representative jim moran and representative jim mcdermott.ongressman moran, do you think if boehner the speaker of the house has the power to do it calls up a vote on a clean cr to get the government back to work tonight. would it pass? >> absolutely. i've talked to two or three dozen republicans who have indicated that they would vote for it. i'm confident that it would vote pretty decisively if the speaker would just let a clean continuing resolution come to the floor of the house. president obama's right on this. unfortunately, speaker boehner has reversed himself. i don't know why. probably out of pressure. but he is incorrect when he said sunday it wouldn't pass. it would pass. there is no question about it in my mind. >> mr. mcdermott, what is this about? we all watch the guy. remind me of a jack lemmon character. nervous business guy. does something wrong. he looks like hell. why does he worry -- if it is 30, 40 members in the caucus, the wild guys why does he worry so much. why doesn't he say, i will go with the majority. i need the m

joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott democrat from washington and msnbc contributor goldie tayloru for joining me. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> congressman, some republicans want to pretend coverage in america used to be fabulous. i mean, how do you deal with that? >> well, you know, al, it's really tough when they want to argue with their -- they make up their own facts. if you look at the numbers out of the world health organization or you look out of any set of numbers about where the united states ranks, we do not have the best health care system in the country. we have access to the best if you have money. if you have insurance. but if you don't have insurance, you don't have preventive care. you don't have anything until you're suddenly in the emergency room in a dire mess. and that's what america is really all about. is taking people -- care of them when they get sick. not in preventing illness or encouraging wellness. if we can that, we would have the best health care in the world. >> now, you know, goldie, rush limbaugh the head of the party said today that -- let

and jim mcdermott, congressman from washington. congresswoman,i'll ask you this question -- we've seen the so-called hastert real that's about as real as unicorns violated on every monumental piece of legislation, every accomplishment that's happened has passed without a majority of republicans voting for it. that's the fiscal cliff deal, that's sandy aid. that is now this deal. why can't speaker boehner bring the senate immigration bill to the floor tomorrow? >> well, certainly democrat are going to work very hard -- democrats are going to work very hard as the president indicated he will work to try to get this comprehensive immigration bill to the floor. but we know that there are many republican tea party members who are here who came here really quite frankly to dismantle the government, and who came they're destroy the government. i don't expect many votes from them. but there are plenty of moderate republicans who i think really understand the value of and the necessity and the requirement that we pass comprehensive immigrat

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joining me now are congressman jim mcdermott, democrat from washington and msnbc's melissa harris-perry. thank you both for being here. >> absolutely. >> good to be here. >> congressman, do republican leaders see the writing on the wall? i mean, will this shutdown end soon? >> well, i think you've begun to see it. they've elbowed cruz off the main stage and they're now bringing paul ryan in. paul ryan sort of woke up and said, you know, we should be having a conference committee in negotiating the budget. and they are beginning to see they've got to shift away from this business of fighting the president's obama care. that isn't going to work. it has been a total failure. so they're shifting because they're looking for a new place to go. >> but, you know, melissa, senator ted cruz thinks that this is going well. polls, look at the public's view of the gop. they disapprove 70% disappoint. to 24% approve. that's the lowest record since the poll was in existence. but ted cruz is in denial. he thinks the polls are skewed. listen to what he said about the nbc poll. >> do you think you've don

joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, democrat from washington. and melissa harris-perry, host of "the melissa harris-perry show." thank you both for coming on the show. congressman, i want to put that demint comment up again. quote, the best thing is to declare last year's election as a mill tristrial on obama care. how do you respond to that? >> you know, rev, it's kind of sad. they've run the let's run the country over the cliff strategy, and that didn't work. and so now back at the second one of the republican strategies. that is let's impeach the president. that's exactly what they did to clinton. and they are going to fail at this. they simply believe that it's an impeachable offense if they don't agree with it. the supreme court has looked at it and declared it to be constitutional. yet they keep coming back. as you may know, they've already started filing lawsuits all over the country. there have been 20-some lawsuits filed in different states about different aspects of the affordable care act. they're going to use every bit of mud they ca

joining me now is jim mcdermott and melissa harris-perry.hank you both for coming on the show today. >> nice to be here. >> congressman mcdermott, let me start with you. why is the gop trying to scare the american public about this law? >> well, they were scaring the american public for the last three years. they took a short break while they shut the government down and made such a mess in the country that they've now got to go back to their same old tune and hope they can scare the american people into voting for republicans. how you do that by telling people that they shouldn't get health insurance for their children or for their family or for themselves is beyond me. it is a crazy message they're trying to push on the american people. they're doing it because they don't want obama to have any success at all. if it gets in, it will be the lasting legacy for the presidency and a legacy for the democratic party. and we'll move forward fixing it just as we've done with medicare and social security and all the others. >> melissa, you know, wh

