. >> mark, i want to dig into the numbers more and bring in perry bacon, political editor to the grio. it caught their attention, they figured they would shoulder the blame for it and it shouldn't stop them from doing the right thing. perry, i'm not sure whether that means the correct thing or the right wing thing. >> it's moving away from the right wing thing to be the right thing politically, always to do the right thing politically. >> indeed. >> let me touch on the polling that you brought out because we're seeing horrendous numbers for gop favorablety. the lowest -- >> and tour'e is taking every minute of it. >> and lower than thentire spanf abby's lunch. >> not that long. >> constituents are calling their congressmen and saying their positions are in line with what they want in their district. what's going on here? >> i think you raise a really good point. the parts of the conservative base, want this fight and happy with their member of congress and very red districts. so that's one thing that's going on. one of the reasons why we're seeing such low numbers for the republican p

perry bacon from the grio. politics never stops.rch, former president bill clinton, politicking in virginia. getting out the vote for his buddy. and gubernatorial candidate terry mcauliffe. take a listen. >> the virtue of political extremism is that once you get people all torn up and upset, steam coming out of their ears, they will show up and vote. will you care as much as they do and show up and vote? >> and getting african-american voters out, perry, we know that in virginia that could very well be the biggest challenge terry mcauliffe faces. according to politico blacks who make up about a fifth of the electorate are often the difference between victory and defeat for democrats running staid wide in the commonwealth. why turn to bill clinton and not president obama? >> right now bill clinton is more popular among voters overall. he also has very high numbers of african-americans as well. bill clinton you get, he helps moderate voters. black voters as well. right now president obama not as popular among moderate voters as a bill

i want to bring in our company, karen tumulty and perry bacon. great to see both you have as we move through the rundown. karen, back to the president's agenda, the budget, immigration, the farm bill as well. which of those, of those three, is most likely to get done? >> well, i think the farm bill is by far the most likely to get done, but i think the most interesting to watch is going to be the budget negotiations. >> no doubt. >> this is something that congress has not sat down as a conference committee on the budget since 2009. and this really is what passes for regular order in washington. now, patty murray, the chairman of the senate budget committee, and paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee, have been having informal meetings for six months now trying to work out a few things. but i think that is going to be the real indicator of whether this shutdown and this entire crisis has done anything to change the way business doesn't get done in washington. >> yet, they are far apart on some issues there. you know, perry, what do

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let me bring in msnbc contributor perry bacon junior and politics reporter from the "washington post"cinich, daughters of the man apparently at that rally it was reported in washington there. but perry, in one of your latest articles, you lightweight about the website problems but you also go through the list of things that have taken effect since october 1st with obama care. talk about some of those developments. >> a lot of things have happened beyond this website being bad which i'll acknowledge has been really bad and surprisingly so. you have more than 100,000 people have enrolled in health care plans in the last three weeks. particularly in states like kentucky and new york where their web sites are working really effectively. so have you sop states that are success stories. that's one thing to note. particularly you're seeing a lot of people, one thing involved in this law is it's much more easy to qualify for medicaid, the insurance program for low income americans. so you have in a lot of states around the country, particularly the ones i just named, you have large numbers of

a correspondent for public radio internationals the take away and msnbc contributor perry bacon, jr.,snbc reporter ka rin carmone. thanks for being here. we have that talk from lindsey graham, some republican senators speaking up basically saying 48-72 hours there will be a ruchlgs everybody out there yesterday the idea of a deal being near was sort of in the air. i guess this morning i'll start with you m.j., is your read on this situation that we are that close to a resolution here? i'm looking at this seeing a lot unresolved or short-term unresolvable issues. do you think we're that close to getting something done sneer. >> it does sound like we've reached a point where republicans realize if we don't get something done to raise the debt ceiling and open the government, i think that message has been received by the republican party. it's been fascinating, though to see senate republican, house republican, sort of a lack of coordination there. i think that's actually a good thing for the president he can sort of sit back and say, well, you know, i'll be here to listen to you and, yo

perry bacon is at the white house where he had a background briefing on obama care's implementation. perry, the president made clear the aca is not a website. you can also access it by phone. this is a deliberate problem not a product problem. if we go on too long with delivery problems it becomes a policy problem. how long do you think the white house has before this technical problem becomes a policy problem and please answer in minutes? >> good to see you guys, good to see you, tour'e. we have two technical problems. the website wasn't working great and from people i talked to, right now the phone site isn't working well as well either. when you go on to call and dial in, you off tten are told to waa long time or call back later. the key date here, december 15th. december 15th. that's when your health insurance goes online. what they talked about today, they expect a big spike of people, particularly young and healthy people to sign up in december between thfgs and december 15th. if the website is the not working then, then you'll have problems. real people who want to go on and ca

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joining me now, msnbc contributor perry bacon jr., and christina belantoni. ator mcconnell are in the earliest of stages but hopes to have a deal fairly soon. how realistic is that? >> thursday is the day. so thursday is a really big day here. neither party wants to go over the debt ceiling. i think in some ways the negotiations have to go pretty quickly if only because time is running out. i really think in particular the republican party, you saw those polls last week. the nbc poll. their party is at the lowest it's been ever on some level by the measures of that poll. so i think they don't want to, you know -- they've already pushed for a shutdown. that's driven the numbers down. they don't want to go over the debt ceiling and be blamed for that as well. there's a strong incident for the republicans to find some way through this. i expect by thursday they will. >> okay. christina, there was a lot of talk yesterday about republican senator susan collins' plan. she offered one to reopen the government with a spending bill for six month, also to lift the debt

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