world. a moment in time when we decide who we are as a people and what kind of a future we are going to build. this is about concentrated money and power on one side but it s about our values, our voices and our votes on our side. i believe we can fight back. i believe we can win. i believe it. thank you. ryan grimm and crystal ball join me now. ryan, was she talking about winning this as a policy battle or winning a potential presidential campaign? well, she left that open. and the reason that i led there with her book is that her book really does make an unmistakable case for why she should be running for president. you know, it says i will do everything that s in my power to right what s wrong with this country, to level the playing field here. and there clearly is something that she can do in the next
either limited somehow i don t believe in doing away with, it but i think you can quantify executive branch nominations and somehow impose some limits on filibusters there. with respect to the discussion before the break, i believe the policy battle should be fought legislatively. once the battle is done and legislation has been enacted, the administration is entitled to empimplement that. i think from a policy standpoint and administration, a president is on firm grounds to believe that filibustering his cabinet nominees, his administrative nominees is somehow inappropriate. i want to thank amanda teshgle with the huffington post, mo cowen will be back with us later, and alan fruman. if you want to understand the roots of this month s abortion fights in texas, you need to go back to something ronald reagan did 33 years ago this past week. accomplishing even little things can become major victories. i m phil mickelson, pro golfer.
breaking news out of washington. we are watching the senate judiciary committee begin their grilling of attorney general eric holder. he s expected to face what s being described as a barrage of attacks. they are saying this could be the toughest public hearing in holder s tenure as attorney general. you see senator dianne feinstein. we ve been reading quotes and hearing comments from senators ahead of this saying hold hare been a, quote, disappointment. we ll be listening in on this and we ll bring you more as it heats up. i m monica novotny. welcome back to msnbc news. the white house gearing up for its next policy battle. president obama will meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the house and senate. this fight is all about your money. those bailouts for what president obama called fat cats on wall street. we ll keep you posted. developing now in afghanistan. the last u.s. troops pulled out
a partnership that has existed since the second world war it s a major policy battle that could ultimately spell the end of merkel s thirteen years in office. and also to more about the dangers faced by the merkel government d.w. political correspondent hans but is with me firstly hans we have that meeting we understand last night between the chancellor her interior minister who say who for of course we should point out he s a committed member of the c.s.u. possy what do we know about that meeting. very little in fact we know that it took place that it took about two hours that they sat together until pretty late last night and of course we also know as we ve just seen that these two politicians are not only allies by the adversaries and have been for quite a long time. there is some sort of speculation that they looked pretty grim when they came into their meetings and they looked a little less screwed when they came out of the meeting so this some sense it may
i want to bring in cnn political analyst, author of washington s farewell abmargaret hoover. do you have any tips, who is next? anybody. i just don t buy green bananas. this is just the latest. the v.a. secretary shulkin out. last week mcmaster. the week before tillerson. it s a constant revolving door, john, in in administration. it averages around every nine days there is a firing or resignation. and march has been particularly bloody. you went through the litany. these are core members. a quarter of the core cabinet is gone a year and a quarter in. it s not a sign of stability. only the best people doesn t seem to be shaking out. in the case of secretary shulkin it seems as though there was a policy battle going on underneath the surface rather than a personality thing. there are questions about