then jealous and grover norquist working together. is this possible? yes. around mass incarceration. they were in texas justifying. georgia has cut that they're spending. it arkansas's closing jails. 10 years ago we were talking about three strikes and everything else. there is a meeting of the minds and the wallets here because if you want to cut government spending a great place to do it with nonviolent offenders. it is possible. there are a lot of sensible people out there in the middle. they just need to be spoken to and nudged. the. >> i think we have to remember the reason they don't want people to vote because they're afraid people are going to vote for their own interests and i believe that the issue of incarceration, tomas incarceration has a lot to do with the privatization of the prison system. people are making -- it's a business. people are making huge profits from folks in jail. >> one of the things that you just said, we have to remember that we want to use that money to educate them and that is one of the things that people are doing when th

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grover norquist, i didn't know grover was still there and we'll get you in here.ou think of this study, grover norquist? what do we learn from this? >> well, in the next ten years you're going to see the two parts of the country move in different directions, the states you mentioned, illinois, california, new york, have all raised taxes in the last two years to avoid reforming their pensions and labor unions. the other states with states like wisconsin, north carolina, in addition to the -- to florida, texas, arizona, have been cutting taxes. so the republican states are cutting taxes and reforming government. the high tax now led by democrat governor states are not reforming government and they're raising taxes to avoid. do that for ten years and you have a lot more difference between loser states and winner states. >> i hate to be so blatantly political, but let's be blatantly political. >> lower taxes and lighter regulation and it sounds attractive, but as you know, no decision is made in a vacuum and no decision has moved into florida. as you know, but -- they

a republican caller in new jersey, you're on the air with grover norquist.uest: have you voted yet? caller: i have been working. facts, theto the train wreck the democrats are worried about is not that obama care was going to cause the american people. they're worried that obama care is going to cost the 2014 election to democrat. they are worried about getting reelected. you've touched good facts about fundraising. 80% of democrat fundraising is from big businesses, contrary to popular belief that immigrants like to say they are not in league with big business. if this goes through big business will collapse all of their fundraising. host: grover norquist? quite correct that a lot of focuses on the 2014 elections. that is why i think we have an opportunity to get a one-year delay in the taxes and regulations and mandates for obamacare. all of the parts of obamacare -- if we delay it for a year, it is good because the bill as structured is damaging to the country. this is not good to mess i think we can delay it for a year am a partly because so many democra

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. >> that was on my radio show today and with us now, grover norquist, the president of americans fororm. grover, it's great to see you. you heard john cornyn. and we don't have to go back all over the senate bill but the concern here, of course, is that when chuck schumer, dick durbin and bob menendez and barack obama gleeful of what happened in the senate, how can grover norquist for smaller government, reforming entitlements be happy about the process to end up in a conference perhaps in the house of representatives where senate always trumps house? >> i would argue that's not what's going to happen this time and the house republicans made it clear. boehner down that they're not going to look at the senate bill. they're doing their own bill an they're going to be focusing on border security and future flows and i would bet boehner gets what he wants coming out of any conference or -- >> chuck schumer wouldn't have agreed with this in the senate. they went through the issues that supposedly republicans were for, one after the other. common sense provisions that some of the bio metri

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[applause] a small-town tried to cancel >> grover norquist discusses his group's efforts to repeal the health-care law for one year. m.s. the end -- and then -- nbc host looks that inequality in the criminal justice system. after that the assistant editor of education week talks about ae and how it plays into the overall education policy in the u.s., plus or e-mails, phone calls, and weeks. -- tweets. the things i looked at as i was exploring this, i looked at a lot of the county .ecords when you look at the colonial county records, very often you will have the name of the president or professor and then it listed with the taxable property will be an enslaved person or two or three. bring slaves?s >> yes. if you look at the name of the president and then three lines over, the taxable property is an enslaved person. is theu will often have president's name did go to college. who owns the person? in a common knowledge of the town of the local area, the president and the college are inseparable anyway. >> christie and wilder and in effect -- and the connection of a league universities in

