obama care. and they're in safe districts. they were sent to washington to do whatever they need to do to tank this. and they'll probably be fine, but the party as a whole has a problem here. even talking to republican pollsters, they've been doing surveys on this sort of thing and are very nervous. i talked to someone who was going to go to the hill and spread his findings this was going to be a disaster for them. he said it is one thing that could turn obama care from a win to the republican party to an absolute loser. >> the president has been very tough warning republicans on this shutdown. listen to this, congressman. >> you have some republicans in the house of representatives who are promising to shut down the government at the end of this month if they can't shut down the affordable care act. i cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can't get 100% of what it wants. >> congressman, what happens if they do this? i mean, can they get away with this

as you saw, we had the 41st vote on the repeal of the affordable care act, obama care, today. notwithstanding that, we didn't do anything else. that bill won't have any future and we did not do what we need to do, and that is ensure that the government doesn't shut down on october 1st. >> so here we are, five legislative days before government shutdown. conservative republicans are essentially in revolt. you've got john boehner again faced with kind of this choice, isn't he, josh? he can't get a deal without the support of the tea party or some democrats. what's the strategy? >> john boehner desperately wanted to avoid this fight. the republican leadership, their key goal is to keep all the spending cuts that were in sequestration that democrats would like to roll back some of. if they get caught up in this thing where they try to tie keeping the government open to defunding obama care, they're afraid whatever passes out of the house will look unserious and the democrats in the senate will be able to set the terms for how the government stays open and spend more money. so boeh

care is the best route to defunding obama care. if we're going to repeal obama care, we're going to need some democratic votes to do it. that's the only plan i've seen in this debate that will actually get us to our common goal of undoing the law. >> so the net impact on defunding obama care is? >> this won't. but the point with ted cruz, i think, and the criticism of him i think misses the mark in terms of what he's trying to achieve. i don't think ted cruz is really trying to achieve anything substantive. in a perfect world for ted cruz if you said we could defund it, he'd say yes. but what ted cruz is about is positioning him as the most pure voice of conservatism. so to him it is welcome news if no other republican senators want to stand with him. it's welcome news if mitch mcconnell says this is not the way to go about it. it's welcome news if there are republican voices saying he's going about this in the wrong way because it sets him up to make the basic argument that's advanced his career to this point. i am this pure voice

i feel sorrow -- >> but what about delaying obama care. >> obama care is the law of the land. it was voted on, it was passed. then the supreme court ruled on it. when have we ever tried to delay the law of the land? and it goes back to what speaker boehner said some time ago which just does not make sense. as opposed to trying to pass a bill that we know we can pass, he says it's not about how many bills we pass, it's about how many bills we stop, which is not the way we move america forward. and michael grimm, you know, i can see the frustration on him in his voice or hear the frustration in his voice because he knows that there are individuals in his party that are not rational and they are holding up the process and that this pending shutdown that we look like we're headed toward is devastating to the american people. he knows that and some other republicans know that. so we can't allow the 60 or so tea partiers to take this government down. >> one of the things that you hear from republicans is that look at the polls. our recent poll found 44% said obama care is a bad idea

. >> there's a time and place to debate obama care. but not at a time when millions of innocent people are held hostage. >> simply delaying it for american families on the same terms as being done for big corporations, that's a compromise. >> reporter: some democrats say they'll consider the other string attached. getting rid of a tax on medical devices. >> but not with a gun to my head. not with the prospect of shutting down the government. >> reporter: who's to blame if there's a shutdown tonight? >> the president's the one saying, i will shut down government if you don't give me everything i want on obama care. >> he wants it because he wants the checkbook, he wants control. >> this was a calculated strategy to drive the country to the cliff and then say, give us what we want. >> reporter: there's a chance republicans could come back with one final offer today. with or without strings attached. >> 186 employees who would be furloughed. >> reporter: a last-ditch effort to keep 800,000 federal employees at work. that's about 40% of th

