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Up next. >> hey, thomas. it is officially sequester semester. president obama brings out real people who will affect the affects of billions of cuts that are set to take place next week, while others are out at recess. the daupting to do list with harold ford jr., ryan grim, heather mcgehee, and andrew ross sorkin, and elizabeth warren is the tip on youtube with her top of too big to jail. will wall street reform become reality? and actress kristen davis is here to discuss blood ivory and elepha...

John mccain fit in that district, president obama, 42, but mitt romney, 58, barack obama, 40, that seems to me that it makes it a referendum on sanford. if those republican voters there can find him acceptable, then it is his. and if they cant, that would be the only chance for the democrat to win. >> right, with maybe some surreal combination of just grass roots, like energy created by steven colbert that we dont even know exists. it may be a sense of his power, but maybe he has way more on the...

Nobody believes that bank books are honest. that does not stop senator warren. even though the senate is in recess, warren is taking her message home to massachusetts where this weekend she told constituents in the bay state you cant come into peoples neighborhood and just tear them up. you cant sell terrible mortgage products that cause people to lose their homes. you cant come into our economy and just wreck it, cost people jobs, cost people their savings, cost people their retirmts and then s...

The day. >> ryan grim, if i was writing this movie, im just not sure who wins this special election. that was -- that was the greatest press conference in the history of political adultery, and i mean it. because he is the only politician who decided in moment one, in press conference one. what about the truth? what if i just actually tell the truth, and oh, by the way, im in love with her and this is very serious stuff? >> you would cast robin williams for that, and it would be one of his 25-mi...

It began very innocently as i suspect these things do. in just a casual e-mail back and forth, in advice on ones life there, and advice here. but here, recently over the last year it developed into something much more than that. >> this is a whole lot more than a simple affair. this is a love story. a forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day. >> ryan grim, if i was writing this movie, im just not sure who wins this special election. that was -- that was the greatest pr...

There will be buses of colbert backers. >> the colbert, colbert family power. well find out about it. ryan grim, thank you for joining us tonight. elizabeth colbert busch will be my guest, "the last word" exclusive later this week. and coming up, the story of how a movie got mississippi to finally ratify the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. every other state had already done it. but mississippi didnt get around to making it official until this month. and in the rewrite tonight, the endurin...

Her spouse or partner is an everyday occurrence in this country and across the globe, and so, i mean, we can look at a number of different things that we can do about raising awareness and empowering women, passing the violence against women act, which is being filibustered by republicans for reasons i simply cannot articulate. >> heather mcgehee, you always bring it back to something so substantive and meaningful. >> and guns. >> and guns. thats the other thing. we could have left it on mickey ...

Talked about, you know, most of the republican base agrees with it, that those are not national figures. so they know who it is that wants 2016 and they have decided that those folks just dont have a shot at it and so maybe this is the guy. >> is it possible, angela, that god may speak to dr. carson and persuade him to go ahead? >> i think god can speak to anyone, but the last thing i know about dr. ben carson, to ryans point, i actually do know who he is, gifted hands is a wonderful book. im su...

Of the "washington post" and cries teen bellantoni, political editor at the pbs "newshour." >> ryan, those response oregon this event are calling the event at the mall largest climate event ever. waiting for crowd counts. not sure if thats going to happen. the main purpose was to put the president on notice about the promises he made during his state of the union speech. how significant is this? >> i think it was a big deal. one of our reporters was down there, and she tells me it was huge, tens...

It looks like ult mimately, he will be confirmed. they have been pretty successful in forcing the presidents hand to release more information on that. but, ultimately, i think they are giving away some of their standing. theyre supposed to be the party of national security, the party of defense in this way by blocking this very important post. i think theyre doing some damage -- >> yeah, were talking about secretary of defense. were talking about whos going to head the pentagon. and let me tell ...