i don't call them wackos. >> i call them wackos. you do away with it -- by the way, if they refuse to fund it, you could take them to court because it's the law of the land they have to fund the law of the land -- >> anyone at this table think at the end of the day obama care is going to get defunded? we all know president barack obama was willing to go to syria with 80% of the public against him, half his caucus against him and all republicans against him. he's willing to do whatever it takes to make himself look good. he'll never sign -- >> you calling people wackos is jeffrey comer calling people meat eaters. the battle needs to be smart. i think the smart battle will always be to ex spend your energy, republicans, of the irs, enforcement of the obama care. they're the ones that targeted political add have i sar ris earlier this year illegally. you basically castrate them politically and force them to change. that's the only way to win this battle. >> dana, right now president barack obama and democrats own obama care. if republi

that's how ameriprise puts more within reach. ♪ >>> yesterday the senate wacko bird was kicked out ofhe top two republicans in the upper chamber, minority leader mitch mcconnell and whip john cornyn cut loose freshman senator ted cruz and dismissed his crusade to filibuster his own party's government funding bill. to be fair, it was a complicated plan. >> the majority leader has stated it is his intention to force a vote to fund obama care and to do so using just 51 votes. any member of this body that votes for cloture on this bill will be voting to allow the majority leader to fund obama care on 51 votes. >> but the rejection of this convoluted strategy did not deter ted cruz, who despite getting kicked in the teeth, continued to push ahead, defiant and self-serving as ever. >> folks can do whatever they want to resist change. there are a lot of people who have been in washington a long time that are fearful of change, they're fearful of risk, they're fearful of anything that changes the clubby way washington does business. >> today the conservative skepticism is turning into outrigh

i said, look, these are a small percentage of wackos out there. don't worry about it.'t worry about it. i know enough people who follow the show that think i'm an all right kind of guy. i'm not going to let wackos who are on twitter -- >> there are a lot of real atheists. i really love atheists. come back. come back to me. i didn't mean it. i was just trying it get through the segment. obviously it's bother had he for three weeks. >> his mother is going to be absolutely shocked because nobody but nobody, even somebody in first grades missed what you were talking about, a four-letter word. >> i was trying to make the point without saying the word. >> to her mother, she didn't really mean it. she's anging around me too much. >>> up next, thoer member of the mainstream party tries to brand the tea party as racist for opposing president obama's policies. stay tuned for cokie roberts next. you know how we got her nickname? ♪ change my life again ♪ flight by night my dear >>> well, here's a fact of life when it comes to the mainstream media and the democratic party. if you'r

so at this point, they just say, "look, if it violates energy conservation, come on, it's another wacko-wacko." because nothing has so far shown that you could get more out than you put in. so there are rul to the universe, and that's one, energy conservation. you can change from one form to another, but you can't get more than you started with. no free lunch day. and with most machines, you don't even break even 'cause some of that energy goes into overcoming friction, turns into heat. so why do you eat your cornflakes in the morning, gang? you eat your cornflakes in the morning, what do you do? those things are being torn apart in your stomach. and they're torn apart, the bonds, that energy becomes part of guess who? and you use that to go about your day. and what happens if you stop eating? how long can you keep running a car without putting gasoline in? how long can you keep running your body engine without puttg food in? so the conservation of energy, hey, biology right underneath it. here's a neat little device here. it's a generator. consists of magnets, these magnets, and inside here,

that's where wacko birds was born. there is a big rift. you saw on the house side when leaders had to pull the debt ceiling bill, which they had planned to bring up today and this weekend. so leadership has a real problem right now corralling the people they need to back these bills so they can move on. >> and in fact one of manu's colleagues writes this. the gop suffers from ptsd when it comes to government shutdowns. it took the political hit for the last one in 1995-96 and many members worry about history repeating itself. so, manu, you cover him, you know him. is john boehner going to cave, give in on this fight, live to fight another day, say, in two weeks over the debt ceiling, what's going to happen yet? >> we don't know yet. one of the plans was to train the republicans to focus on the next fight, the debt ceiling fight and get past the -- >> 24 hours ago almost exactly, he comes out of the caucus and it sounded like there was a deal. >> well, it sounded like they were going to move forward on their own debt ceiling proposal in the

