social security, we're all sucking the glass of [ bleep ] of -- >> that's live. he's still talking. he read some dr. 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 mean people are still wondering if he has a catheter. i think he's been taking turns up there at the dais declaring

he will talk until he can't stand anymore and with the help of his tea party friends, the debate continues of course, as we continue. it is not technically a filibuster because it has no chance of delaying today's senate vote. but apparently speaking about obama care for hours on end, not enough to pass the time. >> most americans could not give a flying flip about a bunch of politicians in washington. who cares? you know, almost all of us are in cheap suits with bad haircuts. who cares? you know, it's a little bit like the world wrestling federation. it's wrestling matches where it's all rigged. the outcome is predetermined. they know who is going to win. i'm a big fan of eating white castle burgers. obama care is a far less intimidating foe than those that i have discussed with the possible exception of the moon. do you like green eggs and ham?

i do not like them, sam, i am, i do not like grind eggs and ham. would you, could you in a car. eat them, eat them, here they are. could you would you with a goat. i do not like them here or there. i do not like them anywhere. i do not like green inc.s and ham. >> i think his pacing on that was a little slow. the communication director for senator harry reid tweeted out this so-called fun fact last night. "senator cruz prenegotiated the terms of his fake filibuster with senator reid yesterday. "not exactly a mr. smith moment, end quote. all right, joined now by nbc's political reporter casey hunt. i don't know how you keep it together. we appreciate you getting up with us. the front page of "the dallas morning news" he leads lonely attack on budget bill.

he is alone on this. why is he doing it? >> he has become a hero to the conservative grass roots over this and, brian, you have to remember what's going on here. these third party conservative groups like the club for growth, heritage action, those are the people who got him elected and other senators elected like mike lee and marco rubio as you heard him just talking about was actually the establishment basically rejected early on and they went on to win. so they don't feel beholden in any way to their party leaders and you're seeing that play out on the floor and cruz is being played out as a grassroots hero on right wing blogs as much as his critics say he deserves to be ridiculed because he can't actually change the process going forward and those critics would also say that he's painted himself into a corner and this is his attempt to prove that it's not fruitless. >> right, so he's following through to prove that he can follow through but in the bigger picture, kasie, especially for

the republican party, what does it mean that there are other prominent republicans against h him. >> at this point it is a gop bloodbath. they're trying to argue behind the scenes this is an argument over tactics and not strategy and says everybody wants to defund obama care but the reality is they're really split on this and even senator rand paul who stood on the floor earlier with cruz and who says that he plans to vote with cruz on these key procedural votes coming up this week, still stood up inside a private meeting and backed senator minority leader mitch mcconnell's proposal to do this a different way and rand is in a particularly difficult spot because he falls into this conservative grassroots tea party group on the one hand but on the other is one of the most vocal supporters of mcconnell's bid for re-election and mcconnell, rand's support for him is very important to him. and it could affect him in a primary against businessman matt bevin. >> kasie, get some rest.

good follow on twitter @kasie and live tweeted the thing as much as she could stay awake. president obama bringing in one of his most powerful supporters to help sell his signature health plan. former president bill clinton. hillary introduced the two former presidents at number 42 and number 44. setting off speculation that the moment may prove to be historic with number 45 there on stage, as well. maybe someday. a q&a about health care between the two commanders in chief quickly turned into a sales pitch for the affordable care act. >> what does this mean? how will people get involved? i'll give the president a chance to talk about the good stuff. in the last three years just since we started doing this inflation and health care cost has dropped to 4% for three years in a row for the first time in 50 years.

>> what you've this is an unprecedented effort you've seen ramp up over the last month or so in which those who have opposed the idea of universal health care in the first place and have fought this thing tooth and nail threw congress and the courts and so forth are -- have been trying to scare and discourage people from getting a good deal. what we're saying to people is, look, go to the website yourself. what we are confident about is when people look and see that they can get high quality, affordable health care for less than their cell phone bill, they're going to sign up. >> let's turn our attention overseas now. the tense four-day standoff at a mall in kenya appears to be over. today the first of three days of mile-per-houring for the victims after kenya's president declared victory. he announced five members of al shabaab were killed, 11 other members were captured.

