. >> mark pryor. >> mark pryor in arkansas. begich.ggage -- these are people really in peril. i think it is safe to say without too much of a reach the sense of dissatisfaction, the dysfunction of the federal government as witnessed by the rollout coupled with the shutdown contributed to loss of referendum questions in states like colorado. the hemorrhaging of confidence in the public sector. >> not to mention to come to the conclusion led by the president of the united states. >> exactly. >> the last two presidents and the presidents even before them have abrogated more and more power to the white house and the cabinet secretaries have less and less power. there is not staff at the white house to support that. so, you have all of this power and no apparatus to carry it out. it is absolutely obvious. >> lying about obamacare is not a staff problem. it is a presidential problem. >> let me refer you to something from "politico" lit last week. from the moment the health care act was announced, leaders of the republican party vowed to kill it, taking it all the way to the supreme

. >> kelly ann, i just get this feeling when i looked at people yesterday like mark pryor on the floor of the senate, he just looked like a defeated man. democrat arkansas up for tough re-election battle. who knows, anything can happen. you keep thinking it's going to stop. it's going to stop. but every day there's more bad news. the administration is going to make an important delay of obama care enrollment next year. but your take on this california deal which is being mirrored in places like new york. >> it is. and in fact, laura, about five million plus people have their health insurance policies canceled and 206,000, according to government statistics, have successfully enrolled. now, we're in the holiday season. americans know it's a bad deal and they are starting to see obama care for what it is, it's not just a bad website. they are starting to see for the first time in history forcing us to buy a product that we don't want or don't need at a price we can't afford. when people heard reform early on, they would tell pollsters, i like that idea but they didn't think they needed i

you have all the blue state democrats, mary landrieu, mark pryor.ed states up for re-election 2014. many on record saying the following. >> those individuals who like the coverage they already have will be able to keep their current plan. this is a very accurate description of the bill. >> many people say i like my health insurance now, senator. i don't want to change. i don't want the to go into med care or medicaid. i like what i have. would you please leave me alope? and the answer is, yes, we warrantee i-- guarantee it. >> we are working on protecting people's choice of doctors, choice of hospitals, choice of insurance plan. if you like what you have today, that will be what you have when this legislation is passed. >> i won't support a health care reform plan that will take away health care you have now or a health care plan you like. >> are any of your democratic colleagues speaking out against the big lies that they regurgitat regurgitated? are they willing to stand with conservatives and guarantee that if you like your plan you can keep it?

senator carl levin is expected to oppose him and possibly senator mark pryor. the majority of the caucus is with him for this reason. we talked a lot in recent months about the gridlock in washington and how unhappy americans are with their congress. this mood is not going to take the temperature down in washington. it will make things more acrimonious even if it does push the obama nominations through more quickly. >> let's listen in again to what senator reid said a few moments ago on the senate floor. take a listen. >> the need for change is so, so very obvious. it's clearly visible. it's manifest we have to do something to change things. in the history of our country some 230-plus years there have been 168 filibusters of executive and judicial nominations. half of them have occurred during the obama administration. >> jimmy, you know, at the 11th hour in july they were able to hammer out a deal to avoid the so-called nuclear option. we know that senator john mccain was in harry reid's office yesterday in an attempt to broker a compromise at the 11th hour th

same thing with mark pryor. same thing with with the open seats in places like montana and south dakota. those seats are tougher for democrats. but this is an issue that -- i think i mentioned this yesterday. it fits so perfectly into a 30-second attack ad. it's very hard for a democrat running in a swing or conservative leaning state to win that fight at the moment. >> chris cillizza, kelly o'donnell, thanks so much. >>> coming up, actress jennifer garner in her new role of ambassador for early childhood education. >>> plus, hawaii is a signature away from becoming the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. governor neil aber control bee said he will sign the law today. they expect it to be a big boost for tourism. also, it ends more than two decades of debate in hawaii where two women in 1990 famously applied for a marriage license, sparking a court battle and eventually a national conversation on gay marriage. >> i hope that we honor each other's differences and celebrate the life that we have together in

