nbc says everybody knows who al sharpton is, and it's not like they're trying to hide anything. but i feel like people look at that, and they sort of say, well, he's got an agenda, everybody's got an agenda, right? and george zimmerman sued nbc news pause another part of -- because another part of nbc news made a mistake when they edited audio of a 911 tape where george zimmerman was talking to sanford be police, and they made it look like he had focused on trayvon martin because of his race in the call. so now anybody want to take bets on whether or not what al sharpton did on msnbc comes up in that 2r50eu8? and what happens if they lose the judgment because they were able to talk about some unfairness exhibited on another branch of nbc news. see, this stuff can be complicated. one chapter of the book on fox news talks about how one group that fox be news likes to coffer is the new black panther party. i was watching election coverage in november, and on election day they seemed to keep cutting back to this voting area in philadelphia where guy who was a member of the new black

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al sharpton is out of a job. chris matthews is out of a job. he was dropped on his head as an adult. >> do you have proof of that? >> they're yelling to me to go to the next block. >> kimberly, say something, please. >> happy to be here. >> no, no. say it. >> what i have to say is they're losing credibility in leaps and bounds. they're very defensivdefensive. they name call and engage in this kind of bigotry. it cheapens the dialogue. they should care about americans being persecuted for their ideological beliefs. >> up next, what's the most redneck city in america. dwreg h greg has the answer from a new survey when we come back. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. beard growing conte and go! ♪ win! what's in

al sharpton is out of a job. chris matthews is out of a job.on his head as an adult. >> do you have proof of that? >> they're yelling to me to go to the next block. >> kimberly, say something, please. >> happy to be here. >> no, no. say it. >> what i have to say is they're losing credibility in leaps and bounds. they're very defensivdefensive. they name call and engage in this kind of bigotry. it cheapens the dialogue. they should care about americans being persecuted for their ideological beliefs. >> up next, what's the most redneck city in america. dwreg h greg has the answer from a new survey when we come back. i do a lot of research on angie's list before i do any projects on my own. at angie's list, you'll find reviews written by people just like you. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insu

joining me now to talk about this and the nation's real problem of joblessness reverend al sharpton. reverend jesse jackson. right i don't you know i'm so sorry i'm so glad we had the storm last week but we've been talking race in two thousand and twelve and i'm asking all of you one central question and the question is well that raises so i have because any good race baiter needs it if you were race card for everyone everyone at the table has a race card ok professor change. a little bit of clips there for. you find them silly do you think it mustn't be steves being seen a silly i think that there are some amateurish mistakes going on i don't i think chris matthews is probably getting to a point where he's becoming a parody of himself i think al sharpton is too i think melissa harris perry show has a following particularly younger women and particularly younger women of color but she's not a you know a whole groom journalist you know so she's an academic like me who transformed herself into you know showbiz and there are dangers there but she does have a following but but it shows l

>> reverend sharpton, to answer your question plainly, no. these photos are relevant. only photos that are relevant are the pictures of trayvon martin on the night that he was shot and killed by george zimmerman. >> now, do you feel that there's a strategy behind now the six-week delay that they've requested? i mean, what do you make of that? >> we've always believed that they know if the jury follows the evidence, that they will convict george zimmerman of killing trayvon martin. there is so much evidence, overwhelming objective evidence. you know, they try to throw red hairs about marijuana and pictures of trayvon with a goatee that has nothing to do with anything. the police department did not take a drug and alcohol analysis of george zimmerman. we will never know what was in his system even though he admitted to the detective that he was on prescription medication and that it influenced his memory and that's why he had to get out of the car to look at the street signs. now, we don't accept that because we know when you listen to the objective tape, he got out of t

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. breaking news. three college friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev have been arrested and charged in a boston federal courthouse. this is brand-new video showing the suspects being led from the courthouse to a detention center where they are being held right now. two of the suspects were charged with obstructing a federal terrorism investigation. they are also accused of knowingly destroying, concealing, and covering up a laptop and backpack containing fireworks. here's a photo released of the fireworks released inside a dumpster near their apartment. a backpack also contained a jar of vaseline and a u-mass dartmouth homework assignment sheet that dzhokhar was currently enrolled in. the two here are azam azamat tazhayakov, di dias kadyrbayev. both from ka sdplchlt ikstan. the third man is rchl ob obel phillipos. this is big news for the investigation. three men charged with helping a terrorist cover up a crime. joining me from boston, michael isikoff and don croft in houston. he managed the investigation of

