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Should be discouraged. the business wing disagrees. there is a 35-point gap when it comes to policy with 55% of hardened republicans saying any foreign involvement is bad news for the country. what brings them together? the dislike of the president and anything having to do with government. the party leaderships has found reasons to do as little as it can on big yishs. how far will that take the party? perry bake and ryan grim from the huffington post. perry, what we have here are numbers. numbe...

Really sticking up for their little sisters in the veterans affairs committee. even while theyre not even, themselves, signing the letter. its a really pitiful state of affairs. >> ryan grim from the "huffington post." great reporting. thanks so much. >> thanks, chris. coming up, yesterday, in what weve called the craziest race in america, the night apparently ended with a tea party official, with close ties to the tea party candidate, locked in a courthouse alone with the ballots at 2:00 in t...

Do it. they want to close the window on any factual discussion. >> eric boehlert for media matters, thank you. a week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va story disappeared, just disappeared, fell off the map. at the time, we skasked, what...

A week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va story disappeared, just disappeared, fell off the map. at the time, we asked, what happens the day after eric shinseki resigns? how does this get fixed? today ryan grim has an amazing piece in "t...

Person in five years. nobody knows what happened. and thats the way they want to do it. they want to close the window on any factual discussion. >> eric boehlert for media matters, thank you. a week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va sto...

Where a supporter of his broke into a hospital where thad cochrans very ill wife is and took pictures of her and posted it on the internet. so thad cochrans supporters do have a reason to be concerned here. this is also a senator that told, said, in a newspaper report that he wanted to retire, and other people talked him into running. so you can understand why there is a momentum deficit at this point. >> and also, ryan, it sets up a conundrum in a race that is already ugly for the republicans f...

Thanks to the third-party ka candidate. senator cochran did not come out to talk to his supporters last night, and instead, the campaign tweeted, dead heat. less than 500 votes separating the two candidatekand new campas tomorrow, as in today. and three weeks to victory. but chris mcdaniel still sounds con confident. >> this is a historic moment in this states history. and because of your hard work, and because of your dedication, we sit here tonight leading a 42-year incumbent. >> i want to bri...

That would be senator elizabeth warren whos giving the populist wing of the democratic party reason to hope by not outright rejecting speculation of a future presidential bid. during a discussion, "the huffington post" ryan grim quoted a passage in her book where she says this. she is fiercely determined to do everything ki to help us once again be the america that creates opportunities for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules. grim then suggested there was something warren could do allu...

Afghanistan, you know, in iraq for ten years and thousands and thousands of them come back wounded and then to be shocked that the health care system that hasnt been upgraded cant handle it. you know, i think what -- >> thats right. >> -- we established is that congress cant really oversee this very well. they need to vest more authority in the va to make reforms from the top. thats kind of where we are at this point. >> ryan grim, goldie taylor, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank yo...

More states after, after 2014, more after 2016, you know you get to a place where, you are going to say that, that you are not going to be willing to hire people who have done nothing wrong legally. we are not talking morally, nothing wrong legally through out their lives. especially when you start talking about the culture of the hacker community. >> yeah, ryan as of february 2014, 47% of all americans say they have tried pot. as you say those numbers are going to increase in places where it is...