why did mark pryor, kay hagan, mark begich, why did these people support it? it's a very simple message and very powerful message. look, i think bill clinton who is certainly a senior strategist in the party, i think he recognizes the danger here. i think it's why he gave president obama maybe unwanted and unsolicited advice saying they should figure out a way to allow people who do like their plan, whether it's a substandard plan or whatever to keep it. bill clinton has an eye on a lot of those 2014 senate democrats where that one ad, andrea, could be devastating for them politically. >> jay carney is right now getting hammered by reporters asking when they will release numbers of enroll mment. they already pretty much let folks know numbers would be really bad, really weak, because that's what kathleen sebelius was saying. they have tried to low ball it as much as they can or inoculate against the numbers. what else can they do? >> not much else they can do. maybe release trend data. maybe they will show in the final week of october they finally saw as the w

. >> steve and gene shaheen and mark pryor and kay hagan. they're in trouble, pat.do you think? >> we'll be okay. >> i think they will move expeditiously to kick this thing over for a year. they ought to. it's obvious it ought to be taken back to the shop. >> sounds like a cya, pat, where i come from. what if it happened in the nixon administration, pat? >> it did. >> well, we had problems of our own, as you recall. >> that was my point. all right. thank you both. up next tonight on "hannity" straight ahead -- >> you have seen an extreme faction of the republican party that has shown again and again and again that they are willing to hijack the entire party and the country. >> once again the president who pledged to restore civility is openly accusing republicans of hijacking the u.s. up next, reince priebus responds to the despicable rhetoric. quick programming note. tomorrow night "hannity" live feisty studio audience edition. you won't see it anywhere else on cable. fireworks like you have never experienced. [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fig

you'll have vulnerable red state democrats, mary landrieu, mark pryor, who, if november 30 comes and goes and the obama care website isn't fixed, they will begin having to assess their political survival. they'll turn on the ship and turn on it or go down. it's likely they'll have that 2014. if that happens, nothing succeeds like success. winning covers a multitude of sins. talk about sports analogies, if you don't have a football team that's losing, you have bickering in the locker room, fighting, back biting, you start winning a couple of game, all of a sudden, the problems go away. so it could be as much problems as republicans have had in fighting in the civil war, you start winning some elections, it could be interesting, feelings could subside. >> on that infighting. let me show you the ad put together, the digital ad in the main street advocacy taking a look at mocking tea party backed candidates from past elections. >> it's only the special few that went at it with the life of shame. >> it's a horrible situation that is something that god intended to happen. >> it's a legitim

. >> carl leafin, mark manchin and mark pryor voted to change the rules. >>> if it could be changed on judges or other nominees, this will be used, i fear, to change the rules in consideration of legislation. >> unlike leafin, 33 of the 55 democratic senators never served with their pert in the minority. jeff merkley was elected in 2008 and pushed for the nuclear option. >> this is terrific for the u.s. sn senate. it's done great disservice to the american people. >> one former senator predicts this would only make the atmosphere worse. >> the senate was designed to force people to work together, come up with consensus, democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives. a lot of that has fallen away. it's very polarized and this decision made yesterday will make it more so. >> even more volatile shifts to the right and left based on who is in power will make senate elections more critical, particularly next year's midterm. shannon? >> mike, live on capitol hill, thank you mike. >>> the dow gained 55 to hit another record close today. the 41st for the year. the s&p 500 was up 9. nas

we have one democratic seat tossup, that's senator mark pryor in arkansas. he have to remember that prior to have a race sixe such as ago. in fact, there was no republican nominee. so we have not had a race in 12 years which is a long, long time in politics. arkansas has changed a great deal. mark pryor's name still means a lot there but republicans have a very solid candidate in congress than tom cochran. he's got a great personal story. he seems to connect well with voters. so i think that of the democratic incumbent i would say jenkins by the most in favor. with five seats leaning democratic. cinemark baggage and alaska. i'm interested no who is general election opponent is. there's a three-way primary, and for everything the democrats tell you about joe miller the beat lisa murkowski in 2010, i don't think he's a big factor. the primary is between the lieutenant governor and a guy named dan sullivan who just left state government to make this race to the open seat in iowa, which is a story unto itself, senator landrieu in louisiana, she's got a tough rac

