for funds. >> we have to live it there, chris cillizza, ruth marcus, thank you both very much. >>> onesince superstorm sandy made landfall devastating communities in new york, new jersey, connecticut. congressman chris smith from new jersey will be joining me to share how his district is still rebuilding, still recovering. >>> one year ago today the storm was barreling up the east coast. here is a look back at lester holt reporting on "nightly news" as millions were bracing for its impact. >> the wind is howling. just over my shoulder the roiling chesapeake bay telegraphing power of sandy parallel to us, off the coast. arrival at landfall has forecasters using terms like mega storm. an unheard of link up between hurricane and two win-like storm systems expected to generate life threatening storm surges, damaging winds, rain and snow impacting up to 60 million people. i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month.

susan page and chris cillizza. one of those republican members who is not happy with leadership and what has happened is peter king. you've been listening to this congressman. thank you very much. you've seen all the signals in this poll. it could not be clearer that the republican party strategy had no strategy for getting out of this mess. >> andrea, this the strategy of ted cruz. going back to mid september i said ted cruz was a fraud, there was a dead-end to this policy and made no sense to follow it. john boehner also told us in early september it would be the wrong thing to do to shut down the government in an attempt to defund obama care. unfortunately we have three or four republicans in the house, cruz republicans, who basically threatened to bring the house down if john boehner did not pursue this policy. john knew it was not doing to work. he felt he had no choice of i understand his position. i'm more concerned about why more republicans around the country didn't join me in denouncing ted cruz. we have

chuck todd and chris cillizza standing by watching with me. there is not only no bargaining going on, he was calling out the speaker, chuck. they seem to be toughening their position. >> toughening the position but toning down rhetoric. a couple of things the president went out of his way to emphasize. number one, the democrats have already compromised. they have made it a lot but not a forward case, already a republican budget reflecting republican priorities when it comes to spending levels, sequestration, et cetera. then the idea he's not willing to negotiate, he says i'm perfectly willing to negotiate after the threat -- the shutdown threat and debt ceiling issue is there. trying to sort of shift the rhetoric so it isn't all about, which republicans are trying to frame it, hey, the president won't negotiate, the president trying to push back on that talking point. i'm more than willing to negotiate just not under these preconditions that republicans want. i think it's notable you see a different tone and a little bit different emphasis on

another depressing report kelly and chris cillizza. we'll try to come up with better news. >>> up next, israel's benjamin netanyahu on a charm offensive and why he isn't buying it. ais "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, want to trade the all-day relief of two aleve for six tylenol? what's the catch? there's no catch. you want me to give up my two aleve for six tylenol? no. for my knee pain, nothing beats my aleve. >>> israel's prime minister netanyahu has strong warnings about iran's diplomatic overtures. i sat down with him yesterday and he called hassan rouhani a wolf in sheep's clothing. i asked netanyahu why he is so sure rouhani is lying. >> well, he talks about his revere for democracy in iran." he tweets here in the united states but they don't let iranian people twitter. he talks about the scourge of terrorism. iran conducts as we speak now terrorist operatio

chris cillizza. >> yes, i think you're right andrea and what we've seen, day eight of this, into daythe shutdown. it's rhetoric in political positioning more than it is slogs oriented. president obama obviously going to have a news conference shortly after the show at 2:00 today. i'm not sure given what came out of the phone call, very brief call it seems like between president obama and john boehner simply saying president obama reaffirming he's not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling and john boehner saying okay, i don't know that we should expect a big breakthrough here. my guess is if the president tows that line. there's no way out here, we're not going to throw you a political line, we're no closer than 24, 46, 72 hours ago, which is how far is john boehner willing to go, will the president eventually negotiate at some left, sit down at the table or not? we're asking the questions we asked one week ago. >> chuck todd, i sense there's give here. you give me entitlement, relief on sequester we have a little more spending. lets talk about tax reform, all of this. it's all negot

chris cillizza, see you later. thank you again. >>> fallout over healthcare.gov, website set up for americans to shop for health care plans. technical glitches not allowing thousands to sign up before the deadline. here is tom costello with surprises. >> who is behind the website, the prime contractor is the u.s. arm of a canadian company cgi federal. cgi's business with the government grew dramatically during the bush administration. on october 4th, 2011, it was awarded $55.7 million for computer systems design services to build the website with a ceiling price tag of $94 million. by may of this year the contract shows cgi had spent $196 million. the ceiling price tag had soared to $292 million. >> is this escalation in price due to the fact of the quick turnaround time to get this up and running? are there technical glitches and bugs driving the cost p? >> the government said the cost went up as more states joined the federal exchange. for weeks cgi has declined a comment to nbc news about the rollout. last week

