oral roberts university in oklahoma in the 60s. remember jimmy swaggart. the bible college.ertson, christian broadcasting university, regent university, jerry falwell founded liberty university. televangelists used to build mansions, towers, theme parks, now they build colleges. it turns out they help each other out. some times hard to tell them apart. when oral roberts university failed to have a law school, they boxed up their whole law school library and mailed tight pat robertson so he could have a law school. he built a law school. now a player in conservative politics. a former dean was put in charge of hiring in the bush administration. lobbying group associated with jerry falwell's lawsuit putting up the press release obama care would mandate free sex changes. i said this week that marco rubio gave his anti-gay rights speech with a guy from pat robertson school, turns out with a guy from the jerry falwell school. always getting these guys mixed up and their law schools. i very much regret the error. the fact remains if you want the republican party to nominate you fo

plaintiffs is a chain called the hobby lobby which donates a portion of their profits to oral roberts university. the hobby lobby says the evangelical christian religious beliefs of the company's owners mean that they don't want their employees to have access to contraception in their health insurance. another case was a mininite owned wood working business from pennsylvania. mininites are sometimes confused with the amish, but -- not believing in health insurance itself all together. so if your boss is a mininite or is an amish guy who thinks that health insurance itself is wrong, does that mean that you don't get health insurance at work even if otherwise the law would say you had to? that's what's so fascinating about this case. it is the rick santorum, the pill kills folks they're an outgrowth of the anti-abortion movement, they think contraception is the same thing as abortion and they're against them both. if you're against birth control these folks are your folks. these are the folks who put person hood on the ballot in mississippi and colorado and other places, in which case if those thi

when oral roberts university failed to have a law school, they boxed up their whole law school library and mailed tight pat robertson so he could have a law school. he built a law school. now a player in conservative politics. a former dean was put in charge of hiring in the bush administration. lobbying group associated with jerry falwell's lawsuit putting up the press release toobama ca would mandate free sex changes. i said this week that marco rubio gave his anti-gay rights speech with a guy from pat robertson school, turns out with a guy from the jerry falwell school. always getting these guys mixed up and their law schools. i very much regret the error. the fact remains itch yf you wae republican party to nominate you for president, you have to kiss the rings of the televangelist. be healed, republican party, be healed. that does it for us tonight now time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> tonight, we have more video of the new mexico state police reckless shooting at a mother and her five children in their minivan. eight more minutes of that vide

at gallaudet university, diane roberts, wusa9 sports. >> guess what?eed doughty is hard of hearing and will be the honorary captain at saturday's game. >> isn't that amazing? >> a great story. he's good at the game. we don't need to know anything else. very good. >>> good morning. welcome to wusa9 at 6:00 a.m. if you heard that story, i know you feel good already. it's thursday, november 7. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm deb deck. thanks for joining us. -- i'm mike hydeck. thanks for joining us. good morning, monika. mr. bernstein, an interesting day ahead? >> yes. we'll turn colder this afternoon. some rain is on the way. i think we'll get through the rush hour dry and i think we'll get the afternoon rush hour to be dry. it's right in the middle of the day, a soggy sandwich as we're calling it that we have to deal with. that's idea yellow alert. commuting and any outdoor communities middle of the day, you're going to be a little wet. temperatures starting out near 60 this morning and they'll stay there, if not get into low 60s for a high. chance of showers

>> reporter: those emotions carried rice and his team on a three year winning streak at robert morris university, a small western pennsylvania school. then, the break of a lifetime. the big leagues. head coach at rutgers university. annual salary, $650,000. the mandate, get the team out of dead last and fast. >> the media were calling us the leftovers. and the inexperienced coach from a small school in western pennsylvania. >> so i had a chip on my shoulders. and i think i put a lot on myself to show people, "a," that i could do it, and "b," that this program was going to take off, was going to change, and i was going to help change it. >> reporter: were you ready? >> looking back now, no. i let some of that pressure, some of that stress, dictate some things that i did, some mistakes that i made. >> reporter: mike's credo, practice must be harder than games. that temper never far from the surface. >> i thought it was necessary to get my team, or that individual, to be tougher. >> reporter: and rice was plenty tough on the sidelines during games, even getting himself thrown out. an early warning

