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Democratic senators calling for the repeal of oil industry subsidies. many thanks for your time tonight, sir. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> take note about what he said about that debt ceiling discussion, if that is not just a stand alone clean one issue debt ceiling vote and other things are going to be folded in on that. senator menendez saying that oil industry subsidies will be one of the things that democrats insist be folded into that vote. oh, really. all right. it is not every day...

In fact according to the folks who assembled this chart those factors explain the entire deficit over the next ten years. the next decade. but of course republicans will continue to tout their economic policies as deficit killing. theyre using it right now to explain away the current ryan budget plan which slashes programs for the elderly, the sick, and the poor in this country. its gotten so bad that a group of catholic scholars wrote a letter to speaker of the house john boehner who is a fello...

under his watch? representative keith ellison on the latest episode of bach-mania. and over at fox they just wont let it go. >> just so lacking of class and decency. >> reporter: michael eric dyson on the phony friction being ginned up on the right. great to have you with us tonight. thanks for joining us here on "the ed show." this is the story that has me fired up. i love this number. 90% of americans blame wall street speculators for out of control gas prices in this country. and yo...

Determination is about. and the rule of law in war. and this was a war setting. the united states didnt ask for this war at all. and it is wrong, i think, for anyone on the globe to think that were wrong in our judgment here. justice was served. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question, did president obama handle the bin laden mission correctly? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639 and you can always go to our new blog at ed.msnbc.com. comment there. ill brin...

They have the strength to look at those photos i think the american people do as well. >> john, isnt this a moment of explanation for the white house and the cia? i mean, those requests by the journalism organizations and the ap, they could be denied and that could open up a whole new can of worms and these problems just compound. and leon panetta had said previously that the photos would be released before the white house made the decision not to release them. is this some kind of compromise th...

Cant is just inappropriate. its a much wiser choice to at least release the photos to the families to let the families have access and take a look at them. frankly, at the end of the day i dont see a big problem with letting these photos come out in general for viewing by anybody who wants to. >> associated press has filed a freedom of information act request. other journalism organizations plan on doing the same. this is standard operating procedure. i mean, once a few americans see them whethe...

Determination is about. and the rule of law in war. and this was a war setting. the united states didnt ask for this war at all. and it is wrong, i think, for anyone on the globe to think that were wrong in our judgment here. justice was served. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question, did president obama handle the bin laden mission correctly? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639 and you can always go to our new blog at ed.msnbc.com. comment there. ill brin...

Congress, even the president, theyre not superior to us. they happen to hold positions that are powerful. they have some authority. but at the end of the day they, too, are -- theyre our equals and if they have the stomach, if they have the strength to look at those photos i think the american people do as well. >> john, isnt this a moment of explanation for the white house and the cia? i mean, those requests by the journalism organizations and the ap, they could be denied and that could open up...

Arab or muslim world. frankly, i think thats disrespectful to the arab and muslim world. these people are not going to be ginned up by a photo of a dead osama bin laden. they know hes dead. the fact is theyve moved forward to the arab -- >> you know, its interesting that senator lieberman used the word "closure" and, you know, i didnt lose a loved one in the towers or at the pentagon but if i did, i think that i would feel entitled to see them just like any senator or any other lawmaker. and i w...

Responsible for 9/11 that was their watch, even though theyre the people who failed to read that august 13th memo that said bin laden was going to attack the united states so theyve always been able to tell this lie to the american public that theyre the party that can best protect this country. so right now theyre suffering. theyre having to live through the obvious and that is they really werent that party that could keep this country safe. they were the party that couldnt catch bin laden for ...