and there's mark pryor in arkansas, which he'll have even less votes for this president and they're facing the voters. the president is no longer facing the voters. so they're going to want to put something on the senate floor to deal with this because it seemed to be that there are many democrats who think that the president's executive fix is not enough and that's why -- the president doesn't want that bill on the floor because once they start pulling the strings on this suit, they think it's going to come apart. >> i want to touch back on this issue because i think it's important about democrats and whether or not they're going to continue to jump ship. they're taking a lot of collateral damage, direct hits because of their association with the president, because of the failure of this health care law just as the hill is reporting that some of them are seething with anger, that he's never had a worse relationship with the party. what do you think? >> well, i think that the president may regret that there were a lot of relationships on capitol hill that he didn't build in the months and

th like senator mark pryor won't invite president obama down but president obama is going into new orleans. i would expect mary landrieu will be there and landrieu voted for the budget. she's defended obama care. she needs to get a large turnout on the african-american voters to win. i think it's going to vary state to state and depends on where obama's approval ratings are a year from now. right now in the mid 40s. obama care is a train wreck next year, fewer candidates will ask him to come to their state. >> thank you very much. it all comes down to tuesday, right? we're all over it again. our coverage on fox business network kicks off the second the polls close at 8:00 p.m. we'll stay on as long as it takes. the implications of this race in new jersey certainly as we just mentioned in virginia. to say nothing of what's going on in new york city. a merriayoral contest could dec what banks charge you or if they can give you loans reverberates beyond the big aisle of manhattan. you think you need to wait another month for black friday deals? think again. (announcer) scottrade knows our cli

maybe liberals unhappy with mark pryor or mary landrieu.w what, they're all going to be happy perhaps that they don't have the filibuster anymore because eliminating the filibuster for presidential appointments might be a relief to these guys in the gop's compromise caucus. so if you're lindsey graham or lamar alexander, aren't you glad you don't have to feel responsible cast votes to end filibusters looking like you're voting for obama nominees when you're going to vote against them when they're there for the up or down vote? it might help you in republican primaries. something to think about there. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." we'll see you right back here on monday. msnbc will have all-day coverage of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's assassination. one of the most important historical markers in american history coming up next on msnbc, chris jansing. bye-bye. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ish

mark begich we just played sound, mark pryor, mary landrieu, i can imagine it was a hewitted one.your vantage point, is the president getting angrier by the day or did the anger peak or only really truly angry if it doesn't work by november 30th. >> engi think he will be really really, really angry. let's look to november 30th. that's what they are trying to change. trying to change the narrative going into enemy territory to put pressure on governors to expand medicaid at aca, really as long as this is focused on the website, not fixed, it will open the door for other criticism. it opens the door for udall, begich to say, okay, lets extend the enrollment period or delay the penalty. this is also showing what some of the strategy will be for democrats heading into 2014 because they want to be able to propose certain changes or fixes if this is going to stay an issue for republicans. >> how frustrating do you think that is for the white house, though? on some level you would think the white house would give a tacit approval. you need to say this in order to get elected. you need to

so if you're mary landrieu you mentioned or kay hagan in north carolina or mark pryor in arkansas and already facing a tough i rarace, this is a devastating turn of events in the last weeks. they know that. that's why they are turning from the white house. here is the challenge for senate democrats fedex year. how do they bring out the liberal base of their party, the kind of people president obama turned out twice to win the presidency while at the same time creating some separation between themselves and the president to appeal for the middle. that's going to be really the challenge for those democrats on the ballot next year in swing areas. >> joining me here as well is mark murray, our deputy political director. really, the sense on the hill of betrayal from this white house, that they weren't competent, weren't straight, they didn't give the right talking points, walked the plank, this is a real sense of betrayal. >> andrea, there is. democrats feel like they stuck out their neck every way, drafting this in 2009, 2010, whether it was during all the hiccups involved during preside

carl levin, who has been around a long time doesn't think this is a good idea and maybe senator mark pryor. this is actually a switch from the last time we did this in july. they considered changing the rules then. at that point it would not have included judges. part of the reason was that reid didn't have the support in his caucus to make the change. it's actually been a switch. you saw in particular senator dianne feinstein from california and senator patrick leahy, chairman of the judiciary committee. both of them decided they were on board with changing the rules for judges. part of the reason at least in feinstein's case there was a case regarding the contraceptive mandate inside the health care law that requires companies to provide coverage for contraception and a d.c. circuit court judge basically held off on some of that, let this company not pay to provide that for its employees. that judge was forced through the senate in 2005, the first time the nuclear option was threatened. that was when republicans controlled the chamber. that decision and the connection to what happened be