and the durability of obama care is right there. with these quick votes against it. >> they're going to shut down the government over it. they tried to. >> right now, it looks like that would backlash against them like it backlashed against newt gingrich and his regime in the '90s. the innithing we got to talk ab the mid terms or the general elections. in the mid-terms, i think african-americans and a lot of other voters tend to vote democrat are less likely to show up and it's harder to generate that same kind much energy and you've also got a lot of safe districts. so people are better about turning out. >> congressman meeks, do you hear people talk about these characters? i've never seen this right wing so virulent basically trying to erase obama. kill the baby in its crib with obama care. make sure it's like he's barry bonds. he didn't hit all the homers. there's something wrong with this. it seems like that's what they're trying to do. >> history will reflect that. they're going to show the kind of individuals that were in cong

a threat to defund obama care and the struggle to pass immigration reform. a few weeks later, these issues have been pushed to the back burner as congress returns to a tough vote on syria, pushed aside but not forgotten. in the next three weeks we face the implementation of the affordable care act, debt ceiling fight, again, additional sequester cuts and expiring farm bill, debate over comprehensive immigration reform and sexual assault. oh, and i'm sure we will hear a thing or two about benghazi. joining me now, editorial page editor for washington examiner. perry bacon, and professor defrancesca desoto. i want to start with you, mark. it seems syria may overshadow some of these items. but one of the things we heard this week from buck mckion is that his putting forward the suggestion that they hold the syria resolution hostage for certain cuts that the gop wants in the sequester. are we going to really see that kind of horse trading going on? >> i wouldn't be at all surprised to see something like that. i think mckion's point is that there is a growing fee

so that would be the big vote to repeal obama care. and right now you're talking about will the democrats be able to fight back? there's a war going on in the republican party. john boehner doesn't want to see the government shut down. but he is held captive by a group of republicans that is willing to absolutely shut things down. 800,000 employees laid off. i mean, it would be a disaster. >> no, there's the shutdown threat has really pitched the tea party versus speaker boehner. watch this. >> there's all this speculation about these deadlines that are coming up. i'm well aware of the deadlines. so are my colleagues. >> we need to be a caucus with a spine, with a heart, and with the will to defund obama care. >> if you continue funding obama care, we're going to defund you and get you out of office. >> and so we're working with our colleagues to work our way through these issues. >> so this battle in the republican part y over shutting down the government to defund obama care, which really doesn't even happen, but i mean this is as ex

just a 51-vote threshold, a vote for cloture is a vote for obama care. >> explanation for that is. let's watch. >> it's not a tactic we can carry out and be successful. and i am sure that the senate is going to move that bill forward. you know, the ironic thing is that the answer now in the senate by those who proposed the strategy is to filibuster the very bill they said they wanted. >> let me ask you about the congressman, congressman grimm on this one. do you understand how crazy this is? cruz is saying to filibuster the bill you came up with. >> this is the reality, a harsh reality for the republican party. we have our own internal struggle and challenge we have to deal with. and i have many conservative principles, but at the end of the day i was elected to govern and to use my skillset as a leader to try to bring people together. this is the united states of america. and when i was in the marine corps, the army, navy, air force, we had our squabbles. but we all went together as team usa. that's what the republican party has to do. when we deal with these growing pains to unit

i disagree with obama care. i'm against obama care but we just do not have the votes in the senate right now to stop this and to follow on what's done in the house. we have the majority in the house. we don't have the nesma majority in the snachlt that's the bottom line so you have to deal with the reality in life and that's one of them. let's move on to other issues. this country has absolute crawling gdp and high unemployment and these are things that the congress can deal with. this one is not. >> i want you to weigh in. hillary clinton is saying, "if they want to shut the government down" that is on their head and responsibility. she warned that we have's seen this movie before and is she right about that. >> she's wrong. she's talking about 1995 when the government was shut down and bill clinton went on to re-election. president obama is notal popular right now. his favorability is very low. so the country views all of d.c. at fault but, you know, if we are heading into this, it's important to be a positive

even in the government shutdown we'll move forward with obama care so the republicans can attack it all they want. obama is looking at the long game, if things do not work out we'll blame republicans in 2014 and try to win back some seats so i think the white house is aware of these approval ratings but not too concerned now. there's a lot more to play out in this thing. they're saying let's move forward, we'll debate this but not going to negotiate over these things. >> played out in a little amount of time. david nakamura, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> absolutely, thanks. >>> a major admission from iran's leadber the holocaust and the jury in the michael jackson wrongful death trial could be deliberating today. [ male announcer ] let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much, you think. except it's 2% every year. go to e-trade and find out how much our advice and guidance costs. spoiler alert: it's low. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. e-trade. less for us. more for you. it's guidance on your terms, not ours. she'and you love her for

