holiday season which could make it a little more tricky when it comes to that debt debate now an a.p. poll found that four in five americans say they haven't felt any personal effects from this shutdown should they expect to feel it sooner or later. it all depends on what it is you do so that people who have been feeling the effects the most are either government workers or people that use national parks people that are fishermen on the federal coast lines they'll continue to feel the same effects of the shutdown the simple reality is and i'm sure that the white house says internal polling that most people haven't felt the effects and that i think has made the president feel comfortable in continuing to to push back on the republicans and say look i gave in to you before in two thousand and eleven i'm not going to give in again the republicans thought that they could push around the president like they had in the past it looks like they can't as long as that polling suggests that most people aren't feeling the effects the white house will probably continue to take this stand so i mean we a

. >> the a.p. poll in march dern. >> let me explain what i think -- because i think that is fair. the american indians are, what, 2%, 3% of the population. the largest coalition of american indians, the american council of american indians is on record strongly for changing the name as a drogue toffee name, as defined in the dictionary i want and they represent 150 trins, the vast majority of federal tribes, and two thirds of the native-american population. >> now -- here's how it's usually posed, should they changed name, or does the name redskins offend you? i'm a third-generation washingtonian. used the name all my life until the indians, the american indians raised my consciousness to something i veteran of the civil rights movement, did not know. so when people hear that it's derogatory, they wonder, are they saying i'm a racist? and since i'm not, i -- i go into denial. therefore i deny that this name is derogatory. but if we have a fencef to advocate people about why it's derogatory, and to make them understand that it is not for us to decide what is derogatory. it is for t

the new a.p. poll found three out of four people who tried visiting the page online had trouble signing up. officials say the website was designed to handle 60,000 users at the same time, but more than four times that number have tried using it as certain moments. now for months experts raised warnings that the site was not ready to go live, but the obama administration still pushed ahead. >> i think everybody is shocked who has been watching this from the inside at how bad it really is and how bad the computer programming and software and code in architecture is. >> every day's going to be better e and by the time we're done in the six-month period, millions of folks will have insurance. >> the white house is so far not saying just how many americans have signed up for the insurance. >>> well, his name is synonymous with corruption in detroit, and now former mayor kwame kilpatrick will go to prison for 28 years. kilpatrick was convicted earlier this year on two dozen counts, among them racketeering an

the new a.p. pollhe president's approval rating is now at 37%: congress is less popular now than mother-in-laws. people who do you have a higher opinion of congress or your mother-in-law? go figure, mother-in-law swamps congress. former democratic democrat doug wilder not at all surprised. governor, this is going from bad to worse. how do you see it all sorting out? >> you have described it well, neil. and i will tell you, the american people are sick of it. they are so sick of it. they are at a point now where they are not concerned with whose fault it is. it is hurt everybody and they are saying, look, pocks on both your houses. i can say this though. quite frankly the early returns are showing that the republicans have taken a beating on it wise up and say hey, look, we don't need to take any more of this beating. the democrats are taking the beating. taking a very severe beating. now, the problem is what's wrong with people talking. what's wrong with sitting down. what's wrong with negotiating. the

the new a.p. poll finds 62% of americans believe republicans hold almost all the responsibility for the shutdown. about half say democrats hold some responsibility. >>> 6:06. developing news. we could learn today if the body found at san francisco general hospital is that of a patient, a woman who vanished 2 1/2 weeks ago. a reliable source tells abc 7 news the body is that of 57-year-old lynne spalding, a patient who was last seen september 21st. an employee found the body in an exterior fourth floor stairwell yesterday morning. investigators are looking at surveillance video and talking to staff. spalding disappeared two days after being admitted for an infection. the hospital says it plans to release an update on the investigation sometime today. abc 7 news reporter katie marzullo will have the latest in the next half hour. >>> investors are waiting to see whether tech giant hewlett-packard will announce further belt tightening today. ceo meg whitman will give wall street an update on the company lo

