Righteous citizens must step up and make the country work. Justice is something we should all expect and stand by police to make sure justice is done, even if other police are the ones we question. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. The return of mccarthyism. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in san francisco. Let me start with the return of mccarthyism. I speak of the behavior of senator ted cruz who accuses president obama of undermining the relationship with israel. It is cruz once again with the reckless charges of joe mccarthy
in the 1950s. As he once suggested future secretary of defense chuck hagel was taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from north korea or saudi arabia he now accuses barack obama of working mischief against israel. Didnt this country have enough of this stuff 60 years ago . When the reckless communist mccarthy was brought down . Is senator cruz trying to mimic the bad old days or just so ignorant are of what those tactics did hes not aware of the horror of mccarthyism all over again. It makes cruz someone who doesnt care what he says as long as it rings the bell at the county fair, makes noise on the right. The place where he set his willful ambition. Have you no decency . Apparently not. Joining me is joe klein and ed rendell, former governor of pennsylvania. Senator cruz objected to a temporary f. A. A. Ban on flights by u. S. Airlines to israel
yesterday, a ban put in place tuesday as cautionary measure after hamas rocket landed near the israeli airport. The decision also came in the wake of downed malaysian flight mh17 last week. While some in israel and the u. S. Objected to the ban because of the Economic Impact on israel senator cruz implied a for nefarious motive saying, the facts suggest that president obama has just used a federal Regulatory Agency to launch an economic boycott on israel in order to try to force our ally to comply with his Foreign Policy demands. Here is houma rhee harf responded to the allegations yesterday. Senator cruz said the flight suspension is economic blackmail and the Obama Administration is doing this to punish israel. Thats ridiculous and offensive. The f. A. A. Takes these responsibilities seriously. They make decisions based solely on the security and safety of american citizens, period. For anyone to suggest otherwise is just ridiculous. In turn senator cruz doubled down on the allegations on fox news last night. Yesterday we saw the f. A. A. Make an unprecedented decision to ban all air travel to the nation of israel. I have asked today the very simple question did president obama just unilaterally launch economic boycotts on the nation of israel . Is this a political decision . Was it driven by the white house . By the state department . If it was based on airline safety, as they said, why did they single out israel . Why not ban travel to pakistan or yemen or ukraine where a commercial airliner was shot down. Instead they targeted israel. They did ban travel to ukraine. Flights to israel were restored this morning after the f. A. A. Lifted the short ban which
lasted about 36 hours altogether. Let me go to joe klein on this. Let me say this. I know what cruz is up to. Hes shouting from are the rooftops in a reckless way. Making charges. He doesnt feel the need to substantiate. Tell me what you think of this guy, what hes doing. Its gotten worse over the last few hours. Cruz is now saying he will hold up all state Department Appointments until there is an investigation that gets to the bottom of this. We need our state Department People out in places like israel and the palestinian area. This is just gamesmanship. You look at the larger picture, all the noisy investigators in the Republican House like darryl issa. What have are they come up with . They have been talking about benghazi for years. Nothing. This is a major smoke screen. Its a major smoke screen at a time where we have to be very clear about whats going on in gaza and in that region. Also in ukraine. But, there is one difference between cruz and mccarthy so far. Cruz is going after big fish like obama. Mccarthy ruined the lives of a lot of average americans. I suspect cruz will be ringing the bell until he gets anywhere near a president ial primary at which point hell be dismissed quickly. You and i grew up with this as did joe. I first caught this guys act when he went after chuck hagel whose nomination was a problem. He wasnt going to be a slam dunk. Not when he was most vulnerable cruz impugned his motives by saying he was out there taking money from the north koreans. Thats a classic mccarthy charge. Now accusing the president of me the nefariously going after israel. For better or worse we are israels best friend at least in this incident of fighting with hamas. Its all over on their side. All over. Whats shocking is number one hes made the charges without a shred of evidence as he did against now secretary hagel. Number one. Number two, its idiotic to think a temporary two or threeweek boycott of u. S. Planes in israel would have a major impact on the israeli economy that would force them to do anything. It doesnt make sense. 