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It just doesnt add up. i always want to know how hes going to deal with the senate and the house. he seems to forget hes got to deal with that group of people. im hoping that he will say things that are unifying. i look at a lot of things that have been said. ive got to be frank with you, april, mika and joe, i grew up in a household where both my parents were pentecostal ministers. in my household, a lie is a lie is a lie. im hoping the president will be very honest with the american people. ye...

Todays torture report asks three main questions, the answers depend on your political leanings. number one, does torture work? number two, is it moral, ever? and number three, should the torture report ever been made public? joining me now former rnc chair michael steele and joan walsh, both are msnbc political anal t analys analysts. im going to let michael start, i want to hear your positions and then youll have to defend them. first of all, a good moral question. torturing. a means to an end?...

Leanings. number one, does torture work? number two, is it moral, ever? and number three, should the torture report ever been made public? joining me now former rnc chair michael steele and joan walsh, both are msnbc political analysts. im going to let michael start, i want to hear your positions and then youll have to defend them. first of all, a good moral question. torturing. a means to an end? does the end, even if it works, justify the means of torture? even if it gets us information. >> i ...

Successful people? is it moral to give our children and grandchildren massive debt? is it moral, half the population that works, to pay nothing at all? dr. carson takes the oppose moral position -- takes the opposite moral position and says the current taxation system is immoral. god wants a percentage, not a triple percentage because youre rich. he says, look, having skin in the game is moral. that was the message from dr. carson, and i fully agree with it. thats purely on moral grounds. >>bria...

Are you going to say, you dont get to eat, you dont get any welfare benefits because you have a parent who broke the law? >> fair point. now, youre raising the moral issue and the issue of illegal immigration. megyn: because when you talk about it just in the abstract without thinking about a little 1-year-old going hungry and not having food, its easy to decide the issue. its when you think of the moral consequences that it gets tougher. >> point well taken. i approach this, however, from the f...

Mess that we were in in the fall of 2008. >> i know we are going to be talking about this all morning. lets think of the movie "wall street" gordon greco, the whole idea that greed is good. was this really sleezy banking, sleezy investigating, sleezy operators on wall street or was this just simply wise business of covering all the bases? >> reporter: you have asked the several trillion dollar question. by the way, there is a "wall street ii" coming out in september. i have a little tiny role in...