. >> robert custer is joining us and msnbc contributor jimmy williams and prefer james peterson is a director at lehigh university without a leader at the moment. it seems a certain trio of rand paul and ted cruz and chris christie which is pulling ahead of the pact. do you expect to see these three men up on the stage in 2016 battling it out for the gop nomination? >> i expect all of them to take a hard look at running for president and i think they represent some of the power center right now within the republican party and i think it's going to be a wild circus like primary in 2015 and 2016. rand paul for the hard right. >> why a circus? i thought we had that in 2012. you think this could tump 2012? >> i think it's much bigger. one, you'll have a lot of smaller conservative players looking at running for president as a book deal or tv contract and some people we are not thinking about now i think are looking at running for president. plus you'll have a random governors and senators also looking in the mirror and seeing a future president. >> fantastic. prefer peterson, there are only a few republican governors

is also great and with the face. >> we spoke with university of michigan professor larry goldstein about african-american poet and essayist ima robert hayden, who is professor at the university from 1970 to 1980. >> directly out of my boyhood in detroit. sunday stew, my father got up early and put his clothes on. then with cracked hands for made in the weekday, whether i would weaken her the cold breaking. he would call and solely i would rise and dress, fury and anger is in the house, speaking differently to hand, who had driven up the cold and polish make issues as well. what did i know? what did i know of less austere and lonely hospices? >> robert hayden i think is one of the major poets of our time. he is a fascinating figure because he represents the world of early future it. detroit in the teens and 20s in 20th century and all the way through the depression, through the war, the aftermath of the war, the life that people lived in the 50s and 60s. of course he was a chronicler of the civil rights movement. there are so many areas in which he has written beautifully, written compellingly. >> what is it about his works that make

robert witt, alabama's chancellor, approved the contract. nick saban, dr. witt, makes north of $5.5 million a year. very simply, is he worth it to the university of alabama? : nick saban's the best financial investment this university has ever made. we have made an investment that's been returned many fold. >> keteyian: the best investment the university of alabama has ever made? >> witt: i believe... >> keteyian: three national championships in four years has translated into a 112% increase in revenue for alabama's athletic department. last year, $4 million was returned to the university in the form of academic scholarships. at 62, saban continues to coach as if his next paycheck is in doubt. >> saban: we can't go to the line on offense and stand there until the shot clock runs out, trying to figure out what the defense is going to do so we can call a play. >> keteyian: saban's idea of relaxation during the season? watch more film, and no one is more relentless at evaluating recruits. is it true that, if you really like a high school player, you will have every single play of his career put on tape? >> saban: and i watch that guy. >> keteyian: every singl

. >> the robert frost distinguished university of michigan in ann arbor. during book tv visit to the university, he spoke with us about the lives and work of robert frost and the time from spent in an arbor. >> i'm sorry i could not travel. long i stood, looked down as far as i could. then -- >> robert frost is perhaps the preeminent, one of the most consequential of our american poets of the 20th-century. he was principally known as a newfoundlander because that is where he principal lived. that is where he is buried, new hampshire. importantly also. he was a poet who probably set the national standard for what it meant to deal in the plane american-style. polaroid's new him first as an important practitioner. he had a lot of trouble early on we can talk about that. by the end of his life command is death he was very close to the national spokesperson. almost everybody alive in america saw him at john f. kennedy's inaugural in 1961 when he stood of at the podium and famously read or recited the gift of life. >> about the new order of the ages. >> at that

