africa has to move on this lt thank you, michelle, bernard and lola.e'll be right back after the this. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. >>> let me finish tonight with this horror in africa. over 200 schoolgirls aged 15 to 18 hauled away in trucks by a group out to destroy modern education. some have been forced to marry. others have died already. the question is what can we do? what can our country do to rescue them from what could end up being a life in captivity of degradation, fear and possibly death at the hands of men who think women should be subjected to the worse to make them, in their twisted kwies, pure. i hope we can help and i hope the afr can association of u

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thank you, howard fineman, michelle bernard. that was called "the scoop." >>> coming up, that weekend terror in california, why does it happen so often here? they always seem iconic in the united states. a few other countries have had these experiences. they seem to be at home here. why? and time for a new republican contract with america, other than something than the party of no-no? mitch mcconnell says we're doing just fine. the tea party expected to have a good night in texas tonight in its primary. could they go too far to give the democrats a shot down the road to turn that state blue? >>> let me finish tonight with this video left behind by the young man accused in the california killings. this is "hardball," the place for politcs. >>> president obama today announced the american combat mission in afghanistan will be over by year's end. that's the end of this year. the president's plan will keep nearly 10,000 troops in afghanistan after that mission ends this year. by the end of next year, that number will be cut in half

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joe, editor of "the national memo," and michelle bernard. start with this, i watch jon stewart a lot, and i think something new is happening. i think he's really damn serious about this slighting, hating if you will, below-the-belt tactics going on hillary clinton maybe on nothing, going after people like michelle obama, who have a true sentiment of sympathy for those girls scared to death over there somewhere in nigeria, and perhaps helping to drum up international action on it. and what's the point of that -- i think i'll let him speak. i think jon stewart's really ticked. >> well, you'd have to imagine, chris, that he's been doing this basically for well over a decade. he would get sick of the devolution of political discourse in the hands of people like karl rove and rush limbaugh. you listen to a rush limbaugh mock the first lady for trying to help kidnapped girls in nigeria, what could be the possible motive for him to behave that way? so, yes, i thought stewart's reaction was totally appropriate. with rove, you know, the thing about k

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with us is howard fineman of the "huffington post" and michelle bernard of the bernard center for women. howard, it seems every day brings if you read a quality newspaper bad news somewhere. something happens, crap happens, however we want to phrase it. now the automatic machine says hillary did it. they should check a couple of facts. while the organization wasn't named, the three top leaders were. that was decided after a my anud decision. your thoughts? >> chris, i think this is just the beginning of what the right is going to attempt to do to hillary. they're going to back time and replay backwards every event in the world today and look for a connection back to the state department or back to american policy. >> six connections of kevin bacon? >> yes, when she was secretary of state. when you're secretary of state, you deal by definition in grays. you deal in nuance. that's why her book is called "hard choices." but when you're trying to explain the details of a policy, why you were reluctant to allow yourself full on with the nigerian army and the nigerian regime which committed a

michelle bernard. >> no, this is libertarianism gone mad. absolutely mad. i don't think it should be 18. i think it is great kids can vote, but people get drunk, they don't think properly. if i had my way, i would raise the minimum drinking age to 25. 18 is too low and 21 is too low. for every person that had a child die in a drunk driving accident, they would disagree. >> you have to be 18 before you can have a driver's license in switzerland. isn't that a good model for america? >> i disagree. one good model was 18 years old in d.c. for beer and 21 years old for liquor. i think when we go through new york. i think it was 18 years for both beer and liquor. 25, if you raise it to that age, you are going to get prohibition measure and tens and millions of lawbreakers every single weekend. >> that's what we already have. >> the idea that 18, 19, and 20-year-olds aren't drinking is a fantasy. so i think we might as well dispense with legal fiction and discuss raising the age of driving. >> the prohibition impulse in the united states is still active. syntaxes,

benji is joining us and michelle bernard. i want to start with michelle on this.l know the history of the republican party is uneven. in fact, it's a bit fractured. it had a great history with ending slavery, fighting for the union, and winning the civil war, and then governing the country as best it could until reconstruction was thrown away. they gave it away in a rotten deal in 1876 and they stopped trying to do anything for the people in the south who were freed, but they weren't so bad in the '50s and '60s mostly backing the civil rights bill while the democratic party had problems with their dixiecrats. serious problem, let's put it. ever since then, nixon and the southern strategy, ever since the dixies became republicans, they have nothing to brag about it, it seems to me, and showing up with this guy from the duck pond is part of the problem. they're playing to that party, playing to people who have rebel license plates on their cars. that's who they're talking to with this character. >> absolutely. quite frankly, he was probably on to something when he s