joining me michael steele. nbc political analyst and former governor ed rendell. managing editor of the grio.com joy reid and deputy of new york city howard wilson. my fellows and friends, thank you for joining me on this election day, which i'm determined to make a big deal in this hour we have. michael steele, i'll go to you first. talk about the implications of the republican party. i want to start with virginia. my question to you is will the gop take notice if ken cuccinelli is defeated. >> they will take notice of it. in a sense we're making more of these two elections in terms of where the gop is going to be and nation is going to be in two or three years. what's happening on the ground is affected by different things, not just cuccinelli's record with women, the impact of governor mcdonnell on the race was significant. the impact of what republicans did nationally to shut down the government was significant. so women 50 to 36 for his opponent are not necessarily there because of hot button agenda items. it's a complete package of issues. >> a complete pack

michael steele, who, of course, is an msnbc analyst and former rnc chair. in new york is jonathan alter, msnbc analyst and author. jonathan, let's just make this clear. the upton vote today was basically the 47th attempt to repeopr repeal the affordable care act. >> absolutely. it guts the bill, effectively. it pulls a thread on it, and the whole thing unravels, if it were to be passed, and signed by the president, which, of course, it won't be. >> he has announced he wouldn't touch it. >> this is all just kabuki dance. doesn't have anything to do with reality. reality, the thing that is dangerous for the president, is if democrats start to defect. and essentially -- >> 39 voted for this. >> yeah. well, if that starts to happen in a significant way, then obama care could be in trouble. so democrats need to take a hard look in the mirror and say what does it mean to be a democrat in 2013. and the answer is, it means you're for obama care. you're not for fooling around in ways that are going to undermight be the whole thing. you can say -- >> even if those in

back with us on set, we have michael steel, jeremy peter, cokie roberts and julianna goldman.ht. the power struggle is reaching extreme levels both in republican filibusters and the way democrats are dealing with it. they approved a measure to block the power to filibuster certain presidential nominees. the nuclear option is the most significant change to the rules of the upper chamber since 1975. it barely passed with 52 votes. through the five years of the obama presidency, the senate held votes to end a filibuster 79 times. that's more than double the amount during president bush's eight years in office. the senate can now end the debate on executive and judicial nominees. there have been blocks, but the new rule does not apply to supreme court nominations or legislative bills. it helps the democrats right now. that may come back to haunt them because they won't always be the case. harry reid and mitch mcconnell debated the merits of the vote. >> for the good of the united states of america. it's time to change. it's time to change the senate before this institution becomes

thank you michael steele and michael duffy.ongratulations on the cover. >>> up next, you know rand paul has a plagiarism problem when the late night comics are on his case. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> we thought well, to celebrate his landslide re-election, let's take a look back at chris christie's first term in office. here you go. hope you enjoy it. ♪ i don't know much ♪ but i know i love you ♪ and that may be all i need to know ♪ >> well, i guess comedians really can get away with anything. welcome to the sideshow. as you can see david letterman is having a little too much fun with the latest political news. here's how he handled the charges of plagiarism against senator rand paul last night. >> you folks know rand paul, kentucky senator rand paul is accused of plagiarism. he just was taking stuff from other sources. well, today, he issued this statement. this is from rand paul's office, senator rand paul. let's look at that. >> in the face of charges leveled against him, rand paul wishes to say i am not

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michael steel say former chairman and political analyst. casey hunt covers capitol hill for us. good morning to all of you. since you have been in the room during crisis moments for presidents, i guess if you are the president this morning, you hoped yesterday was the low point of the presidency. >> yeah, sure. that would be great to know that you passed that. >> that felt like rock bottom yesterday. >> and the fact that they did that press conference and they weighed it into a complicated, dangerous policy area in order to pick a political problem was a sign that they recognized that this was going nowhere good. they were heading into a bad place very fast and they were in a bad place. we will see. democrats are grateful and we saw that in comments from a lot of members yesterday that they thought this was a step in the right direction and they are hopeful that this could begin to make good on that promise that not only the president made, but others went on supporters of the affordable care act and said if you like your plan, you can keep it. >> it was clear and yesterday felt

do you yourself, michael steele, favor nda? >> i would vote for it, yes. >> you would vote for it. >> i would support it, yeah. >> but you think they're not going to see political backlash for killing it. >> right. >> see, i disagree for the following reason. i agree it won't be the same as the backlash they faced for immigration reform, but i think there is a deep branding problem around tolerance, around openness, around the accessiblity and cultural infinity, particularly generationally. that was the reince priebus line coming out of the big postmortem in 2012, and i think -- >> so, you think there will be a youth push in a sense. >> there is a case to be made, if you go to your median voter at age 30 or 35 and say, you know, the government right now, you can be fired for being gay, and do you think that's a good idea? overwhelmingly, they're going to say no. >> first off, you've got to get that message to that medium voter. >> yes. >> and so, who's going to deliver that message? how does it get delivered through the system?

