Protesters storm the J.P. Morgan Chase shareholders meeting but Jamie Dimon, who lost $2 billion bucks, will still stay on as CEO.  And Mitt Romney calls for the repeal of Dodd-Frank, the only thing standing between your bank account and another economic meltdown.         

Former Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) saw it all coming, and he’ll join Ed (who reports tonight from Washington, D.C.) for reaction and analysis.

Meanwhile, Romney warns of a "prairie fire of debt" during a campaign stop in Iowa.  But Ed will remind him who started that prairie fire with MSNBC Political Analyst Richard Wolffe.  And check out this excellent chart:

The mayor of cable news, Bill O’Reilly, is trying to fool "the folks" again, saying there’s no such thing as income inequality.  Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee Chairman, former presidential candidate and the founder of Democracy for America, and some Big Eddie charts will set him straight.  

An Oklahoma Republican is taking major heat for saying it should be legal to fire someone for being gay.  Tonight, James Lankford responds to his critics.  Karen Finney, MSNBC Political Analyst and former DNC Communications Director, joins Ed for that.

Last night, Ed told us the Democratic National Committee was stiffing Wisconsin Democrats in their campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker.  Callers to Ed’s radio show are furious with the national party and now the DNC is responding.

And in the Big Finish, Facebook's co-founder is renouncing his American citizenship to dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and righties are calling him a hero!  Ilyse Hogue, columnist for The Nation magazine, will weigh in on that.

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Republican Congressman James Lankford of Oklahoma doesn't think a law should be passed banning discrimination towards LGBT employees.

In a sidewalk interview with Think Progress, Lankford explained that homosexuality is a choice, unlike race or gender.

"Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior related, preference related. One is something inherently, skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff," Lankford said. "You don't walk up to someone on the street and look at them and say gay or straight."

He also added that he doesn't believe that some is born gay.

Apparently, Lankford didn't get the memo from  the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association. Both medical organizations have said that homosexuality  is not a choice.

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President Bush, right, shakes hands Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign fundraising event in Boston Thursday, March 25, 2004.

Finally, Mitt Romney got the endorsement he's been waiting for most all these months!

"I'm for Mitt Romney," former President George W. Bush told ABC News this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him following a speech he delivered at a human rights forum a block from the White House.

There you have it: with four words, you have the most-prized endorsement possible if you're running for the GOP presidential nomination.

But where's the press release? Where's the big photo op?  Where's the handshake?  Romney did all those things with the likes of Donald Trump.  Watch it:

As Dana Carvey use to say while imitating Bush's father, "not gonna do it."  Watch it:

Why?  Because Bush still has a long, long way to go to improve his legacy.  

In three major surveys since he left office in 2009, Bush is ranked anywhere from the fifth-worst (by the Siena Research Institute) to the tenth-worst (United States Presidency Centre in London) U.S. president ever.  Siena gave Bush poor ratings for his handling of the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. 

In these rankings, Bush is compared to past presidents like Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur.  Of that group, only two were actually elected to the office (Pierce and Hayes).  The other three rose to the presidency as vice presidents upon the death of the previous president.  And none - none of them were elected to a second term.  

In the aggregate, Bush is the second lowest rated president since 1877 (only Warren G. Harding, who served from 1921 to 1923, is rated lower).

Good company Mr. Bush!  

OK, ok, so Romney says he's going to be different from Bush, right?  

No, again "not gonna do it."

Here's what RNC spokesperson Alexandra Franceschi said in a mid-April interview on The Fernando Espuelas Show about Romney’s approach to the economy:

REPORTER: Now, how different is that concept from what were the policies of the Bush administration? ... Is this a different program or is this that program just updated?

FRANCESCHI: I think it’s that program, just updated. 

Listen to the interview:

Also, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein recently compared Bush’s platform in 2000 with Romney’s 2012 proposals and concluded that "Republicans have mostly coalesced around the same set of ideas."

And a recent New York Times column by Nobel Prize winning economist and Princeton University Economics Professor Paul Krugman described Romney as "the amnesia candidate." 

"Romney is essentially advocating a return to those very same Bush policies," Krugman wrote.  "And he’s hoping that you don’t remember how badly those policies worked."

In fact, Romney's "updated" Bush positions fall substantially to the right of Bush in many key areas, including tax policy, campaign finance, education, Medicare, minimum wage and the environment.

Still not convinced?  Romney also has almost the exact same advisors as Bush did, including Ed Gillespie, R. Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw.

With these Bush "updated" policies in place and all those Bush people on Romney's team, what could possibly go wrong? 