36 hours now. Thats all it was. Joe made a good point. Its part of the republican assault on virtually anything the president does. Whats disconcerting to me is two things. One we are doing it in the midst of tough times. We used to bind together, put partisanship aside when there was difficulties like whats going on in the middle east now. Number two is this unrelenting assault on whatever president obama does. You know im not a guy who says president obama is right all the time. But they are holding him to such a standard. Imagine for a second he didnt impose such a ban and a hamas rocket brought down a u. S. Commercial flight into israel. The republicans would be screaming blody murder. Why didnt president obama protect our citizens . Look, if president obama discovered a cure for cancer today, tomorrow republicans like cruz would be saying s done nothing for heart attack victims. This is standard f. A. A. Behavior. Cruz comes from texas. Hes been spending too much time in washington. If he were traveling back and forth to texas he would know that the f. A. A. Cancels flights on the nearest suspicion of a tiny thunderstorm. They have become very, very cautious over the last decade. Its baloney. Take a look at the guys in action. First of all, cruz attacking hag haguen. Then mccarthy. I will point out this committee knows absolutely nothing about the personal compensation chuck hagel received in 2009, 2008, 2010. It is relevant to know if the 200,000 he deposited in his bank account came directly from saudi arabia, from north korea. I have no evidence to suggest it is or isnt. Here is senator cruzs role model, senator mccarthy. He says hes not concerned about low level spies in the state department. Hes saying communists are making policy at the highest levels of government. Lets listen. I am speaking of the group sabotaging Foreign Policy. You can bias bias. Meaning the little fellow who will sell his country for 30 pieces of silver. Its the men in the top level of government and the second echelon who do the planning and shaping of Foreign Policy. They are the dangerous men whether they get 30 pieces of silver or not. Does that sound familiar . Absolutely. Easiest tactic in the world to throw it out there and say, well, we dont know. It is mccarthyism. No question. The American People are better than this. I think republicans are hurting themselves with all of the
shenanigans, antiobama venom. They are trying hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the november elections. Lets look at a reasonable person who disagrees with the president and the f. A. A. Decision but did so in a reasonable way. Heres Michael Bloomberg offering up a defense basically. The former new york mayor offering a defense of at least a character in good will of an administration he disagrees with on this point. If you dont feel safe here i dont know where you would feel safe. I think the state department is just over reacting in typical bureaucratic fashion. Political reasons for that . Why would you think that . Im asking you. Dont be ridiculous. Its an outrage for you to im just asking by asking the question, you are implying our government does things for political rchblt maybe once in a while they do. It is your job to prove it. Just the allegation i take as an offense. That was well done, joe, wasnt it . Yes. It shows you how the process works. Cruz spews poison into the media atmosphere. People like wolf have to ask the question at that point. So cruz accomplishes what he wanted. The difference between cruz and mccarthy is that cruz is brilliant. If you listen to the way he used the words when he was kind of accusing hagel of taking money from the wrong places the construction was absolutely brilliant. You couldnt pin anything on cruz other than the overwhelming charge hes raising this ridiculous nonsense. Its innuendo. Yeah. But cruz is a brilliant lawyer. Mccarthy was not so brilliant. I disagree with that a little bit cruz might be a brilliant
lawyer and may have phrased it in legalese but to the American People he looks like a jerk, acting against the country at a time we should be coming together. I think they are making big mistake. All i can say is hes making his opponent on the right, rand paul look like pope francis. Thank you, joe cline and ed rendell. Coming up, marco rubio calls a fake foul. Remember those tricks . Accusing people who support samesex marriage as intolerant and opponents as victims. Thats a tactic for you. Plus, the story in iraq no one is talking about. The persecution of christians by islamic fundamentalists who have taken over a third of the country. Im talking about isis. And a long shot Senate Candidacy got longer. There are charges of plagiarism against john walsh who was
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the c. E. O. Giving an honest answer to a question about his religious beliefs. Even before this speech is over i will be attacked as a hater or bigot or someone who is antigay. This intolerance in the name of tolerance is hypocrisy. Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not antigay. It is pro traditional marriage. If support for traditional marriage is bigotry then barack obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election. The country has been moving toward embracing samesex marriage. Everyone knows that. Marco rubio and his allies may be losing it. I think they are. Have they been victimized for their views . Howard dean, former chairman of the Democratic National committee. Michael steele is a political analyst and former chair of the Republican National committee. Let me go to michael steele. Let me ask you a couple of
things to set it up. Do you think the Republican Party will keep its platform, its plank which opposes samesex marriage next time around . Will they run on that platform of opposing samesex marriage . I think in large measure they will, chris. It depends who the nominee of the party is. As you know for both parties, what is or is not in that platform. I would think right now given the current landscape, i dont see that plank being removed just as i dont see, for example, the pro gay marriage plank being removed from the democrats. Let me go to governor dean. Do you think thats a winning issue for them to come out in 201 . Thats almost three years from now, well into the 21st century that marco rubio seems to be playing the champion of. At that point, still coming out against it . Well, first of all, it depends who the nominee is. If rob portman who made noise
