Her kidnapper. For me, its holding on to hatred that will control your life. If you hold on to it, youre going to condemn your life to hell, and i choose to forgive that person for all the wrongdoing that they have done to me. Physical courage and spiritual courage, both triumphs of the human spirit. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. We have nothing to fear but ebola itself. This is hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Is fear contagious . A teacher in maine gets sent home for three weeks because she dared fly to an Educational Convention in dallas. In mississippi, scared parents
yank their children from school after hearing that the principal had traveled to zambia in sub sahara, africa, thousands of miles away from the infected area. This is the fear stalking the elections two weeks from now. Senator hagan has failed the people of North Carolina and the nation by not securing our border. Ladies and gentlemen, we have an ebola outbreak. Until the cdc can convince me that we are able to intervene with anyone who represents a threat to the safety and security of this country, then weve got to prevent them from traveling here. I think we ought to have an immediate travel ban from the affected travel areas going into affect now. Not tomorrow, but now. The ebola epidemic, along with isis shows you how we should really secure the border and not be granted amnesty. I think its naive to think that people wont be walking through here who have those types of diseases, or other types of intent, criminal or terrorist, and yet we do nothing to secure our border. Its dangerous. People walking through here. The southern border. These are all misconnects, disconnects, but they all play on fear. Also tonight, it appears that only an african vote can save the democratic control of the senate in two weeks. Can they deliver on election day . Can the group long looked upon as the democrats infantry now be counted on to be the cavalry . First to the ebola danger. Its become the republicans number one weapon of choice. Editorial director of the Huffington Post and also columnist for the washington post. Both are msnbc political analysts. Howard, this use of fear, it reminds me almost of the cold war. There really were communists over there, but the fact is, i guess there were some here, but the fact of the matter, this use of fear here, one victim in the United States. They somehow tie it together with, what was scott brown tying it together with . People Walking Around here,
people crossing the border, isis, tying it all together into one big fat package of, my god, the worlds coming to an end, we need a new party to run the thing. Its a strange thing. Its strinange, but familiarn american political history. The analogy to the red scare is enough on point. Theres just enough of a grain of truth in it all to allow the republicans to run wild. Theyve always, at least certainly since the 60s, run on at tthe idea of the other, the stranger, the outsider, the person thats unnamed that you should fear. It started with the immigration from the south, legal and otherwise. That didnt fly with the American People or the Republican Party, because the Republican Party is divided on it. Then they moved after the beheadings to isis, the great fear, even though thats in syria and not in the united
states. And now, of course, ebola. You put all three of them together, and fear, raw emotion, can, if allowed to be unanswered and unchecked, overrule the rational mind in american politics. And its the challenge of the president and the democrats in the last two weeks here, two and a half weeks, to say, look, the republicans have nothing to run on but fear. They have no program. They have only irrational fear. We have the answers. We have the way forward. And thats really going to frame these last two and a half weeks until the senate is decided, if its decided on november 4th. What is the connection between the rio grand river and the Atlantic Ocean . [ laughter ] people are reasonably concerned about a rush of immigrants. Any country would be. A rush of unregulated immigration. But how do they connect that with a few people, or this one person that came into the country that they know of from west africa who lied to get
here. But how do they connect, scott brown talking about people walking through new hampshire. Where are they coming from . Nobody is going to get ebola, walk across the texas border and walk to new hampshire. Thats never, ever going to happen. And so but howard is right upon. Its the atmospherics, its creating this sense of doom and foreboding and chaos. So the particulars, if you look at them, they dont parse. Right . They dont actually make sense as discrete things you ought to be scared of. But theyre trying to create the atmosphere that you ought to be scared of it all and you ought to be dissatisfied with whatever the democrats are doing or not doing to protect us from this sort of does anyone think the republicans would be more active in west africa in development and Health Standards . Does anybody believe they would
