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Meaning a full-time working at walmart gets a family of four barely above the poverty line. our walmart. it says its rare for workers to be scheduled for a full-time 40-hour week. dozens of walmart workers walked off the job in protest of management demanding they be given full-time work. lets bring in robert greenwald who directed "walmart: the high cost of low price." good to have you with us tonight. i find it interesting that the head of walmart of the american stores would come forward and ...

Id like to wish ah happy birthday. >> oh, my god. oh. oh, my god. my son is here too. thank you, my friend. oh, my god. for once in my life, im speechless. all right, this is dr. mawauta dyson, his mother, and james holmesen an all the people here, im extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity to have hosted this show, to stand in for ed and to have my family surrounding me, to come here and deliciously trick me into receiving this birthday cake. im going to eat it all and share the tops ...

Joining me now is the reverend dr. wendell anthony, president of the detroit branch of the naacp. dr. anthony, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, dr. dyson. let me just say, i love ed. thats my man, but you really are representing. so he got the right man for the right job for the right time. >> well, we love ed, as well. we miss him and thank you so much for that, my friend. look, detroit bankruptcy has been a huge issue, not only to detroit, but the entire nation. your contention ...

Be a country thats morally bankrupt? are we going to be a country that doesnt care about our next door neighbor? >> thats big ed across the pond, dropping progressive knowledge of american politics at oxford university this week. ed will be back in the host seat tomorrow. but now its time for the trenders. the ed social media nation has decided and we are reporting. here are todays top trenders. voted on by you. >> i really must insist you help me win the election. >> the number three trender. c...

Congress keep slamming it shut. >> thats right. well, john garamendi, congressman from california, if you can get those guys from the shotguns to turn over to democrats, that is a huge win. >> well, i didnt say they were going to go that far, ed. thats a leap. >> all right, john, good to have you with us tonight. thank you. coming up, michele bachmann calls republicans the adults in the room? well have some more from the queen of distortion. plus, talk about dysfunction. a disgraced former c...

The republicans have right now. were going into budget committee. weve got the wind at our back. the progressive movement is very strong, it pulls very favorably with the american people. and i think a lot of it, john, has to do with the fact the democrats have been focused on workers and focused on the middle class thats been a very consistent message, whereas over on the other side its been just all negative activity, like that piece we just played about obama care over on fox news. i mean, th...

Winning the senate have been significantly diminished. our job is simply to raise consciousness on the issue, to let the american people know whats going on. and if they in the midst of all of the opposition are cutting social security, medicare and medicaid, if they want to move in that direction, we have got to rally the american people as loudly and clearly as we can. if they go in that direction, i think, ed, they can lose the house and surely are not going to gain control of the senate. but...

And then we never heard another word again about his threat to bomb in a foreign civil war. and then, of course, most recently, megyn, using our military, those who would fight against our enemies, holding them hostage in terms of budget deals, threatening to with hold paychecks for our brave men and women. >> stephanie miller is it me or did meg inklely have a look on her face, is she really on my program? >> ed, im sorry. i didnt have a barbie to english headset. it looks like megyn kelly just...

Berlitz just to punch up that accent. but to be fair to michelle, she is about to confront a very jarring transition in various capacities. she has made a living all her life as a government employee, and when she leaves congress, shes actually going to have to enter the arena she claims to champion, the private sector. if you think shes going to go back home to minnesota and do needle point, youre nuts. what do former congress people do when they retire? they consult. they go to k street and be...

Continued effort to try to stop americans from getting health insurance and try to roll back the clock so that americans have to face health care discrimination, because the women, because they have a preexisting condition, or because they happen to be 18 and can no longer be on their parents policies. those days are over, ed. were on a good track here. >> on a great track. and the republicans have damaged their brand, a lot of self-inflicted wounds. and theyve got a record of voting in the wron...