>> we have ashamed and defeated our attackers. that part of our task has been completed by a multiagency security team. >> security forces are still at the mall searching for additional victims. now, the latest death toll at 61. government and six -- excuse me, civilians and six government troops on top of that officials fear they could find up to 60 more victims. take a look at some exclusive video that nbc obtained of the moments after gunmen stormed in terrorizing the shoppers. "the new york times" reports al shabaab hatched this plot weeks or months ago in somalia even studying the mall down to the vent lakes ducts on the blueprints and recruited english speaking fighters to be part of the attack and plant ed weapons inside with the help of an employee. an american survivor is back home this morning.

bendita mallika was tearful and she's still coming to grips with what she went through. >> you would hear the feet and then you would hear some talking, some other languages, sometimes you would hear like ran democrat things like muslim, christian and hear like random things, and, you know, people would respond or scream don't shoot and then you hair some walk and some get shot. >> incredible. to the united nations where president obama says the u.s. will begin high-level negotiations with iran on its nuclear program this week. he voiced optimism over their new tone for a diplomatic solution but did admit possible roadblocks may be too great. >> i don't believe this difficult history can be overcome overnight. the suspicions run too deep. we should be able to achieve a resolution that respects the

rights of the iranian people while giving the world confidence that the iranian program is peaceful. but to succeed conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable. >> later in the afternoon, it was president rowhani of iran who took his turn staying talks were possible on equal footing but that his country would insist on its right to enriched uranium. >> translator: i listened carefully to the statement made by president obama today hoping that they will refrain from following the short-sighted interests of warmongering pressure groups. we can arrive at a framework to manage our differences. let me say loud and clear that peace is within us. >> a lot were seeing whether the two would shake hand, speak to each other or do anything to

intera interact to become the first lead attorneys mete since the late '70s. it never happened. rowhani declined the opportunity with some americans saying it was out of concern for hard-liners at home. in fact, rowhani didn't attend the lunch that president obama attended with some reports saying because alcohol was served. there are other reports saying he didn't rsvp but we don't know exactly why it did not happen. a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck western pakistan yesterday. 238 people were killed injuring more than 350. now, this was huge. the quake destroyed 90% of the homes in the region and actually lifted the seabed creating a small island. i don't know if you can tell through that little mountain in the back off the coastline. it was caused by the eruption of an undersea mud volcano which was triggered by the earthquake. the search for survivors continues and officials do expect that death toll to rise dramatically. to business now, investors hoping to avoid a fifth consecutive day of losses.

the s&p 500 dipping below 1700. the concerns about the fed and a possible government shutdown in d.c. all continuing although the nasdaq was slightly higher. steve sedgwick live for us. >> there was one big deal. $29 billion merger between applied materials and a japanese company as well. very important for the semiconductor sector. everyone is worried about that debt ceiling breach. amazon keeping the pressure on apple and ipads. jeff bezos' group got a whole host of new devices. and an 8.9-inch kindle for $379 and get an 8 megapixel camera on that and mayday support system, as well. so jeff keeping pressure on apple saying it's not the money they make out of the devices but selling services they're after which is the key for amazon. elsewhere, incredible comments from robert benmarsh.

he's saying some of the criticism labeled at the bonuses paid to the financial industry post the collapse of aig and indeed the broader sector. he said this was intended to stir public anger and get everybody out there with their pitchforks and hangman nooses. i think it was bad and it was just as bad then as it is now, as well. he apparently has regretted some of the phrasing after criticism from social media and regulators, as well. >> yeah, and merited by the way. quickly, martha stewart, jcpenney, is that over? >> it appears so. not only is macy's in the courts with jp penny about whether they can even use the name, the deal struck by the previous ceo ron johnson, this ten-year deal virtually being scrapped it looks like because the martha stewart bath and bed linens have been replaced by liz claiborne brands and other in-house

brands, as well. looks like you may have to change your bed linen from the martha stewart inspired stuff to snoopy. >> we might have some. >> i thought as much. to twitter. listen to this, steve. a haunted house in pennsylvania encouraging visit attorneys get the their thrills. my take, a bad idea. we want to know what other things would not be fun naked. #waytoonude. we'll put the best answers on the air later in the show. still ahead, the cardinals, michael wacha, wacha, wacha, does he get it and miley says she's done twerking. why she's losing her signature move, maybe because it's gross. that story and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back.

