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Joy reid and steve mcmahon, we have a male and that female commentator here. perhaps that evens it out. i may have a totally different view than both of you. lets start with joy ann. joy, it seems to me that i was stunned by two things this week. one, the absolute humiliating defeat of weiner, where he went down below where he belonged, where i always thought he belonged, and new york finally agreed, below five. i dont know who that was. i was looking at the people in his concession crowd there,...

Cant believe whats happening to her. >> can i help her out? if matt lauer asks you some time in the future when in trouble, are african-americans offended by the n word, let me help you out. the answer is not, i dont know. who am i to say. the answer would be no! come on. come on. >> look, im just saying -- >> sounds like youre defending her. >> when you dug yourself in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging. the woman cannot take the shovel out of her hand. >> sales of her cookbook have ...

>> megyn: the country seems divided. but a lot of people think he is a hero and want more snowdens near computers and others think hes a traitor and should be prosecuted. the dad himself saying, i dont think we should be spying on american, but stop it. >> steve: when youre in a hole, stop digging. hes already made the point. >> brian: i think it was first started, hero was here. every day the hero quotient is going down. >> steve: now you got glenn greenwald saying, i want to see all of this pu...

Again. >> i should somehow you know, do a jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what is right. >> the first nerd is wrong, i fear. jedi mind meld, it is a trick, and there is a vulcan mind trick, i was prepared to take away his nerd card for that. but if he could do mind tricks, john boehner would want to keep it a secret, with perhaps making a mistaken quote in the press conference. answer this, the white house got in on the fun with this, they tweeted we must bring balance to...

S, anti-austerity programs. and ben bernanke, saying you guys did this all wrong, if you hurt the sequester and hurt these jobs now it will be harder in the long-term. >> at a time like this, one of the best ways to actually contribute to your revenues is to get the economy growing quicker so more people are back to work paying taxes. when you have ben bernanke, who is no radical, in fact, i think he is a republican. >> appointed by george w. bush. >> making these points, you know were in upside...

Monarch, and the only thing standing between him and a truly powerful president to get his agenda done, is a training montage. and the reason you hear is that he could just use the bully pulpit. the president can move congress directly or he can move the american people to get them to get the congress to move. the mind meld is from star trek, mr. president. the fact that half of washington thinks he does have a jedi mind trick, i dock them ten points, we actually have the evidence on this, polit...

This level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when youre in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be 2% less white in 2016 than it was in 2012, which was 2% less white than it was in 2008. so t...

This level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when youre in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be 2% less white in 2016 than it was in 2012, which was 2% less white than it was in 2008. so t...

With stop saying "send them all back" and "anchor babies", does that mean that we are beyond this level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when youre in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be...

Notion, that description. i think thats absolutely wrong. that is not -- i dont think that that represents where we are as a party and where were going as a party. >> were in a big hole. were not getting out of it by comments like that. when youre in a hole, stop digging. he keeps digging. >> your response to this. do you think this is analysis on an issue or is this a change in tone or tenor going forward? >> its a necessary change in tone. theres no reason to look back to 2012 and belaying any...