the longest serving attorney general in american history. he's enjoyed -- and navigated a remarkably unpleasant relationship with congress. i asked him whether the journey has been consequential. it will by up to history to decide it. it was certainly words it. and very grateful for the sacrifices. men and women did it. in 2011 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the swearing-in of robert kennedy. that's often thoughts of the golden age for the department. i think modestly 50 years from now people will look back at this judd department and say they dealt with a whoa rain. they xwushd when it came to lbgt, they held people accountable, kept the nation safe consistent with

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