did you hear what melissa harris-perry said about hard workers? listen to this. >> there is somebody who is a hard worker when he egos to washington is paul ryan. >> i want to be super careful about the language hard worker. i keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like. >> jonathan. hard worker is now a racist comment? >> melissa harris-perry has officially jumped the shark on race baiting. she's living an alternative universe. >>le now jessica. what is she doing? she hung those things from her ears. is she just trying to capture the outrage, the provocative viewer, just to try to get some attention? >> i guess so. i'm not sure. i'm really not with her on this. i don't understand the coand her keeping a picture on her wall. we need to always remember what happened during the time when we had slavery and the black experience in this country which is something we actively talk about all the time in the black lives matter movement. this point makes her look silly and out

melissa harris-perry will be back next week. here are the latest developments we have at the top of this hour. >>> before wrapping up his asia trip in malaysia this morning, president obama vowed that the united states and its allies would defeat isis. >> we will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theaters and hotels are the new normal or that we are powerless to stop them. after all, that's precisely what terrorists like isil want, because ultimately that's the only way that they can win. it is the nature of terrorism. they can't beat us on the battlefield so they try to terrorize us into being afraid. they're a bunch of killers with good social media. but, the overwhelming majority of people who go about their business every day, the americans who are building things and making things and teaching and saving lives as firefighters and as police officers, they're stronger. >> tuesday, president obama will meet with french president fra sfr francois hollande to discuss strategy for the fight gns eaga i

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i'm melissa harris perry. a story that unfolded on friday in come whlorado when a shooter opened fire at a planned parent clinic in colorado strengths. an hours long standoff that left three people dead and nine inur judged. officers arrived at the clinic after gunshots were reported near the facility a little after 11:30 a.m. mountain time. police said the shots were fired by a single gunman armed with an ak-47-style weapon. they say the gunman shot at the police who responded to the scene from inside the building. police exchanged gunfire with the suspected shooter for several hours before they were able to make contact with him and he turned himself in just before 5:00 p.m. one university of colorado, colorado springs officer and two civilians were killed in the attack. five police officers and four civilians were injured and transferred to local hospitals. off certains were still securing the scene following the arrest, investigating several items allegedly brought by the gunman into the building to determ

i'm melissa harris-perry.ttle took to the streets to protest the killings of unarmed black people by police. they disrupted the typically care-free early shopping days of the holiday season to draw attention to inequities in policing, criminal justice and incarceration. streets of major american cities are not the only places where protests and calls for racial justice have emerged. for more than a year many american campuses have been sites of student organizing and direct action protests. first we saw social media campaigns addressing microaggressions. in recent weeks campus protests have grown more urgent and widespread. nowhere more so than at the university of missouri in columbia just a short drive from ferguson where police responsibility to be citizen protests galvan iized the black live matter movement. in mizzou the resignation of the president of the university system, tim wolfe. after a group of student activists called for him to resign after what they say was his failure on multiple occasions to

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workers that society will take it upon themselves all love the duty is to educate the child melissa harris perry is very well educated very strong academic on msnbc schumer is part of that lead forward campaign and made a statement a couple years ago but up close and sounds to alexander. we have never invested as much in public education as we should because we have a private notion. we haven't had a collective notion we have to break to the private ideas where kids belong to their families to recognize that they belong to the whole community. what i had to find equitation for the book i found a poster on the fox news website i was reading the readers' comments this that i have never seen anything like this before it is crazy. where is she coming up with this idea? that is not new at all. they have been talking about this the hundred and 30 years this is a new at all but what is new is there is a progressive movement where people become spokespeople with wide public support and they showed this again and again there just 5100 years behind the bolshevik i don't mean that across the board with the

i'm melissa harris-perry live this morning in los angeles, california.ming up this hour, creator of the hit abc sitcom "blackish" and ava duvernier, director of "selma." it is something of a "nerdland" goes to hollywood edition for us. >>> we begin with florida senator marco rubio. following his strong performance in the most recent republican debate shutting down jeb bush, giving a jab at hillary clinton, marco rubio has emerged from the crowded field as one of the most serious contenders for his party's nomination. polls have senator rubio in third place nationally and in iowa and in new hampshire. but increasingly the freshman senator is being seen as number one by the establishment and political conventional wisdom. the blog fivethirtyeight has kept a handy leaderboard of republican endorsements. they point out while jeb bush still sits at the top the majority of his endorsements came months ago. rubio, on the other hand, has surged since september. in the past nine days mr. rubio gained endorsements from three u.s. senators, two members of the house

melissa harris-perry will be back next week.t developments we have at the top of this hour. >>> before wrapping up his asia trip in malaysia this morning, president obama vowed that the united states and its allies would defeat isis. >> we will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theaters and hotels are the new normal or that we are powerless to stop them. after all, that's precisely what terrorists like isil want, because ultimately that's the only way that they can win. it is the nature of terrorism. they can't beat us on the battlefield so they try to

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i am juxtaposing that next to a quote from melissa harris perry, very well-educated, duke, princeton, wake forest, very strong academic, she isn't in as nbc, part of the lean forward campaign, one of the leading intellectual progressives today, she made the statement a couple years ago, how close it sounds, we have never invested as much in public education as we should because we have a private notion of children. she doesn't like that. we haven't had a very collective notion of our children. we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents for kids belong to their families and recognize the kids the long to the community. when i had to go and find that quote for the book and is looking for resources to side and among the other places where i found it was the fox news website and i was reading the readers' comments of people who jo lin king and set i have never seen anything like this before, this is crazy. where is she coming up with this, never heard the idea that our children don't belong to us, they belong to society. it is not new at all. the b

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i'm melissa harris-perry. >>> the republican presidential primary has been dominated by unlikely outsidererience seems to be mr. primary political appeal in their bid for president. as we saw this week, the establishment candidates, the good on paper candidates, the governors, the men whose resumes include successful political campaigns and years of experience running state governments, well, they're angry that they're losing to the outsiders. very angry. >> the talk about we're just going to have a 10% tithe and that's how we're going to fund the government? we're going to just fix everything with waste, fraud and abuse? or that we're just going to be great or we're going to shift 10 million americans or 10 million people out of this country? leaving their children here in this country and dividing families? folks, we got to wake up. we cannot elect somebody that doesn't know how to do the job. >> don't vote for me if you want to keep the gridlock in washington, d.c. >> let's stop fooling around about there. let's tell people the truth. for once, let's do that and stop trying to give the

i was in north carolina with wake forest with my friend melissa harris-perry doing week-long residencynderful to interact with students and get their take on very things i'm writing about. kids are way too young to remember any of this stuff. they were infants when clintons came in or didn't exist yet. their take on historical issues with the conn tex of "black lives matter" which is their own civil rights movement in their era i love interaction with people about the book. >> kay in mullen, south carolina. kay, we're in miami and listening to you. >> caller: hello? hello? hello? >> kay, go ahead. we're listening. >> caller: hi, joy, how are you? i love you. >> good, thank you. >> i love you so much. you are so smart, joy. every time i see you i have to look. i never miss your tv show. >> thank you. >> caller: when are you -- tv? >> i am a national correspondent with msnbc. i'm on from time to time. mostly in prime time as a guest. >> oh, i want you back on your own show. >> do you have anything else you would like to say? >> caller: i would like to ask joy, i would like to know where