have been over there working to prevent that . No. A lot of republicans are still saying stop the flights, unaware that there are no flights. There are no flights from the affected countries directly to the United States. None. Stop the flights from europe. The fear factor will play a role in this. Were looking at thom tillis hyping it up. In a new poll, 2 3 of likely voters in swing states feel the u. S. Has lost control of major challenges. One reason could be the chorus from big names on the right saying the administration cant be trusted to handle ebola. Watch this chorus. If you were president and nih, or the cdc, were saying, hey, this will only make it worse, a travel ban, a flight ban will only make it worse. What we have in place is better. You would overrule the doctors and the experts . Candy, the doctors and the experts that are saying this are working for the administration and repeating the administration
talking points. And their arguments dont make sense. Look, this administration couldnt run the irs run. It apparently is not running the cdc right. And you ask yourself, what is it going to take to have a president who really focuses on the interests of the American People. Im feeling a little sick myself. But its not ebola. Im sick of a government that im paying for telling me not to worry. I wish i could trust them. But if they repeatedly lie to me, i just cant trust them anymore. The malice in these comments, the people who spent their life fighting diseases. Thats what they do, theyre not political. Accusing them of being flax for obama is dishonest. Unless you have a screw loose. That guy makes me think he does. Where does he get the idea that these guys are flacking. I dont even know what their party labels are. What is this about, that they would blame the president for writing the scripts of doctors . How would he know what to put in the scripts and what would be his motivation for playing down the danger . What does it mean to keep saying politically correct . What do they mean by that . Two points. First of all, the republicans here, if you listen to what theyre saying, theyre actually advocating for more of a government role. They may not like what the president is doing, but they want government activism here, to which Many Democrats would say, how dare you youve been tearing down the authority and the reach of government both here and understand roo the world for decades. Now you want the government to be an activist government. Thats the first point. The second point is, ted cruz, in his comments there about Administration Talking Points about science, is the perfect example of the intellectual bankruptcy of parts of the Republican Party that dismiss the idea of science. They dismiss the idea of accepted facts. They live in their own world. They think the left lives in its own world. And never the two shall meet. So even science has been ripped apart. In science, in consensus on experimentally verified scientific facts, the whole thinking of the last 300 years has been thrown out the window by republicans in this case. There anybody that doesnt know theyre loving this . No. Theyre loving this. Let me read this. Scott brown, i dont know the guy at all. But look at this. I think its naive to think that people arent going to be walking through here walking through here, through new hampshire. Listen to this. Walking through here, who have those types of diseases. Theres only one were talking about here. Those types of diseases and or other types of intent, criminal or terrorist. So be on the lookout for the boogie man. Hes coming through here. Maybe typhoid mary with ebola. And isis is covered. So the whole thing, shut down this country. Theyre coming. Its this sort of an umbrella designation, you should be afraid of everything. Bad people are coming to get you. And the democrats are going to allow it. This is the music man. Its river city, oh, we got trouble. But they should tell us, i think a reasonable person can debate this. It is debatable. Tony fauchy said today, you can disagree. We can discuss whether there should be a travel ban in our professional opinion, there shouldnt be one. And theyre getting that [ all speak at once ] can i mention race here . You may. Lets put the cards on the table here. You mean the word africa . No. The brown people coming from the
south, the arab people coming from the east, the black people coming from africa, nobodys saying that in so many words. Nobodys saying it at all. But its in the background of this whole discussion, and anybody who would deny that doesnt know how this country operates. Its not the only way this country operates. Were bigger than that in the end, but thats definitely a sub text of a lot of whats going on here. Theres no question about it. And ill say it if other people wont. It is the arrival of them. African americans have been here before we got here. [ laughter ] there is that. Or the may flower. Howard is right. Diseased africans, you know, we have to keep them out. And these murderous arabs, and these, you know, these brown central americans, we have to keep you know. The people who come walking
through here with those kinds of diseases we dont want them walking through here. In the past few days, weve seen a couple of examples that verge into the latter, hysteria. Lets watch. Officials on wednesday sent this letter home to parents of students who attend school where the suspended staff member teaches school. She traveled to dallas representing maine at a conference. Parent voice their fears that the teacher could have been infected by the deadly virus. Following the meeting, the teacher took a 21day leave of absence. There was a real sense of panic outside of hazel hurst middle school. The principal just returned from his brothers funeral in zambia, far from the ebola hot spot countries, on the other side of africa. Thats about 2,500 miles, we
