we've documented this also at mother jones. allowing more and more people to get consealed carry permits and to carry guns and more and more places publicly, in restaurants and bars, on school campuses. so i think that's worth considering in that light, too, that you have a lot more people in the last handful of years walking around with guns. with permits. host: does mental health play a role in these numbers that we're seeing from your investigation and the number of children that are killed? guest: mental health specifically isn't a data pont hat we have with this study. there were anecdotally there were some cases where we saw parents who seemingly were quite disturbed whether or not they had mental health is an open question. but in the cases that were homicides, one would think that that's a strong possibility. there were 60 cases in which parents shot their own children to death and 50 of them were homicides. in some of the cases that we're talking about domestic disputes that turned violent, et cetera, but i can't comme

we've documented this also at mother jones. allowing more and more people to get consealed carry permits and to carry guns and more and more places publicly, in restaurants and bars, on school campuses. so i think that's worth considering in that light, too, that you have a lot more people in the last handful of years walking around with guns. with permits. host: does mental health play a role in these numbers that we're seeing from your investigation and the number of children that are killed? guest: mental health specifically isn't a data pont hat we have with this study. there were anecdotally there were some cases where we saw parents who seemingly were quite disturbed whether or not they had mental health is an open question. but in the cases that were homicides, one would think that that's a strong possibility. there were 60 cases in which parents shot their own children to death and 50 of them were homicides. in some of the cases that we're talking about domestic disputes that turned violent, et cetera, but i can't comme

people in the so-called developed world are taking a closer look at where their clothes come from mother jones reporter dana. recently visited the southern indian state of time only do or she learned some shocking facts about the region's textile industry and now joins us in the studio welcome to the show thanks for having me thanks for being with us so you were literally curious about where your clothes are me yeah i work in washington d.c. and every day i walk past forever twenty one in the nation and then where you see you know i can buy a dress there for five dollars ten dollars and i figured as a reporter you know that cost has to be coming from somewhere so everything sort of lined up and i had this opportunity to go to india and kind of poke around and you know see where exactly my clothes are coming from so i. well i sort of stumbled upon what is called assuming the scheme assuming value is a word and some of that means happily married woman it sounds really positive. but actually what it started to imply is that girls in india have to earn money for a dowry a lot of money. and they en

journalist his reports of a period in a variety of publications including new york times magazine mother jones and it landed a finalist for the national book critics circle award winner of the prize of the national library of china ellen is also the author of several books including the national bestseller the world without us and his latest critically acclaimed countdown our last best hope for a future on earth alan joins me now in the studio alan welcome thanks for thanks for being with us to be here the essential story of countdown is the story of overpopulation it is it's something that i came to unexpectedly at the end of doing my last book the world without us which was really kind of a red herring because it was about how could we have a world with us theoretically wiped everybody off the planet so we could see how beautifully the planet would restore itself. hoping that readers would ask wow how do we add ourselves back to that picture of a healthy world only kind of in balance with nature not in combat with it but i discovered that every four and a half days we were adding a million p

people in the so-called developed world are taking a closer look at where their clothes come from mother jones reporter dana. recently visited the southern indian state of time they'll do were she learned some shocking facts about the region's textile industry and now joins us in the studio welcome to the show thanks for having me thanks for being with us so you were literally curious about where your clothes are made yeah i work in washington d.c. and every day i walk past forever twenty one a nation and then where you see you know i can buy a dress there for five dollars ten dollars and i figured as a reporter you know that cost has to be coming from somewhere so everything sort of lined up and i had this opportunity to go to india and kind of poke around and you know see where exactly my clothes are coming from so i'm well i sort of stumbled upon what is called the soon. suman value is a word in tom all that means happily married woman sounds really positive. but actually what it started to imply is that girls in india have to earn money for a dowry a lot of money. and they end up getting i