roots of some of these legal doctrines back to medieval europe, folks like professor robert williams of the university of arizona schools law, a professor bob miller looking at the discovery and in my book here looking at the best and worst cases of the federal indian law. the scholarship has really identified nefarious legal doctrines and internal tensions within the body of all that rendered them vulnerable today. the existence of this unjust side of the federal indian wall isn't questioned at any serious point in its history and i think the litigators of the past two generations have basically lived with this body of law. we tried to emphasize the protective features and coax the courts into providing the more protective features of the framework to degette and living with the dark side of it. we never amounted an effort to overturn the dark side of the law. the dred scott cases that are still seen today in johnson of the macintosh, but we lived with that. and so, this trend towards gradually weakening the federal indian wall has had many troubled legal scholars and the tribal leaders to asked is t

george mason university economist brush roberts as the real thanksgiving story. what's the real story? >> an important lesson we learn from the programs which was when they first came to this country they thought it would be nice to share. communal property, a big area that they farmed. john: the corporatio actually ordered them. >> work on this together and then we will divvy it up equally well, it was pretty harsh. it was cold. a lot of them got sick. they didn't grow much food for two reasons. one was that everybody is working together there is a tendency to shirk. let the other guy do it i still get my share. similarly, when stuff grew and the harvescame some people poked. they picked the fruit, corn in this case. depicted early thinking of get a whole year if a ticket and keep it. otherwise and sharing it with everybody else. >> get a bigger share overall as a result. their productivity in that first year was atrocious. governor bradford realize this immediately after a so what happened that the incentives or wrong. john: wrote in his diary. what must they d

lauren how korea's tourism sector is fair in twenty thirteen we welcome professor robert on her front and the university. welcome to prove it. thank you for having me. well professor what explains the boom in the tourism sector. she deferred to jeju island there are some reasons but first and i think we need to clarify the numbers. but when you say ten million that's combined domestic and international tours. so about seven point eight million of those were were koreans still two million is a very good and there are several explanations on for example the growth of cruise tourism so since in two thousand dying there are about thirty six ships thirty thousand visitors in two thousand thirty nine hundred and seventy ships three hundred and fifty thousand visitors um there are low cost airlines now which makes it easier to get to chat to there are more international direct flights so in two thousand i need and fifteen this year fifty seven um unesco the natural heritage designations for example for mt hollow biosphere reserve world natural heritage sites including mt hollow the global geo parks network and

joining me now thomas roberts with miss usa 2012. miss universe 2012. just first of all, bud y, what's it been like these past several days watching these women get ready to compete on a world stage? >> it's been pretty amazing. just to clarify 86 competitors for the show. i was a little uncaffeinated in my video diary. i want to make that clear how many are here. it's been amazing to of what. these are bold, talented women viewing for this iconic brand. they get to carry on in olivia's shoes over the next year. it's a lot of work. there's an intangible factor that goes into who is going to be crowned and authenticity judges are looking for. it's a wild show. you got me and mel b. and i've scored a russian fan. >> he's hot in moscow. >> everybody back at msnbc will be laughing at me because they all know i run hot. they all know i run hot. i need a fan and air conditioner, very cool. >> let me come to you before we get in trouble here. the competition itself getting a lot of attention. snl did that spoof last weekend. how excited are you and how excited

roberts is in russia. he's there all week co-hosting the miss universe pageant.also getting a firsthand look at the impact russia's laws are having on the lgbt community ahead of the sochi winter olympics. thomas, good to see you again. first of all, what are you hearing from those on the forefront of the fight against vladimir putin's anti-gay stances? >> craig, it really is a taboo subject here in russia to bring up the fact that these propaganda laws even exist, to discuss that there is a distinction between the classes here. and right now because of the anti-gay propaganda laws it does make the lgbt community a second class citizen. now, i had the opportunity to catch up with 38-year-old anton, who is a popular political commentator on a pro-kremlin cable station. when you came out on the air, it sent shock waves through the air and it's left him professionally sidelined ever since. >> i'm sitting home without job and actually without money. >> because of -- >> because i said that i am gay and the same person like president putin. >> so you had just had enoug

