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make sense of it all, jeffrey rosen from george washington university legal affairs for the the new republic and you thorough of "the supreme court." thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> eliot: the supreme court could have been a reality tv show with the leaks and justice scalia and chief justice robertss going after it. are we seeing more of it now? >> you're right and justices are robert's best friend forever. that was right out of reality tv. it's not unusual. there have been finals when the court was at each other's throats than today, believe it or not. just as hugo black and johnson and it's been fractious before, but not for the last couple of years since bush v gore. >> eliot: which was a moment of tension and personal eveninginess among the justices. the cases this term as they always are uniquely important. affirmative action, something that is a staple to admissions to higher institutions under gradual assault until finally it is finally eliminateed. >> it is a possibility. and it's a hugely important case, as you say. at least four justices and really justice kennedy

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murray energy one of the largest coal mining operators in america according to a piece in the new republic murray all but coerces his employees into donating to republican political campaigns and threatens to cut their bonuses or demote them if they don't the new republic also notes that murray energy has contributed one hundred twenty thousand dollars to romney's campaign already this year and contributor to a total of one point four million dollars to other republicans including scott brown rand paul and james inhofe are bad enough that murray's at the helm of a company that is actively destroying our environment but threatening his employees if they don't make favorable political can't contributions that is very very shortly. after the break what could america possibly learn from a tiny landlocked underdeveloped nation of only seven hundred thousand people well the fact is we could learn a lot i'll explain what and why insights deleted. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada i should. shine corp

made it his own, we'll see if he keeps it the roberts court this term. >> eliot: editor of the new republic, thank you for your insights tonight. >> thank you. >> eliot: the mile high city of denver we'll preview the presidential debate, but as soon as we're off the air i'll participate in my own debate taking on glenn beck in the war of the words live from denver. you don't want to miss it. check out www.facebook.com/ www.facebook.com/current to find out where you can tune in. next, my take on the supreme court. that's ahead in my view. i don't after 18 years on death row for murder that he didn't commit. he joins us coming up. but right now let's check in with jennifer granholm in "the war room." what have you got for us tonight. >> jennifer: tonight we're going to do some myth busting or better put mitt busting romney claims the president will lie in the debates but we have done some fact checking. if there is anyone who has run fast and loose with the truth it's romney in the campaign. we'll get analysis and pre-debate strategy with alan schroeder, the author of " "presidential debates:

ten years ago, we do marketing for socially responsible media like mother jones magazine and the new republic and other titles like seven by seven magazine and california home design, we give the employees a paycheck and i am proud to say and health insurance and we are here through the good times and the bad. larger corporations who swoop in during the booms and disappear during the busts get the kind of benefits that we small business owners have never heard of. no one offered me a police station, a tax break or a express bus, quite the opposite. our business was evicted through the market as a result of doubling and tripling rents. >> small business is the economic engine of san francisco and i will do all that i can to support it and to make it thrive. i also am a mother, raising two boys on hate street and sending them to public school on public transit. i know we have good schools, but i also know the fear of trying to figure out education, health insurance, transportation, and affordable housing, with kids this is a struggle. we face it in the familis in san francisco. i have a concret

the new regime, the third republic, failed to establish public order and suspended civil liberties.ris erupted. led by radicals, the city elected an alternative government-- the paris commune-- that drove the politicians of the third republic to versailles. already ravaged by prussian artillery fire, paris paid a terrible price for its short lived resistance to the new republic's authority. edouard manet depicted the essence of the short, violent suppression of the commune as french troops fired on french civilians-- killing thousands before they squashed the rebelli. the national soul-searching for the reasons behind the violence and chaos continued for decades. the middle class blamed the lower classes for abandoning patriotic virtues for decadence-- turning to alcoholism and prostitution and away from respect for authority. they saw decadence differently from the heights of montmartre. the third republic's succession of ineffectual and corrupt governments smacked of decadence and failed to address the social problems created by avaricious capitalism and industrialization. polluti

then there's murray energy the largest private coal company in the nation which according to the new republic has coerced its employees to donate money to republican politicians so exactly what is going on here is the new strategy for the corporate elite to seize power to force their low wage workers to become their political slaves to here to tell us more about this story is michaele labor journalist and staff writer for in these times magazine mike welcome back good to be on the show great to have you with us how does this story advance what we already know about the koch's political activities well i think you knew in a certain way. it shines a new light in the sense that here the koch's they've always said they've been for freedom in libertarian ideals right so while they've been taking advantage of the new free speech rights granted to them under citizens united the corporate free speech rights campaign among their employees because he says and united lifted the restrictions on employers talking directly to the people they employ about elections and what what were the restrictions before