olivier, the 5% poll number, the american people according to a new a.p. poll the job congress is doing. you don't find that as contradictory with the 98% re-election or recidivism rate that i do. >> right. that's right. congress now is obviously less popular than venereal disease, we established that a long time ago. but now the 5% number is really important because unless people turn on their own congressmen, in other words, if that number means man, i hate your representative, i wish he acted more like mine, she's great, that poll number is essentially meaningless. where it could pose a problem is for gubernatorial candidates in big diverse states who have to run a more centrist campaign who might be inclined to run against congress. it matters there and it matters in some senate races. but as a pure house number, it doesn't really mean that much to me. >> so a year after a presidential election as we all know, political geeks at least know, these are the important races that everybody is watching. new york city's mayor, but then on a broader level, there is

a new a.p. poll finds the american people are angry with both political parties in the way they are handling the shutdown. 68% of the poll say they blame republicans for the shutdown. 5% blame -- 53% blame president obama. congress has an approval of just 5%. but there are some encouraging signs this morning in washington, d.c. that congress is stepping back from the brink of economic disaster. senate republicans are sitting down with president obama in just about an hour. our reporter, kyla campbell, live in washington, d.c. with breaking developments in the race to raise the debt ceiling and also get the government reopened. kyla? >> reporter: dave, senate republicans are open to funding the government and raising the debt ceiling to cover the next three months. that's closer to what the white house wanted compared to the six-week deal the house gop offered yesterday. president obama met with house republicans yesterday. both sides said the discussion was good. the president told them what it would

. >> maryland enjoyed its first week in the top 25 of the randy edsel era sneak in on the a.p. poll another first -- later today, maryland off to a 4-0 start. evisceration of west virginia. they are top two in offense and defense in the a.c.c. but now they face eighth-ranked florida state at florida state and it's a venue at which never before! they claimed victory enrichment let's check in with some friday football afternoon. playing host to mount st. jos and oh, my goodness talk about the offensive coordinator there his son the quarterback at gillman. what an incredible athlete. looks like he barely breaks a sweat. just glides into the end zone. gillman with a comfortable victory 42-6 over mount st. joe's. game one of the alds fenway. boston-tampa bay. early, looking good for the rays. ben zobrist. deep over the green monster. started to fall apart in the bottom of the fourth. david ortiz. wil myers. to the left. second. did someone yell at him? no. he said he saw desmond jennings out of the corner of his eye and opened the floodgates from there. two-run double off the monster. bo

the team's attorney quickly responded to the president by citing a recent a.p. polld. meanwhile the oneida indian nation responded a few moments ago with this statement. as the first sitting president to speak out against the washington team name, president obama's comments today are historic. and former secretary of state kond leeza rice is expected to be one of the nine people named to the new college football playoff selection committee. that playoff will replace the existing bowl championship series because it's awful. >>> the stalemate continues. we're in the fifth day now of the government shutdown forced by the failure of house republicans and democratic-led senate to agree on a plan to fund the government. how did we get here? it's a very simple question. judd bernstein, msnbc contributor and former economic advisor to vice president joe biden and mark murray, a big deal for both of these men to be working on a saturday, but we wanted to bring them here to talk about what a lot of folks are saying is the real true cause of this. jar jared, you wrote about it

polls came out. we told you earlier about the a.p., associated press poll reported in context here the president's approvalack in april and now. that came out earlier this week. and a new poll, "the wall street journal"/nbc poll who is more to blame for the shutdown, president obama 31 pngt, republicans in congress 53%. there you see the rest. a lot of people have asked what's the break down of this poll in parties self-identified breakdown and this is how that breaks down. democrat 43%, republican 32%, independent 23% and you see the rest. what about this day and where we're headed? let's bring in our panel, syndicated columnest george will, and syndicated columnest charles. gentlemen, george, what do you think today? >> well, about the polls, i question how many americans are really thinking about this until the pollster says are you thinking about this and then they dutyfully say they're concerned and alarmed, et cetera. i also question how long this will have an effect after this as a receding memory. all that said, clearly the republicans are not enjoying this. but i'm not sure the president is either

