but every time a birther's out there, it helps our cause for 2014. what i do think is the president should go on the offensive on voting rights. he should go on the offensive. make them vote on an immigration bill. because that's a bill that really resonates. if they vote that down, they're losing hispanic voters and i don't care who the candidates are. they can vote on a jobs bill. >> well, i hope you agree with my point. the reason they don't want to do that, it forces them to choose between the haters out there who don't want immigrants and what the president is pushing. >> absolutely. but make them vote on that. you know, they're attacking the affordable care act, and you're right. the affordable care act polls better when it's called the affordable care act than it does when it's called obama care. but make them vote on a jobs bill. and another distinction. 41 times the republicans in the house have wasted the nation's time voting to repeal the affordable care act. but they haven't passed a jobs bill. keep sending them jobs bill and make them vo

the phrase for such people is birthers. they include people like steve stockman in texas who said quote, one of the things i always questioned was the documentation of the president. whether that was fraudulent. the birther king is donald trump, but there are others. >> if the state of hawaii says this is official, he was born in hawaii on this date, here it is, why do you deny that? >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> you don't still question he was born in the united states, do you? >> i had no idea. >> even at this point? >> i don't know. was there a birth certificate? some people say that was not his birth certificate. i'm saying i don't know. nobody knows. and you don't know either. you're a smart guy. you don't know. >> the president has not produced a birth certificate. he's produced a birth announcement. >> let's revisit some of these things because americans have questions about not only the irs scandal but also about the president's validity. >> was he elected legitimately to the un

goes back to birtherism and back to their rejection, sort of like tissue rejection of him from the body politic, they have never, ever accepted his jittery. >> i think that's cosmic thing is totally true you said. just down to the narrow conversation i was having with that u.s. congressman. i said if you're for ted cruz, we know he was born to an american mother born in canada. i believe he's an american. i'm a pretty liberal guy about this. most are. the most crazy case was donald trump saying he was born in kenya. therefore if you accept cruz as a legitimate president you should accept obama as president. that was a narrow question to put to this character and he wouldn't answer it, even in the narrow bounds i set it up. >> chris, you're asking for something they can't give you. you're asking for moral and political integrity, consistency. they don't have it when it comes to this president. just to continue what howard was saying, the reason they do this is because it works. for a year end piece i'm doing for salon, i'm looking back to 2009. the president takes office with approval ra

the phrase for such people is birthers. they include people like steve stockman in texas who said quote, one of the things i always questioned was the documentation of the president. whether that was fraudulent. the birther king is donald trump, but there are others. >> if the state of hawaii says this is official, he was born in hawaii on this date, here it is, why do you deny that? >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> you don't still question he was born in the united states, do you? >> i had no idea. >> even at this point? >> i don't know. was there a birth certificate? some people say that was not his birth certificate. i'm saying i don't know. nobody knows. and you don't know either. you're a smart guy. you don't know. >> the president has not produced a birth certificate. he's produced a birth announcement. >> let's revisit some of these things because americans have questions about not only the irs scandal but also about the president's validity. >> was he elected legitimately to the un

a tea party birther candidate against an established republican and yet another evocative sign of intraparty warfare. and those gubernatorial races in new jersey and virginia. with tea party republicans helping the gop take the house a year later. this offyear election probably not offering the same kind of prophecy. alex bag -- your reaction to the

and it feeds in this -- the birther notion, which we all knew was ridiculous. we all thought it went away once the president released his long-form birth certificate when the short term didn't prove sufficient for folks like donald trump. and still there were polls that came out that show there are still a significant chunk of people who still believe the birther lie. so the fact that congressman king is, you know, out there talking about microfiche and birth certificates. >> telegram -- >> the thing about the common thread is, the common thread is, faith, not logic. >> yes. >> it's -- it's family, not science. >> why did they have faith and the fact you can't have a black american president? why is that a matter of faith? >> we haven't -- openly or frankly discussed either race or religion. >> why would that be a matter of faith, he wasn't born here? >> because -- >> because he struck people from the very beginning, both because of his name, because of his background, because of his color in part. as somebody foreign. as somebody who wasn't quite american, som