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>>> in a rare early sunday morning vote, the house of representatives pushed back against obama care one more time, setting the nation up for a government shutdown less than two days from now. more on that in a moment. also coming up in the show today, though, we wouldn't be talking about a shutdown right now if it weren't for ted cruz. we're going to get to the roots of that 1,279-minute speech he gave on the senate floor this week. those roots go all the way back to newt gingrich. and when cruz was speaking this week, these two men were also

it's not enough to rail against obama care. the american people, as luke just note d. i get the drama of this. it's nice and fancy. at the end of the day, you're going to end up in the same spot. >> i don't think it's nice and fancy. on some level, david, this seems like a piece of progressive performance art. this is, as one of our senior producers said, ted cruz could be andy kauffman. this has exposed, as luke points out, major rifts within the republican party and is literally the congressional expression of a clown show. >> i suppose he could be defecated on the law itself, to be like downtown performance art. he hasn't reached that part. >> thank you for painting that image. >> i'm glad our friend michael here is still happy to be a republican. you're a republican on planet earth. the problem is most republicans today are on a completely different planet. >> no, most republicans -- >> no, no, no. >> let's separate most republicans from congressional republicans and senate republicans. >> wait a second. the reason you have people like ted cruz -- >> no, no. you ne

care has 44% of approval according to nbc because of this drip, drip, drip of news about how obama care is affecting people's health care premiums and -- >> no, no. i want to pause -- >> they've come out and said that obama care is destroying the 40-hour workweek. the white house has not been responsive. i've read the letter myself. >> so, amy, i absolutely agree a person, a legislator, an individual, a voter can be against obama care without being misinformed. that is certainly true. but i think these opt-out ads from virginia that seem to suggest that what getting and procuring health insurance, health insurance which we know under obama care is will mean that the 30% high they're women pay in premiums will no longer be allowed, you can't discriminatory gender pricing, you will have access to birth-control, that is not rapey government stuff. what is -- we know, in fact -- >> the right to get condoms. the point -- >> oh, wow, amy. >> i'm willing to say it. >> so condoms actually -- condoms actually do not address what many women take birth control for, which includes health -- >> -- a

obama care? your thoughts. >> there's not a person in the country except for people who are drinking this tea party tea who believes that the president is going to walk away from obama care. it's not going to happen. 5.5 million people in my state with pre-existing conditions are going to get insurance and get it not at an increased rate come october 1. they're not going to have any lifetime limits anymore or annual limits. i mean, this is a very important program. and only thing i can say is that republicans have been on the wrong side of history. there's been team that wants more education, more health care, more jobs. and there's another team that wants to beat up on the president. we saw this with clinton. we see it with obama. anything the president's for, they're against. >> i think that's true with mr. messer. but let me ask you this. if you look back at the history and we all know the history, social security passed under roosevelt. it was opposed by the republican party. and since then t

it's not the death of obama care. listen to the wording here. >> you know, most presidents refer to their bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit as achievements. the president sees this quote, unquote as extortion. so while the president is happy to negotiate with vladimir putin, he won't engage with the congress on a plan that deals with the deficit that threatens our economy. let me be clear. a debt limit increase without any reforms to lower our deficit just isn't going to cut it. >> john feehery, you heard it there. without any reforms. it's not you got to kill obama care to get the debt ceiling through or the continuing resolution, the cr as you're calling it. but something. >> well, john boehner's absolutely right. >> that's a significant statement there. he's saying this isn't all about killing obama care. >> i don't disagree with that. i think it's significant. but i think it's consistent. boehner -- we got a deal last year that decreased spending. you have to kind of within the context of raising that, that