. >> interesting, mark halperin, that mark pryor up for re-election, joe manchin not up for re-electiont from red state west virginia and carl levin leaving the senate but a believer, i guess, in the old way of doing things. thinking about legacy and thinking about tradition. three democrats voting with the republicans. >> yeah, my guess is if those votes were needed senator reid might have found a way to get them. it's testament to just how absurdly partisan and negative our politics has become that this day happens. it's a big deal. you go back to when the nuclear option was raised in the bush years. it was called nuclear option for a reason. it happens and seen as next logical step in the face-off. there's no doubt democrats feel passionately. if you go back to the clinton years and bush years and obama year their presidents, democratic presidents have not gotten as many of their people on the court as president bush did and president reagan and the first president bush did. a lot of democrats feel like this long history needs to be evened out. they know full well it could haunt them

but you have some democrats, like mark pryor, kay hagan, others who are banging the list, needs to workks like, unfortunately, it won't be fully functional by the deadline. >> hillary, it winds up being a black eye, doesn't it? >> politics is, i think, the furtherest thing from the president's mind about this right now. you'll hear more and more stories like i heard this week sitting around our thanksgiving table, where my cousin, who had been unable to get insurance for the last 15 years because of a pre-existing condition, all of a sudden walked into an insurance agency and could not be refused. those stories are going to multiply and multiply and multiply. that's what this is about. you know, i think you're hearing the republicans trying to sustain a political story, and why they want to make a political story out of preventing people from getting health insurance coverage is just beyond me. >> hillary, let's move on to the economy. let me ask you this. there was a cnn/orc poll, and what the numbers show is that fewer than a quarter of those surveyed actually feel the economy is reco

for it, including the kind of socially conservative ones, like joe manchin from west virginia and mark pryor from arkansas. every democrat voted for it. so in the democratic party right now, this issue is very simple. the democratic party on discrimination issues, they are unanimous. they know who they are and they know what they stand for. and the republican party, it is much harder to say what's going on. ten republicans crossed over to vote with the democrats on this today, including jeff flake who said he was going to vote no, but he voted yes. so a majority of democratic senators voted against the nondiscrimination bill, but ten voting for it, that's a lot. that said, the republican leadership in the house is saying that not only are they opposed to it, they're not going to allow it to come up for a vote at all. they will not put it on the calendar. john boehner says he is personally opposed to the legislation. he also said he thought it was already illegal to fire somebody for being gay, which is not the case at all in 29 states. but regardless, he says that he is against this nondiscr

mary landru, mark pryor. you got stuff out there from senator johnson. you got it in the house you got a bill. why doesn't president obama endorse it. >> let's back up. president clinton was talking specifically. he said he was talking about young people that were in the pool that were four times above the poverty line. we're only talking about the individual market here, and we're only talking about people who didn't -- who had their insurance after 2010. but the idea this is somehow or another that's broad base -- by the way the individual market is only 5% of the total. let's be careful what we're throwing around here. people get their health insurance cancelled all the time. you want to tell me that there were no health insurance cancellations before obama care? that's absurd. some of the things we're saying on here don't stand up to basic scrutiny. >> i think, james, it's wonderful 30 million people will be covered with insurance but the way it was done is so horrific because it's forcing every one of those people basically on to two programs either

democratic senators who are up for re-election in 2014, you have people as ideologically diverse as mark pryork if the problems don't get fixed you'll see people support some sort of fix. >> zerlina, isn't it ironic for president clinton to tell anybody how to do health reform? >> definitely. for the past 20 years the democrats have been struggling to get reform passed and the clintons failed in the '90s and obama was successful in doing so. so i think it's ironic that now they're throwing stones when they weren't able to be successful themselves. i think this is a 2016 try angulation like michael said but i think it's short sighted because i think hillary should stick with obama and obama care going into 2016. >> thomas, could i add about bill clinton, it sounds like a politician trying to have it both ways, that's what it sounds like right now. bill clinton proposed a health care plan in 1993 that would be as disruptive if not more disruptive to a bunch of individual plans. so it's this kind of thing if you're not governing you can say let's have all the nice things and none of the bad thing