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i want feeds into the birther notion which we all knew was ridiculous. we all thought it went away once the president released his long form birth certificate when the short form didn't prove sufficient for folks like donald trump. still there were polls that came out still a significant chunk of people who still believe the birther lie. the fact that congressman king is out there talking about microfiche and birth certificates. >> the thing about the common thread faith not logic. it's family not science. >> why is that a matter of faith? >> openly or frankly discussed either race or religion. >> why would that be a matter of faith he wasn't born here? >> because he struck people from the very beginning both because of his name, because of his background, because of his color in part as somebody foreign, as somebody who wasn't quite american, as somebody who -- and in a world that they see where it's all either good or bad, where there's no gray and only faith or lack of faith. >> he's also a protege of left wing policy. >> it's part of the plan. >> wai

>> i'm not -- no comment. >> are you a birther then? >> i'm not going to comment on it. >> oh, no, yoho. did he think we wouldn't notice that another birther has justed into the impeachment bandwagon? nice try, but check into this, we got you. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. get the best offers of the season now. lease this 2014 srx for around $369 a month with premium care maintenance included. ♪ >>> now to that racially charged nfl bullying controversy that has everyone talking. we're learning more about what went on inside the miami dolphins locker room. former rookie player jonathan martin's lawyer paints an ugly picture

it's written by a birther who works for world net daily which is a birther publication website. and you don't see john boehner and the republican party saying, hey, cut this crap out. >> ron, do you think there's any sense of self-doubt dare i raise the issue with the right wing, when they're talking about this guy from canada. fair enough he's natural born in my opinion. born to an american mother. and where's donald trump been? where's the birthers? how have they embraced this guy who everybody knows was born in canada. fair enough, but the same thing -- what are they? just living in this crazy split screen world where they trash a democrat or a black guy for the same thing you worship another guy? >> strange as it seems, yes. yes they do live in that split screen universe. >> you're in one right now with ted cruz right now. you're looking good. thank you for joining us. aunk thank you, david corn. >>> coming up, double down says the obama campaign seriously considered dumping joe biden from the ticket and putting on hillary. plus the republican war on the poor, no surprise he

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that race was a couple weeks ago, and the birther guy lost, score one for the republican mainstream in alabama. the second republican-on-republican race was this weekend, for some reason. a weekend election? okay. in louisiana, a congressional race in the 5th district there that, again, was between two conservative republicans. there's no democrat in the race. the paper in baton rouge, "the advocate" described them as both being very conservative republicans, both having very similar views, except one of them was a little more pragmatic, a little less hard core, specifically on the issue of health care. and it was the guy who took that more pragmatic approach, who said louisiana ought to be expanding medicaid, who said if we republicans are going to repeal obama care, we ought to replace it with something, it was that guy, the shockingly more middle of the road on health reform guy who won the race this weekend, and he also wants immigration reform, apparently. i mean, both of these guys are conservatives, but the guy with less of a burn the place down conservative mentality won this r

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. >> are you a birther, then? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> this administration has so many muslim brotherhood members, that have influence, that they just are making wrong decisions for america. >> let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. >> pathetic. pathetic. did they think we disthey're the all-star team of conspiracy theorists that would make glenn beck proud? do they think we don't know what this really is about? this isn't even close to a nice try. but impeach this one. we got you. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions-- it matters. ♪ shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat that. it doesn't? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acti

does it suggest the birther controversy was weighing on him more than he ever let on, more than we knew? >> absolutely. at that point in time you recall donald trump was making a big deal out of the possibility the president was born in the united states. that very day when the president had felony from washington to chicago for the first fundraisers of his campaign for election, donald trump had just given an interview with george stephanopoulos, had asked about birther controversy, two questions about it. obama was driven crazy by this. he thought, a, it was totally stupid. he knew he was born in america. but he thought it was crowding out real issues the country faced. it had become a distraction. he made a jock about it on stage in chicago. then he goes home to his old house and starts digging up through the boxes of his deceased mother and came up with this document. he had never seen it before. he didn't know what it was. it was the kind of thing that seemed to maybe put this thing to rest. he brought it to washington, proud of having found it. immediately his lawyer said that's n

