he says you are unamerican.ere to investigate -- them to investigate him with the private detective and accused them of delaying to ukraine. >> which is interesting because it was the white house that delayed aid to ukraine because they wanted i.m.f. reforms. i thought it was fascinating that republicans were trying to get aid to the ukraine before putin went into crimea but it was the democrats that stopped it. we don't want to distract harry reid with facts. he is calling the koch brothers unamerican. >> we can debate that. >> where is this going? >> the majority leader said this about the billionaires late last month. >> it is too bad that they are trying to buy america. it is time that the american people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as unamerican as anybody i can imagine. >> wow. so now he and the democrats have decided the way they will win the mid term elections is not by spending money trying to get young people to sign up for obamacare or bring jobs back

it is absolutely something wrong with that and there is absolutely unamerican. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, washington capitol hill kim strassel and james freeman. as i mentioned earlier, lois lerner refuses to answer questions from congress but is talking to the justice department. what is with that? >> the issue is what part of the justice department is she talking to? an issue like this would normally be handled by the public integrity section of the department of justice. she is not talking to them. she is talking to the civil rights division, which is run by an obama partisan. that makes you wonder what is the point of her talking to the department of justice? i think what is going on here is that the obamaunderstand they are on very thin ice with this irs investigation because abuse of power is not merely a political expression, it's a federal felony. you start pulling on that string and find other people who conspired to impede a federal investigation, a lot of individuals are going to have very significant legal

you're saying is factually incorrect, what you're saying is disrespectful, what you're saying is unamerican, what you're saying is bad for the party there is no one within the republican party who can say that. and so that's how you have this. >> i will be contentious on this. do you mean to tell me, gentlemen, that the republican party chair of say ohio, a middle of the road state, or pennsylvania or virginia even now middle of the road, the republican party chairs, men and women of those states are happy with this zoo they're watching on television? that they think this is good advertising? >> i don't think they necessarily. look, they're not necessarily worried about 2014 because this is going to be a good year for republicans. cyclically it always is. cpac has a presidential ballot. they always do. 26 people on it this year. how do you differentiate yourself in that field of 26? well you got to be one step further to the right than all the other guys. >> does the furthest right guy always win? >> not necessarily in the primary, but you get the attention, at least early on. >> no does th

there's nothing unamerican about that but what is unamerican is when shadowy billionaires more unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system and benefit themselves and the one percent. >> we reached out to the koch brothers about this statement. they have not gotten back to us but in the past they've offered this statement regard to the senator. using the kochs name is part of the playbook. they demonize us. we saw it in 10, in 12 and now we're seeing it again. a lot of the democrats use it for fundraising. it's also to intimidate those who disagree with the administration. >>> speaking of elections, everything is big in texas including today's kickoff to the 2014 election season. dozens of candidates are facing off for everything from governor to u.s. senator and on the republican side the candidates aren't so much running against each other as they are against president obama. the rhetoric has been heated including this ad from lieutenant governor candidate todd staples. >> wherever and whenever, i can take steps without legislation that's what i'm going to do. >> mr. president,

by resorting to the tactics of our enemies and engaging in fundamentally unamerican activities. and what do we have to show for nothing. so that's very embarrassing to the cia. >> but again there's a very delicate dance going on about what should be classified and what not. colorado senator mark udall said president obama knew of an unprecedented action taken by the cia against the committee with regard to this report but then the white house doesn't seem to be in a hurry to declassify itself, they are in a battle with the senate committee about some other documents it doesn't want declassified. >> i think that's exactly the point. the white house doesn't really want to engage in this because they are involved in these other committee. and also, the white house really doesn't want to make an enemy of the cia. you want, as a president, you want to have a good relationship with the intelligence community, and with the director of the cia. so i don't think they're really willing to push in this case. and you also have to wonder whether the white house and the intelligence community

they are totally unamerican.y are anti-dogs. >> they are probably american to be honest. >> not american is different from unamerican. they could be both. >> can i talk about the emoji? >> yes. i am all for there being a more diverse emoji. we know what will happen here. racists will start using the emoji of color in really, really bad ways. >> i'm sure they could figure it out how to make it exist. i was reading a story from time frag. "time" magazine. it says i didn't know much about the emoji, but i did download it. there are two homosexual couples and i was told by the "new york times" that we are no longer to say that. even contained in the story there is something that saw parentally offensive. we can't say homosexual. >> i looked and there is -- it is true. int -- there was a guy with a turbine and i was trying to figure out how i would use that a and it is clearly for something racist. >> how are you doing? how is it going with you sikh guy? i don't understand why these exist. maybe people wear turbins li

