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Makers who show up in leather jackets and blue jeans. perhaps they are dressing down to what they it are are getting done in congress. if you are casual i will dress like that. >> you know i think it is not the biggest problem we are facing with the the functionality of congress right now. i understand what hes saying. i am just happy if they show up wearing pants at this stage of the game so little is getting done. on both sides. this is a criticism across the board. >> there is a decorum. like...

Benefit, still separate and unequal in criminal justice. >> let me talk about that. if you steal a car and the car is worth 50,000 bucks, thats grand theft auto. that means you go to jail for five or ten years, i dont know. >> absolutely. governor mcdonnell isnt even going to jail for as long as he was governor of the state, whose office he put up for sale. >> i did like your defense of tom delay. i thought that smelled of a lot of stuff that goes on in texas. i wish there was a straight prosecu...

>> i did like your defense of tom delay. i thought that smelled of a lot of stuff that goes on in texas. i wish there was a straight prosecution down there for once. it reminds me of pakistan. you lose an election, they prosecute you down there. it just seems like that. everybodys either hard right or hard left. and ticked off at the other side to the point they cant even think straight. so this case, however, it was almost like they took this pristine family, church-going family, that must have...

Sometimes you actually start to believe you can walk between -- >> you have got it out for governor christie. youve stuck it in twice now. go ahead. >> chris, im a huge chris christie fan. but look, theres two kinds of people in the criminal justice system and ive learned over the last three decades. there are people who we are afraid of, predators, and people who were mad at. i think the governor falls into the latter category, mcdonnell, not christie. this is a situation where he had a 21st ce...

Into this relationship with a chucklehead, the proverbial snake oil salesman. and this monumental fall from grace is the ultimate tragedy. politicians, whatever we may think of them are human beings. whether youre governor mcdonnell or tom delay, these arent people who we definitely do not need to warehouse. >> we dont always do what we want, but be responsible for who we are. so true, no matter how you did it or why you did it you did it. thank you both. coming up u.s. congressman steve israe...

Wants something from state government and hes around you, showering you with things offering you bank loans that you could not get from a commercial institution, you know he probably wants something. and if you take it theyre going to be watching. >> well said good reporting rosalyn from "the washington post." joining me now, paul butler and criminal defense attorney brian weiss who represented texas congressman tom delay whos money laundering charges were overturned. thank you for joining us. w...

Organization im involved with has already filed a complaint with the state ethics economy calling for an investigation. what you are seeing here with taking gifts from jerry jones, taking gifts from the cowboys, while also jerry jones and the cowboys doing business with the state of new jersey is not a far cry from what the type of activity that bob mcdonald was sentenced for. not a far cry from what we saw with abramoff and tom delay. that was all about favorites, tickets, golf outings, plane r...

Message to tom delay, eat your heart out. 2008 cruising into the holidays. she always has the best cards. the white house has a great one. maybe i will bring it in tomorrow. that wraps up the rundown on msnbc. thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin next on news nation. ill see you here tomorrow. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be

They took back congress. they defeated tom delays map. and one thing obama did when he came into office was go after cia agents. theyre going after an old playbook because they dont have any other ideas. if there was an attack on times square, impending, and we knew someone who had information, it would be immoral not to ask. whether youre for torture or not, we used to torture, we dont anymore. we do not. so why are we bringing this up now. to those who are so outraged about this, i ask this qu...

American public wanted and thats do whatever it takes to keep us safe. these terror tactics have been stopped. as a country, we decided we are better than this. so we stopped them. thats my point that why are we putting out this memo? weve had this discussion. weve had the debate and its not about democracy now. no, no. its about politics. its about democrats being so fundamentally lost as a party, harris, they have to return to an old play book. the plays that they ran right when obama got into...