about running for president is the nominee and i suspect that plank will no longer be in the platform. Secondly, what marco rubio is doing is a sophisticated are version of what cruz is doing. Its a flop, as you called it earlier. There is no foul here. He took a flying leap. What hes doing is something quite sophisticated. The Christian Community has long felt victimized. They felt like they were a minority. That people didnt treat them with with respect. Thats what marco rubio is playing to here. The truth is many religions discriminate against people. They feel gay people arent full citizens and some felt black people werent full citizens. The Mormon Church changed their views in 1974 on this. Youre a catholic, i was baptized catholic. It doesnt permit women to be priests. There are limitations on the roles of women in the church. Thats church doctrine. It discriminates against women. The problem is marco rubio is trying to make a religious argument for the civil matter. We have equal rights under the law. He may endorse a religion that doesnt dpree with that. It doesnt mean people oppose him are intolerant. I think hes right. I will give you time after my interjecti interjection. The republicans know they cant champion traditional marriage in 2016. So they will play the victim and say, its not about whether you are for or against gay marriage. It is whether you are intolerant toward people opposed to it. I dont think the Democratic Party is ever going to attack people with a different view. 42 of the country oppose it. Why would any party kiss off 42 . Marco rubio gave examples. Im talking about the Democratic Party. Im including them. There were those on the left who supported to chickfila and various ceos who have a personal view on this matter. Not how they run their companies. Not what they say is part of their business. But what they view personally. They have been villified. One ceo lost his job. I think there is a basis for concern about how the pendulum is swinging here. I think you are off base here. Marco rubio wasnt arguing for or against the subject of gay marriage. He was talking about a political position, number one. Number two the moral components of that political position. Thats not endorsing a position, saying its a catholic or protestant view. Hes saying there are those of
us in this country who hold the traditional marriage has value and right now there is a tendency for those folks to be vilified or criticized because of it. If you taken a position this is why i signed the first civil union bill. Not because i had a big jones for gay rights. Equal rights under the law means every individual in america has the same rights. True. Unless people who fall in love who are the same sex cant get married they cant are have federal rights. Thats the argument. I have no problem with a religion who says you cant have samesex marriage. I have a problem with any kind of format that says equal rights under the law should not be allowed. Thats the argument hes make. We should go after him. Go ahead, chris. Why do republicans keep getting back into the sex
question when it has worked against them so often. I dont understand this kind of youthful ambition. Maybe i have forgotten it. But he wants to be president so bad hes willing to pick up an issue and run with it today. Why doesnt he relax a little bit, this guy . Hes desperate. Hes down 12 points to hillary. In his dream world he thinks hes a candidate for president against hillary. Nothing could be further from the truth. I think marco rubio and i have to give him credit for a very sober well thought out argument he made. He was at a catholic institution, talking about a moral principled position. It was good. I dont think there was this category call leap to jump into the president ial race. Yes. Is he carving out new space . Absolutely. My impression was that was not the driver here. I thought he was playing for the hard cultural right, the Rick Santorum crowd. He used catholic u. As a base of operations. He was talking to the right wings in the country. He went to the wrong place. The republicans are silly. People under 35 wont vote for candidates who talk like this. This is why obama got 67 of the vote. I dont know about that. They havent so far. Well see. 16 is a long way off. Certainly true. Among women under 35 you are definitely correct. They are liberal on these issues. They dont buy whats called the traditional view. Nobody is attacking heterosexual marriage. There is no marriage in jeopardy because it is a straight marriage. If you worry are about people being coupled together in a same sex situation thats your
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enough to know when i saw the story i leapt on it. Its something i didnt know about. What do you know about the actual day to day life threats, Death Threats that the Christian Community is getting in baghdad or actually anywhere in iraq from isis . The threats are mainly in the m ork sul region where isis is in control. At this point, there are very few people of Christian Faith in mosul. The community has been down to a handful of people. They are being quite persecuted. The stories we are getting from their families in the states. Thats a huge christian, Iraqi Community in the states. Its horrifying. The villages under threat are north of mosul. Im pretty sure they will be safe. The purging is disturbing. It goes back to the iraq war itself. When the ethnic cleansing took place. They never paid attention to the issue at all. Thanks for joining us. I went to school with an iraqichristian. We knew there was a Christian Community there. What is the United States doing to prevent this or give any protection to this small Christian Community over there . Catholic Relief Services is on the ground in iraq now as a matter of fact. Just this week with officials from the u. S. Government helping to plan relief operations. Catholic Relief Services is