american people spoke out about this terrible dishonesty about this two brothers that are about as unamerican as any one i can image. >> now reed going on a 12 minute long tirade on the floor accusing them of unlawful business practices an attempt to portray the conservative billionaires as election year boogie men. >> what is unamerican is when billionaires poor unlimited money into our democracy to rid the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest one percent. >> representatives now firing back saying their disappointed read is attacking rather than the problem facing the nation. that brings us to our look at who is talking. connecticut democrat chris murphy on the record last night defending harry reid. >> how about obamacare. i am talking about senator harry reid as a leader and saying things in the senate floor that aren't true and how he continues to be your leader and how people continue to step in line and don't encourage him to be fair th himself. >> i think democrats have been defensive too long on healthcare. >> senator reed. >> i agree senator reid has been tough. >> i don't

for instance, unamerican. i mean, that's over the line.in ten years. then suggested that mitt romney was a felon. why does he say it on the senate floor? because there he has got immunity. if he was a real man and he really felt like that, say it off the floor where you don't have immunity. does he do that? no. >> by the way, i was talking to byron york earlier and he said this whole thing about picking a villain is just the latest choice because since the day one of this administration, they always find somebody to make the bad guy. listen. >> the whole idea right now is to tar a republican candidate with the villainy of the koch brothers because americans for prosperity, a group the koch brothers do fund, does a lot of ads that play in local elections and states around the country. so a democratic candidate, having villainized the koch brothers can say, my opponent is taking money from the koch brothers. that's the whole game here. >> yeah. when you look at donors, i think the koch brothers are down at number 59 in the order of influence

if the senate can declassify this report we will be able to ensure that an unamerican, brutal programtention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted. >> that is what u.s. senator is supposed to be like. david, i have complete faith in her. can she win this fight and get this stuff took back after they have gotten their hands on it. they somehow reached back into the files and pulled it out again somehow. >> we have the 6,300 page report is that senate intelligence committee has completed that incorporates a lot of what was stolen back by the c.i.a. so if the report comes out we'll know what went on. the big issue here and di-fias they call her on the hill got to this saying how we resolve this will determine whether we can do effective oversight of intelligence community. we have an open democratic government here. the only reason we let people do things secretly for national security reasons because we have checks and balances. we let the members of congress represent us peones and have oversight. she raised the question yesterday whether they can do this. if yo

. >> what is unamerican is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy toy rigystem, to benefit themselves and the wealthiest 1%. senate republicans, madame president, are addicted to koch. >> a spokesman for the koch brothers responded in part saying we are disappointed that senator reid is attacking private citizens rather than the problems facing this nation. it is no wonder that americans have lost faith in congress. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> joining me now for our first look at politics, washington post congressional party ed o'keefe. good morning, ed. >> good to see you, betty. >> $4 trillion budget was released yesterday and you are already calling it dead in the water. why? >> well, remember, we were all celebrating the fact that congress passed a two-year budget deal back in december, which takes the federal government through the end of fiscal 2015. so really what the president released yesterday is irrelevant, is moot. isn't needed. the congress already has a budget plan. by law, he is required to he shall a budget proposal.

you're saying is factually incorrect, what you're saying is disrespectful, what you're saying is unamerican, what you're saying is bad for the party there is no one within the republican party who can say that. and so that's how you have this. >> i will be contentious on this. do you mean to tell me, gentlemen, that the republican party chair of say ohio, a middle of the road state, or pennsylvania or virginia even now middle of the road, the republican party chairs, men and women of those states are happy with this zoo they're watching on television? that they think this is good advertising? >> i don't think they necessarily. look, they're not necessarily worried about 2014 because this is going to be a good year for republicans. cyclically it always is. cpac has a presidential ballot. they always do. 26 people on it this year. how do you differentiate yourself in that field of 26? well you got to be one step further to the right than all the other guys. >> the right person always win? >> not necessarily in the primary, but you get the attention, at least early on. >> no does the furthest