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her work has appeared in the nation, news day, new york times, mother jones, village boys, salon -- and author of two other books home fires burning, married to military for better or worse. she had traveled all over the country for a year-and-a-half to cover at the quality of the indigent today. she had to travel the count country to get here today. she came from maryland. we are very excited she's here. her well recent investigation shows inadequacy of our legal system. let's welcome her. [ applause ] >> hi, thanks for having me. i'm very excited to be here, if a bit sleepy. as he said, my new book was really an effort to take the temperature of public defense across the country and i visited a lot of public defenders offices, watched a lot of trials and discovered that there was a crisis in the court's that probably all of you are well aware of and really tried to dig in and find out what was going on and where all these problems were arising that we didn't have equal justice 50 years after gideon. what i would like to do is read a little section of the book first and talk for a few

>> i think the mother jones magazine graphic should be an educational piece used everywhere. even just the names of the drinks humongous to the big drinks are really outrageous. thank you. seeing no other questions, thank you so much, miss gupta. dr. from ucsf professor of health policy. thank you, dr. smith. >> thank you. i come from a background of having spent over 25 years in my career doing research on public health prevention. i recently spent three years working for the un commercial term nants of health to prevent and health strategies to one of the most effective strategies for affecting the consumable products that are harmful to health that being sugary beverages and doing studies in national institutes of health. when i speak about what we don't know about sugary beverages and taxation. i spent a quarter of my lifeworking in this area of research. i want to first speak to some of that, i think budget and legislative analyst report, i was able to read it. i think it's a wonderful piece of work. the ability to bring national and local data to bear is great. i want t

at mother jones we have a story out this week.wn, 194 kids under the age of 12 have been lost to gun violence. through all sorts of different ways, but most of them within families because of disputes or accidents. so that's another ten newtowns in the last year. we still are unable, even though it's popular, to get really any major change on this front. >> and what we're starting to see, kathleen, is -- i mean, and you're seeing this almost on every major piece of legislation or policy platform, which is a division between red and blue. i mean, you increasingly have red states that have their ideas about guns, blue states that have their ideas about guns. i don't want to oversell division, but this -- guns in particular. let's set aside the aca, which is a very divisive piece of legislation. it shocks me that given the broad support in the nra for this that not more could have been done this year. >> you know, the red/blue divide is significant here. it has to do with people's experience with guns and around guns. i grew up in th

also quickly wrap up by saying that a lot of the materials used should be very helpful from the mother jones chart of the drinks and the huge sizes to the tooth decay and liver slide that i'm going to immediately show that to my 13-year-old when she has the urging and even the feelings in her brain as the doctor mentioned to purchase a sugar beverage and the consequences to our public health and to children's future health whether they are going to be healthy or have serious chronic diseases. i also want to say the science and data as crunched by the great folks from the budget analyst office and pediatricians is i -- eye opening. others mentioned other areas we need to look into and i would like to work with the budget legislative analyst to work on focusing on a little bit more and i really appreciate the data so that conservative to 48 million to 61 million if we add on fatty diseases and oral health and if we show other impacts we'll show it's much higher than that and showing other impacts on children. perhaps if we can look more into other data and studies for the future. i also wanted

me is our panel of "hardball" all-stars, howard fineman of "the huffington post," david corn of mother jones, jonathan capehart of "the washington post" and joan walsh of salon. let's look at far right's hatred of president obama. number three on our list goes to u.s. congressman of texas. the tea partyer grabbed headline whence he sided with birthers in the town hall this summer and openly discussed impeaching the president. he's part of a ted cruz 2016 campaign for president. this is remarkable. >> obama's president, ted cruz can be president. >> what do you mean? this is serious business, guys. >> absolutely. >> is he eligible to be president? explain. is he eligible in you brought it up. i didn't. >> i think he's eligible. i'm giving you a yes answer. >> so if obama was born overseas to american money and that crazy theory of donald trump is true, he'd still be eligible to be president by that standard. >> we're talking act ted cruz. >> can't you inject an inch mentally? >> i'm telling you that president obama is the president. >> no, no, no. you brought this up. >> what better -- yes. >