mary landrieu, mark pryor, all of these -- you have all of these vulnerable senators in red states that are really saying, okay, the time is now to get this together and that's what they should be worried about going into 2014 because this has got to get better for those senators to hold on. >> jackie kucinich, matt welch, good to have both of you here this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >>> there was another scare at another airport, this time it shut down travel in birmingham, alabama. an employee found a note that included a bomb threat last night. there was an evacuation and nearly all outgoing flights were delayed. police did a sweep of the airport with bomb-sniffing dogs but they didn't find anything. >>> now, this is on the heels of friday's deadly shooting at l.a.x. this morning the suspected shooter is unable to talk and can't tell authorities exactly why he shot three tsa agents, killing one of them. but investigators say 23-year-old paul ciancia left a one-page manifesto at the scene writing that he wanted to kill, quote, tsa agents and pigs. he referred to himself as a pa

i think you have a lot of states that are in -- if you're mark pryor in arkansas your exchanges are not working as perfectly with a federally run exchange. that said, when we get close to the election, i would assume we're at a low point for the website working. we're at a low point for the political momentum. obama's having to defend himself against this charge that he misled the public about keeping your own insurance. things are moving in a better trajectory, though. i think in states, even other states. kentucky is doing well already. you'll have more people getting insured even in states like texas as we go further along. i think overtime also this medicaid story has been rather undercovered by the press. 400,000 people got medicaid in the last month. that's a significant story. it's something i think if the white house wants to talk about more it probably should. also talk to the people who are not getting insurance because of texas and other states stopping the medicaid expansion. >> like flip the script? how great would that be. nia malika, here's what i want to raise with you.

you have mark pryor in arkansas, begich in alaska, landrieu in louisiana, udall, shaheen, merkley, alling electorate the. that's not even the four open seats. we have an absolute tsunami sucking in democrats. and the republicans, even if they didn't want to make it the issue, it's the issue because it's going to be thousands of dollars a month, lost doctors, lost coverage and a story a day on my show, on your show of the latest obama care nightmare. and blake has his talking points, but this isn't a talking point issue. you can't spin the bankruptcy of the people who lose their insurance. >> but the thing is, blake, i just got to be honest with you. i know a lot of these democrats, moderate democrats have been on this show, they voted against republican attempts this summer to modify and change. not just to defund, but they voted against everything. they even voted against changing the individual mandate, delaying the individual mandate. now they have changed their position because of politics and the cuccinelli thing in virginia and because of the polls. to me, they made their bed, i

on the senate side, mark pryor, democrat from arkansas who is up for re-election.ou can see the list from there. mitch mcconnel, john cornyn. on the house side, dave camp, kvetch mccarthy, stenji hoyer. etc. guest: largely people who are in tight races. and that includes candidate p.a.c.s. that's not strictly external moment. to the point around citizens yined, we have a tendency to think we'll see all negative and positive effects instantaneously. i think the citizens united ruling will continue to evolve. we can expect further rulings about it and potentially something coming out of congress though i don't think there's any traction to that at the time. i've seen the reports that the democratic-leaning super p.a.c.s outspent republicans over the course of the last election seekle, i think that's intring as well but i also think that beyond the super p.a.c., beyond citizens united, there have always been ways and legal loopholes and ways in which people have tried to invest in and affect political campaigns. i think that the vehicle under which that happens has sh

mark pryor in arkansas who have been demanding real changes to the law.ond heads rolling look, make substantive changes, in fairness to the president that is why he came out at look pat this is on me. i fumbleed. he tried after weeks of this took some responsibility but some republicans like mike lee says this is not about accountability and who knew what? it is about fixing this because it's a mess right now. take a listen. >> i think the most important question instead talking about who should get fired or where we he can track a pound of flesh, we need to find out how best help people hurt by obamacare and lost health care because of this law and that is really where we ought to be focused. >> reporter: you mentioned the president's low approval ratings. "washington post" abc poll has the president in their poll at the lowest approval rating during his entire presidency. the health care law is down to 57% opposed to the health care law. that is extremely high number in the "washington post/abc news poll" as well. that is why there is pressure on the pr