we've got, of course, the one-year obama care delay. we have tax reform, keystone pipeline, of course, blocking net neutrality. pretty much every quote/unquote jobs bill we have passed this year and last, aka corporate giveaways, means testing medicare, cfpb changes, tort reform, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. i feel like they're leaving something off this list. jay carney, you got any ideas? >> a birther bill to attach to it. >> the birther bill. that's what they forgot. i don't know how they could have overlooked questioning the president's place of birth in addition to everything else that they've ever wanted. i mean, this isn't serious, is it? >> no, it's not. it's the romney economic agenda. it's basically saying agree to implement the economic agenda that we would have had if we had won the last election. in exchange for that, we'll cause the government not to default on its debt. it's not a serious offer. what struck me most about it is for the last couple of years, republicans have stuck to making budgetary demands. at least t

crib with obama care. it's like he's barry bonds. he really didn't hit all those homers, he didn't do it. there's something wrong with it. seems this is what they are trying to do. >> that's right, but when history looks back, they are going to show the kind of individuals in congress he had to deal with, yet his accomplishments. when he came into office, he had three major, catastrophic events taking place, the worst financial crisis, war in iraq, and war in afghanistan, which he got us out of. he passed a health care bill, that we've been trying to pass for decades, and he did a lot of this against the opposition of individuals who wanted to wipe him off the map. that's going to make his legacy that much stronger and better, i think, in the eyes of history. >> that's the best i've heard it. thank you so much, u.s. congressman meeks. >>> coming up, now that vladimir putin stuck his neck out on syria, he's the guy to talk to about chemical weapons. plus, add maryland to the growing list of states where rig

the government going or keep fighting about obama care? >> i believe we should stand our ground. >> it is not going to happen. >> it's hurting the american people. it's not working. >> it is not going to happen. >> it's not a tactic that we can actually carry out and be successful. >> it is not going to happen. >> president obama will take on the all too familiar role of

all in the name of attacking obama care. john boehner and his extremist tea party republicans have their foot on the gas. and a recklessly threatening to drive the country off the cliff. >> one faction of one party in one house of congress in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to re-fight results of an election. keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. keeping vital services running and hundreds of thousands of americans on the job is not something you give to the other side. it's our basic responsibility. you don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job. for doing what you're supposed to be doing anyway. or just because there's a law there that you don't like. affordable care act is moving forward. that funding is already in place. you can't shut it down. >> republicans can't shut it down. it's the law of the land. so let's be clear about what's happening. every year congress has to pass a budget to fund the government, to keep it running. but republicans

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. >> all because obama care is about to become -- >> we're not going to put up with funding obama care. >> fully implemented. >> the new revolution in america is about brains and balance and we the people got the brains. >> aww shucky ducky. >> if your kids haven't figured out what a lie is yet, you ought to tell them. >> obama care is a disaster. >> time for you to tell them. >> this atrocity of a law. >> atrocity of obama care. >> we cannot take our eyes off what it will mean to the devastation of health care in america. >> do you want to just half of obama care? do you want half of it? >> no. >> how about a fourth of it? >> no. >> how about we defund the whole damn thing? ♪ living in america >>. ♪ living in america >> you know, the house of representatives is supposed to be the people's house. the people's house has turned into a waste land because nothing gets done, nothing gets done, and it is all because of republican leadership. i made the case on the program last night. that there are votes after votes after votes that get voted down, issue that is get voted down because th

this as a new cnbc poll shows that americans are opposed to defunding obama care with 44% against it and 38% for it. opposition is even greater when the issue of shutting down the government and defaulting is included with 59% of americans opposing defunding and just 19% in support. this weekend at the congressional black caucus dinner, the president promised the law is here to stay. >> this is an interesting thing to ponder. that your top agenda is making sure 20 million people don't have health insurance. let me say as clearly as i can, it is not going to happen. we have come too far. >> the lead writer for "the new york times" the caucus blog. thank you for your time, michael. >> happy to do it. >> let's talk about this push here. we heard to start this week, i saw an ad a short time ago, but are they banking, meaning the administration, banking on this being effective? after all we've seen different messes and different attempt to educate the public for some time now. >> i think there's -- i think it's different for two reasons. i think the actual legislation is now going to go i

