team mitch distributed a packet at the event, featuring test testimonial from kentucky women. a tweet "this quote in mcconnellet on co-sponsorship is interesting." the quote comes from angela lee which says "mitch is the co-sponsor of the original violence again women act." the truth is, mcconnell did co-sponsor a version 20 years ago. that legislation died in committee and never got a vote. by the time the measure came up again in 1993, for real this time, mcconnell was no longer a co-sponsor and, in fact, voted against final passage of the bill. of course, mcconnell has had two decades to redeem himself on that no vote. yet earlier this very year, he voted against the legislation's reauthorization even though he knew it would pass by a wide bipartisan margin. aides say mcconnell voted for a, quote, stronger alternative to the bill. one that excluded protections for lesbians and gays, native americans and undocumented workers. of course, the violence against women act is just one example of mcconnell's hypocrisy. declaration for mcconnell's inner circle demonstrate -- one aide spoke of the senator after her

mitch mcconnell is in big trouble. >> joe what's your take on this from where you sit in kentucky andching this campaign unfold. is mcconnell scared? >> i think he's definitely scared. trying to convince the women voters about his voting record is on their side. you can also tell he's very scared of the primary challenger matt beven, can you look at his silence on syria right now. matt beven is against syrian intervention. rand paul is the most popular republican in kentucky. and he is very strongly against the syrian intervention. right now, mitch mcconnell will not say which way he's going to go on the intervention. he says he's going to take a couple more days to find out where he will be. which is very odd, considering he's been a hawk in his days. >> mitch mcconnell has been a collassas for years in kentucky state politics. has a strong machine down there. has delivered the goods for folks down there. i mean, he's got power and a base. what has happened to mitch mcconnell that he's now in danger? >> i think one of the key themes that matt beven and alison grimes are using is that

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joy, the idea that mitch mcconnell and john cornyn who has basically been riding around in the clowncruz, the fact that they came out yesterday and said we are not -- we're not going to do this crazy filibuster, we are going to go forward with the house bill and effect ifly sort of admit that they're not getting behind the government shutdown strategy in a very sort weird round-about way, i think may be a good sign. then again it's the senate. as we know, the senate is the place where semi rational actors stay and have no sway over the people in the house. >> the crazy -- the crazy bag of dosed up we feasels are really the house. in the senate it looks like they have decided the kids have played out in traffic long enough. i think this is because of ted cruz. you've had this long vacuum of conservatism where there wasn't a political leader so into that vacuum came the talk radio right wing. and now in the transition back to wanting temporal power you have people like ted cruz who emulate the talk radio guys but have power because they're in the house, they're in the senate. how do yo

>> i just want to reiterate my point, if mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, if hes there's going to be a one-week clean cr, okay, that basically takes the rug out from under the house republicans. they could come out with a plan c, they could, they could have a delay of one year for the individual mandate, or the medical device tax cut. what mcconnell is saying is don't expect republican support in the senate. we will not deliver for you on that. that is why this is very important. and remember, it was mcconnell making a deal with reid that ended the crisis in 2011. don't underestimate what's going on. if there's nothing by midnight tonight i think that this game is going to be over very shortly and there will be a no shutdown. >> john, tony, a smart guy, frequent guest, he expects a shutdown and one that would be measured in weeks, not measured in days. would you agree with that? >> boy, i have the not been expecting that. i got an e-mail from a house republican leadership aide who i asked the question what are the odds of a clean extension of government funding p

mitch mcconnell can release any number of internal polls. i can probably get people to do an internal poll that will look compellinging for me. the fact is we're nine months out at this point. we have a long way to go. it's a grassroots game. i'm now showing up at places where people are turning out, you know, 100, 150 people in meetings that typically would have 20 or 30 people. there is excitement. there's enthusiasm. people want a change. they're tired of people that are missing in action on amnesty, on bailouts, on syria. et cetera. >> debate you? >> i would love it. i think he's afraid. >> the challenger to mcmcconnell on the republican side. >>> more from capitol hill in a moment as leaders debate the possibility of military action in syria. what will that mean for issues like immigration and the debt ceiling? are they simply on the back burner? and later, as football season kicks, we look into the ncaa money machine. the athletes that fuel it and what they get in the end. but first, today's trivia question. before joe biden, which two

