campaign. clever marketing move. but does it say anything about the state of the race? we ll talk about that with donna brazile, vice chair of the democratic national committee. republican congressman from virginia, dave bratt. cnn political commentator anna navarro, rooting for jeb bush. thanks to all of you for coming in, especially on this post-new-year s weekend. good marketing move? i just like to see the interparty fighting, first and foremost. we do believe donald trump is the standard-bearer in the republican party. donald trump is a big on, a zine xen xenophobe. if donald trump is the standard-bearer, i am finally glad to see that somebody in the party stood up against him. congressman bratt, do you obviously the most intense think
can do certain things, and whites can do certain things over them, but they are saying that everybody has a even playing field. stay there. because admittance into the state universities. yes. and stay on that one specifically, because are there racial quotas in the schools? and are there allowed to be racial quotas in the schools? well, quotas is not something that the courts are big on, and they will allow different programs what is the difference? well, the court is looking at here whether or not the voters can pass this, and no, what is the difference of what you are calling affirmative action practices and the quota? help me out here. is there a difference? look, in the situation, what happened is that the voters said, no more affirmative action in universities in michigan, and then some of the civil liberties unions said, no, the voters can t decide, the federal courts have to decide what is fair and what is not.
with us now we have the democratic mayor of san antonio, julian introduces. mayor castro completed the first leg of mayors for education excellence tour. and president of the super p.a.c. brian baker. brian, a lot to talk to you about. mr. mayor, let s ask you first of all, talking about education reform that you re taking on. it s four of us who are ma r mayors, the premise that we start with really is brain power is the new currency of success in the 21st century global economy. and secondly that cities are the places where we re still actually getting things done. so what we re doing is that we re highlighting the great work that s happening in these
what he did with vets. this guy is an extraordinary ambassador for the game and what he s doing here, harold, unbelievable on literacy. big on since and math but i want to hear him and the ceo this morning talk about this program how you hope to get books in the hands of kids that need at any time most. what you hope to gain from that experience. good to see you. thanks for having us on. this is a great program we ve had going on for five years. we got over 2 million books in the hands of young kids and it got them started and month ti stritd read and learn and there s no better gift you can give to the child than the desire and passion to learn and a read education. no doubt about it. john, you can answer this too. i actually have done a lot of work and tried to deal with literacy in the inner cities, how to empower them to want to learn. some people think they should endow book buying programs. how does it work once they go home with these books and the pr
winning. a $100,000 marketing research project commissioned by the team encouraged the sox to spend big on, quote, good-looking stars and sex symbols. this all according to francona in his book. the book connects that recommendation with the decision to spend $296 million on carl crawford and adrian gonzalez who since have been traded to the dodgers. francona will be on morning joe next wednesday. mike? look, i love tito. he s a good friend of mine. he s wrong. the red sox management, the ownership were interested only in winning. nobody forced anybody to sign carl crawford. they did it because they thought that carl crawford would help them get to the world series again. by the way, he was a great player before he got to the red sox. it wasn t like he was an image guy. he had great numbers. up next, mika s must-read opinion pages. plus the folks over at badlipreading.com treat us to another installment of what they do best. fantastic. i want it now! i want cake now! i wa