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i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasnt a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. thats going to take time. its going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. >> now more on that investigation of m...

For ten years republicans have been predators, and the american middle class and poor have been their prey. >> whats the number. mike, fair share, give me a number. >> when it comes to shared sacrifice, we all know as americans that all it is is a talking point for republicans to make -- make us believe they have done something -- for us in this trickle down myth. >> whats a fair share? how much is a fair share? how much should ed schultz pay? give me a number. >> okay, heres the answer. heres t...

Text a for yes, text b for no to 622639 and you can always go to ed.msnbc.com and well bring you the results later in the program. joining me tonight is january jan jankowski because shes had on the table for over a year a bill that asks the wealthiest americans to just do a little bit more to straighten out our fiscal house. congresswoman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. >> you bet. i feel like today the president made a turn. is this a turning point? your thoughts. >> no q...

How can they be too high if theyre not paying taxes? to me its elementary that we have to have a big change in the way we collect taxes in this country. we cannot let anybody escape. we cant let people come in like general electric and make billions of dollars and they got a rebate back. can you believe that? they got a $320 million rebate after they didnt pay any taxes and we realize thats not right. basically the idea of someone paying 15%, these billionaires and millionaires paying 15% while ...

Its an important one is the fact that this governor expanded the number of political appointments that he can make to put his cronies into jobs all overstate government when he came in as part of that budget repair bill and this woman cynthia archer was put into one of the political jobs and theres a move to get rid of the political appointments to move back to civil service, but i think youre right, ed, ultimately this will move to a much more intense conversation, focused on a core question, w...

Cases of radicalization. i recognize mr. wolf. >> we have just heard from the fist muslim-american member of congress, very emotional opening statement by congressman keith ellison. he just finished speaking. they were then debating whether or not there should be more opening statements, at which time the chair, peter king, said well stick to process. carl bernstein joins us right now, msnbc host jack yuger also here to react to what we saw. carl, so emotional. it hits to the core of the debate ...

Israel can only lose once. one reason we went to the west bank and israeli occupied as it is, its because this is the core question. this is the heart of the caledron that is in the mideast. its a small country. of course gaza had free elections which we reported and to our surprise, they elected hamas which is committed to israels destruction. things may be happening elsewhere and im sorry to say i didnt predict what happened when it happened. they are looking at the contagion that happened in ...

Israel can only lose once. one reason we went to the west bank, the palestinian west bank, israeli occupied as it is, is because this is the core question. this is the -- if you will, the heart of the calderon that is the middle east. it is a very small country, the west bank, palestine. of course, gaza has been -- had free elections which we supported, and to our surprise yet again they elected hamas, which is committed to israels destruction. so the reason we went to the west bank was to say, ...

Ownership of. are there, particularly when were deciding what sort of relationship to have with different middle eastern governments, are there cases in which our support for israeli security contradicts our own interest in our own security? >> well, there certainly are aspects that do that. but lets see clearly that we are committed to israels survival. and israel is surrounded by people who wish them ill. its become a cliche but a cliche because its true. israel can only lose once. their arab ...

Back with our panel. does this solve anything at all? >> whether murk smushg there or gone, i think the important thing we need to focus on, whoever is in charge, are they going to keep political prisoners are let them ego? are they going have to freedom of the press. im reminded egypt a dozen years ago when a president suharta was forced to step down and vice president replaced him made huge change in expanding freedom in indonesia. i worry that suleiman doesnt have any intention of that. >> br...