david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones and we have a columnist from "the washington post." of course, both are proud, i hope. anyway, john boehner continues to face all out revoluntarily for the tea party vote on the right. listen carefully what beck says is the real reason they love whacko birds like ted cruz and mike lee is they're taking orders from them. >> i find him to be utterly fekless. >> i think john boehner is one of the prime examples of worthless, worthless republicans much these guys are big government progressives. they're not liberals. they're not rhinos. they're progressives. we have to take a stand. mike lee and ted cruz, they did what we told them to do. meanwhile, the john boehners and the mitch mcconnells of the world are trying to take ted cruz and mike lee and destroy them. mitch mcconnell is the biggest two faced liar i have ever seen. i missed some of the best of it. the other guy is -- what is this about? are people in that radio world out there and driving in their cars that actually believe as glenn beck just said that boehner is a progres

and david corn is an msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief at mother jones.obert, you know better about him than most people. you've worked with him in tight situations. i hope you got to see our program last night. we had a huge audience of 1.3 million. >> i did. >> i mean, it's a very big audience of people who tuned in just to hear the president. even on a night when so many hearts and minds were focused on the lives of nelson mandela. they took some time out to watch our program with the president. he said at that time when i asked him how do you do big deals and he said history says you only get a big program through, something really important, when one party controls the government. the house, the senate, and the presidency. does that mean to you he's still holding out hopes he can pull a big upset in the sixth year of his presidency next november? >> well, i was certainly struck by the answer in which he was reminding those college students that a lot of them that might vote in a presidential year don't tend to vote in a non-presidential year. but som

and in mother jones magazine, mark fullman writes about 194 children who have died in gun violence. and he joins me right now. you know, mark, since the sandy hook tragedy, you have been covering this issue of gun violence and children. what have you found out over the last year? >> well, with this investigation we found a pretty stark picture of kids and firearms. after the terrible attack in newtown last we' are year we heard the nra and other gun advocates testify in congress that the way to protect children is to arm more adults in schools and in their own homes, et cetera. but the cases that we studied, these 194 cases, show that that's just plain wrong. that in fact, most of these kids are dying in their own homes. that's the most dangerous place for them where they're getting their hands on firearms that are left unsecured in many cases, there are a number of homicides where parents are killing their own children, lots of cases there were i believe 72 cases out of the 194 where the kids themselves are pulling the trigger. we're talking about young kids here, don. talking abou

same thing happened christina taylor green would be alive today joe i want to move on to you a mother jones what that sixty two recent mass shootings and found that in half of them some sort of high capacity magazine was used do you agree with kelly's assessment that banning these magazines could save lives. of course and you know we know that that's true and you know when we talk about all the confusion about what's driving this you know. what are the factors that can be controlled it's really important to recognize that the reason we don't know you know it's not just that the media is fairly useless shall we say but also the n.r.a. made it a priority about ten years ago to strip strip the funding from research on gun violence so the reason we don't know has everything to do with the n.r.a. is desire to just push ahead with their strategy which is essentially a marketing strategy it's a marketing ploy to sell a lot of guns and you know and they basically call caused a blackout on information you know that would that would guide this but one of the best. sources of information that we have

partisan and polarized and it was nice to see a story where new york post and "new york times" and mother jones believed the world left one of the greatest men ever. >> this is legitimate debate about apartheid in the 80's but there is an absence of cynicism and snarking and everyone feeling like we have witnessed the passing of a guy who spent 27 years in prison and came out to be a tremendous leader. >> even on twitter, we are not used to us, we have forgotten when there was no snark and quote have a conversation and say we are sad, he was great person and it was refreshing to see that. not just the old coverage dusted off like the interview with dick cheney from 2000 where he said he did not regret the vote calling him a terrorist but even people like dick clean can say, we lost a great man is a great story. >> still to come, the come unfortunate -- columnist is fighting back about releasing t" headquarters. now back to howie and media buzz here on fox. >>> glenn greenwald has been a lightning rod for controversy since he obtained those secret nsa documents from edward snowden. he's backing