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time for sports and baseball, of course, racing toward the postseason cardinals. michael wacha looking to finish off the no-hitter with two owes in the ninth against the nats. ryan zimmerman chopper past the mound. tough to break up on this one and beats it out. cards win, 2-0. i now it was a bit of a cheapie. white sox and indians tied until alejandro blast the go-ahead shot over the right field wall but the indians one more chance in the bottom of the ninth. >> 1-1 pitch. giambi, are you kidding me? oh, my. the indians have won it. >> great call. cleveland's jason giambi a monster two-run walkoff homer the tribe win it 5-4. oldest with a walk-off home run.

42. detroit's austin jackson with a two-run shot over the left center field wall. in the playoffs one win away from the a.l. central. new york, braves leading the yankees, 3-0. bases loaded and james loney. who? yeah, he's been killing the yankees, the rays blank them 7-0. bye-bye. we have cleveland has a good chance to make the playoffs along with tampa bay, mr. karins. >> this could be fun the last week. pretty much kansas city and yankees are done, cleveland, texas and tampa. >> if you get an oakland in the world series or a cleveland in the world series it just would be incredible. >> a lot of fun. anyone but boston. really had to do that. >> 15 seconds for weather. >> as long as i got that jab in. >> i'll talk through weather. >> that's all that meant anything to meechlt as far as today same thing as yesterday. heavy rain for our friends from tampa across i-4.

this will move out. tomorrow looks better. yesterday i mentioned the possibility of a big storm on the east coast, that was one of our computer models. thankfully it's pushed its further off the shore so looks like a glancing blow possibly to the cape or canadian parry time. not worried about that right now. as far as what we're dealing with in the northeast yesterday was bitterly cold. today warmer. this afternoon should be gorgeous. we're in this great weather pattern. chilly and nice. boston, cooler at 65. rest of the country nice too. we're talking going to be mid-70s to 90 dallas. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe." joe and mika joined by cokie roberts to talk about what he's trying to accomplish and if he's succeeding. "around the cooler." bono, a performance like you've never seek and he's spot-on with bill clinton.

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♪ all right. time for "the cooler." dnc fund-raiser. president obama announced bill de blasio. it was the president's endorsement of his son's afro that got the most attention. president obama took a moment to

talk to dante saying he exactly sport tad afro back in '78 and went on to say although i must confess my afro was never that good. it was a little unbalanced. it was a good afro by dante. pretty solid. all fun and games when former president bill clinton was late for his opening panel at the clinton global initiative meeting. u2's bono and improvised a spot-on impression of the president. >> when i first met bono and, hey, he walked into the oval office and actually i thought it was a member of his own road crew. he wasn't really dressed right. actually i felt like the rock star on that occasion. >> i must be really easy to make fun of. [ laughter ] >> i got to tell you we said this on the floor in the break. ups his coolness factor off the charts. it was perfect. all right. where would "the cooler" be without another eye opener from

miss miley cyrus. ♪ in the club buy some shades ♪ mini skirt with my js on ♪ with some shades on ♪ and a on >> offense to all michael jordan lovers. her wrapping in "23." go on tv and watch. smoke cigarettes. she's stripping down for the cover of the latest "rolling stone." her twerking was a big topic of conversation. she's likely done with twerking after all the controversy but says she could have gone much further with robin thicke if they wanted and wants to know why she's faced so much criticism but nothing directed towards thicke although he's gotten some criticism but it's a little unbalanced. one of the most anticipated comedy sequels along with

anchorman 2." look at jim carrey and jeff bridges, still look good in character as lloyd christmas and harry dunn back for "dumb and dumber 2" and spell it t-0. the fairrrelly brothers will be back to direct it. >> hey. want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? >> aaagh! >> guys, guys, guys! >> i like the kung fu dream sequence the best. i just break out laughing like a camel in the geico commercial. "way too early," alejandro encouraging visitors to get their thrills in the nude. i'll tell you why actually. we want to know what other things would not be fun naked and "morning joe" has been tweeted by a few people and i don't think that crew would appreciate that. "morning joe" just a few minutes away. the secret is out. hydration is in.

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