poor mitch mcconnell doesn't know which way to turn. the head of the republican party is on the side of ted cruz, as was just pointed out. you have republicans in the real world like you and a lot on planet bizarre. >> i'm not usually one to come to mitch mcconnell's aid. mitch mcconnell made a decision. >> he's getting hammered for this. >> he decided to air on the side of actually legislating as opposed to ted cruz. michael, alex altman says a senator standing in washington is inversely proportional to his reputation back home. suffering the slings and arrows of critics in the capital is a good way to win the appropriation of the people who matter. does he end this filibuster in better standing nationally than when he started? >> with the hard right base, i would say probably yes. it's going to be interesting to see. the natural inclination is to think, of course, he's going to be their martyr. he's going to be their hero. i could see the alternative argument, which would be that he led them down the primrose path. he made them think

senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, finally came out of his shell to let the american people knowg so, mcconnell became the only leader in congress to say that he will oppose president obama's proposed military intervention in syria. mcconnell is up for re-election next year. and he's desperate for better poll numbers. mcconnell knows the american people are against a strike in syria. so he did what any desperate republican would do, he gave a speech slamming the president of the united states. >> it is long past time the president drops the pose of the reluctant warrior and lead. you can't build an effective foreign policy on the vilification of your predecessor alone. at some point, you have to take responsibility for your own actions and see the world the way it is. not the way you would like it to be. if you wish to engage countries that have been hostile, so be it. but be a realist. know the limits of rhetoric and prepare for the worst. >> the only republican using these events to criticize the president in order to build political capital with their base. fellow kentucky sen

host: what does this mean for mitch mcconnell? guest: he is facing a relatively unknown opponent named matt mitcht and is accusing mcconnell of being an establishment figure and criticizing him on many of these procedural grounds. matt bevan ell and oppose the healthcare law but bevan is accusing him of not being aggressive enough and the moreg some of aggressive actions to de-funds the legislation. usc and the arguments take place over tarp. that mcconnell supported during the bush years, the emergency tarp funding, which many tea party republicans opposed. mitch mcconnell has to worry about winning this but he has a very just he has a very credible democratic challenger. she is trying to make her pitch is a more moderate democrat and that is a challenge he will face later on. host: we are talking to the editor and chief of " hotline." what's is this mean for democrats and the white house? there are new stories coming out on a regular basis about employers, major employers like ups and trader joe's. the cleveland clinic, they comp

harry reid will hold a fund-raiser for mitch mcconnell's political opponent. senate lied ares don't usually get involved in bill frist did to tom daschle in '04 and now reid is doing it to mcconnell. finally, i'm going to answer your twitter questions tonight. this is "hardball," the place for politics. more is better. that's why we designed the all-new nissan versa note, with more technology, to get you into, and out of, tight spots. and more space so that you always have your favorite stuff. and just for good measure, an incredibly efficient 40 mpg highway.

the party, and one of the more -- one of the bigger developments in the last 24 hours is that mitch mcconnell, who is up for reelection, tough primary, and announced he would not be notbustering the cr, would be joining ted cruz to defund -- his version of the defund movement, and mcconnell is going to draw criticism for that position on the right but it is in the medic of the divisions facing republicans across congress between the house and senate, the more tea party activist wing, and the more establishment republicans trade host: given the divisions between mitch mcconnell and mike issue, ted cruz on this how important is obamacare in 2014? guest: it is one of the biggest issues is not the biggest issue that republicans will be running on in 2014. a disproportionate number of the races are taking place in southern states, conservative states, states where obama's health-care law is very unpopular. you look at the polls that show a plurality, majority of the voters disliking the health-care law. those numbers are more significant in states like arkansas, kentucky, where mitch mcconnell is

the senate and house to authorize use of force, and this morning the senate minority leading, mitch mcconnellf kentucky, announced that he has never been in favor of the participate's foreign policy, and announced that he will not be voting to authorize force, several other senator have also moved into the no column. so the president prepares to address the nation tonight. dell? >> the president is going to address the nation at 9:00 this evening, are we still expecting a push for military strike or more diplomacy or what? >> i think that the president will continue to make the case of the fact of the use of chemical weapons, so i think he will continue to make the case while saying the window of opportunity is open for a diplomatic solution. but there won't be a vote before next week at the earliest, so there's still some time for the administration to get the votes that he wants, and at the end of the day, it is still his decision as commander in chief. we know he can go ahead if they say no. >> randall take you very much. >>> france is saying it will introduce a resolution requiring syria

