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>> i want to talk with you for a second about new orleans. new orleans is extraordinarily important to my state. my first job is government was with a governor, governor buddy romer. and at the time he took an economic trip to japan. he tells a story he was meeting with about 20 japanese business people. and he started off by asin aski them, he said how many of them have been to louisiana? he said five japanese business people raised their hand. then he said how many of you have been to new orleans. he said 15 raised their hand. it's a big part of our culture and our economy. we've got a crime...

Having said all that, which is an important point, i think that one thing that is a little disgusting is that democrats could have voted yesterday. they could have crossed the line. it's an open primary. they could have vote forward strange to prevent moore from being the nominee. the way that republicans voted for buddy romer in 1991 in louisiana to prevent david duke from becoming a senator. if that is not -- there is an overall obligation here in a time of horror when a horrible candidate is coming where citizens -- citizenship demands you make painful and difficult choices sometimes to pre...

Own district ends up being against immigration reform, against voting rights act, you have a big structural problem. >> why boehner can't -- >> that structural problem with mr. romer may be with us for 10 years unless we throw enough struggle at them so we get some of their whites to see their party is going to go down with us. >> i wanted to ask this question, is this question about interracial coalition. on the one hand, here is the republican party failing to attempt on the right but i worry about the ability of an interracial coalition to hold on the left, for the democratic party to be ab...

Regulate them? do we have the courage to put our children and our animals and our land continues first? i think we do, melissa. i think this administration has done a good job the last two years of bringing this into focus for the first time in my life. >> and buddy, you know, this point about courage is a real one because as you point out about the boughtness of washington, oil lobbying, gas -- gas and oil lobbying dollars since 1990, $238.7 million. we know that about half a million dollars to mary landrieu herself since 2007. again, she's just one of many, many people getting this lobbying ...

Well, their constituents. here's louisiana senator mary landrieu arguing against closing the tax loophole for the oil industry. >> these five large oil companies that everybody enjoys beating up on, and i understand that they are making a lot of money today, but this is no reason to go after them, singling them out, particularly because of the 9.2 million americans working in and around and for them and the thousands of independent companies and suppliers that work in partnership with them. >> and that is the tough position i want to ask my next guest about. joining me for a discussion from ba...