what is unamerican is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy. to benefit themselves and the wealthiest 1%. senate republicans, madam president, are addicted to koch. >> a spokesman for the kochs responded, quote, attacking koch is nothing new, and it appears to happen whenever senator reid and the democratic leadership want to distract voters from their abysmal record. but the amount of money the koch network is spending on 2014 senate races isn't a distraction. it's a real issue. americans for prosperity just one of the groups that the kochs support has spent $2 million so far in militia. $3 million in louisiana, and million in north carolina. all together, the group spent more than $30 million on tv and other ads in states with competitive senate races. senate democrats want to make sure voters know whose behind it all. they've even created a campaign website called addicted to koch, highlighting the koch brothers' influence. and at a time when many americans feel the system is rigged in favor of the wealthy, it's a message that is starting to

there is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely unamerican. >> hear, hear. >>> both members of congress later made their way to working microphones and journalists to explain what happened in that hearing room and why. >>> there was a surreal event this week in daytona beach, florida, where onlookers couldn't believe what was unfolding in the water in front of them. and once they determined it wasn't a stunt of any kind, once they determined a family was in danger and a minivan driving into the surf, complete strangers then went into action, and we are happy to report everyone emerged okay. we get the story tonight from nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: this was the heart-stopping scene along daytona beach where a mother driving on the vehicle-friendly sand turned her minivan into the ocean, witnesses say, and drove it directly into the waves. with three children screaming, it was a tragedy in the making until a handful of strangers put their own lives on the line, sprinting into the water and hearing the voice of a little boy inside. >> the little boy said, please

that is profoundly unamerican, it's profoundly wrong and government needs to get out of the business of choosing who has a right to your life, read your money. it's to protect rights, not violate them which is what the entitlement state is. >> look at the other picture. a kid on a couch, his head phones on. and he's probably going to pick up a check. maybe not this guy specifically but guys like him. is going to pick up a check at the unemployment office. cato pointed out 35 states, better off financially to take welfare than to go to work. >> yes. so what's the incentive to get americans -- americans don't feel like there is incentive to work. it's better. it's a better deal to sit at home and collect the check than look for a job. you make more money living off of the government. what kind of society is this and what kind of society are we showing the next generation, the younger generation. >> juan, we spent trillions upon trillions of dollars in assistance programs, and we know this, you and i talked about this quite a bit. poverty is at a 30-year high. the poverty rate a 30-year

i don't get the unamerican thing. he doesn't like their politics.ther having a nervous breakdown or somebody who lies about lies. >> that's what always happens. right? you lie once and then you have to lie to cover up the lie. >> right. unless we're taping it. then you're kind of screwed. >> that's a great point. >> it's not exactly a surveillance camera. he was staring straight ahead from the podium. >> he was also reading it. >> right. yes, he was. >> to the best of my recollection, just get the paper. get the speech. >> so who is going to the movies this weekend? >> are you thinking about going to see "noah"? >> it's the number one movie. filmed on long island. he's got a huge budget. there is a huge flood in the movie and this is based off the bible. but it's also a movie that's generating a lot of controversy. i am not sure if it's going to result in a big box office or not. >> the controversy is that they never say the word god in it the entire time. creator is used a little bit. but the idea of the ark story and this global flood that wipes o

is he calling private citizens unamerican from the floor of the senate.e jaw dropping. some saying maybe is he seen senile. i don't believe that's the case. he is a seamless liar who gets away with it can he come out and say i never said that even though there is the clip of him saying it like three weeks ago. he needs to reacquaint himself with the concept of video. we have had that for a while now. if you say something on the senate floor there is cameras and stuff and people tend to notice in the congressional record this is big -- when you said it like three weeks ago, senator. and he just -- so casual and effortless aligning women. he is the senate majority leader. >> thank you for joining us. >> 20 minutes after the hour. next on the rundown. the teenager comes up with a way to save the government millions aer year. the plan is so simple. so why isn't washington listening? >> then a blow to common core after a state op.s out. is this the beginning of the end for that curriculum? we have a fair and balanced debate coming up. stay tuned for that comin

that's unamerican. throw a flag or something. we don't give red cards. >> there was a place called the penalty box so maybe they were going have cocktails. by the way, how come in some sports you have to be quiet like golf. but if a guy is pitching you can scream at a pitcher. >> upper class things like cricket are posh and hello, hi. minor sports like soccer are all about yeah! they have been in the mines all day and they want to get out and scream. >> people are quiet when they are bowling. you have to be quiet when somebody is bowling? >> not on my bowling team. >> i am not sure anybody bowls. >> they do. >> senate democrats introduced a bill that would ban electronic cigarettes to teens. despite theett implications of e sigs are, like the rash on my back, not yet clear. we can't undo decades of risk of progress as i totally destroy reading this quote because i tried to read it too fast. i will start over. we cannot risk undoing decades of progress and and reducing youth smoking by allowing e-cigarette makers to target our kid