the affordable care act, obama care, however you want to talk about it, will still be implemented. think recent poll shows 45% of people heard nothing at all about the health insurance marketplace that are mandated by law. how much confusion is out there around this? >> there's a lot of confusion. unfortunately for the obama administration there have been some delays and what they call glitches in the rollout. we saw the latest come out this past week where the administration said they are postponing enrollment in small business exchanges is, as well as spanish language, which is central internet clearinghouse for the affordable care act. that's going to be delayed as well. right now a lot of things that the administration has worked out. but the essential heart of the law, they are open for enrollment october 1st. individual mandate kicks in 2014. that's why conservatives really want to fight this obama care battle now before the lobby comes even more implemented. >> bottom line, ed, what do you think? does it shut down or not? >> it looks like it's going to happen, alex. there's

there are problems with obama care. we have had some polls saying there is great dissatisfaction at the town halls, but you haven't debated on how to change the law, what you have gone out and said let's kill the law, let's de-fund it. >> actually, with respect , david, i think it is wrong, i voted to repeal the law, but that was not my position in this fight. my position is de-fund it, which is different than repeal. and even now what the house of representatives has done is a step removed from de-funding. it is delaying it. now that is the essence of a compromise, delaying, simply on the same terms that has been done for the big corporations, that is a compromise. and at the same time, david, on the other side, what have the democrats compromised on? zero, their position is absolutely no, no matter what. >> you make this argument as if there is no broader context here. obama care has been -- has been adjudicated and it has been tested to the political system. and so let's go through that. we had an election where i he

we all know they're not going to end up getting rid of obama care. so then they're going to double down on this fight on the debt ceiling. because what happened, as you said, look, ted cruz went around the country. he got everybody worked up. all the far right folks. now it is going over in the senate. he is not going to be able to prevail, ted cruz. so then they're going to try to take this whole fight -- >> it is only going to make that fight worse, they will lose this and double down in the next fight. >> in fact, if you look at the plan that came out of the house republican caucus today, it was plan b, plan a was let's do this on the continuing resolution. but backup plan b, okay, if we don't succeed we'll take it to the debt ceiling. as you know, it is bad enough to be playing with government shutdown, but you're playing with the economic equivalent of nuclear weapons when you're playing with the debt ceiling. >> thank you so much, joining me now, the democrat from oregon. all right, ball is in your court. the house is going to pass a continuing

no, that's obama care. >> yeah, jared. maybe they should have written into the law some name for the exchanges. every state has a different name for their exchange. the word obama or federal government is not going to be in the name of any one of the exchanges. >> right. we may be looking at a situation, ten years from now where an aged tea partier says keep the government out of my obama care. in other word, what you have today with medicare is probably a good analogy. back when medicare first was passed, there was a tremendous anxiety. i think ronald reagan called it a great socialist experiment, a popular program. and very efficient one. you have conservative republicans protecting medicare saying keep the government out of my medicare not making the connections it is a government program. part of this, by the way, a serious part of this is just the information that need to really get out there. it is already -- way behind in terms of the, really, flooding the public with, with important information about this. >> let's

, affordable care act, obama care, whatever we want to call it. before i let you go, i want to ask you to give us an update on the military sexual assault question. i understand you have three generals who have endorsed your approach and most recently we saw a trial going forward in annapolis, a rape case, where the prosecution, which was the military prosecution, really many people believe went after the victim more than you would in a civilian court of justice. tell me how that is progressing. when can you get a vote on your proposals? >> we will again have a vote on this kmons sense re -- common sense reform, late november, as early as december. so many victims are asking to take this decision-making out of the chain of command because they don't trust the chain of command. generals have said the reason why we don't have people reporting these crimes because they don't trust us, don't trust the chain of command. we have three prominent generals, highest ranking general female in the army coming out to say this is the right thing. we have the hi

