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Particularly with the irs one. >> the cutting off the mic act today doesnt help him with adults. joy reid and ryan grim, thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks, rev. >> and be sure to watch joy on "the reid report" week days at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. still ahead, the vote that president obama calls a travesty. its gotten a lot of americans very upset. ill tell you what happened. also, if at first you dont succeed, try, try, and try again. we got a special "politicsnation"...

Just like today with congressman cummings he got tremendous pushback on live tv. because eric holder pushed right back at him and said you need to respect me as well as attorney general of the united states. it came up empty. i think the problem is you do have this need on the right to portray president obama as simultaneously this weak, ineffectual president and this dictator all at the same time. but you have to eventually have some meat there. but whats amazing to me is there have not been mo...

And i think one of the reasons hes failing is because you have congressman elijah cummings sitting there saying wheres the proof. and if you try to put out false information, im putting out the facts. i think he did that again today too. >> ryan, back in 2010, this is very interesting. this is before congressman issa even took over as oversight chairman. he went on rush limbaughs show and said this about president obama. listen. >> its going to acrimonious. theres no question. he has been one of...

Republicans across the country support raising the minimum wage, republicans in congress dont want to give it a vote. hard-working americans deserve better than no. >> democrats hope that this populist and very popular proposal for a higher minimum wage will win over enough working class white voters to give them a fighting chance in some very tough senate and house races this november. sherrod brown from ohio. ryan grim is from "the washington post." i think she could use your grit. i think you...

Republican moderate and say are you going to hold this thing up? >> you know, republicans are strong enough on this issue that they can hold together if its painted in a partisan kind of way. and thats what theyre doing. theyre making this a partisan issue, an election issue. if they wanted to get this done this year, they would probably do some compromise like $9 an hour and a bunch of business tax goodies and maybe you get it done. >> this is a way if youre a democrat to get working people who...

Hour and a bunch of business tax goodeers and maybe you get it done. >> this is a way if youre a democrat to get working people who are unions and people who have family members in unions and people who like unions and care about working people to vote democrat rather than to vote on the social issues that they tenth tend do to go over or national policy get a little tougher, they get a little more republican, reagan democrat. this is way to bring the reagan democrats home. >> thats what theyre ...

Card check. go around, republican by republican. >> thats fine with me. you bet. >> get them at home. get them in their office. ask them when their wives are there. >> the problem is they have to walk down on the floor to sign it, i believe. and all these other republicans are watching. but more power to us in doing that to what youre doing, to what were all trying to do with this. >> mr. vice president, its an honor to have you on the show. and i hope you and secretary clinton win that election...

Wage, republicans in congress dont want to give it a vote. hard-working americans deserve better than no. >> democrats hope that this populist and very popular proposal for a higher minimum wage will win over enough working class white voters to give them a fighting chance in some very tough senate and house races this november. sherrod brown from ohio. ryan grim is from "the washington post." i think she could use your grit. i think youre a working kind of guy. >> im really happy where i am, bu...

Who made that call to john boehner and mitch mcconnell on election night. is this what we can expect for the rest of his term? joining us now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post." great to see you tonight. thanks for joining us. i guess ill start with this. it seemed like president obama genuinely honestly believed in the summer of 2011 he was going to get somewhere negotiating with the republicans. he was going to get to a grand bargain. everybody i talked to said whe...

Pathway, in terms of their ability to reach out and grasp this american dream. they need to take a really hard look at that. because people are going to vote with their pocketbooks when they walk into the voting booth. >> ryan, a lot has been said this week about the new cbo report. and the gop is touting that different things that was observed about the minimum wage. but it actually says, this cbo report, that it would cost the nation about 500,000 jobs. but it would also increase earnings for ...