Senator Marco Rubio has yet to unveil his plan for immigration reform, yet he's accusing the White House of trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Senator Harry Reid says the Democrats are willing to work with Rubio. 

Republican Governors in numerous states are trying to undermine health care reform by stalling on implementing new policies. What does this mean for millions of Americans? Ed talks with Wendell Potter, a news analyst with the Center for Public Integrity, a contributing writer for the Huffington Post and author (“Deadly Spin”).

When JPMorgan Chase sheepishly announced last week that it had taken a $2 billion loss on risky derivatives trading, it underlined the fact that nearly four years after a crisis that nearly toppled the global financial system, we still haven't done nearly enough to make sure it can't happen again.

“JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is," President Obama declared on ABC's The View, in footage that aired Monday evening. "Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we've got, and they still lost $2 billion ... This is why we passed Wall Street reform.”

But has Wall Street reform solved the problem? "There's nothing to stop Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase from going right back down the same road and doing this all over again tomorrow," Ed Schultz noted on The Ed Show Monday night. "Because it's perfectly legal."

Wasn't the financial reform legislation of 2010 -- better known as the Dodd-Frank law -- supposed to end this kind of hazardous trading? 

Bart Chilton, Commodity Futures Trading Commission explained on The Ed Show that the problem is that many of the law's specific regulations haven't yet been drawn up -- a task that falls to the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies.

"We need to put the meat on the bones of Dodd-Frank," Chilton said. "They passed the law two years ago, but two thirds of the regulations aren't even in place. Regulators didn't even have a view of what it was. That needs to change."

Chilton outlined one of the most important provisions in Dodd-Frank that he said regulators should be focusing on -- the Volcker Rule, which bans banks from making bets with their own money. He said that until that rule is fully drafted and enforced, banks will continue to be able to place massive, risky bets with their customers' money - just as they did in the lead-up to the financial crisis -- without breaking the law.

"Right now," said Chilton, "there's a troublesome duplexity within the banking system. They've got their own interest -- their bottom line -- and their customers'. We know who's always gonna win out."

Of course, not everyone thinks we need to monitor the financial industry more closely. Asked in a recent interview whether the JPMorgan debacle means we need more or less financial regulation, Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee replied: "I think we need less."

Ed is back after a three-day weekend and he's already on Scott Walker's case again.

A new video of the Wisconsin governor telling a billionaire donor about his plan to "divide and conquer" labor might land him in hot water with Congress, in addition to the June 5 recall election.

And speaking of which, The Washington Post reports national Democrats aren't helping the state party to defeat Walker.  Mike Tate, Chair of The Democratic Party of Wisconsin, talks about what he’s running up against.

The victims of Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalism are speaking out in a new Obama campaign ad.  Ed will speak to one of Bain’s victims, Dave Foster, the former union representative for laid off workers at GST Steel.

JP Morgan’s $2 billion mistake proves Republicans just don't get it.  Bart Chilton, Commissioner of the Consumer Futures Trading Commission, comments on the regulation we need to stop another disaster.  

The Republican wrecking crew wants to claim another victim in California, but the governor is fighting back.  Ed will have reaction from Rep. John Garamendi (D- CA).

Sen. (and possible Romney VP candidate) Marco Rubio wants everyone to go along with his imaginary Dream Act.  But Democrats are calling him out.

And in the Big Finish, Chris Christie is the latest Republican to reject part of the president's health care law. 

Wendell Potter, a news analyst with the Center for Public Integrity, a contributing writer for the Huffington Post and author (“Deadly Spin”), will look at the Republican's all-out attack on the president's health care law and what it means for millions of Americans.

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This is a case that may remind you of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

On March 24, 2012, an unarmed black teen was shot seven times by police in Pasadena, California, while running away from a man claiming he and a juvenile friend had allegedly tried to rob him.  

Kendrec McDade, 19, died the next day.  

McDade’s death has pitted the black community in Pasadena against the police department and prompted a federal civil rights lawsuit by the McDade family alleging police bias against blacks in the city.

First, the 911 caller admitted to lying about about being robbed by two males with guns so he could get a quicker police response.

Then, the autopsy report, which was released Friday, found McDade was shot at close range by two Pasadena police officers, but no gunshot wounds to the back.

However, an attorney for McDade's family says the bullets that hit McDade's arms and one that hit his hip appear to contradict the police's assertion that none of the shots came from behind him.

McDade's parents also allege their son was left on the street for a prolonged period of time after the shooting without receiving medical attention. 

By the way, McDade had no prior arrests and no gang ties.  The former high school star football player was a student at Citrus College at the time of his death.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) has signed a bill that would punish teachers if they discussed “gateway sexual activity” in the classroom.

