so i think it's just a mistake in view of the way the government was set up. >> and, richard wolffe, one of the interesting things about the demands that the house members, the so-called freedom caucus who are holding up the situation for the republicans in the house, their demands include that the house operate more like the senate, open up to more amendments, more of these things that we've seen, slow things down in the senate. >> right. they're not talking about responsible government. they are talking about irresponsible government. so the idea that this could be a protest body is fine if you're in the minority. that's what i think quite perplexing about this republican party at this moment. where it has power but chooses not to exercise it because the people exercising that power are themselves suspicious. so you hear it already about paul ryan and the conservative media that he's just going to be another john boehner. why? because he would want to get things done. you know, this is an extreme view where actually they rail against paralysis. you heard senator cruz saying right t

i'm richard wolffe. we begin tonight with a major development in washington. a framework for that two-year budget deal. the last of the obama era. >> having listened to our members and listened to the american people, we have a budget agreement. this agreement will protect our economy and reduces deficit. >> if speaker boehner can get this deal through, it leaves his successor, paul ryan, in a strong position before he takes the gavel. but there is one man who could make that very difficult. texas senator ted cruz. he was the singular force behind the 2013 government shutdown. and today he said, quote, this is not a grand bargain or a negotiation, it is complete and utter surrender. john boehner's golden parachute will certainly cement his legacy, but it is a slap in the face to conservatives. it's ridiculous, deceitful, and a disgrace. the day before the next republican debate, the mere threat of blowing up the budget deal positions cruz exactly where he wants to be. after all, no other anti-establishme

hello, i am richard wolffe. we start with breaking news at the end of another busy day on the campaign trail. any minute, donald trump will kick off a rally in anderson, south carolina. we are watching it to begin any minute now. trump will walk into the room with new momentum a brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows he has more support than ever before. right now he has 25% a republican support. that's 1/4 of the vote. ben carson has 22%. marco rubio has 13%, ted cruz 9%, jeb bush 8% and carly fiorina has 7%. no other candidates tops 3%. the strong poll for trump comes amid a war of words and tweets for jeb bush. last month bush said what has become a gop slogan. his brother, "kept us safe." trump is trying to poke holes observing pointedly that september 11th happened on george w. bush's watch. >> with that being said you, i'm not blaming george bush but i don't want jeb bush to say my brother kept us safe because september 11th was one of the worst days in the history of this country. >> i don't

chuck will be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily" and richard wolffe picks up our coverage next. >>> now on msnbc live, donald trump targets ben carson and his religion as two new polls show it's carson who has the momentum. plus -- >> i've got a lot of really cool things i can do other than sit around being miserable listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. >> did we hear jeb bush hinting at his exit strategy as his campaign restructures. >> bernie sanders ramping up his rhetoric against hillary clinton. >> i think bernie sanders seemed to have a course correction in the j.j. dinner which he said he wasn't going to go negative to obviously focusing his fire on her. >> hello, i'm richard wolffe. we start with ben carson. he's the new 2016 front-runner, at least in iowa, where the first votes will be cast in less than 100 days. carson holds a commanding 14 point lead over donald trump in a new monmouth poll among iowa republican caucus goers. another iowa poll shows carson nine points up over trump. even in a best-case scenario for trump, they are now

. >> i'm richard wolffe. we begin with vice president joe biden ending months of speculation announcing after the death of his son beau he will not run for president. >> as my family and i have worked through the grieving process i have said all along what i have said time and again to others that it may be that that process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president. that it might close. i have concluded it has closed. >> and with those words the democratic primary is essentially down to two people, hillary clinton and bernie sanders. clinton's campaign says she talked to the vice president after his speech today. she also tweeted the vice president is a good friend and a great man today and always i am inspired by his optimism and commitment to change the world for the better. sanders was also full of praise. >> joe biden is a man who has devoted his entire life to public service and to the well being of working families and the middle class. i want to tha