spend those millions of dollars taking out mark begich in alaska and mary landrieu in louisiana and mark pryor in arkansas. [applause] there are five big, fat targets for republicans in the next, in the 2014 senate elections. and unless we win elections, we can't do anything, republicans. [applause] >> is that about purity, or is it about ego? >> it's about a lot of things, both things. ego in wyoming, i'm sorry to say because i love liz cheney. if only she had moved to south carolina and primaried lindsey graham, we could all be friends. [applause] you have, as i describe at the beginning of this book with, you have some show-offs, i mean, leaping ahead from the senate elections to the next presidential election. all i ask of you republicans is only consider -- and i've made this mistake, so i'm not blaming you -- only consider senators and governors in a presidential election. i mean, i've supported your own duncan hunter. when i was in high school, phil crane. [laughter] pete dupont, he was technically a governor but of a very small state. i know, he was so wonderful, but it's the equivalen

well but then in 2010 i authored with cliff stearns a conservative republican on the house side in mark pryor on the senate side with very conservative republicans we were able to pass a law that said everyone of these wireless devices had to have an on ramp for for the deaf and the blind. we had to negotiate with the consumer electronics association, this massive organization of thousands of companies because they had to sign off on it. and now, the deaf and blind can use these devices no matter where they are. now, wouldn't be a good thing if that was true for the whole world's? that all of deaf and blind had access but i would like attorney general thornburgh, to ask this question. what does it mean for the consumer electronics association of the united states to have the market open up around the planet for all these devices that would be available to hundreds of millions of deaf and blind to it he empowered to become part of your economy? >> to ask the question is to answer it. >> but not in congress. the words have to be spoken. i understand what you're saying. you believe it is a self-

you have mark pryor in arkansas. you have alaska.le who are up for re-election in red states talking out and then you have senator dianne feinstein who comes from the blue state of california, a democrat, who said that she told the white house chief of staff that they need to bring this website down, essentially shut it down temporarily, until they fix everything and then get it back up and running. she said that this weekend. it's not happening that way. jon: so if you like your health plan, you can keep it. she wants to introduce legislation as you say, that would accomplish that. is that realistic or is that just something that somebody campaigns on? it seems like it would be a real mess. already the health care system in this country or at least the insurance system seems to be in a mess because of obamacare. if you suddenly introduce legislation that undoes part of that, that would seem to be almost impossible to implement. >> no. it's not realistic and it's not -- it's probably just posturing but she'll put it forward and wheth

it limits the minorities party's ability to confirm -- senators carl levin of michigan mark pryor of art joe manchin makkah west virginia were the only demo rats to vote against the rules change. you can see more about what happened in the senate today on the filibuster rules change on our companion network c-span tonight. at just after 8:00 eastern we will take her calls about it on c-span. at her weekly news conference house democratic leader nancy pelosi called on republicans to pass a budget before turning in the house for a year. this is a little more than a half an hour. >> good morning. i have invited some special guests to our weekly and because of the pressing business mr. hoyer is only going to be with us at the start, so i want him to start. >> thank you very much leader. many of you heard me say but you know us well there are eight legislative days left in 2013 according to the republican majority schedule. two of those days of course her days in which we come in at 6:30 so that there is not much time to do the work of the american people. however republicans seem content

seats and spend millions of dollars taken out begich in alaska and mary landrieu in louisiana and mark pryor in arkansas. [applause] there are five big targets for republicans in the next 200014 senate elections and unless we win the elections we can't do anything republicans. [applause] >> is that about purity or is it about eco? >> it's about a lot of things. the ego in wyoming, i'm sorry to say because i love liz cheney. if only she had moved to south carolina we could all be friends. [applause] you have as i described at the beginning of this book you have some show off sleeping ahead the senate elections to the next presidential election. all i ask of you republicans is only consider and i have made this mistake only consider senators and governors in a presidential election. i have supported duncan hunter. when i was in high school. [laughter] pete. pont was technically governor from a very small state. i know he was a wonderful but you have to be a senator or a governor from at least a state that is the top 50% of the population. pick out the best ones. so we have the ego and the last

