joined by abc news matthew dowd, jennifer granholm. bill kristol of the weekly standard.nd paul krugman from the "new york times." bill, let me begin with you. two months ago, thought a shutdown would be possible. all of the leaders, republican leaders in the house and senate against it, yet it's happening? >> these people are electing individually. so, they have decided they would like to delay the implementation of a bad law, which the president has had to delay parts of it. if the republicans were in total disarray, i think it's impressive with what the republicans have done. the party has rallied. the party is doing fine in the polls. president obama hasn't succeeded in getting his legislation passed. which is a good thing. >> isn't that going to backfire? >> not necessarily. a day or two or three. as you know, it's a little delicate. look, why not delay least at least parts of obama care for a year? >> because it's the signature achievement. it's funny -- >> is that a good reason? >> it's a good reason. it happens to be a very good law. >> one thing that's going on h

forest service and the park service are starting to focus their efforts on forest restoration maggie dowd is the district ranger for the stanislaus national forest. she says the first job that needs to be done, and it's already underway , is clearning out a lot of the burned timber. charred trees like these could fall over without warning and then after that we're looking in to the restoration work which could be many different treatments like replacing culverts, managing soil stabilization and planting ofcourse the next big challenge is preventing soil erosion. the fire burned away a lot of the grass and shrubs that held the soil together. heavy rains could wash this loose dirt into the nearby streams and rivers, ruining water quality and damaging natural habitats. the fire has damaged a lot of the slopes that are in that canyons. we need to repair the stream beds to bring back the aquatic wildlife of course, it will take a long time for the forest here to return to what it was like before the fire. but dowd says that even though the rim fire is still burning, the forest is already heali

you may take down crugman but dowd will be right behind way cutting and unfavourable comparison with you an let's say mcdreamy from gray's anatomy. she goes down you still have to contend with christoph, freedman or doe dt this at, dod-- brooks, brooks-- we'll be right back. >> jon: welcome back. you know, living in the new york city we're continually reminded of where our food comes from. whether it be shake shack or secretary avenue deli. but did you know that the food that you eat comes from someplace before that? (laughter) aasif mandvi filed this report. >> america's heartland grows crops to feed the world. but we often forget to acknowledge those who bring us this bountiful harvest year after year. biotech companies. >> biotech companies are revolutionizing farming. >> really? >> yes, they are helping to put more food on tables throughout the world. >> for instance biotech giant monsanto makes patented genetically modified seeds that resist highly toxic weed killers. which they also happen to make. but now their time-honored way of lifed is under attack. >> sometimes farmers ac

i assume he's filling in for maureen dowd while she on vacation with pull onium.song. because news splash, "new york times", he murdereds journalists. we don't do that in america. we just let you starve today in-- to death in your dying industry. and just look at this crap, a plea for caution from russia, by vladimir v putin. by the way, the v, stands for vladimir. (laughter) another one, that's how russian he is. no surprise, folks, the great lady has got her legs spread for vlad the impailer here. they've got a long history of legitimizing ironfisted tyrants. in the 80ses could who forget qaddafi front page, hot for spring, moo-moo mannia. or in the 70s pol pot's misconnections page cambodian paranoid genocideo lover seeks educated city dweller for long walks, beautiful sunsets, no fatties. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: and the thing itself is a piece of crap. basically saying blah, blah, blah, don't attack our buddies in syria, the world wouldn't like it, it might be bad for you. but what really scrambled my fabrege egg is how putin ends it by questioning the on

contractors are liable for not meeting hiring requirements and if a project is deficient in any trade, dowd will work with a contractor to provide a plan. so with that there's off ramps and exemption. if a contract can't meet local hire requirements, penalties may be completed by sponsoring a new apprentice and retaining those apprentice or they may receive off site credit by employing san francisco resident on non covered within the bay area. that's exempt in the local requirements if it's less than five percent of the total work hours or included in oewd list and trades. there's a short list that includes marine pile driving, crane operator drivers and the tunnelling craft and stainless steel welding and connecter, utility workers. those are actually the exact trades under the ordinance. so it is currently in its third year. so per the ordinance it's under legislative review and that means that during this period up to march 25th the board of supervisors can make any adjustment to this by single vote by resolution. in anticipation of this mayor lee makes recommendations to the ordinance.

