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No legislation being -- and he has no real experience. so to me hes just a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> so as the gop train starts rolling toward a primary, is it already flying off the tracks? joining me now is michelle colon from the national journal and salon.coms joan walsh. thank you both for being here. michelle what does it mean that the first candidate is ultimate the most controversial. >> he wants to get out there, grab attention, and put down his mark el. you know weve got ...

This weekend as well. and salon.coms joan walsh. thank you, both for being here. >> good being with you, rev. >> congressman, a lot of your republican colleagues who went to selma with all of us dont want to work on voting rights. how do you explain that? >> well, look reverend al what im hoping takes place here and i agree with what senator coons just said is that i was talking to a number of my republican -- im glad they came number one. but there was a number of them who were relatively young...

Stop the president from his illicit activities. >> well, thats the -- >> its a good set of talking points. now all theyve got to do is figure out how to govern. joining me now is salon.coms joan walsh. thank you for being here. >> thanks rev. thanks for having me. >> joan if speaker boehner cant get his members to vote for homeland security can he do anything? >> no, i dont think he can do anything. and i -- you know i really think that they put that vote on the floor, they thought that they had...

Want to work with them i want to get things done. i dont have another election to run. >> joining me now, emanuel cleaver, democrat of missouri and joan walsh of salon.com. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> good to be here rev. congressman, the president wants to get things done this year. any chance your republican colleagues have the same resolution? >> i dont think so. most of the republicans campaigned around the country against the president. in my neighboring state of kan...

There is a battle of wills between the kgb colonel and the colonel is winning. >> this is the playbook for the republicans. foreign policy challenge is an excuse to go after the president. its the blame obama first crowd. blame america fist. how about coming together and being above politics? joining me now is retired u.s. army captain wes moore and salon.coms joan walsh. thank you both for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> captain moore, before we get to the politics, today president obama a...

The movie is described as both nostalgic and an ode to growing up and parenting. >> talk to me. samantha, how was your week? i dont know, dad. it was kind of tough. ellen mad at me because she saw me talking to billy in the cafeteria. remember that sculpture i was working on, it was a unicorn, the horn broke off and now its a zebra. >> giving it 100% thumbs up on rotten tomatoes. we couldnt find any bad reviews. in salon.com there isnt anything else quite like "boyhood" in the history of cinema....

Congress. speaker john boehner says hes sticking with his lawsuit against the president, citing his habit of ignoring the law. its the same lawless rhetoric that we have heard from tea party leaders for years. now its taken over the gop. joining me now is congressman emmanuel cleaver, democrat are from missouri, and salon.coms joan walsh. thank you for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> good to be with you. >> congressman, we have seen ugly attacks on the president before. i just played the reaction...

This decision and others like it are completely political. they are all about gutting unions, which are crucial supporters of democratic candidates and politics. from citizens united to the union busting laws we have seen from the gop, the right is doing what it can to attack labor and is taking a toll. in 2010, for example, these ten organization thes spent the most of all outside groups on campaign contributions. three of them were unions. by 2012 when citizens united had taken full effect, no...

Learned, over the long term, not enough and counterproductive. because ticking people off and scaring them and making them feel they have to kill you before you kill them is really not a good long term growth strategy. >> i want to urge everyone, go to salon.com. the title of the piece -- >> slate.com. >> forgive me, forgive me. slate.com. al qaedas seven rules for the effective terrorist. thank you so much for joining me. bowe bergdahl could eventually face very serious legal charges of deser...

We did learn something from how we went to war the last time. that last quote that i just read that you saw on screen, thats from this article at salon.com today. look at the very satisfying headline. "stop treating war-crazy buffoons as experts! they got it wrong, remember?" i think it matters for our national discourse that there are a lot of headlines out there like this right now. right? on iran, "lets ignore those who got it all wrong." "iraq war boosters get second chance in media spotligh...