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i mean, look, james peterson, look how they were in denial for a long time about head injuries. and really didn't want to do anything about that. >> yeah, but the -- >> the federal government can tell you what to do. >> a federal statute can tell you what to do. >> okay, so congresswoman, you think that the redskins are going to be forced to change their name. >> i do. based on all the precedents out there. there are recent precedents. i don't see how the trademark appeal board can do anything else and the statute itself, which has been found to be constitutional. >> okay. >> says that you cannot profit from a derogatory name. >> all right. mr. peterson, what's ahead for the redskins here? >> well, i think -- my sense is that what nfl owners have got to come to terms with in their sort of 1% bubbles is that these franchises really exist as public/private partnerships. i mean, they're privately owned, but they don't really exist without the public. they can't really function without the kind of municipal and statewide support they give for their stadiums and other things. so in t

viviana hurtado and james peterson. james, i want to start with you because we're in this post-shutdown mode. the president has a lot on his plate addressing directly the obama care rollout, immigration has been put out there as the president addressed that yesterday, and the next budget deal. after what's happened with the house republicans having such a difficult time surrendering and now triaging some of their political wounds, how do you think that those big items, those big ticket items are going to play out in washington? what is the appetite? >> well, i think it's going to be tough. you know, the appetite from the american people's perspective is great to get things done and functionality of government is going to be very, very appealing to the american people. i'm not sure if those in washington understand that. i think from the president's perspective, i think the rule of the day is multi tasking. you have to do multiple things. you have to do the obama care, fix the website, push the agenda on immigration and

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joining me now are cynthia tucker and james peterson. thank you both for being here. >> good to be here. >> thanks, rev. >> cynthia, let's put this up again. the confederate flag outside the white house at a rally with republican senators. how did the republican party get here? >> well, reverend al, i for one -- i know this is going to sound a little perverse, but i for one am glad to see all this out in the open. because for five years now, i and you and a few others have been talking about the clear racism aimed at president obama. is it coming from all republicans? absolutely not. this is not an indication that all republicans are racist. but that group of ultraconservatives, the tea partiers, they're absolutely steeped in racism. with their ugly signs with president obama has a witch doctor, as a monkey. but then many people didn't want to acknowledge it. there were many members of the mainstream media who didn't want to discuss racism. but now that it's out there so openly, we all have to acknowledge that the tea party is steeped in

joining me now are patricia murphy and james peterson. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> patricia, doesn't this eight-minute standing ovation for ted cruz show how disconnected the gop base is from the rest of the country? >> well, sure, it does. because if you look at any recent polls about who americans blame for the recent shutdown about which party they trust me at this point to run the federal government, about whether they want the federal government to be open or not, polls show that americans, democrat and republican alike blame everything that happened on the conservative base of the republican party. but if you look at that standing ovation and look at the details in that, the base of the republican party feel great about what just happened. and they feel particularly good about ted cruz. while this has hurt republicans generally and not necessarily conservative republicans, but just pragmatic republicans, this has only helped ted cruz. i think his fund raising and when we see the numbers

. >> for more, i'd like to bring in msnbc contributor, professor james peterson. with us from raleigh, north carolina. professor, you heard the proe president say, if you think education is expensive, wait till you see how much ignorance costs. >> i love that. one of my favorite parts of the speech. the cost of ignorance. it's long-term understanding. and his conversation about the budget serves us, as well. part of the process is understanding our priorities. if we're spending so much of our budget on defense or spending so much on tax loopholes for the rich, we're not prioritizing education, which is the safety and future of this nation. so i like that part. there are other good things here, as well, martin. i'm not a fan of the sort of these exceptional models for schools because i want to think about how you bring things to scale, right? >> yes. >> but the president was clear we need classrooms of the future. that we need to be technologically advanced. and while i'm a little skeptical of private investment and public education, because i think sometimes peopl

