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Dont get run afoul of the hard right. so they dont get primaried. the problem with this situation is boehner was becoming such a bogeyman for hardline republicans they could use him against those people in potential primaries. but if you get into an open race with a bunch of people running those people are not going to have the kind of name recognition or juice with the conservative base at this point to really force the whole group of people to vote for that person. and so they dont have the ab...

The john boehner having a nightmare time as speaker headlines of the last five years and just photoshop a new head onto his suit because thats how theyre going to treat mccarthy. >> yep. >> i mean, well see. john stanton, d.c. bureau chief of buzzfeed. john, its great to have you here. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> i will say in looking today to talk about kevin mccarthy as potential speaker of the house, you see like his colleagues interviewed like what do you think about kevin mccart...

That lucky lucky kevin mccarthy is inevitably going to become speaker of the house, but he would not answer the concerns of the hardliners who forced out john boehner and who made john boehners tenure as speaker so miserable. and honestly if you look at your history the last time republicans in congress had to make an unexpected change in leadership in response to unexpectedly strong pressure from the right, they picked steve scalise. i mean, they went unexpectedly and controversially right-wing...

Joining me now, msnbc political analyst former rnc chairman michael steele. michael, there is a piece today that buzzfeed reported out sort of about the donor class of the gop sweating whats happening so far. still very early obviously. weve seen john kerry bounce back from being very far back in 2004 and john mccain in 2008. but, i mean, the trump phenomenon and the way the race has played out has had real effects. governor perry and scott walker, you could imagine different versions of this ca...

Asked, well, what do you want to do with this gig, how do you want to lead this country, i dont think he thought about it. >> i should note that there are some -- some glee in the national offices of the afl-cio. one of the last things scott walker did before exiting stage was put out a policy proposal that would essentially roll back 80 years of labor law, essentially get rid of unions in their current form as enshrined in the wagner act during the great depression. the afl-cio when he declared...

Thank you so much for joining me and i know you fled rwanda back in 1994. this is personal for you, but can you first explain to me, its one thing to think about helping, but the fact that you on your own volition went to the refugee center about a week and a half ago, tell me why. >> hi, brooke, thanks for having me on your program. as you say, its really personal for me and my family and i. we fled ruineda and went to uganda and someone took us in on our way to uganda and we had a place to sho...

This woman in the red sweater, she actually gave birth when she arrived in greece. she was pregnant in the dinghy, and then the minute she landed she couldnt walk anymore and she had to wait in greece and gave birth. that baby, a little girl, she is just 11 days old, and they made this entire journey, a big risk for them, yes, but that is because they believe that if they stayed back home they would most certainly end up dead. >> that little baby 11 days old, and they are walking, as desperation...

There was a question about how much resistance wed see. we are focused on one person in one county going to jail for a few days and we dont know how long it will be says to me its kind of the dog that didnt bark. >> yeah. its rare. there have been counts of, you know, two or three counties in states. most of the states that were the last state where is gay marriage was legalized. i would note this stuff could keep popping up in the future. buzzfeed called to counties in texas and got some county...

Best new thing in the world today, because its still a sad story, but people being decent is a nice, human antidote to our politics and our politicians sometimes being so mean and being rewarded for it. president carters vice president, walter mondale, is still around. still in great health. he was at the democratic national committee meeting this past week in minneapolis. and it caught my eye, because buzzfeed caught up with vice president mondale while he was making the rounds of the dnc meets...

Agree with republican lindsey graham who said she has no choice but to follow the law and to issue licenses equally. or she can step aside. >> and we will see what happens when she does appear in court tomorrow. chad griffin from the human rights campaign, thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thank you, frances. several republican 2016 contenders appear to be shifting strategy. jeb bush continued his gloves are off approach to attacking donald trump this morning unleashing a new social media...