joining me now are ari melber and goldie taylor.ou both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverend. >> goldie, why do they always take these attacks to the extreme? >> it's laughable to me. none of these people were talking about changing the rules or the lack of democracy about changing the rules at the eleventh hour when they changed the rules for a government shutdown. there's a lot of hypocrisy going on here. and so this president -- harry reid in particular -- found a way that was available to him under the law to make certain some of the president's nominees could go forward and fill some critical seats. so i just think this was the right thing to do. but you've watched republicans pull stunt after stunt. every one of them, mind you, within the bounds of the law. but stunt after stunt in advancing this obstructionism. so when the rules are changed against them, suddenly all of democracy is at stake. >> ari, you know, it's not enough for rush limbaugh, the republican leader, to attack the preside president. he also at

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. >> i'm ari melber, it would take john boehner 13 hours to read the immigration bill.of toronto spoke words again today. that's all i u need to know. >> plus the guy who found steve jobs and we ka walk our way to recovery and the winner of the cor cor cornacki challenge. ♪ >> house republicans just pushed through a bill allowing insurance companies to sell individual companies even

. >> ari melber gets tonight's last word. thanks for keeping it clean after that mayor of toronto. we crossed a line there. >> you got it. >>> counterpunch. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in chicago. let me start tonight with this. president obama took back the health care fight today. he unleashed a brisk combination of both defense and offense. he declared people who had their own health insurance before his bill became law had a chance to reup with their current plans. a total failure to present even the outline of their own plan to save the country's 40 million uninsured from life in the emergency room. can the president regain control of the fight? can he begin to stand toe-to-toe with his critics with whom is empty handed? can he win the argument he alone is offering a solution to the country's health care challenge after decades of debate, log jam, and failure. can he win this historic test? howard fineman and jonathan gruber. gruber was an adviser to congress and the president on the affordable care act. anyway, president obama has taken fire

that sense, just racial profiling any individual should be deemed wrong. >> vince warren and ari melberh. and for much more on these types of issues, i want to direct you to an excellent article that ari haze written on former felonies and the barriers they face this trying to vote as part of the ongoinged "presumed guilty" series. you can find it on our website at msnbc.com. >>> coming up next, the bullying allegations rocking the nf. we have a fantastic panel that's going to dig deep into the issues here. it's sunday morning and we are doing football, nerdland style. we'll talk about masculinity, race, money, culture, that's how we do football. stay with us, because there's more nerdland at the top of the hour. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. hands for holding. feet, kicking. better things than the joint pain and s

. >> thank you very much, ari melber. afternoon, it is wednesday november the 13th.et the fight begin. ♪ >> i had no idea obama care was going to be exclusive. >> look for issa to get into the nitty-gritty. >> using it were as easy as kayak.com or buying a television on amazon.com. this is an insult to go live and explode on the launch pad. even vista launched better. >> so now i'm the boss? >> you mean the president. >> this is the gop plan for the rest of the year. why? they don't have anything else to do. >> nobody in this country believes the republicans want to fix the website. >> the american people do not want to see a kangaroo court. >> this is not a partisan hearing. >> the pac panic is set in. >> the president didn't honor the commitment the federal government made. >> i'm inclined to agree with bill clinton. >> hillary clinton is looking to run away from obama care. >> we're better off with this law than without it. >> i don't think this is ever going to work. >> i'll join anything that won't have me. let me in, earth, wind and fire!

. >> i'm ari melber, it would take john boehner 13 hours to read the immigration bill. it's cool, we get that. >> the mayor of toronto spoke words again today. that's all i u need to know. >> plus the guy who found steve jobs and we ka walk our way to recovery and the winner of the cor cor cornacki challenge. ♪ >> house republicans just pushed through a bill allowing insurance companies to sell individual companies even if they are crappy, it sounds similar to the executive fix the president announced. the difference is it allows insurers to sell those plans to new customers as well so you too can get screwed if you want. 39 house democrats voted for the bill. even if it passes the democratically led senate, the president has said it's dead on arrival. jay carney didn't have much to say about the upton bill but happy to spin the numbers and we reported it here first. >> what we did not expect was that we would have the precise problem we had come october 1st. if we had expected that, we wouldn't have been promoting the launch of the website in the way we were. >> nbc's