"the new republic," "the new yorker," u.s.ews and world report, the "evening standard," "the daily telegraph, the spectator, just to name a few. in which she grappled with a dazzling array of issues that actually defined the essence of life in the 20th century. democracy versus totalitariani totalitarianism, nationalism versus the new internationalism, the legal and moral intricacies of punishing war criminals, the meaning of treason, the validity of christianity, and the silence of god. but what was astonishing about rebecca west was that she never went to university. early on she understood that she was smarter and more capable than her classmates, or even her children -- her -- sorry, probably, probably her son. but also her teachers. she was an autodidact, great philosophy, theology and philosophy. managing to out perform and outclass those of high birth and formal education. throughout her career she was honored with the middle, from america and france. but her coup de grace came in 1959 when queen elizabeth awarded her g

the new regime, the third republic, failed to establish public order and suspended civil liberties.s erupted. led by radicals, the city elected an alternative government-- the paris commune-- that drove the politicians of the third republic to versailles. already ravaged by prussian artillery fire, paris paid a terrible price for its short lived resistance to the new republic's authority. edouard manet depicted the essence of the short, violent suppression of the commune as french troops fired on french civilians-- killing thousands before they squashed the rebelli. the national soul-searching for the reasons behind the violence and chaos continued for decades. the middle class blamed the lower classes for abandoning patriotic virtues for decadence-- turning to alcoholism and prostitution and away from respect for authority. they saw decadence differently from the heights of montmartre. the third republic's succession of ineffectual and corrupt governments smacked of decadence and failed to address the social problems created by avaricious capitalism and industrialization. pollution

we have michael shure and senior editor for the "new republic." i want to run this by you. it looks like romney is in a big load of trouble when it comes do the debates because he does not have much room to attack president obama. am i seeing this wrong? >> no, i think you're right. if i had one major strategic criticism of the romney campaign, they never migrated to the middle of the spectrum. ever since he had to move rights during the primaryies to offset challenges from newt gringrich and rick perry he maintained the base but it's mystifying that he never moved center. i agree with you the guy has boxed himself in on the far right political spectrum, and it's not the place you want to be with a month before the election day. >> cenk: i think moam made a good point the whole idea was that he was more electable. >> newt gringrich forever is saying he's not the most electable because he's being something now that he will not be in the fall. to add to what moam is saying what becomes a problem for romney is he doesn't know which way to go. wherever he steps he's offending s

." >>> joining me today, franklin four of the new republic, makes his debut on "now," deputy new york city mayor howard wilson, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney and buzz feed editor in chief, the always busy ben smith. while there wasn't exactly blood dripping from vice president biden's shining white canines last night by the end of the first and only presidential debate he had proven himself a fierce and loyal attack dog for president obama. >> the more brazen -- >> that's a bunch of mularkey. >> 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose the current medicare advantage coverage they have. that's a $3200 benefit. >> that didn't happen. more people signed up. more -- more people signed up. i don't know what world these guys are in. >> thank heavens we have these sanctions in place, in spite of their opposition. >> oh, god. >> after martha raddtz shifted from foreign policy to the economy biden nailed nearly every attack line team obama has used this cycle. >> we moved in help and people refinance their homes, governor romney said no let forecl

. >> i went back and read something i wrote in 2000 when i was at "the new republic" at the time sayingush doesn't have it in the bag and i had to convince everyone he wasn't going to crush al gore, it was a surprising, shocking -- >> but this strategy of saying you've won before you've won creates an inevitability, i think it's ridiculously premature. we have two weeks and anything can happen and by the way the numbers are closing and may be crossing. >> i don't know why we're surprised the romney campaign which doesn't tell the truth about his policy positions, his past statements. >> his taxes. >> his taxes, even what he said five seconds ago is throwing a line of bull out what's going to happen on the elections. i think what they're trying to do two, everyone's getting worried about a most election fight that it's not definitive or something comes up and so the more you talk about it beforehand is looks like romney is going to win, you try to set up again for the post election fight that may or may not. >> like in florida. >> like in florida so it's the type of thing that reporters

>> my friend at the new republic did a story where it really disputes this account and many workers sayy were forced to event -- forced to a tennis event and paid. the ceo was pressuring workers to donate to gop candidates. the second -- they're the second largest donor to the house speaker. he reveals documents and letters from the ceo of the company, singling out people who are not giving money and pressuring them to show up for these banquets. he even has the spread sheets or they show who does not have money and who does so far this year. this is a big trend. sure, maybe murray energy is not exactly telling people they are fired, but imagine your boss says, we're supporting his republican candidate and volunteering for him this weekend, are you coming with us? if you want a raise, you're going to do whatever your boss tells you. there's nothing to be gained by not going along with your boss on politics, so the idea that an employer does not have course of power when discussing politics with workers is ridiculous. >> mike elk, thank you for being with us, labor reporter. his latest a