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obama care? because he hasn't really made the case. he's been out there talking about obama care for many years now, and the polls just haven't changed. you do have a situation now where you have people like bill clinton stepping in and talking about obama care, some celebrities talking about it as well, reaching, i think, those young people that you mentioned voted for obama. in some ways, i think they have tuned out and might be harder to reach at this point. you wonder about the ambassadors they'll sort of try to enlist to sell obama care because so far obama and his administration haven't done a good job. >> michael, quickly, what do you make of this, taking obama out of -- i am befuddled by that. nevertheless, what do you think? >> i think he's got to bring those skills that he's had on the campaign trail but has not fully been able to implement while he's in office to sell this. he hasn't really been supported by members of his own party in that regard. to nia malika's point, stuff's going

you cannot live with obama care? >> well, of course, mike lee and ted cruz and the advocates in the house, they never, ever, ever supported shutting down the government. what they said was that obama care wasn't ready for prime time. the president himself has acknowledged that it's not ready for prime time. sort of arbitrarily delaying the pieces that he doesn't like. every republican said they would repeal obama care. a lost democrats have described it as a train wreck. so what mike leigh and his house counterparts have suggested is let's fully fund every part of the government except this one piece that's not ready for prime time. there's nothing about a government shutdown in that strategy. everybody's freaking out so much i've got to believe we're on to something here. >> why would the united states senate, which is governed by the democrats, and the president of the united states, who is a democrat and the one who put this bill into action, who got it through the congress, why would he sign legislation which wou

care. >> obama care is coming, folks! run for your lives. >> they're focused on trying to mess with me. >> don't run for your lives. that will make you healthier and that's what he wants. >> do your job. >> you know the republicans will be blamed for the shutdown. >> we are winning right now. >> extortion. >> extort. >>er extortion and blackmail. >> a cam ka zee mission. >> i will do anything necessary and anything possible. >> stuff he's saying there is wicked stupid. ♪ >> it seemed over the summer like a harebrain hair has now become a full-blown crisis on capitol hill. spurred on by the gop's right wing, the house passed a continuing resolution to fund the government that defunds obama care. now, the bill moves on to the senate where the democrats are expected to remove the defunding provision and take health care away from tens of millions of americans and then right back to the house and we're exactly where we started. it's like a legislative groundhog day and the only way out is if john boehner convinces the caucu

care and doesn't realize he's talking about obama care. they are hating on this without understanding what they are talking about because they've been dealing with -- >> you just blew my mind. >> thank you. they are dealing with demagoguery by the republicans. when you don't need a safety net program and don't have people in your immediate world who need a safety net program, it takes a certain moral imagination and empathy to understand the value and want to be behind it. i thnk a lot of americans are operating without the imagination and empathy for folks. >> it's about the quality and cost -- >> it's about a community and making sure that everybody in america is taken care of. >> i don't know that's -- >> other nations are taking care of everybody -- >> i don't think everyone wants that though. >> that's not fair to the american people because what you see in polling time and time again when they are asked about the specific provisions of obama care, they support it. it's just the big scary word of obama care -- >> one size fits all. >>

adviser to the obama administration on the health care act. and rick tyler is a republican strategist for the strategy group company and a former gingrich spokesman. the most recent kaiser poll finds 42% of americans have an unfavorable view and 20% more don't even know. how does bill clinton convince doubters and basically clarify for everybody? >> well, look. he has been called secretary of explaining stuff. i think we have seen that really there is few people alive who can -- who are better spokes people for issues than president clinton. i think he is going to talk today about how the health care law is already working. we have seen record low costs for health care. health care inflation is at a 50-year low. he is also going to talk about how important it is for people to get covered october 1st is when exchanges really open up and arkansas is a fantastic state because it's a southern state that is actually taking advantage of the law. so i think he is going to really communicate to americans about what the values of this law are. >> i thi

