jimmy williams is with us, an msnbc analyst. jimmy, your reaction to seeing this? of that footage right there, had those barriers not been there, that woman would have been able to drive literally up the graduated steps straight up to the capitol steps. those were put in after 9/11, they did their job. those are massive steel pilings put into the ground, and so what we did after 9/11 to secure the capitol complex worked today. our precautions actually worked and that's a great thing. what did not work i think is when you see her go around that monument and then she goes back up and then she takes a right up constitution avenue, there are massive metal plates that are supposed to come up, and there's no way she got all the way up past the capitol building up to the supreme court without going over two or three of those metal barriers. so those didn't come up. i assume that by the time she got up to the supreme court, that there's a set of barriers there that those did come up and that's why she was stopped. it looks like after 9/11 everything we did to make the capi

and joy reid, an msnbc contributor.aving lost in their plot to block the health care law by taking the federal government and the economy hostage, republicans have now decided to go home. they won't work with this president on anything because he had the nerve to beat them. politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including immigration reform. quote, prominent immigration supporters like marco rubio have also backed off any deal saying the obama administration has quote, undermined negotiations by not defunding his signature health care law. paul labrador of idaho says the president is trying to, quote, destroy the republican party and gop leaders would be crazy to enter into talks with him. involved in the pro-immigration movement said after obama poisoned the well, the chances for substantive reforms seem all but gone. let me go to david on this. david, this seems to be the new excuse for everything. the die dared to protect his baby and in sheer political terms, they must have

. >> the phrase all politics is local has an msnbc connection. made by tip o'neill.wrote a box about the working relationship, tip and the gipper. last week lawrence sat down with chris to talk about the book. in part three of their historic interview they talk why tip o'neill was right, all politics is local. >> tip was the congressman from my, the congressional district, that my mother grew up in. north cambridge. everybody always says. north cambridge. they need to distinguish from the harvard section of town. right. >> you are a hybrid. st. john's. >> i find myself. >> did you have any nicknames like booger reid. all the nicknames. >> all the nicknames around tip any office. >> my room mate. phil downy, friend with crazy nicknames. >> yeah, yeah, i was a kid. don't think i was 10 years old. found myself at a table with, with tip o'neill. where we ordered the same thing. he said, what do you want? i ordered strawberry ice cream. he had the same thing. his lunch as far as i could tell >> i would have lunch. i would go eat a sandwich. come in. say want a sandwich. w

joining me now, david korn, an msnbc columnist, and jonathan shea, columnist for new york magazine. out shufti ishutti the government is not the way to popularity. >> who would have guessed? who would have guessed? >> there was no evidence. >> first time. give it a shot. see what happens. could go either way. you know we in washington we look at polls like this. we get hyperventilated. >> go ahead. hyperventilate. i want to see that. the numbers are disastrous for republicans. not so bad for democrats. we have a long way to go. more importantly the way people process political information and wait they vote it often doesn't go according to national trend. districts are gerrymandered. there are 25, 30, competitive districts. within 435, you know, house seats. sand a a lot of districts are drawn, the competition might be in the earlier segment between republican and tea party republicans. so how this, this national dissatisfaction gets manifested in elections on a local level is really a hard thing. often a disconnect put there purposefully by people who control how the things work. o

dion an msnbc contributor, columnist from "the washington post." great to have you with us. >> great to be with you. >> what kind of reaction should america have to a man such as ted cruz having a cadillac insurance policy while he works to take insurance away from millions of americans who need it? >> well, i think they should be upset. when i heard what we were talking about, i went back and looked up one of my favorite quotations which says the law in its majestic equality forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. and the rich and the poor alike are equally free to buy health insurance, except a whole lot of people among the working poor can't afford health insurance. too many people in the senate, in the house of representatives and in a lot of other parts of our society including those who work in the media, have never had the experience of putting off doctor's visits over and over again for our kids, never had the experience of having to say, oh, gee, i need that prescription, but i

joan walsh is an msnbc contributor and editor at large of salon.his guy, since june he's gotten better known and doubly hated. the more he's singled out as someone people don't approve of. it's fast. i think he's a roman candle. up, all of excitement. and here it is the poll showing his unfavorables as i said. this guy is going nowhere. what's your thought? >> i agree he's going nowhere. he brought together left and right. we all agree we don't like him. that's one thing. i used to fear him as a 2016 contender and i don't so much anymore. i never thought he could win the presidency, but i thought he had a shot at the nomination. ron johnson and tom coburn are both, they don't deserve a whole lot more credit. because both of them are default deniers. they say they don't matter if we default. and they have voted with ted cruz. they haven't voted on a clean cr. they voted it down. harry reid has only passed that with democrats. so i think he's succeeded in pulling his party to the right even though personally he's destroyed his popularity. >> you know

