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Pick and choose. its obvious whats going on here. >> parts included funding for the nih and instantly remarks got circulated by conservatives and the rhetoric was spun out of control. it sparked up fierce debate for the conference creating the hash tag heartless harry. read responded republicans are so desperate they accused me of not caring about kids with cancer. shameful. paul has a stunned to join him for bipartisan coffee. they join him on the capitol steps. he falls in with the senate offi...

For stricter gun control legislation. yesterday, the president talked about legislation that congress failed to pass earlier this year. >> universal background checks -- >> initiated a whole range of executive actions. weve put in place every executive action that i proposed right after newtown happened. so, ive taken steps that are within my control. the next phase now is for congress to go ahead and move. >> carlos sister was killed inside newtown, elementary. at noon today, he and other suppo...

As well. john kerry essentially making the case for war. or a version of it. not so much war. >> john kerry, the anti-war activist, having served in vietnam, throwing his medals, or somebodys decorations, on the capitol steps. now making a case not just to go to war but to go to war with no declaration of war and no consultation with congress, which is precisely one of the things he was complaining about 45 years ago. yeah, its a heck of an irony. i cant remember who it was who said this. where ...

His flag draped casket was carried up the capitol steps by a nine member military color guard. lautenberg died after a battle with pneumonia, earlier this week. new jerseys attorney general is going to fill lautenbergs senate seat until a successor can be elected. the governor appointed jeffrey kasa yesterday. he has no plans to keep it long term or run in the new jersey special election for the senate. major milestone on capitol hill for john dingell, the michigan democrat, the longest servin...

Challenger, shes open to pursuing most of her off-the-wall positions. shes got really no pressure on her for re-election, and i think that includes statements like calling for the impeachment of president obama as she did, you know, before the capitol steps earlier this month much with the pleasure of senate minority leader mitch mcconnell standing by her side. i think shes obsessed with how obsessed washington is with scandal mania and investigation investigations into the irs and doj and the s...

Reservation. now its up to four. you know what theyre saying? theyre saying we are simply following our bosss orders. so those people who, by the way, are still on the job because of civil service protections, will be singing like canaries. >>brian: i love when the president added after, we have to work hand in hand with congress and find out what went wrong. and he also says, he warns people not to use this to slam his presidency, his administration. it would be easier if there was a progressiv...

Marriage equality legal. democratic controlled state senate voted 37-30, only one republican voting yes. minnesota house passed that bill last thursday with bipartisan support. two years ago republicans controlled both chambers in minnesota and put a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality on the ballot. republicans rejected that, sorry, voters rejected that, republicans lost that vote, and control of the minnesota house and senate at the same time. democratic governor mark dayton wil...

Joining us from washington, delores, cofounder of the united farm workers union and immigration rights leader. she was a speaker at todays rally in washington, which drew tens of thousands, i heard from one organizer, 100,000. delores, youve been working on this issue for some time. weve seen a comprehensive immigration reform bill come relatively close to fruition and then blow up. given the news today out of the senate and the tens of thousands that have been mobilized, do you feel now like yo...

Rosa parks and my house. we got the calls. and when she finished cursing and calling us all kinds of names, she said, now ive got to call rosa. >> reverend, through all of the years of watching some of the people that you worked with, struggled with, go through death threats, you as well, the abernathys bombed, you bombed, and you lived through it all and you are standing there with the addiction for the first black president, one of the first to endorse him when he was running, how do you look ...

House, she is reportedly barack obamas most trusted advisor and shes thanking msnbc for everything, and they respond by basically swapping spit with this woman. and this, this is the network that is so in the tank for barack obama, theyve been pushing him since the 2004 senate campaign. so, she has every reason to thank them and they should have said youre welcome. >> sean: just one side note before we get back to media bias, did you notice george stephanopoulos misidentified the great basketbal...