program that started during the reagan area. providing 12 million u.s. households with a subsidized land line and cell phone. now the fcc wants to expand to deal with the internet. joining me with this and another bunch of fun topics abbey huntsman and jonathan capeheart. let s start with the idea that the government is helping poor people get online. good or bad? i think that one of the most nettlesome aspects of the society is fear of the poor. there s a large contingent any program to the poor they worry about waste, fraud, and abuse. this program has had some but it s called a lifeline for a reason. of the 15,000 or people earning $15,000 or less people with disability people who have no other way to communicate with the outside world and it s absolutely necessary. the other thing i d add is they can already get it if it s
thank you. thank you. as we look at the straw poll results again, joined at the table by msnbc contributor, jonathan capeheart, jackie kucinich from the daily beast. let s break down what happened here. rand paul did win the thing. we tend to discount these poll vblgt victories what casey hunt was saying is interesting, about the role of foreign policy and the foreign policy campaign republicans wanted to run in 2016. it seems to me in the age of asis the republican party is looking for a foreign policy message that is different from the isolationist type views of rand paul. politicians always look for a common enemy. it s easy to identify isis. you can go into the restaurants of south carolina and where i work and everybody knows who they are the fear is out there.
better some of the laws. reverend, failure is not an option for us. we are going to get it done. all right. congress woman brown and jonathan capehart thank you for your time tonight. thanks. still ahead speaker boehner has a big problem and it is called the minimum wage. we ll tell you how democrats are trying to force republicans to do the right thing. plus, the i word is back, impeachment. you got to hear what gop lawmakers were saying about the president today. also, the video that saved an innocent man from going to jail. and that police didn t want you to see. get out the car. get out. get out of the car. get out the car. i did nothing wrong.
findinging that that didn t sell so well with his home base. hasn t sold well with the republican caucus. he may set out to do something constructive. i am pretty happy. jonathan capehart, josh barrow. thank you for joining us. coming up what you have been told abut chris christie s governing record by chris christie not exactly true. in the rewrite tonight, republicans drag the wizard of oz into the house hearing on the affordable care act today. jonathan, someone has got to tell those republicans, the wizard of oz is not a documentary. okay? it s not? my asthma s under control.
colleagues. the freshman conservative told his colleagues he would not intervene in their 2014 primary fights or fund raise for the controversial outside group. the jim demint founded senate conservatives fund aligned itself with ted cruz leading up to the government shutdown. even putting him in one of their ads. we need congress to stand up and defund obama care now. ted cruz is not disassociating with the group entirely according to the dallas morning news. cruz s spokeswoman says he will continue to work with them on common conservative issues as they arise. joining me now, jonathan capeheart, an analyst, and josh barrow, politics editor for business insider. jonathan, that was quick. well, i mean the story points out that he promises not