or finding a camera to do it but her silence now, don t you think it is rather deafening? even though she is at the center of this debate, whether you like it or not, it s all about the rhetoric in america and sarah is missing in action. and the tea partiers, well, you know they are not backing down from their own line of rhetoric. congressman grijalva has done it before and will do it again tonight here on the ed show. plus, rush limbaugh is and the tea partiers, well, you know they are not backing down from their own line of rhetoric. before and will do it again before and will do it again tonight here on the ed show. plus, rush limbaugh is reaching a new low. he says the reason are the alleged shooter is smiling is because the democratic party is behind him. yes, that is sickening. this is the story that has me fired up tonight and i don t believe it roger ales says he is calling off the attack dogs. he said he wanted to change the tone on his network. he said, i told a
who are mentally unstable that you know we just don t know when they re going to take those that language literally. congressman grijalva. coming so close to where you live and your friend. it s been devastating for all of us, and we re happy with some of the prognoses that is happening about gabby. but generally it s it s the level of shock. that s all that i can say. and you know this whole political discourse that we ve had for the last four, five years in this country, we re not i m not saying that this has told this, but there is a contributing factor that all of us in political life that use rhetoric, that is incendiary, that creates demons out of other people, we need to be very careful and we need to tone that whole thing down. and congressman chellie pingree from maine, thank you for joining us as well. absolutely. our thoughts and prayers are with gabby and families of a lot victims of this senseless crime
should now carry weapons, heighten the level of violence and somehow protect ourselves in that way, it just plays into this whole idea that disputes have to be settled with a gun. i want congressman grijalva to listen to this debate, and it s me against a guy named kostric on this show. you ll hear both sides of this. a guy who brings guns to political tea party rallies. william kostric. last year he brought a gun to a rally and i kept asking him, why would you bring a gun to a political event? we saw with what happened over the weekend. why do you bring guns to political debates? let s listen to that debate because i think that it s really hot. why did you bring a gun to a meeting with the president of the united states, given the violent history of this country with regard to presidents and assassinations? why why d you bring a gun to a public event with the president? i do know history and the history is that our forefathers fought for the right to keep and bear armed and they
someone who is famous for their anti-immigrant and gun issues, posted a comment, said, it s too bad that it wasn t grijalva. and so you feed that ugliness. thank you for coming on. take care of yourself, people. and thank you so much for coming on. i know that you ve got a real friend trouble here. a friend of the country as well. thank you for coming on, mr. grijalva, and congressman debbie wassermanman schultz as always and thank you chellie pingree. coming up the latest on her condition, gabrielle giffords condition from the two doctors who are treating her. we couldn t get more important news than we ll get in a minute. you re watching it here on hardball only on msnbc. ( speaking chinese ) ( speaking chinese ) ( laughing ) introducing cisco umi. be together in high def
the threat of using them, are a political solution to this country s debate. can we, out of this horror in arizona, simply agree on this one thing, don t bring guns to political events. don t talk about guns in a political argument. stop it right here. gun violence against politicians is not a metaphor, it s not about the old west, it s not cowboy talk, it s not about the founding fathers and the british army. when you talk about using guns or threatening to use them against policies or politicians you don t like, it s for real. when you bring a gun to a political event, you are the problem. and leaders are refused to say just this, are themselves part of the problem? let s begin with three members of congress who are all close friends with congresswoman gabrielle giffords. u.s. congressman raul grijalva of arizona. represents another part of tucson. u.s. congresswoman deborah wasserman schultz of florida. and congresswoman shelley ping ray of maine. i want to start with my friend