michael steele is the former chair of the rnc and joan walsh of salon. t me start with you, michael. i'm a poll watcher. before all the excitement of christie's re-election before the government shutdown, christie was pretty close within the margin of error of the former secretary of state. now he's down by ten. i don't blame him for that. i blame the party. i think the bad news of the shutdown has put a context around this guy he didn't need. your thoughts? >> i think i would tend to agree with that. it's a little bit like 2006, chris, when the brand of the party had sunk to all-time lows. and those candidates who were running for various offices from the governor to u.s. senate, myself included, felt the sting of the party label. and you found yourself, you know, battling your democratic opponent as well as battling against the overall brand of the party. and the challenge for christie is going to be how he navigates these waters in terms of establishing himself in his bona fides as the governor of new jersey, red governor in a blue state. but then also

michael steele was the rnc chairman before priebus, back when they won all the time.inion writer with "the washington post." let me go to this, mr. chairman. this -- why would you choose to hit the other party with the exact same thing you could be accused of which is a culture of -- i'm not sure you can get a motive here, but certainly an effort to suppress the vote you know is probably going against you. the black vote. so you can see they're just against them because they vote democrat. nothing to do with the prejudice. >> when you point your fingers like that, you have to make sure they're not pointed back at yourself. in this case i think the language was incendiary. i cannot make the case legitimately that this administration has cultivated hate. not when as jonathan will talk about in a moment, you have, you know, folks with the flags on the front lawn of the white house that remind us of the old south. and the party was silent on that. so i think that kind of rhetoric disbelies any effort to expand the party. people look at you delegitimize any efforts of that

>> i would say to my friend michael steele i don't want to read too much into it.ve stronger opposition is democrats didn't think they could win. he has a good governance model. you take that and compare it to the governance modelled in virginia at least in this election, it's very clear which one is going to be likely to triumph in a state with changing demographics in a swing state. in a red state may be a different formula, republican primaries a different formula. for republicans to be competitive they have to carry states like virginia. you're not going to do that can a hard right stance. it has to be a more inclusive party to be competitive at the state at the state level. >> i want to put this question to both of you, after the 2012 presidential election, you had reince priebus say we need a better job reaching out to women and minorities and latinos. do you think the party is doing a good enough job of that? ken cuccinelli is losing by double digits when it comes to women's vote, heading into today. that might change after election day. but still, he hasn't

michael steele is the former chair of the rnc and joan walsh of salon. start with you, michael. i'm a poll watcher. before all the excitement of christie's re-election before the government shutdown, christie was pretty close within the margin of error of the former secretary of state. now he's down by ten. i don't blame him for that. i blame the party. i think the bad news of the shutdown has put a context around this guy he didn't need. your thoughts? >> i think i would tend to agree with that. it's a little bit like 2006, chris, when the brand of the party had sunk to all-time lows. and those candidates who were running for various offices from the governor to u.s. senate, myself included, felt the sting of the party label. and you found yourself, you know, battling your democratic opponent as well as battling against the overall brand of the party. and the challenge for christie is going to be how he navigates these waters in terms of establishing himself in his bona fides as the governor of new jersey, red governor in a blue state. but then also rec

you know, michael steele is a smart man and he gives good counsel to his own party, which is don't get so excited about this because i promise you, and it's a promise i'm willing to go out on a limb an make, before it's all said and done, more americans will have coverage, they will have better coverage, they will be happy they have coverage and our economy will be better for it. at the end of the day that's going to prove a benefit for america and not a political liability for republicans to extort, especially when they're not prepared to offer up their own solutions. and that's really been a big vacuum these last six years of the whole debate and controversy around health care reform. so, again, i admire a president who steps up and says i'm sorry this is difficult for you. i'm going to look into this to see what we can do, but the overall program and the overall idea of what change is occurring is going to move forward. >> chuck, you got to speak with texas governor rick perry on your show earlier on and he was critical of what the president has done and said. you've got the red sta

