development going on in the city because sometimes it takes, unfortunately, this kind of cry from the public to say look at our neighborhoods. see what s going on. understand our frustration, but, again, the message is do it peacefully. that s what will make the difference. thank you very much. really appreciate it. appreciate it. and appreciate the fact that you know so much of the beauty of this city and what it means, and i look forward to what what this is going to represent. what it can be. absolutely. thank you so much. i want to bring in my colleague toure. thank you. how are you? you ve been out talking to the group. i have and i thought i was being crazy feeling like this is like a block party but people said, yes, it s supposed to be like that to make people feel comfortable and bring the tension down a little bit, and, yes, the cops are right over there with military gear and military trucks, but there s a woman right there handing out chicken wings. th
i was so rude li interrupted by my colleague toure. comic strips to me died when calvin and hobbs went away. i still waking up that new s eve, saving the paper. it s in the trunk somewhere in my home. you got the elusive bill waterson on audio tape. i want to play what he had to say. quite honestly, i tried to if get that there was an audience. i wanted to keep this strip feeling small and intimate as i did it so my goal was just to make my wife laugh. after that i put it out and the public could take it or leave it. bill waterson also painted the i guess drew the poster for this film. can you just talk about him and the impact of calvin and hobbs had on an entire generation of comic book readers and how unbelievable it is that you actually got him on tape. first interview ever, ever. absolutely. yes, it was pretty amazing. when we started making this
did and that along this long difficult journey, we re becoming a more perfect union. not a perfect union. joining us now is my colleague toure, co-host of the cycle and jonathan alter a columnist for bloomberg view and the author of the 2012 campaign history the center holds obama and his enemies. welcome to you both. jonathan, have you followed the president at every moment pre-2008 through the campaign. you heard him speak about race in the past. how does what he said today compare to what he has said in the past? well, it is actually of a peace with what he has said in some speeches but he hasn t done so at such a dramatic moment since the jeremiah wright speech during the campaign, and that was partly an exercise in damage control.
heard this statement from mr. paul this morning. how seriously are you looking at 2016? we re looking at it very seriously. i think our party needs something new, fresh, and different. joining us now is nia-malika henders henderson, a political reporter with the washington post, and my colleague toure, one of the co-hosts of the cycle here on msnbc. toure, i would like to show you a photograph for a moment. it was from today s new york times. it shows john mccain uncomfortably sharing an elevator with rand paul, the young lady there appears to be sort of preventing them from killing each other. on thursday mccain and lindsey graham, as you know, skewered mr. paul, particularly his filibuster. so who wins this rare old tussle? is it the old guard or the new guard? it is an interesting establishment gop versus this tea party gop who wins? you know, i think rand paul within the conservative bubble comes out looking better. now, obviously to you and me we listen to it a
to vote is a racial entilement in section 5? no, the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement? well, congress that, of course, was justice sonia sotomayor taking the phrase used by justice scalia and throwing it into the face of the attorney arguing in favor of weakening the voting rights act. joining us now is my colleague toure, co-host of the cycle and msnbc contributor jimmy williams live with us from washington. toure, this is hardly the first time justice scalia has, to borrow someone else s phrase, pushed people s button. a federal judge named richard posner criticized his ruling on the arizona law. let me quote. there are no citations to that part of the opinion where he