creator, that obamacare would kill the economy. none of that has come true. you can get back and expect more from the top 1% and 2% income earners in this it country and now we ve got more work to do. now we have to work on those trade agreements to make sure that those middle-class, hard-working mid-jobs are going to be able to compete on a level playing field. we have done it with those stimulus package or help from the republicans. just think where we could be if washington would get its act together. the president s not the problem. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, will republicans ever have the character to admit the obama economy is working? maybe mr. santelli, you can answer that first. text a for yes, text b for no to 67622 and you can always go to
dangerous. neighbors of amanda and jerryd miller were familiar with their violent tone, but didn t believe their threats. now they wish they would have done something. told someone. some right wing conservatives just don t hear extremists like the millers. they rely on them, as well. do they feel regret? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. is the rhetoric of a government takeover dangerous for america? text a for yes, text b for no. to 67622. or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i ll bring you the results later in the show. joining me now from las vegas is nevada political journalist and tv host, john raulston. you ve been critical for calling them patriots. do you think politicians bear any responsibility for fostering the climate that led to this heinous act? yeah, i think that listen, i ve been very critical of heller for what i ve used the word enable. you used the correct word too in
predicted at least 60,000 unaccompanied minors would try to cross into the u.s. this year. and interagency memo from a border patrol official reveals that number has been revised up to more than 90,000. at this point we ve been conditioned to expect dysfunction in washington. and at this point, it s hard to imagine republicans and democrats working together to find common ground on practically any issue. sure, there s reason to be cynical but even the most hardened cynic should be outraged and demand action. when a humanitarian crisis like this one happens right here on our soil. we claim to be religious and we claim to be christian and we claim to love god. how can you love god whom you ve never seen, and yet not love the children who you see every day? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question will the story wake america up on immigration reform? text a for yes and text b for
thought that george w. bush should not have left scooter libby hanging out there like a soldier in the field. here is the interview with president bush. i let the jury verdict stand after serious deliberation. and the vice president was angry. when you told him you said he was furious. he said i can t believe you are going to leave a soldier on the battlefield. so president bush confirms that dick cheney is famous for saying that we shouldn t leave a soldier out on the field. so he was willing to do something for scooter libby but calls this deal for sergeant bergdahl who was in a combat situation who did serve and didn t get five deferments, we can t do a deal for him. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, who do you trust on national security? dick cheney or president obama? text a for dick cheney. text b for president obama to
trade? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and write on our blog if you think that if it was your kid you would have wanted the president to do this. for more let me bring in congressman john garamendi of california. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. thank you, ed. is this a good deal? was this the right thing to do on the part of the president and our armed forces? yes. categorically yes, it was. we ve always exchanged prisoners. here we go one more time exchanging prisoners. these taliban were picked up during the early days of the war in afghanistan and they were fighters, they were fighting against us. they were the other side. now we have a prisoner exchange. and let s remember, ed, that the underlying ethic of the army and the marines and others is we leave no one behind.