michael steele, you have a good memory. can you tell me which republican, which republican is calling for a treasury default? which one? >> i haven't heard it. >> what is obama talk about? >> i don't know. and that's the part of this that for me is really problematic. because you're talking about something that everyone in washington is pretty much agreed on they don't want to have happen. so why are you getting out here saying that the actions that are related to obama care or this current government shutdown are somehow inextricably tied to and ultimately will lead to a government shutdown. i can beat up, as you have as well, beat up the gop on sort of creating this sort of linkage unnecessarily between obama care and the shutdown. i think the real battleground is the default or potential default on our debt and not this masquerade that is currently going on right now with obama care. i've said long set that aside. the bottom line is the president doesn't want to negotiate on the debt because he knows he is not in a stron

joining me today, former rnc chair, michael steele, u.s. news editor of the "the guardian," alex coppleman, and "the washington post's" ezra cline and luke russert. we had to play that boehner sound from last year because it's pretty stunning given his position less than a year ago, which is potentially defaulting over the repeal of obama care. i must ask you first about the latest from the coke industries. the coke brothers, according to "the new york times" this weekend, had spent over $200 million through organizations including freedom partners chamber of commerce, which is one of their groups. they've dispersed more than $200 million to help defund the government over the affordable care act. today, minutes ago, the coke brothers sent a letter to every member of congress saying, coke has not taken a position on the legislative tactic of tying the continuing resolution to defunding obama care nor has coke lobbied on legislative provisions defunding obama care. is this part of a grand effort to get republican leaders to push their caucus

they say they'll vote for it. >> michael steele wants to get in here. >> congressman, it's michael steele. i want to pick up on the point ump making about the process. do you see a way for house speaker boehner to just say, look, nancy, help me get the numbers and work outside of the 63 or so members on the republican side who are really a part of the tea party caucus who are not looking to move forward on this, cut the deal with nancy and put it in the hands of the democrats to get this thing out of the house and back to the senate at this point? >> well the democrats will vote for any, they have already said we will vote en massee for the republican's budget number. that's what should be debated here. i don't think any of us will vote for anything else. nor should we. pause that's giving up democratic government in this country. that's saying a minority in the house or in the senate for that matter, but right now in the house, can blackmail the majority. and get its way and that you can't do. i mean, imagine if the senate democrats suddenly said, we will not raise the debt ceiling. we'l

michael steele and joan walsh. both are msnbc analysts. michael, the republican party is now represented by somebody in a mexican restaurant eating in a secret meeting with 30 red hots for the far right. not one for wanting more mexicans in the country. >> but like the food. >> let's go back to the facts tonight. they had a secret meeting in the basement -- not secret because mccarthy spotted them across the room. that wasn't secret. this guy have stirred them up enough that 30 people have once said no deal to john boehner. they want more red hot stuff. more red meat, something to take something away from obama care and hurts the president physically. >> the president's not going to stagger out of this deal. and that's the problem. the president is in the strongest possible position with respect to obama care. because he's got all the weight of evidence on his side. including two elections and the supreme court decision. set that aside. so where does the party need to go now? it is not necessarily to block john boehner. let john boehner cu

msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. abc news political commentator, cokie rockets, columnist for bloomberg view al hunt and in nashville john mecham. good to have you all on board today. what a show today. >> we have so much going straight ahead. yesterday my good friend carl bernstein was talking about the end of all time. i exaggerate a little, carl. but this is going to -- i said carl it will be over tomorrow. you said something to me because we've been around here a little while. we knew how this was going to end before it started. i always said, okay, right before the deadline, on the debt ceiling, they fold. >> we knew how it was going to end but that still doesn't mean that it should have happened. real people were affected. that's the part that nobody is really talking about. i mean real single moms who went through their savings in the last 17 days. a lot of people were affected by this while people on capitol hill made fools of themselves and that's really what they did. >> al, we all -- apologies to the unite

chuck todd, ed rendell, michael steele. there have been major developments in washington today with john boehner proposing now a six-week debt ceiling increase. but the government would we main shut under his plan. and republicans are calling for negotiations now to work out a longer deal on the budget, on the debt, and then to reopen government after that. republican leaders went to the white house today for a meeting with president obama late this afternoon. just in the last half hour nbc news has released the results of the latest poll. it is devastating for republicans. when asked who do they blame for for the shutdown? 53% said the republicans in congress. 31% said the president. meanwhile, 70% of americans say congressional republicans are putting their own political agenda ahead of what's good for the country. and when asked what they want the makeup of the next congress to look like, 39% said republican-controlled while nearly 50% now say they want the democrats back in charge. chuck, this is something. i get the se

