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Consolidation of fox news and the republican party. >> michael, you know, name recognition. he could probably raise a little bit of money. he can handle the media. he is an advocate for people in a sense. journalistic credentials a little shaky at times. would he be a potential winner, do you think? >> you know, ed, i think geraldo is a smart guy. i do his radio show sometimes, and, you know, ive talked with him. he knows issues. he knows policy. he is pretty moderate. he is pro-choice, which a ...

Everything, but everyone agreed there was nothing they could do about the damage. hale says thats the tragic lesson of the "columbia" disaster. quote, we will never again say that there is nothing we can do. im joined by nbc news space analyst james oberg. mr. oberg, great to have you with us here tonight on "the ed show." >> good evening, ed. >> good evening to you, sir. >> i know wayne, because wayne and i trained together on the first shuttle flights 32 years ago. so when he talks, we listen....

>> even after this, romney didnt learn. with polls shows barack obama leading on election day, romney was convinced by conservative media that he was going to win. he was shellshocked when he lost. republicans are headed down you know what? the romney path. they would do well to listen to hillary clintons advice and rejoin everyone else in the evidence-based world. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question, will republicans ever live in an evidence-based world? t...

Tenth of a point last quarter because of what? government cutbacks. 2/3 of americans are planning to delay the retirement according to "the wall street journal" because of the financial losses. income stagnation and layoffs over the past several years. income inequality in the united states actually, folks, has gotten worse. and we now rank in the middle of latin american countries, which have historically had poor economies and high levels of income inequality. we got a lot of work to do. lets ...

My pleasure. >> there is still an ugly underbelly to this economy as it stands right now. this past election was themed about and focused on the middle class. what can we do, senator, moving forward here in the short-term? your thoughts. >> well, first of all, ed, we have to do exactly what you were doing now and focus on an issue that gets very, very little attention. that is the fact that we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth, worse today in t...

And determination and drive i think gave a boost in and of themselves to a city that was in pretty bad shape. >> michelle, this was a man who was not afraid to infuriate liberals. >> yeah. i think he seemed to delight in it. in some ways he was kind of the prototypical neo conservative, somebody who started on the left, who started out very liberal, and then made his political career being tough on crime, being kind of insensitive to minorities, and then later on being sometimes crazily islampho...

Hillary clinton, yes, she served as secretary of state. did an admiral job. most people would say that. yeah, there was this hiccup with benghazi. we unfortunately lost the lives of four u.s. servicemen out there, ambassador and the like. so how do we now deal with this in the context of everything else. >> you deal with it by dealing in fax. >> and i think thats the point, ed. i think thats the point. >> whatever happened to the day when the united states senator would pick up the phone and do ...

Lesson of the "columbia" disaster. quote, we will never again say that there is nothing we can do. im joined by nbc news space analyst james oberg. mr. oberg, great to have you with us here tonight on "the ed show." >> good evening, ed. >> good evening to you, sir. >> i know wayne, because wayne and i trained together on the first shuttle flights 32 years ago. so when he talks, we listen. and he made some comments that as you explained did get taken in the wrong direction. but it didnt get to th...

Circumstances new york a better place, michael tomasky because ed koch was the mayor and served for so long? >> generally speaking, yes. ill add this point. i knew ed, and i covered ed. i lived in new york in those days. and this is one part of his legacy that doesnt get mentioned as much, and its a good part. he undertook in the 1980s a $5.2 billion housing program for the city. and people who ride say the number 6 train up through the bronx, up westchester avenue, and you look out and you see ...

Get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question, will republicans ever live in an evidence-based world? text "a" for yes. text b for no to 622639. you can go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. well show you the results later on in the show. joining me tonight is karen finney, former dnc communications director, and michael steele, msnbc contributor and former chairman of the rnc. great to have both of you with us on this friday evening. michael, you first. >> good to see you...