someone said the of the grover norquist may be the most powerful person in america. the new pledge he has held canada is to. he has held candidates -- the new pledge he has held the new candidates to is keeping millions -- it has a role to play in a country rich in the land grant colleges, highways, bridges. i understand the bridge out here is about to be built. i am all for infrastructure. >> obama in a way has to be the luckiest politician. if you look at the republican lineup -- [laughter] it is like michael dukakis in an oversized tank hat. >> the idea that newt gingrich is now at the top of the heap. >> you do not want to be the top because they get shot out. >> it is seems like anybody but romney. >> herman cain is a breath of fresh air. [laughter] >> i am not going to reassess him as he reassesses his campaign. >> herman cain is fabulous. >> newt gingrich -- i am going to get serious on you. newt gingrich is an error lobbyist -- uber lobbyist. barney frank talk about michele bachmann. he also called out newt gingrich and said he held him responsible for the de

change starting at $19.95. >>> we are back with mo elleithee, donna brazile, shech jacobus and grover norquisting the economy. his approval rate in mid-august, early august, 35%, down from 42% in early june. what does this or does it do to the arguments next month in congress with the white house about debt ceilings and budgets? >> this is a conversation that the american people want not just the president but members of congress and others to have. that is, they want jobs. they want the congress to focus not just on keeping their jobs and winning the next election, but also providing jobs for the american people. that's what those numbers reflect. >> but they also reflect that they don't think the president is delivering. so does that strengthen anybody's hands? >> if you look at the economy, the president is not delivering. certainly the republicans have passed a series of pieces of legislation that boehner keeps referencing that would allow jobs to be built, such as the pipeline down through nebraska that the president is killing. there are quite a number of similar energy positions, energy

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you know, grover norquist out there. you have the outside groups putting pressure on.e ted cruz's of the world putting that pressure on. yet within the party, the leadership seems to get this is a really bad idea. >> you had on one hand, 80 house republicans signing a letter in support of the whole defund idea and john boehner on a conference call saying to them, look, we will not shut down the government. it shouldn't be news to anybody who watches msnbc that their house republicans are quite divided. >> no. >> but and you know, even in the senate, you do have very prominent conserve stiffs like ted cruz and mike lee but only 40 something republicans have signed on to this idea. it is something that has traction on the outside. as you said, tea party patriots during this multistop tour. and people really responding to this in the conservative grass roots. you don't have the conservative grass roots up in arms over immigration like a lot of people expected. up in arms over obama care and impeachment and they are pushing their republican senators and representatives to

that's what grover norquist is talking about right now. hey, let's -- since obama is already saying let's delay that part and that part and that part of obama care, let's delay everything for about one year to allow to you build the politics toward it and to kind of get to a position where if you win the next election you'll have something to talk about without going to this precipice of shutting down government. >> and i don't know that a lot of people would be opposed entirely to that sort -- because it seems like an overton window kind of approach to me. let's propose just burning it down, so to speak, not literally, and then if we can't get that what best tactic helps us to at least move the ball a little further down the field to our advantage? >> you've seen the house under speaker boehner vote 40 times to defund or delay obama care. the commitment is there. but as dan pointed out and matt and you, we have one house of one branch. we're doing everything that we can. i think if we want to do this we need more pieces, as you put it, le

>> they've all taken that grover norquist vow as i said in one of my speeches and that no matter howad it gets for the parents of the american heroes, who went to fight in iraq, no matter how bad it gets for those parents, if they lose their homes and their jobs, the taxes on the upper 1% will never be raised. they've all signed that. i mean, that's the system they're working under, all of them, and, you know, obama does a lot of, you know, whatever. i know longer believe all that, you know, oh, it's his -- it's their fault, it's our fault. they work together, and it is -- they bring up false ridiculous issues that are a matter of equal rights for all people in our country, period, no more laws, just that. you know, they just bring up all these ridiculous things that are false choices, such as pro choice, and pro life. that's a false choice. >> yep. >> women have far more choice than that little tiny box, that little tiny duality where we get a act out all of our freedoms. we have a lot more freedom than all that. we have the freedom to think clearly, and decipher for ourselves the f

grover norquist told al hunt on bloomberg that he thinks obama will cave and delay obamacare to avoidides in the gop fight over the shutdown, they're basically digging in. which seems to me that it really underscores more of a narrative of incompetence, and that even with their own pollsters have said, what they pointed out yesterday, shutting down the government is the one way that republicans can turn obamacare from a political advantage to a political disadvantage in 2014. >> right. and let me say this. i think right now, without the government shutdown, it is likely that republican there's retain the house because ref districting in 2014. if they shut down the government because they want to repeal obamacare, i think you've seen polls. i know you have them yourself. that show even republican voters don't want to absolutely throw out obamacare. and they certainly don't want to shut down the government because of it. if they do that, then i think they're doing the one thing that can cause them to lose control of the house. >> other sort of new strategy we've heard. the right wing is

