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It. if he wants the congress to fix it -- >> not by design. >> they did it. >> not with any -- [ overlapping voices ] >> two wrongs dont make a right. >> hold on. scale matters when youre dealing with humanity. this isnt an abacus. were not talking about bean counting. when you dont have judges and you dont have accommodations, you knew what you were doing. you did it anyway. thats his problem. we see it in the polls. well see where it leads. rick santorum, appreciate it. nina turner, as always,...

Republicans control both houses of congress and the presidency and all of a sudden they want to make this the democrats problem. the president started this zero tolerance policy, and he can fix it. if he wants the congress to fix it -- >> not by design. >> they did it. >> not with any -- [ overlapping voices ] >> two wrongs dont make a right. >> hold on. scale matters when youre dealing with humanity. this isnt an aba cuss. were not talking about bean counting. when you dont have judges and you ...

Not affiliate with a religion while that number is much smaller for republicans, 13%. this country is also getting older with 50% of voters now over the age of 50. here democrats fall behind on this national trend, 42% of their voters are 50 or older. the gop, however, has grown older as the country has aged and they have grown older faster. 57% of republicans are over the age of 50. in short, democrats are mostly heading in the same direction as the country as a whole. thats why democrats are s...

Veto that which to me is not only irresponsible it would be dangerous and you know you talk about sequester which was passed in 2011 but the threat level internally has changed dramatically and one of the things that sequester does its bean counting. its not strategic thinking. so for example, the dod gets cut at higher percentages than say the irs or the epa. im someone who believes in significantly increasing defense spending decreasing certainly epa or irs funding, but we need to get back to ...

And were here to help start yours. in todays three big headlines, bean counting. nancy cook who covers economic and domestic policy. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> what does the nations unemployment picture look like at the state level? >> sure. they just came out this week. there was a lot of good news in there. unemployment dropped in 21 states. 2/3 of states saw job gains but you still have this huge disparate across the country. you have places like north dakota that ha...

Information survey and it went to social solutions internation. it says they are a research firm dedicated to the change of underserved populations. what does that mean? >> there are businesses that have thes this model of creating a need from government groups. various tiger groups that get a slice of the pie when the grants go out. and my colleague is reporting that one thing people are concerned with is they might go from interviewing editors and demanding to know what goes in their decisions...

Quite a bit. so it did get pushed eventually to the forefront. but, you are right, it did take a while. and you you know, it says something that it took this attack on the first amendment for the press to get upset. we think about what happened with the irs scandal and targeting conservative groups and questions about government sort of meddling in freedom association it. it took a year and a half for them. when the press gits gets hit of course you are going to respond. they havent responded as...

Something like a quota or going through and auditing and doing the numbers is going to force you to be more energetic and inventive and innovative and any outside of your comfort zone when thinking about staffing. >> its like the rooney rule. >> great idea. >> explain the rooney rule. >> you didnt have african-americans rising to the level of coaching in the back end particularly in professional football and baseball and professional sports leagues there were no african-americans in the back off...

That this is a president who wants it to keep them bare foot and barren. >> bill: for the record i dont believe the president is a sexist: joining us from washington radio talk show star laura ingraham. and you say? >> bill, here is what is funny about all of this. the president has made a big deal, big splash back in 2004 saying we are not white or black america, red or blue where the united states of america. that was very refreshing. i think when people first heard him give that speech. it wa...

On your column -- >> thank you very much. copy desk. >> the headline was? >> binders full of women. >> beaninders full of women. what is going on here? that is the question that a lot of people are asking. >> it doesnt look so attractive. no disrespect to the looks of it. men involved. i am not a fan of bean counting and counting up numbers of women and numbers of minorities, but it is striking and it is disconcerting and it is disappointing to see in the big four jobs no female. now, you might ...