i'm richard wolffe. in the same 24 hour time span t congressman paul ryan said he is in for the speaker job. two huge events with far reaching impact on what comes next. first benghazi and the reviews are in. hillary clinton was a commanding presence through an 11-hour marathon that back fired. after the hearing wrapped up committee chair admitted the grueling interrogation had gone nowhere. >>. >> things you learned to? >> i think some of jimmy jordan's questioning -- we knew some of that already. we knew about e-mails. in terms of her testimony i don't know that she testified that much differently today than previous time she testified. i would have to look at the transcript. >> today the democrats on the panel called on the speaker to shut it down saying there is no remaining doubt that the benghazi select committee is a taxpayer-funded fishing expeition de. speaker john boehner named the republicans on a new select committee to investigate planned parenthood and abortion practices. this as paul ryan

i'm richard wolffe. we begin tonight with a major development in washington.

i'm richard wolffe. we begin with the 2015 front-runners cementing their leads in all of the latest polls. could this really be the matchup we see in the general election? in every new poll, clinton has a commanding lead of more than 20 points over her closest rival, bernie sanders. one area where she is struggling, benghazi. brand-new numbers from the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll found 44% of americans are not satisfied with her response to the benghazi attack. just 27% are okay with her response. but while the candidate was off the campaign trail today, her daughter predicts that clinton's testimony before the house benghazi committee later in the week could actually help her. >> i think every opportunity my mom has, she proves again and again, why she should be our next president. i know i'm very biased. and i actually think i'm even more biased now, as a mom, than as a daughter, because i feel like i have a different stake in the future because of my daughter, charlotte. so i have no doubt on

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i'm richard wolffe.usalem is still on edge this morning after two weeks of heightened tension and violence. with reports of more violence overnight, we'll be heading there live. plus, the flash floods and mudslides that are trapping hundreds of cars in california. that's coming up. and we're waking up to the extraordinary news that snow might just be in the forecast for parts of the northeast this weekend in mid-october. which is frankly hard to believe at any time of day. but first, we begin with an incredible week in politics. what happened in vegas obviously didn't stay in vegas. hillary clinton emerging as the apparent winner of the first democratic debate. that's what our own nbc news online survey shows. and a boston globe poll released yesterday has clinton in a dead heat with bernie sanders in new hampshire, right there on the doorstep of vermont. there are also brand-new fund-raising reports for the third quarter of the year. hillary clinton raking in nearly $13 million. ben carson totalling $21

i'm richard wolffe. "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. >> no more biden his time. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews. joe biden wants to run for president and made clear he wants to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. what is stopping him is not the commitment but the timing. >> as my family and i have worked through the grieving process i have said all along what i have said time and again to others that it may very well be that that process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president. that it might close. i have concluded it has closed. >> biden said the clock simpry ran out to mount a successful campaign. >> unfortunately, i believe we're out of time. the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. but while i will not be a candidate i will not be silent. i intend to speak out clearly and forcefully to influence as much as i can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation. >> so simply too late. if it weren't too late he made it clear

i'm richard wolffe. "hardball with chris matthews" starts right now. >>> carson passes trump in first national poll. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews out in los angeles. well, the republican dance of defiance continues with angry voters, at least for a time changing partners. the people out in the country, the right-wing people, still don't like the established gop, all struggling down in the single digits. well, the vital question is which of the two champions of attack, donald trump or dr. ben carson, has the heart to fight it out when it gets close and nasty down the line? well, right now, many on the right are using carson as a place to rest, watch, and think. they want to say something powerful about change, but are not that sure of trump. what they're not ready to take are the names listed for months, years in the case of jeb bush, on that sad menu of hopefuls in the undercard of the establishment. here's what i think is going on right now. i think donald trump, whatever

