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You know, well cut the earnings of our staff and make sure they -- you know, they have to pay for all their insurance and -- and cant get the subsidies anybody else gets. and well handcuff the president and the secretary of the treasury. so they cant manage the money. so we have become more likely to -- i mean, its just ridiculous. and you know, i fear that were on -- it always gets darkest before it goes completely black. >> yeah -- john, ted cruz reportedly skipped the gop luncheon today. but ...

>> because they have to think about their party also. and they dont want -- they shouldnt become a remnant party the way they are in europe. they want to -- >> so sacrifice themselves politically at home. >> basic point that karl rove made, basic point that karl rove made, which was an excellent point is to win with white votes, republican candidate in a presidential election would have to carry the white vote by the same margin as -- listen, just -- can i just finish the point? same margin as r...

>> john boehner has to walk his way back from the so-called hastert rule that says you have to have a majority of the rule. >> did you hear from that -- >> yes. >> john alter said you have to do this. >> otherwise she are slitting their throats long-term. >> that has to play, chris, longer term. >> i dont think it will happen. thank you. thank you, michael steele and jonathan alter. dont forget to check out the "hardball" blog. there is much more on this story including a great piece by "hardbal...

Way back from the so-called haster rule that says you have to have a majority of the vote. >> did you hear from that -- >> yes. >> john alter said you have to do this. >> otherwise she are slitting their throats long-term. >> have you it play chris, longer term. >> i dont think it will happen. thank you. dont forget to check out the "hardball" blog. there is much more on this story including by "hardball" reporter, benji. talking about how latinos learn to love their own base. find it at tv.msnb...

This people take it to one extension further. does it have to be humans you know? no, i dont really know, senator paul and if republicans are taking heart in tuesdays supreme court ruling that struck down the key part of the voting rights act allowing voter i.d. laws and restricting efforts to take effect, bloomberg business week joshua green warns, this victory will be a poison chalice for the gop if the stampede to impose new restrictions offends minority voters most affected by the laws who a...

One hell of a broadcast. for those unaware of mr. jones theory, here is the man explaining the events of the boston bombing. >> i have never seen a false flag provocateured staged event by a government come apart faster than it is right now. >> john, what do you say to that? >> well, you knows honestly, the idea that anybody would be giving this guy whos just seeking more publicity for his show, trying to expand his far right-wing empire any more attention -- weve had trash, lies, slurs, in this...

John has just said, isnt it, ryan? >> no, thats exactly right. and a member of congress, a republican member of congress, told napolitano, i have seen this on "the drudge report" and credible media outlets such as "the drudge report" are reporting this. so you need to respond to it. and she said something back like, well, im not exactly sure that i would agree with you that thats a credible media report. you know, thats a problem in washington. that people do rely on "the drudge report" to kind ...

Homeland secretary why are you buying up all the bullets? the federal government hates guns so much that theyre going to just buy them all up and hoard them. you know, its -- you dont know where to start with this stuff. >> drudge is a tip sheet for fox. a lot of times theres a conservative media food chain. youll see it in these wacky blogs. then it goes on "drudge" then fox and comes out of the mouths of senators and they always use the cover-up, were just raising questions. >> of course. >> t...

Erickson to step out, say, look, this is crazy. >> john, earlier we played sound of glenn beck linking what happened in boston disgracefully to auschwitz. let me show everyone a picture of that. you can see beck. a picture of botthis new book a bottom, about the truth about gun control. in the end, this is about peddling books and advertising their brand, isnt it? >> of course. you know, eventually it got beck fired even from fox because they started to lose advertisers. in my book, which isnt o...

Civilian in late 2008, but in northern iraq in 2011, i was embedded training, and i was on a small iraqi army base where we had the third iraqi division. what i found fascinating about the debate in washington right now, the people who wanted us in iraq, to stay, and train the iraqi army, some of the republicans, theyve been for a long time calling to arm the syrian insurgents that are frankly radicals. in iraq, alawi is not in charge. these have killed members of the third iraqi unit which my u...