"politicsnation" and al sharpton starts right now. >>> tonight's lead, the mind of a monster. ariel castro is behind bars in complete isolation and on suicide watch. former relatives of castro's ex-girlfriend, the mother of his children, paint a nightmarish portrait of castro in interviews with "the associated press," describing him as, quote, a monster, who abused his wife and kept his kids locked inside their own home. castro's mother is sick about it. >> i have a sick son who has done something very serious. i ask for forgiveness from the mothers, i ask that the girls forgive me for the pain they suffered. i'm suffering for my son. my son is sick. and i have nothing to do with what my son did. leave me alone because i am a mother and i'm suffering, too. >> and now we're learning more about castro's sick past from one of the victim's mothers. >> you would see him and he would say, how are you doing? >> yes. >> like nothing was wrong? >> yes. >> that's chilling. >> it is. you know how many times i've been through these streets? i've passed by that street. i have a sister who

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now >>> death in taxes.ng. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. call me a charlie rangel fan. today i watched him at the hearings on the irs mess. i heard him say everything i believe. it's this. if you have a problem in a

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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> houston, we have a problem.ris matthews in washington. let me begin tonight with this. glee, it's a tv show and also what we're seeing on stage in houston tonight. we're looking at the triumph of gunpowder over the will of the people. 90% of the american people we know want better background checks on who buys a

. >> guest: there's a bit in my book about al sharpton and his dual roles as a spokesman for the family of trayvon martin and an anchor on msnbc, and i've always criticized it that and felt it was inappropriate for have someone as a major anchor on a news channel who is also representative of someone at the center of one the most covered news stories in 2012. i think there's room to criticize the way some people on the left talk about race. i do sort of feel -- i don't want to do what we call false equivalency. i don't want to look at what happens on the left and equate it to the right. unfortunately i think what has happened in the conservative media sphere is much more negative and intense and much more problematic, so i do have some trouble with in of the things on the left and i have talk about al sharpton in the book. but i do focus a lot on the conservative media sphere because there's a lot of troubling things. >> here's t >> visit book tv -- booktv.org to watch any of the programs to see here on line. type the author a book title in the search bar and the upper left-hand side of

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> strategy of doom.>>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. imagine being a member of a political party whose only initiative, whose only recent mission, whose only active

"politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, major developments in the murder case against george zimmerman. the man accused of killing 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman has pleaded not guilty and claims he shot martin in self-defense. today with less than two weeks to go until the trial, a judge made several rulings against the zimmerman defense team. the defense wanted to include photos and documents that some say were designed to paint trayvon martin in a negative light. including pictures of gold capped teeth and alleged drug use. today the judge ruled that none of that could be brought up in the opening statements. though she did leave the door open for the defense to bring this material back during the trial if it could prove relevance. >> the state is seeking to prohibit the defense from making any reference to the fact that trayvon martin had at any time been suspended from school. >> that will not be mentioned at all without a prior ruling of the court. >> any communi

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> peek-a-boo politics.hews in washington. let me start tonight with this. there are two ways to look at this irs scandal. one is to blame it on the bureaucrats. the other is to blame it on the white house. someone through mind control perhaps somehow got a line into that cincinnati office.

david katz, also reverend al sharpton.re we get, the wealthier we get, the fatter we get. obesity is an epidemic. we should know better. >> we should. only after we have time to figure it out. again, throughout most of human history getting enough to eat was the challenge. so we developed a culture around that. we celebrate with food. we love one another with food. one of the points i've made is we have to update the love. grandparents who give treats to grandchildren, but that's the reason they're more likely to need an endo krinologist or bariatric surgery. it's like turning the "titanic" around. all of our culture was oriented towards more is better. all of a sudden less is better. that's a hard turnabout. we have to make it culturally. the other thing we need to do, you mentioned wealth. wealth is by no means the perfect defense against obesity. the fortune 500 ceos, their bmi is rising steadily, just less than a poor folks. you guys talk about economic matters on tv. every day everybody cares. what if we raised young

