visit pradaxa.com. hey, programming note. we re going to be doing this show live from atlanta tomorrow. i ll be doing the first cable interview with former president jimmy carter with his white house diaries being released in paperback this week. that will be exclusive here at 9:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow here on msnbc.
and students who don t have official photo i.d. then official photo i.d. will be required to vote by state law. now in pennsylvania, republicans can t figure out how to win the state but they can figure out how to narrowly win some districts. then, by golly, they ll change that state law, too. this is called using public policy for partisan outcomes. this is called putting your thumb on the scale. joining us now is former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, former chair of the democratic party and now a msnbc political analyst. governor, thank you for being here. it s nice to see you. nice to be here. let me just ask you what your position is on this new plan in your state, this republican plan to divide up the state s electoral votes. really, rachel, it s shameful. it s absolutely shameful. first of all, it violates the spirit if not the letter of one person, one vote. think about it. in philadelphia, which is a city that s about 83% democratic registration, let s say the vote
point from the left and right. and that s valuable. chris hayes, msnbc contribute or, washington editor of the nation and smart man. thank you for joining us. the great democratic hey, wait a second, that has nothing to do with the budget response of 2011. in wisconsin, td republican governor and legislature redefined pure i can victory, and in indiana, democrats that have been out of the state more than a month fighting this sort of thing just returned, having sort of won by the fact they left. now that fight may be coming to washington. the whole story is moving very fast and we have details up next. that would be awesome! sure. like that will happen. don t just think about it. spend 10 minutes at lending tree and save up to $272 a month. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade fogr
these people shall be henceforth known as ts gingrich caucus. what would you do about libya? exercise a no-fly zone this evening. that s step one. step two after president obama does intervene in libya? i would not have intervened. i think there were a lot of other ways to effect gadhafi. joining us, chris hayes, msnbc contribute or and washington editor of the nation magazine. good to see you. great to see you, too. republicans are struggling to find a way to criticize mr. obama on a military decision that they kind of agreed with in the beginning, or at least were demanding before he did it. what is the next step in that struggle? what is their next argument about what the president is doing wrong? so i think the next step in the struggle is going to be very much rooted in what happens in libya, and here s the reason why. two reasons. one, because there was no congressional vote, no one in congress is actually tethered to