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I appreciate your time. >> you bet. we need more time. thanks for having me. >> everybody needs more time. that does it for us. im ed schultz in for dylan ratigan. ill be back at 6:00 eastern with "the ed show." well talk more about the big education cuts for the students in california. plus the battle lines within the democratic party over health care. could reconciliation result in a public option? ill ask ohio senator sherrod brown. hes an "a" player. sean hannity, he thinks palin is smarte...

Why not start your discovery today? all: i did. welcome back to the dylan ratigan show. im ed schultz. listen, this is what people do when they dont like the conditions. its about the numbers. and we are looking at the california students who are getting a lesson in civil disobedience today. but theyre the ones actually teaching the lesson. thousands are protesting massive cuts in education for state schools and universities. these pictures are from uc berkeley, where students are not only fac...

Steele if he would like to come over here and find a dnc document that does what they did in that rnc document. i mean, it was horrible. theres nothing here in this building that is anything like what the rnc did. so he wants to point fingers. and i understand that they got caught and now they want to point fingers. but the truth is, this is the problems with republicans. in 72 pages, ed, not one mention of ideas, none, all about fear. and they have fear but not ideas. >> last year the republica...

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this morning, speaker nancy pelosi seemed encouraged, but also said shes taking nothing for granted. >> every legislative vote is a heavy lift around here. you assume nothing. assume nothing in terms of where you were before, and where people may be now. you start one, two, three, four, all the way up to a majority vote. >> and of course, part of that uncertainty is congressman stupaks threat in a final bill -- if a final bill doesnt include prohibiting funding for abortion. >> i wont ...

. now to the battle over health care reform. a controversy erupted over democrat votes after president obama nominated a man to the tenth circuit court of appeals. his brother is utah senator matheson and one of the democrats whose position on health care legislation has been described as wobbly. is the president trading a judgeship in exchange for health care votes. white house secretary robert gibbs was asked about that at todays briefing. >> based on mr. mathesons long legal resum...

That. i was going to let you say that, not me, arlen. the point being here is we were seeing a challenge in arkansas because of the public option. thats the number one issue. and the letter thats floating around has now got 34 senators on board. i believe that you are one of them. is this that popular of an issue that it would shift the base? >> ed, it is important. people want something done. this whole issue has moved beyond the health care legislative matter, which is enormously important to ...

>> jennifer don hugh, love your work on the huffing ton post. great to have you with us tonight. for more, let me bring in bill press and john feery. was today the light for reconciliation and a simple majority? >> i think it was the day for commonsense, ed. i have to say, i was there when the president made his statement covering it as a journalist. it was hard for me not to stand up there and cheer. said, look, weve talked about this long enough. the status quo is unacceptable. now is the time...

History. now, looking forward, john, as a republican strategist, would you really want to run against this health care bill? would you really think that the republican also have an advantage saying that, hey, i voted to deny 31 million americans health care coverage? do you think thats a good place to snb. >> i think what they will say is i voted against a bill that is being jammed down your throats that only 35% of american people supported. this is a very bad bill that is going to bankrupt the...

>> thanks. >> joining me now is bob sha rum. great to have you with us. >> glad to be here, ed. >> is there a political strategy by the president to and at least one republican vote and oh by the way, whats the player? >> i think hes trying to convince the country and hes going to suck side that hes the one that was reached out and republicans have refused to compromise at all. its not just four provisions, by the way, ed. there are hundreds of amendments during the process that were accepted by...