"gq" magazine recently wrote a profile of cruz titled "ted cruz: the disguised wacko bird from texas.well, in the article, one of mccain's staffers told "gq" magazine, the senator, he f'ing hates cruz. he's offended by his style. don't you find that rather interesting? the senator that brought sarah palin on to the national scene as a candidate for the vice presidency, all of a sudden is upset with the style of this guy named ted cruz. it was john mccain who legitimized the thinking of these wackos that have brought us this kind of politics today. and for mccain to try to wash his hands of this, saying he just f'ing hates cruz, that ain't gonna work. mr. mccain, you're all a part of it, as well. now, the other thing that i want to bring up about the moral compass of all of this is something that we talked about on this program on friday night. all of these republicans, including cruz, who claims to be a born-again christian, who claims to be a evangelical christian, is running around, takinging health care away from americans, also saying we've got to cut the food stamp program, let's

it's so far in the wacko bird.s wrong with saying barack obama is a natural born citizen and eligible for president. >> i'm saying president obama is president. what else is there to say than that? we're nitpicking over words here. >> you were playing a game, once again, of trying to somehow make him not quite the president. he got into the office, you're admitting that. but he doesn't it legitimatelyh did he? just say he did. >> he's president. he's president. >> what more is there to say? >> can you repeat after me. he was edlegitimately elected president. >> president obama was elected president. >> the people elected him. >> he's a natural born citizen. >> i didn't make that judgment when he was brought in. >> everybody watching knows what you're doing. you're dodge balling. let me ask you about the united states government. what's your view about the continued resolution, funding the government beyond october 1st. do you want that to happen or not? >> absolutely. we voted to fund everything but obama care. of

do we have any proof whatsoever that she is involved in wacko >> and norma's amount of speculation sayingshe may or may not have been implicated in this attack. just to stress that there is an extraordinary amount of risk coverage for this particular woman being called the white widow. it comes from the fact that her husband has been killed in 2005 in london. we have some here showing us. it was the first paper to point the finger at her this week saying that she might be indicated. peop say that they saw somebody matching her description. >> is there any sign she can be directly involved? >> the same story repeated over and over. we have no confirmation of that. not until they identify both people killed and captured. >> this speculation comes up again and again. no confirmation, but let' do a very detailed profile about who this woman is. a middle-class white british woman. and in this article, they link other details. she said she was horrified and shocked by the fact that her husband was involved in terrorist activities. the end of 2010 saying that she has reportedly fleet to east afr

greasing the wheels with a profile of texas senator ted cruz it's titled ted cruz the distinguished wacko bird from texas the article is all about how wacky cruises featuring a picture of him with some sort of i'm explaining to monkey it was on his shoulder it also includes this line already his fans are nudging him to think about a presidential run in twenty's sixteen and he's not doing great bad making trips to iowa new hampshire and south carolina the media is also trying to grease up for rand paul vogue just did a profile on him showing us the whitest safest pictures possible of him in khaki pants and a white button down sitting by a lake with a promising young lad by his side the headline they used to read that could republican senator rand paul when the white house. the media is also greasing the democratic wheel new york magazine really wants you to consider hillary clinton as a candidate in the cover article they ran on her it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that she will be one of your choices with lines like this three. years before november eighth two thousand and sixteen s

