slam the obama administration. and they are the last people who should be making fun of someone for misspeaking. in fact, for those two to mock secretary napolitano s slip of the tongue when most of what they say is complete nonsense is laughable psychotalk. coming up, mississippi governor haley barbour is backtracking on some racist comments, kind of a pattern here, isn t it? i don t buy it. he is playing the classic republican race card. reverend al sharpton blasts off on the governor in just a moment on the battleground story. and caribou barbie rolled into her home state for a book signing and nobody showed up. i guess they quit on her, the way she quit on them. rapid fire response coming up in a moment. plus, the bully. across the river, chris christie meets his match. president obama is coming back strong. and it might really be over for brett favre. can t we talk him into one more year? you are watching the ed show
1-877-hurricane dennis-msnbc. my question tonight is do you think the number one priority for the republicans is defeat president obama in 2012? press the number 1 for yes, the number 2 for no i will bring you the results later on in the show. . joining me now ohio senator sherrod brown. good tough with us tonight. good to be back. nice article by howard curtz today, man. you are my hero. we got to tell it like it s we can t back down. i like that story about the i like the story about the homeless shelter, ed but go on, sorry. great story. it is the truth. thank you. i appreciate that sir. talk about the kind of person you are. well, and i think from the record of what we ve seen of mitch mcconnell here in this most recent comments after you compromised and you voted with the president and a lot of republicans this is what you get for mitch. he is putting out a political threat and in this holiday season saying you better work with them again or next year is going to
but there s a way, i think to effect it. it means bitter debate. don t bend your principles. but i think like ed kennedy did on education with george bush, you can get prin pecipled compromise. thank you for being here tonight. we not moving forward. no we are not. congressman, great to have you on. thank you so much. i appreciate your time tom tonight. always a pleasure. coming up, mississippi governor haley barbour is trying to walk back his shocking racist comments. are reverend al sharp tonight won t let him get away with it. heartless republican senators are blocking health care for 9/11 heroes. when it comes to tax cuts that cost doesn t seem to bother them but helping here voce another story. republicans at their worst, coming up. plus, senator arlen specter goes without a bang today. he joins me live in the playbook. you are watching the ed show on msnbc. stay with us. it has the cold-fighting power of an effervescent packed in a liquid-gel for all over relief!
washington? my commentary on that. plus reaction from senator sherrod brown from ohio and congressman joe sestak coming up. the 9/11 first responders went to washington today and put the heartless senate republicans to shame. this was powerful and everyone needs to hear it. i will play it for you, coming up. and mississippi governor haley barbour is trying to walk back his glowing review of pro-segregation groups in the south. reverend al sharpton has something to say to the governor about that at the bottom of the hour. and outgoing senator arlen specter, his amazing chop block on some of his senate colleagues. this is a senator who really is concerned about what has happened in the institution of the senate that he so clearly loves. senator specter will join us in the playbook tonight. just why did he do that on his last day in the senate? and this is the story that has me fired up tonight, folks. president obama is on the verge of another major victory in the waning days of
ridiculous lies about the president. years after they ve been completely debunked. all this birther talk is tired, old psycho talk. coming up, you know things are bad when the white house is taking a page from the beckster s playbook to pedal their goods. senator sherrod brown brings a straight talk to the battleground story tonight. heartless republicans just went out of their way to hurt 9/11 responders. they d rather give tax breaks to millionaires than provide health care for the heroes. i m not going to let them get away with this one. we have a commentary coming up. plus, we now have proof of how sleazy fox really is. i ll tell you why cops torched this house full of bombs today. [ man ] december 31st. it s more than just the last day of the year. it s the last day you can switch your medicare part d plan. we just switched ourselves and we re happy we did. what i wanted was simple: