richard wolffe, what does this mean to the politics of all of this? on the heels of the president having his lowest approval rating as we've seen in one poll as of late. but this is good. this is what the republicans have been crying about all along. >> right. which makes it harder for them to accept this reality. they're saying it was the obama sequester and he caused this pain. but the sequester is what brought down this budget. the hard thing for them is they've repeated lies so often that admitting to reality, it's like election night itself, becomes very painful. they want to say this is a budget crisis and maybe longer term when you're looking at two texas down the road, you're going to say this whole system breaks. but if you've got a president who's willing to talk about some of the changes to calculations of social security, you've got a president saying we need to make smarter cuts but also need to have some stimulus spending to get those jobs back, then you've got to have someone o on the other side that's willing to face up to what the rea

joining me now richard wolffe and goldie taylor. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. art with you. the gop may not invoke the word 47% like governor lepage, but isn't it alive in their policies? >> well, rev, you know, when you look at what the lessons are coming out of the last election, you'd have to say they're doubling down. they have not tried to find any compassion for people who are still struggling in this economy. and the language speaks to more than just -- it's not just a number here. it's the whole idea there are undeserving people at all that we don't have a common responsibility to give people a hand up and not a handout. not like president obama is saying you don't need to find your own health insurance. he's actually saying no, go be self-reliant. this is a debate that's stuck in the 1970s and '80s. the democrats have moved on. it's time the republican dos the same. >> it's a mentality, goldie. because when you look at the maine governor, the facts aren't even on his side. more than 65% of the people in his state are working. and the remaining 35% are l

joining me now is richard wolffe, msnbc.com executive editor and author of the new book titled "the messagelling of president obama" richard, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, rev. >> now, we know how it turned out for newt. how will the showdown affect speaker boehner and this congress? >> well, it's going to be worse, actually. we can try to project out how the elections are going here, but we've got to take this back a few years to what the republicans decided to do about the tea party. they could have said, hey, let's leave it like the ross perot guys, some third party that will die out on its own. instead, they took them on board. and now the fear of the tea party is driving the whole republican agenda. which means they cannot break free from them. they are giving life to this tea party movement, and that is destroying their brand. they will be not trusted with deficits, with finance, all things they say they're strong on for generations to come. >> now, let me show you this picture. i'm showing you this picture, it sums up this republican house. as america suffers, eric

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the argument to regain their championship winning form and trying to keep their season alive richard wolffeleigh dancey moscow. now on to tennis and boosted his bid to qualify for the a.t.p. tour finals in duncan after taking his third title of the year at the kremlin cup the twenty seven year old rallied to beat kazakstan. four six six four six four and has overtaken fellow frenchman drove a fleet someday into the ninth and last qualifying place in the raced the year ending tournament while on the women's side simona halep beat former u.s. open champion sam stories of australia as the fast rising remain he and secured her fist title of the season with only world number one serena williams winning more. basketball and russian champions desk moscow fought back to beat debutants nontarget in paris and claim an opening victory in the year only the french champions led by twelve points in the second quarter but in the third test turns the game around sixty two fifty nine ahead of the buzzer approached the hosts had a last second chance to time but missed as a tour in the scene as man grabbed a

your kind of sign as a look to win their first ever olympic medal in just over three months time richard wolffe meet our moscow. and meanwhile russia's top speed skater yvonne scott would have his busily preparing for the opening well cup that ends with the two time olympic medalist also targeting a maiden gold in sochi we called her child has all. events corporate shot to prominence at the vancouver winter olympics four years ago then a relative dark horse of the speed skater changed his coach and claimed silver and bronze at the second games those were russia's first men's long distance medals a year later scabrous was crowned all round while champ. and up next on his wish list is top on this in sochi as the father of two will turn thirty one on the first day of competition i'll try to do my best to not because i have really really really make. hard season then yeah it's my goal actually to race as fast as i can on the russian olympic games in sochi and we'll see how it's going to go this during the season carried the olympic torch in moscow and this is where he'll try to go one better than h

we'll definitely have to have you back on because that this is the news that doesn't stop giving richard wolffe professor economics narratives at the university of massachusetts amherst thank you so much for joining me thank you for the opportunity. and now to syria where the battle between president bashar al assad's government forces and the armed opposition continues while the assad government has streamlined its message saying they're fighting terrorism the rebel fighters have diverged into a confusing mix of factions fighting for different causes all competing for foreign funding artie's maría for notion and syria and went to one rebel controlled area to find out more about this armed opposition but said oh yes rock next to the syrian lebanese border is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state it has its own security forces police even the. symbols of new of so to see everywhere graffiti or restart that the free syrian army has control of the area they do in military cannot answer your brood is the center of a large mountainous area in western s

