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I guess president obama is keeping us safe. and the wall street campaign contributions to democrats seem to be drying up as congress puts the finishing touches on a financial reform bill. with us tonight, sam stein, political reporter "huffington post" and ron christy, republican strategist. great to have you here tonight and good to be back with you as well. i want to talk about the harry reid situation. hes basically digging up her old comments and making them public. sam stein, what is the re...

Gamesmanship and win an election as opposed to winning for our constituen constituents, and if we defeat this, thats not getting our constituents the unemployment benefits they need to take care of that i recall families. that will be like defeating obama and they win and the american people lose. thats a shame. >> it is a damn shame. sooner or later well have to put these people to work. what are we going to do to put these americans back to work? >> ed, weve got to -- one of the things that we...

Thats what they have been doing all along. >> they might increase anger but heres what they are finding they are representing the whirlwind because some of the anger they are creating is coming back and knocking off a multi-term senator like bob bennett or chasing a charlie crist out of the republican party and arlen specter out of republican party. when you preach a politics thats about who are we mad at and who are we afraid of, you often find that it comes back and bites you, too, and thats w...

Republicans and, of course, ben nelson. the house voted to extend the benefits last night but the senate couldnt get it together and they went on vacation without passing the bill, and now nothing more will be done until at least july 12th when the return from recess. but even that wont help the increasing number of people who have been unemployed for more than 99 weeks. theres no legislation, none whatsoever in the pipeline, to help 4 million americans out. joining me now is democratic congress...

The political advisers are telling the president to focus his team and efforts on lowering the deficit. often to the contrast of job creation. i dont quite understand why they are doing this. i dont think you can get your handle on the deficit within the next election cycle. got to focus on jobs. its the one thing you can do. >> ron, your old boss dick cheney said deficits didnt matter? >> well, my former boss, former republican representative john kasich, who was chairman of the budget committe...

Ahead. >> you cant allow boehner to ask the president why arent you creating jobs? the republicans have gotten in the way of every single piece of legislation that would create jobs. the other financial statement was that the financial reform was the equivalent of killing an ant with a nuclear bomb, right? is that -- is that what he thinks 26 million people out of work is, thats an ant to him? is one out of eight people losing their thunderstorms foreclosure, is that an ant? thats what they real...

Weve got to cut, cut, cut. >> roy, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> good talking to you, ed. welcome back. >> you bet. coming up, not everything michael steele said was completely psycho talk. something he said actually made some sense to progressives like me. colonel jack jacobs joins me to talk about strategy ahead in afghanistan, and the not ready for primetime tea partier sharron angle sends a cease and desist notice to harry reid. her past comes back to haunt her again. ...

Shrinking. were adding jobs every month, not losing jobs to the tune of 750,000 a jobs a month in the private sector as was happening when president obama came into office, so part of our job, i think we have to do this as democrats, is tell people, look, were not where we want to be yet, but at least things are getting better, and the last thing we need to do is put it in the hands of the guys who will take us right back to the ditch. >> do you think americans believe that things are getting be...

Msnbcs ed schultz this evening on "the ed show." hell be talking with the reverend al sharpton about immigration and pennsylvania governor ed rendell with the reaction to todays jobs report. thats tonight at 6:00 eastern, 5:00 central here on msnbc. leave the set. we got to go quick. thank you very much. what could be the break in the case of a murdered virginia tech student. well hear from the father of morgan harrington. we heard about the dangers of drunk driving. what about drugged drivi...

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