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>> let me tell you whats going on. i sat with trump for a one on one interview about half an hour last month. hes a very sharp, savvy guy. he knows how to go out and push buttons to get people to watch his show, to push him higher in the polls. >> so was this a reality show were watching? >> he carefully puts it in a way. it may be this or it may be that so when you turn the cards over, hell say, look, i never said it definitively. >> he said it may be the biggest con in history. whats that mean...

African-american students and given the economic climate, its committed that the number of students needing those grants will increase dramatically in the next few years. these are some of the specific things that african-american leaders are critical of in the presidents proposed budget. i asked reverend sharpton about these things and he said in his opinion the proposals the republican party was putting forth were far worse for african-american families. >> tune into msnbc this sunday at noon ...

Furloughed. they have passed a one-week extension but its not clear that the senate would vote on that. the president said he would veto it. he says this time he wants a permanent deal. a democrat from illinois told host ed schultz what she thinks is really getting in the way of the stalled budget talks. >> this isnt just about money, even though they are acting as if its about the budget and its about the cuts. this is the social policies, the social agenda of the republicans. they want to de...

Students. what would be the first thing that you would propose were you still secretary of education? >> one thing we know is that this period of time between a child -- when a child is nine months old, no cognitive difference in the performance of students along ethnic lines. this difference begins there, and escalates as you go towards first grade when they enter in school. so then we need to look at this period of time, we need to find ways to make sure when children arrive at school for firs...

And those are the kinds of ways that they want to legislate their agenda, pretending its really just about the budget. they cannot take yes for an answer. as hard and terrible as the cuts that have been agreed to are, its really not about those cuts. >> lean forward with ed schultz and the ed show 10:00 pm eastern only on msnbc, the place for politics. the same tragic stretch of japans coastline, already battered by last months quake was shook again yesterday. 7.1 earthquake, one person died a...

united states government open? also, john boehner says theres no daylight between him and the tea party. we can believe that or more likely, as someone said, boehner has the tea party holding a blowtorch at his back. they want no compromise. liberal democrats dont want president obama to give anybody more than he already has. so how do these two leaders of these two parties make the deal they want to make without infuriating their bases? plus were all potential players in donald tr...

stalemate. good evening, again, from new york trade 25 hours to go and tell the government shuts down and there is still no agreement on the spending bill. the first meeting this afternoon blasted one hour and 20 minutes. afterward the president went to the white house briefing room for the second night in a row to give an update on the status of the negotiations. >> we made some additional progress this evening. i think the staffs of both the house and the senate as well as the white ...

Everyones perception of who he is, but its a start. some of the 90% of the program students attend colleges within new york citys public university system and nearly 75% of those are majoring in social service related fields. many telling me they want to give back. >> great to see that resilience in that story. thank you very much. and you can find out much more about ex offenders and rehabilitation on the grio.com and we invite you to tune in sunday for "a stronger america" mosted by msnbcs ed ...

Way. it may be this or it may be that so when you turn the cards over, hell say, look, i never said it definitively. >> he said it may be the biggest con in history. whats that mean to you? street corner black politician. con? ererrol, would you listen to the words being used? what does that say to you? >> some of the words that i heard or that i focus are are the more serious ones because this to me is foolishness. when he talks about foreign trade pacts and manufacturing policy and how were ge...

Movement, with seiu and 40 organizations to fast for one day. i have now about 50 members of congress who are joining 30,000 people to raise awareness about these extreme budget cuts that the republicans are trying to -- to enact. and its really a shame and disgrace. and so people need to know, people are going to bed hungry tonight. there will be more people going to bed hungry. there will be more people poorer if the budget that the republicans want passed gets passed. and so we have to be ver...