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0 interest in what he observed as he went around north korea so they know a bit more about what is going on in the country. but i would like the hear that conversation. i would love a readout from that conversation. >> they love basketball. he loves basketball. so i guess the president could fill out his nba bracket and kim jong un could fill out his nba bracket. and of course, rodman could deliver it to him. >> right. >> this is one of the most bizarre international stories i think we have seen...

0 their faces and the overall mood of this photograph to be amazing. so how does the country look from the perspective of an unreviewable panel that is charged not with arbiting public opinion, but as our country grows older and changes. how do they see us, and do they care what we think? and should they care what we think? if part of their responsibility as justices is to maintain the prestige of the court, to keep us all respecting the court, to keep us all in agreement that their word is fina...

0 thank you that is "the ed show." im ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. happy monday. thank you for sticking with us this hour. this weekend at harvard law school, the official who just stepped down as the top lawyer in the pentagon weighed in on the next big civil rights cases that are coming up before the supreme court. this month the court is going to be hearing arguments on same-sex marriage under the law. and former pentagon general counsel jay johnson t...

Issues? one where you say a gay player would be accepted, but the young players coming in, they might have to deny who they are when asked? >> well, you know, its so hard to make the nfl as it is. why make things harder for you? i think if a player is coming in, theyre being drafted out of college. they havent been in a locker room yet. i think you could say youre straight. once youre on a team and youve been in the league for x amount of years, whatever, everyone is around you, they know who yo...

Joining us at 5:00 on the phone now is baltimore ravens linebacker brendon ayanbadejo. its good to have you here. >> thanks for having me on. >> i want to talk about something we talked about on twitter last week after you appeared on ed schultzs show. we had a back and forth about something you said there about bigotry in the league when it comes to gay issues. i want to remind everybody what you had to say then. take a look. >> do you think the bigotry that still exists and discrimination that...

Outcome of the sequestration, it starts to roll out, i think what youre going to see instead of people going to the streets, per se, were going to start to develop campaigns at members of the republican house, members of the republican senate, and were going to put the people in front of their offices. what weve got is what bob reich says. weve got a deficit in jobs. and if we address the jobs deficit, the other deficits will good away. we have a deficit in infrastructure. weve got to put that w...

0 the supreme court prop 8 case. here it is. >> the supreme court asks me or my attorney general or a solicitor general do we think that meets constitutional muster, i felt it was important for us to answer that question honestly. and the answer is no. >> george, is it something the president clearly got correct today? >> i think so. again, bringing in my "star trek" colleague mr. spock, he would say that gays and lesbians are the children of heterosexuals. we are literally brothers and sisters ...

And it is not about entitlements. what it says is that there will be no blocking of a right to vote on the baseus of race or col color. and that means that whether or not you are hispanic or african-american or asian as the bill has translated itself through adding language minorities, it simply says that you will have the right to vote that has been given to all citizens. why a justice would classify the simple protected right to vote as racial entitlements baffles me and offends me. in fact, y...

Theres been a choir, a crescendo of republicans challenging that statement, ive not heard nap. >> heres one of the lawyers challenging section 5. >> weve made great strides over the years. we have minority participation at record levels. we have minority candidates elected by 90% white populations. >> he says we no longer need the voting rights act. i mean, what is reality here? >> hes absolutely wrong. and i will say this. this is what we said in 2006. im on the house judiciary committee with t...

That were talking about. no question. barbara blaine, thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate it. thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. a programming note. tomorrow night nobel prize-winning economist and "new york times" columnist paul krugman will be our special guest. its an "ed show" exclusive. you wont want to miss it. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> very nice, ed. im looking forward to that. good news. >> you bet. >> thanks to you at home for staying wi...