numbers. this is a different day and age, rev. we are post mccutchen from the supreme court and post citizens united, it s not just the votes that count, it s the dollars as well. that s kwhie you re seeing democrats in all of these different states hit so hard so early with these advertisements. thank you both for your time tonight. still ahead, tonight s justice files. did a judge get off easy after putting a rapist in jail for just 30 days? and should a pair of 12-year-old girls be tried as adult s in a knife attack. also this i said sit down. . if you want to fight, let s go out back and i ll just beat your [ bleep ]. a judge and a lawyer literally get into a fistfight. that s next. okay ladies, whenever you re ready.
they don t like to lose. they don t like to lose to an african-american democrat especially. or as they used to say about clinton, the first black president. there s a whole range of reasons why they cannot accept him. i m talking about a minority of americans obviously, but very loud. they have fox news, a huge media machine and they will never stop with this. muslim is the convenient slur to use against him. what you have to wonder about in this case is why wouldn t they want to discuss this on the merits. ef the pentagon, the generals, the military code of conduct, all of which support what the president as commander-in-chief did in this case. on the other side, you have fox news, alan west, i mean, a bunch of crazies who are saying he shouldn t have done this.
joining me now is the political reporter for msnbc. his article today is titled democratic party draws blood early in key senate races. and democratic strategist angela rooi, thank you both for come on the show tonight. republicans have been measuring the drapes in the senate, but it s not going as planned, is it? well, they definitely have a superior map to democrats. there s a lot of democrats playing defense and like to talk about how the fundamentals are great for them. but at the end of the day, it is a collection of individual races. naen a lot of these races, democratic candidates have been working very hard and spending a lot of money very early to make sure the other candidate looks as bad as possible as early as possible. they don t want them to get any not a footing at all. and what we ve seen in err will polling is it s catching them a little off-guard. terry lind land was leading a
he hasn t done anything wrong, but they still will attempt to smear his legacy. joe, the hypocrisy here is just so blatant. when you look at mccain who has said go and get bergdahl, we even discussed trading prisoners of war. now they ve done 180 degrees turn. i mean, it is play tant hypocrisy. . we saw former president bush, some 500 prisoners that he let loose in gitmo. the biggest hypocrite of all, and i worked with him at a local radio situation here was oliver north. defense absolutely amazing to see oliver north weigh in on this controversy. the hypocrisy was him standing new a marine uniform testifying
anticipate now it s time for our question of the day. do you accept justin bieber s apology for using the n-word as a teenager? 28% of politics nation says yes. 50% say no and 21% say maybe but he needs to do more to address the issue. this is a maya angelou moment when someone shows who they are, believe them the first time. kanye says, i say to justin, think bvr you speak and you will be fine. it takes a big heart to accept an apology as such. but why not? thanks to all who voted. you can join the conversation by heading to our facebook page and give your 2 cents. please let us know your opinion. and i ll tell you what i think about this issue. next. t before i do any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie s list for bringing us together.