that obama care isn't working. every day that's becoming more clear. there's a reason the unions are jumping ship. one union after another is saying let me out. now, why is it that harry reid and the senate democrats are not willing to listen to the millions of working men and women -- >> wait a second. you're making an argument. i asked you a specific question based on the facts on the ground. my goodness, you spoke for 21 hours to make these arguments. you haven't moved anyone. >> the american people overwhelmingly reject obama care. they understand it's not working. the only people who aren't listening to the argument are the career politicians in washington. the great thing about the constitution is that it creates a system of checks and balances. each branch has the ability to check another. >> someone might tell senator cruz the system of checks and balances worked in this case. the law was passed by congress, the president did sign the affordable care act, and the supreme court weighed in and upheld the affordable care act. the president was re-

take home the big trophy, in this case, obama care. but that said, all of this villainizing is what ted cruz wants, because for ted cruz, being the most hated man in washington is a badge of honor. what is not a badge of honor is being viewed as a snobby, overcredentialed jerk, and that is the picture of ted cruz painted vividly in a new "gq" profile out today, which notes as a law student at harvard, cruz "refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at harvard, princeton or yale. says damon watson, one of cruz's law school roommates, he said he didn't want anybody from minor ivies like penn or brown." while working for george w. bush's campaign, he was also known for dispatching regular updates on his accomplishments that one recipient likened to "the cards people send about their families at christmas, except ted's were only about him and were more frequent." "gq" also retells the story of the oil painting ted cruz has hanging in his senate office. it's a story ted cruz had previously told abc news and one that stephen

seuss too, i do not like green eggs and ham because it costs too much under obama care to deal with the indigestion. >>> as the president's signature law remained under assault mr. obama was in new york and at the united nations, that historic handshake with the president of iran never happened. we'll take a look at what's going on with global leaders in the big apple. >>> we all know joe scarborough did some pretty good clinton. what about bono, you be the judge in "the cooler." this is "way too early." >> uh-oh. >> it feels like today is -- we have a hump to overcome for some reason. it is a wednesday. that -- i show it to my kid. they like that and the naked m&m commercial from the super bowl. brian shactman. >>> in sports the oldest person ever to hit a walkoff home run and the martha stewart relationship may be ending. >>> let's start with that dysfunctional business of d.c. politics. senator ted cruz part of a marathon speech in protest of funding the president's health care plan and took the floor at 2:41 p.m. eastern time. this is him right now live at 5:31 a.m. eastern time. i

they lost the obama care fight. they lost at the ballot box, in congress, in the supreme court and at the ballot box again. if they can't move on and come up with a positive agenda, they're not going to get very far. >> quickly to viviana. >> this ad is all kinds of wrong. i think what's really sad about this for the gop is that there really are some great ideas in the gop about how to make the health care, the affordable health care act better. for example, allow competition between states. consumers to buy, for example, from california in rhode island, to make it cheaper, to make it better for consumers. you're not hearing those smart ideas. you're just getting stuck in this kinds of a distraction of an ad that is incredibly offensive not just to women but really it should be to all americans. >> james, any upside to this? >> there's no upside to these kinds of ads. we just need to remind republicans, remind the american people that essentially the affordable care act already has what viviana was talking about alr

care is a disaster. >> time for you to tell them. >> this atrocity of a law. >> atrocity of obama care. >> we cannot take our eyes off what it will mean to the devastation of healtre

right now we're having this debate about defund obama care. your boss, grover norquist says it's crazy, it's batty, don't do it. he's saying, you're crazy. what's going to happen is, when the whole thing is over, then the center is going to keep the sequester funding. the sequester was the most controversial policy in all of domestic fiscal politics that we have seen in this country in several years. and it's going to be the base lane. sam, am i wrong about this? does it drive you crazy as it drives me crazy? >> yeah, it does, but it also speaks to some larger problem in our culture, where this notion that we're going to be punishing poor people for being poor, essentially. and what's also stunning is that we hear constant, and i think some of this is legitimate, that the economy, you know, from the right, that obama has tanked the economy, that the growth is sort of not really happening. there's some truth to that, but you can't turn around and say, and now we are going to punish the people who are suffering under that. >> explain to me why t