i'm happy to welcome richard wolffe, executive editor of msnbc.com. congratulations. >> thank you, rev. i appreciate pit. >> i want to start on the home page. walk us through. >> what we wanted to do here is bring the spirit of what you and others do in the studio to life here on this page. these are e the stories that matter. the videos that matter about the things that matter to people's lives. and so we got ten big stories up here. that's what's there on the right. we've got the big headlines. and as you scroll down, you'll see rachel and the things that really fire up our audience. we want them to share things from here, to save them from later. and to go talk about them to come together. >> wow. that's great. you know, all shows have their own page. ours is politicsnation.msnbc.com. what will you have on our page? >> you can see right here, rev, all the great videos from your show, from last night and later on from tonight as well. and when you go down underneath here, you'll see the stories that really speak to the audience here about -- could b

joining me now, richard wolffe, msnbc.com executive editor and author of "the message: the reselling" and krystal ball, co-host of "the cycle." >> thank you both for being here. >> thank you very is having us. >> right after that report revealing a secret scheme. it was really striking for him to do that today. >> it was. and especially with everything else that's going on in the country right now. but i think anyone, and i don't care whether you like obama care, hate it, whether you're conservative or democrat, i think everyone should be terrified by the idea that a few billionaires can get together and down the road can generate enough motion in congress to shut down the government. that should be a terrifying idea. as the president pointed out, what's really different is you see these right wing groups and it started with the club for growth, now tea party express and heritage action. we have a proliferation of these groups that are willing to enforce purity on the republicans and challenge them from the right. it really has led to a lot of the dysfunction we see in d.c. >> you kn

that appeared the next morning in the newspaper by robert barnes of the "washington post" or richard wolffe from "usa today," they are just going to snippets, too. that is quotations -- that's the print equivalent of a snippet. their newspapers and the ap sell them, run the entire transcript of an oral argument. thank you very much, thank you. [laughter] the video clips that would be broadcast on the news programs would actually be more vivid. that is to say, more faithful to the original of what was said in the court. so perhaps that's what justice scalia objects but it does seem to me and on argument against cameras to say that the snippets on tape would be more truly representative of what happened during the oral argument and that's why we shouldn't allow them. we have long grown accustomed to what justice clear call to snippets. the video vocabulary if you will. they started appearing a century ago in the movie newsreels and we've seen them for decades in television coverage of presidential speeches and news conferences and congressional debates. viewers understand what a snippet is ju

richard wolffe i guess you, unlike me, think democrats should just reject those measures. >> no. think republicans should be talking about debt and deficit and not campaigning by snippet and stunt. that's what they are doing. if they are serious about government, wanting to take control of government and do things that speak to their va e values they need to talk about deficit. they're talking about nih, national parks. this is small politics when we are looking at default. >> turn the page. >> hold on. if you are a mother or a father with a child in one of the clinical trials and the republicans have passed a bill to fund nih do you not think the democrats should probably -- >> or wic or -- >> why does it have to be all or nothing? why can't we help kids with cancer? >> these choices were put on us by 40 republicans. >> the all or nothing aspect of this is. i mean this crisis isn't static. no police call crisis is. if democrats want funding for national institutes of health, for parks, for washington, d.c., they now have vehicles to do it. they can pass it in the senate this mor

[applause] just a quick programming note unfortunately as you all know richard wolffe the political editorof "msnbc" was scheduled to be here and unfortunately he had to cancel because of a family emergency that had come up sowed dan and i are going to wing this together ourselves. we will miss richard being here but we will see if we can fill in the gaps of that commerce asian and in fact dan is one of those authors that we like him so much he did a session yesterday in the capital so we are glad to have him back. >> i will apologize in advance for anybody who was at that session if i repeat myself on occasion. i just want to say it is so delightful to be here. my wife and i lived here 30 years ago for a few years on the "washington post" had a bureau here so coming to austin is always homecoming for us and this is a great festival. it's been a treat not just to be a presenter here but to wander the streets and meet other people and hear other authors so with that i will turn it back brian's capable hands but i just wanted to tell everyone thank you for being here. >> as they trained edit