glass-steagall. someone s going to ask hillary the question, do you agree with what your husband did on financial reform? there s going to be a conference of groups putting on campaign for america s future on the 18th of this month, they re going to be putting these issues on the table saying where do you stand on this stuff? many things will be true at the same time in politics you could push her to the left and that s the whole wave of democratic elections now, and she could also say that that era represented a time of great prosperity. yeah. one more i want to get to this is in the new york times. we held up the new york post a minute ago. not a surprise they re going to give hillary a hard time. also not a surprise that maureen dowd going to give hillary a hard time as well. her column grandma memea saying that hillary will take the nixon approach trying to charm people one by one in the early states for 2016, an acknowledgment she cannot emulate the wholesale allure of bar
a recent spade of bipartisan brokering seems to have broken the log jam in washington, but is it really working? and the politics of snow. new york s mayor bill de blasio sets off a firestorm of controversy over snow days. those are today s topic for our agenda panel. let s bring them in. irin carmon, sabrina, and bill scher of liberal oasis is also a liberal writer at campaign for america s future and a welcome to all three of you. here we go, guys, starting with politico, which has this story gotting us talking about the conversation of is washington working again? this article citing a two-year budget deal, a farm bill, and now you have house speaker john boehner sending the debt limit increase to the white house, no strings attached. sabrina, i m going to ask you what your take is and do you
unemployed stalls in the senate while the ultra rich criticize the 99%. and what s okay to say? should lawmakers and high ranking officials always say what s on their mind? those are today s topics for our agenda panel. staff writer at the daily beast, victoria defrancesco soto is an msnbc contributor, as well as professor at the university of texas and bill share is a senior writer at campaign for america s future. welcome back to the three of you. i ll begin with you, jamelle. senate democrats essentially came up one vote short. are republicans doing themselves any favors here with the unemployed? i don t think so. i think a lot of republicans see the unemployed as not their constituents or people who belong to democratic constituencies, but the fact of the matter is, unemployment joblessness doesn t know the partisan divide. there are a lot of republicans who are relying on jobless
90% want tougher anti-corruption laws. with us at the table is john stanton, the perfect guy to talk about this crazy story that the cycle team has been debating and talking about all day long. it reminds me that politics is a multimillion game. and you can see this directly in congress if you look at the reality of 268 lawmaker that is have an average net worth topping 1 million. that was in the year of 2012. and in campaign for america s future, i think puts it perfectly. this is what they write. wealth is not a qualifier for public service nor should it be, but it should never be a prerequisite for government service. unfortunately today in the crash driven system, it usually is. only the wealthy can afford the time it takes to get elected, only the wealthy can write the checks to get the campaign started and only the wealthy have the connections needed to finance a winning campaign. affable the mcdonnells felt the pressure to live in the glitzy political lifestyle, one they
wrier writer at campaign for america s future. bill has the upper leg because he is right in front of me. this never happens that we get him physically in the building so he s got a little advantage. jam james, i ll start with you. this snowstorm is the first big test for new york city s mayor. we saw him shoveling and then saw his son out doing a little shoveling as well so putting the kids to work. here is a clip of the mayor talking about it. take a listen. will we be seeing you shovel outside of gracie maximnsion as well? let s not get crazy here. i am keeping this house no matter what so i have to make sure it s shoveled whenever there s snow. some may calling shoveling progressive but the bigger question target the teeth of the mayor s agenda when it comes to education. it reads when mayor bloomberg became mayor in 2001, fewer than half of new york city s high school students graduated in four years. that figure is now 61%.