people crossing the border. i shouldn t have to note that 40% of the fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or first-generation americans. i shouldn t have to make the case that we have a moral imperative to address the current crisis through strong policy and procedure. we should pride ourselves on our immigrant policy. when civilians are forming, telling americans to go armed to protect the border we all need to take a good look at who we were, who we are and who we want to be. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, are we doomed to repeat history if we don t address immigration reform? text or go to our blog at e
why don t they have these scheduled to be all along the pipeline? why don t they have a requirement for a double thickness? why is it they re always picking on the little guy? and why is it there have been so many leaks and there have been no changes? i can tell you if there was a leak out of that tank environmental folks from canada would be all over me at the lake and they would be coming up with all kinds of recommendations on what i have to do with that tank. so maybe this is just a situation where it is such a huge company that they can come in and pretty much do whatever they want and write the damn regulations if they don t like them. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. on the s question would you let the keystone xl pipeline run through your backyard? text a for yes, b for no to 67622. you can go to our blog at e ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring results later nonthe
on a national level, he started preaching about compromise. families are unemployed, sean. we have to start getting things together. we have to reach a little common ground out here. there are some things in that like that payroll tax cut and some other things we could maybe reach agreement. let s find those things that we can all agree upon so we can start get these kids out of poverty and get people back to work? so the president goes to ohio and now the governor speaks up. governor kasich should take his own advice and focus on the thousands of teachers and other public employees in ohio who are losing their jobs because of his policies. starting tomorrow, the ed show will be in the state of ohio standing with the americans, the workers fighting for their rights. for more details go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll be in toledo tomorrow night and columbus thursday night. bachmann tries to link hpv
columbus, ohio, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. let s turn now to msnbc political analyst and bloomberg view columnist jonathan alter. also with us, katrina vanden heuvel, editor of the nation magazine. i want to ask both of you the same question. you first, katrina. what is the upside for the republicans to obstruct this? ed, i want to step back for a moment. i think we re at a turning point in this country. if you look at this republican party, this is a reactionary extremist republican party. its first goal is to defeat president obama. generations in this country have grown up with reforms, the new deal of the great society, humanizing reforms. they ve given people opportunity and mobility. they ve built a stable middle class. this republican party wants to dismantle those reforms that have built and supported i would say capitalism with security. have supported that middle class, have supported the working poor. there have always been debates about the s
get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. should president obama ever trust the republicans? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at e ed.msnbc.com for a comment and we ll bring you the results of the poll later on in the show. going to ohio, ohio in 2012, it is going to be a huge state. that s why we re going to be broadcasting in toledo tomorrow night then in columbus, ohio, on thursday night. joining me now is the mayor of columbus, ohio, michael coleman who was with the president today. mr. coleman, nice to have you with us tonight. i m looking forward to being in your city on thursday night with the ed show, a live broadcast. we really want to know what the folks of columbus in the heartland are saying about this. if you could just tell us, mr. coleman, are people in your city and ohio, how frustrated are they with this exercise in trying to create jobs? how frustrated and how angry, if