they just love that line. >> the issue is obama care, and we're going to keep the focus on obama care because it's driving up the cost of health care. >> president obama's health care law ruled in higher premiums and costs for families. >> in some cases, the premiums that they will pay will double. >> your premiums were going to double and that your bills could double. i mean this is really stunning news for lots of americans. >> and it's cheap results making our health care premiums enormously unsustain bring more expensive with death panels to boot. >> but guess what? governor death panels and the rest of her buddies are wrong. the most comprehensive study of the health care law yet says the cost of the coverage for consumers will be lower than anticipated. well, how about that? there has been a lot of talk about this law being the president's waterloo, that it would crush the american economy, that it would fail before it each got off the ground. but have you seen the headlines this week? the reigning super bowl champs are out touting the law and spreading awareness about it. the a

i said that's funny, i'm heading to an appointment that i can only go to because of obama care. >> so the irony is there. i take it you're not a huge ted cruz fan. >> i wouldn't particularly say that, no. >> we did reach out to senator cruz's office, because obviously you didn't know. this was a quote from a "wall street journal" article and they said senator cruz cited and reported from numerous articles, polls and reports that were pulled from the public domain. what has been the reaction from family and friends to this? >> i feel like it's really interesting, just in terms of folks that had already read the article. it seems a little bizarre that he would even choose my story at all. >> why? >> because most of the people in the article, if you read it, student debt is mentioned as an issue 13 times. health care is mentioned once by a person saying he's lucky he has health insurance and a lot of his peers don't. >> and for the record, you're a fan of obama care. >> for the record, i would say that i don't think that the most pressing issue facing my generation is the fact that this

obama care. 37% oppose the affordable care act. recent fox news poll found that just 14% of republicans support obama care, 22% of republicans support the affordable care act. we know they are the same thing, perry bacon. a lot of folks do not know they are the same thing. tell us about what you found happening in some states including kentucky. >> we talk about obama care a lot, the president talks about it and we about it in the news a lot. the key to remember is there's no such thing called obama care. when you go to a state, all of the states set up these entities to run the law. california has cover california and kentucky has ky nekt and when you go to the states they are not trying to advertise obama care but coverage california and take the politics out of it. i went to this bourbon festival in kentucky. >> oh. >> which i recommend for viewers for a good time. the important thing is there was a booth set up by the kentucky folks, they call it the kynect booth and they have tote bags. the key thing is there, they don't ask y

. >> where every day some new bad news comes out about obama care. the old cio is upset or trader joe's is putting everybody to part-time so they think they'll win on this and the house leadership does not share that opinion. i don't know how you get past that when one side is utterly convinced this will be a winner. >> i had figured the amount of coverage of syria might kind of take the pressure off everybody for a bit and get more chance of a back room deal and work something out and it's not happening. >> based on what's happening with syria, do you think obama is more likely to blink on a showdown over this or less likely to blink? >> hey, he blinked here and he blinked there. that's interesting that they're trying to conflight the two issues and democrats are watching this going, if there's any way to turn health care around with the public, use it, right? >> not only that, but i think what's so ironic is, we know what the definition of insane is, so i don't have to repeat that mantra, but i will say that at some point you have to look at the fa

, or something in the mail that assets you're enrolled in obama care. the state will call it the grand canyon exchange and you'll start getting your health care through that. i bet you people who have this experience will like this. by and large, they will like the experience. i'm not sure they will suddenly make the connection this is obama care working. they'll say this is the grand canyon connection working. i don't like obama care. >> fak, brilliant. >> professor, speaking of future elections, senator ted cruz thought by many to be a leading contender for the 2016 nomination put out a tv spot about the affordable care act. take a listen to this. >> there's bipartisan agreement that obama care isn't working. democratic senator max baucus, the lead author of obama care said it's a huge train wreck. >> he continues to lie about the contents of this law, professor peterson. >> again, fakes matter. it is working. it is still a complex piece of legislation that will require some tweaking and require some effort from the politicals on both sides of the ais