. >>> former colleague, senator reid, has called the koch brothers unamerican.that sound like? when you get a senator calling people that he disagrees one american? >> i wish harry reid would focus on his job of running the senate. senate has sat on the ball so long, not dealing with anything in regular order. i would love to see the senate be the senate again. mitch mcconnell saying if i take over senate leader we'll be a senate. we're going to debate things again, let bills come up that people have to vote on. to me this would be terribly frustrating. >> everybody says the same thing. both sides of it. harry reid has been a glorified pocket veto for barack obama. the house passes bill after bill after bill. harry sits on and doesn't let anything go through the senate. >> and has gotten people re-elected on it. >> mika, you're going to be a big wichita state fan. >> that's a wu shocker, undefeated, 34-0. national championship against ku. i have to bet myself then in the national championship. >> best of luck with that. governor sam brownback, thank you so much.

there is absolutely something wrong with that and it is absolutely unamerican. >> the committee chairman eventually left the room but elijah cummings stayed and kept talking. >>> one of the coldest snowiest winters in memory has put a cloud over the fishing industry in the graicts. ash-har quraishi has the story. >> for more than 50 years, the family has been processing fish caught on the midwest and the great lakes. >> we are handling upwards of a million pounds of fish a week. >> but this year is unusual. for mike schaeffer, the costs are mounting. >> it's going to have probably a million dollar impact on the company. >> courtesy of the polar vortex, threatening a $1 billion a year industry. ice cover blanketing the great lakes reached 80%. >> the ice season got started early. of course we had that arctic vortex in the end of december and early january and the ice just kept building. >> this time of year, commercial fishermen cast nets to drag. there are feet of snow off the ice keeping fishermen off the ice. >> hello, shaifers fisheries, pay i help you? no we have no fish at the time.

it's too bare bd they're trying buy america, two brothers that are about as unamerican as i can rememberquestion is is this a winning strategy for democrats? will it actually help them hold on to the senate? for more let's bring in dave leventhal and doug thornel, a democratic strategies and former national press secretary for the democratic congressional campaign committee. thanks to you both. here is the question. dave, i'm going to start with you. we saw a poll this week that says 52% of americans don't know who the kochs are. so the question then becomes -- obviously there are -- the question becomes is it really worth it to spend the resources to make these guys into the boogeyman? >> the democrats absolutely are. they haven't just been doing it since harry reid started talking about it a couple weeks ago. this goes back to december and late 2013 when every fund-raising blast that the democrats were sending out to their supporters, to their potential bankrollers were all about the koch brothers. it wasn't so much about john boehner and mitch mcconnell, it was about using the koch br

reid, only a multimillionaire is a rude little man and calls the brothers unamerican, radical and shadowy you might have heard during the russian revolution. we all know how that turned out. commentators on the right and middle if there is one are rushing to compare with that of the legendary far left community organizer. his major work, rules for radicals, has been the blueprint for obama's social philosophy. directing attention to rule 13, pick target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. reid is probably following rule five that ridicule is man's most potent weapon. it is worth noting he was financed by one of america's foremost capitalists, marshall fields iii. will someone tell us why george left wing of all time continues to be the invisible man in all of this? the billionaire's sorrows runs a world wide network of progressives who have for years woven itself into the country's political and media institutions. many journalists and schools take money. the argument here is over the progressive cause for big government as opposed to free market individualism. hovering over the d

in the past harry reid has called the koch brothers unamerican and those who support them addicted tooday's word of the day was radical. >> when senate republican senators rush to defend the koch brothers, they are also defending the radical policy. how do we know it's radical? because they said it's radical. they said so. i'm not making those words up. they said -- one of the brothers kept harping on the fact that he has a radical philosophy. and they do. so i ask my republican colleagues from the senate, is even one of you, is even one of you willing to stand up and disavow the koch brothers' radical agenda? it's radical because they say it's radical and it is radical and all you have to do is look at it. >> today the koch brothers released this statement. like most americans we believe conduct is beneath his office and his because they are exercising their first amendment rights, we find that very, very troubling. senator reed sounds desperate to keep his job. joining me is alex wagner and msnbc senior political analyst david al section rod, a former senior adviser to president oba