. >> former fbi director robert mueller is going to work at stanford. the university announced he will spent his year serving as a consulting professor and working with stanford scholars to better understand the challenges and issues surrounding international security and online networks. he served 12 years as fbi director. >> head of the california state senate visited a bay area school putting a new twist on learning . they have developed academic programs in law, and information technology. today learning about bed side manner. students are encouraged to do summer intern ships. >> students get involved. understanding what work is about and careers and moving from that point, forward. >>. steinberg announced the state will invest $250 million next year so schools can develop their own academies focussing on everything from fashion to engineering. >> california state university system wants to makeup ground lost during the recession. trustees are meeting this week and trying to want to spend $21 million to hire new professors and 70 new academic advisors the teachers

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beautiful women all competing for the title. >> joining me now is the co-host of the miss universe pageant msnbc's thomas robertsigning beautiful miss universe olivia culpo of the united states. it's great to see you. you look quite glamorous the two of you. >> this is alex witt one of the most brill beautiful women in all the world. >> you're telling that to miss universe. >> we need to move on quickly then. no, no. we played a clip from your video diary where you seem to forget how many women are competing. what's it been like preparing for the big event tonight? >> all right. so we might have misstated the number. it's 86 women who are competing from around the globe. so a lot of research has gone into this for me. luckily we've had a lot of rehearsals leading up to this evening. it's going to be a fantastic show. but i'm co-hosting with mel b., a live show. so you never know what you're going to get. you could get anything. you know how i am. >> as long as you have your fan on stage, you will be perfect. >> it's warm here in moscow. >> is it really? >> olivia says it's freezing. >> i say bring me a fan. so t

we welcome for the first time dorian warren, columbia university associate professor and roosevelt institute fellow. robertraynham, former bush/cheney senior adviser and georgetown university assistant dean. and jimmy kemp, president and founder of the jack kemp foundation. welcome, everybody. bob traynham, one of the things that occurs to me today with all that went on, the cancellations and the lack of grandfathering, and it was one drama after another, sebelius gave a terrible performance and so forth, and people realize they're not going to be able to keep it and the president broke his promise, they can't keep their -- >> individual. >> did in your opinion has the tide turned? is the public, popular and even media tide turned against obama and the obama plan? >> absolutely. the reason why is to your earlier montage that you aired a few moments ago is a lack of credibility there is a lack of transparency. there is also not a plan. so when you see the president and the administration say you're going to be able to keep your plan. everything is going to be fine. and obviously that's not the case, then th

. >>> in russia, last-minute preparations are under way on the eve of the miss universe competition. thomas roberts has been in russia all week rehearsing for his role as co-host of the competition, but also to get an inside look at the impact of the country's new anti-gay propaganda law. thomas joins us from moscow with a behind-the-scenes look at the last-minute miss universe preparations. >> richard, good morning. it is afternoon time here in moscow, and we are in the thick of it for the rehearsals for tomorrow night's miss universe pageant. this is city hall here in moscow and we have been in rehearsals for the last few days. these women who are competing in the miss universe competition have been here for the last several weeks as they have been preparing for the crowning moment tomorrow night. behind me on stage they're gearing up for the final act. i just jumped away to come over here and take this minute to talk to you. but there you can see the 86 competitors that are lining up for the final act, the final act being the crowning moment. interesting, though, we've run through this a couple

as robert ray reports doctors at the university of alabama says the affordable care act could save lives. >> bailey davis has been laying in the incubator fighting for her lich. she was born four months early and at two weeks old weighs less than two pounds. >> when we leave the hospital we think, "maybe she won't be here in the morning", she is so little and doesn't have as good chance as full-term baby. >> she is ar yell's first child. bailey's chapses are better because her care is paid for by her grandfather's health insurance. in alabama 519 babies died before their first birthday last year. that's more than in years past. >> alabama's infant mortalitiy rate is son to the state of mississippi, where -- second to the state of mississippi, where one out of nine babies died. a lack of insurance is one of the main contributors, according to the department of health. >> this doctor heads the neonatal department at the university of alabama. >> it's prenatal care that is the bottom line. >> the alabama department of public health says women without ipp shurn had 23 in -- insurance had 23