. >> michael steele is former chair of the rnc and ed rendell. michael steele, i don't know what mood you're in, but if you heard it the way i heard it, there's the guy that will always accuse our president of having a british colonial attitude born in kenya. he challenges the guy's authenticity in subtle ways. why can't he act like an american president? what is this? you can say that nuance if you want. i hear it. i've heard newt. i've heard him in the past delegitimatize his presidency. and you've won the board, you've taken this guy off the historic board. he never was really president. that's what these characters seem to want. >> right. i think this is the fog of this particular war that has put the republicans in the space they're in right now. this argument has never in my estimation been about the legitimacy of the president. he was elected once, twice by the american people. so the party has an obligation to deal with that. part of the problem we have now is that a lot of this has become so personal and so engrained that the idea of eve

ed rendell and michael steele. governor rendell, sometimes when i watch that guy, they turn off the sound if that's possible. i see a evangelicalist with the hands and the religious intonation and gesture. is he apocalyptic? is this something years from now we can decide or something right now something really apocalyptic. we either go the right way which is godly or we're going the wrong way which is ungodly. i mean, is this about budget deficits? is this about something you put your fingers on like mathematics? or something else he's talking about here? i think he's talking apocalyptics. i see it. your thoughts. >> i do too. and, you know, it's working for him. people say, well, this strategy was a failure. sure, it was a failure. it was a failure for republicans nationally. it was a failure for republicans in the congress. but was it a failure for ted cruz? he's got bigger fund raising lists as a result of what he did. he's got converts that will go to the wall for him in iowa and states like that. was it a fail

ed rendell and michael steele. governor rendell, sometimes when i watch that guy, they turn off the sound if that's possible. i see a e van g-- evangelicalis with the hands and the religious intonation and gesture. is he apocalyptic? is this something years from now we can decide or something right now something really apocalyptic. we either go the right way which is godly or we're going the wrong way which is ungodly. i mean, is this about budget deficits? is this about something you put your fingers on like mathemat s mathematics? or something else he's talking about here? i think he's talking apocalyptics. i see it. your thoughts. >> i do too. and, you know, it's working for him. people say, well, this strategy was a failure. sure, it was a failure. it was a failure for republicans nationally. it was a failure for republicans in the congress. but was it a failure for ted cruz? he's got bigger fund raising lists as a result of what he did. he's got converts that will go to the wall for him in iowa and states like

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msnbc analyst michael steele former chair of the national committee and joins me now. whoa, you look at that. the polsters were from the romney and obama camps. so these were real world political presidential campaign polsters who did these data for esquire and us. >> it's exciting, exciting for politics. it's something i discovered early on my tenure, there's something developing outside the walls of washington whether it was the move on, not move on but tea party, libertarian, tendency to foreign policy, aid we give, we take care at home before we take care abroad. >> it's vastly misunderstood it's less than 1%. >> less than 1%. again, it goes to how washington has failed to educate on these front. people fill in the blanks for themselves. this poll reflects how american people are filling in themselves. they recognize as chuck put it, it's not 40 yard lines anymore, it's 20 yard lines and everything in between. they are taking up more real estate. that's a good thing for politics. ultimately it will force politicians to come around where people are. we have more bot

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msnbc analyst and former are rnc chair, michael steele. and in san francisco, msnbc contributor and president of voter latino, maria teresa kumar. the troubles with the affordable care act website go beyond being parroted on "saturday night live." health sites woes could dissuade vital enrollee, the young and healthy. they write in its worst iteration, it could lead to a death spiral on falling enrollment and climbing prices. the president, dana, is sending his cabinet on the road. about you how much time is there to turn the tide before what have been glitches on the website become a real enrollment problem, do you think? >> well, nobody knows for sure. the administration has set itself a target of the end of next month. i mean, people generally tend to say it's within a four to eight-week period. you know, it's way too early to be talking about a death spiral. but if you don't get the young and the healthy signing up, and already they've had to postpone the penalties for not signing up. if you don't get those people signing up, all you'r

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here is what michael steele, speaker boehner's spokesman had to say. he said, let's drop the phrase, grand bargain right now, there is nothing grand and there is no one to bargain with. >> and he, mr. steele is exactly right. jon, you know what is so sad? a lot of people in america, when they saw our warriors not being able to go to the world war ii memorial -- jon: yes. >> these are people who fought for our freedom, freedom isn't free and they can't even go to a memorial without some type of controversy? i think until the end of the day, we have until october 17th, that is an eternity in politics and i believe democrats and republicans will come to the table. jon: i think it is pretty appalling, these hero flights, they plan the months in advance, they had no way of knowing the world war ii monument would close. that is appalling they can't get that side open. >> both sides will be hurt by this politically. behind the scenes, that is why people are talking about cuting a deal. jon: it would be good to see, angela, good to see you. >> thank you. jenna

the response from boehner's office, a statement from michael steele, his spokesman which read and i quote. offering to negotiate only after democrats get everything they want is not much of an offer. so, bill, we are a long way from resolution here. bill: doug, thank you. we'll come back to you for headlines. there will be some throughout the morning here. we'll wait on those. thank you, doug. here's martha. martha: meanwhile president obama not budging claiming in a new interview he already gone above and beyond the call of duty in working with the other side. watch. >> during the course of my presidency i have bent over backwards to work with the republican party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. i think i'm pretty well-known for being a calm guy. sometimes people think i'm too calm, and, am i exasperated? absolutely i'm exasperated because this is entirely unnecessary. martha: interesting. is that true? has the white house really bent over backwards to work with republicans during this presidency? we'll talk to congresswoman michele bachmann about that. she will join us in a co

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