. >> joining me now, sirius xm's michael smerconish, also an msnbc contributor and a great dad. would you have done, michael? >> well, two nights ago our 17-year-old came to us at dinner and said, this summer i want to go in on a senior house. there's nothing new about senior houses. they're as old as time. i have a suspicion -- >> i don't know what that is. i'm sorry. what is a senior house? >> senior house is you've graduated, you hang out with your buddies and throw parties. yes, beer is consumed. my hunch is that the senior house that my son envisions looks very much like the senior house in that picture. so here's the question that i ask as a parent. is my son safer in a house like that where adults are present, as was the case in this circumstance, where they had rules, no hard liquor, nobody drives, and no boys and girls behind closed doors, or is he safer without me there? now, i know the obvious answer is he's safer not being in an environment like that, but this is the reality. this goes on. it's hard to defend this guy if he's now not going to defend himself because "

and joy reid, an msnbc contributor. you heard it right there.ember of congress we know that they don't usually say. this congress doesn't look like america. it's become a place where the members are picking the voters. and the voters don't have much of a say in picking the members. >> yeah, like a revelation. sure on fox news. did you see where the other guy, before, that congressman was from virginia. if you are in virginia, one of the dwindling number of sort of blue and purple state republicans. you are panicking right now. your district looks more like america than let's say districts in alabama, georgia, or texas or ted cruz's state. the problem in virginia is you have a governor's race coming up. that sequester was hurting you. a lot of people mill terry. government contractors. and this shutdown is hurting you where you live. so that dwindling number of purple district republicans. there aren't many of them left. they actually could feel very real electoral effects from this. they're not from the right. so they, yeah, are raising the alar

the washington post" jackie kucinich, and the great ezra klein also of "the washington post" and an msnbc, i want to start with you. first i'd like to check in with tracy lee who joins us from a secure undisclosed location. you've been on the internet all day trying to find out how to enroll in paul ryan's new health care plan. bhou is the website? >> there is no website. >> what do you mean there's no website? tracy, you get back into it and we'll come back to you in a moment. ezra, i hate to rush to judgment, but is it too early to declare the rollout of ryan care a calamitous train wreck? >> i think it might be too early, martin. paul ryan has had a bunch of health care plans before. that's something that people kind of don't know about him. they've been abandoned by republicans as they drop this strategy of not having a health care plan at all. if you don't have one at all, nobody can attack you for the hard choices you have to make. i think that is really interesting about the kind of approach republicans are taking to obama care right now is that all the republican health care plans

and joy reid, an msnbc contributor.aving lost in their plot to block the health care law by taking the federal government and the economy hostage, republicans have now decided to go home. they won't work with this president on anything because he had the nerve to beat them. politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including immigration reform. quote, prominent immigration supporters like marco rubio have also backed off any deal saying the obama administration has quote, undermined negotiations by not defunding his signature health care law. raul labrador says gop would be crazy to enter into talks with him. involved in the pro-immigration movement said after obama poisoned the well, the chances for substantive reforms seem all but gone. let me go to david on this. this seems to be the thing on everything. he protected his baby, health care reform. having fought for it. they're blaming him for self-defense. self-defense politically is now the reason for blaming him for everything

irin carmon with msnbc.com, ryan grim with the huffington post as well as an msnbc contributor, coreyibuting editor for the root. corey, let me start with you. we have house speaker john boehner saying the word "conversation" over and over again, several times in his interview. take a listen. >> woe asked to sit down with the senate and have a conversation. >> we're interested inning of a conversation. it begins with having a conversation. it's about having a conversation. it's time for us to sit down and have a conversation. sit down and have a conversation. let's sit down and have a conversation. we've had conversations before. >> here's the thing. it's like sitting down to say we need to have a conversation about how you beat your wife. and basically it's you've got to go into that whole scenario of i don't beat my wife. why do we need to have this conversation? isn't it that separate approach that needs to happen here? why do we need to negotiate oversee confess tra-- sequestra. if you want to deal with the obama care law, let's deal with that separately. why do we have to deal wi