you take a look at when somebody like jim mcdermott retires in seattle, if you're a democrat, one of0 democrat who is's going to run for that seat, how do you break out? you appeal to the -- >> so this is a huge democratic district, two democrats are going to facing off. but -- >> who were soft obama voters or who voted for mitt romney, the 16% who did. that's a great way to peel off the 5 or ten points to put yourself above everything. >> washington's being done this for a longtime and california, 2012 is the first time they did it. we had some republican on republican, democrat on democrat. and we don't know yet, right, it's going to probably take a decade to find out, does the entire california delegation essentially shift to the center? >> yes. and as a matter of fact, a lot of the political science disagrees with this based on louisiana and the history of how they are sort -- this is not a moderate delegation. >> arguably this is a one party state. >> it's not a moderate delegation, but that's why. a lot of the problem with part san ship that we have talked about the money that

joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott and abbey huntsman. thanks for being here.vy veteran. what do you make of ted cruz accusing president obama of locking veterans out of the world war ii memorial? >> well, he sounds like a kid in a playground who has lost and doesn't want to admit that he's lost. he's blaming everything on the president, none of it's his fault. he didn't have anything to do with it. he isn't anywhere near it. he's like the kid who comes in with chocolate all over his hands and says i didn't eat the cookies. he is not making any sense at all. i don't know how anyone could consider him as a candidate for the presidency. he really is irrational. >> yeah, or blueberry pie all over his face, congressman. you know, abbey, republican congressman actually called for someone to be fired for closing the world war ii memorial. watch this. >> one of the most appalling events i've seen in our nation's capitol was the closing of the word war two monument. how offensive could you be? maybe we need to get a new interior parks director and fire those folks or f

immediately after the speaker made those remarks, we heard something from democratic congress mann jim mcdermott, he blasted boehner saying this is not true. listen to what he says. >> every time the speaker comes out and says the senate won't negotiate, he is not telling the truth. i'm going to be very careful how i say that. he's not telling the truth. he refuses to appoint conferrees to go and sit down with the senate. he hasn't done it for six months. and now he says with his back up against the wall, when he's lost on this obama care ploy, he now says oh, i'm ready to negotiate. i'll send some people over. well, where has he been for the last six months? >> dana bash joins us now from the capital. candy crowley is in our washington bureau. dana, let's start with you. speaker boehner clearly digging in there, the mudslinging continues. what do you make of it? >> you're exactly right. look, the reality is that the speaker certainly is getting a lot of pushback from some -- many of the republican establishment. he is getting a lot of pushback from some republican senators, even some of the mos

. >> one of the interesting history lessons that we got from jim mcdermott under this hearing was the fact that under medicare part d, when that rollout happened about eight years ago, it took oversight about six months to evaluate some of the glitches experienced in that, drawing the contrast to now where we are in overnight in the aca and what a heavy lift that this is as a country as we try to amend the social contract that we all have with one another over our health care. i want to brick in now democratic congressman from south carolina, james clyburn. sir, you have heard our lisa myers and her report that 50% to 75% of the 14 million consumers out there that got purged from their insurance coverage because their individual policies aren't going to meet the standards mandated by the new health care law, that's a lot of people. we have the president out there last night giving a new network interview trying to personalize and prioritize what it means to be properly insured with health care. take a listen. >> i know that -- at least i kind of remember when i was in my 20s and early

i'm jim mcdermott, a house member from washington's seventh , mostly seattle.new tom foley for more than 40 years and throughout that time, he was a wonderful friend and a sage mentor. in 1971 when i was a freshman state legislator, he took me out to dinner in seattle and suggested i would run for congress. i was pleased for his regard of my career, but i knew better since i was a freshman legislator so i rejected it and ran for governor. i got creamed. [laughter] tom never said a word. i return to the legislature determined to learn as much as i could about the realities of governing effectively and the challenges of legislating well. when i finally ran for congress, he was majority leader of the house. as i arrived for his first term in 1989, tom was about to become speaker. about tow that he was become the last speaker of the whole house. the speaker was the speaker for the whole house and he lived that to his very core. will note tom's devotion to the house of representatives and his knowledge of the history of this organization. you learn in enormous amoun

pleasure to yield two minutes to the distinguished doctor from seattle, congressman jim mcdermott of the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from the state of washington is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcdermott: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcdermott: madam speaker, the republican caucus is standing out here naked, and ey keep bringing fig leafs out to cover themselves. this is another fig leaf. it is not intended to do anything. at the end of the second world war, it was determined that 43% of the people who were drafted were unfit for military service because of nutritional deficiencies. we had a public policy from that point onward fed people at every level. school lunches, head start, w.i.c. program, snap, they have all been designed at making this a healthy country. one of my colleagues says, well, this has nothing to do with obamacare. it has everything to do with obamacare. if you don't feed kids the proper things, they get sick. everybody knows that apparently except the republic