it s a prepaid card. a little controversial, beuti like what you re trying to do here. also with us from los angeles, we have screen writer and founder from the website thatminoritything.com, john ridley with us this morning. how are you? good morning, how are you? good to have you on. joe, you ve been listening to the conversation. i didn t include you in must reads. did you think there was a conspiracy? well, i let you guys have your little bash-free enterprise and little resentment party, that s fine. that s fine. it s exciting that we ve brought john ridley on because a big hollywood guy, he is the 1%. yeah. he could buy and sell all of us ten times over. john, i want to bring you into the conversation. we ve got a lot of news to talk about. but before we do, there s a big question of whether this bain capital argument is going to work moving into this summer
their mind was sharp enough they wanted to fill in the form to make sure their kid had a chance not to fall it s amazing. that s what kenny said at her school in harlem. she said the parents it doesn t matter how bad off they were personally, they knew. they knew. if they could get their children to the front door that their children would have a better life. ticket out. joining the table here in washington, we have author and screen writer and founder of the website thatminoritything.com, john ridley. and in new york, this doesn t make sense because we re here and they re there. what? i don t understand. well, okay. i came all the way up. i m here. i m here they told me the little table. this is a coffee table. just you? oh, willie. what in the world? what are they doing there? it s coffee chat with willie geist. senator sherrod brown and moderator of meet the press, david gregory.
when we go to places like cuba and iran and north korea and china we re often kept out. the media s kept out. there s no free reporting. it s just something we really don t like to hear in the united states of america to keep the media out. anderson? gary, appreciate it. tonight plenty of raw politics for our panel tonight. we re also looking into allegations being made against her opponent. trying to see what s true and what s not about him. but first john avlon, senior political writer for daily beast and author of wing nuts, erick erickson, editor in chief of red state.com and john ridley editor and founder of thatminoritything.com. and an npr commentator. erick, what do you make of this, on fox news saying everyone s attacking her and the media is getting in the way of her campaigning? does that does that strike true to you? look, this is a campaign and she s playing to her base. she s mobilizing the base. the base thinks there s a liberal bias in the media. some of the que
kept out of certain events. and frankly i think for most americans that gives you a little chill. when we go to places like cuba and iran and north korea and china we re often kept out. the media s kept out. there s no free reporting. it s just something we really don t like to hear in the united states of america to keep the media out. anderson? gary, appreciate it. tonight plenty of raw politics for our panel tonight. we re also looking into allegations being made against her opponent. trying to see what s true and what s not about him. but first john avlon, senior political writer for daily beast and author of wing nuts, erick erickson, editor in chief of red state.com and john ridley editor and founder of thatminoritything.com. erick, what do you make of this, on fox news saying everyone s attacking her and the media is getting in the way of her campaigning? does that does that strike true to you? look, this is a campaign and she s playing to her base. she s mobilizing the
i just spoke to one of his top advisers who is furious at all this media coverage, saying it s not just overshadowing the wall street reform signing but also he s now gotten a victory on extending unemployment insurance, affecting millions of americans who are out of work, fwhu is exactly what played out last summer as well when that henry lewis gates fiasco popped up. that blue out the health rare reforments for a while as well. ed henry for us from the white house tonight. as ed pointed out, for president obama, this was supposed to be a big day of celebrating political victory, with the wall street reform bill. instead, they are, once again, in damage control mode. here to help us make sense of all this is john ridley who runs the website thatminoritything.com. also, washington post columnist michael gersten who was a speechwriter. and analyst david gergen back with us. welcome to everybody. i want to listen or let