for more, i'm pleased to be joined by msnbc political analyst, and former rnc chairman, michael steele >> hey. >> christie talked about working together, dealing with a crisis. he took some shots at washington. was chris christie's speech last night, really, for real, the start of his 2016 presidential campaign? >> uh, i think there's very little doubt about that. certainly around most circles, both here in washington and around the country. i think you saw the first sal vo and the beginning of the laying of a foundation to make the case. and i think that's really going to be or needs to be the hallmark of his second term, in addition to dealing with the rest of the sandy cleanup and getting those families back into those homes that are still displaced. it's also making the case on governance, making the case on issues that matter most to people beyond the typical republican social conundrum we often find ourselves in. i think christie started to lay down those markers last nice, challenging washington, pushing the outside of washington. but also showing how he's willing and has reache

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and chief white house correspondent chuck todd, msnbc political analyst and former rnc chair, michael steele, and democratic strategist kiki mclean. chuck, great interview, let's start with you. during that interview that you had with the president yesterday, completing this trifecta from the white house, speaker boehner says an apology is in order but what americans want to hear is that the president is going to keep his promise. republicans ask what does somebody have to do to get fired around here. ten republican senators have asked president obama to fire secretary sebelius. what's your thought here after that conversation. will firing somebody on the white house staff signal the end of the controversy or did this interview that you had with him do enough to stop the bleeding? >> well, i can tell you i think that they're hoping to buy some time. i don't know if you stop the bleeding, but you sort of slow it down. they certainly had a feeding frenzy developing over the president's broken promise about if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. and what you heard in there is the p

>> political analyst and republican national committee michael steele is with us.are not done. let's hear what happened in virginia. >> ken cuccinelli campaigns with the results with the opportunity to win. >> boy nominating the right guy. >> cuccinellis said voters sent a vong signal. >> despite being outspent by $15 million, this race came down to the wire because of obama care. that message will go out. >> this election was not between republicans and democrats. the tra division served us so well and at a time when washington was broken, think about what they have been able to accomplish when they worked together. >> the poll showed a wide gap and you said it would be close. >> any time in virginia now, terry mcauliffe, he is not a virginia guy. he walks in the room and you hear that voice. that's a syracuse, new york voice, not virginia. >> he carried a lot of votes. from the beginning, i thought he would lose. you take the government shut down and the ethics investigations and extreme positions on social security and this race was almost won. you had a lot of

here to try and answer this, we have with us former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst michael steelef communication, robert macneil, former co-anchor of macneil lehr news hour and harris wofford, former democratic senator from pennsylvania who assisted president kennedy in the white house. there are a lot of different aspects of the kennedy legacy to get into. the two biggest ones are civil rights in vietnam. senator wofford you can start with the story of civil rights. we're sort of living through this lbj moment in modern history now. yes, kennedy, at the time of his death, certainly the final months of the presidency, really all along in his heart, was on the side of civil rights. but it took lbj to get it through. what do you make of that, that reading of history? >> they needed each other. but one without the other wouldn't have had the success. remember, kennedy's platform that he endorsed heartily at the convention was the strongest civil rights platform any party had ever had. and the inaugural address didn't just leave out civil rights, except for the at home and around the

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one thing edge really affected him was the rnc under michael steele spent $9 million to get the governor elected. this time only 3 million they have to explain why they didn't invest there. republicans focusing on the social issues you have seen the election polling he lost democrats big. the same polling they did in obama election convinced them that cuccinelli was a right wing nut he should have been focusing on obamacare much sooner. if the shut down wouldn't have happened if re pub cans had gotten together he would be governor today. strategy matters. >> cuccinelli and christie have on paper the same positions on some of the issues. christie wins by 60 percent with women, minorities. he did well and cuccinelli doesn't. how does that happen? is>> purity is great for the ego but you have to win first and then you can fight. if you have that backwards you are going to lose. there's one race we haven't talked about because he's not a governor. new york city mayor was a blowout bill de blasio he makes castro looks like john birch. it will be a one-termer only because new yorkers will wake