mitch mcconnell's female rival was called an empty dress and cory booker is facing crime.ng us is viviana and ryan riley a justice reporter for "the huffington post." it's great to have you here. let's start out in kentucky. democrats are outraged over the national republican senatorial committee spokesman e-mail to the hill slamming mitch mcconnell's opponent who is alison gri alison grimes. parrots the talking points handed to her by chuck schumer or she babbles after for getting to read her homework assignment. she's an empty dress. viviana, break this down for us. there are people who will call men empty suits. do you think it's apples to apples that use that phrase and a political contender? >> i think it's fair in the sense that you said, we've heard about an empty suit, as women become more active in the political atmosphere, it's very likely that we're going to start to hear more of that. it sits very poorly with women voters and it really feeds into the story line that the gop has about a so-called war on women. in the case of mitch mcconnell and repeatedly voted

folks like leader mitch mcconnell who say they're not going to stop that. they're not trying to whip up votes to put that brake on. instead, what we'll be watching later on in the week is an amendment process to try to get that obamacare funding dealt with. >> thank you very much. we want to go to kenya now where that country's president is saying that several floors have collapsed inside that mall where that stand off is now in its fourth day. we're joined live now, peter, what can you tell us about the reports of the floor collapsing and the deaths? >> reporter: i find it difficult to hear what you said, but what the kenyan president just told the nation, they have defeated the terrorists in his word. they have captured 11 of them. 5 are dead and death toll stands at 72 including 61 civilians. you were talking about the dead who are still trapped. they did say the floors of the shopping mall has collapsed, and as far as this country is concerned, as far as the president of this country is concernconcerned, the terroriste been defeated. >> i get the sense

it's about mitch mcconnell and john cornen, the ultimate betrayal.ause they do not stand with ted cruz in this thing he is doing which is really not a filibuster, that won't change anything at all. mitch mcconnell is a turncoat. turncoats who have surrendered to barack obama! who is, like caesar here, i guess, maybe. when you have worked yourself up into such a froth that your enemies are the nazis and judases and the british empire circus of 1776, that makes it i think hard to admit that what you are doing makes no sense and that maybe it is time to think about how you're going to explain what you're going to do next. and so pointlessly not only has today happened, but it is still happening right now. do we just chock this up to these guys getting their ya-yas out or does this have any substantive consequence at all? senator ted cruz lecturing his colleagues how to achieve actual change during his pretend filibuster today was witnessed in part by producer casey hunt. thank you for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> so in terms of timing, what's going

. >> meanwhile, minority leader mitch mcconnell announcing yesterday he would not support a philfilibustered by senator c. it will likely play a significant role, this is where it gets interesting, in the 2014 midterm elections. nearly every republican running or expected to run for the senate next year supports the effort to strip funding for the affordable care act. meanwhile, a new cnbc poll finds 59% of americans oppose shutting down the government because of obama care and even if the threat of a shutdown is removed, 44% still oppose the cutting of the 2010 health care law. president obama will officially begin the rollout of the affordable care act later today with a, quote, conversation with former president bill clinton who, of course, we're seeing quit a bit of in the next few days. >>> policy changes on the way in the wake of the navy yard shooting. the secretary of the navy recommending future security reviews include any police reports. aaron alexis who killed 12 last monday was granted secret level government clearance although he was arrested multiple times. two for firing a

it is tagging mitch mcconnell with shutting down the government. do you think that he is sending ted cruz a thank-you note this morning for that? he is being primaried on the right by the tea party. he has a tough race on the left. and now he's tagged with probably one of the most unpopular things across this country, shutting down the government. >> i think mitch did a very good job of showing good leadership in the last several days when he came out and said, in the press, i'm going on vote for cloture on the limiting debate. he didn't have to do that. if he was totally worried about a primary race, he might have gone a different direction. but it's leadership. that's what this is all about. and i think that's what he showed there. i think that's what you're going to see during the next 72 to a week -- 72 hours to an hour to the next week. >> let me forecast even ahead to the debt ceiling. do you think it was a smart strategy, senator casey, for president obama to come out early and say, he's not going on negotiate on this. and before anyone can