obama is having a bad run, just look at the house gop. >> i agree with my former colleague, maureen dowd. the house gop is obama's secret weapon. so, you know, they can't control themselves. if they go ahead and shut down the government, that would be politically, wouldn't be good for the country. it would be bad for the country, but politically, the best thing that could happen for obama. >> if you take the politics out of it and you want to get something done here, matt, is the problem john boehner? would anyone be able to do any better with the republican caucus than he has? >> right now, no, i don't think so because there's a legitimate split philosophically and mentally among republican factions. you have sort of the ted cruz bomb throwers here who want to always defund obama care and lead to a series of kind of showdowns and you have john boehner, cantor, they want to work with the president on syria, all these kinds of things. this plit has been going on for a long time. you have back bencher libertarian republicans who want to cut government, which the john boehner republicans ne

but dowd says that even though the rim fire is still burning, the forest is already healing on it's ownowth even within the last week or so. there certainly is a rebirth occurring even as we speak. in tuolument county, charles c lifford kron 4 news. >> the father of a young man and killed near at&t park is asking witnesses to come forward. his son, jonathan denver, was a dogers fan. he was killed during a fight near a-t&t park wednesday night. the fight happened about an hour- and a- half after the giants game. police released suspect michael montgomery. denver's father plans to speak outside the a-t and t park before the 1:05 game today with the san diego padres. he is is hoping someone captured the fatal fight on camera. authorities say they need more evidence. they are looking for unbiased witnesses who may have seen who started the altercation. >> we're learning new details in the arrest of a south bay high school teacher accused of committing sex crimes. as kron four's terisa estacio reports, the teacher has now confessed and admitted that the affair with a student started a >> thi

leaders are considering aoi plan to ignore a local shut dowd fit comes to this.al council members and the mayor might go along with a plan to defy a mandate from the federal government to clezanda . in order to get around federal guidelines it would make all a city employees essential workers like police and firefighters. >> i think doing something to to say this is our money and we should have the authority to spend our money it's of interest to me. >> i would argue that the district government provides important government services to all citizens and people who come to the district to work. >> d.c.'s attorney has warned leaders there could be consequences if they go through with it. >> we'll learn today about how much americans could pay for health insurance. ins health and human services second will reveal premiums and plan options for 36 states in which the federal government is taking a lead.gove the associated press said the average premium for a mid-ranger health plan for an individual is $328 a month. tax credits bring preem u.n.s -- premiums down for a

i mean, when i wake up and open the newspaper and i'm agreeing with maureen dowd and charlie rangel then that's an interesting bipartisan issue. what does it look like now with these votes, especially let's start in the house. >> it looks bad for the president. right now there are counts out there. if you include people leaning against voting that already have this going down. now, the president has been away for a he can. would is he going to come back and have another chance to make kiss case both to the country on tuesday night and individually with members of congress. nancy pelosi has been very effective so far in keeping a the love house democrats quieted on this. and i think she still has significant sway with even some of the ones. >> laura: this is unlike something like i have ever seen before really in washington. i have been here a long time. you were probably back in elementary school when i first came to washington. but, kendrick meeks, during one of the hearings this week, he was just brutal in the questioning of john kerry, obviously a member of the black congressional cau

maureen dowd makes the same point, we can't trust soulish putin or heartless assad. by tuesday putin peace maker was already setting conditions and keir simmons is reporting that russian officials have been meeting behind closed doors. i want to pick up on michael's point. you have a man accused of killing hundreds of thousands and 400 children with chemical weapons and vladimir putin not in the slatest someone that could believe has the best interest of the united states in any of his decisions. what do you make here of who do we trust? >> well, you know, i think that trust will only get you so far, which is why they want to get this process moving quickly, why the administration wants to make pretty clear. you ideally would like to have early tests and united nations and public commitments where people are -- you at least get people to make commitments to show good faith but then you have strong verification every step of the way. it's the only way you can do it. there will be some element of trust here. and there are going to be a lot of opportunities for people t

