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Thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. good evening americans and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. the gop is still holding the american economy hostage, and president obama says they wouldnt collect a ransom. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. >> the issue here is whether or not america pays its bills. we are not a dead beat nation. >> the president draws a line in the sand for republicans. >> they will not collect a ranson in exchange for the e...

Im glad that "les mis" won. one fictional, one joycely as true as yesterdays headlines. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. the gop is still holding the american economy hostage, and president obama says they wont collect a ransom. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. >> the issue here is whether or not america pays its bills. we are not a deadbeat nation. >...

Well be right back. let me finish tonight with this. i see most of the good movies that come out. i can remember only one in which the audience applauded. it was "argo." and who were they applauding? the theater manager? the projectionist? they were applauding an american success story. no dark humors just the fun of seeing an escapade succeeding, a group of americans escaping from captivity in iran. no cynical anti-heroes, just straight arrow heroes. people serve their country and this scared...

0 but for all of congressman dingells nra bona fides, if you think that is the only thing worth knowing about him, you are missing a big part of the picture. six days after the shootings atlanta month, congressman dingells wife, debbie dingell published a very personal op-ed in the "washington post." "when i was about to start eighth grade, my father almost shot my mother. it was another of their many ugly fights. i got between them literally and tried to grab the gun. i never forget that night....

0 she goes on to say "i dont have all the answers, but i know two things. decades later i still feel the fear of that night when i was 12 years old. and while ordinary americans do not need access to assault weapons, i also know that banning all guns wont fix the problem. we need a new dialogue that does not pit people against each other." thats congressman john dingells wife debbie dingell reflecting on her harrowing experience as a child and how that informs her familys thinking on this issue....

0 much time in congress as john dingell as of this june. john dingell is a democrat. he has been his entire career as far as i know. he is also a staunch proponent of gun rights. he is a former board member of the national rifle association. now what is going on in this photo from the vice presidents office today is that john dingell is speaking to this whole group of cabinet officials and the vice president himself and his fellow house democrats, and he is speaking to them as one of the 12 vice...

Policy standpoint, this guy is just as misguided and, you know, sort of ignorant about womens bodies as the rest of them. >> is there anything he said there that would have been misconstrued? i mean, forget the question. >> yeah. >> i mean, the context of what he said spoke very clear to you as a woman. >> it was very clear to me. you know, trying to suggest that, you know, a teenager who has sex with her boyfriend and gets pregnant and then -- that that somehow is what akin meant by legitimate ...

"at senate breakfast yesterday morning i was asked why democrats made abortion a central theme of the presidential campaign. i do not defend nor do i stand by the remarks made by representative akin or dr. mourdock. in my attempt to provide context as to what i presumed they meant. my position was misconstrued." i am joined tonight by karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former communications director of the dnc. how insulting is it? >> i mean, ed, they just dont stop, do they? wow. you kno...

Be secretary of the treasury. sessions has made the rounds publicly opposing lews nomination and expects it to fail in the senate. qualified nominees like jack lew and chuck hagel continue to be targeted by republicans willing to block anything president obama puts forward. the gops threat make an excellent case for why democrats must take action on filibuster reform. im joined tonight by howard dean, former governor of vermont and former chair of the dnc. governor dean, good to have you with us...

Just about any other professional sport. and now theyre funding a lot of research. they just donated $30 million to is the nih foundation. theyve led some of the fights for state laws that require education on concussions, and you have to see a doctor. but we need to do a lot more because we dont even have our arms wrapped around this problem at all. >> chris nowinski, great to have you on "the ed show" tonight. thank you. thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right...