joining me from "the fix" kelly o'donnell and chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and host of tv's in play. you came from the briefing, questioned the speaker, lets listen. >> mr. speaker, can you guarantee to the american people congress will not go past the deadline and push us into default. >> i've made clear the idea is wrong and we shouldn't get close to it. >> it's very clear this speaker does not want to push the house, push congress, push the united states government over the edge. is he in control? we have a last minute plan from house republicans that says there's a deal breaker. >> almost a feeling of containment strategy with john boehner. dealing with his republican conference, what we're told the offer discussed this morning which basically takes when the senate bipartisan deal, it adds on to that something very important to the most volatile group within the republican conference, which are the most conservative tea party members who do want to see some kind of change to the health care law. it has been enormously watered down from where this began. now what they are talking

joining me now is chris cillizza, msnbc contributor, host of in play and columnist ruth marcus. ome both. first to you, chris. what are you hearing about negotiations, 3:00. is this the president showing any willingness to have a modified susan collins plan, perhaps without the medical device being included in the first round? >> i think that certainly sounds possible, andrea. look, here is what's hard i find in situations like this. you don't know who really knows the situation, so you're hearing optimism joe manchin voicing optimism. harry reid, who i think would know, says we're moving in the right direction. it's a cliche but it's true, nothing is settled until everything is settled. the devil is in the detail in these things. everyone in these rooms, the president, mitch mcconnell, harry reid, they all don't want the country to get pushed up against this october 17th debt ceiling deadline. it's the how that is always dangerous. i remember we were on friday and we thought john boehner on the debt ceiling, maybe this was the vehicle. 24 hours later that wasn't the vehicle. thi

joining me from the daily fix chris cillizza, host of tv's in play. thanks for joining me this afternoon. chris, i want to start with you. you just wrote a column about the fact jon stewart might be president obama's biggest problem. really, bigger than john boehner? >> well, look, here is the deal. obama care is the law of the land. i think we've seen over the last mon month. we've seen delaying it isn't going to happen. now it moves into implementation and public perception of implementation. john boehner on the delay. jon stewart had three separate segments dedicated to tearing apart implementation of obama care one way or another. the first 10.5 minutes of basically 22-minute show once you subtract for commercials. we've seen all kind of data about the young viewership of jon stewart. pew did a poll about how viewership excuse. the colbert report was the only show who had more young people 18 to 29 watching it than "the daily show." jon stewart will make or break this. i do think you have him on a full assault on it. i would add earlier in the mont

joining us for our daily fix chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and host of "in play," susan page in person. chris, we'll begin with you. at the very least numbers have to make folks in the white house worry. growing bipartisan lawmakers in both the house and senate seeing a delay is a good way forward on this. the unity that helped this president during the shutdown fight is gone. how does he revive it? >> peter, i think it's not just the numbers but the people who have signed on. if you look at the ten democratic senators who have signed on, too, this is not a huge thing. but delaying the open enrollment period for some unspecified amount of time first offered by jeanne sheheen, kay hagan in north carolina. i would add an interesting one, michael bennet in colorado. michael bennet not up for re-election until 2016. he is the chairman of the senate democratic campaign arm which to me tells you about everything you need to know about the politics of this at the moment for democrats in sort of targeted seats. >> susan, i want to ask you about what happened moments before we sat down here. we

andrea. >> chris cillizza, there's a fallout also for 2014 elections. what about winners and losers going forward? first read had a pretty good rundown how it will affect senators, matt cochran, a veteran senator is being challenged. the tea party is active. >> senate conservative fund, a group jim demint used to be affiliated with, now a super pac run by former demint staffers came up and said we're going to actively look at endorsing more conservative candidates in primaries. i will say, andrea, i was a little bit surprised, maybe i'm naive, i was a little surprised. i asked how many republicans in the house will vote for this compromise. i thought 150 maybe. many people said well under 100. the safe vote when you think about a primary challenge, remember, that's what most of these members worry about now given where the redistricting lines are. the safe vote is voting against it. it wound up right, 87 votes in favor of it. obviously all 198 or 200 who voted for it voted in favor so it passed. a remarkable testament. look how that broke out. look who

