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Either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. so corporations are people. >> we could raise taxes on people. that's just the -- corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes on -- >> joining me now, msnbc contributor melissa harris-perry, tulane professor and columnist for "the nation." melissa, can a wall street candidate like willard really succeed in this political climate today? >> possibly and here's why. because we have a big mismatch between what we think is true about how republicans perform economically and how r...

African-american billionaire, he has the pleasure of being with me tonight -- i have the pleasure of having him on my show. and to hear about the rlj plan. there was the rooney rule, right? tell me what the rooney rule. >> it was the way the nfl wanted to change the fact that there were few african-american coaches and few african-american gms. so when there's a coach or gam vacancy, the owner of an nfl team must interview an african-american candidate before filling that position. that led to a significant increase in african-american coaches and african-american gms, including those coaches ...

Why they would be backing a candidate like herman cain over, say, mitt romney, you put yourself in their shoes. mitt romneys and your rick perrys, they've already been in politics for years. they've been thinking about these issues. they've built these connections. herman cain is someone who came up through the koch network and is essentially beholden to those connections he's made within them. he gets into the house, the koch brothers have a direct line to governor walker in wisconsin, they're sure as heck going to have a direct line to president cain. >> dana, i'm running out of time. but he...

Many of them thought default was fine, there wasn't that much seriousness to the idea that america wasn't going to honor its own debt, they don't care, because the ideology -- the house republicans anyway, the ideology trumps everything. even in the presidential polls we're looking at, republican voters would refer a candidate that agrees with them ideologicallyer than one who can win. if you're in the house republican majority, your worry is about getting a primary challenge from the tea party folks to your right. so if there are any taxes involved, millionaires, billionaires, doesn't matter ...

Candidate. >> 9-9-9. >> we'll expose herman cain's deep ties with the koch brothers. and marching for jobs and justice, my weekend in the nation's capital. if you won't get the jobs bill done in the suite, we will get the jobs bill done in the street. >> "politics nation" starts right now. welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, president obama increases the pressure the president took to the road today. we went to north carolina on the first day of his three-dae jobs tour. and watch out, republicans, he unveil add new strategy for the