and there it is absolutely unamerican. >> we had a hearing. it is adjourned. i gave you an opportunity to ask the question. >> here was reaction, fox news political analyst juan williams, i wish elijah cummings, juan, would have had the same passion for those who were victims of the government and targeted by president obama, and dick durbin were all sending messages to go after these 501(c)(4) groups. i wish he had that passion back then? >> wait a second, they have had 16 hearings on this topic before today, sean, 16. how many hearings, and they have not come up with one smidgen of evidence. >> let me help you out, maybe lois lerner can tell us all the truth since she has nothing to hide. if there was not a smidgen, why did she apologize to the american people about the scandal? she actually said she was apologizing for it. number two, they blame rogue agents in cincinnati, and we find out this is happening all over the country, and the agents say they were taking directions from washington. >> what did lois lerner say in the e-mail? not about political acti

there is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely unamerican. >> here, here. >> joiningw, matt cartwright from pennsylvania. he was there today, in fact it was his voice you heard at the end of that clip saying, here, here. >> have you ever seen a scene like that in congress? >> well, chris, i guess we're done with the sheer lunacy part of your show, we're now on to the unadulterated lunacy part. the answer is no, i've never seen anything like that, i've never seen anything like that in the congress. i've never seen anything like that in my 25 years of trial practice. you know, i come from northeastern pennsylvania, chris, where we have these fanciful motions of fair play and free speech. i understand other americans feel the same way. those notions were trampled upon today in the oversight hearing, and the great irony, chris, is that our ranking member for the democrats is elijah cummings out of maryland. and mr. cummings started off, you know, when lois lerner first came to testify in congress, and when it was russell george who showed up last year with his detailed re

there is absolutely something wrong with that and it's absolutely unamerican. >> in support of representativegs, they called on mr. boehner to formally reprimand mr. issa and urged him to strip issa of his chairmanship. not surprisingly, speaker boehner is standing by speaker issa. >> to my understanding, he is within his rights to do what he did. he is the chairman, he's done an effective job and i support him. >> thanks to my guests for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> rules do matter. and the level of sort of disrespect that we saw was pretty staggering, particularly considering -- you know him probably better than i do, congressman cummings is not a man to whom you would see that kind of an outburst particularly frequently unless he's really been pushed. >> he's one of the most decent, gentlemanly individuals in the house of representatives, well respected on both sides of the aisle. the house rules have their principle embedded in them for the equal time between the majority and minority. we all represent more than 700,000 individuals. elijah cummings is the ranking member and he shoul

in the senate led an effort to not pass the debt ceiling, declare a position he took in 2006 was unamericanis he a guy who voted against comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 and now paints himself as the fervent advocate of it and denounces those who took the exact same position as he did in 2007 which was anti-guest worker program, anti-comprehensive immigration reform. the president can be for you or against you. he can he be with you or against you. it just depends whether he was in the senate at one time and the president another. i would feel some sort of obligation. if i switched my opinion about the immigration. power of the presidency, if i had such a different opinion than i do now, i would feel some sort of obligation to explain, you know, why i had, quote, evolved. >> yeah. well, exactly. and but not this guy president obama has shown himself over the years he was defender of traditional marriage when he ran to election. when he got ready to run for re-election he after three years evolved his position. immediately began to denounce people who had held the position that he ha

there is absolutely something wrong with that, and it's absolutely unamerican. >> democrats are now demanding that issa publicly apologize for that behavior. but instead of apologizing, he is lashing out. today he sent this letter to congressman cummings saying, quote, your tactics undermines the committee's investigative prerogatives and harm the institutional interests of the house of representatives. i've encouraged and continue to encourage you to subordinate your political loyalties to the institutional interests of the committee and the house. joining me now is the congressman that was sent to congressman elijah cummings, ranking democrat on the house oversight committee. thank you for being here, congressman. >> it's good to be with you. >> what is your reaction to this letter from chairman issa? >> i thought it was a very, very sad letter. he was supposed to basically what he had done, reverend, is that he had botched our efforts to get information from a witness, ms. lerner, who had taken the fifth. and that letter was supposed to be a response to my allegations -- not my allegations

. >> unamerican is right. congressman issa has had a vendetta against this administration.er if these hearings turn up nothing. he spent the last years searching for scandal everywhere. >> this is a failure. it needs to be investigated. our committee ecan investigate. >> it is a story of political interference. >> that includes fast and fuska furious. >> we are here because failures are not isolated to just tax exempt division. >> four months ago -- this fast and furious and things like it are beginning of attack. >> attack on benghazi. this hearing is over but this investigation is not. >> you see the investigation is never over with congressman issa even if there is nothing there. >>> joining me now is democratic congressman jackie spear. she serves on the committee that held the hearing earlier today and "the daily beast" michelle cotter. >> at least congressman issa didn't cut mics off. >> we all got to say a few words. >> i mean, more and more of the same. clearly this has every appearance of a witch hunt, congress woman. >> here is the problem. we have a chairman of a

. >> this is absolutely unamerican.