joining me now mark mazzetti national security correspondent for "new york times" and chris cillizza contributor and host of "in play." i was talking to congressman schiff on the committee and he said there's going to have to be a narrowing of the nsa's reach of broad metadata as it were. he does not see justification for spying on friendly allies. that is really the flash point that has got europeans and now senator feinstein on the senate side and senator collins on the senate side who say they were not briefed in the senate intelligence community. >> interesting you have a lot more congressional outrage over the listening to foreign leaders than the collection of metadata of american citizens. but there is sort of two controversies at the same time, the foreign and domestic. that's what various communities hearing from intelligence officials about. you're correct, the white house really has had to face a cre amount of controversy in the last semple days and political fallout from the leafulations about spying on foreign leaders. >> mark, is it credible the president did not know?

joining me now for our daily fix is chris cillizza. chris, you watch eed hearing. you've taken a look at this poll. we know there's more to come in the poll tonight that chuck todd will have. where do we stand now? is this fixable or has this become, you know, a major problem in redefining this president and this administration? >> well, you know, andrea, i would say based on the poll, the question you just released, i do think it is sort of an up in the air question. you have roughly equal margins of people saying the website problem is a problem that can be fixed and is not indicative of broader problems with the law. you have 30-ish percent saying it's indicative of broader issues. that's the sort of rub here politically speaking. is this about a website that everyone has acknowledged is not working the way it should, or is it sort of the leading edge of a broader definition that the law is just not ready for primetime? if it's the former, i'm not sure how damaging it is politically. but if it's the latter, you're going to hear a lot about health care, healthcar

joining us off the bat the daily fix team chris cillizza, host of tv "in play." bureau chief susan page, fellow northwesterner. always get a club there. chris, start with you, officials testifying say all the responsibility for sticking with the october 1st rollout date was on the government agencies, specifically cms putting more spotlight on the administration and secretary sebelius. so did we learn anything new here? >> honestly not really, peter, i think this was a little bit of sort of the finger pointing blame game that can be expected when something that is this high-profile does as poorly in its inception as has been done, acknowledged by the president, many republicans. i honestly think what this is is sort of the appetizer to the main course, which is next week kathleen sebelius there will be more scrutiny of her, more questions i think she won't be able to put off on the government agency. i think this is the ab advertiser to the main course. >> so too a lot of people the appetizer to a ig abouter conversation, extension of enrollment period. we're seei

chuck todd, chris cillizza, thank you both very much. as we have been reporting, the bodies of four fallen military service members who were killed on sunday in afghanistan were met by their grieving family members earlier today right here at dover air force base. they were killed by an improvised explosive device during a combat mission in kandahar province. sergeant patrick hawkins, u.s. army ranger from carlisle, pennsylvania. he was moving to the aid of a fellow wounded ranger when he was killed. patrick had just celebrated his 25th birthday. 24-year-old private first class cody james patterson was also an army ranger. he was the r the regiment's manneder said he had a limitless future he would have successful in whatever path he had chosen in life. he chose to serve his country by volunteering for the most difficult and challenging duties of a united states army ranger. first lieutenant jennifer moreno was a member of the cultural support team at the u.s. army special operations command. the 25-year-old was from san diego, californi

politically speaking i think it would be very difficult to do. >> chris cillizza, thank you very much shutdown heads into its first weekend, the impact already for government closings by the numbers and impact coming up. 3.4 million veterans will not receive benefits if the shutdown extends for more than two to three weeks. at the fda inspections scaled back including 50% of fruits, 20% of vegetables imported from other countries. five head start programs serving 5,000 preschoolers in alabama, acc, florida, mississippi and georgia have already closed. these students in central florida will not be going back to school monday if there's no deal by the end of the weekend. >> they don't understand how it's affecting us. >> at the national institute of health's headquarters, 200 new patients will be turned away each week that the shutdown continues unable to participate in new clinical trials. in california, michelle langman, who has been diagnosed with carcinoma is waiting for a drug trial she hopes will save her life. >> i would just like to let congress know that this decision needs to