new republic went from once a week to now twice a month right?so trying to move in more of a direction of say the new york or the atlantic. these are aspirations and the kind of weekly magazines. it's interesting because the week magazine has been doing quite well, but the week magazine is a weekly compendium, a digest. they do have some original writers especially on the website. they find a really quick straight compendium for people who want to catch up an that week's news and commentary. >> the past couple of editions of "newsweek" have been based towards sensationalism and stirring up controversy. >> bill: they were trying to keep it alive. >> were they trying to keep it alive at that point? >> caller: tina brown, the editor what she said is that she took over this magazine. she's been trying to breathe life into it. you've seen that new cover the first gay cover with president obama and a rainbow halo or something. they had a much criticized cover story on obama by neil ferguson which got a lot of criticism a lot of fact checking on various

they intended to lincoln, insisted, and anti-slavery future for "the new republic." in his version of history, this noble goal had somehow been set aside, to restore it as primary was the duty of the republicans. as a political pronouncement promoting himself, the speech was enormously successful. as a legal brief it was indeed effective, but as history, and lincoln defined his remarks as history always emphasizing what he called facts, it was decidedly one-sided. the founding fathers had not circumscribe slavery at all. for three decades after the ratification of the constitution, slavery and freedom had marched westward side-by-side. with powerful support from some notable founding fathers. new territories open to slavery had been acquired or organized under every president since george washington to james monroe. and, of course, that included john adams, thomas jefferson and james madison as well as washington and monroe. for slavery, the founding fathers bequeathed a more complicated legacy than lincoln reported, and evidently wanted to believe. in the crisis, li

in our guest spot today, the man who crunches the numbers in his daily break down for the new republic nate cone, he joins us now. nate, thanks for being here. i guess the place is start, i have written about this we have talked about this on the show, there's been a lot of discussion about the sort of similar trajectory in how the month of september 2012 went to how the month of september 2004 went. and you had back then, president bush opened a big lead over johner can rib, they had the first debate,er can ski well, the gap closed and we are seeing something similar now with romney falling behind in september, now the opportunity maybe for him to close tonight. do you see a parallel there, a potential romney/kerry parallel? >> just about everything between 2004 and 2008 has paralleled so far. both candidates are flip-floppers from massachusetts who are fundamentally flawed that ran on their biography. the numbers parallel each other. after the republican convention are, romney took 47% of the vote. kerry, 48% of the vote. after the in-party convention, both obama and bush took a big

a few weeks ago i got a google alert that "the new new deal" was in the new republic. i had written a lot for that magazine. i have a lot of friends there. i clicked on the link and it is the blog coast by a 23-year-old researcher who announced right away he couldn't even make it to the first page. she couldn't get past the first four words. but not these four first words. i will read what he wrote. it was so disturbing, so washington that i had to put the book down. addressed to a woman i can only assume is grunwald's wife it reads as follows. to christina, my stimulus. this which was stretching my dedication page image this twit was trashing my dedication page. so washington, says this kid who lives in washington. a woman like a only assume with grunwald's wife. i can only assume you are single. he says if christina really is his stimulus does that mean she prevented him from collapsing into an unprecedented depression? if we accept the merriam-webster definition of stimulus as something that arouses or insights to activity, grunwald's note comes across as a strangel

in one letter, uncovered by the new republic magazine, murray wrote, quote, we have been insulted byvery salaried employee who does not support our efforts. so much for voting rights and the secret ballot at murray energy. he also discovered that the coke brothers, david and charles, who have pledged to spend multimillions of dollars to defeat president obama, have sent a voter information packet to the employees of georgia pacific, one of their subsidiaries it icles a list of recommended candidates, pro-romney and anti-obama editorials written by the cokes, and a cover letter from the company cress. if we elect the wrong people, he writes, many of more than our 50,000 u.s. employees may suffer the consequences including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation and other ills. other ills? like losing your job? this is snow balling. time share king david siegel of est gate resort reportedly has threatened to fire employees if brk brk is re-elected. and arthur allen who runs asg soft ware solutions e-mailed his employees if we fail as a nation to make the right choice on november 6th,

i have jeff from the ticker, sarita from american rigs at work and alec from the new republic. you here. we are talking about what you can do in your workplace in terms of political activity and what the boss can do in your workplace in terms of political activity and what he can and cannot compel you to do. we have a variety of examples of employers pushing donations to candidates. also sending e-mails or notes that employees are saying you should vote for this person. it's first amendment protected speech. as we get closer to the red line, it's illegal to say, if you don't vote for this person, i will fire you, right? >> there are voting laws that protect against that. >> that's illegal. now the question is, you come in and say today, for your job, you are the middle manager in the chris hayes industry, today, we are all, as part of our work, we are going to go knock on doors for candidate "a." >> it's less clear. i think it's perfectly legal. you can say hey, look, as a company endeavor, let's go back our favorite candidate. it's -- it's -- you know, it's problematic. you we