. >> tonight diane roberts introduces us to the galludet university football team on the verge of doing something very special. >> reporter: the beating of the drum is a practical tradition at galludet university. it signals the start of football practice. players who are deaf or hard of hearing can feel the reverbations. there's another sound echoing throughout campus. >> something special on campus is a buzz in the air. >> reporter: the buzz is about the team's undefeated season, 8- 0 with two more games to play. game no. 8 last weekend was an unbelievably dramatic win against becker. the bison blocked a field goal and returned it 79 yards for a touchdown. >> galludet represents not only d.c. or the deaf but the whole deaf community all over the world. >> this team has been different compared to the team we've had in the past. we have 54 players on the team and we call them 54 strong. >> reporter: the school is credited with introducing the huddle to the game. being deaf or hard of hearing isn't an impediment on the field. just asked this 6' 6 270-pound defensive lineman who is an nfl

. >>> before we go, a quick look at our friend, thomas roberts' moment on stage at miss universe. >> this year's home to the most gorgeous and breath-taking competition in the universe. >> oh, god. >> wow! the dance moves, thomas! >> do you still love me? >> more than life itself. >> thank you. >> almost as much as i love patrick, your husband. >> i was just showing some really good pictures of patrick that i'll have to show you off the air that are very interesting. >> that you can't show on the air? >> no, i can't. isn't that a tease? it's time for my tease and that's the tease. >> welcome home and i get the welcome home sglent it was a good trip and i'm glad to be back. >>> the agenda next hour, my one-on-one with donald trump. did his vocal stance against russia's anti-gay law move the needle for marriage equality here at home? you'll be interested to hear his answer. >>> on this veterans day the president will honor those who have served and the fallen at a ceremony at arlington. we'll carry those remarks for you live. >>> and then the aftermath of typhoon haiyan. the storm syst

also here, dorothy roberts with the university of pennsylvania and author of "killing the black body.some of my best friends are black," and professor wesley harris, associate provost of faculty professor at m.i.t. and as i have always called him, uncle wes. i want to start with you, adam. it was hard, i think, probably for you, for me, as children of interracial parents, of mixed race parents not to take personally that there's a gag reflex in response to our families, but is cohen on to something about the idea that this threat to the conventional is at the core of republican angst at this moment? >> i don't know if it's at the core of republican angst, but certain, people are much less okay with interracial marriages than that graph suggests. no one in america today or very few people think it should be illegal, but when you ask them, i think the more important question, how would you feel if someone in your family married a black person, the numbers go way lower. 40% of self-identified conservatives and moderates would not be happy if one of their family members married a black pe

daniella gibbs leger, robert traynham, assistant dean at georgetown university and former deputy chiefor rick santorum. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> daniella, does this sound like what's been said about john boehner and the right wing of the gop in the house? are we seeing the impact essentially of all these new folks coming in who used to be back in the day, when you were new, you just sort of sat back and kept quiet and learned things. now they're wielding huge influence? >> i don't think that's a fair comparison at all. i mean i think what you see in the senate is not that the new democrats are wielding some sort of outsized power, it's that they see what's happening in the senate, that it's becoming a more dysfunctional body because of the republicans. if you look at the number of people who have been filibustered throughout history, half of them have occurred under this president. how is that sustainable? how is that our democracy working? and i think harry reid was -- he was a reluctant warrior but he felt like he had to do this. i'm sure there are a lot of democrats

