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Opportunity, not equality of outcome. as equality of outcome expands massively in america, right, inequality is growing, we put more and more pressure. we say the only institution in american life thats supposed to fix the iunequainequality is th education system. the inequality grows and grows and grows. the education system, do more and more and more to fix it. if youre committed to equality, how does cutting schip, cutting medicaid, cutting food stamps for kids, cutting the entire universe of...

And keep the bush tax cuts permanently. and you say well that would probably take it down to about 12%. we would have a larger deficit. but nobody asks. nobody cares about the basic facts of our fiscal chaos right now which is theres no attempt to match revenues with spending. i would say to a conservative, only spend the money youre willing to raise in taxes or stop spending it. only tax what youre willing to keep the spending level to. theyre not interested in the revenue side and not being ho...

0 they will make laws our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren will have to live under. thanks for watching. im al sharpton. msnbcs special coverage of the republican national convention starts now. the first catholic nominee 1928 a democrat. the first woman nominee 1984 a democrat. the first jewish candidate 2000 a democrat. the first african-american nominee 2008 a democrat. but this year it is the republican party breaking the glass ceiling. in the footsteps of his father who tr...

northeastern liberal state all spotlighted by the campaign and the party tonight. mitt romney, this is your life. with marco rubio and jeb bush and newt gingrich and a whole bunch of videos and a choir and clint eastwood maybe? tonight the culmination of the republican national convention, the grand debut of mitt romney presidential nominee. msnbcs live primetime coverage begins right now. good evening. it is liftoff night for mitt romney. im rachel maddow at msnbc headquarters in n...

After hurricane katrina, isaac is tonight the backdrop as republicans put forward condoleezza rice to speak in primetime. after zero mentions of the name george w. bush on the conventions opening night, the former president finally appears in tampa tonight. on tape. not in person. its night two of the republican national convention. msnbcs primetime coverage starts right now. good evening. and welcome to paul ryan night in america. im rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york city a...

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Reputation hes got mostly from the conservative media but also from the beltway that he is this serious guy who can be counted on for serious policy solutions. remember when that was newt gingrichs brand for like five minutes. then he started seeing hes a direct scam artist and it doesnt make sense. i feel like were ready for that reveal on paul ryan. >> the question is going to be whether he has five minutes or three. because the first thing hes got to do and i agree with ed. hes got to sell hi...

Captain of the football team, romney. he looked like he was visiting a convention, not part of it. >> your line about him looking like prince charles in new guinea was the line of the night. what else do they need to get done tomorrow? >> huge national introduction of paul ryan. condoleezza rice will be tomorrow night, going to -- someone who has broad appeal to the middle of the electoral, someone widely admired. tomorrow is a night where i think they have to get done what they didnt get done t...

That president obama is running ahead of tom barrett in that state. and so bill clinton will be a good guy to convert on the fence democrats. >> e.j. dionne, author of the new book "our divided political heart." e.j., congratulations on this successful launch of the book. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> we have big developments tonight in the state of floridas the attempt to make it harder to vote. this is something we have been talkin...

E.j., congratulations on this successful launch of the book. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> we have big developments to night in the state of floridas attempt to make it harder to vote. this is something we have been talking about on the show for the last few nights. my colleague ed shultz is covering this in even more depth for longer. but we have brand new developments to night that i do not think you heard anywhere else. big news o...