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Republican leadership -- actually endorses what she says. your thoughts? >> ed, its really a tricky thing. you see, what theyre trying to do is theyre trying to embrace the energy the tea party has. thats going to blow up in your face. we see this happening. theyre starting to distance themselves. scott brown wouldnt show up at sarah palins event today. and here in california a number of republican candidates, you know, backed out of an event when they found out orly taitz was going to be on the...

Immutable law of nature. you know, the sky is blue, water is wet, michele bachmann says stupid things. the thing that really makes this example particularly -- shes impugning the integrity of john lewis, icon of the civil rights movement and do it on a question of race. i mean, thats the amazing thing. john lewis does not have to play the race card, ed. he lived the race card. >> heres my -- >> he was there in selma. >> heres my issue with bachmann. if shes going to go to a rally and throw that ...

What this does is target the entire latino and hispanic community. thats what it does and thats why it is so dramatically and fundamentally different. only in south africa in recent times have we had a group of people targeted on the basis of ethnic and racial features. this is a law from south africa. >> i appreciate your comments and thanks for joining us today. this topic is not going to disappear any time soon. thank you. the reverend al sharpton is hosting a group of prominent leaders and...

Ill qualify it saying i dont live there, but i fear that this will open the door for intimidation and harassment for an entire immigrant community. not just the legal folks that live there. joining me now, former colorado congressman tom tancredo who has really made illegal immigration his benchmark issue. tom, what to you think of this? is this -- is this the way to go for law enforcement to give them the wide-sweeping language of suspicion? what do you think? >> ed, it is the way to go because...

In washington several weeks ago. now, even house majority leader steny hoyer is taking bachmann to task for that. hoyer told reporters, quote, i dont think theres any doubt that what john lewis said happened and what others saw and heard happen did, in fact, happen. there are obviously clearly differences of o point opinion, but the debate ought to be civil, constructive and designed to educate the public, not to incite the public. im glad the house majority leader is finally using the word inci...

Weve seen this -- especially in this case, ed, theres documented evidence of all these reporters who were there writing about it at the time. you know, theyre trying to turn this into some kind of vast left-wing conspiracy, and its absolutely ridiculous. thats the talking point that the lunatic fringe of the right -- its the old thing, attack the messenger. accuse the accuser. why would john lewis -- listen to this, ed, why would john lewis, a guy who led the march on bloody sunday in selma, who...

Three decades. brilliant move, wasnt it? primary challenges that lead to defeat in november are bad enough. third parties are the worst. i have a good deal of respect for ralph nader. nader ran for president in the year 2000 as a third party candidate. he won 97,488 votes in the state of florida. al gore wasnt perfect but could have used those 97,488 when they did the recount for five weeks. there wont have been a recount, wont have been a bush/cheney presidency. i guess those people voted for r...

Certainly we just heard from ed schultz from msnbc. were hearing from others. we will be hearing from the head of the republican party/democratic party. we want to hear all views and then we want to be able to determine a plan of action that will help to bring america one and equal. >> you mentioned bill oreilly just spoke, the chairman of the rnc michael steele is scheduled to speak this afternoon. these are people you havent agreed with in the past. why is it important to have those voices rep...

Some sort of favor. uh, you can keep the change there, stephanie. its unbelievable. i mean, her speeches are never of any type of substance. its always attack president obama, attack the liberals, attack the democrats and of course tell everybody theyre great americans. >> yeah. >> what do you think? >> i love my favorite part is she doesnt -- she has to have prescreened questions so there wont be any lag time. i think she means with the mi o microphone. i think she means while her brain searche...

They are fed up with it. they are fed up with being -- with phoenix being the kidnap capital of the united states now because of the drug activity spilling over the border. this is a reaction to a federal government has had abandoned them. not just this administration, ed. believe me, its not just the obama administration. it happened before. >> so reasonable suspicion. are you suggesting tonight that, you know, arizonas got to do it a heck of a lot tougher than anybody else. is that what im hea...