star on him. i went to pin him, i said sir, i don t want the damn thing. do not pin it on me sir, please, sir. do not to do that. he died! he died! according to the washington post, quote, in the space of three minutes, biden do the the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank the recipient wrong. i m joined now by msnbc correspondent garrett haake. he s been with the biden campaign on the last few stops there. right now he joins us from georgetown, south carolina. garrett, the post points out that biden s story is actually rooted in an actual event. walk us through what happened and what the vice president got wrong. reporter: yeah, craig think there the problem with the story is that it s actually rooted in two events. and what you have here is the vice president conflating two separate issues, two separate events of heroism in the war in afghanistan and his role thereafter with those events.
they are not serious socialists. tucker: [laughs] we have really missed you. yet, as angela said i think it s a fair point and this is why it s worth taking a look at they do have a affect on the mainstream of the democratic party. i mean, they are using language that unfortunately elizabeth warren uses. or beto o rourk, or thatiz booker kid from new jersey. they seem to be cribbing theirom notes from the dsa. yeah, i think that s what angela got wrong. no one is interested in, youla know, the controlling heights of the economy. this nonsense is actually what they are about and if you listen to the democrat debate, which i watched from thousands of miles away so it seemed even weirder, cory booker at one time said we don t talk enough about trans americans and in particular, we don t talk enough about african-american trans people.t i want to make sure i get this right. african-american trans americans. and of course, the answer to that is that on these terms, you can never t
this is something that i think will be veried aven tay ed avea them. they will try to make the case that the reporting has not been accurate. after delaying for some time, they did eventually say it was false. i think they re going to have an opportunity to really take a victory lap on this. they will. the strange thing was that it took 16 hours to do that, but they did. you have just to emphasize, democrats had jumped on this immediately. some of them last night were quick to hit twitter and jump. if true if true a lot of people wanted investigations. does that stop? no. there were always going to be investigations. there s more than enough reason to have investigations. i mean into what is the evidence i think there should be an investigation. now as much as ever. maybe they will disprove it. maybe they will an investigation will show us what buzzfeed got wrong.
volunteering activity, of course. everyone from jfk to president obama has heralded all kinds of volunteering as a small and option part of public service. but it s not a national policy. no one who s serious about education policy thinks these challenges in our country are going to be addressed on an option part-time basis. and again for our fact check, the numbers bear that out, as the mentor national partnership found among at-risk youth, 35 pfs say they never had an adult mentor of any kind while they were growing up. of any kind, let alone a consistent mentor that could provide guidance through the years. those are young people now going through life without a mentor and without the benefits of having one when they were younger. so if these kinds of appeals aren t fixing the problem, then we have to decide what else we want to do about it as a community, as a government. so that s what paul ryan got wrong. now still, i do think this could
racism. so on that, cohen got racism wrong again. but lost amid all the well-deserved critique of what cohen got wrong was an acknowledgement of what he got right, if you interpret his use of the word conventional, to mean a widely held belief embraced by the majority of people, then, no, that gag reflex isn t conventional for americans today. it s clear from this graph on interracial marriages that most americans are just fine with the de blasios and other families like them. but that s only part of that graph. take a look. at the same graph in its entirety, going all the way back to how those attitudes have evolved since 1959, and you ll see that our current enlightened acceptance is relatively new. before 1988 and for the vast majority of american history, the popular and enduring and conventional view about african-americans mixing with and marrying white americans has been one of disgust. joining me now is one of those writers who responded to cohen this week, msnbc s dot-com