character? well, it is a well, it is a very difficult thin line needle to thread here, and that is the point. that is why you have to be careful and one of the famous sayings that your heroes need to be dead and that is why you know about the hero and nothing new to come out about your hero, and for this guy to champion the government and what he thinks, a lot of people have egg on their face and they need to get away from this in a hurry. and thank you both, and you can follow hogan on twitter to find out where he got that ensemble today. and speaking of twitter, the tweet of the day comes from the friend of the show, grio.com goldie taylor who had this to say about cliven bundy. many are given him the benefit of age, and he is 67, and not 87. he grew up with the opportunity to know better. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds
new laws aimed at restricting voting rights. yesterday, the president presented himself as a product of the civil rights act of 1964. because of the laws president johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody. not all at once, but they swung open for you and for me, and that is why i am standing here today, because of those efforts, because of that legacy. let me bring in goldie taylor from grio.com, and james taylor is a director of african-american studies at lehigh university. good morning to both of you. good morning. good morning. the president s speech is going to focus on the voting laws and democrats are arguing that it is making it harder for millions of americans to vote, and political disenfranchisement, goldie, all
the weaponized hashtag, where loosely organized and barely controlled social mobs swarm institutions and individuals at a scale large enough so that the trending of the hashtag itself becomes news, often overwhelming discussion of the topic that originally spawned it. at the table, jeff yang, columnist of the wall street journal online who wrote that article on the weaponized hashtag. selina maxwell, a political analyst at grio.com, contributor. brittney cooper, assistant professor of women and gender studies at rutgers university, and msnbc anchor, richard lui. so nice to have you all here. jim, i want to start with you. is twitter a revolution or a mob? it s a little of both. a lot of revolutions have begun with quote/unquote mobs, and a lot of that s a matter of perspective. but one clear thing that comes from this is the egall leegallem
turn it around to where it s more based off constitution. not socialism. mitch, i dare you to debate. i dare you to debate him. step up and be a man and debate him. we don t have any information on that man s hat. but i can tell that you there is a battle brewing in the bluegrass state. but not your average rank and file republican. he s the highest ranking republican, mitch mcconnell. and at least for now, the far right and democrats are united in an effort that has been dubbed very simply ditch mitch. editor for the grio.com, you
people in kcolorado trying to gt them to register. not a single person was interested in her pitch including those already 0 old enough to vote. they were like, why? why would i bother to vote, she explained. it is important for democrats even in an election year when participation among latino voters drops. so here it is. democrats are sounding the alarm early and looking for ways to recharge young hispanic voters to to get them fired up and ready to go from the last election of the obama presidency, the last mid-term election. what can they do? what should they do in the seven months until election day? short of actually passing immigration reform in congress, well, here with us to discuss that msnbc contributor perry bacon jr. the political editor of the grio.com. the former director of hispanic press are for the obama 2012 campaign as well as msnbc contributor victoria did i francesca from the university of texas and joining us from los angeles we have fabian nunez, the former demo