. >> it's so precious when the guy whose son was born in canada does birther jokes. that's adorable. it highlights without the media officially there kind of the way conservatives are talking amongst themselves. and that really is the problem. the problem is even with the 47% video, this was mitt romney being asked by somebody in the audience how can we get those moochers to stop taking our tax money and living on the dole. he answered that question with 47%. the conversations taking place inside the conservative base shows ugliness outwardly. >> steve schmidt, the other thing in that video is a strong sense of superiority. we are superior people to the other people we're talking about, be it the president of the united states or anyone that votes for him. >> well, look, it's very damaging. when you look at the numbers the republican party image numbers today after following the path laid down by ted cruz, you see the damage that that has brought. this is a bad day for this to be out there for ted cruz. clearly even ted cruz by standing up today and really for the fi

the tea partier grabbed headlines when he sided with birthers and openly discussed impeaching the president. he's an are a dent supporter of ted cruz 2016. this is a clip from his appearance here on "hardball" in september. it's remarkable. >> obama is president, ted cruz can be president. >> this is serious business. is he eligible to be president? you've been touting the guy. >> i think he's eligible. i'm giving you a yes answer. >> if obama was born overseas even that crazy theory of donald trump is true he still would be eligible to be president by that standard. >> we're talking about ted cruz. >> can't you project an inch mentally. >> i'm telling you president obama is the president. if he's eligible to be president -- >> you brought this up. >> what better way -- yes. >> was he a legitimately elected president of the united states? >> i wasn't in congress to determine that. that was determined before i got here. >> howard fineman he won't do it. he's afraid of losing one or two votes. >> if you dig down to the very core, to the ninth level of -- to the ninth level of the anti-obama m

>> homophobic, anti choice, birther friendly, big three hating. ken cuccinelli. >> cuccinelli's crowd is a bunch of typical tea party crazies. >> and today's top trender. barracuda is back. >> you are good people. >> fried butter on a stick. cheesecake on a stick. >> sarah palin sets her sights on the hawkeye state. >> she wants to get involved in the races. >> ted cruz and more of those good guys need some reinforcemen reinforcements. >> mike lee, i am your father. >> and potentially senate campaigns. >> someday i'm actually going to tell america what i really think. ♪ ooh barracuda >> i'm joined now by liberal commentator and comedian, john fugelsang. how are you doing, my man? >> always a pleasure. >> so sarah palin is speaking at the iowa faith and freedom conference this weekend. in des moines. what is she hoping to accomplish there? is this a warmup, so to speak? >> there will be cameras there, doctor. she is flogging a new book, getting in on the war on christmas bandwagon five years after bill o'reilly made it trendy. it's going to work.

i mean donald trump is the birther in chief. he did suggest on abc's "this week" that perhaps -- cruz was perhaps not eligible to be president, perhaps not is rather dainty for donald trump but a little bit of a discordent note. so i'm sure there's a little of that, let's talk this over. canadian or not, this was the path in 2012. they all went and kissed the ring and then mitt romney had to embrace him publicly when he won that coveted endorsement and appear in front of his plane and be branded trump. so, you know, ted cruz has to do the same thing if he wants to run in 2016. >> all right. so i tried to get donald trump on the record this morning. i called and spoke to him personally. he did not want to go on the record in advance of this meeting, so we'll circle back on monday and see if we can get him on the record about this. but i think it's interesting nonetheless. i say thank you to our agenda panel, salon.com's joan walsh, also corey dade -- the root's corey dade and shira center, who i wanted to say congratulations on g

. >> a birther, just what we all need. thank you very much. >>> and newt gingrich, you have been sitting patiently with a fixed smile on your face, trying to work out a smart way dealing with the fact that chris christie seems to have absolutely trashed you in this phone call to mitt romney, calling you a joke. you can't be taken seriously. and that you he should get off his crouch and kick the devil out of you. what is your reaction? >> it was a tough campaign. chris christie was on the other side. he talks about like he talks. i don't have any reaction. i think this book is typical of why washington can't get anything done. it is all gossip, all innuendo, and all junk, and it will do well for two weeks and everybody will be talking about it. and as you know, i wrote a new book called "breakout" which actually talks about new ideas and situations. i hope chris christie is successful talking to you from new jersey, where i think he will roll to a new victory. certainly, i think republicans ought to take him seriously as a

let's take a look at some highlights starting with birther, dean young, tea partier type who lost, thanks to god, lost in a primary runoff. >> this is the first warning shot that goes out across the nation that people in the united states are tired of where our government's going. i cannot bring myself to vote for someone who would mislead the people of south alabama and the nation like bradley has. [ applause ] therefore, that will follow him, what he's done, how he mischaracterized what, who i am and who i'm about. that will follow him. >> what that fellow's about, he just said this week that barack obama was born in kenya. harsh words for the one who beat him. >>> next the one who spoke out, barbara buono. >> the democratic political bosses, some elected and some not, made a deal with this governor despite him representing everything they're supposed to be against they didn't do it to help the state. they did it out of a desire to help themselves politically and financially. [ applause ] >> that's going to help. >>> finally, in virginia cuccinelli's loss may have been a squeaker, but h