responding to the needs of the christians who fled mosul, many with just the clothes on their back. Those folks left. They had to cross checkpoints as they fled. When they crossed checkpoints they were stripped of possessions, money and even the rings off their fingers. We are providing them with food, basic cooking supplies and hygiene supplies. What is the attitude of arab people to arab christians . Do they see them as outsiders or people who have been there for 2000 years well before there was islam as a practiced religion. Christians in mosul have been there for 1500 years. They are integral members of the community. Its interesting. Our staff on the ground told me this morning that the neighboring sunni, shia and
other minority communities have been generously receiving christians who fled from mosul. Most of the people in iraq are tolerant of their christian brothers. But isis and other extremist groups dont share that perspective. Thats the problem. These groups were unleashed during the civil war period. They did not reflect that. It is a thuggish gang of criminals not unlike some of the mexican drug groups or some of the gang groups that exist in this country. This is a criminal outcast element thats adopted the language of islam as their political ideology but had nothing to do with the religion and coreligions who dont share their depravity or violence. Is there anyone in the state
department or white house. You do this all the time, fight for the cause. There are those who do. The leverage the United States has in a country like iraq is limited. Clearly we dont want to support Prime Minister malaki. Its part p of the problem that unleashed the sectarian violence. We have allies we ought to be empowering to do more than they are doing. As bill notes relief assistance thats going to be required in the long run for the iraqi Christian Community. But the ultimate solution in iraq which is way down the road is to create a government that represents the iraqi people, all of them, in a nonsectarian state thats inclusive and tolerant and that we are a long way off from that, chris. We are trying to create a United America here at home, if you havent noticed. This is an example of whats going on in cities like mosul. One christian resident said we had to go through an area where
they set up a checkpoint. Islamic state Group Militants asked us to get out of the car. We got out. They took our bags, money, everything on us. I dont know what will happen to us. Our future is uncertain. What can people do . Anything to help these people out or get fellow of americans. I think there is a lot people can do. Certainly they can support the catholic Relief Services and other groups on the ground assisting those who have fled. They can also Pay Attention to the situation and encourage our government, the United States government to engage in ways that are going to bring peace to the region and help are bring the vision jim mentioned for an inclusive government to fruition. That needs to happen. We all have loyalties to the Christian Community of the arabian world. I feel it when i go to jerusalem. I care about those people. They have been there 2,000 years. Thank you. Up next, how a long shot Senate Candidacy just got well, longer. This is hardball, the place for politics. A, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. Well, heres a story for people who love newspapers and politics, as i do. Name the president the New York Times mentioned more often in one year than any other . The Washington Post did the research. Ill bet its not the president you think. In fifth place mentioned in 6,220 the articles was gerald ford in 1976. In fourth place, jack kennedy in 1962, the second year of his presidency. In third, Richard Nixon in 1973 as water gate heated up. First runner up in second place, barack obama in the Election Year of 2012. In first place, the president you probably didnt expect jimmy carter in 1980 with 9,720 articles written about him. At the bottom of the list, rutherford b. Hayes in 1877. Poor him. Movie night. I get 2x the points on streaming movies and takeout from restaurants with my Citi Thankyou card. Everyone wins. You mean you win. Yes i do. The Citi Thankyou preferred card earn two times the thankyou points with no annual fee. To apply, go to citi. Com thankyoucards. You owned your car for four you named it brad. You loved brad. And then you totaled him. You two had been through everything together. Two boyfriends. Three jobs. Youre like nothing can replace brad then Liberty Mutual calls. And you break into your happy dance. If you sign up for better car replacement, well pay for a car thats a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. And cialis for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moment is right. Cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Do not drink alcohol in excess. Side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. To avoid long term injury, get medical help right away
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thesis, key parts of the conclusion and a third of the paper was lifted from other work without proper credit. This is a look at 19 pages. Every one has instances of plagiarism on it. Whats more remarkable is this part of the story. When asked directly if he had plagiarized senator walsh responded, i dont believe i did, no. The colleges academic handbook leaves no wiggle room for fraud. The New York Times reports copying a segment of anothers work word for word, then conveniently forgetting to include quotation mark bus remembering to cite the source is described as academic fraud in the handbook. According to a memo to supporters senator walsh acknowledged his citations werent all done correctly. Sean sullivan is with the Washington Post and joan walsh, editor at large of salon. Thanks for joining us. How is the story holding up today . Large sections in the paper