not she could be bipartisan, nonpartisan, add to that a professor from georgetown university law school and then robertkins, he, too, nominated. all stopped by a filibuster. not a single person on the republican side stood up to criticizes their qualifications for the job. it had nothing to do with their qualifications, it was to deny president obama an opportunity to fill these slots on the court. that's what it came down to. then to add absolute political insult to injury, what they did to our friend and colleague congressman mel watt. it's been since 1842 -- >> 1843. >> since the senate denied a member of congress an opportunity for an executive appointment and they did it to mel watt. a lawyer who had served in the house banking committee with distinction appointed by the president and stopped cold by the republican filibuster. now, if you listened, i hope you did, i did, to the speech given by senator mcconnell, here is what you could synthesize and condense it to. the note of filibustering judges was a democratic idea. they abused it and we did, too. >> dick durbin, the second ranking democrat wi

joining me now is former secretary of labor in the clinton administration, robert reich, professor of public policy at universitylifornia berkeley, stars in a philly based on his work called "inequality for all." it's out in theaters now. what is it about washington right now that they cannot seem to get their act together or focus on the most driving concern for the majority of voters, republican, democrat, independent, which is the fact there are not enough jobs and wages are stagnating? >> well, chris, i think most of washington is very sensitive to the richest 10% of americans who, not incidentally, own about 80% of all of the outstanding shares of stock in america. the stock market, in case you did not notice, reached a new record today. the dow jones industrial average bumped through 16,000, and that top 10% -- it's not just the top 1% -- the top 10% is politically vocal, they account for most of the campaign contributions. now, i don't mean to create a kind of false equivalence between democrats and republicans -- republicans are obviously far worse -- but the culture of washington, the discussions of was

robert. he's a middle schoolteacher at george washington university. and mayor fellows house improvements along the route 1 corridor. if elected, he'll work to soften the hostility toward university of maryland students. >>> and other cities in maryland also will hold municipal elections on tuesday and among those, takoma park, which is making voting history. it is the only place in america where it is legal for teens as young as 16 to cast a municipal ballot thanks to city council approval back in may. and scott broom is in the montgomery county maryland suburb with what they expect tomorrow. >> well despite this rather unorthodox expansion of the franchise to vote for high school sophomores and juniors. turnout tomorrow is expected to be low in what is a sleeper of a local elections. >> seen early voting in a video posted by the city, alana has become the first 16-year- old in history to vote in a local election, according to takoma park officials. >> we want our government to represent us. >> do you know who the mayor is? >> nope. >> some of her hig

help us understand the complexities of the rebuilding effort in the philippines is les roberts from columbia universitylic health. basically what's happening right now is that food and water and basic supplies are being shipped in, literally being shipped in, dropped there. at what point can local water supplies get back on line and can they depend on sort of local necessities? >> luckily, in tacloban, the pipe water supply is working for most of the city, so in some places, the response has been rapid and successful. that will happen at an ever-increasing rate. much of the trouble for water fly is salt water surged into people's wells. that with rains will solve itself in the weeks to come. so, the food issue is the bigger issue, logistically. for the international community, it will be weeks before these folks, many of them will be completely democrat on food. >> what about sanitation. we know corpses lining the streets for many days. i understand that's not the major public health issue. what is? >> so the main issue is people being exposed to each other's feces. virtually all the diarrhea, all the

filmmaker robert stone, dale brick of the natural resources defense council, jim hanson of columbia university'snstitute and nuclear engineer michael friedlander. right before the break michael said nuclear power plants are only as safe as the people operating them. >> that's right. so what we should do first is look at the record. solar energy, for example, the record is two deaths per terawatt hour of electricity generated. nuclear power 0.5 deaths of nuclear power. people fall off roofs while they're installing solar panels. but i'm not against solar panels. i'm just pointing out that the nuclear is actually much safer. it has a very good safety record. and that's with old technology. >> dale, do you buy that? >> yeah. i just don't think it's credible to say that the radiation risk from fukushima and chernobyl and for anybody who reads the newspaper and pays attention to these issues is dim inizing cancer rates. even if you can't point to an individual person and say that person has cancer because of chernobyl, we know that there are more cancers out there. >> you believe that nuclear power i