david corn for mother jones and howard fineman for "the huffington post" both msnbc political analysts. i know there are still questions about february. but this week when it looks like they might have a budget deal and january when the continuing resolution comes up for continuing, it looks like they've decided not to go all-out crazy again. is this pure politics or grownup behavior or a mix? >> well, don't count your non-shutdowns before they happen. because there are 20 or so house gop'ers. trying to put together something app ten it's probably going to be above the sequestered budget cut level. which a lot of tea party types don't want to see. so john boehner may still be looking at if not a real rebellion, some mini rebellion on his side. and the big question will be whether he can put that down again. >> i'm sorry, david. david, it's not -- it's not the same decibel level it was. >> not at all. ted cruz is not out there saying we must stop this. they want to avoid it. the question is whether they can really do what they need to to not have a shutdown. >> howard, what's your take

i will bring to everyone's attention this quote in mother jones. the war over austerity is over. kevin drum writes, the ultimate result is a budget below even the pipe dream paul ryan budget of 2011. two years ago ryan's budget was basically at the outer limit of mainstream conservative wish lists. today it looks tame. republicans have massively changed spending conversation since 2010. austerity has won. what do you make of that. >> well, i think the most important moment during this debate was when john boehner stood up to the right wing groups that have really put the republican party on that suicide mission and said he's not going to take it anymore. that could create a path forward for some of the president's bigger priorities like immigration reform. i actually think the attention you mentioned on the botched obama care rollout created a distraction from the budget process and allowed senator murray and congressman ryan to work together while republicans were out there hitting obama care. that might be how this plays out on the debt ceiling. by focusing on obama care it all

it was nice to see a story for once where the "new york post," "new york times," mother jones everyone was in agreement that we lost a great man. that was refreshing. >> there's been a little bit of point scoring. "huffington post" put up how right let nelson mandela down. but there does seem to be an absence of cynicism and everybody feeling like we have witnessed the passing of a guy who spent 27 years in prison and came out to be a tremendous leader. >> can i just say, even on twitter, i think we're not used -- we forgot about the time when there was no snark and have a conversation and say he was a great person. it was interesting to see some of the old coverage dusted off, like this weekend interview with dick cheney he said he didn't regret his vote that and he was terrorist. >> thanks. still to come the columnist who obtained those nsa documents from ed snowden is under attack again and he's fighting back. glenn greenwald is next. check out our facebook page. put out a like. we're putting out fresh comments, fresh pictures, fresh videos. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell

david corn, washington bureau chief, mother jones, and msnbc political analyst. corn, this is obviously a joke, of a controversy, there went be any controversy. the only people who will care about this in negative terms are those, those, single issue cuban interest voters who would all be posed to president obama anyway. >> well, i think maybe, obama was implanting a nano technology listening device, the nsa could eavesdrop, castro was sophisticated operation. but this is just the type, can we say bs on tv. don't know if we can or can't. >> you can say the letters, don't do it again. >> the type of stuff that detracts. what is the point of the day. the point of the day was honoring nelson mandela. the people on the right have really been unable to come to terms with their own history. with nelson mandela. and the anc, apartheid in south africa. they were opposed by the efforts to do anything about it for decades. all across the internet. he is attacked by tea partiers for, supporting a communist. the year's long campaign for freedom, the republicans, conservative

but, bill, mother jones had a disturbing report that the leading gop candidate for senate, in octoberat a rally to nullify obama care. that rally was co-sponsored by secessionist group called league of the south. this is the leading senate candidate in north carolina. >> well, i'm glad you used the word nullification. this really takes me back to 1860 when john calhoun of south carolina came up with this doctrine of nullification which is we don't have to follow the laws we put in. if they're breaking the laws, they ought to be arrested for breaking the law. >> it's interesting you emphasized nullification. at a nullification seminar last year, the same leading candidate now for the republicans of north carolina, he called health care law tyranny. listen to this. >> what happens if you don't pay taxes? you go to jail. the doctors who partake in it, we go to jail. how is this not tyranny? that's what we have today. >> i mean, bill. nullification, tyranny. i mean, isn't this all about delegitimatizing the president so they can undercut his agenda? zb shows me two things. yes. number one