i'm al sharpton. [ applause ] i'm super skinny now, but for some reason this here camera, i don't knowyway, republicans are mad because the tea party has been targeted by the "urs." i'm sorry. what? excuse me, the irs. but what they fail to realize is that this has been happening to us for the past 50 years. let's talk about it. ♪ >> president obama has been clear. he thinks the irs playing politics with nonprofits is nutrageous. but all republicans want to do is spout conspiracy theorize -- excuse me. conspiracy theories. they just don't seem to hold up. joining me is dana milbank of "the washington post." >> hello there, reverend. >> dana, what is this about? >> well, once again, republicans are taking a real problem and attaching unreal political motives to it. >> okay, but i wanna know. what is this about? you're a man but your name is dana. >> well, al. but there's lots of men named dana. >> well, i don't trust it. >> you know what, i'm going to call you dan a. now dan a., obama, he said he's going to get to the bottom of this irs mess, but republicans won't take yes for an answer

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> turn around.ll." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. today was the second day of the obama offensive.

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, right wing horror show. a stunning offensive display from the far right, a zombie target that appears to resemble president obama. sold for shooting practice at this weekend's nra convention. the target is officially named rocky. though customers online call it barry, both apparently for barack obama. fake blood leaks from the target when it is shot. buzzfeed broke this story and reports that nra asked the vendor to take it down after two days on display but still let them sell it from behind the counter. it was displayed at the same convention that featured gop presidential contenders like ted cruz and rick santorum. this is ugly stuff, disturbing stuff. it evokes the worst of what we've seen from the far right when it comes to this president. they painted him as the joker from batman. they put up billboards comparing him to hitler and gave him a mustache at tea party rallies. they even joked that he supposedly resembles satan in a tv show about the bible. the rhetor

i'm al sharpton. >>> fall of a viking. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening.ton. let me start tonight with this. michele bachmann is quitting the congress. what is it with these people? is it congress? is it the right wing? what gives? sarah palin was the vice presidential nominee of the republican party in 2008. remember? game change? she was the game change. then she quit. left the governor's office halfway through her term. her only term. then jim demint, the guy ruling the whole right wing of the republican senate, wing to the right of mitch mcconnell, that's half the party.

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop's setting up shop in scandal town. instead of investing in america, for weeks they have been on a mission to bring down president obama with controversies. and now they are not just doubling down, they are tripling down. the national journal reports that the gop will keep stirring the scandal stew over the memorial break. forget jobs. forget policies. interviews on local television and radio programs, republicans plan to talk about the obama administration's, quote, credibility gap. now, i'll be the first to say that what happened at the irs was wrong. but attacking the president's credibility? that's offensive. and it's a distraction from real problems. late last night, an interstate bridge in washington state collapsed after being struck by an oversized truck. in an instant, cars were sent toppling into the icy water below. >> you thought this was the end? >> absolutely. when i felt the water rushing in, and i kind of came back to a situation where i was loo

i'm al sharpton. [ applause ] i'm super skinny now, but for some reason this here camera, i don't knowyway, republicans are mad because the tea party has been targeted by the "urs." i'm sorry. what? excuse me, the irs. but what they fail to realize is that this has been happening to us for the past 50 years. let's talk about it. ♪ >> president obama has bee

"politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, making sure justice is served. moments ago, a government watchdog issued a report blaming ineffective management at the irs for allowing agents to improperly target tea party groups. this just comes hours after attorney general eric holder announced a criminal investigation to learn if any laws were broken. >> i have ordered an investigation to be begun. the fbi is coordinating with the justice department to see if any laws were broken in connection with those matters related to the irs. those were, i think as everyone can agree, if not criminal, they were certainly outrageous and unacceptable. but we are examining the facts to see if there were criminal violations. >> the attorney general also addressed another controversy that we're learning more about today. the justice department's decision to secretly seize telephone records of journalists working for the associated press. this apparently centered on an a.p. story from may 2012 tha

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> horror in cleveland.>>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. the horrors of cleveland are growing. one of those captiveen

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> target, benghazi.dball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. there have been a raft of charges that fit under the heading, benghazi. the sheer volume of them allows the one making the charge to maintain the offensive. it allows people to take glancing shots at this administration and possibly a future administration without coming up with a sharp indictment that merits hard public debate. so to avoid that confusion, i'm going to divide the charge into four periods. one, events before the benghazi facility came under attack. two, events occurring when the benghazi facility first came under attack. third, events occurring before the second attack in benghazi.

