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People in kcolorado trying to gt them to register. not a single person was interested in her pitch including those already 0 old enough to vote. they were like, why? why would i bother to vote, she explained. it is important for democrats even in an election year when participation among latino voters drops. so here it is. democrats are sounding the alarm early and looking for ways to recharge young hispanic voters to to get them fired up and ready to go from the last election of the obama presi...

Sounds like a powerful experience. okay, thank you so much, todd johnson from the grio. good to see you. >> good to see you, alex. thank you. we want to remind you the civil rights summit will be next week in austin terks, a commemoration of the civil rights act 50 years ago and examination of the ongoing struggle for equality. we will have special coverage starting tuesday right here on msnbc. and now to todays number ones. with a new gallup poll on trusting government. the nationwide surve...

Grio.com. its no the something you hear from the president every day. words like stinkburger. "ground hog day" references, trying to get peoples attention. is it working? >> its, would go for the democratic base. its working for the republicans who are running against obama obamacare becausemeans the lines are drawn sharply. he was having fun. it was a university crowd. a shout-out to the wolverines. cant hurt there. >> no. >> he knows the republican push for appeal is not going away. we know it...

Was shot. he also confessed his involvement in the massachusetts triple murder. to politics now. when the early groundwork is being laid for a run at the white house in 2016, the cross-country travels of potential candidates looking like a campaign road map. joe biden is visiting new hampshire today. jeb bush was in texas yesterday. kind of reminiscent of another event in philadelphia last december when bush joked with her about the presidential primary season. >> hillary and i come from diffe...

They made the headlines. while chris christie, well, he made a nice speech, i guess. and that might tell us as much about governor christies personal political standing as it does about the state of republican politics. joining us now, perry bacon jr., veteran political journalist and political editor for the grio.com. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks, steve. >> i know youve been at cpac obviously so you have a front-row seat for all this. i guess, you know, we sort of set this up by tal...

Mentioned that issue. and that tells me -- i talk to people in private about this, too -- the republican activists here feel like that issue, they need to move on from that issue. banning gay marriage is not going to happen and theyre losing the issue and people here were talking about the new issue should be maybe religious liberty and think about it that way instead of thinking about banning gay marriage. and i thought the silence on the issue was very striking and tells me the republican part...

Fell in 2012. lets bring in our strategists, the grio.com contributor and political analyst zerlina maxwell and suzanne del percio. good to see both of you. we talked about this ad nauseam, democrats made great strides with women voters and nonwhite groups. what happened, zerlina, to working class white men, and can they fix it? >> they can fix it, but its really why white men are very important, because the makeup of that electorate is very different from a presidential election year, so like y...

Who came out, said that he was gay. and also served as an inspiration for athletes who may be uncomfortable coming out to not only their teammates, but to their families as well. >> also making this list the transgender activist laverne cox. >> "orange is the new black" is a popular new show on netflix. she plays sophia a transgender kind of prisoner who was in for credit card fraud. shes a breakout star. but not only on the screen, outside of hollywood and the show "orange is the new black", sh...

Look at, the way that security is, all of our personal data being controlled by just a few -- by one word, by one password. whether thats sustainable and something that we can continue doing. >> sure makes you want to stop and take a look at that. thank you so much, from "the washington post," appreciate it. tomorrow is martin luther king jr. day and its when the nation stops to honor and remember the life and accomplishments of the late civil rights icon known for his nonviolent activism, in ...

Private business, a business trying to protect its relationship with viewers and advertisers. suspending robertson. it just seems really strange that they dont understand the suspension. no one in the government, no one anywhere, is telling phil robertson he cant go out anywhere across america and say the exact same things tonight that he did in that interview to "gq" magazine. joining me now for our rapid response panel, goldie taylor of the grio.com. and also the ring of fire radio host, mike ...