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For a couple years and i obviously love the game. it did a lot for me in my development as an adolescent. i have a young son who is 5 years old. im very much reluctant to allow him to play, especially at a young age. one of the trends is letting guys play basketball and they grow up to be tight ends. if he wants to play football, i wont stop him. yeah, the more we know, the scarier it gets. we talked about this earlier jamelle, we did a poll, espn, 85% of players said they would play in the supe...

Investigation will continue. his subpoena power will be reauthorized and thats when well see more and more evidence come up that chris christie is just not telling the truth. >> thats a big part of this, too, we had wisniewski on the show saying he was still in doubt whether that subpoena power would be renewed. i guess its the power of up, the incoming speaker said maybe something else. he said a few hours later that power will be renewed. jamelle, what strikes me how many tracks are sort of in...

>> he said i will do whatever it takes to win and hes told national republicans whatever it takes to win sometimes means throwing republicans overboard and shaking hands with president obama. when it was important. this is a very machiavellian governor who will do whatever it takes to win and that message went through to his staff. they obviously carried it way too far. >> jamelle, thats the thing ive talked a little bit on the show. when people look at this nationally, they tend to look at it a...

Where there are three, four dozen african-americans in the house. and often they represent districts that are protected by the voting rights act, majority/minority districts and theres is an informal ceiling imposed by state democratic parties they view condition whose come from the districts not as electable statewide, theres a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory bookers story, jamelle, im curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democr...

Broader national sense. november, the -- one of the most popular politicians in the country about thats not a bad place to be. >> we, you know, jamelle we mentioned, you have a chart, theres no republican governor in the country governor of the state that voted more for obama than new jersey did. the margin for obama last year was 17 points. thats the most for any republican governor, there it is right there. robert, i wondered that, whenever christies in the news, talk about what hes doing in n...

>> you seem to suggest that somehow these folks over there had no responsibilities and my job is to somehow get them to behave. thats their job. theyre elected, members of congress are elected, in order to do whats right for their constituencies and the american people. >> at the table we have jamelle, with us, joining us is ann holmes, maureen and monica potts, a senior writer at "american prospect." so, i guess theres a disclaimer on the clip we played from the corporates dinner last week. i k...

Their lives are not all satin and pearls. >> im an airman in the united states air force reserve. >> and im a police officer with the metropolitan police department here in d.c. >> which makes this couple a case study in how americas married but unequal approach to same-sex relationships can play out. >> as an airman, its -- you get a constant reminder that, you know, youre second class. >> jamelle is a federal employee but the federal defense of marriage act bars same-sex marriage by the federa...

>> im a police officer with the metropolitan police department here in d.c. >> which makes this couple a case study in how americas married but unequal approach to same-sex relationships can play out. >> as an airman, you get a constant reminder that youre second class. >> jamelle is a federal employee but the federal defensive marriage act bar is recognition of same-sex marriage by the government which affects more than 1,000 federal benefits for spouses. everything from filing taxes and receiv...

Hard to draw logically. but i guess what i wonder is why sean hannity and all of these republicans who came out to kind of lionize this guy didnt see the possibility that he might be a huge racist coming. i mean its like its -- its every time this happens i think republicans get flatfooted by it, because they told themselves that like, you know, racial animosity isnt a propulsive force behind the conservative movement or certain republican policies and they have to believe that, you know, in ord...

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