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molly ball, always good to have you. ben goldberg. thanks for coming. >>> this is day three for obama care and we've gotten updated numbers on how many people checked out the health care exchange website. first day and a half numbers, more than 6 million people visited the site. about 190,000 calls were made to enrollment hot lines and there were requests for web chats and no word on how many people successfully enrolled in coverage. [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> later this hour the president will go to a business and there you see it at a construction company in maryland and he'll talk about the very real-life impact about this shutdown. a lot of companieses talking about what it has meant to them and to their employees and we will have that for you live when we see the president in this ongoing pr war in many cases between the the republicans and the democrats about who is to blame and what th

molly ball, ross douthat, tracy seffel. senator cory booker was sworn in today.help but notice not a lot of senators did. dana bash estimates there were only about a dozen democratic senators and a few republican ones. this is right before the senate was supposed to vote. what do you think? is this hazing the newbie? >> it's a big mistake. we know about cory booker's penchant for heroism, pulling people out of burning buildings, saving kittens from trees, that kind of thing. if something goes wrong at the capitol, those 15 senators, he's getting them out alive. everybody else, who knows. they're on their own. >> very nice. got to think ahead when it comes to cory booker. he's like underdog, always there. we appreciate it. the political panel is next. life's an adventure when you're with her. and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet a

i want to bring in molly ball and joe conason, editor and chief of national memo. a lot of stuff happened here this morning, but at the same time here, molly, we are kind of back to almost the same exact point we were at this hour yesterday. the senate working on a deal and you heard sean duffy there just a second ago. will they work something out on that vote? and will john boehner put it on the floor and get it passed should he bring it to the floor with mostly democratic votes here? >> well, i don't think there's much question that if it came to the floor, particularly with boehner's support, that a bill would pass. if it was a deal that had been agreed to by the democratic and republican leaders in the senate and it was something that democrats could support and then it would only take a couple of dozen republicans and there are at least that many republicans who are loyal enough to boehner who would vote for it. so the question is whether boehner will bring it to the floor. we're starting to see reports that he does plan to do that. the sort of generous explana

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josh rogin, a senior correspondent for the daily beast, molly ball and keli goff. molly, i want to start with you because you've been talking with certain republican lawmakers and there's this chatter about the potential of a grand bargain. so we're back at square one over something that everybody thought was extinguished. is that the way out for republicans? >> well, a lot of them seem to really think it is. as you know the grand bargain is this sort of dream that never dies in washington, hope springs eternal. they seem to think that they're in a blind alley, there aren't a lot of options out of the current stalemate, although i think you could hear from what the congressman was just saying that there are some hopes that they can at least turn the politics of this around. but with democrats not budging, speaker boehner and some of those close to him seem to feel like one option might be for them to go big, to make a big deal on the budget, wrap in the debt limit since boehner certainly feels like he can't surrender twice, he can't surrender on the cr and then surr

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molly ball, former chief speech writer to president obama, john fa favreau and william kristel. credit. they are doing through activism, what any activist group would want to accomplish. >> i wrote this for a couple reasons. first, i think there's been a lot of oh, it's ted cruz who is pushing everybody in this direction or michele bachmann and her 29 friends. this is coming from the grassroots. this is coming from the tea party grassroots and they have a political organization that's very effective. it's tactical. they know where the pressure points are and they know how to push them and that's what we saw them do during the august recess. let's not forget, everyone said this couldn't be done before the august recess, this defund obama care idea was going nowhere. of course, it's still going nowhere, but it has shut down the government. that's a partial victory for them. i think that's part of the reason they're not giving up now, because they feel they have already overcome the naysayers and come this far. that's why they still believe they can go all the way. >> john, you're f

joining our own krystal ball and molly ball in the winner's circle. john is the first nonball to win. you got an appearance on "the cycle". >> it's great, it's always to be orn "the cycle" and always great to be the fifth wheel. >> of course because you won you get to be on "the cycle." we have a one question game show to play, dante or tour'e. your question for all of the prizes, which there are none. who has the better afro, dante or tour'e? >> are you showing a picture? there's a long delay. >> without question dante? >> that's correct. that's correct. you got that right. >> is that really you on the left? >> yeah, that was me. >> on saturday contestants -- >> the 60s were a long time ago. >> michael steele -- jonathan, victoria defran chess co-soto -- >> burn burn burn. >> ari will not be there or here. believe it or not even what we just did, we'll be back with more of "the cycle." mom, dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's hea

the "atlantic's" molly ball and jonathan capehart of "the washington post." welcome to all of you.own vote and end today. the president has advised him to do so. why doesn't he do it? >> because, frankly, his position is at risk. if he puts the -- a continuing resolution on the floor of the house, it's going to be sheer pandemonium and you're going to find speaker boehner as just another member of the house. and i think that's really the crux of the matter. then too, you could see a deep position of the tea party if this happens. all of the political power in capital they have amassed over these brief years they have been in existence as a very populus party would be really gone by the wayside, if he were to put this up for a vote. and that would really splinter the party in ways we cannot number or name today. >> so jonathan, given what goldie has just said, john boehner seems willing to sacrifice the jobs of hundreds of thousands of americans, all for the sake of saving, what, his own? i mean, his own -- how much longer does he get to stay in this position? >> well, what's today?

political commentator, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent for "new yorker" magazine along with molly balltlantic." is it possible the democrats could take over, become the majority in the house of representatives? >> i pretty much agree with everything john king just said. we did cross a tipping point in the wake of the government shutdown. we crossed a point where there are enough seats in play where it's theoretically possible this far out, this is pretty far out, over a year out, for the democrats to pick up those 17 seats. charlie cook, one of the best house prognosticators in washington, moved 14 seats this week towards -- in the democrats' direction. and he said that things have moved from republicans likely to take between two and seven seats to republicans likely to arrange where it could shift five seats towards the republicans or five seats towards the democrats. so the bottom line is, the fallout from the shutdown has moved things in the democrats' direction and given them the possibility of taking back the house. we're a long way out. >> i was just about to say, we're still a