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. welcome back to democracy plaza. meet the press , it s coming up in one hour after this show here on msnbc. a new book looks at how television has covered the elections through the years. here s an example from morgan bay baity describes the election. the electronic brain is keeping ahead of the voting. pennsylvania, eisenhower is favored. governor stevenson needs 50% of the remaining vote to win. joining me e is steven batalio, the author of election night. i m so glad you re here. great excuse to play this old
didn t say very much about the ideas they ve offered over the last two years. they couldn t. because they want to tgo back into the same old policies that got us in trouble in the first place. as another president once said, there they go again. i mean, brilliant. there may go again. but he has, i guess i ll call it almost like a rye sense of humor about the gop. while at the same time really whether it s the zero, you know, he really brings home the idea that the republicans are at fault for the jobs numbers being where they are. sure, and he can tell it in this sort of hokie child book tale type of way. the lines that stood out to me e is when he was talking to paul ry ryan s health care attacks, saying it was brass. it obviously wasn t in his script. the other thing very few people talk about is when he talked about the medicare policy. he was talking about the people and how they rely on medicaid,
can be charged and held responsible for international human rights violations. recall that according to the supreme court and citizens united decision two years ago, the decision would be to be consistent that they could be held accountable as they are people. if corporations are people as they were declared. our next guest has been fighting citizens united. it s a pleasure to have you here. how realistic is the assertion that corporations should be accountable as a matter of consistency with the previous ruling. dylan, the supreme court actually believes a corporation is a person, but that s their ruling. then of course, those same corporations should be held liable for human rights violations wherever they occur. there seems to be an underlying theme that has eme e emerged whether you look at
meanwhile, we re only throwing them more money to borrow to go to college. so what the president announced in his speech on monday, which is actually a major step in the right direction is saying we re not kboing to give you more federal money to get more students in your institution unless you keep costs in check. otherwise, we re going to go broke as a nation. and to that end, wouldn t the most ration way to keep costs in check for a university would be for them to disclose where they are spending their money? that s what we do in the normal marketplace. if i m concerned you re taking advantage of me e and i m going to spend $50,000 a year giving money for a service, typically i d like to see how the $50,000 i just gave you would be spent. maybe i spent $10,000 and get more for less money. what is the barrier to forcing all these universities that get all this taxpayer money, private