i'm al sharpton. [ applause ] i'm super skinny now, but for some reason this here camera, i don't knowd because the tea party has been targeted by the "urs." i'm sorry. what? excuse me, the irs. but what they fail to realize is that this has been happening to us for the past 50 years. let's talk about it. ♪ >> president obama has been clear. he thinks the irs playing politics with nonprofits is nutrageous. but all republicans want to do is spout conspiracy theorize -- excuse me. conspiracy theories. they just don't seem to hold up. joining me is dana milbank of "the washington post." >> hello there, reverend. >> dana, what is this about? >> well, once again, republicans are taking a real problem and attaching unreal political motives to it. >> okay, but i wanna know. what is this about? you're a man but your name is dana. >> well, al. but there's lo

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight in miami. tonight's lead, bringing down the house. president obama's confident about the future and calling out the obstruction in washington. >> if day in and day out what we confront is obstructionism for the sake of objestructionism an what appears to be an interest only in scoring political points or placating a base as opposed to try and advancing the interests of the american people, then we've got to find a way to work a way around that. and one of the best ways to work around that is to have a democratic counsel of representatives. >> fighting obstructionism. it's defined his presidency from day one. they plotted to destroy him from day one, though. it was the big tea party takeover of 2010. they vowed to take down the president. they vowed to repeal obama care. it was a brash in your face type of politics but it's failing. michele bachmann is retiring before she's voted out, allen west and joe walsh could hold on to their seats but they don't learn. senator

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> strategy of doom. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. imagine being a member of a political party whose only initiative, whose only recent mission, whose only active purpose these days is to find ways to keep member of the other party, blacks, young people, the elderly, from voting? and oh yeah, keeping the president of the united states from getting anything done. meet the republican party of mitch mcconnell, john boehner, and, yes, reince priebus. look at its agenda on gun safety. do nothing, or should i say nutin' at all? or should i say, nothing at all. leave it the way it is. getting bargain basement wages for people who businesses can make a lot of money? keep it up. government deficits in to deal. cut meals on wheels, cut the soup kitchens, while as jon stewart puts it, keeping the food cart moving on first class. welcome to the plan. stop people from voting on the democratic side. stop a democratically elected president from

i don't know -- i don't think al sharpton is running again.on't know anybody else running again. it will probably be martin o'malley, governor of maryland. it may be the -- do you think the vice president -- this is where it gets interesting. if secretary clinton runs, do you think the vice president will take her on, or step aside and say, no, her time has come? >> i think we can't visualize that stage until we know what she's doing. i think just about everybody, male and female in the democratic party is waiting to see what happens. >> are you pushing her to run? >> we would certainly love her to run. >> if you don't get her to run, who's your candidate for president? >> we have a strong bench that is just as good and viable as martin o'malleys and andrew cuomos. >> who's your best -- >> klobuchar, jill gragillibran >> the senator from minnesota, very popular in this city, and certainly gillibrand is really good. very impressive. i'm not sure they have the name i.d. yet. >> jess is right. hillary clinton is about the great big eclipse blocki

politics nation with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. and breaking news from the white house. president obama is about toik ma a statement on the irs controversy where officials are accused of selecting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. the president met with officials from the treasury department which oversees the irs. late this afternoon. earlier today attorney general eric holder testified about how he's ordered a criminal investigation into the irs controversy. joining me now, democratic strategist bob schumm and chris matthews. what do you want to hear from the president? >> i think reverend al, this is one area where i don't think the president has any guilt personally. any responsibility personally for what happened. he is, however, head of the executive branch. he has to offer for it. the united states government which has a certain image with certain people has a positive image with me but there are people out there on the right and the center right who don't like the government. this is an example they will argue of gove

and in the case of sharpton, sharpton lived a middle class life until his father abandoned the familyand then down to the ghetto. they talk about racism, racism as opposed to the centrality of fathers even though in their own lives the lack of their dads, in my opinion, had a very profound impact of how they view the world. one of the reasons they're so angry, perhaps, is because they didn't b have a father in the house, and instead of talking about importance of fathers and policies that can encourage people to get married before having children, they talk about racism, racism, racism. in my opinion, they're doing a disservice to the community. i think they're being leaders to the best of their ability, don't get me wrong. i don't think they're doing it in bad faith, but i think they ought to rethink what they're doing. >> host: leroy, ham den, connecticut. please go ahead. >> caller: yes. i'd just like to say, i kind of agree with what you're saying about a strong father in the home, but my thing was i was raised in four different foster homes. and the fathers were strong figures on