our friend michael steele is quoted here. the establishment thought, that's you, oh, once they get to washington we'll wrap our arms around them. we'll put a shrimp in one hand and a committee assignment in the other and they'll be ours. and they were like sheep. keep your shrimp. and they were like keep your shrimp. i don't want your committee assignment. and i'm not voting for the same old crap you put up every year. is the tea party under the control of the establishment or the other way around? >> i think the house is more unified than ever. the tea party leaders, per se. the senate conservative fund, those guys are trying to raise money for their own pocketbooks. if you're talking about the house and senate, they're more unified than they ever have been. >> come january 15th when we have the next choke point on continuing resolution to avoid another shutdown, will the tea party reign or will your wing reign? >> i think the republicans with reign and have a deal to not shut down the government. >> hold on a second. we saw

i spoke with rnc chairman michael steele who said these type of criticisms will only go so far for membershat they really need to do is put an alternative on the table. as you know, the backdrop to all of this, the administration has said its website which has been plagued by a number of glitches will be operating smoothly for the vast majority of americans by december 1st. they just wrapped up a conference call and that continues to be the case despite the fact they are delaying this portion for small businesses. now, i also spoke with a representative of small business organizations who say this is frustratin frustrating, they want to get online and sign up. another set back for obama administration as they race to meet the deadline in a few days. >> it has wound down fast. >> more on the supreme court's decision to take up a challenge to the health care law's controversial provision mandating that employers provide contraceptive care to female employees. joining me now tom goldstein teaches supreme court litigation at harvard law school. i imagine day s like yesterday leave you awake al

his spokesperson, michael steele, offered the following explanation. "the speaker believes this legislation will i crease frivolous litigation and cost american jobs, especially small business jobs." but will it do those things? the government accountability office, an independent nonpartisan agency that works for congress compiled complaint data for all 21 states in the district of columbia that currently ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity basing back to 2007. in states like california, where there are 20,000 discrimination cases in 2012, 1,100 were related to sexual orientation or 5.5%. a fraction. the same held true for smaller states with bans like new hampshire at 2.3%. and medium-sized ones like oregon at 1.8%. the reality is that the highest percentage of all these states was colorado. 6.8%. okay. but what about the volume of lawsuits going up as boehner suggests? there are four states that have enacted discrimination bans on sexual orientation since 2007. three of the four saw their average case load go down after

let's ask michael steele, msnbc analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee.holiday. >> yes. >> well, you're smiling way too broadly, mr. steele. >> i'm thinking about my turkey. >> you're thinking about your turkey, thinking about the polling, the generic ballot polling with the ten-point bump for republicans in the last month since health care began to -- >> it's amazing what will happen when republicans shut up and listen. >> that's been your advice to tea party colleagues. >> shut up and let this thing unfold naturally the way it will. there's a lot of lessons, particularly going into next year. as this thing continues to unfold, obama care is not done yet. the website is just the first cog in the wheel that's being created here. >> and as we speak today, the white house is about to announce another delay, another year's delay in online enrollment for small businesses. >> yeah, and again, i just don't understand why the administration at this point doesn't take the advice of senior democratic leaders and just delay this whole thing. get the ground floor ri

that comes from boehner spokesman michael steele. this is not a new position on the part of the house speaker. still, doesn't it suggest this is going to be really hard to get through congress. >> look, there's no question. this has been hard for a long time. not for american people, republican voters, democratic voters. but in washington some things that should be simple prove not to be every now and then. i'm optimistic about where we're headed with this. john boehner knows what it's like to face the threat of being fired. the threat of firing john boehner is based on partisan differences, job performance issues. what we're talking about here is protecting folks from being fired for who they are, for how they were born. >> i want to ask you about the executive order. i know there's been pressure on president obama to pass the executive order to accomplish similar things this legislation would accomplish. jay carney was asked about on gg enda through congress. there's concern if the president passes this executive order it would tak

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. >> michael, kennedy talked a lot -- he had his run-in with business, he had his run-in with the steel that. and i think that was one of his worst moments, trying to jawbone prices. but after that, michael, i think the guy really did revert back to this supply-side conservative. he was -- i think temperamentally he was fixly conservative -- >> his sense of irony is crucial to the man. it made him skeptical of grandiose, state-engineered projects. that's true. arthur was constantly pushing him to be another fdr. and kennedy said, this isn't the time for that, this isn't the moment. you're out of touch. and he was pushing back on the liberals in his administration. >> and he spent a lot of money on defense, too. we're going to take a break on this. he had to make room for that. that's why i don't really think these gigantic entitlements can be traced to kennedy, at least in a significant way. please stay put. we have a lot more work to do. you don't want to miss this. our own dominic chu has a fascinating report on what happened on wall street the day of the jfk assassination and the day