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on both sides.l us about it. >> well, this is another place we are seeing democrats early playing the outside money game, which republicans have in the past. they are reporting they are going after radio adds and their theme against senator mcconnell is 30 years is too long. >> it might be. >> this is fascinating in the context of the cruz filibuster. we have seen the mcconnell verizon cruz argument mcconnell says we want to defund the house bill. why would you filibuster? >> it's not only a clever idea. it's the truth. >> i mean the house has got exactly what ted cruz asked for. he freaked out. >> all his 30 second commercials, the "wall street journal" says it increases mailing lists, which they have. >> but he never expected the house to do what the house has done. so now he's on the floor trying to kill the house republican bill. >> which is what? >> that defunds obamacare. >> you know, mcconnell has to be careful. he is being careful. he has to be careful, because kentucky does do this, i mean,

he privately stand with mitch mcconnell and most of the republicans saying this is the wrong way to do it. but he needs that tea party credibility, that ted cruz is trying to earn out there in the senate floor. he goes out on the floor, and publicly in a certain kind of way looks like he is being helpful to ted cruz. but he is asking the, the uncomfortable questions that none of ted cruz's real friend asked today which is what happens if you fail? >> right. no it's, this is so entertaining. i have to say. i find this fascinating. you have rand paul looking like the sane one. he was the architect of the idea of the talking filibuster from the republican side as a way to foot for tea party values. what you are seeing there, you pointed this out in your opening. this is a performance. ted cruz performing for the right-wing base. performing for right-wing donors. see, this is my performance of fighting for you. what he is doing is filibustering the republican house tea party bill. it makes no sense. rand paul has to find a way. it is catching on. but to look like the adult. so when he too

clearly mitch mcconnell is in trouble. polls show he's unpopular.ce is neck and neck. sometimes he's up, sometimes she's up. he's worried about a primary challenge. clearly he is in trouble. she has a lot of democratic support. they see this as a real race. i would argue if the best thing that happened 0 mitch mcconnell is that his opponent has a big fund-raiser with big democratic support, it's no wonder his obvious sign he's really in trouble. >> mcconnell has going after grimes as a tool of barack obama and reid. here he is last month at fancy farm, the famous nearly kentucky political picnic. patronizingly he imapplies her dad is running her campaign. here he is taking on his female, his woman opponent who i think that's going to be a fact too, gender. let's watch to say how nice it , how nice it is to see jerry back in the game. like the loyal democrat he is, he's taking orders from the obama campaign on how to run his daughter's campaign. is the senate going to be run by a nevada yes man for barack obama who believes coal makes you sick or the

fox business network's sandra smith on the stock market, and trent lott on what mitch mcconnell has got be sweating. we begin with chad at the capitol. >> the latest in the past couple of minutes is house speaker john boehner came out and has rejected any idea of a clean cr, meaning just passing a bill to keep the government open ought any strings attached. the minority lead their the house, nancy pelosi, says the strategy of continue ago to attach these healthcare provisions to a bill, say it's like hound dogs baying at the moon. she says to the speaker if you can bring in up runs and we bring in democrat wes can pass them. democrats think they have already given on this. the spending bill under the budget control act, that lifted the debt ceiling -- think how big this number its, 1 1.058 trillion. this turn spending bill is down to 1.6 billion. the democrats say we already caved. just stop putting all these healthcare provisions on the bill to keep the government open. >> neil: i'm just curious. i'm sorry. sonned out there as i was checking the wires -- the idea we got to protect the

he called harry reid, mitch mcconnell on the senate side. he also called speaker boehner and nancy pelosi on the republican side. seems like that that kind of i don't know presidential diplomacy could have been undertaken a bit earlier tonight,. >> sure. meetings go underway phone calls which i'm told by a republican official familiar with these calls that in the case of john boehner it was basically both sides reaffirming their positions. neither side, neither the president nor speaker boehner giving an inch. that doesn't really get you very far. the other point i would make is that the white house has just put out an official read out of his calls with those four leaders, mostly standard stuff, but one thing i would point to is they are saying the president's position tonight is that the house needs to go back. you saw the house floor and those votes sort of going on. put away these votes. what the president is now asking speaker boehner to do is to have a clean, no attachments on healthcare or anything else vote on a continuing resolution