that's what grover norquist is talking about right now. hey, let's -- since obama is already saying let's delay that part and that part and that part of obama care, let's delay everything for about one year to allow to you build the politics toward it and to kind of get to a position where if you win the next election you'll have something to talk about without going to this precipice of shutting down government. >> and i don't know that a lot of people would be opposed entirely to that sort -- because it seems like an overton window kind of approach to me. let's propose just burning it down, so to speak, not literally, and then if we can't get that what best tactic helps us to at least move the ball a little further down the field to our advantage? >> you've seen the house under speaker boehner vote 40 times to defund or delay obama care. the commitment is there. but as dan pointed out and matt and you, we have one house of one branch. we're doing everything that we can. i think if we want to do this we need more pieces, as you put it, le

smith is being backed for the club for growth, you know the even crazier club that is backed by grover norquist. it is set up by a website called primarymycongressman.com. and brian smith clicked on that website and became a republican congressional candidate. and a top reason for the club for growth challenging -- incumbent republicans and supporting primaries against incumbent mike simpson, is that mike simpson voted to increase the debt limit just like john boehner asked him to after john boehner struck a deal with president obama in 2011. >> when you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white house, you know, i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> and with that agreement, job led eight term republican congressman mike simpson from the safest seat in the house straight into a primary fight with primary, congressman candidate brian smith. and that primary is going to be a whale of a fight. joining me now, our former labor secretary, robert reisch, and his new documentary comes out september 27th. and "the washington post," ezra klein. robert reisch, we're at that ti

>> i was surprised to see the extent they subscribe to the grover norquist philosophy, which norquist has said time and time again, let's squeeze the federal government down to a size so small we can get it into a bathtub and drown it. and that seems to be the philosophy of the extreme right, which is making governance virtually impossible for boehner. can't put together a majority for anything. there's only been like 22 bills that have been passed that have become law. a bunch of those are naming post offices. >> a bunch of the other big ones had the votes supplied by nancy pelosi, the democrats, to actually get -- >> exactly. hurricane sandy, the debt ceiling, violence against women. >> when you take away those and you take away the post office namings you're basically left with the obama repeal votes and that's what you have. congress man rick nolan of minnesota, thank you so much, it's always a pleasure to talk with you. >>> after years without any substantial progress across the country, one city has a bold plan to help struggling homeowners. the city's mayor joins me next. take

desperately want the delay of the law, the new thing we're hearing out this week, for example, from grover norquist, no, don't defund obama care but insist on a one-year delay of the program. they know the politics of it are going to shift against them once people start getting insurance coverage through medicaid and the exchanges and see this as their last opportunity to stop the law. >> i think that's a great parsing of where the strategy is right now. josh barro from "business insider." thank you very much. >> we will be right back with #click3. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. hey! totally got it all!m! don't forget your favorites, girls. hey girls! the good ol'days when we could eat as we wanted. yes, but we are not 18 anymore. sometimes if i eat

americans for tax reform president, grover norquist, joins the company. to go about it? a one-year delay? it's the best way to sort of, i don't know, reclaim -- reestablish footing to later on get rid of the whole thing in >> sure. the ultimate goal is to eliminate obama care and replace it with a proconsumer health care project. how do you get from here to there. the democrats run the senate, and democrats in the senate who pretend to be moderate work with reid so you have left of center senate, left of center president. the reason i think we can get a one-year delay is the president knows his legislation is falling apart. max baucus, democratic leader, head of the finance committee in the senate, says it's a train wreck, and the exchanges says we desperately need another year to be ready, so i think the president, without shame could delay it for a year, which means it doesn't get deep roots. it'll be easier to get read up from a conservative republican's perspective, and from a democrat perspective, it's a high risk game. if they move forward with a pro