democrats voted with republicans yesterday, carl levin of michigan, joe manchin of west virginia and mark pryor of arkansas. levin expressed concern this could lead to more changes in the senate. >> when the precedent is set, that a majority of this body can change the rules at will, which is what majority did today, if it can be changed on judges, or on other nominees, this precedent is going to be used, i fear, to change the rules on consideration of legislation. >> reporter: for now the obama administration will get federal judges approved more quickly. if there is need for cabinet shuffle, it will be easier to appoint new people to the posts. at some points when democrats are out of power, republican leaders are warning they will regret this move. patti ann? jenna: mike emanuel, live in washington, thanks. jon: while the filibuster rule change in the senate might be a political win for president obama, at least in the short term, not much else seems to be going his way. two new polls now show his approval rating sinking to a new low. according to a cnn-orc poll, just 41% of americans approv

on the senate side, mark pryor, democrat from arkansas. you can see the list. mitch mcconnell, tom cornyn, tim scott, mary landrieu, and then on the house side, dave camp, kevin mccarthy, steny hoyer, john boehner fred upton, etc.. largely leaders and people who are in tight races. the open secrets site, that pac money includes, for example, candidate pacs so it is not strictly external money. to the point of citizens united, i think we have the tendency to assume we will see all negative effects -- that the citizen united ruling will be something that echoes over time. i think it will continue to evolve. i think we can expect further rulings from the supreme court about it, as well as potentially something coming up congress. although i don't think there is any traction on that at this point. but we will see. i have seen the reports that you have the same democrats outspent -- democrat leaning pacs outspent republicans over the course of the last election cycle. and i think that is interesting as well. what i also think that beyond the super pacs and citizens

we have mark begich in alaska, mark pryor in arkansas, mary landrieu in louisiana and kay hagen in north storm and keep their seats? >> i think they will, and the reason for that is that as difficult as the website rollout has been, the underlying premise of the affordable care act is sound. the legislation is sound. it's really the website that hasn't worked and has created tremendous frustration for americans who want to get their health care. but remember what this is all about. 50 million people don't have health care. almost 50 million people. and we're chewing up about 18% of our gdp on health care. so the whole point of this is to fix a broken health care system. right now we have a website that is sort of the front door to the affordable care act, and the implementation has been frankly inexcusable. but that's not the policy. the policy underlying the affordable care act is sound. >> now, let's take a quick listen to house minority leader nancy pelosi on "meet the press" this morning. >> democrats won't lose seats next year over obama care? >> i don't think you can tell what will

on the senate side, mark pryor, democrat from arkansas. you can see the list.ch mcconnell, tom cornyn, tim scott, mary landrieu, and then on the house side, dave camp, kevin mccarthy, steny hoyer, john boehner fred upton, etc.. largely leaders and people who are in tight races. the open secrets site, that pac money includes, for example, candidate pacs so it is not strictly external money. to the point of citizens united, i think we have the tendency to assume we will see all negative effects -- that the citizen united ruling will be something that echoes over time. i think it will continue to evolve. i think we can expect further rulings from the supreme court about it, as well as potentially something coming up congress. although i don't think there is any traction on that at this point. but we will see. i have seen the reports that you have the same democrats outspent -- democrat leaning pacs outspent republicans over the course of the last election cycle. and i think that is interesting as well. what i also think that beyond the super pacs and citizens unit

that is a different story in the senate, actually, where lawmakers like mark pryor, even dianne feinsteinre signing on to plans that are -- would allow people to keep their health policies. that is a sign a lease in the senate -- you have a lot of democrats of difference rights rallyingent stripes around the idea that obama needs to be held accountable for his promise. host: mike the administration support diane feinstein and mary landrieu's legislation on this? very: i think that is unlikely because that would put them in a different -- a difficult spot with the health insurance companies that have become their allies over time, which is in interesting narrative because the obama administration was not always in the health insurance companies' corner to say the least. but at this point in rolling out the affordable care act, they must be partners with the industry and the industry has a lot of power here because they are undergoing an enormous amount of change to make this work and to set back the clock to make everything possible. it is hard to say the administration would support that