and that is why i have nothing but contempt for you -- you and all the wackos like you that risk nothingd all day sucking the marrow out of real cops when you never had the guts to be one yourself. [ phone slams in cradle ] [ flies buzzing ] [ gunshot ] woman: detective, you came yourself. yeah. sign here. he didn't suffer too much. what's the caliber? don't know. the gunshot victims i see here are from hunting rifles and shotguns. wasn't one of those. had any sleep, detective? yeah. [ tires screech ] what the hell is wrong with you?! sorry. [ indistinct conversations ] no, no problem. bullet. i want results by tomorrow morning. aye, aye, captain. i'm thinking we should check on randy stetz's whereabouts two nights ago. you think it was randy out there? well, he still doesn't have an alibi for the night kay was killed. you're the one saying he beat her up. check it out, then. i will. [ clicking ] [ gurgling ] [ flapping ] [ stapler thuds ] [ drawer thuds ] ellie: detective dormer? my report -- i finished it. so i just need you to look it over and sign it. it's pretty self-explanatory. ye

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. >> and a few others of us are very, very proud wacko -- >> well that last one was a reference to john mccain calling out rand paul for his hs filibuster earlier this year. >>> i do remember there's a will the of time to fill. fi >> looking at senator john spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes, hee spoke out against the but that is thet longest one on record. >> it's a weird thing, because a lot of is done with nobody ther in theno mile of th middle of t. >> you got to be committed to on this. >> doesn't he take a break. >> yes, he has handed it off a couple of times to rubio. that is the only one, there may be others, but, yes, can youye takes, c breaks, but for the mot part you are doing it. it's interesting. it's cor qorky. qo >> american government, what are we going to move to something else now. no >> there comes a time in yourur mind, when you are age, you develop undesirable side effects. we all have the fear, where youu see changes in your body, and face, and things like that. when men were asked what they feared most about the aging process, more than 90% said going bald. >> real

the wacko birds versus the rhino birds, john sununu here saying this a problem, former new hampshire governor, bush front chief of staff said it can be done, i think that hope springs eternal, but, these guys, and their staff, i have to tell you they are not over this this is pretty bad. >> look, how are you. >> neil: i'm good. >> have not seen you in a while. the senator made a person point it is a disagreement or tactics and process not substance, all republicans' to defund obamacare, and repeal it, andment to cut spending, all republicans want to cut the size of government. their argument is not over substance. the real story, is that there are a bunch of democrats in particular senators, who have to run in 2014 who see how toxic obamacare is, and behind scenes complaining to fellow democrats on substance, that is when you have a real problem within a party. neil: do you think that dust up among republicans, what i heard senator mccain, quickly take to the floor after cruz's 21 hour marathon, to say, i was there. fighting this. while you were not here. so he is a little angry. tha

get some right-wing wacko nut in there. >> i would say maybe let's improve a pipeline here and there.you just impeach him. that's what we ought to do. we ought to impeach the whole segment. >> too late. >> you're not going to hear from our producers. >> you said that out loud, bob. >> all righty. thanks for sending in all of your questions. ahead -- >> fun friday, whoo. >> yes, that was fun. >> -- common sense to america's food stamp program. >> impeach obama. >> -- making some wild accusations -- >> get rid of bo. >> bo the dog? >> yes. (vo) you are a business pro. maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. test. test. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. (aaron) purrrft. (vo) meee-ow, business pro. meee-ow. go national. go like a pro. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve

he said this certainly feels like a wacko-bird moment in washington and maybe in america too.uz has proposed no major legislation and has shown little interest in changing that. he seems content accomplishing nothing because in his crew of the federal government, nothing is the accomplishment. that does not bode well for the republican party. >> i think senator cruz has entered into a perilous situation. long-term he's burned bridges in congress. people are irritated with how he's handled this fight. he's not making many friends and that could cost him later, especially if he runs for president. >> to that point, robert wrote a good article yesterday, i think, about how house republicans came to call senator cruz to get his advice and counsel on what to do with the debt limit measure that house speaker boehner put forward and he counselled them to whip against it. >> right. >> that is, as i said before, unprecedented. >> highly unusual. >> okay, guys, we're going to look into our magic ball and both of you guys know the hill well. doug i'm going to start with you. so essential

