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Call or go online today to learn more. comcast business. powering possibilities. im joined now by michael eric dison, distinguished professor of african-american studies at vanderbilt and author of an upcoming book that will be

Interview in 2003 about bestiality and gays and lesbians. i think thats disgusting. to me, its startling, and borders on disgust. >> mr. santorum saying a lot of disgusting things. i just wish his own party could talk some sense into him. joining me now is michael eric dison, msnbc political analyst. georgetown university professor and an ordained baptist minister who received a ph.d. in religion from princeton university. and aaron mcpike, reporter from real clear politics. thank you both for b...

Transition to this rule. north korea will be paranoid, a freud of a south korean invasion or u.s. invasion. they will be puffing up to make themselves look more powerful than they are. we dont want anything to go wrong and an incident that flashes into a war that no one wants. as michael pointed out, over the next couple of months, there will be a shake down for the new collective leadership that was put in place. kim jung un may feel he needs to take a provocative act and again, we are going to...

Republican candidates as we move towards these primaries and so on. >> potentially if they are asked about it, but i think that in the polls you have to separate congress from the various presidential candidates and president obama. congress is just so unpopular right now. its wise to kind of stay away from them and let them fight it out. frankly president obama takes that tax sometimes and i think probably we will see that with this payroll tax cut. he went in and negotiated with the senate and...

To are z as i can imagine. having said that, i could be wrong and on this particular point there is a chance of squabbling or fighting from within the leadership. that could be something that leads to other unis getting engaged and taking sides with the preferred factions. thats the unrest im worried about. >> do you agree with michael that there is this committed deference towards government in that nation literally for decades. the dissidence is outlawed in the psyche of its people. >> the pic...

We showed you what boehner said to brian williams. heres what he said two months ago on "meet the press." >> its not my job to tell the american people what to think. our job in washington is to listen to the american people. having said that, the state of hawaii has said that he was born in. thats good enough for me. >> and if you think that sounds wishy washy, listen to congressman eric cantor. from a few months ago on the very same issue. >> somebody who brings that up just engaging in crazy ...

Trump. the racial undertones of the birther movement with michael eric dison and reverend al sharpton. eric boehler on the right wing media role in all of this. and amy holmes with republican reaction. this is the story that has me fired up tonight. president obama holding three fund-raisers this evening in manhattan. and moments ago, i give a lot of credit, he put the birther story right where it needs to be. >> my name is barack obama. i was born in hawaii. the 50th state of the united states ...

The racial undertones of the birther movement with michael eric dison and reverend al sharpton. eric boehler on the right wing media role in all of this. and amy holmes with republican reaction. this is the story that has me fired up tonight. president obama holding three fund-raisers this evening in manhattan. and moments ago, i give a lot of credit, he put the birther story right where it needs to be. >> my name is barack obama. i was born in hawaii. the 50th state of the united states of amer...

Political support within north korea. the one thing that could be worse is a civil war or a coo or counter coo where the custodianship is at risk. authorities a throw of the dies and ip hopeful that the odds are with us. >> this is as michael said a major nuclear power, the fifth largest in the world. north korea test fires a missile off the eastern coast before the announcement of kim jung ils death. a symbolic move. should we be alarmed? >> not by the missile firing and the south korean milita...