of all sharpton you gotta chill out man there's a lot more crazy stuff going on anderson i hate to burst your bubble but every single new detail that emerges about the victims is not breaking news you know it is breaking news a tsunami a forest fire giant earthquake not every time someone adds another balloon to this family's front porch yes it was breaking news when these girls were found but literally every time i look at the news now this is breaking news of the non breaking news story i'm getting to think that you all don't even know what breaking news means anymore you're taking the flavor of the essence out of what breaking news really means all of the twenty four seventh's coverage in the corporate media perhaps nothing is as ridiculous as this split screen conversation how between ashley banfield and nancy grace on c.n.n. just just watch this for a second because it becomes obvious the more you look at the feed that they're best standing only a few feet from each other you can see the same exact cars passing behind them in the phrase i mean really guys do you think that we're the

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> tonight's lead, forget the hype, get the facts. republicans have gone from peddling their bogus scandals but they are coming up dry. tod today right wing republicans after mid-level irs official walked out on a house hearing after refusing to answer questions but the real point was that the republicans totally failed to connect the controversy to the president. >> who nominated you to be head of the irs? >> president bush. >> are you biased against conservative groups? >> no. >> do you think they deserve more scrutiny than liberal or progressive goods? >> no. >> did you ever order irs employees to target conservative groups? >> no. >> did you ever receive instructions from anyone at the white house to target conservative groups? >> no. >> that's the real story here. no conspiracy, no coverup, no nothing. the american people trust this president. a recent poll shows the approval rating at 53%. 53%. that's a higher percentage than on election day. in fact, this approval rating is 2% higher than the president had back in april. last

sharpton shouting in all caps. >> what'd you say, russell?leave it there. we don't want to get into anymore trouble here. dana milbank, al franken, amy holmes, we'll get you back here at some point in the very near future. thanks for your time on a sunday afternoon. thanks to the bain trust and a big thanks to you as well. that's going to do it for me on this rainy sunday afternoon. we appreciate you spending at least a portion of it with us. don't forget to tune in tomorrow. up next, it's the brand-new ed show with ed schultz. he's standing by, he's rearing to go. don't go anywhere. he's right after the break. with the spark cash card from capital one... boris earns unlimited rewards for his small business. can i get the smith contract, please? thank you. that's three new paper shredders. [ boris ] put 'em on my spark card. [ garth ] boris' small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase every day. great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. read back the chicken's testimony, please. "buk, buk, bukka!" [ male announcer ] get the spark bu

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning infrom miami. tonight's lead, worst socialist ever. the republicans love to claim the president is killing jobs, he hates the free market, he doesn't understand capitalism. so how do they explain this? >> we just hit 15,000 on the dow. >> april, nonfarm payrolls increased by 165,000 jobs. >> as you can see reading across the board, all 30 of the dow components. >>

reverend al sharpton, sam stein and donny deutsch back at the table.rom washington, pulitzer-prize winning associate editor of "the washington post" bob woodward and we'll start with the latest headlines this hour. in a few minutes we'll simultaneous with the "today" show so i'll bring us into that. president obama facing ongoing questions is it stemming from the irs's targeting of conservative groups. with the first of several hearings set to kick off today, a second irs official is stepping down. he follows the agency's acting commissioner who announced his resignation earlier this week. now a white house budget official will take over the irs. meanwhile we've learned the irs staffer that wa er ther that in tea party groups were targeted is now in charge. >> bob woodward, the first time you've been back since all of these -- we're not exactly sure, do you call them scandals? do you call them elapses? we're not sure what you call them, but what do you make of what's happened over the past week and a half? >> starting with the irs, what's the impact? >

. >> joining me, reverend al sharpton, host of msnbc politics nation, and msnbc political analyst, stevechmidt, senior adviser for the mccain, palin campaign and strategist for bush cheney in '04. reverend al, you're around the building, yourself discipline is amazing. your congratulations were kind and generous. in terms of what it means for self-discipline, potential campaigning, how hard is it, how hard will it be for him to deal with this, deal with the weight at the same time he deals with other national issues, if you will? >> that remains to be seen. i mean, the discipline we'll see now in terms of his maintaining, and maintenance of what he has done. all jokes aside, keeping weight off is much more difficult than getting it off, especially when you don't do it naturally. on the political side, he is going to have to do more than lose weight to be president. i mean, the policies that he believes in and has proposed, including his reaction to obama care and other things are clearly not where the american public has been polled, so i think i congratulate him for losing the weight, i

