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. there s been 1833 people killed since newtown. we all have to be committed, not just look to the white house. he s got to start in your house and my house. thanks for watching. i m a.m. sharpton. have a great weekend. hardball starts right now. cruising for a bruising. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. as butch cassidy once asked, who are these
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 mccain s fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. the viciousness is something we haven t 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 wasn t even in the government when benghazi happened. sick stuff. and it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obama s 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 boehner s face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union? if you did, you re imagining things.
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 mccain s fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. the viciousness is something we haven t 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 wasn t even in the government when benghazi happened. sick stuff. and it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obama s 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 boehner s face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union? if you did, you re imagining things.
Bloomberg. bloomberg is throwing a ton of money, probably $1.5 million so far into the race to ironically replace jesse jackson, jr., who took his plea deal today. you have a couple strong candidates, chris, a white female and an african-american female, who are both pro-nra, and don t mistake the possibility that they can effectively appeal to a fair number of african-americans in the city who are the pro-nra candidates? such as concealed carry. the pro-nra candidates who is the leading candidate, the one white in a race of 16 candidates, deb halvorson, former democratic congresswoman from mostly the chicago suburbs, and then a woman named toi hutchinson who was her chief of staff. she s an african-american. bloomberg has thrown a ton of money mostly against halvorson, about $1.3 million up to this point is going to be over that. last night for the first time he ran an ad supporting a candidate, not just attacking halvorson. that was an anti-guns candidate, perhaps the leading
Your basic point about the burbs, but there s the interesting possibility by throwing all this attention on halvorson that maybe you rouse some of those folks in the burbs that are vaguely pro-nra and have them come out and vote in a sprawling 16-person race. there s going to be low turnout, and maybe you win with 16%, 17%, 18%. nevertheless is the fact you saw again this is clearly a fight obama is willing to wage in a big-time battle, and behind him now is the x factor perhaps in this issue in american politics, and that s michael bloomberg, and he s willing to wage it even if he knows in his heart of hearts politically he can only win a quarter loaf or a half a loaf. let s go across the country to ron reagan. it seems to me this is a battle of geography. we know there are various parts of the country, idaho, montana, places where you re not going to get a gun safety vote. you re just not going to get one, and that includes almost