it was because grover norquist and the others ran it that way and shifted the conversation. class warfare, i love that one. no one talks about the class warfare of the koch brothers or the people at the top. it is some socialistic communist it what ever. these things matter, words matter. this is one thing that needs to be stressed. focus on what is your goal and articulate that over and over again. >> going off that, what everyone has been talking about with executive orders and how we can get president obama to act on that -- i wanted to start with alvin if you have any thoughts on that. >> i believe the president has spoken on that. what is happening is congress, that is the problem. when the president put that sign around his neck, standing beside me, acknowledging that he was a man and he acknowledged that if it was not for the stand we took in 1968, he would not be president today. so, i believe if we get together and let him know how we feel, i don't know if anybody did or not, but that is the thing that has to first -- that has to be the first step we take. let him k

the founder of americans for tax reform, grover norquist, was our guest this week on "washington journal with his own thoughts on the law. >> clearly, this bill, the obama care legislation, was orley written, sloppily put together. we are finding all sorts of problems. finance chair, democrat from montana, said the whole thing is a train wreck. the president has admitted that big businesses cannot deal with the mandate, so he is giving them a year. it is not clear in the law that the president has that authority. he is just sort of not going to enforce the law that is there. we now have another cap, this is supposed to be one of the benefits. prices were going to stay down. that is being delayed one year. what is to stop it from being delayed one year every year for the next 50 years? i have beeneople working with that americans for tax reform is the -- is in to delay alle idea of obamacare for one year. if it is not ready for prime time, if it is messing stuff up, let's just delay it. small businesses do not get the delay, big businesses do. individuals do not, big as this is. now, ther

host: grover norquist? guest: you're quite correct that -- at of focuses on the 2014 lot of the focus is on the 2014 elections. that is why i think we have an opportunity to get a one-year delay in the taxes and regulations and mandates for obamacare. all of the parts of obamacare -- if we delay it for a year, it is good because the bill as structured is damaging to the country. this is not good to mess around with people's access to quality healthcare. that is what the president does. --that is what the present law does. i think we can delay it for a year am a partly because so many democrats recognize they do not want to be running in 20014, particularly in the senate. every single democrat in the senate voted for this.mary landrieu runs in louisiana as if she is some kind of moderate democrat. she is a yes vote for obama on everything. obama has been trying to crush the oil industry. she has done nothing to protect it. the state has been badly damaged by president obama's policies against oil and energy

even grover norquist and the institute agree comprehensive immigration reform would be good for america, good for the economy. and house republicans, really, i mean would be dropping the ball by not doing something. so putting this on the president, that's only after congress fails to do the right thing. >> and i think people would agree with that, that there does need to be comprehensive immigration reform. both sides talk about the need for that. but, matt, the majority of americans seem to support securing the border first. >> that's right. this is the problem. >> that's part of the bill though. >> this isn't the problem, heather. >> 69% agree that requiring, you know, border security changes before changing immigration and policy. so should border security be a separate issue? >> yeah, we just heard from c carly feorini. there are plenty of conservatives on the republican side who want to see immigration reform. you're exactly right, heather, boarder security has to come first. and if the democrats don't accept that, there will be no bill. and they'll be responsible for killing the

the founder of americans for tax reform, grover norquist, was our guest this week on "washington journal" with his own thoughts on the law. >> clearly, this bill, the obama care legislation, was porly written, sloppily put together. we are finding all sorts of problems. max baucus, the finance chair, democrat from montana, said the whole thing is a train wreck. the president has admitted that big businesses cannot deal with the mandate, so he is giving them a year. it is not clear in the law that the president has that authority. he is just sort of not going to enforce the law that is there. we now have another cap, this is supposed to be one of the benefits. prices were going to stay down. that is being delayed one year. what is to stop it from being delayed one year every year for the next 50 years? one of the people i have been working with that americans for tax reform is the -- is in support of the idea to delay all of obamacare for one year. if it is not ready for prime time, if it is messing stuff up, let's just delay it. small businesses do not get the delay, big businesses do. i

