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People. joining me now are goldie taylor and ryan grim. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks, reverend. >> goldie, the speaker of the house once said he would rather commit suicide than raise the minimum wage. that what americans want right now? >> well, it certainly isnt what america wants right now. and it certainly shouldnt be what speaker boehner wants right now. what we should want is a social safety net for the least of these, for those people l...

These families to subsist. so theyre working a 40-hour workweek, and still not being able to feed their children on their own. and i think that is a moral dilemma for this country. and its something that we have got to figure out and figure out quickly. >> ryan, you know, nbc obtained a memo that majority leader cantor sent to house republicans. it says, quote, president obama has provided new clarity as to what constitutes an imperial presidency. the house will consider a number of bills to res...

Democrats did not do it to them. no democrat was involved in this debac debacle. democrats sat back and watched republicans do this to themselves. ted cruz did this to the riest n the senate. democrats are unified right now. democrats dont agree on everything, but they do agree, all of them, on how much fun it is to watch republicans do this stuff to each other. joining us now, d.c. bureau chief at the "huffington post," ryan grim. nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me....

Thing does not actually exist. there is no way that they were going to find that. they threw every random thing they could think of up against the wall and nothing stuck because democrats realized if we hang together, we will win because there is nothing that will unite the republican party. i think widen actually kind of hit something rather profound there h. there actually isnt really a republican party now. there are a lot of different factions that are united under this thing that theyre cal...

This and dont want to be there. thats when they started scrambling and told harry reid, shut off the microphones and they corralled as many people as they could, took them in the cloakroom, explained the situation that murkowski and collins were going to vote no if they didnt get the support of leadership. then you see people like mccain come out and change their votes and vote yes. >> thats fascinating. that explains why the votes were crossed out and changed because the moderates were like, no...

Take -- make some kind of public statement that they condemn behavior like this. i think its quite possible that you could get a censure or something along those lines in the house. >> talking about a statement i might add that 17 hours later, after this confrontation and question about the campaign investigation, attorneys for an attorney for representative michael grimm released a statement about the campaign finance investigation saying congressman grimm denies any wrongdoing and we look forw...

>> would you take as the answer were counting cars? >> well, if someone said yes, were performing a traffic study, it is done all the time. im bornen an raised in new york. ive seen a lot worse causing traffic not only on the var dan know bridges but on the beltway parkway. we can go on all night if you want to talk about traffic nightmares that lasted longer than four days. in this area, yes. >> and that christie defender was doing this last night. joining me now is it ryan grim, washington bur...

But let me ask you a question, ryan. take me into congress. because clearly politically this does not make a lot of sense, these positions on women nationally. so is this just about congressmen not worrying about the national, just worrying about their district, playing to their home base? i mean, what are we looking at here? take me inside the heads of these congressmen in a midterm election that is clearly doing something that nationally makes no political sense. >> no. you said it exactly rig...

Huckabee out there talking about womens libidos so glibly. >> you know, ryan, senator rand paul doubled down on his statements about republican war on women. he told politico, quote, republicans are as pro womens rights as any other group out there. if democrats are going to say otherwise, they need to explain why they defended a guy, president clinton he is referring to, who really had his own personal war on women going on. it seems as though rand paul is really going to try to do the monica l...

You, my friend. >> you know, the republican parties -- has a lot of rich white men in so they would have a problem with that. >> well leave it there. ryan grim, susan del percio, stay with msnbc and for our special coverage beginning at :00 eastern tomorrow night. coming up here, subpoena power, well take you live to new jersey to the statehouse in trenton. at this hour lawmakers are expected to take the next step in the investigation and the governor chris christies office and those controver...