tragedy that took place in aurora, colorado. midnight hours of the movie screaming of the dark knight rises led to 12 people being shot. the shooter, james holmes, is in custody and awaiting an appearance in court on monday morning. joining me is richard kim, executive editor at thenation.com. and harry smith, correspondent for nbc s rock center and dorran warren, political science of international affairs at columbia university. richard, i want to start with you. i rarely find myself in a position of cheering on a police chief. but this police chief in everything from his public demeanor to apparently the very swift response really sort of got me thinking, who is this guy? i come to find out he s an nypd veteran, but the one i really loved is apparently he was in
until you clean up washington, the people will not be heard. buddy, i want to bring in dorran and shelby, dorran has a question for you. governor, i m wondering, the second face of power is about agenda setting but also about the rules of the game, and i m wondering if you can talk about that if terms of the challenges for third party but also the republican primaries that excluded you from the debates. can you help the viewers know how the rules affect your voice in the process? let me talk about the republican primary process. i announced a little more than a year ago, i announced that i would take no pac money and i never have in office, not as governor, i was the only governor not to take pac money. i was the only congressman for the eight years not to take pac money. so i set that as my rule. $100 limit. full disclosure. instant reporting, no super pacs. so i go to new hampshire for seven months.
the second face of power can change the terms we are already talking about. think about it, before september of last year debt ceiling and debt reduction were the words of the day. then a bunch of people set up camp in a park in lower manhattan and those words were replaced by a new one, inequality. and never again would 99 by known only as the number that comes before 100. now i m going to show my second face of power and welcome the voices that i wanted on my agenda this week. dorran warren, columbian university assistant professor of political science and a fellow to the roosevelt institute director. and organizing for women rights at change.com, michelle beam knox, thank you for being here. thank you. i want to start about how brilliant the gop has been at the second face of power. we were just chatting about this in nerd land and this language that if you ask americans about the affordable care act they have no idea what you re talking