win popular vote by seven points to take back control of the house and seems like a long shot and i think if republicans actually do hold the country hostage over the debt ceiling, refuse to budge and do anything on comprehensive immigration, stand in the way of gun control, i think those things could add up to democrats taking control of the house and then the president would be able to get all of these objectives accomplished. well, we ll see. okay. straight ahead, aside from being a friday, it s an important day in the fight to protect our kids. our resident mom in chief krystal explains next. [ lisa ] my name s lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn t think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitati
some pushback from the left on obama s lack of diversity in his cabinet appointments. krystal, you delivered a rant and scolded the president and rangel had this to say yesterday. it s embarrassing as hell. we have been through this with mitt romney and we were very hard on mitt romney with his women binders and a variety of things and i think there s no excuse when it s a second term. so, you know, i think we are going to see more of that. will that hurt him in trying to get his agenda forward? i don t know. time will tell. all right. well, when we talk about a liberal legacy, moving forward on gun control, that would be hugely popular on the left an i m not discouraged at this point. i was the days after newtown, even then i said, we are not going to be able to get anything done. the house is controlled by republicans and i am growing more and more hopeful.
president obama, in the intro, and the president in the lead to the segment, i started short handing using obama, and yes, even one point this guy because, well, i was in the middle of making a point. i think i said something like this guy s afraid of these deadlines. twitter exploded and here s example of what i heard. says steve, toure, krystal it is president obama, you dumb bleeps. learn respect. you don t speak for dems. nice. that is a small taste of the torrent of tweets i got last week. not used to getting that much sort of outcry after, you know, talking on this show. after a similar outcry about not using president before obama in a news story, the new york times peter baker also explained to irate tweeters, quote, that s the style on second reference for every president. bush, clinton, et cetera. i thought we could talk about it here. you have been wanting to do