okay, steve kornacki is still here with me. it's so interesting, though, and here's where it gets good, steve, because he brings up kids and grandkids. and we have to have, you know, a stronger america for that. what they're talking about here is a temporary ex-tension in the debt ceiling, the increase. what was talked about maybe six weeks. that's not really going to help our kids and grandkids. anyway, it's going to get us six weeks. but this is the carrot that the right is going to offer to the president to get him to the negotiation table to then talk shutdown mode. explain if this is going to be received at the white house well because they're invited over this afternoon, leadership. >> yeah. i mean, look. this is being framed right here by boehner and the republicans as a compromise, we're meeting in the middle. see, we had this shutdown and default thing, and we're taking the default off the table, but the shutdown is still active. and the position that the white house has taken and the position that democrats have taken

joining us the table host of "up with steve kornacki."ington, political director and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. also columnist for "the washington post" and msnbc policy analyst ezra klein joins the tabling again. good to have you on board this hour. let's start with what the president is up to. the public approval for republicans is down and the hillis reporting the president will try help national democratic organizations capitalize on that. the president has at times been dubbed the campaigner in chief. one article denies the fundraising will get in the way of the president's second term agenda. kwupt there's this conspiracy theory out there that we've given up on legislating and want to take the house. we need the house back and we still have time to get some stuff done. president obama is expected to call on larms to tackle immigration reform but there's doubt on what congress can accomplish. in a session defined by stalemate this 113th congress has passed just 36 laws. the president has signed. last year's congress the le

evening, the rachel maddow show starting right now, with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel. good evening, welcome to another day of this extraordinary shutdown of the federal government, with offices emptied, twitter accounts frozen, national parks are all closed. this is something we have not been through in nearly 18 years. in washington today, president obama met with leaders of congress with republicans and democrats from both houses of the senate. in the interview with john harwood, he was pretty direct. >> am i exasperated? absolutely i am, this is entirely unnecessary, we have a situation where john boehner, the speaker of the house puts a bill out on the floor, at current funding levels so we can then negotiate on a real budget that allows us to stop negotiating from crisis to crisis, it would pass. the only thing that is stopping it, is that john boehner right now has not been willing to say no to a faction of the republican party that are willing to burn the house down because of an obsession over my health care initiative. >> the president there is continuing to p

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i'm steve kornacki, i believe in universal health care and so on.re you know businesses are, where our society is moving to. >> yeah, i this i the big winner here, no matter what happens with carl sortino. >> there are other more established candidates. there was another candidate, katherine clark endorsed by the boston globe. he is young, he has a future ahead of him if he wants to be involved in lbgt issues or on another scale. yes with renow talking aboutment him. he has one in that respect. >> this is not a race where different candidates have different ideological stances, it's all about identity. if this ad helped in anyway to sort of help voters like him better, i think it's certainly an ad helpful for him. >> it wasn't a general election ad, i'll be real interested, if he gets 15 or 20%. it's a five-way race. 25% could win this. it was supposed to be the biggest achievement for president obama. it has nothing to do with the shutdown. it is going nowhere because of the shutdown. we will talk to one of the democrats trying to change that. that

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steve kornacki notes democrats supported it by 125-111 margins while republicans supported it by 105- spread. in other words, the debt ceiling was used symbolically but there was not a suggestion of actual default. all that began to change in 1995. can you guess who was leading the charge? republican house speaker newt gingrich. he declared he wouldn't raise the debt ceiling without a ballot budget amendment saying i don't care if we have no consecutive offices and no bonds for 60 days. not this time. wrote at the time, such confrontational tech neegs have been used in the past. it was highly unusual for a high government leader to suggest, as mr. gingrich did, that default on government pails was not beyond the pale. marked the point the weaponization of the debt ceiling began but never deployed it. when the government shut down and sent approval into free fall weeks, weeks ahead of the default deadline, gingrich pledged to raise the debt limit. what has changed since then. for the first time in history, 80 members of the are ready to take beyond the brink. the debt ceiling is a shoc

