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>> he wasnt really a politician at all. mario cuomos politics were more a personal belief system. it was who he was, not what he did. fundamentally my father was a humanist. >> hundreds of mourners gathered to pay tribute, include former president clinton and mayor de blasio. joining muss -- and the daily beasts michael tamaski, who covered new york for many years. hello to both of you. let me start with you mike. you heard the current governor say it there at todays funeral. you wrote about i...

Air rage, were about to go into the fourth of july weekend. what happens someones southwest flight is overbooked and pulls out a gun? its going to happen at some point. >> michael, 60 -- 82% of police chiefs favor a background check and yet in 2013 63 laws in 26 states need easier to carry guns in public. why do people want to carry guns in public so badly? >> youre asking the wrong guy that question, but, look, this is absurdity and its the nra just flexing its muscles and just rubbing dirt in ...

Partisanship. its extra venom in these attacks on the president and the first lady, jonathan. >> well, its extra venom, its extra personal. there is in a lot of those comments, especially rush limbaughs last comment, there is something really personal, very harsh about the criticism. look, presidents and first ladies are criticized all the time, remember president george w. bush was criticized for being on vacation all the time, a whole lot more often than president obama. he went on vacations, ...

Are pushing it, they are going to be against it. now, you know, i thought we all grew up being told by our mothers to eat our greens and try and eat healthy, but apparently, you know, once the obamas latch on to that idea, it becomes a bad idea in republican land, and its really a terrible thing, because i was having a joke with my headline there, little bit of a joke, "republicans for more fat kids," but thats in essence what it boils down to. >> as a guy that grew up a fat kid in school, i too...

>> here we every with me now to discuss this is eric bowler, and msnbc contributor and washington post opinion writer jonathan kapart. i want to start with you, jonathan, because you did write the piece in the washington post that essentially this is a smart strategy for democrats. flesh that out for us. >> you talked a little bit about it in your setup in talking about how when mitt romney was running for president all the attacks on bain capital and showing how sort of dark ask sinister bain c...

Of the attacks on bain, on mitt romney not releasing his tax returns, on all of the criticisms about mitt romney and his wealth and him being out of touch, being seemingly on safari in his own country, that it made sen that he would say something like this. so by laying the ground work, harry reid, by obsessively hammering away when no one at the time was paying attention, when no one really knew who the koch brothers were, now with the three things that happened last week, the ryan budget, the ...

Majority leader eric cantor and i would assume we might hear something within the hour from the white house. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. democratic leader nancy pelosi calls john boehners bill the bills to nowhere. boy, was she right. boehner didnt have the votes. what will the democratic strategy be now? congressman elijah cummings and john garamendi will be with us. were coming right back. coming up next on "the ed show," ill ask co...

Demographic mix particularly with latinos that we were talking about. however, you look at ohio right now, and i think it has more to do with mitt romney underperforming than actually president obama overperforming. actually, its turned out that ohio is a problematic state for mitt romney even after a very good two weeks that weve seen after his debate performance. well continue to watch and see, but ohio has proved more problematic for mitt romney than president obama. >> thank you very much. g...

Absentee ballot. earlier today she tweeted she was voting early. she wrote hey @about rackobama. i just dropped my absentee ballot in the mail. i couldnt wait until election day. thats part of what she said. the pressure is on president obama like never before, and tomorrow night could mark his big chance, one of the last perhaps to fight for a second term. "the daily beast" michael tamaski wrote about it like so many others. plus, whats next or supersonic sky-diving felix baumgartner after his ...

>> all right, michael. its a pleasure as always. thanks. see you soon. voters in three states, three will decide next month on whether to become the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use. doing so would put colorado, washington state and oregon in direct conflict with federal law. in the meantime former federal officials in washington state are supporting the effort to legalize pot. joining me now is ryan grimm. hes the author of "this is your country on drugs."...