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Rifle. no one needs ten bullets to kill a deer. and too many innocent people have died already. end the madness now. pass rm, safe gun control in the state of new york. >> some governors just can't say it. this is a leadership moment for all people in elected office in this country. we are at a crossroads. which way do we turn? it's no time to change the conversation and start picking on the first amendment and say, well, it's the entertainment industry. the entertainment industry has been around for a long, long time. governor christie, it's the guns. get your cell phones out. i want to know ...

41. this should be a slam-dunk. in fact, you could easily make the argument that this is one of the best selections ever when it comes to qualifications for secretary of defense. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question are, the republicans opposing chuck hagel for partisan political reasons? text a for yes. text b for now to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you results later on in the show. joining me now is joe sestak, former three-star admiral of the navy and former congressman from pennsylvania. great to have you with us ...

Need to speak up and be active. republicans are baiting president obama into a negotiation on entitlement reform. before he gives them what they want, he should listen to another republican. >> social security has nothing to do with the deficit. social security is totally funded by the payroll tax leveed on employer and employee. if you reduce the outgo of social security, that money would not go into the general fund to reduce the deficit. it would go into the social security trust fund. so social security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or erasing or lowering the deficit. >> social...

Fight on capitol hill. democrats and progressives, they know this fight. they did it well in the 2012 campaign. they fought hard during the fiscal cliff fight and won that. clearly. this is basically the start of a new campaign. if you don't stay focused, if we don't stay focused, if we don't make sure that everybody in this country knows exactly what the republicans are up to, who knows where we're going to go. they're after the big three. that's what they want. you can fight for the big three. but you've got to get engaged. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's q...

Since 2001, the middle income tier has shrunk by 5%. the net worth of middle class families is down 28%. hold it right there. think about where have your health care costs gone in the last ten years. gasoline ten years ago was a buck 40 a gallon. where is it now? well over 3. would you like to have a buck 40 a gallon? the economy has changed a lot. whether there had been the bush tax cuts or not, this president would have been on the front lines saying we need to give relief to the middle class, and that's what this was all about. the tax deal was struck with these folks in mind. the 2012 elec...