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0 chief of the "huffington post" ryan grim and host of msnbc "hardball." congress has been giving the best foundation for book purchasing, your book in specific. >> dysfunction is the name of the game right now. >> whats your reaction. >> everybody goes to their usual battle stations every time something happens. you see rand paul talking about being bullied. thats the name of his book. hes always talking about being bullied. the senate has not operated with discernment and discretion. there wer...

>> both political parties must resolve to bring this period of mindless cannibalism to an end. there has been enough of it. >> the chamber applauded for ten seconds and 20 seconds, 30 seconds, they rose in a standing ovation, both sides of the aisle. wright said hoped his resignation would be total payment for the anger and hostility we feel toward each other. >> the nation has important business and cant afford these distraction distractions. and thats why i offer reassignment. >> there was no ...

In 1994, the year of the so-called gingrich revolution. texas was changing. marching further and further to the right. another gingrich ally climbed the leadership ranks, tom delay. by 2003, delay was the house majority leader and used his muscle to push the gop to power in the texas state legislature. which allowed that new republican majority to push through an unprecedented middecade jagerrijair gerry man scheme. in that texas state legislature has only gotten more conservative and more repub...

Ari, youve been following the voter i.d. law around the country more than anybody else. the texas law is called one of if not the most stringent in the country. tell us exactly what this law does and why somebody like jim wright, why somebody like wendy davis is having trouble voting right now. >> thats a grand introduction. im glad you laid it out in your intro. there is three major problems with the texas voter i.d. law. first major problem is the number of people who dont have i.d. according ...

Resurrected things in the newspapers, years gone by, down in my district. >> gingrichs confrontational politics were winning him fans in the conservative grassroots and loyalists within the house gop ranks. and he and his allies scrambled to tar wright with anything they could find. charges about his investments in relationships with texas business men, the violent past of one of his top aides. wright wasnt an angel, but wouldnt have mattered if he was. gingrich knew co-mahe could mak own career...

This is jim wright. it wasnt long ago he was the biggest fish in the biggest party in one of the biggest states in america. born in ft. worth, texas, nearly 91 years ago, december 1922, the day after pearl harbor he enlisted in the army air corps, flew combat missions and came home to texas where he entered politics and began the long, slow, steady climb to the top of the ladder. won a seat as a democrat in congress in 1954, eisenhowers first midterm, the year the democrats won a majority that t...

1986. it was the high point of a long painstaking rise. that high point also coincided with the emergence of a very new, very corrosive, very personal style of opposition party behavior. it put jim wrights leadership on an immediate crash course with rising conservatives ruthless ambition. formal ethics complaint filed against the new speaker by 73 house republicans. the main charge centered around wrights book reflections of a public man. former staffer said he spent hours in the government pay...

0 rivals in an epic mayor for race that would play out a few years later, they joined together to introduce what was called the equality act of 1974. for first time ever there was now legislation in congress to ban employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. it went farther than that, extending protections to women and unmarried people as well. housing, public accommodations and public facilities like libraries. it went nowhere in congress that year, given the tide of social change, see...

Eating and drinking experience while you are there, get a tattoo or a piercing. back to you, steve. >> congratulation, we have unfinished business for that $50 gift certificate. here is a jackpot bonus question. fine years ago yesterday the republican revolution of 1994 vaulted the gop to the house of representatives for the first time in four years and made newt gingrich speaker. for your bonus, what democrat did gingrich succeed as speaker? >> jim wright. >> incorrect. it was tom foley, im sor...

You can vote for almost two weeks during early vote. senior citizens have the right to vote by mail. we made it easy to vote by texas. but because of the numbers that you talked about earlier, republicans are seeing the growing numbers of latinos in the state, the growing numbers of african-americans, and they are beginning to be concerned because they havent made any sort of outreach to the black community or the latino community, and so, theyre trying to skew the elections their way. i think t...