and "the washington post" ezra klein, an msnbc policy analyst. you both gentlemen to be positive. we've only got a few minutes here. help the viewer and consumer at the same time. what can be done to improve what's wrong? >> well, first and foremost it's important to understand that there are plenty of ways to access the plans besides the website. you can talk to people in person as well as over the phone. the good news is that i believe the steps that are in challenge right now, that is, in setting up the account and carrying you through the online market place, there is a team of people that are diagnosing and creating a punch list of those challenges that they're going to work through them in the coming days and weeks and are going to get them resolved. hopefully this will be a footnote in the experience. >> the idea, the concept of providing a market based solution to our health care challenge which is all these people who work for a living but don't have health care, is there something faulty in that concept? >> no. that's what's so deeply f

goldie taylor is an msnbc contributor and veteran herself. john, i want to start with you.ly there was the up roar over the denial of the death benefits. that got resolved. which was, you know, obviously a good thing. but it's obviously sparked some activity among your folks. what are you hearing from veterans? >> well, i don't actually know where to start. if you're a veteran right now and you're service connected and you've been wounded in iraq, afghanistan or vietnam for that matter in a couple weeks you're not going to get your disability check. if you're a college student under the new gi bill you also in several weeks are going to not get your check. if you're a member of the guard and reserve and you rely on that income or if we have a natural disaster and we need -- we were only created by the federal government and we can only be -- receive benefits from the federal government. we're affected by every agency out there. >> goldie, there are more than 22 million veterans in this country. over 8.5 million veterans depend on the v.a. for their health care. the shutdown

joining me live is former white house press secretary robert gibbs, who is now an msnbc contributor. robert, it's great to have you here and i hope you were able to hear exactly what the speaker was saying there. do you agree with that? do you think there is not a personality sniping issue going on behind the scenes and basically who's going to win out this negotiation? >> i think this is primarily an ideological battle. i think it started as an ideological battle over obama care. it may not be an ideological battle over spending. i was struck, thomas, in listening to that press conference. it seemed as if those members and the speaker were not necessarily trying to convince the american public of their message but trying to convince themselves of their message. trying to convince themselves that, no, it's not us that want to shut down the government. no, it's not us that think this is a good thing. we are trying to do something and get this government back to being open. and i kind of felt like i was in some sort of self-help class because i think they were trying to convince themse

chris matthews, an msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman haywahaywarrold -- >> he'snd from the national journal group ron fornier and former press secretary under president clinton, dee dee myers. >> she's been through a shutdown. >> but that one meant something. >> it was a great shutdown. those were the days. when a shutdown was a shutdown, dee dee myers. >> at least it was about budget issues. >> i was thinking about that. it was very specific. you know, just stop asking us to keep funding government at this level with deficits going up until you agree to balance the budget in seven years. it was very specific. >> don't forget medicare. >> at the end of the day, yeah, exactly. democrats had to demagogue medicare when it was going bankrupt and we saved it. we ended up not only with a shutdown. we had a fight. but we came together and balanced the budget. >> it was a good shutdown, man. chris matthews is here. >> it was a long one. >> it was long, man. >> let's get news in here. >> i was sweating. >> we'll let these guys go. it was billed as a big meet ing. the firs

in an interview with larry king, msnbc talked about fox and whether the hosts feel compelled to moveright. king followed up. >> there is a lot of group pressure in the places in those places. i feel it. it is there. you know your audience. i know i am talking. but i always want to keep a chunk of republicans and democrats. >> and president obama, diana williams, of abc closed with this. >> my daughter asked me to ask you, what is the coolest thing about being president? >> i understand wanting to end on a light note but the coolest thing is it beats every stereo teach about the liberal media swooning over barack obama. we love to hear from you. we will be back here next sunday morning with the >> good morning. it is october 21st. from the computer cross to low enrollment the obama care has been a debacle. the president is finally addressing the mess. does he have a solution? >> four american lost their lives on the attack of the u.s. consulate in benghazi. now a new book written by a hillary clinton ally calls the tragedy a hoax. the author behind this straight ahead. >> the football