he's a birther. can you imagine that, having somebody say that president obama was not born in the united states, miguel. >> well, that win in alabama, combined with cuccinelli's loss in virginia seems to indicate that the tea party may be on the ropes, is that the right way to read that? >> you know, you can look at it like a seesaw, sometimes, they're up, sometimes, down they're. certainly with the government shutdown, the rise of ted cruz and how he was able to shut the government down for 16 days over his opposition to obama care. i don't think they're dead yet. and i do think they'll continue to rise yet. certainly if you're an establishment republican you're very happy with results in mobile, alabama. >> did the establishment really go after these campaigns? do they really want the establishment candidate in alabama to win? was there a pretty tough inter-republican fight down there? >> there was, miguel. in fact, we saw a lot of money come out of washington, d.c., certainly from business intere

but it's been everything from birther to you name it, and now this is nullification. most judges get confirmed because it's, to the advise and consent of the senate. this is a very subtle, sophisticated way, in essence, to stop the government. >> elizabeth warren called them out on the pip okay rasy when it came to confirming judges, listen to this. >> many republicans have talked openly of their opposition to any new judges to fill the three vaksys on this court, precisely because the new nominees will give the court more balance and fairness. democrats allowed president george w. bush to put four very conservative judges on the d.c. circuit. all four are still serving. one as chief justice of the united states supreme court. >> i mean, they have filibustered four judicial nominees. four judges the president has nominated. is this the height of gop hypocrisy? >> it's the height of right wing hypocrisy, tea party hypocrisy, and the reality as you know and everyone else knows. these are highly qualified judges who have not had to worry about any litmus test. these are

a tea party birther candidate against an established republican and yet another evocative sign of intraparty warfare. and those gubernatorial races in new jersey and virginia. with tea party republicans helping the gop take the house a year later. this offyear election probably not offering the same kind of prophecy. alex bag -- your reaction to the news out of new jersey, steve? >> shocked. it's going to be a late night in new jersey because we're going to have to wait until mercer county comes in. the interesting thing here is to think back four years ago to how chris christie got in that position anyway. christie's re-election over the inge couple bent, it had everything to do with jon corzine with how terrible his governorship had gone and the position of the republican party is nothing but the protest vehicle for voters who were feeling economic anxiety. tonight chris christie's re-election has everything to do with chris christie, and nothing to do with his democratic opponent. it has a little bit of the -- but chris christie, think about this, in winning tonight, and i'm guessing, we'

should we kiss it off as another crazy texas birther comment of which there are so many? should we ignore the words that the president of this country is a marxist, that he's a second fidel castro? is the father the end of this thinking? does it all stop with him? or is the surrogate closer to the senator -- the father closer to the san than either will let us know? does it matter? or should we ignore the words of this man who's so close to the country's loudest, angriest voice of the right. david corn of mother jones magazine and he broke the story today on cruz sr. and back in september of last year, rafael cruz spoke to a tea party group on behalf of his son who was running for senator at the time. he made a claim about the president of the united states. watch him. >> we have our work cut out for us. we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i'd like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. >> according to the senior cruz, president obama is a marxist. let's watch this. >> we have to unmask this man. this is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of god. i t

and this was a candidate, miguel who was a birther. who thought that president obama was not board in the united states. this would have been very embarrassing for the republican party. however, they have put enough money into the race, the republican establishment candidate won. he will go on in december to face a democrat. but look, this is a republican state. >> is this a pattern we're likely to see in the midterms coming up with the republican establishment trying to squelch or smother the tea party? >> you know, we're seeing it already, miguel. there's no question about that. there is a big fight within the republican party. does the tea party take control of it, do the republican establishment, are they able to maintain control of it? and right now, we're starting to see primaries all across the country against establishment republicans. very conservative republicans in many cases but we are seeing that happen in 2014 it be certainly framed as the heart and soul of the republican party. >> may we live in interesting times, mark p

in alabama, voters rejected the birther tea partier dean young's bid for congress. in new york city, the most progressive mayor in the city's history was elected. and in new jersey republican chris christi won by running against tea party obstruction and by downplaying his stance on social issues. and after one of the most famous bipartisan hugs in political history. so last night showed that when we fight the tea party we can beat them. it's a fight we have to keep up until next november. it's the fight to brake the tea party's stranglehold on the house of representatives. and the entire country. and we now know if we fight them, we can win. joining me now are karen finney and abbey huntsman. thank you both for being here. what is this virginia race tell you about the future of the tea party? >> i think what it tells us is that not only, as you say, when we fight them can we win, but how important it is that we pick the fight and that, because one of the things that terry did very well was he understood it was all about turnout. and too oftentimes i think the democ