The amendment describes gateway sexual activity as "sexual contact encouraging an individual to engage in a non-abstinent behavior,” and critics say the language is too broad.

While the bill is meant to stop teachers from talking about groping and oral sex, the bill’s broad language could ban discussions on hand-holding or kissing.

Teachers or groups like Planned Parenthood found in violation of the law can be fined up to $500.  

One of groups in support of the bills the Family Action Council of Tennessee, says the new law is a triumph:  

“The law in Tennessee is now clear that our schools are to teach students the value of abstinence…For the first time, parents will have meaningful avenues of recourse if teachers or outside organizations teach their child a have-sex-but-just-use-a-condom type of sex education.”

Abstinence-only sex education has not been proven to lower teen birth rates.

In 2011, researchers at the University of Georgia found, “the more strongly abstinence education is emphasized in state laws and policies, the higher the average teenage pregnancy and birth rates.”

Colbert lampooned the controversy on his show, the Colbert Report:

President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new TV ad debuting today.

In the president's most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election, the ad recounts the demise of GST Steel under Bain Capital, the Republican's private equity firm.  

750 workers lost their jobs, health insurance, severance pay, even pensions when the Kansas City, Missouri, company closed in 2001.

"It was like a vampire," says Jack Cobb, a steelworker for 30 years.  "They came in and sucked the life out of us."

The ad, at the unusual length of 2 minutes, will run in five battleground states: Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado.

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul points out that hat the bankruptcy and layoffs at GST Steel occurred after Mr. Romney had left Bain in 1999.  But, of course, Romney maintained a financial interest in the company after departing to run the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. 

Steven Rattner, who oversaw the auto rescue under President Obama, called the Obama ad "unfair" on today's MSNBC's Morning Joe because it assumes that companies should care about their employees.  

But Rattner also pointed out that Romney opened himself up for such an attack by claiming that Bain has a strong overall job creation track record.

"Mitt Romney made a mistake ever talking about the fact that he created 100,000 jobs," said Rattner.  Watch it:

By the way, the Obama ad may look familiar because it's quite similar to the 28-minute documentary King of Bain, released in January 2012 by Romney's GOP rival Newt Gingrich just before the South Carolina primary.  Watch it:

And that makes the Obama "Romney is a job destroyer" attack line BI-PARTISAN!

Ed will discuss the new Obama ad tonight on The Ed Show at 8pET on MSNBC with Dave Foster, a union leader who was there at the time.

If you've been watching the Ed Show for the past 15 months and you don't think you're going to see the following chart tonight you need your head examined.

Econbrowser (by way of @DaveWeigel) posted the following chart demonstrating Scott Walker's actual performance on jobs to his promise of 250k jobs. This is not pretty. 

We have a TON of stuff on tap re: Wisconsin tonight. Make sure you tune in!

The famous play "A Streetcar Named Desire" is getting new life with Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker. They join Michael Eric Dyson.

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, has a message for mothers across the country regarding “Stand Your Ground” laws. At the same time, someone is trying to make money off of the Martin tragedy by selling paper targets with hooded figures.

There were many guesses as to the identity of the mystery man posing in the split screen with Ed here. Some of our favorites were James Taylor and Stephen Wright. Click through to find out the REAL identity of the man in the split screen with Ed.

The man in the split screen with Ed is the world famous director Jay Roach. You may recall his hit films "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" among others. But what's he doing there with Big Eddie? Stay tuned.... 

Some African-American pastors plan to criticize President Obama this Sunday for his embrace of marriage equality. 

Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Senior Pastor at Hope Christian, is one of them.  He says same-sex marriage is “an assault” on society. 

Michael Eric Dyson (who’s filling in for Ed) and Professor Obery Hendricks will try and show Bishop Jackson the light on tonight's show.

The mother of murdered gay teen Matthew Shepard calls Mitt Romney’s bullying an "act of torment."  Judy Shepard, President of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Governing Board, joins Michael tonight.

J.P. Morgan Chase sends shockwaves through the economy with a $2 billion loss.  And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is not happy.

An explosive video could finally ruin Scott Walker.  John Nichols, Washington Correspondent of The Nation, reports on the Wisconsin "divide and conquer" bombshell.

Two days before Mother's Day, the mother of Trayvon Martin urges other moms to get involved in the effort to repeal stand your ground laws.

And in the Big Finish, the stars of Broadway's A Streetcar Named Desire, Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, join Michael to discuss their roles, and what role race is playing in the new production.

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Kingdom Community Wind project, Lowell Mountains Vermont

Green power or green views? That’s the debate going on around the country right now.

As wind power grows more popular, local communities are being forced to decide if they would rather cut down on their carbon emissions or keep their mountains turbine free. 