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richard wolffe picks up our coverage. >>> breaking right now tens of thousands are evacuated as kirkst hurricane ever recorded gets close to making landfall as a category five. >>> the end of a rough week for house republicans as hillary clinton comes up

i'm richard wolffe. "hardball" starts right now. >> he koept us safe. no he didn't. let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. it was warm in the sun today, but the strong chill in the shade reminds us that winter is coming and soon will be halloween and thanksgiving and christmas and new year's. by then we will be in the thick of picking a president. what strikes me about the campaign so far is it took a political newcomer, donald trump to say something we already knew but nobody said before. that president george w. bush did not keep us safe in the eight years he was president of the united states. he didn't keep us safe or the people on those planes, those four planes safe that day. he didn't keep safe those men and women forced to choose between jumping from 100-story roof and being killed by the smoke and fire. he didn't keep safe the hundreds of firefighters killed that day doing their courageous duty. why did his brother make such a claim? why did jeb tell the audience in a republican debate last week and to great and unexpected app

chuck will be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily" and richard wolffe picks up our coverage next. >>>donald trump targets ben carson and his religion as two new polls show it's carson who has the momentum. plus -- >> i've got a lot of really cool things i can do other than sit around being miserable listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. >> did we hear jeb bush hinting at his exit strategy as his campaign restructures. >> bernie sanders ramping up his rhetoric against hillary clinton. >> i think bernie sanders seemed to have a course correction in the j.j.

i'm richard wolffe. "hardball with chris matthews" starts right now. >>> the fall of the house of bush. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews. up in new york, there's something in the political air this october 20th, it's in the attitude of people. something distrusting and uneasy. you feel it again in the breeze that just struck across our northern border, by the way. canada our close neighbor and strongest trading partner, has just dumped the conservative party after its decade in power. dumped it good. so yes, there is something happening in our neighborhood, something radical and exciting. i was in montreal the last time we saw an earthquake like this across the border. it was 1968. the very same year everything was coming apart here in the u.s. the same year the campuses of this country exploded over the vietnam war. the gene mccarthy dumped lyndon johnson from the american presidency, that martin luther king and bobby kennedy were killed. at the same time, the story was speaking e

richard wolff's oregano guest on guest on your show, he makes the point that americans no longer have any leverage against hypocrisy. were not needed as workers with the free trade agreements. whereas markets are opened up overseas. so can you talk about the taft act and how americans have no leverage to fight back so let's back up for a little bit. >> >> a lot of people died in the union movement between the 1870's and and really began to industrialized united states and the 1930's. with though wagner act unions became legal and protected the right to unionize was protected there a democracy in the workplace and therefore i think very important. in 1946 the first time since the election of 1932 republicans took control of congress for two years am pastille whole the allows the states to opt out to be the right to work states i call a right to work for less this was largely confined to the deep out - - the deep south although scott walker did into wisconsin and indiana power have to go back and look but this was the beginning of for of labor in the united states if you look at the his

richard wolff's oregano guest on guest on your show, he makes the point that americans no longer haveany leverage against hypocrisy. were not needed as workers with the free trade agreements. whereas markets are opened up overseas. so can you talk about the taft act and how americans have no leverage to fight back so let's back up for a little bit. unions do not have so you had a really good chance of being killed. a lot of people died. in particular between the 1870s when we began to industrialize in the 1930s in the 1935 it became legal and protected and the right to unionize was protected. unions are democracy in the workplace. therefore i think very important. in 1946, for the first time since the election of 1932 the republicans took control of congress for two years. passed the act that allowed the individual state to basically opt out for the right to work and i call it right to work for left states. this was largely confined to most of our history since 47. although now you have scott walker who did it in wisconsin, i think rich snyder in michigan. i'd have to go back to look.

richard wolff's regular guest on your show, he makes the point that americans no longer have any leverage against the crop bureaucracy. were not needed as consumers as new markets are opened up overseas, could you please talk about the taft-hartley act and how americans have no leverage to fight back against wall street, go bernie. guest: taft-hartley, backup up a little bit prior to 1935 unions did not have federal protection, so if you are unionizing in a company that hired other strike buster groups you had a good chance of being killed. a lot of people died in the union movement particularly between the 1870s when we began to industrialize the united states in the 1930s. with the act in 1935 unions became legal and protected, the right to unionize was protected. unions are democracy in the workplace. therefore i think they're very important to work with. in 1946, for the first time since the election of 1932 the republicans took control of congress for two years. they passed the taft-hartley act which blew a big hole in the side of the wagner act and allowed individual states to opt o