Three days from austerity and John Boehner tells the Senate to get “off their ass” while President Obama lays out a plan to save thousands of jobs.
Tonight on “The Ed Show” at 8p & 11pET on msnbc, Ed Schultz welcomes Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D- MD) to weigh and gets the latest from Eugene Robinson, Associate Editor and Pulitzer Prize winning Columnist for the Washington Post and an msnbc Political Analyst.
Then, a new lawsuit blows the lid off J.P. Morgan’s toxic mortgage cover up. Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of NY and Slate.com contributor, has the forecast for the implosion.
The GOP tries to resurrect Jim Crow laws in an attack on the Voting Rights Act.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gets left out of CPAC in favor of the Republican gag reel. Our panel takes on the party’s backwards reinvention. We’ll hear from E.J. Dionne, Columnist, Washington Post, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Author “Our Divided Political Heart,” Joan Walsh, Salon’s Editor at Large, and author of “What’s The Matter With White People? Why We Long For A Golden Age That Never Was,” and Liz Mair, a Republican Strategist.
Rep. Michelle Bachmann gives herself high marks on her presidential run. We’ll do a fact check.
And thousands gather tonight to remember the killing of Trayvon Martin. We’ll take you inside the unanswered questions behind his shocking case with Jasmine Rand, a Trayvon Martin family attorney.
It’s going to be another essential @edshow tonight at 8p/11pET on @msnbctv.
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