>> kathleen parker is going too far on this.ted cruz has done a good job of bringing a story that's been overshadowed by the shutdown which is health care and what a debacle it is. we've had it on the books for over three years and the website doesn't even work. we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it. the health care debacle is another huge story that we're just missing right now. >> ted cruz and sarah palin also took a lot for being at this event and you heard the guy at the top of the show that supports the vets and wishes they hadn't been there because they were a distraction. >> that was distasteful. the same column that kathleen parker did, it's a metaphor she's using saying that ted cruz is destroying the republican party and she's upset that he's making the republican party less popular than it was before the shutdown and he's making obama care more popular -- >> any way in which that point can be made? is there any -- no, that's it. it's just bin laden comparison. that's it. i'm out. that's it. we got to run. goo

republican or democrat, you aren't -- kathleen parker is another one, you're not acceptable in society if you don't agree the republicans are -- like the bad guys now. >> but the media consensus is the republicans got killed in this political battle because of not having an end game. and then you have the polls come out which show that 24% of respondents have a favorable opinion about the gop and they're mentioning that president obama has a 37% approval rating, but the other number is worse. so that is defining the media narrative, no? >> i'll tell you, i think the mainstream media has another few days to go. when the debt ceiling thing gets settled, which i assume will be next week, i think you've seen a new change. obama care glitches. the front page of "the washington post," the front page of the "chicago tribune," there's a new story coming to say that deals with the fact that the health care system isn't working very well. and when the smoke clears and the exemption for congressional staffers survives, i think next sunday will look a lot different. >> i want to pick up with jim p

here this morning, harold ford, kathleen parker, judy woodruff and chuck todd.ory. >> i want to check in with andrew ross sorkin, because we've been talking about the impact on the markets. so far the markets have been okay, but you listen to christine lagarde and get closer to thursday with the default, that could change, correct? >> absolutely. we haven't cratered yet. it hasn't been too bad. wall street considers this all bad theater at the moment, expecting some sort of rationality at the end of all this. tomorrow is columbus day. the stock market is open. i imagine it might be down a bit, but the day to watch is going to be tuesday. that's when the bond market reopens and that's when people are going to be really focused on treasuries and you're going to start seeing banks and other institutional investors who haven't positioned themselves for this on expectations we would get a deal start to say, maybe there's more to this and maybe we actually have to get ready, and if that's the case, i think we could be in for a bit of a ride. >> people may also not und

host: kathleen parker, her piece in the washington post this morning. a monumental mistake, saying that playing politics with the greatest generation was ridiculous. guest: i'm a veteran. the memorials were closed off. the lincoln memorial, etc. people need to see this government shutdown. it is not a visual story. you can't show closed head start. guest: why not? sure you could. guest: all the processing of stacks and stacks of applications. the clerks aren't there. as part of the story. but seeing lincoln or jefferson out there, that is a story. we need to end the shutdown. and not take a piecemeal approach. guest: it cost more to close off the open-air memorials then it would be to leave it alone. host: governing by blackmail. suppose president obama would hold hostage any military funding for gun control. guest: both sides have to give. there has to be negotiation for both sides to make concessions. the president has said he is not negotiating. until that time comes when he begins horse trading, giving a taking, we are going to have a shutdown. gues

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former congressman steve latourette and kathleen parker. thank you for joining us. i want a sense i'm going to withhold my comment as long as you're on the air. and just hear from you folks. because you probably know more about this issue than i do. how goes -- kathleen, how goes the afterglow for some of this big fight? >> well, it's definitely not an afterglow in the republican party. there are those who would argue that this has been ultimately a fight that the republican party had to have and that in the long-term, it's actually probably something good. and by that i mean that there were -- there's this contingent of younger freshman congressmen who don't really get how the system works. and i don't use that term system in a negative way. john boehner, the speaker of the house, has always had a strategy. he tried unsuccessfully to convince his members to come along with him. that strategy with a much longer view. and these younger guys that came in in 2010 wanted to fight. if we fight, then we win. even if we lose. of course that's sort of nonsensical. it's clea

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syndicated columnist kathleen parker, host of hardball, new book, tipping the gipper. no more timely read now. and host of disrupt, karen finney. and joining us political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chris, i want to go to you first on this. the book has come out at an important and pivotal time. listening to the president, i know you're a fan of the speech, do you think the white house will have any partners to work on three priorities outlined. >> immigration is tough and the president has a credibility problem. nobody believes democrats believe in enforcement. they know they have done tough stuff with deportation. we saw the failure last time in '86. i think what he did today, what i liked about the speech, he put the cost of this thing. it wasn't street theater, showing off, it was hurting the country. then he said we have to change the way we do business. it's not about values. it's not about philosophy or partisanship, they are all good how we run our country. it's tactics and respect, what the small part of the republican party, maybe

and therefore, will and kathleen parker and a bunch of conservative journalists wrote articles calling on the chief justice to have a spine of steel and resist the administration of nefarious journalists like me who were trying to intimidate. they expertise -- expressed confidence he would. according to the conspiracy account, which ilya embraced in the introductory remarks, the chief justice faced the test and failed upon the one hand, the opposition of the majority of the american public, obamacare, on the other hand disapproval from jeffrey rosen. [laughter] in fact he was afraid of his disapproval with a craving political act he shifted his vote and he guaranteed that his legacy would be viewed as one of politics rather than principle. he deserves nothing but disdain from principle differenters of judicial constitution. i'm here to point out the blatantly obvious. it's a complete "fantasy." the entire conspiracy theory rests on the notion that i knew the chief justice was going wobbly and wrote the article in an effort to intimidate it. i didn't know it. the first time i learned ab

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. >> you have some other good pieces, kathleen parker has a piece, our growing obsession with self-tracking our lives. >> you have your fit bit, keep track of every step you take. >> no, i don't. i've met people who do. and you can, you can literally know like every step. i don't want to know. >> well i think it changes the way we think about ourselves. it introduces a level of self-awareness -- >> that's obsessive. >> you could say that. >> nsa has all of this data. all your emails. your address books and so forth. i wonder if you can petition them to say i need to know whether that e-mail actually got sent out 18 months ago. >> i don't want to know how little i'm walking, how much i'm sitting. >> don't want to know how much i'm not sleeping. so there you go. also the last politician 20 women in the senate cutting deals. good pieces. cover of "time" magazine is the united states of texas, nancy gibbs thank you very, very much. bob woodward thank you as well. and still ahead, cnbc's eamon javers explains how the markets are dealing with those self-induced crises in congress. and barry black

kathleen parker, her piece in the washington post this morning.ayingental mistake, that playing politics with the greatest generation was ridiculous. guest: the memorials were closed off. the link morrill, etc. people need to see this government shutdown. a visual story. you can't show closed head start. guest: sure you could. guest: all the processing of stacks and stacks of applications. the clerks aren't there. as part of the story. jefferson lincoln or out there, that is a story. we need to end the shutdown. and not take a piecemeal approach. to close offt more the open-air memorials then it would be to leave it alone. host: governing by blackmail. i suppose the -- suppose president obama would hold military funding for gun control. guest: both sides have to give. there has to be negotiation for both sides to make concessions. the president has said he is not negotiating. until that time comes when he begins worst rating, giving a taking, we are going to have a shutdown. republicans have been holding the line, insisting on having another swipe