that's what mitch mcconnell is doing. >> no doubt. howard dean, always, great to have you with us on "the ed show." >> thank you. >> there's a lot more coming up in the next half hour. stay tuned. >> it is the right thing to do. excuse me, sir. it's not time for questions, sir. >> a conservative activist shouts down the president. and now one veteran journalist admits some righties just can't stand having a black president. the big panel weighs in next. >>> michigan democrats fight back after being silenced for saying the world vagina. we'll go live to lansing, michigan, for a special edition of "the vagina monologues." >>> and mitt romney has no idea what a doughnut looks like. >> you could see one of the chocolate -- goodies find its way to us. >> and he's never been to a wawa. >> where do you get your hoagies here, at wawa's? >> we'll bring you mitt romney's latest out of touch moment. >>> it is the right thing to do. excuse me, sir. it's not time for questions, sir. not while i'm speaking. >> welcome back to "the ed show." but you

that tom and norm would look back with fuzzy sentimentality on the imprudent lead irship much mitch mcconnell and john boehner. >> norm, could you comment on the tea party, whether you see them extreme and part b, not asked here, could you comment on the occupy wall street movement and whether you regard that as extreme. >> sure. you know, i think these, let me say the tea party movement is a populist movement just as the occupy movement is, it rose during a time as it usually does of economic turmoil, populism is deep in our dna. it was an attack on leadership and establishment leadership, but i think we often use tea party as a kind of shorthand that simplifies things a little bit too much, and it gets to one of steve's points, the headaches for john boehner especially, less mitch mcconnell who i think has been very cold-blooded in his strategy in a way that boehner hasn't, but it was in the house far more than the freshman tea party members, the members of the republican study committee including long time veterans like jim jordan of ohio and mike pence and a number of others who poetz epo

mitch mcconnell is in washington ready to hit back. get ready, because the chip's about to hit the fan. our cloud is not soft and fluffy. our cloud is made of bedrock. concrete. and steel. our cloud is the smartest brains combating the latest security threats. it spans oceans, stretches continents. and is scalable as far as the mind can see. our cloud is the cloud other clouds look up to. welcome to the uppernet. >> holy smokes, batman, say it ain't so. the head of the fed vying for my caped crusader of cast title. i don't think so. more of that tonight at 8:00 p.m. at fbn. house democrats are pushing a bill to raise minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 and hour saying it will stimulate the economy. critics say it will cost jobs. the democratic strategist isn't buying that. is this the time to talk about raising a minimum wage? >> i think it absolutely is because working americans need support and $10 an hour is far from a living wage. but i think it's important all americans can participate in the recovery and part of the way working americ

. >> well, the interesting thing is watching mitch mcconnell there.e is the lead republican senator and the highest legislative body and the greatest democracy in the world, and this is a pressing issue, and he says i'm not going to tell you what i think. i'm not going to take a stand. this guy that's not elect to anything yet, we're going to wait for him to make up his mind. this is leadership in the republican party. he tells us what he thinks. mitch mcconnell and the others are just acting like weasles because they're afraid of the politics. >> do you think mitt romney might have been surprised to learn -- leader of the republican party. >> that was not fair to weasle. >> thanks for joining us. david, and ken. next, why democrats -- >> the president was interrupted during the announcement of his new policy. that guy there, that was conservative blogger neil monroe. everyone who was there thought that speech was over, including me. full disclosure, i am a member of the white house press corps. well, technically the white house press corps reserves.

mitch mcconnell gets ask what had he thinks about it, and says, i don't know. and this is the guy who's always opposed to anything president obama's in favor of. let's listen to boehner handling the same question. >> i think we all have concerns for those who are caught in this trap, who through no fault of their own are here, but the president's actions are going to make it much more difficult for us to work in a bipartisan way to get to a permanent solution. >> you could just -- just the slowness with which he kind of works his way to that, oh, the president has somehow made this worse. you can just see, he knows he's stuck. >> well, when he started off with the, you know, we all have concern for people who are caught in this trap, i was sort of wondering if he was talking about himself. but, i mean, that's the case. and it's just patently ridiculous, on its face, to think that the president taking action here is what's standing in the way of congress getting their act together on action on illegal immigration and undocumented workers. i mean, the other thing

