box. all they could do now, they ve exhausted all their constitutional options. the last thing they could do is to break their rules to hold the country hostage and decided to go in that direction. and they re pretending it s no big deal. thank you both for your time tonight. thanks, rev. and catch krystal on the cycle week days at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. and one more note, we reached out to the koch brothers for comment today. and have not heard back. ahead, i m so excited about my new book the rejected stone. it s out today. connie chung is here to interview me on my life. stay tuned. [ crashing ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums.
giving anecdotes of my story for people to figure out for them. let me talk to you about them. because you were for introspective in the book. and i never realized that you engaged in such self-examination from the time for example, when you were in jail, you were incarcerated and you instead of i don t know, doing what other people do in jail, you read. you read about nelson mandela. and you thought about your life and what you were doing. now, throughout the book, you do that, and you impart the wisdom that you garnered from living the life of hard knocks. i went to jail 90 days for leading a non-violent protest in puerto rico. protest of environmental conditions. and in those 90 days, i used it to have a meeting with al sharpton. i thought all my life i had been in social justice and the
all of us with not even the burial expenses to deal with their grief. this should be inexcusable to all of us regardless of what political ideology we subscribe to. thank you for your time. i agree. thank you patrick murphy, thank you goldie taylor for your time tonight. ahead, why is speaker john boehner refusing to take a vote to reopen this government? plus last night, we revealed the secret big money plan to destroy obama care. today president obama went after those shadowy billions in a very tough way. and my book, the rejected stone is out today. connie chung interviews me on my life and my evolution. also, friend or foe i want to know. e-mail me. reply al is ahead. [ male announcer ] a doctor running late for a medical convention
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learning from flawed leaders is where i talk about how growing up a single parent household, i emulated and learned from other men. some who became very well known. but i also had to learn if you imitate and emulate people, you have to eliminate where they were weak and where they made missteps. and sometimes you can make heroes out of people to where you act like their mistakes were all right. they re not all right. so you ve got to learn to emulate the strengths in people, but eliminate the weaknesses in people. and i share some of that in the book of some of the things i learned good and bad from some very well known people. i m really excited about the book. if you d like to read an excerpt from the book the rejected stone, please go to our