humorous and took him to task. he is running for president of the united states and he was making a nasty comment. we are comedians here. i make fun of hillary s pantsuits and hillary s husband s sex life. john boehner s tan. i don t understand why any politician is exempt from my jokes. i m joined now by michelle bernard of the bernard center for women politics and public policy. i lovejoy behar and an interesting perspective on things but did she step in it or what? seems like she is trying to explain away what she was taking donald trump to task for. you can t say it but it s okay if i say it. which is wrong. it is it is so difficult just even watching the interview on the view this morning. i find very, very difficult. it s a double-edged sword for everyone involved. you have carly fiorina who donald trump took a shot at and
when it comes to when it matters the most. joining me now is representative barbara lee, a democrat from california. e.d. demoyne. a senior fellow at the brookings institution. julie pace, chief white house correspondent for the associated press. and michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women politics and public policy. lovely to have you all here. nice to be back in d.c. julie, do you think i got this right, do you think that drafting strategy is what s going on with a couple of those candidates? i think you nailed it perfectly. for rubio and kasich it actually is a great strategy right now. they re looking at this large field. they have a solid base of support at this point. they have enough money to compete for months if this race goes on for quite a long time. they don t really have an incentive to go after trump directly if they know that bush and walker and others are going to do that. they need someone to do it. it just doesn t need to be them right now. thi
panel. president of the bernard center for women politics. and michelle bernard. good afternoon to both of you. let s start with this associated press quote here. here it is in part. in a world where amazon can track your next book purchase and you must register to buy allergy medicine, james holmes spent months stockpiling thousands of bullets, head to toe ballistic gear without raising any red flags with authorities. and here s a situation regardless of party where one would think that both sides would be able to agree on rework the system. but yet there doesn t seem to be at this point any political will to do that. this has been the case for quite some time. and it is i agree surprising almost every time there is one of these incidents, we have another conversation about how there needs to be another conversation and then there isn t one.
polls but does that mean he s the definitive nominee? he seems to think so and that s what he said to abc news. it s not the first example of his ego that has been out on the campaign trail. is he just too confident? michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women politics and public policy and an msnbc political analyst. steve kornacki covers politics for salon.com. here s what newt gingrich said last night, in iowa, about poor children. let s watch. really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working, and have nobody around them who works. so they literally they have no habit of showing up on monday. they have no habit of staying all day. they have no habit of, i do this and you give me cash, unless it s illegal. what if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in? what if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian? what if and i pay them as early as is reasonable and
in schools. yesterday he was asked about those comments and he doubled down, saying poor kids have no work habits because nobody around them works. it s not the first time that he s demonized the poor for political gain. we re going to get into that in just a moment. also, gingrich is leading in the polls, but does that mean he s the definitive nominee? he seems to think so. and that s what he said to abc news. it s not the first example of his ego that has been out on the campaign trail. is he just too confident? michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women politics and public policy and an msnbc political analyst. steve kornacki covers politics for salon.com. here s what newt gingrich said last night, in iowa, about poor children. let s watch. really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working, and have nobody around them who works. so they literally they have no habit of showing up on monday. they have no habit of staying all day. t