and do something for the youth of the country. >> well, you have darth vader on the senate side mitch mcconnell whose only goal is to destroy the guy and on the other side is don knotts who is nervous nelly who is always taking in the boots because he has a wild party of wild men and women, the tea party types and he does not want to have supper with pease theme, but they hang around his neck. >> and you have scheme ihave sq democrats, and like claire mccaskill who does not want to say, i just voted against a stimulus. and people have -- he tried to brand this as investment, and the republicans say this is spending. he does not want to be framed as carter or -- >> well, let me tell you that the republicans talk about the huge spending on the defense and the air row space which is bigger spending than anything else, and what is the difference of the building the highways and national defense highway plan as eisenhower called it and what is wrong with building up a structure in the country that we could get by fast and eisenhower would say it is a defensive move. >> and it is. >> and there is som

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after that, mitch mcconnell talks about threats to political free-speech. president obama announced a new immigration policy and stopping the deportation of some illegal immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. undocumented immigrants brought before the age of 16 may qualify for what the department is calling deferred action on deportation. speaking from the rose garden, president obama says congress has failed to pass the dream act. his statement was interrupted twice by a reporter from "the daily caller. " this is about 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. this morning secretary of pollock, announced new actions administration will do to make it more fair and more just, specifically for people called dreamers. these are young people whose have steadied in our schools and played in our neighborhoods, who are friends with our kids and pledged allegiance to our flag. there are americans in their hearts, minds, and in every single way but one -- on paper. they were brought to this country by their parents. sometimes even as infants. the often have no

and mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner, because of the makeup of their caucuses, i believe, are basically unable to cooperate even when they may choose to do so. >> we're going to have to leave it there governor strickland and congressman mcdermott, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >>> ahead, a far more toned down mitt romney speaks to a latino group of officials and totally dodges the questions everyone's asking. where'd that self-deportation line go? >>> plus dick cheney claimed there was a connection between saddam hussein and 9/11. but a document just declassified puts cheney in the hot seat. >>> and burglaries and fires break out at women's health clinics right here in atlanta. now the fbi is investigating spp this aact of domestic terrorism? you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. 7 >>> there's new news tonight in the fight back against voter suppression. today new hampshire democratic governor john lynch vetoed a restrictive voter i.d. bill. the bill would have required voters to show photo identification at the polls. as we seen around the country, the proposal would hav

could talk about the debt limit used as a hostage to non-negotiable demands and fulfilling the mitch mcconnell predictions. two other examples of extreme tactics -- but greg conrad fiscal commission where people supported it voted against their own bill because they did not want to give a victory to the other side and the same with the benefit widen health reform bill. these are not simply benefited -- these tactics are not simply don in washington. immemorial bridge was adopted and governor court refused to sign at as he expected other comparable bills because it was introduced by a democrat. these tactics have been successfully defined by richard murdock who beat richard lugar in the senate. i said by partisanship should -- i said bipartisan should consist of democrats coming to the republican side is what he said. public opinion surveys show that the two parties in congress -- let me put up a couple of charts that show what has happened over time in congress -- the voting records for the house and senate. you will see clearly the republicans in congress are the most conservative that they h

. >>> coming up, mitch mcconnell puts romney on the spot. romney won't give away any specifics on any job plans, on any plans he has, actually. bob said he will follow the same strategy as another presidential hopeful. >>> and a catholic group of catholic nuns is speaking out against the gop budget plan and they're taking their message on the road. i'll talk with the organizer with the nuns on the bus later in the hour. share your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag ed show. we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." president obama really has mitt romney totally boxed in by the administration's new immigration policy. mitt romney can still not give a direct answer to a direct question. here he is with fox new's carl cameron. >> why not provide the similar certainty by saying, well, until such time as i pass a new leaders in the past few decades, and it says a lot about an emerging american majority. the country is changing. another shooting war. >> great to have you with us. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> co

then came the infamous quote from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who said this just before the mid-term elections two years ago "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for president obama to be a one-term president." senator mcconnell caught so much flak for that, he tried to back pedal and said it was simply his chief political goal. >> our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. >> well that, is true. that's my single most important political goal along with every active republican in the country, but that's in 2012. our biggest goal for this year is to get this country straightened out. >> their story line is that there must be some villain out there who is keeping this administration from succeeding. >> they say democrats want to create a villain, that it's not true that republicans sabotaged the president. but then came the book from robert draper, detailing how the effort to block obama began on the very night of his inauguration with a bevy of lawmakers. but wait, republicans cry foul. they say it's o

spots on the federal bench america is facing a judicial crisis and rather than stop the crisis mitch mcconnell has turned it into a game at the politics of hope mr robinson can convince senator mcconnell to stop playing games and focus on what really matters the bad but the vatican how do you try to rebranding the image after a decade of controversy well if you're the vatican and pope benedict the sixteenth hire someone from fox so-called news to do p.r. the vatican has hired greg burke fox's rome correspondent help create a better communications policy and improve the church's image around the world in a statement about the higher in the vatican said it is trying to quote cope with years of communications blunders and one of its most serious scandals in decades and quote i don't know who vetted burke and i'm not sure of hiring someone who worked for a massage mystic homophobic and racially charged his network is really the best way to prove the vatican's p.r. . and the very very ugly congressman tom latham latham was on a radio show in iowa over the weekend when the host started talking about

senator mitch mcconnell received his bachelor of arts degree from the university of louisville and his degree from the university of kentucky. so when it comes to alumni in the state of kentucky, he's got all his bases covered. he began his political career by working for the legendary kentucky senator, john sherman cooper. in 1978, he was elected as the judge county executive of jefferson county, kentucky which encompasses the city of louisville. in 1984, a long shot candidate for the u.s. senate, he was elected over democrat d eshgdee huddleston. he is currently serving his fifth term and is the longest serving united states senator in the history of the state of kentucky. in the u.s. senate, in the federal courts, and in the court of public opinion, he has fought liberal campaign finance reform, including mccain-feingold, and defended the right of organizations like ffc to fully participate in our elections and we are very grateful for his leadership on that. he is pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage, a full spectrum conservative who led the fight in the senate against the failed oba

mitch mcconnell is advocating getting rid of disclosure. let's have secret slush funds financing our candidates and paying for our government. host: there are superpac's on both sides representing various points of view. guest: there are, but at this point, the money is going about four one favoring republicans over democrats. there are superpac's on both sides, but disproportionately, it is going to support the republican candidates more than democratic candidates. host: abc had a story about the possibility about the supreme court possibly revisiting citizens united. guest: this is an amazing story in itself because the supreme court in the citizens united decision came out with that controversial ruling that corporations shall be treated as people under the first amendment. i know that the supreme court justices -- there is a 5-4 vote. first of all, they were stunned by the dissent of the four justices that really rail against that decision as undermining democracy, and they were stunned by the huge public outcry -- back last decade with

voice to we the people not to hand it off to foreign corporations in secret billionaires like mitch mcconnell wants to do and the very very ugly richard mourdock you might remember mourdock as the tea party favorite who beat incumbent republican senator dick lugar in last month's indiana primary well he said in a newspaper interview yesterday that employers should be able to deny health insurance to cancer patients rock went on to say that health care will be the biggest issue and our well first of all be the biggest issue that's going to be a failing economy and secondly mourdock and his fellow conservatives have this radical view of employers' rights on where they can do whatever they want and get away with it and that is very very a. given the amount of corporate money is flowing through the hands of both republicans and democrats it's really easy to think of the two parties as one of the same the story line is that they're both bought out and working for the corporations it's a talking point that's repeated by numerous politicians and political commentators these days. republicans and dem

senate republican leader mitch mcconnell will answer to that and a whole lot more.is live in our studi studio and he is up after the break. >> you plan to sue this administration for implementing something that you think should have required legislative process and approval. >> that's correct. martha: iowa republican steve king firing a warning shot at the white house, the president's immigration ruling that may end up in a will you suit. bill: also recorded phone conversations between george zimmerman and his wife only hours after he shot and killed trayvon martin, do they prove that he lied to the court? martha: new calls today for a special, independent investigator to trace the source of a series of high-level intelligence leaks. senior white house adviser david plauffe says it's a plan to embarrass the president. >> they said their core strategic plan was to engage in things to embarrass this presidentment. martha: joined by kentucky republican mitch mcconnell who is senate minority leader. good to have you. >> glad to be here. martha: what is your response to