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and i'm dressed this halloween as steve kornacki.s tonight, starting at the white house, where you might have noticed, it's been something of a rough couple of weeks for the president. with the rocky rollout of his signature health reform law dominating the news, the political toll is real and it is getting worse. and nowhere is the damage more apparent than in the latest polling from nbc news, where president obama's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 42%. that is a five-point drop from just earlier this month. these numbers, as bad as they are, don't necessarily exist in a vacuum.

brian and now the host of up against the clock, it's steve kornacki. >> thank you, bill walsh.thank you for everybody tuneing in at home for another dramatic high stakes showdown here on up against the clock. we are joined by liz and basil, two new challengesers, well xom back to our returning champion brian who has already won twice and today he will go for the triple crown. everyone is anxious to get started. before we do, we give you a quick refresher, how this all works. this was a rapid fire quiz. three rounds, each is 100 seconds along, in the first round they are worth 100 points, in the second, they're worth 200. in the third round, they will be 300 points, the ph.d. round. don't forget, there are a few instant bonuses scattered throughout, these are follow-up questions, no chance on one single question. contestants, remember, you will be penalized for encorrect answers. as always, pleads, no outbursts, our contestants deserve and demand absolute concentration on up against the clock. alt also for an update, we are working on a scoreboard, our ace producer, and with tha

and i love steve kornacki, i love s.e. cupp. although he's down the hallway. the four of us have a real good vibe and thing going. i'm pleased with. >> you got to love that your ray. tomorrow krystle looks ahead to 2014 and makes predictions on the looming january government funding deadline. we'll meet her daughter ella who is clearly following her mother's footsteps. >>> the legal repercussions after a florida middle school commits suicide after being cyber bullied. who is legally at fault? answers next. is coming in and g. so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year. for seeing your business's cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight powered by pnc cfo. a suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. tomorrow krystle looks ahead to who is legally at fault? when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at

deposit, say hello to michael feel e steelement right now, the host of up against the clock is steve kornackiill. as always, thank you at home for tuvening into up against thing clo. we had two new contestants joining yesterday. we say welcome to you victoria and jackie. they will be challenging our returning champion who will be going for his second consecutive victory. you know him. you love him. you play against him, michael steele. welcome back to up against the clock. i doubt anyone needs it. this is a rapid fire quiz about the week that was in politics. there are going to be three rounds in regulation play. each will be 100 seconds long in the first rourngsd questions will be 100 points. in the second, 200. they're a little harder. in the third round t. ph.d. round, they're worth 300 points. we will move fast and get through as many questions as we can. don't forget, there are a few instant bonuses scattered throughout. these are follow-up questions. condition tes tants remember, you will be penalized for incorrect answers in an important experimental rule change to tell you about. toda

say hello to susie and now the host of up against the clock, steve kornacki. >> oh, thank you, bill, audience, thank you for tuning in at home here on up against the clock. joined today by joe an rebecca, two new challengers, welcome to both of you. welcome back to our returning champion susie going today for her fourth appearance in the winner's circle. i know you are all anxious to get started. before we do, a quick refresher for those of you watching at home for the first time and how this all works. this is a rapid fire quiz show about the week that was in politics. there are three 100 second round in regulation play. questions are 100 in the first, 200 in the second, 300 in the third. it will get harder from round to round. there are also a few instant bonuses scattered throughout. these are follow-up questions, a no risk chance for you the contestant to double your winnings. contestants, remember, you will be penalized for incorrect answers. i will remind live, please, no outbursts, our contestants deserve an demand absolute concentration and an update for our viewers at home,

because last week did i learn a lesson, a lesson i just choked steve kornacki for, and it's a lesson that five seconds, in those five seconds complicated my perspective on the last two weeks. there i was, minutes before the final play of the nfl shutdown between my beloved new orleans saints and those new england patriots, all ready to gloat over the patriots' loss and the saints unblemished 6-0 record! after all, the numbers on the board made it pretty clear that this would be ending with one minute left in the game. the saints were up 27-23. who they say going to beat them saints? turns out we got the answer to that. in game's final five seconds, just enough time for trinidad and tobago to throw a 17 -- okay, i'm not going to cry -- a 17-yard touchdown and give the saints a heartbreaking loss. and that's what happens when you rush to declare a runner prematurely. you might miss out on the real loss coming your way, the drama of the government shutdown and the debt default may have played out like a political contest between democrats and republicans, but the economic impact on amer