crowd showed up to pack td arena and overflow for the service today. kristal ball thank you. we are joined by south carolina congressman james clyburn. we are just looking at these visuals of what is taking place in south carolina today. thousands of people including the president of the united states coming to gather there. what does it mean to you and what does it mean to you when we know the country has the capacity for this type of unity? thank you so much for having me, thomas. what it means to me is south carolinians have been given our country a real good tutorial in how to respond to a crisis. bee have seen nine families extend nothing but love and
and tonight s guest will be billy crystal who was his very first guest on the tonight show it will return with the brand-new host jimmy fallon. that wraps up this hour of jansing & company. if you want more of me, join us on the cycle at 3:00 p.m. where kristal ball and abby. hi there, the democrat showdown. emergency unemployment benefits for 1.7 million americans. now, if they succeed, it goes to the house. wee talk to congressman levin about whether he ll ever see the bill. new outrage that reports that george zimmerman is set to fight rapper dmx in a, quote, celebrity box, match. also, a new security warning as the olympic games kick off in sochi, russia. we ll get a live report.
actually similar. he s saying look, real simple, government take a step back because we have a moral hazard when we insure everything, and let s create rules so the folks who are funding this aren t oversecuritizing it or anon mizing what s going on when you look at sort of the assets that go into a pack of securities. well there, you go. ari succeeded in not making it boring and complicated. sorry. was that sarcastic? krystal, i was a little surprised in that sure, arizona, ground zero for the collapse of the mortgage market and all that. it was also ground zero for the republican intraparty fight over obama care and the expansion of medicaid. and i was a little surprised he didn t make more of that today. and that may have been a strategic decision to sort of stay out of those local politics and keep it at a higher level. and back to your point about home ownership and mortgages being sort of a boring topic, it
suspicious and ask local election officials to confirm if those people are really eligible to vote. the 2012 list was originally 182,000 voters. it eventually shrank to fewer than 200 possible maybe cases of non-citizens before the purge was then completely abandoned. last year voter protection groups sued over florida s purge, contending it disproportionately affected minority voters. coming up, president obama met arizona governor jan brewer at the airport once again today. ari melber and kristal ball will join me. this day calls you.
also has been surprising in the past year deciding to take the medicare dollars. things are a lot different from that last memorable greeting we saw. ari, they are just stunning. you put those pictures beside each other, which i hope you can do right now. if the control room can put the old picture of jan and barack together with the new picture of jan and barack, and there she is having, as krystal says, you know, worked really hard to push through that medicaid expansion that the republican governors who want to position themselves for running for president have kind of lined up against. yeah. i think there s a lot of political benefit to some of these folks locally being really aggressive against president obama including sometimes with style over substance. as krystal was pointing out, the substance doesn t always work out for them. and it s a contrast. in the speech today, you know, you had the president in a magnanimous moment singling out the fact that senators flake and mcc