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. >> joining us today on the ed panel, msnbc contributor james peterson and nancy giles, sunday morning contributor. i want to say that both of you have been called here. you have been called here. >> i felt the spirit today. >> that's right. >> holy smokes. i mean what is it about republicans, they constantly use the bible to justify cuts to programs that people vitally need in this country. >> i can't believe it hearing those clips again. the one of michele bachmann where she goes between she's been called and god has told her to, to make sure that obama care go into place. yeah, a program -- the affordable care act, by the way, a program that has extended health care to people, young people, has kept people out of emergency rooms, has kept people who weren't able to get insurance because of pre-existing health -- just on that score. >> their method of making the case -- >> is contradictory. there's no way to make that case based on christian principles without contradicting one self. but let's keep in mind, the bible and christianity has been used to protect and defend home phobia, s

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joining me now are joy reed and james peterson. thank you for. doing on the show tonight. joy, let me start with you. how much does this affect the argument of health care opponents? >> well, rev, this is the very reason why republicans are doing everything, including threatening to destroy the united states economy, because what they worried about were people like the ones in that clip would come out and say wait a minute, that i can get health insurance, that two by two inch card makes the difference between seeing a doctor or not. this is going to be young people or minority, and more often people in their own states, red states who are uninsured. once people get the insurance, it's going to be very, very difficult to take that hay way from them, so if in the future, a republican president is elected and a republican congress, they won't be able to repeal it because people like the idea that they have the insurance, and they won't have the opportunity to undo it. >> this afternoon the president laced into republicans for holding the country hostage over health care. >>

let's get right to our panel in bethlehem, pennsylvania, msnbc contributor, professor james peterson. in los angeles is democratic strategist, professor bob shrum. and in washington is former minnesota governor and 2012 presidential candidate, mr. tim pawlenty. and i would like to start with you, mr. pawlenty. you know mitt romney well. there the president was, praising the effectivaneness of massachusetts health coverage that was signed into law in 2 it,000 and making the point that in the first month, only about 123 had signed up. by the end of the year, it was in the thousands. did he make the case? >> well, martin, good afternoon to you, and the president, of course, noted some of the similarities between the massachusetts plan and the affordable care act. and but there are also some important differences. he noted that in massachusetts it was done on a bipartisan basis. of course, in washington, d.c., it wasn't. in massachusetts -- >> and we know why that is, don't we, sir? >> yeah, in massachusetts. >> we do know why that is, don't oh we, because the president repeatedly referen

. >> kelly goff, james peterson and igor of big progress.org. thank you very much. have a good holiday. i don't know if you've seen igor's holiday pictures. that's a good plug for his twitter handle. join our agenda setters and just log on to msn msnbc.com/thomasroberts. >>> what scares you the the most about our current political climate? weigh in on twitter and facebook. >>> 47 million americans who rely on food stamps will see painful cuts starting tomorrow and it may only be the beginning. more cuts could be on the way. coming up i'll talk to congresswoman barbara lee who is an impassioned defender of the food stamp program who is someone that relied on them to pull themselves up and out of it. >>> actor and politician fred thompson will join me to talk about his broadway debut in a play "a time to kill." i've gotten to see it. it's fantastic. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cash card from capital one, i get 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. i break

professor james peterson, who is director of africaa studies at lehigh university and jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst. gene, if i might begin with you, here's what you wrote. it is understandable that the activist republican base might think victory through blackmail is the natural order of things. it's not. it's a distortion of american democracy that weakens the nation and it has to end. but gene, i have to ask you, with all your consummate understanding, is it about to end? because i cannot see it ending yet. >> i have no idea, martin, at this point. that was yesterday. >> of course. >> today we're beyond that to this sort of -- this sort of blind, enraged lashing out. you know, we'll cut the earnings of our staff and make sure they -- you know, they have to pay for all their insurance and -- and can't get the subsidies anybody else gets. and we'll handcuff the president and the secretary of the treasury. so they can't manage the money. so we have become more likely to -- i mean, it's just ridiculous. and you know, i fear that we're on -- it always gets darkest before it go