a guy named thomas roberts is an anchor at msnbc, not a commentator, but a person who presents hard news, allegedly. mr. roberts interviewed republican congresswoman marsha blackburn on tuesday. >> when it comes to obama care, do you hate obama care more than you love your country? >> i've got to tell you something, i think that comments like that, that you are making are just incredibly inappropriate. what we have to realize is -- >> you don't think it's incredibly inappropriate to shut down our government -- you've taken the government hostage to a shutdown and now the american people you are walking to them a cliff, the economy, and you're going to push them over one by one based on the fact that you don't like the aca. that's all it is. >> listen to yourself. we didn't want a government shutdown. just listen to the way you're sounding. my goodness. >> but why is congresswoman blackburn surprised? did she really believe she'd get a fair shake in those precincts? really? the facts are clear, both republicans and democrats try to drive agendas in the federal funding debate. that's usual

in an interview with larry king, msnbc talked about fox and whether the hosts feel compelled to move king followed up. >> there is a lot of group pressure in the places in those places. i feel it. it is there. you know your audience. i know i am talking. but i always want to keep a chunk of republicans and democrats. >> and president obama, diana williams, of abc closed with this. >> my daughter asked me to ask you, what is the coolest thing about being president? >> i understand wanting to end on a light note but the coolest thing is it beats every stereo teach about the liberal media swooning over barack obama. we love to hear from you. we will be back here next sunday morning with the latest "buzz." >>> the government rere-opens. the debt creating is raised. there are more budget battles ahead. >> this deal kicks the can down the road. >> there is a lot more we need to do. >> as federal employees go back to work, the president pushes a new agenda. >> there are no winners here. the last few weeks have conflicted unnecessary damage on our economy. >> the republican party licked its

and when it needed to work, when the media was doing an actual demonstration on msnbc on live television oops, it didn't work. so i think there have been some publications that have been fair. forbes has been fair it. there have been a number that have actually covered the problems. but really to cover it fairly you have to understand the bill, and i don't think a lot of reporters understand -- well, i should say the law. i don't think most of them will be signing up for it. and i have to say in robert's defense, have you seen his girlfrien girlfriends? he's dated a lot of women from different countries so he maybe could complete this list. >> could we roll the shot of bob schieffer over the weekend talking about whether americans like or dislike it. >> there is bipartisan opposition to obama care, not support. there's only partisan support. and you know good and well -- >> congresswoman, that's not entirely true. polls don't suggest that. >> no. i think -- >> polls show most favor it. >> no. most people oppose what is happening with obama care. i have looked at poll after poll after pol

with the launch of the new msnbc website. >> an awful lot simpler than the affordable care act website. >> every website is complicated. just because you can click on something doesn't mean it is simple. lots of promises on the website, healthcare.gov. yes, a mess to begin with. any one who has done this, who can see how quickly they're crunching through this, you have got to take your hat off to them. a lot of man hours going in right now. >> robert reich. ironic that the story that has come along to, kind of -- overstated possibly, helpfully in a way for the obama administration, the website problem is this story abut, people are losing health insurance. that here we have the launch of the affordable care act. and the, the story that is leading the news now is people, losing health insurance. the president just explained its a kind of gross oversimplification of what is actually happening. >> well, not only an oversimplification, lawrence, i mean that -- it is terribly misleading. i mean that 5% of americans in the private insurance market. half have been losing their health insuranc

an election. >> joining me now, msnbc's crystal ball, and former congressman patrick murphy. john boehner just had a press conference. it was almost more of a statement. you asked him if he had a response to the 800,000 government workers who now find themselves furloughed. and it didn't really sound like speaker boehner had an answer. >> reporter: i asked him that question. and he said the house has voted to keep the government open but we also want fairness for all americans under obamacare. i've covered john boehner since the day he became speaker, and i can tell you the only time i've ever seen him like this was he held a late press conference when he announced he was no longer going to talk to president obama anymore. that was a sad john boehner, that was a dejektsed john boehner. he had one thing to say. he's usually quite jovial with reporters. he didn't want anything to do with us. he wanted to go to bed or plot the next step. one of the more underreported stories here on the hill is these federal workers are going to be furloughed. there's no guarantee they get their