"mother jones" magazine reports that at least 194 children have been shot to death since newtown. 127 of them died in their own homes and dozens more in the homes of friends, neighbors, and relatives, not strangers. 72 pulled the trigger themselves or were shot by another youngster. my native state of texas leads the country in the number of young ones killed by guns. while some states passed tougher firearms legislation after newtown, texas enacted ten new laws against sane restrictions on guns. which is partly why last month, four women had lunch at a restaurant just outside dallas. it was a planning meeting for moms demand action for gun sense in america, that's a group started after newtown that describes itself as the "mothers against drunk driving of gun reform." as the four women ate and talked, about 40 members of a pro-gun group called open carry texas -- champions of guns anywhere and everywhere -- gathered outside the restaurant, many of them with their firearms. they said they were there not to intimidate but to make a point. sure, as if real men need guns to make a point.

howard fineman of the huffing ton post, david corn of mother jones, jonathan capehart of "washingtonost" and joan walsh of salon. now let's look at the hatred of president obama. number three goes to blake farenthold when he openly discussed impeaching the president. farenthold is in support of a ted cruz 2016 campaign for president. this is a clip from his appearance on "hardball" in september. it's remarkable. >> obama's president. ted cruz can be president. >> what do you mean? explain. this is serious business, congressman. you're chuckling about this. you've been touting the guy. he said he could run for president. explain. is he eligible. you brought it up. >> i think he's eligible. i'm giving a yes answer. >> if obama was born overseas to an american mother even if that crazy theory of trump is true, he'd still be president by that standard. >> listen, we're talking about ted cruz -- >> can't you give an inch mentally? >> i'm telling you that president obama is the president. >> no, no. you brought this up. is he -- >> the answer is yes. >> was he legitimately elected presiden

. >> well, david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and michael crowley is "timene's foreign affairs correspondent. what good can come of 27 u.s. senators in the midst of negotiations which are tricky as hell with the iranian republic trying to get a deal between two tricky sides that don't like each other. and theying screw you we've got more pain to give you. what do you gain out of that? >> none. there were tough sanctions already the congress put on. >> which led to these talks. >> yes. they got other countries to agree. if other countries don't abide by them, they don't do good. they've got other countries to go along with this. and it brought iran to the table. rouhani got elected in part because they had to do something about these sanctions. so we're talking about a five-month window now. and so if you can't give the president especially if you're a democrat the time to do this diplomacy, you're not helping. it's only creating more reason for the hard liners in iran to say we can't trust the americans. we can't deal with them. and talking to people who kno

here, mother jones magazine portraits of nearly 200 american kids all under the age of 12, who have beeny since newtown. after newtown, even off to day, it is some times just feels impossible that the same scenes are just going to keep playing out year after year after year. school after school. this was the high school today, not 10 miles from columbine. the gunman killed himself after shooting and wounding two students. it some times feels impossible. there may be no safe place to be a kid. a kid in suburban school, or home, or city park. conventional wisdom says the country can do nothing more against gun violence. specifically nothing more about protecting kids from gun violence. you can't get people to give up access to guns. part of who we are. how we live. get over it. get over it. don't get over it. don't get over it. don't believe when nay say there can be no changes, there is no compromise that can be lived with, repeated and frequent murder of children has to be normal and there is no way to stop it at all. we have a choice as to whether we accept that or whether we see a way

. >> joining me now, eugene robinson, of "the washington post," david corn of mother jones. most contributors. >> gene, this is fascinating. procedural moves on the senate floor. it used to be a place of of routine. never did a leader ask for unanimous consent on anything and not get it. because the it was prewired. they had figured it out. and the senate, did most of its business unanimously. who came up with this routine? was it you. you were -- >> well, you know, harry reid has been quietly grinding out these nomination confirmations. using up the clock. republicans are forcing him to do that. take is a long time to get each done. makes them more precious. so, the republican tuesday thought they had a way of stopping him from doing more of these nominations. by saying, you want to move off to unemployment. okay. pull away. all of these nominations. you already have in the procedural pipeline here. harry reid didn't want to do that. >> he doesn't want to do that. >> including chairman of the federal reserve. serious stuff there. >> these are not nonessential jobs. not nonu