maria theresa kumar and professor james peterson, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> former minnesota governor jesse ventura joins us. but first, what's in the box? >> just tell republicans if they agree to end this impasse, they can get whatever is in this secret mystery box. i mean, what could it be? the complete dismantling of obama care? the key stone excel pipeline, or is it a lovely dinette set courtesy of broyhill? act now, republicans, and the president will throw in whatever is behind this curtain. [ laughter ] think about it. ♪ ♪ put my hands up they're playing my song the butterflies fly away ♪ ♪ nodding my head like yeah ♪ moving my hips like yeah ♪ put my hands they're playing my song ♪ yo, yo, yo. aflac. wow. [ under his breath ] that was horrible. pays you cash when you're sick or hurt? [ japanese accent ] aflac. love it. [ under his breath ] hate it. helps you focus on getting back to normal? [ as a southern belle ] aflac. [ as a cowboy ] aflac. [ sassily ] aflac. uh huh. [ under his breath ] i am so fired. you're on in 5, duck. [ male announcer ] when yo

james peterson, who is director of africana studies. mckay, the female representative from allan grayson, depicts a burning cross, links the kkk to the tea party. do you think it went too far? >> i mean, yes. i think it did. there has certainly been a four-year now running debate about the elements of racism within the tea party. but this went way past any kind of reasonable or rational conversation about race and conservati conservatism. it's interesting, because progressives forever have been saying we need to have a serious substantive, thoughtful conversation about race in this country. republicans claim that they want the to enter into that conversation, as well. but you saw in that montage at the beginning, neither side is really operating within, you know, parameters of civil or thoughtful dialogue. >> angela, what do you think? do you think allan grayson should apologize? >> i don't think allan grayson should apologize. i do understand the commentary around maybe he went too far. what i cannot accept, though, is why we can't rea

joining me now is ben domenech, lynn parramore, and msnbc contributor, james peterson. great to have you all here. we have to start with this polling, because i think it connects precisely to this kind of bizarre age of diminished expectations that we live in, and that i think the gop, from a strictly, like messaging standpoint, is doing a terrible job on. i mean, here's the american views of the parties if the new nbc poll. negative, 40% for the democrats, 39% are positive, essentially split. republican party right now is at 53% negative and 23% positive, that's 30 points underwater. ben, you've written a lot about kind of reforming the party. what -- i cannot tell. what is this party's message to the middle class right now in this moment? >> well, i don't think the party could answer that question for you themselves. you know, partially from the fact that they have essentially accepted an approach that i tries to get into this normal washington game of trading austerity on one hand for benefits and changes to law on the other. they're not actually presenting a holisti

also james peterson. we'll talk to co-founder of twitter biz stone and allison wolf has a book of working women. it's a fascinating conversation. up next the top stories in the political playbook. first kaur first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> as far as the temperatures go continue looking at the coldest morning we've seen since last winter. not brutally cold but you need the winter coat in many cases, a hat and gloves. great lakes all the way through the northeast is where the coldest air will remain today and through the next couple of days. little bit of snow and rain showers near the great lakes. not a lot of tral trouble. 37 in chicago. big cities in northeast down to mid-atlantic from the low 40s where the burbs are in the 30s. freese warnings for tonight. end of the growing season. first hard killing freeze for areas of kentucky, tennessee, missouri, illinois, much of ohio, portions of pennsylvania. any plants you want to extend their life bring them inside. tonight they won't make

meanwhile, adrian peterson isn't saying much. but he has taken to twitter writing, god bless everyone and thank you so much. the nfl is fraternity of brothers and i'm thankful for the tweets, phone calls, and text messages from my fellow players. >> he's a guy you rarely hear a negative about and a guy that certainly does all the talking on the football field. >> reporter: messages of support are pouring in from the likes of lebron james and robert griffin, iii. >> he's an easy guy to root for which is why i think we are seeing this outpouring of support from fans, from celebrities, from fellow players. >> reporter: it is not clear if peterson will play tomorrow in the vikings game against the carolina panthers. james patterson remains behind bars on a cash bond of $750,000. >> a terrible story. thanks. >>> latest on the 9 yeverled stow-away who managed to sneak on a plane alone and flew to las vegas. he is expected back home in minneapolis today. kevin tibbles is live at the airport to tell us more about it. kevin, good morning.