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> horror in cleveland. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. the horrors of cleveland are growing. one of those captive women was forced to deliver her child in a plastic swimming pool so it would be easy to clean up afterwards. when her baby got sick and stopped breathing, her captor said, if the baby dies, you die. and other times when she got pregnant, the man holding her captive starved her and beat her in the stomach to force a miscarriage. as a final grotesquery, and gave each of his three female captives a cake on her annual abduction day, thereby forcing her to celebrate the fact of her kidnapping and decade-long confinement. we found out the alleged captor treated his wife much the same, tieing her up in the basement after they were married. moments ago we learned the charges the prosecuting attorney will seek. we'll get to those in just a moment. >>> first, msnbc's craig melvin is in cleveland for us. >> reporter: chris, they are

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> charged. let's play "hardball." let me start tonight with this. for all the talk of too much government surveillance, with so much chatter about big brother looking over us, one horrible case that nobody, nobody seems to have known about. this afternoon, ariel castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape in the case of three young women held in a neighborhood in cleveland without anyone knowing that this hell was being perpetrated on three and eventually four of our fellow citizens. what does this say about the relationship between the community there and local police or does it say there is no relationship? if you see something, say something. in this case, what the people saw is brought into question but there's no evidence, at least according to the police, of them ever saying anything about it. the house republican's effort to tar president obama and hillary clinton. with us is clint van zandt and craig melvin and late today we got new details of the horrific details of the women he

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> houston, we have a problem. let's play "hardball." ♪ >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me begin tonight with this. glee, it's a tv show and also what we're seeing on stage in houston tonight. we're looking at the triumph of gunpowder over the will of the people. 90% of the american people we know want better background checks on who buys a gun. they want a way to stop the felon, criminally insane and wife beaters, if you will, from getting more fire power. the nra has engaged in the same politics with the national republican committee. wayne lapierre loves reince priebus and wayne lapierre loves reince priebus. well, couldn't we look at the celebrations down in houston as the marriage between lethal hardware and the hard right and, yes, houston, we have a problem. joy reid and ed rendell, former governor of pennsylvania. the convention is taking place in houston, shows how far right the right has gone. the once bipartisan group known as the nra has gone so far right. look at this speaker's l

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> taking charge. let's play "hardball." >>> president obama showed who was boston. the boss is the one who can fire you and fire someone he did. the head of the irs is out. obama said he was asked for his resignation and he gave it. so now it's time to head into the bows of that tax agency and find out who else thought it was a great idea to tilt government's case against people on one side of the political spectrum and leave the others off the hook. tonight in this second edition of "hardball," we know what was missing. the perception of leadership in the u.s. government. we have a leader. he is the president. david corn, washington bureau chief from mother jones bureau chief. and howard, start with this. the implications of the president, taking that microphone at 6:00 tonight. knocking off the acting head of the irs saying we'll do the i.g. report. by the way, we'll work with the other guys in getting to the bottom of this. >> i think this is the president that people who support him, who want to s

i'm al sharpton.e of the oklahoma tornadoes, next. >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. rescue efforts in the oklahoma city suburb of moore are still under way.

"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> tonight's lead, forget the hype, get the factshave gone from peddling their bogus scandals but they are coming up dry. tod today right wing republicans after mid-level irs official walked out on a house hearing after refusing to answer questions but the real point was that the republicans totally failed to connect the controversy to the president. >> who nominated you to be head of the irs? >> president bush. >> are you

sharpton let a middle-class life until his father abandoned the family and to the gato. what are they talk about more than anything else? as opposed to the centrality of fathers come even in their alliance, they had a very profound impact on how they view the world. and i'd argue one of the reasons they're so angry is because they didn't have a father in the house. instead of talking about fathers and policies that encourage people to get married before having children come in to talk about racism. they're doing a disservice to the black community. i think they are being leaders to the best of their ability. i think they have to to rethink what they're doing. >> host: the way, hampton, connecticut. you want the tv. >> caller: i would like to say i agree with what you're saying about a strong father in the home. my thing is i was raised in four different foster home and the fathers were strong figures. there is never any love. go to school, do your homework and be good. the thing that really bothered me if they never knew love from a father. all i knew is discipline. it d