did the math today. A long, long way. This is hysteria and i think we got troubles in river city. You know why theyre doing it, because theres an election in two weeks. Thats it. This isnt a reasonable discussion of good public health. Its an attempt to scare people into the voting booth to vote r. Thank you both. Coming up, black power. I use that loosely. The democrats only hope to withhold the senate is to have an extraordinary turnout of African Americans. Can they deliver on election day . The infantry is being asked to be the cavalry this time, save the day. This is hardball, the place for politics. Their manufacturig process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. What they do actually is rocket science. High tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. Were just their bankers, right . But financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge. In this case, our top lean process engineers. So they showed us who does what, when, and where. Then we hit them with the important question why . Why put the tools over there . Do you really need those five steps . What if you can do it in two . Whoo, thats an interesting question. Ideas for improvement started pouring out. With a little help from us, they actually doubled their output speed. A hundred percent bump in efficiency. If you just need a loan, just call a bank. But at ge capital, were builders. And what we know. Can help you grow. Well be right back and talk about what i called black power. The only way the democrats can hold the u. S. Senate is ifAfrican Americans get out and vote the way they voted in 2012. This is an extraordinary leap theyre going to have to make. Theyre going to have to jump up and catch something theyve never caught, a midterm election, as strong as a president ial election, but they have to do it, its argued if the democrats are going to hold the senate. Well be right back to talk about that hotbutton issue. Is clearly intended to grab your eye. Oh, and your foot. Aint that a kick . The ford escape with the footactivated liftgate. Go open up something interesting. Go further. receptionist Gunderman Group is growing. Getting in a groove. Growth is gratifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label
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case. Starting tomorrow, you can vote too. Youve got to grab your friends, grab your coworkers. Dont just get the folks who you know are going to vote. You got to grab cousin pooky who is sitting on the couch right now watching football, hadnt voted in the last five elections. Youve got to grab him and tell him to go vote. Joining me now is former San Francisco mayor willie brown, hes no uncle pooky, i dont think. Hes an active fellow and Donna Edwards of maryland. Me, a white guy, only learned that phrase today. Uncle pooky is a phrase for the old guy who doesnt show up, has a drink now and then, enjoys life, not active. What do you think the president was up to saying reach out to
that guy and get him to the polls . I think he was trying to say exactly what needs to be done. Im pleased that hes doing it. He should have been doing it over the last month. Although many Democratic Candidates running this time, dont want to be near barack obama. That guy is a winner in black neighborhoods. He won the presidency on the backs of blacks in this country because they turned out in numbers far superior to anything theyve ever done in any election. If he does that again, the u. S. Senate will stay in the hands of democrats. You know, for years, people who worked for the kennedys have tried to get elected to office and they have failed. But the kennedys get elected. Can he project obama the person and the magnet, to other people . Can he do what doesnt often get done . Project your influence to someone else . Yes, he can. He can make it a race issue. It can be just as if it was
martin Luther King Jr saying vote, rosa parks saying vote, malcolm saying vote. He can do what needs to be done in order to motivate African Americans to go vote. And if you couple that with a huge infusion of money. If you couple that with a huge infusion of Voter Registration effort. If you get all the faithbased African American churches in this country to do the same thing, you will be saying Barack Obamas legacy depends upon your vote, go do it, and it will be done. Congresswoman, what we need is apparently to win this battle, to win for the democrats, you need charisma from the president , somehow, injected down to the other democrats, you need street money and voter identification and a good polling operation. Thats a lot to put together. It is. But what the president is doing, in illinois and places like
maryland, he actually projects that message on a national level. And it gets across, even to the districts in iowa, in southern illinois, and other places where we have strong African American population, and we need them to turn out in the 90 rates that they did for the president. And so i think thats what hes shooting for here. And its never too late to call on voters to vote. And the fact is, in 2012, even with all the voting restrictions out there, African Americans showed up in record numbers. And so, i think people are prepared to vote, if they hear the message from the president and he doesnt have to be in kentucky for ken