an obvious inequality what's wrong with giving employers a little extra incentive to fix that mitch mcconnell says he has no time for lawsuits well when they'd be more likely to disappear if companies were prodded into ending pay discrimination and we keep emails from taking action from knowing why they're not being treated the same but i think it's pretty obvious that discrimination is still alive and well in the workplace and something needs to be done about it meanwhile senate republicans they just want to sleep all under the rug because businesses get hurt and guess what businesses donate a lot more during elections and so that's why we're giving them tonight's tool time award. just ahead we have happy hour we're going to tell you about a new way to raise chicks and on top of being defeated by walker last night tom barrett got a nasty little slap across the face to be right back with the video. wealthy british son. is going to. go. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune int

mitch mcconnell signed it. mitt romney has signed it. when romney was asked if he would support a deficit reduction plan that had 90% in cuts, 10% revenue, he said, no. he wouldn't support it. he would reject the deal. unfortunately all the republicans on grover's list are at odds with the american people. 3/4 of americans support a balanced deficit reduction package that cuts spending while asking millionaires and corporations to pay their fair share. the support really goes across all the political spectrum. democrats, independents even republicans agree. the only republicans who aren't on board are the ones here in washington instead of supporting a balanced deficit plan, republicans in congress all jumped on board with the ryan plan. this throws a monkey wrench into the relationship with grover, if you really think it through. the report released yesterday by the joint economic committee shows the ryan plan would raise taxes on mitd class americans and raise it a lot. the ryan plan would pay for the $10 trillion in tax cuts that bene

term president like the trying to do right now with president obama i mean just take it from mitch mcconnell our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. so today with the economy crashing agenda well underway republicans are bragging just look what they've accomplished or should i say what they've sabotaged it begins with the stimulus passed in the first months of the obama presidency in order to peel off a few republicans and break a filibuster and mitch mcconnell senate president had to whittle down the stimulus package and make a full third of a tax cuts that had no stimulative value whatsoever the economy needed at least a two trillion dollars stimulus package which the president's own economic adviser christina romer argued for the republicans in the senate no way they were not ready to sign off on that so instead working americans got an anemic stimulus package that kept us out of a great depression but wasn't enough for a robust recovery also in those those first two years democrats in the house passed legislation to cut off tax

mitch mcconnell lauded the project while taking a broader election-year dig. >> at this body of ignores the campaign attack from the president and if they stop pushing the job killing tax hikes, we can actually get a lot done. >> this it takes up two issues along the way. without action, the subsidized stafford loans would have doubled on sunday the 6.8% interest. >> this was not a matter of them coming together to do the right thing. this close political football kicking it back and forth. >> the bill covers two years of programs but does not talk about the programs after that. it could raise it, but they did not want to touch that with an election four months away. >> thanks for that report. their reporters are flocking to baltimore. >> up next, a gathering in our area and mobilization. >> here phelps''s thoughts on the olympics. >> it's not killing off very fast and a baltimore. a hot weekend forecast coming up. the temperatures are back >> hundred the woman rights activists will be converging on baltimore. >> they are in town to look at some hotly debated issues affecting women. can

mitch mcconnell talks about t,,, ,,,,,,,, >>> senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is one of the tween white house and congress over big issues, his role is more important than ever. senator mcconnell joins us now in studio 57. we're pleased to have him here. welcome. >> pleasure to be with you. >> good to have you in new york. tell me this, many people talk about the problem in europe is they can't make a decision. >> no. >> and kick the can down the road. in washington, they talk about dysfunction. what can be done about that, other than changing the politicians who are in washington? >> the biggest challenge we have, charlie, for the future, is the unsustainable path of our entitlements, very popular programs, the eligibility for which needs to be adjusted in order to meet the demographics of america. regretfully, after six months of discussions the speaker and i had with the president, the president was unwilling to make those kind of eligibility changes unless we gave him such a huge tax increase that it would have brought the economy to a halt. >> would this atmosphere of dy