a tea party birther candidate against an established republican and yet another evocative sign of intraparty warfare. and those gubernatorial races in new jersey and virginia. with tea party republicans helping the gop take the house a year later. this offyear election probably not offering the same kind of prophecy. alex bag -- your reaction to the news out of new jersey, steve? >> shocked. it's going to be a late night in new jersey because we're going to have to wait until mercer county comes in. the interesting thing here is to think back four years a to how chris christie got in that position anyway. christie's re-election over the inge couple bent, it had everything to do with jon corzine with how terrible his governorship had gone and the position of the republican party is nothing but the protest vehicle for voters who were feeling economic anxiety. tonight chris christie's re-election has everything to do with chris christie, and nothing to do with his democratic opponent. it has a little bit of the -- but chris christie, think about this, in winning tonight, and i'm guessing, we'll

. >> are you a birther then? >> i'm not going to comment on it. >> this administration has so many muslim brotherhood members that have influence that they just are making wrong decisions for america. >> let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. >> i mean, abbey, don't americans want more from republicans than, than repeal and impeach? don't they want more than that? >> i think they deserve more than that. we're not even seeing a debate today because they are the party of no, the anti-party, that there really is no conversation being had. and that poll also showed there is an unhappiness among americans on both extremes. i think especially speaking on behalf of millennials we want things to be solved in the middle. we talked about this all the time, that you need two strong parties. the republican party used to be a big tent party. you had reagan who spoke very optimistically about the country, he was inclusive. and we've seen them grab the poles and it will

bradley burns versus dean young who's more of the tea party fire brand candidate, he's also a very proud birther. at this hour in the race, we don't have any results to report. this is going to be closely watched as a sort of maybe a bell weather, maybe a sign, maybe a microchasm on the larger in party republican fighting going on in the country. that alabama race is going to be interesting. there will be a contest in december against a democrat in that race, but the primary is thought to be all but -- again the big story tonight, as yet s what is happening in virginia where nbc news is characterizing the virginia governor's race as to close to call at this hour. a slilg r slight up date, 86% of the precincts reporting, ken kuch with 46% of the vote. >>> virginia always holds it's governor's elections in off years like this one. it's not only an odd year, it's an odd, odd year, 2013, a year after the presidential race. but that's the way that virginia always does it. and heading into tonight's elections, virginia had a really stark and really stable and really specific record of who the state of

. >> but it wasn't just klayman and his buddies cracking birther jokes and calling the president a socialist. they even rolled out a george washington impersonator to call out president obama. >> president obama has engaged through his tenure as president by rule of executive decree, we therefore demand that this criminal, treasonist individual be removed from office without delay and held accountable. all his acts as president be considered of no effect or validity. >> wow. if george washington says it, i guess it must be true. folks, we shouldn't have to take this stuff seriously. but it's not that different from what senator shutdown ted cruz has been saying about the president. >> we have never seen a president behave like president obama who believes he can just pick and choose. he'll enforce this law, not enforce another law. i mean, that is -- >> impeachable? >> -- deeply dangerous. that's a question for the house, ultimately. >> impeachment is a question for the house? way to dodge the question. here's the follow-up. >> would you urge them to consider it? >> any impeachment would hav

here he was in his attempt as birther humor at a denver county republican breakfast. >> i was flying back from kenya. we spent about two weeks in the largest slum outside of nairobi. and the nickname of this slum is called flying toilets. the reason is because there's no running water, no latrines. people do their business in a plastic bag, tie it up, and throw it out the window. it's a tragic place, but you spend time there and little kids are running barefoot in these streets. you ask them what they want to be. they want to be an astronaut, a physicist, a marine biologist. one said he wanted to be the president of the united states. i said well, you know what, we already have somebody from kenya. >> send in the clowns. it's not often you get a phone call from the president of the united states. but that's what happened to marty walsh. from a number he didn't recognize. he was greeted by joe biden who exclaimed marty, congratulations, you son of a gun. the only thing was -- the only thing wrong was was the veep got the wrong guy. he was trying to call the new mayor martin walsh. mar