This is what’s happening right now in the Lowell Mountains of Vermont. Environmentalists are fighting environmentalists over whether or not a wind project should go ahead and forever change the ridgeline of the mountains.

Big projects like this can change water flow patterns and forever alter fragile ecosystems. Not to mention they simply change the way the landscape has looked for hundreds of years.

Donald Trump is currently in the middle of one of these battles in Scotland, although he’s not concerned about the environment, he just wants money.

So this is a debate that will be taken up more and more as our country moves to greener sources of power. The pros and cons of individual projects must be weighed and smart decisions must be made.

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An unidentified Zimmerman supporter sold gun range targets that invoke Trayvon Martin’s image.

The targets depicted a hooded figure carrying skittles and ice tea—the items Trayvon Martin was carrying the night he was shot by neighborhood watchmen George Zimmerman.  The seller claims the targets sold out almost immediately.

“My main motivation was to make money off the controversy,” the unidentified seller said in an email exchange with the Orlando based station WKMG-TV.

The advertisements for the targets claim the seller “supports Zimmerman and believes he is innocent and that he shot a thug.”

He wouldn’t comment just how many of the targets he’s sold. “The response is overwhelming. I sold out in 2 days,” the seller told WKMG.

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Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara thinks the targets are in poor taste. “It’s this type of hatred — that’s what this is, it’s hate-mongering — that’s going to make it more difficult to try this case,” O’Mara said. He thought the targets represented “the highest level of disgust and the lowest level of civility.”

The targets have since been taken down due to increased media scrutiny. They are no longer available for purchase.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is a liar and this new-released video from January 18, 2011, proves it.  

The video shows Walker sucking up to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, to a top campaign donor, who asked Walker whether he could make Wisconsin a "completely red state, and work on these unions, and become a right-to-work" state.  

Hendricks was referring to right-to-work laws which prevent private sector unions from making employees pay union dues if they choose not to join the union.   

Walker told Hendricks the "first step" would be "to divide and conquer" through his budget adjustment bill, which cut collective bargaining for most public employee unions.  "That opens the door once we do that," Walker said.   

The video proves that he was LYING when he said his polarizing law to gut collective bargaining rights for most public workers was meant solely as a budget-balancing measure.  

The Journal Sentinel says Hendricks has since given $510,000 to the governor's campaign, making her Walker's single-largest donor and the largest known donor to a candidate in state history.

The video was shot by filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein, who has worked for Democratic campaigns and has donated to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's opponent in the June 5 recall election.  The video is part of a documentary, As Goes Janesville, which will be shown this fall at film festivals and at PBS stations.

Walker was asked about the video today.

"It was a year and a half ago, so I don't remember the particulars of that discussion." Walker said. "Most politicians say things and don't follow up on them."

We will have a lot more on this tonight on The Ed Show at 8pET on MSNBC with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent of The Nation.

Michele Bachmann's story about her dual citizenship doesn't add up.  First, her office claims she became a Swiss citizen in March, now the Congresswoman says she's been a Swiss citizen since 1978.  Ed Schultz tries to sort through the confusion.

War on the poor, courtesy of House Republicans, with an unbelievable bill with draconian cuts.  E.J. Dionne, a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Washington Post columnist, hashes it out with Ed Schultz.

Mitt Romney faces heat over his days as an anti-gay prep school bully while President Obama is helping victims of bullying.

Tonight, singer/entertainer Clay Aiken, spokesman for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, explains why the president's remarks make things better for everyone.  And Army Captain Stephen Hill, who was booed in September at a Republican debate for asking if the candidates would reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, will rate the president's leadership.

Mitt Romney had the chance to fire up conservatives today after the president’s embrace of gay marriage, but tripped all over himself on the issue.  Charles Blow, New York Times Columnist, and Mike Rogers, Managing Director of Raw Story, discuss all the political fallout.

President Obama laughs off Romney’s attempt to take credit for the auto loan.  Eugene Robinson, MSNBC Analyst and Associate Editor and Pulitzer Prize winning Columnist for The Washington Post, will join Ed for that.

Scott Walker is using taxpayer money to try and save his job.  The Democrat trying to unseat Walker’s lieutenant governor, Mahlon Mitchell, President of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, will join Ed for an exclusive interview.

Michele Bachmann loved her Ed Show expose so much, she renounced her Swiss citizenship today.  Ed explains her head-spinning flip-flop.

And in the Big Finish, House Republicans continue their war on the poor.  E.J. Dionne, a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Washington Post columnist, explains how they plan to cut programs for the poor and elderly while keeping the defense budget intact. 

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