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To households half below the poverty line. the people republicans characterize as moochers and fraud st fraudsters live in areas that overwhelmingly support republicans. today "bloomberg" reported among the 254 counties where food stamp recipients doubled between 2007 and 2011, republican mitt romney won 213 of them in last years presidential election. joining me now is msnbc contributor goldie taylor, also a contributor to the grio.com. goldie, given that last statistic which i thought was inte...

Have on both sides of the aisle arent held accountable for either supporting this or standing aside while our voting rights and our basic rights as citizens are being rolled back. so were looking forward to 2014 and to this fight and were in it for the long haul. >> here here,ing thank you for your commitment. joy reid, managing editor of the grio.com, thank you. coming up, may the irs scandal finally rest in peace? our next guest pays his respects to the controversy that wasnt and the fire st...

The lawsuit against paula deen has been thrown out. this is the same case in which deane had admitted to using the "n" word and those revelations led to her being dropped by many sponsors. and now many of wondering if todays ruling will help deen help rebuild her brand. joining mess is chris from the grio.com. thats the big question. shes not out of the woods legally, because the sexual drill nation lawsuit still exists, but the linchpin that took down her house of cooking cards was the rasht la...

I think this movie will be buzzing. >> are your eyes okay staring directly in the sunlight? >> we are okay right now. im still on a high and dont believe it actually happened. >> i bet. >> she was amazing. >> chris, thanks so much. "the butler". >> opens august 16th. >> you say its great. check out the full interview with chris sitting down on the grio.com. we will be back after this. because all these whole grains arent healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also availabl...

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Maxwell, a contributor to the grio.com. ooi irin carmon, and now the executive director of the service womens action network, and juan ramos, the core trainer for a call to men, executive director of community-driven solutions, who has worked as a court-appointed counselors for convicted abusers. thank you all for being here. >> thank. >> so this was a tough week in terms of this castro trial, and particularly on thursday when we were watching it. and irina, i kept thinking of you in this week, ...

"there is no plan b. there is no "what if," said one republican lawmaker. he said he talked to a handful of members who met with heritage action and the group had had no viable alternative to the president caving in. thats leaving us in the lurch. that is nor proper planning." but who needs a game plan? who needs compromise? if youre rush limbaugh, not the gop. >> are you suggesting republicans shouldnt negotiate and have biapproach with democrats? >> well, yeah, pretty much, because i dont thin...

They love to talk about. as the for house speaker john boehner, his office released a statement "this proposal allows president obama to support president obamas position on taxes and president obamas position on spending while leaving small businesses and american families behind." a spokesman for speaker boehner said earlier today that their office was not informed of the offer till they heard about it throughnous outlets. thats interesting because the white house said they called the speakers...

Fantastic reporting. >> yes. >> i would just say -- the thing that most recently happened in terms of bargaining and dealmakering in terms precipice was on the filibuster nuclear option. in that moment harry reid played hardball, basically as hard as you can play, which is to say he sounded and seemed like he was ready to do it and you actually got a deal. >> the problem here, alex, theres no way to play hardball for obama without saying hes willing to go over the debt ceiling. if you have to do...

Did it encourage him to pursue trayvon martin? was it because he had a gun and thought he had the law on his side? isnt it a fair question that none of this would have happened if this person had been unarmed? was there something in his thinking, zimmermans about the law, something about the way he behaved when he pursued martin that resulted from this law that says stand your ground? lets get to the next round in this debate. this public verdict on the trayvon martin tragedy. the battle over st...