And quadrupled in the past 30 years. Up next the Senate Agricultural for a stray committee looks at School Programs across the u. S. The witnesses include a School Nutrition experts including the president elect of the Nutrition Association who discusses the purchasing, procurement and preparation of school meals this is just over two hours. We are going to make this a weekly effort and i know that senator leahy intends to come out here brought us some pumpkin squares that we have from the school menu in vermont. Weve tasted one. Its absolutely delicious. From bob casey we have mushroom and meatballs and these are also great. I feel like im o i am on the fd channel right now. [laughter] but these are also. We thank senator casey who will be joining us and they will talk to us about what a habakkuk looks like. Weve got some apple slices so we are here for the duration. We can last a while this morning. And not to offend my wonderful cafeteria folks that we didnt eat like this when i was
Wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I think theyll end up being happy to do so. The wall just got 10 feet higher. We love it. We are going to build the wall. It will be a real wall. A real wall. Who is going to pay for the wall . Mexico. Who . Mexico. The back and forth between boss and top kick on the president S Immigration position has not help Congressional Republicans get any closer to a deal that would solve the daca problem and keep the government opened. If no deal is reached there will be a shutdown of the government tomorrow at midnight. Casey hunt on capitol hill gives us the update. I did talk about baby food because this Chief Of Staff talks about the president as this Cartoon Character that has to be made into a person by
language about haiti and africa. So what you have now is a Democratic Party thats bg been given a rational for this potential shutdown, the brew ha over the last week has energized their base and made it easier for democrats to say we cant work with this
But we are, where ever we are, must become part of the solution or are we a part of the problem . We need people as Maureen Forte has said, from the bottom up that where the laws are there, where other things are there, that is fine. But we need to all be part of change in the mentality, change in the thoughts, changing the dreams. Of young people to understand gun violence and destruction is not something they have to live with. They can be something no matter what their background. No matter what their circumstance. We all have to put our shoulder to the wheel. Theres been 1833 People Killed since newtown. We all have to be committed, not just look to the white house. Hes got to start in your house and my house. Thanks for watching. Im a. M. Sharpton. Have a great weekend. Hardball starts right now. Cruising for a bruising. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start tonight with this. As Butch Cassidy once asked, who are these guys . What a ratty
John mccain, who served the country so admirably, has become an angry fellow from dawn until dusk taking an occasional break to remember who he is and saying enough of this when his new allies get out of hand. When ted cruz starts attacking the loyalty to america of one of mccains fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. The viciousness is something we havent seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness, attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasnt even in the government when benghazi happened. Sick stuff. And it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obamas popularity. The better he looks, the worse these characters, inhofe, cruz, mccain, and Lindsey Graham, are determined to look. Did you notice the smile on John Boehners face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union . If you did, youre imagining things. So afraid of th
Combat vet at that. The vicious ps is something we havent seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasnt even in the government when benghazi happened. Sick stuff. And it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obamas popularity. The better he looks the worse these characters inhofe, cruz, mccain and Lindsey Graham are determined to look. Did you notice the smile on John Boehners face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union . If you did, youre imagining things. So afraid of the hard hating right of republicans these days of every stripe even boehners scared to death of looking like he might like something barack obama had so say. To do that is to risk political death in these days. Lets go at it. Our guests are joy reid of the grio and michael steele, former chafer of the Republica