. >> this is absolutely unamerican. >>> there they go again. house republicans were up to their old tricks today trotting out their favorite whipping posts. the irs and obamacare. first the irs. after lois lerner again pleaded the fifth before chairman darrell issa's oversight committee, issa tried to adjourn the hearing without letting any democratic members speak. >> may i ask my question? may i state my statements? >> you're all free to leave. # we've adjourned. but the gentleman may ask his question. >> for the past year, the central republican accusation in this investigation has been -- >> we're adjourned. close it down. thank you. [ inaudible ] >> i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. we have members over there who represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation. there is absolutely something wrong with that and absolutely up american. >> afterwards, the chairman defended his decision to cut off proceedings. >> mr. cummings said he had questions to ask. instead he bega

. >> if the senate can declassify this report, we will be able to ensure that an unamerican brutal programterrogation will never again be considered or permitted. >> joining me right now is ron suskind, pulitzer prize winning author of four books on presidential power, including the bush/cheney administration. his upcoming book "life animated" is about the unique and remarkable way his autistic son has learned to communicate. and joe conason. good luck on the book. it sounds like a very important book for us all to learn about. let me ask you about this torture thing. let's get to the bottom line for people watching. why is there a fight here between brennan, the cia director and dianne feinstein? what is the bottom line of interest to the american people here? >> the bottom line is that moving to the dark side, their world is our world, it deeply compromised the united states. it compromised the real source of our power, chris, our moral authority. and everyone knows it now as well. the torture was ineffective in terms of any intelligence gains. that's what is clear. what everyone now is

it is absolutely something wrong with that, and it's absolutely unamerican. >> chairman issa

and absolutely unamerican. >> now congresswoman marsha fudge, the chair of the congressional black caucususe of representatives strongly condemns the offensive and disrespectful manner in which chairman darrel e. issa conducted the hearing on the house committee of oversight and government reform. >> this afternoon cummings finally got to finish his thought. >> not only were chairman issa's actions an abuse of authority, they were counter productive. in my opinion, the house republicans have abandoned responsible oversight by repeatedly declining to take basic investigative step, promoting unnecessary political conflict and making false claims about the white house. >> joe johns is here with the latest. joe, the involvement of the congressional black caucus, does that mean that they're suggesting something was racial about this incident? >> a lot more caucus, a lot more politics, a lot less race i think is probably the way you can best put it. the cbc is involved in part because elijah cummings is former chair. but speaking with the current chair, she doesn't see race as having anything t

. >> what is unamerican is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the themselves and the wealthiest 1%. senate republicans, madam president, are addicted to koch. >> addicted to koch. addicted to what senator reid called unlimited money from shadowy billionaires. addicted to what that money can buy. according to "the washington post," koch-backed groups raised $400 million during the 2012 election. >> the koch brothers already believe they can play by a different set of rules. think about how an america rigged by the koch brothers would look. the koch brothers don't care about guarantee of affordable, quality health insurance for every american. that's obvious from the misleading ads they have paid for from all over the country. >> many of those misleading ads are coming from the koch-funded group americans for prosperity. the same group the post reports has already spent $30 million this election cycle. a spokesman for the koch brothers responded, saying, quote, we are disappointed that senator reid is attacking private citizens, rather than the proble

it is absolutely something wrong with that, and there it's absolutely unamerican. >> hear hear. >> we had a hearing that is adjourned. i gave you an opportunity to ask you question. >> i do have a question. >> i gave you -- >> senator, what are you hiding? >> wow. what reminded me of this famous exchange over a microphone back in 1980 when then presidential candidate ronald reagan was involved. >> will the sound man please turn reagan's mic off? >> you turn my microphone -- >> i am have paid for this microphone. >> but the spectacle in congress yesterday did not sit well with members of the congressional black caucus. today they stood in unison on the house floor condemning issa's behavior, and sent a letter to speaker boehner urging him to remove issa as chairman. cbc chairwoman marcia fudge, a democrat from ohio said, quote, congressman darrell issa of california abused his authority, and therefore must be reprimanded to ensure the digit of the house of representatives is preserved. in fact, we urge to take prompt action to maintain the integrity of this body and remove mr. issa as