think barack obama has really gotten the best of them in the last couple weeks despite what maureen dowdwisdom circuit say. let's look at syria. the president had one aim in mind, which was to stop bashar al assad from using chemical weapons again. he looked like he would attack. want to congress. looked like he may have a vet -- vote that would fail. people thought he didn't have true command of the policymaking. it drew putin in. put putin on the hook. had to exist that chemical weapons in syria, he became in some ways a guarantor, he would be involved in getting them out and cutting a deal with assad. now assad is hand tied. he can't use chemical weapons again without embarrassing, anger, ticking off number one benefactor, putin. obama drew putin into this thorny issue of syria's chemical weapons in a way that has the put the issue to the side now. they can, negotiate this for the next five years. but as long as assad isn't using the weapons, obama has won. he scored it. he scored what he wanted to achieve. if you look at boehner, you know in the last couple weeks he had probably the

we have matthew dowd and cokie roberts, the editorial page editor of "the what street journal," paul the congress, republican justin amash and democrat donna edwards. you heard the president say, we are in better position than two weeks ago. is he right? >> well, yeah, because there's an agreement between russia and the united states and hopefully syria. i assume that russia has been talking to syria about this. >> no, not yet. >> there's conversations going on. the last two weeks one of the most fascinating periods that i have seen for a long time. first of all, we were going to go to war. then we were not. then we were going to go to congress for permission. then we weren't. the president was going to give a talk. the talk was usurped by the discussions going on. the proposals going on. he's about to have all the interviews. and then there's a proposal to get rid of chemical weapons. and all the allies are all topsy-turvy. some republicans support him going to congress asking for permission. some are against it. >> he said it doesn't matter, we ended up in the right place. >> that'

it's been disruptive, denied us marine dowd's columns, but not that sophisticated. >> more a nuisancet with a report called countering violent extremism. and you write the achilles heel of american extremism is the failure to counter the narratives that inentire them like the boston marathon bombers. >> and 12 years after 9/11, if you look at al-qaeda and the area, it's not just pakistan and afghanistan, it's in other areas, it's south of yemen and syria and iraq. the narrative is spreading all over the muslim world from west africa to southeast asia. and what we need to include in our strategy in addition to the military, in addition to the law enforcement, in addition to the intelligence, we need to include countering the narrative of extremism. if groups like al-qaeda and its affiliate the continue to recruit, retain members, continue to find new blood, this war is going to go for generations. >> you think it should be tailored to the localities. what do we need to do? >> we need to deal with the problem in its own region. for example, the economy is a huge thing in africa. the res

"new york times" columnist maureen dowd writing the man that connected so electronically in 2008 cannotto connect anymore. what does this mean for the president? >> the president needs to change the discussion and i think he is trying to after syria much more to the republicans are extreme and cooperative and change the focus back to the republican party. he has a lot more to prove now. >> if the shut down is ai had roed congress still has to vote to raise the debt ceiling to keep paying their bills and promising a fight over obama care will be part of that effort. wolf. >> lots on the agenda now. thanks very much. the president clearly taking a lot of heat is he really feeling that? >> dan is joining us from the white house. thanks very much for coming in. >> what are you saying to the criticism he received a lot of criticism that the speech he gave shortly after the massacre at the navy yard was politically tone deaf because after saying a few words about what happened to the navy yard he went on to start bashing republicans on the economy. >> wolf, what happened at the navy yard is a