i'm ari melber in for alex wagner. u.s. severed ties with iran and every president thoepd make a deal. at 3:00 in the morning on sunday the administration achieved a breakthrough. after a year of secret bilateral negotiations the u.s. reached an interim deal on iran's nuclear program. it will temporarily pause the program while negotiators pursue a long-term agreement. the deal, which will continue for six months they agree to stop enriching above 5% and not enthe stockpile. they will not install additional centrifuge. these will be enforced by daily inspections by iaea. beyond that sanctions that kr crippled the iran will be eased to $6to $7 billion benefit. when they returned last night they were greeted by hundreds of cheering supporters. american officials have not received such an amiable reception. this morning, "wall street journal" knocked the deal as a triumph for iran. lawmakers from both parties hit a skeptical note as well. >> i think this deal, interim deal with iran is, in fact, dangerous. it is a deal which b

. >> ari melber gets tonight's last word. thanks for keeping it clean after that mayor of toronto.ou got it. >>> counterpunch. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in chicago. let me start tonight with this. president obama took back the health care fight today. he unleashed a brisk combination of both defense and offense. he declared people who had their own health insurance before his bill became law had a chance to reup with their current plans. a total failure to present even the outline of their own plan to save the country's 40 million uninsured from life in the emergency room. can the president regain control of the fight?

. >> thank you very much, ari melber. afternoon, it is wednesday november the 13th. the numbers are

joining me is ari melber who writes about justice. here's what the plaintiffs say.olates the first amendment. quote, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. what's their basic argument? >> well, the first amendment does two things, it protects our right to practice or not practice religion and it also bars the government from, as you just said, establishing one. their argument is simple. by specifically using mostly or exclusively christian prayers, this feels like establishing one specific religion. >> of course the supreme court itself opens with a prayer. congress starts each session with "god save the united states." the senate and the house open with a prayer. why would that be constitutional but not in greece, new york? >> well, one thing that they would say is that especially in the case of congress, they're very careful, and we know how political every little thing is there on the floor of congress, that they're very careful to either be general or have a diverse range of people offering pr

. >> ari melber gets tonight's last word. thanks for keeping it clean after that mayor of toronto.d a line there. >> you got >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president came before the country today for a remarkable hour, and what he said signalled a new front in the battle for the affordable care act. it's one that a lot of people have missed. but first, the administrative fix to the affordable care act announced today. the president's blunt effort to stand up and take responsibility for the problems that have dogged the rollout. >> i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem and today, i'm offering an idea that will help do it. the state insurance commissi

. >> ari melber gets tonight's last word. thanks for keeping it clean after that mayor of toronto. we crossed a line there. >> you got >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the president came before the country today for a remarkable hour, and what he said signalled a new front in the battle for the affordable care act. it's one that a lot of people have missed. but first, the administrative fix to the affordable care act announced today. the president's blunt effort to stand up and take responsibility for the problems that have dogged the rollout. >> i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem and today, i'm offering an idea that will help do it. the state insurance commissioner still has the power to decide what plans can and can't be sold if their states, but the bottom line is, insurers can extend current plans that would otherwise be canceled into 2014 and americans whose plans that have been canceled would choose to reenroll in the same kind of plan. those who got cancellation notices do deserve and have received an apolo

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we also welcome back ari melber and jimmy p. congressman, just tell me about this. not going to say it's a sleeper story, but as part of the cancellations, people are going to lose their doctor, too. you're a physician. that could be absolutely fatal for this brave woman and so manile manies like her. >> you know, god bless this poor lady. and like you said, millions like her. you know, as a doctor, there's something that you could always provide for people who you go in and you talk to them and you hold their hand and put their head on your shoulder and say we're going to do everything we can to help you and we're here for you and try to take away some of their anxiety. but right now you have people very sick, and you take the anxiety that comes with having a disease, and now you add all the questions of whether you'll have coverage, and in this case you won't have coverage, that makes it pretty daunting and makes it difficult for the doctor and the patient. >> see, ari, she writes in this, look, that the new plan -- she's referred to the california plan, okay -- t

i'm ari melber in for alex wagner. u.s.d ties with iran and every president thoepd make a deal. at 3:00 in the morning on sunday the administration achieved a breakthrough. after a year of secret bilateral negotiations the u.s. reached an interim deal on iran's nuclear program. it will temporarily pause the program while negotiators pursue a long-term agreement. the deal, which will continue for six months they agree to stop enriching above 5% and not enthe stockpile. they will not install additional centrifuge. these will be enforced by daily inspections by iaea. beyond that sanctions that kr crippled the iran will