their efforts to overcome the struggles. now, before i come to you, andrew, we have a part from the film of one of the stories that you guys told, one of the boys stories you told.ç let s listen to a little of that. this is dylan mcsorley. you might not know me but i m your son with shannon arnold. just would like to see you sometime and stuff but i ll be in orleans friday, if you would like to come, i m playing basketball with medora high school. this is about a lot more than basketball. that s just heartwrenching stuff. this town i mentioned in the beginning, this is a town that just struggled economically, it s struggling overall, it s struggling to stay up with the times. it s struggling to keep its kids there, struggling obviously on a
and davy rothbar with me. the first thing i thought in seeing this as a kid who grew up wanting to be an nba player and wound up being a decent pickup basketball player is how did you find these guys and how did you latch on this story about basketball and it s about a lot more. how did you find it, how did you decide this is what you wanted to do? sure. we read a great article in the new york times about the town and this basketball team. most sports documentaries are trying to win the championship. this story, a team trying to win one single game. every game had the drama and intensity of a championship game, could this be the one game medora wins. also, andrew and i are from ann arbor, michigan. all the small towns outside of ann arbor, you see this happening. the manufacturing jobs go away, farming is hit hard and you have towns just kind of fade away. so we wanted to tell the story of the town. we moved there for a year and captured, you know, the life of the people in the tow
in contempt. house republicans and 17 house democrats vote to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. it is at base both a crass effort and a grave disservice to the american people. they expect and they deserve far more. i don t take this matter lightly and i would frankly hope it would never come to this. batter up. holder and health care weren t the only major showdowns in washington thursday. democrats trampled republicans in the 51st annual congressional baseball game held at nationals park. the final score, a lopsided 18-5. seems like a football score. good day. i m chris cillizza live in washington in today for andrea mitchell. in ourç daily fix, the supreme court gave the president broad legal and political victory on thursday but how will the health care decision affect vulnerable down ballot democrats and house and senate candidates who are running in red states, and there are lots of them. it didn t take long after the health care decisio
overturn the obamacare law through the reconciliation process with the 51 vote margin. kelly o donnell is nbc news capitol hill correspondent. thank you. it s a busy day on the hill. we had yesterday which i think broadly was a win for president obama because the alternative would have been a loss for president obama. today, dawns another political day. republicans clearly focusing that dreaded t word in politics, tax. tell us what you can about where the strategy for both sides goes from here. well, good to see you, and it seems that what justice roberts did give to conservatives and republicans is a second act here. the day yesterday certainly belonged to the president and he has a powerful argument going forward, but those three letters, t-a-x, give republicans something they can press. part of their argument is they believe the law would not have passed originallyç with democrats, some democrats not voting for it if it had been more kind of openly discussed as a t
possible. it is possible if home prices go down. home prices, as best we can judge, have really flattened out in the last year. he also said that we re in a pause and a modest recovery which feels like a recession. if there s a double-dip recession, that is going to dominate the news on all these sunday shows for a long time to come. thanks. thanks. still to come, dana preeno, chris matthews and andrew coen who showed a little too much information about the sweetheart who got away. our media monitor straight ahead. [ male announcer ] this is rachel, a busy mom.