showing it was obviously lifted from other sources. So much of the paper. Absolutely. This story has the potential to be very damaging for senator walsh. You know, here is somebody who doesnt really have much of a record. He was recently appointed to the senate and really he was going to be running on the strength of his military record and the strength of his character, and this is a development that cuts against both of those things. This got a lot of attention in local papers today. It was on the front page of almost every local paper in montana. So, you know, walsh was already behind in this race, but this damaging revelation to him, you know, makes things even harder for him heading toward november. Joan, what do you make of the breadth of this . This isnt one of two oversights or failure to quote. This is large bodies of material. Does that sort of suggest that maybe he was a little uneven in his thinking at that time, that he did suffer from post Traumatic Stress syndrome, that there might have been something
wrong in his stability at that point that would justify at least morally what happened . You know, chris, i had the same thought. I mean, its so egregious, it is worse than anything we know in recent history. And its so blatant that it does make you wonder if things were entirely all right. Im not defending it, and i also want to say, you know, senator walsh has not been well served by his staff. Unfortunately, theyve come out with really shifting explanations. They came out today and theyve tried to say it was a citation problem. Its not. Its a plagiarism problem. And i also think this issue of ptsd, my heart goes out to him, i believe him. I certainly conservatives are mocking it today. I wouldnt do that. I think if he had gotten out and told the times thats what he thought happened, this story might have looked very differently from the start. Its very hard right now. Its not impossible. I dont want to say that. But it is hard right now to get the attention that maybe this deserves for a frank accounting of his struggles and also his
treatment. He says hes gotten treatment and hes still on medication. That would have been a really great thing to say, i think, the day that the times approached him. Well, ive never quite understood plagiarism. I always thought theres vanity in writing. I do a lot of writing. I like to take credit for my writing because i tid it. If you didnt do it, why would you want to take credit . 1988, egregious case, joe biden was caught trying to pass off the words of a british politician as his own. Ended up costing him a shot at the democratic nomination for president. Last year rand paul was caught lifting chunks of wikipedia entries in his speeches and later found to have lifted sections of think tank essays in his books and opinion columns hes written. The New York Times says, mr. Walsh appears to have gone considerably further. Back to you, sean. What evidence do we have that he really suffered from a syndrome that might have shaken his ability to make sound decisions when he was taking this course . Well, right now the evidence
we have is basically what hes telling us and what his campaign is telling everybody about what happened. You mentioned earlier, you know, there have been cases of plagiarism in politics before. Biden, rand paul. These stories tend to fade into the background. You know, a lot of people probably dont remember that joe biden, you know, had an incident similar to this and they would probably say, oh, oh, yeah, you know, that kind of sounds familiar. But, you know, in this case, its really potentially damaging for walsh because his military record has come up in a negative light before. Republic chance have tried to attack him over it. If this was on a different issue, perhaps this might fade into the background, but because this was an issue already at the forefront of this campaign, that republicans were already attacking it, it really makes it doubly worse for him right now. Let me go back to my friend and fellow political observer, joan, i think weve been fair here. I dont think this is a partisan issue at all. I think this is the human condition, whatever gets in the water and makes people do this. People do it a lot on both size. Whats this do for the outlook of the Senate Control issue . I never thought walsh was a strong had a great chance in a conservative state like montana, but everybody has a chance, i suppose intellectually. Right. If his opponent fell apart, hed have a chance. He has not led in a single poll. This is not something the democrats were depending on. This was given to republicans while other seats were considered stronger or contested for democrats. I dont think its going to change the story line of whats going to happen in the senate. Sean, the facts are hes been caught red handed. The New York Times, youve done a great job of showing this in a graphic form. Its clear anybody with an objective mind says this guy lifted the material. Is there any talk of him resi resigning over this . You know, not right now. I think its too early to talk about that. I think right now he wants to get his, you know, footing set back to where it was a couple weeks ago in the campaign. You know, there isnt much talk about resignation, but clearly
at this point, you know, he was a long shot. Hes a real long shot now in the campaign to win a full term in november. Well, when the hammer comes down, that will be the u. S. Army, when they come down on this, thats going to be the part that really hurts. That will be objective judgment. You can bet theyre going to do a good job of checking this out. Thank you so much, sean sullivan, and joan walsh. An all irish cast tonight. Well be right back. Except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. When i finally told my doctor, he said my crohns was not under control. He said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. And that in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. And many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers,
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