mitch mcconnell has a two front war going on. he has to worry about this primary, which he is favored to win, but he cannot take a challenger like matt bevin for granted. he has a credible democratic challenger, who has been hitting him from the left but she is trying to make her page as a more pragmatic democrat. host: we are talking to josh kraushaar of "the hotline." we would love to take your calls. host: josh, what about political risks for democrats? we have talked about republicans and the dissension between them. what could this mean for democrats and the white house? guest: there are new stories coming out on a near regular basis about major employers -- ups, trader joe's. we saw the cleveland clinic news. big companies are laying off workers and dumping some of the workers they have been covering on their insurance plans. even president obama delayed one big element, the employer mandate, for year because it doesn't seem ready to go. it is a big vulnerability for democrats. if republicans can get their act straight and

they went to mitch mcconnell. on every single one of these things in the last 24, 48 hours, he and biden sat down with the president's approval and hammered something out. mcconnell can't do that now. why not? he faces a primary challenge from the tea party guy who's associated or close to rand paul, the rand paul forces in kentucky. the argument against mcconnell is he does these things. >> but i wouldn't say it's helpless. keep in mind in the early summer there was the threat of the nuclear option on judges. they went to john mccain and he built a coalition to do something. they went around mitch mcconnell, very conspicuously. . >> i think this is different than sort of -- we're not talking about sequestration yet. the thing they have planted their flag in is defunding obama care. the president is not going to give anything on obama care. >> correct, but they could do something like -- you can see the contras of a deal that would upset both parties but palatable. something like in exchange for changes to social s

mitch mcconnell's up for re-election, don't you know. republican response in the senate was delegated to dan coats, senator from indiana, because mitch mcconnell doesn't actually want to say what he thinks, so dan coats gets to. that said, the republican party has to go on the record every week with its official party response to the president's weekly address, so the republicans have to go on the record whether they want to or not with their take on what they think is the most pressing issue facing the country every week. the republican weekly radio address this weekend tackled head on, bravely, the pressing issue of how much republicans hate health reform. yes, that was their weekly address to the nation this weekend. down with obama care! nothing else going on, right? there is a good chance that the president of the united states could order a military strike in syria. members of congress, both parties in congress have been explicitly asked to weigh in on this very sober issue. the republican party, for the most part, is just deciding

but here's mitch mcconnell saying it's all up to them. >> well, yes, he is. facing a challenging primary, so he's perfectly happy to have the problem happen over in the house and not actually and sort of kick the can down the road before he actually has to deal with it. look, i think there's a couple things here. i think the republicans recognize part of the reason i think we're hearing them talking about now holding the affordable care act implementation hostage to the raising the debt ceiling. i think politically, they think more people understand what it means when you talk about shutting down the government than this raising of the debt ceiling. i think they don't think people have as much of a direct sense of what impact that will have. so from my strategic perspective, from my messaging perspective, i think that's why they're going that route. but let's be clear. the problem in the house is that john boehner does not control his caucus. there were reports over the weekend that now even moderate republicans -- >> yeah. >> are going to him and saying, hey

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mitch mcconnell is pushing away from a plan from ted cruz. democrats vowed to remove the health care provision and hold a simple majority vote on the budget. in a new cnbc poll 50% of americans say the funding of obama care is not worth the government shut down. >>> let's get you back to colorado where the second day of autumn felt more like winter in some parts. up to four inches of snow fell in the high country. n br . >> in montana winter storm watch. all the problems this morning are down in florida. this is where we have had a lot of heavy rain yesterday and continues right now. we have flood warnings around the greater tampa area. look at the big thunderstorms just below the weather channel logo there. those head through tampa. if we have concerns for travel this morning that is where it is going to be especially at the airports. minor delays for thunderstorms today, miami and new orleans. the rest of the forecast soggy in florida but soaked in sunshine elsewhere. a beautiful afternoon from colorado to the east coast. that is a look at

mitch mcconnel's office issued this statement. he supports the house republicans bill and would not vote to block it. joining me now. >> a senior fellow. it is tempting for those freshman senators to come into town and say i know better than everybody. they say it can't be done so there is ted cruz trying to outsmart everyone. >> you and i disagree on this a little bit. he is not going to get this done. he just got a huge boost. >> it is very bad for everything. >> if things go wrong, all of the sudden, the democrats don't get blamed you do. things wouldn't be going wrong if you had kept the federal government open. and yet because it's not actually going to happen, other republicans will take a bullet for it actually happening and he will come out looking like the one true conservative. >> and when he loses his campaign for president, he will also say that it didn't work for that either. let's listen to his explanation to chris wallace asked him the question about actual votes. >> what we know is he does not have the 41 votes. no