couple weeks ago where people were wondering whether de blasio's wife in her interview with maureen dowdhey were trying to play the family card there. so it's kind of interesting how these different kinds of identities play out. >> respectability and queer politics. >> everyone is going to take advantage of these kinds of gaffes when they pop up. keep in mind, they are all politicians and none of them -- >> a very long article. it's certainly easy to go in, that's why i wanted to do racist. i wasn't a gaffe, it's a world view going on there. >> it's completely and totally indefensible. one thing the politicians often have in common with the mafia is that families are off limits. mike bloomberg seriously crossed that line. to farai's point, the neighborhood she was talking about, that was a site 20 years ago of the riots between blacks and jews and so forth. the fact we are talking about the different kinds of tensions going on there, a little more class based and it's not just about race, that shows how much new york has improved. >> absolutely. >> mike bloomberg can take some credit for

i thought maureen dowd had a good column in "the new york times" where she said there's law professoru know, on the other hand this and on this hand that, and then there's war president obama, and it does appear law professor obama who can't quite decide what he's going to do and thinks he's got to study it some more is getting the best of how people see him. they see him as a professor, not as a leader. jon: alan, especially his first year in office he was prone to giving prime time speeches to try to sway the public on issues that he found to be of importance to him. can he do it this time? i mean, the polling says the american public is very much against an attack on syria. >> he's got a very tough, uphill climb. he's also got to convince -- and i'm sure this is directed, his speech tomorrow night -- at congress as well. he probably could get the senate, very doubtful in the senate. he could claim i've got the senate with me, i'm going to go in anyway, but a better solution is if, indeed, there can be an agreement on assad's part to some kind of international overseeing of getting

in the same newspaper a day earlier in "the new york times," maureen dowd wrote this column about whoquestion that she was raising. and she said, if it were a movie, we'd know it was a trick. and she is talking about russia getting involved in trying to solve this diplomatically. if it were a movie. we would know it was a trick. we can't trust putin. botox has given the kgb officer more of a poker face. that is one take on it, fiona. as far as diplomacy foes is this completely hopeless situation when it comes to russia? if it was a movie we were watching we would know we shouldn't fall for it? or is it an opportunity, less than ideal but maybe an opportunity to find some sort of a solution in syria and avoid war ultimately? >> well, i mean the problem is that we haven't avoided war in syria. we're in the middle of a massive civil war spilling over everywhere else. just like in the balkans back in the 1990s there is really no good end game here. we may end up just where we were there, presiding over a former state that had reverberations across its region. there's no really good endgam

kristol from "the weekly standard close quote -- standard" --weekly meanwhile, this from marine -- dowd --ureen carmen is joining us from hamilton montana, an opponent of military intervention area did -- from hamilton, montana, and opponent of military intervention. there is a lack of people trying to do this in a diplomatic way. let's go out and gather the , all theab republic people who have any influence in that area, bring them in for a big conversation, bring the united nations and. is,s make this man what he a war criminal. let's not go in there with all of our cruise missiles and everything we got. when you see that, knowing that the equation -- the peaceful equation has been left out, it seems like this is another lie. to getd have anybody these people to start a war and make the oil companies $500 trillion. militaryt would a operation look like? we will share the details inside "the washington post" and the task the navy will be facing. weekly" -- "cq battery from plymouth, new hampshire, a supporter of military intervention in syria -- valery from plymouth, new hampshire, a s

her there were two prominent journalists who irresponsibly use a quotation of hers one was maureen dowd and said i always find myself running the us social movement but they stopped it darr the actual bomb'' that was boring was mostly like working for a nonprofit. by taking the first part it makes it sound like she has a ground vision and aspiration so of course, people pounce on her house someone to do something so borderline because it is really wrong to miss'' somebody like that but if she did say that the original'' should we all take out our guns and shoot her? i steel for them to have the grand vision and idea automatically causes a lot of anxiety and hostility. >> he and pointing out with our all of love, a betty friedan lead be the worst and lesbians were a lavender and then this again is a vivid in she warned against the man hates being then. she was not somebody who said if you're a feminist you are fried with me. [laughter] >> you are distorting it just a little bit. [laughter] there was a group within the feminist movement that approved of the family side of the feminist mov