david corn is the washington bureau chief nor mother jones magazine and michael tomaski is with the dailyeast. i want you to look at this poll and what people think about this. right now 55% of the country supports the idea of making it work. they want to keep it as it is, make it work. only 43% want to repeal it. another interesting number, a little more nuanced according to a current cnn orc poll. a majority of americans 53% said it was too soon to tell. saying it's not seen its day in court. not yet. keep in mind these polls were conducted before improvements to the law's website were announced over the weekend. so, david, there's good objective news and good perceptive news. totally 180 from the way this thing's been played in the media. >> now, there's another number you didn't cite there which was by noon today, 375,000 people had gone to the website. probably got close to a million by midnight if you count in the west coast. this shows above everything else, there's still a tremendous demand. this gets to the root of the republican problem here. because people want this, they want

and david corn is an msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief at mother jones.obert, you know better about him than most people. you've worked with him in tight situations. i hope you got to see our program last night. we had a huge audience of 1.3 million. it's a big audience of people who tuned in just to hear the president. even on a night when so many hearts and minds were focused on the lives of nelson mandela. they took some time out to watch our program with the president. he said at that time when i asked him how do you do big deals and he said history says you only get a big program through when one party controls the government. the house, the senate, and the presidency. does that mean to you he's still holding out hopes he can pull a big upset in the sixth year of his presidency next november? >> well, i was certainly struck by the answer in which he was reminding those college students that a lot of them that might vote in a presidential year don't tend to vote in a non-presidential year. but sometimes who's the speaker of the house is a job that's j

in an interview released today with mother jones, senator warren says that thirdway actually is framingabout cutting social security a little bit, or a lot, she said. well, joining us now to discuss the battle and the budget is one of third way's leaders and co founders, senior vp, matt bennett. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, ari. >> your organization has clearly touched a nerve here among members of the democratic party. including, as we mentioned, some that have traditionally afellated with you. why shouldn't democrats, as we go into this budget stand by social security and adding to benefits for seniors? >> well, first of all, of course, we should stand by social security. it's one of the signature achievements of progressives in the 20th century. and social security and medicare, these two huge entitlement programs, are invite tale important to the people they serve. our point, though, is that they are in danger of collapsing. if we don't -- if we don't face that fact, we don't face the fact that the budgets for medicare and social security are rising, in a way that

david corn, washington bureau chief for "mother jones" and jonathan capehart, columnist for the "washington post." both are proud, i hope, msnbc political analysts. john boehner faces all-out revolts from the tea party, a bit of an anger coming from the conservative media htitans like mark levin and glenn beck. listen carefully. what beck said is the reason they love wackobirds like cruz and lee, they're taking orders from him. >> i find him feckless. >> i think john boehner is one of the prime examples of worthless, worthless republicans. these guys are big government progressives. they're not liberals. they're not rinos. they're progressives. we have to take a stand. mike lee and ted cruz, they did what we told them to do. mean whooi meanwhile, the john boehners and mitch mcconnells of the world are trying to take ted cruz and mike lee and destroy them. mitch mcconnell is the biggest two-faced liar i've ever seen. >> mitch mcconnell, two-faced liar. i mised some of the good stuff here. are there people in the radio world out there driving in their cars that actually believe, as glenn beck

joining me today, washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn, vice president of heather mcgee, maggie haberman. i feel like i started that segment on such a high note and ended in the dumps with coal. heather, this part of the budget scenario and the work ahead for congress always gets ignored, which is the needy, the working poor, and the working class. the democrats have a choice ahead of them. there's a farm bill that has yet to be approved. and in that farm bill will be s.n.a.p. funding and presumably cuts to s.n.a.p. funding. chris van hollen said this week, we are not going to pass a farm bill unless congress deals with unemployment assistance for the long-term unemployed. do you think the democrats can and will hold the line on it? >> i think they have to. this is one of those "whose side are you on" moments. you know, the moment of stimulus, but then just years and years of sabotaging the economy from the right. you're saying, you know, it is your job, folks. we send you to washington to actually help make our lives better. if you're not interested in doing that, you s