the resulting impact are people not going to be able to participate in our democracy, that's just unamerican. >> mr. kobach, quickly, the department of just tils i think the last time they looked into it between 2000 and 2005, out of 197 million votes cast they only found 40 instances of cases where people were indicted for voter fraud, is this a big enough problem for the state of kansas or other states to be using taxpayer dollars to go through and say are you on the suspended list to offer more proof. >> absolutely it is. if you just look at indictments then are you only seeing a very small percentage of the picture. if you look at actual case of reported voter fraud where you have like a county clerk or some other corroborating individual who can say yeah, this is a credible report, it's much higher. look at the number of aliens in our voter roles, in kansas we presented to the federal court 20 examples where we knew they were aliens and they got on the voter roles, arizona presented about 200 case and that is just the telephone of the iceberg because there is no easy way to look and det

it is absolutely something wrong with that, and it's absolutely unamerican. >> chairman issa cut off congressman cummings' microphone twice, refusing to let him speak. today in the house, outraged democrats introduced a resolution condemning issa's actions. >> not only were chairman issa's actions an abuse of authority, they were in fact counterproductive. >> you see republicans simply trying to shut down and suspend democracy in the house of representatives. >> what happened was so outrageous, so demeaning, so unjudicial, so awful in every respect that we just absolutely have reached the boiling point. >> they've reached the boiling point. and today the congressional black caucus wrote to speaker boehner, demanding he remove issa as chair of the oversight committee. for three years issa has used his gavel to launch one witch-hunt after another. to make one baseless accusation after another. and it's time for that to stop. joining me now is the lawmaker who is leading the charge guest ice sack, congresswoman marcia fudge, chair woman of the congressional black caucus and msnbc's kare

. >> what is unamerican is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest 1%. senate republicans, madam president, are addicted to koch. >> addicted to koch. and yesterday he told reporters he would not let up, saying, quote, i've been told by lots of people don't pick a fight. they're wealthy. they're very vengeful. but without sounding too melodramatic, if not me, who? that's harry reid speaking. i am after the koch brothers. they are two people who are trying to buy america. they have the money to do it. rick tyler, a republican strategist and steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. is anybody making money off of these guys? they spend billions of dollars. are the consultants or ad copywriters making money? they're paying the checks to somebody. tv stations, i guess. >> sure, they spend a lot of money to get people elected. but harry reid doesn't like -- well, the unions also gave him money. >> let's get to the point here. why is harry reid going after the koch brothers? why is he making it personal and a

that is profoundly unamerican, it's profoundly wrong and government needs to get out of the businessas a right to your life, read your money. it's to protect rights, not violate them which is what the entitlement state is. >> look at the other picture. a kid on a couch, his head phones on. and he's probably going to pick up a check. maybe not this guy specifically but guys like him. is going to pick up a check at the unemployment office. cato pointed out 35 states, better off financially to take welfare than to go to work. >> yes. so what's the incentive to get americans -- americans don't feel like there is incentive to work. it's better. it's a better deal to sit at home and collect the check than look for a job. you make more money living off of the government. what kind of society is this and what kind of society are we showing the next generation, the younger generation. >> juan, we spent trillions upon trillions of dollars in assistance programs, and we know this, you and i talked about this quite a bit. poverty is at a 30-year high. the poverty rate a 30-year high in spite of

it's unamerican!ctions. take a listen. >> to date, i have not seen any evidence that shows where this was politically motivated or that the white house had anything to do with it. yet those are searches made by republicans. i've said it over and over again. all i want is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. for some reason, the chairman did not want to hear what i had to say today. he closed the hearing, barring me from saying one syllable. >> if the ranking member had wanted to make a motion before i adjourned, i would have accepted it. i adjourned. he then said he had a question. what you played there was after an adjournment. he then perked up and said, i want to ask a question. i said, what is your question? and thenç that exchange occurrd because he didn't have a question. he was endlessly slandering the efforts of the committee. >> so dumbings -- cummings, if he had a statement would have let it go. he wanted to stop it. he's also frustrated. and if cummings believes there is n