beth, for example in colorado they are talking about setting up banking systems so that they can legitimately do their business and not be carrying around thousands of dollars in cash, which is something we ve been hearing about. the president s comments, now eric holder s comments. is what we re seeing kind of a fundamental shift in the way this country s going to deal with marijuana? i think so, particularly on this issue of banking. if the administration is going to give tacit approval for banks to allow money to be regulated through our banking system, that is a step toward legalization. it must just be acknowledged. that is taking the commerce of our country, the official regulations, and allowing it to be applied to what was once an illegal substance, but to remember in the same interview where president obama said he thought that marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol, he did say there was a slippery slope he was concerned about. do you get to the point you start saying,
news s santoro and senior editor, beth fewy. great group to get some reflexes on what we just heard. let s start with you on this, kevin. he is basically hitting all the notes that we have heard coming from the white house. is he the right salesman in chief we often will put in front of or after the word vice president? well, a couple of weeks ago, he was in kentucky. now, of course, he s in florida, trying to take this case directly to the american people. he said, quote, unquote, the obamacare nighttime is about to end. but i ve got to be honest. the sources that i speak with within the republican party on capitol hill tell me that they re not sure this house speaker paul ryan plan will be able to pass the senate. here s why. you have people like senator rand paul, who say the plan is not conservative enough, and then you have people like senator dean heller, senator susan collins, a bit more moderate republicans, who are concerned, quite frankly, that
the cast of hamilton to apologize to mike pence. we have not heard from mike pence s inner team yet this morning if he is calling for that, but donald trump defending his running mate and his future partner in government. back to you, betty. twitter is always very busy, isn t it? thank you. joining me now, msnbc contributor nicholas con tau sory, and beth fewy. before i get to the question about romney and the meeting today and the important issues, and i want to ask you about the hamilton moment and trump s tweet. is he getting caught up in my knew shaw when there are bigger things on the plate. the cast of hamilton is not harassing that s a strong word he used, harassed. the audience was booing mike pence, and the cast came out and
going to people s homes and having coffee. so hillary clinton seems to be trying to replicate more of what edwards and obama did and that s why they came in first and second in iowa. iowans expect personal contact, personal attention. she s not going the big inevitable route, she s going the small, intimate route. joy reid thank you so much for joining us. and joining me now, beth fewy who covered clinton s campaign in 2008 along with robert zimmerman and a man from iowa steve daze. thank you for joining us. let me start off with you here in this small approach. we know according to the washington post clinton will hold a large rally towards the end of may. she s on this van now, and other than a few tweets here and there, we don t know what s happening. i would have expected you know something from inside the van, people showing her hard at work and there s, like radio silence until she arrives in iowa. i know she s actually doing it like a real road trip.
and move on to other things. cooler heads did not prevail and you continue to have 50 51 52 republicans who, they don t have a plan b. in the clips introducing the show the most telling was speaker boehner saying do they have a plan? not that i m aware of. they never have a plan b. they just know what they don t want. and that really isn t what happens when you re trying to governor the country. beth fewy isn t it john boehner who has to have a plan b? this is just crazy cabuky theater. i hate taking the sus pence out of it. weave seen these plays run before. let s face it. republicans have marginalized themselves so much now that they are both the shutdown party and the party that opposes immigration. they are going on a suicide mission with this one. there was a great study called