and chris cillizza, thanks so much. >>> it's halloween, my favorite holiday. unfortunately it's trick for many treaters this year because of weather. weather is putting a damper on the festivities today in large portions of the country. a massive storm system expected to bring high winds and dump buckets of rain. sounds like it's already dumping from texas to the northeast today. several cities in indiana, kentucky and ohio have already postponed trick or treating until friday. in new jersey, by the way, two years in a row with big storms, now trick or treating. the "today" show was able to fit in fan favorite extravaganza on the plaza. they did not disappoint. calling on classic television characters for this year's customs. take a look. see if you can figure out who is whom. >> how did i get here? jibber jabre. jazz again. >> i need a milk and pepsi. >> yab ba dabba doo. >> they saved the most shocking transformation for last. ♪ they played the monster mash >> a side of matt lauer you've never seen. you have to wonder, could they top that next year. should t

chris cillizza is back with us.he deadlines and what nancy pelosi said when she said the vote could be tonight or even tomorrow morning, going past midnight won't matter if the vote is a done deal. what have we learned? we've got this deal, the budget confer ees will be meeting, supposed to come up with a budget by december 13th. the government will stay open until january 15th when the temporary spending bill they are supposed to pass tonight in the senator today in the senate and tonight or tomorrow in the house goes through and the debt ceiling, importantly will be extended until february 7th. >> well, andrea, on your timing point, the debt ceiling we all focused on the october 17th date. but most economists said until about october 23rd, you might not see the really big impact. a few hours here or there, if wall street and the global economy knows a deal is coming will be fine. on the broader point, i worry honestly, there's a lot of self-con grat lags going on. if you watch the senate and house, you would think

joining me is chris cillizza, who is back.u and you and everyone on breaking news kathleen sebelius's spokes person says we are in close communication with the committee which wanted her to testify this week and expressed our desire to be responsive to their request. we fully intend for the secretary and other hhs officials to testify before congress as early as next week. as they have numerous times in the past but nothing is confirmed at this time. we've already indicated to the committee that she ip tended to testify but had a scheduling conflict. we continue to work with them for a mutually agreeable date. sounds like she is going to testify. >> you know what, kristen, i think she would have to testify at some point. i think what you're seeing there is the white house wants to sort of pick its spot. they probably can't keep her congress from getting her to testify but they can pick what she testifies. and president obama coming out this morning as he did and basically saying, yeah, the website is not great but the law is -

chris cillizza, msnbc contributor. and founder of therun2016.com. first, chris, i'm going to start with you. i'm going to read some of the low lights from this twitter feed. quote, loved "the new york times" column eviscerating the clintons today. chelsea clinton seems to be assuming all of her parents' vices. another one, was huma wearing beer goggles the night she met anthony weiner? these are tough tweets. what are the broader implications of this? >> and you're reading the ones we can read on cable television. >> good point. >> you know, i guess i'm continually amazed at -- and this happens -- this happened in the 2008 campaign with john edwards carrying on an affair and fathering a child while also running for president, wanting to be vice president. i'm always amazed that people in public life think that they can keep these two things separate, that people won't find out. the age we live in now, people will find out. anonymous is, in my opinion, not really a thing anymore when you are either an elected official or a major high-level staffer her

the only debate within the party, writes "washington post's" chris cillizza, is whether it is a short-term long-term collapse. to the latter, argued in the new republic we could be witnessing a death throes of the republican party. previously managed to keep the party together. >> right now in the republican party, the base of the party is in the south, overwhelmingly white and very, very conservative. all they do is live in a small bubble, media bubble and talk to each other. >> if you look at republicans across many of the states, governors or state legislatures, republicans are doing good work but nationally they have taken a hit on reputation. >> that is the argument, gop may be losing bad inside the beltway but somehow, someday the governors will save them. if congressional rs keep this up they will have to pull a sister, grandma solja to stay in the game. they want to part of washington politics. >> when we see the craziness down in washington, d.c. today, people say they want to be in public life to run the government and their solution to doing that is not speak to each other and s

joining me mow for our daily fix, chris cillizza, and nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, first to you. what do you expect? are there any signs a all of negotiating or of beginning to budge on this, especially if the white house is saying consistently that they are not going to change their position on obama care? >> well, ann dree yarks i think there are new activities, but does that mean there's any new real movement? that i don't see yet. i can tell you that senator harry reid has placed a phone call to speaker boehner followed up by a letter that i've got here on my ipad that begins with this sort of interesting political statement. this is reid to boehner. i hated the iraq war. i think i hated it as much as you hate the affordable care act. sort of setting the tone of they've both been in difficult positions politically in the past. now, reid goes on later in the letter to say to boehner, if you open the government, i will appoint the negotiators from the senate side to work with negotiators from your side to begin a bigger conversation about the long-term debt