That. Ive started to notice what love really means. [ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. It is thursday, february 14. Here we are on the full court press on current tv. Coming to you all the way across this great land of ours and thursday, february 14. You know what that means. It is valentines day. You have to admit republicans sure have strange ways of showing their love. Theyre showing their love for chuck hagel by filibustering his nomination. Now theyre showing their love for americas children by refusing to endorse universal preschool. Their showing their love for workers by refusing to raise the minimum wage. Theyre showing their love for all americans by refusing to accept a reasonable compromise to avoid the sequester. In other words they dont love any of us. They hate us all thats their valentines day message. All right. Well expand on that and a whole lot more on todays full court press. But today, we get the latest, the current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in l
Week to make up their minds before tuesdays first in the nation president ial primary. Candidates are crisscrossing the state today and were here to bring it all to you. This morning were going to be seeing ted cruz, marco rubio, Hillary Clinton and according to the latest poll out this morning, all three of those candidates, i mentioned, have some work to do. On the republican side, donald trump has a commanding 24 point lead in New Hampshire, even combining support for cruz and rubio wont get you close to the billionaire businessman. Trump not the only republican in the state today. Sorry, is the only republican not in the state today. Hes taking his campaign to arkansas after finishing second in iowa. People didnt talk about my second place. They didnt talk about it as positively as they should have and yet with marco, who was more than 2,000 votes behind me, thats a lot of votes, by the way, they said, oh, hes surging, hes surging. Six weeks ago donald trump was saying every day th
Advisors inside the Trump Campaign and russia. And democrats have elected former secretary of labor tom perez their new dnc chairman. Congressman Keith Ellison who came in second place was quickly named deputy chairman. Joining me now live from atlanta is msnbc political reporter alex sykes wall. Reporter hey, stephanie. A very dramatic end, stephanie, after a very heated race. It lasted four months since november. It really tore at the fabric of this party after a devastating loss that has seen the party come out of power more than they have been since the 1920s. This is the first competitive chairmanship race in over 30 years, so tom perez has won. He narrowly won. He only fell short by one vote on the first ballot. Then won by 17 on the second ballot, and immediately began working to heal that rift. Keith ellison, the runnerup, also working to do that. Theyre going to hold a joint press conference in about 15 or 20 minutes to try to reach out to their supporters. As you mentioned, K
Whats the message there today . Reporter as you can probably see behind me, most of the people are beginning the march here over to the capital. We just finished off with a great musical set. It really put people in a celebratory mood. Its almost like this was a second line for anyone familiar with the new orleans tradition. This is what you said in the leadin to the segment. Its people looking for evidencebased policies from the government that support things like Climate Change but also that push back against budgets like Donald Trumps that look at the funding for the National Institute of health, the centers for disease control, places that are integral to research and science, seeing their funding slashed in his latest budget at the cost of raising defense spending, which is something that trump has prioritized. But the president is actually out with a statement on earth day just a few minutes ago and it says Economic Growth enhances Environmental Protection and that emphasis on br
Economy . All options are on the table. Acting chief of staff is Mick Mulvaneys also head of the White House Office to oversee the federal budget saying democrats refused a counter offer to the initial pitch and said everyone should settle in for one of the longest shutdowns in history. Last night they called us saying that they werent going to counter this. The discussions have broken down. We expect it to go on for a while. Geez. Now the big question is how long . Joining us is pentagon correspondent hans nichols, jake sherman covering congress for politico, Brett Stevens in studio with me for the New York Times and msnbc political con trib josh rosor the and jennife. What is the white house strategy here, hans . Reporter they want to expand the things potentially on the table for negotiating so the president threatening to shut down the border. Softening or not clear on how much and dont want do get hard enned into a position for Border Security and not talking about 5 billion. Also