. >> i am robert macey, in 2013, the authority board approved the award of the contract to the team of university of maryland to the university of colorado to conduct the case study, which is to compare the project delivery and public partnerships. >> the lead partner in maryland determined that it cannot legally agree to one of the authority standard contract provisions designating california as the venue for dispute resolution, this is due to the nature of the way that the university of maryland is incorporated as part of the state of maryland. so in the typical practice, when making agreement to receive the funding from the other states, it uses the associated foundation to allow the acceptance of all of the appropriate contract terms. >> the foundation provides the grant administration and the accounting services and the cost is unchanged after a consultation with the city attorney, we have agreed that this is acceptable. this is a technical correction to designate the system as the partner for this study but no other changes are required to the scope of work or participants >> that sounds pr

that, another woman, a professor at the georgetown university law school, and robert wilkins, he was nominated. they were all stop a filibuster. not a single person on the republican side stood up to criticize their qualifications for the job. it has nothing to do with their qualifications. it was to deny president obama on opportunity to fill the slots in the court. to add insult to injury, with the did to our friend and colleague, a congressman. 1843, the senate denied a member of congress the opportunity for an executive of i met. they did it to our friends, a congressman who had served in the house banking committee. he was stopped cold by the republican filibuster. if you listen, to the speech given by senator mcconnell, here is what you can sympathize and -- synthesize and condense it to. the notion of judges is a democratic idea. that is what he said. what we said in return to him was that this change in the role will provide for no future abuse by either political party when it comes to the use of the filibuster. it solves a problem on a bipartisan basis. the last point i wan

town university in away, at cape town university in have a world away, at cape town university in south africa robert f. kennedy said, you will have the greatness to bend family's love and commitment can be recognized and respected and rewarded under the law. i am hopeful that we can now move this employment nondiscrimination act forward to build a tomorrow that is more build a tomorrow that is more >> in a few moments on "the communicators" that head of the rural roadbed association. >> host: as we continue our series on "the communicators" talking with some of the telecommunications headquartered in washington this week were joined by shirley bloomfield ahead of the nt ca of rural broadband association. she is here to talk about some of the legislative and policy nations that her association faces. >> guest: we represent 900 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country. we provide what used to be just basic broadband providers and there are also the one-stop shop tech service providers for their communities. they do the video and wireless. they do data centers. they do

universal health care. >> jon: ah -- well what is the water? >> i don't know, water is water, jon. what am i robert frost. >> obamacare is obama's 2008 financial crisis. it's the perfect 1 to 1. that was bad. this is bad boom done. >> i have to go with the classics i sat the web site is obama's iraq war because when i think glitchy web site the first thing that comes to my mind is decade long wars started under false pretenses. [ laughter ] and we all remember that press conference. [ laughter ] >> jon: actually that -- if i may, al, that never happened. >> yeah, but it could have. >> jon: all right. if we're looking for a comparison isn't obamacare most like bush's medicare part d program. it was a rollout, flawed a large change in our system but wound up being repaired around working well. >> that say stupid comparison, jon. medicare part d didn't murder anybody. >> jon: but obamacare didn't murder anybody either. >> yet. no one remembers that program. so many tasty terds and you pick the one the raspberry filling thank comparison is your stupid face do the stupid face dance, right? >> jon: i don

thomas roberts is in russia gearing up to host the miss universe pageant as an openly gay man.st, we want to get your reaction to something i know you're passionate about here at home. the senate's decision to outlaw workplace discrimination. just to think, two decades ago congress rejected same-sex marriage. attitudes are obviously quickly evolving toward gay rights. how important is this vote? >> well, it's extremely important, abby. i think we have to move forward as a country in leaps and bounds. as you point out, it wasn't that long ago that we had major steps in reverse. but as we look at where we are today and the senate has moved forward, we know it still has an uphill battle over in the house. meanwhile, this is something that has languished for a long time. we have openly gay members of congress who are serving now openly, which i think makes a big difference. we certainly have major straight allies in america that would like to see something like this pushed forward. just seeing it passed through the senate doesn't mean it will be passed through the other side and li