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so, pete king likes to pick fights with grover norquist and do rhetorical things.nors shouldn't support ted cruz. he's still voting pete king 90% of the time with his party or whatever it is. same thing with christie. defund planned parenthood and we just talked about guns. he basically made his career being a bully to american teachers and then do rhetorical gestures about sandy saying president did a good job and that's sort of the model that he's using. >> right. again, he's back to criticizing obama and xriticizing obama on his leadership and you hear rhetoric come into his speeches. >> worked for him this rhetorical stuff on the national stage. you talk to democrats all over the country. that's the guy they like, they like chris christie. they can see themselves supporting chris christie. showing a shift getting behind democratic candidate for governor here. if that's something you might expect could happen on the national level as he comes out. right now i feel like his national identity are still republican democrats like. >> i think they need to switch that

al, you had a chance to speak to grover norquist over the weekend. each side trying to call the other one's bluff. that is come october 1st. >> it is. grover now is into this let's delay the thing for a year. couple months ago it was kill obama care as part of the debt ceiling or continuing resolution. they won't do that. i agree with sam, delay will not fly either. here's the danger here. the republicans privately believe obama is a lousy negotiator and usually caves and the democrats in the white house privately believe that the gop has a really bad hand here. they've suffered in the past. they won't do it again. if both can persist in those beliefs, there really could be a train wreck some time in november. >> this is where i thought newt made a good point. if the republicans don't like it they have to put forward an alternative. it can't just be against obama care. then you have to have a positive alternative and we haven't heard that. >> off al's point the timing works for obama here in that there's two showdowns, one over funding the government

then express disappointment the law is not ready for prime time as grover norquist said.hould be repealed, delayed. talk to us. >> it is a good piece from bryan. it is totally true. my favorite part is the republican outrage something is not going into effect. they hate the law so much that they're outranged something is not happening. the open -- hypocrisy is extraordinary. we need to keep in mind is we can't let the perfect do the enemy of the good. there will be hiccups along the way. you're talking about what is 20% of our gdp to make it better so people can get better access to better care for less money. it will take a heavy lift. there will be some hiccups along the way. you can't say just because everything is not totally perfect, 100% of the time, that we're not doing the right thing because we are. we're talking about getting people access to healthcare who didn't have it before and that's ultimately the goal. and making it more affordable for those who do. >> stephanie: this particular one, they're saying the latest news -- families whose plans employ separate

the head of the united farmworkers and grover norquist support this bill.espite what you might be hearing from the congressman in this district, 65% of the people in this district, according to a recent poll, and 51% of republicans, want to see a path to citizenship. [applause] those are the facts. those are the facts. that is the evidence. or as bill clinton likes to say, that is the arithmetic. so why haven't we said that immigration bill to the president's desk? it is stuck in the house. it is in someone's desk drawer, between the post-it notes and the stapler. in the same place where they are hiding the farm bill, the infrastructure bill, and the senate passed budget. it's time to tell the republicans in the house of the people of this country want the keys to that desk drawer. [applause] they want representatives coming to the negotiating table to hammer out a compromise the works for the american people. they want representatives that are there for them, not ones who have taken a pledge to uphold a rigid ideology. they want to send people to congress,

it was because grover norquist and the others ran it that way and shifted the conversation. that one.are, i love no one talks about the class warfare of the koch brothers or the people at the top. it is some socialistic communist it what ever. these things matter, words matter. thing that needs to be stressed. focus on what is your goal and articulate that over and over again. that, whatff everyone has been talking about with executive orders and how we can get president obama to act on that -- i wanted to start with alvin if you have any thoughts on that. i believe the president has spoken on that. what is happening is congress, that is the problem. president put that sign around his neck, standing beside me, acknowledging that he was a that ifhe acknowledged it was not for the stand we took in 1968, he would not be president today. believe if we get together , i let him know how we feel don't know if anybody did or not, but that is the thing that be to first -- that has to the first step we take. let him know and see what he says and see what his action will be. don't, he

the head of the united farmworkers and grover norquist support this bill. despite what you might be hearing from the congressman in 65% of the people in this district, according to a and 51% of, republicans, want to see a path to citizenship. [applause] those are the facts. those are the facts. that is the evidence. say, bill clinton likes to that is the arithmetic. so why haven't we said that immigration bill to the president's desk? it is stuck in the house. it is in someone's desk drawer, between the post-it notes and the stapler. in the same place where they are hiding the farm bill, the infrastructure bill, and the senate task budget. it's time to tell the republicans in the house of the people of this country want the keys to that desk drawer. [applause] they won representatives coming to the negotiating table to hammer out a compromise the works for the american people. they want representatives that are there for them, not ones who have taken a pledge to uphold a rigid ideology. they want to send people to congress, people like bruce braley, that ha