another thing that's been out in the last 12 to 24 hours, the new a.p. pollt that? is that something that you've seen, congressman? >> i think that president obama is on an island that is beginning to flood. here's what i mean. this notion of not talking to people is, i think, very unpopular. while everybody can have different positions and that's have been articulated and argued over the past several weeks, the notion of saying, i am unwilling to sit down and negotiate substantively with other folks on the other side of the aisle, is something that most americans bristle at. it's not a position the president will be able to sustain over the next several days and he will, in fact, come to the negotiating table, particularly in light of the softening numbers. >> you know, as the chicago bears fan, when the vikings come in town, it's always been a great rivalry. if the coach of the vikings started going on tv talking about how he wouldn't do the same plays that the bears' coaches are doing, i probably would ignore him. i find it so odd that the democrats, of co

an a.p. poll,200 adults found that 7% tried to sign up for insurance on the exchanges, when applied to the general population, that could be as many as 20 million people. 3 out of 4 respondents had trouble signing up, 1 in 10 successfully bought insurance. the obama administration is expected to release enrollment statistics at the end of the month. our guest host is dick parsons. one of the things we've looked at is the health care rollout. it hasn't gotten a lot of attention because of the government shutdown and debt ceiling debates. how would you rate this to this point? this rollout? >> well, the rollout per se is obviously troubled. lots of glitches. that was inevitable given the complexity of the tax at hand. and i think that's -- that's -- that's the challenge the administration's going to have. fundamentally, most americans, i think, believe that there shouldn't be 40, 45 million people in this country without health insurance, without access to quality. but how do you provide it? how do

the a.p. poll with president obama at the lowest approval rating since the presidency at 37%. ship is meeting now, as i speak, and the white house is trying to keep lines of communication open is they realize this thing whipsaws both parties, both ways. the nbc poll said 80% of the american people think we are on the wrong track. that number, everybody bears responsibility for that. i would argue, having worked in the white house. that the president bears the most responsibility after six years in office, 80% of people think we are on the wrong track. >> the economy falls on the president. i asked sk you again. you are a master communique uh tor. if you are speaker boehner at the podium, what do you advise him to say? >> they need to get more specific about the impact of obama care on your wallet. there have been ridiculous shenanigans that the administration has used like denying the world war ii veterans the opportunity to see their memorial. putting little barriers up so you can't take a picture of the grand teton mountains. that's silly. people have been seeing that their p

a.p.'s headline for the p.m it reads "poll, no heros in shutdown. gop gets most blame." folks are saying. >> steve: we all do. thank you very much. >> brian: michael says this: the headline should have been, despite complete lack of leadership, obama surprisingly has an approval rating as high as 37%. >> elisabeth: another e-mail from c.j. in california said, my headline would be, obama's poll numbers finally catch up with reality. >> steve: well, and finally, amy e-mails and says, 37% of americans still in the dark. i get a feeling they don't like what they're seeing. then again, we had to pass it before we could see what was in it. >> brian: we have to pass it to see. i will not be hostage. i will not work with a gun to my head. >> steve: stop with the rhetoric. >> brian: coming up, why won't the main stream media ask the president the tougher questions? congressman sean duffy has been getting tough questions. he was asked by msnbc that exact same thing. >> we should all be treated equally under the law? why shouldn't members of congress be in obamacare and not the pre

poll, g.o.p. gets the blame in shutdown. so you can see how fair the a.p.lly is the entire obama care government shutdown thing is a catastrophe. there is no question obama care is not ready to be rolled out. all the evidence says that if the president would simply admit it and delay the individual mandate for aer yoorks the impasse would be solved. but mr. obama is too stubborn to do that and americans are starting to catch on. in the meantime, major damage is being done to the country and to the families of our service people killed in action. there is no excuse as i said. there is no excuse. hagel must go. he has lost all credibility among the military. and the president should order those payments immediately. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. joining us from washington. lt. colonel ralph peters and caved david hunt fox news analyst. who is most responsible for this in your opinion. >> it starts with the commander and chief we are at war, bill. we have been at war for 11 years. by the way, my family lost -- we lost my brother