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From my cold, dead hands! >> joining the table now, washington bureau chief of "mother jones" and an msnbc political analyst, david corn, its not often you have charlton heston as a lead-in. >> but when you were quoting the letters that were sent, i was thinking, it sounds like charlton heston wrote these. >> well -- >> its not by accident, as you noted. the nra playbook for years for decades has not to have an honest policy disagreement about gun laws or gun reform, but to be extremely demagogu...

Skepticism anymore, bernie. >> mentioned in the lead-in into this segment that they like him. you are absolutely right, and never underestimate the power of like ability in any facet of life. they have a lot invested in him. when i wrote that book a slobbering love affair, i interviewed a network news correspondent who said dont expect the press to go after nelson mandela. and said what does that have to do with this? they said a lot of journalisms see barack obama as anneals son mandela. hes a ...

Skepticism anymore, bernie. >> mentioned in the lead-in into this segment that they like him. you are absolutely right, and never underestimate the power of like ability in any facet of life. they have a lot invested in him. when i wrote that book a slobbering love affair, i interviewed a network news correspondent who said dont expect the press to go after nelson mandela. and said what does that have to do with this? they said a lot of journalisms see barack obama as anneals son mandela. hes a ...

Obama, despite all the problems his administration is experiencing. joining me is mr. goldberg. what i picked up was lack of gop presence. very few republicans there. and the press is not skeptical anymore of president obama. they have always liked him. you have written a book about him, slobberg love affair. and its mostly along the political lines butch less no skepticism anymore, bernie. >> mentioned in the lead-in into this segment that they like him. you are absolutely right, and never unde...

About this, which doesnt necessarily implicate the president, but does as ron fournier suggest challenges ones competence and credibility. sowing the seeds of doubt, if you will. >> i think that what they were dealing with, was anç inspecto generals report. by the way. one of the things that i just going back to your lead-in. that i find hard to understand is they have the testimony and report of inspector general, who assertsed that he didnt believe there was political motivation or that this...

This stuff this week was a scandal. but this is a scandal. can we finally have enough outrage to do something about this? >> well, i thought your lead-in was really important. you showed several states that are doing something about this. colorado, new york. connecticut, but one of the things that happens in our media culture is we look at things like background checks and because of arcane rules didnt move on. from a majority we say, oh, we lost. we look at the terrible things, and they are ter...

In brooklyn. weiner has not responded to a request for comment on that. and the irs is scrapped its planned softball game for the team with senator john cornyns office. the agency whose team is called the cheetahs canceled the game. no comment from the irs and so far, the game has not been rescheduled. get that, the irs, the cheetahs? thats going to wrap things up for me. ill see you back on monday at 11:00 a.m. "now" with alex wagner is coming up. alex, your best day, friday. >> it is. >> tgif ...

In america is broken down. what weve got to do is change it. ive been sitting for more than three months with a bipartisan group of senators talking about a variety of issues, including making america safer. the immigration reform bill that will start this week in the senate judiciary committee is a bill that will make this a stronger nation, not just at the border with mexico, and will strengthen that, but also the very points you made in the lead-in. we need to track the visas coming into the ...

Is youll see that in spain and greece, unemployment among young people has reached over 50%. 55% and 59%. >> that is terrible. >> again, in the u.s. we think and we do have an unemployment problem among youth at 16.4%. >> like revolution numbers. >> donny, that is precisely the point. wednesday was may day in europe, may 1st is their kind of labor day. there were demonstrations all over europe. you have a lot of disaffection and in europe its hard to get older workers to retire early or to lay t...

Slobbering obama care. along liberal lines. president obama is a e preg press is berals. they like him. there is no skepticism anymore, bernie, about the failure of certain policies. its like okay, so what? so what? so what the economy remains -- so what afghanistan is going down the drain and we have that in a couple of minutes? so what? thats what -- >> right. a couple of points on that. you mentioned in the lead-in to this segment that they like him. you are absolutely right. and never undere...