and that stuff really makes you go cuckoo and wacko. >> she got me pissed off so i turned around and, i did sleep with this girl, she does this better than you, she does that better than you. she screamed, pulled herself by her hair and took off running. so i leave my son in the stroller on the sidewalk and i take after yvonne. i run after her, i catch her in front of the parole office. and i'm trying, baby, i'm sorry, i didn't mean it. >> and i pushed him, so he tried to grab me and told me that he's sorry, that that was a lie. he was just trying to convince me. >> i'm looking at the parole office, this close, looking in the windows, like baby, you're going to get me in trouble, you know what i mean? police are going to come. i've got dope in my pocket. i've got a warrant. right? i'm high as hell. right? i'm trying to calm her down. >> i guess because we were arguing hard, attacking each other verbally. and the cops came. >> so i just backed -- started backing up. yvonne's standing over there. i told her, come on, let's get out of here. and i walked, because i left my son up the str

can speak for you and rand and the congressman and quite a few others of us, are very, very proud wacko birds. >> reporter: pat roberts offered to buy cruz breakfast. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing fabulous. >> reporter: with so much talk time, cruz read a famous dr. seuss stories to his daughters. >> i do not like them, sam, i am. >> reporter: later, chuck schumer said his colleague missed the point of the story. >> green eggs and ham has a moral. don't criticize something, don't reject something until you actually try it. >> reporter: the senator majority leader called cruz's marathon speech a big waste of time while others defended him. >> the american people know that every hour that he has spoken or speaks pushes us another hour closer to a republican government shutdown. >> we are not going to allow this country to socialize medicine. we're going to fight it, fight it, fight it. >> reporter: 100 to zero means cruz also voted yes. he explained it as everyone agrees the conversation should start and the critical vote is yet to come. >> and that critical vote, according to cruz,

a new profile in "gq" magazine devised cruz as the wacko bird from texas shows a self-important sideo the senator who has built his brand as the tea party conservative. a regular guy, so to speak. jason zengerle says cruz has come to the unavoidable conclusion that he's more intelligent, more right than pretty much everyone else in our nation's capital. the profile he paints shows a tight grip on his party and loathed by many of his republican senate colleagues. he is a man in the drivers seat, but is the seat big enough for his ego? well said there. jason zengerle joins me along with the great dallas morning news real reporter senior political writer wayne slater. thanks, wayne. hold your horses for a second because we have to talk about the profile piece. jason, what was he like, what is he like? >> he's very practiced. i think that was the thing that was most interesting. you would spend a lot of time riding around with him. you'd type up the transcript and read other speeches and see he says the same thing verbatim. he speaks in speeches. he's used to giving these speeches. >> di

a who's who of wacko birds are attending the rally, "mike lee, ted cruz and rand paul.ober 1st, the gaggle has a window before the law takes affect. we just talked about obama care, sarah palin weighed in from wherever she hides out. enough of these foreign fiasco distraction, get back to work, it is time to bomb obama care. >> thank you, sarah, that's what we expected. my bellwether on this is senator tom coburn, who was hassled at hess town hall meeting. by the way, no happy people in august go to town hall meetings. he is a roommate of senator mike lee in the famous house on capitol hill, and he had to tell his constituents and try to explain why he didn't sign the letter and why you cannot defund obama care. republicans created this monster among their constituents saying you can, but coburn is trying to explain and to his roommate mike lee, the difference between mandatory and discretionary funding. >> exactly. also how democracy works. it amazes me -- this rally is taking place right now. we're dealing -- there is ted cruz, potentially a 2016 nominee. we're talkin

you know, he's already in a public fight with john mccain who called him a wacko bird.hen you talk to republican senators privately, there is no love lost for senator ted cruz. and that's great for senator cruz. he is building his brand. he's building his donor list. he's in it for himself. >> yeah. he voted against caroline kennedy. i have a sense he will go all the way. >> i don't know what he's going to do. but what he has done in the last 36 hours where he actually finally admitted it might take another election to overturn or defund obama care after he spent -- went on a heritage action foundation funded tour really stoking this and getting everybody excited about it, making the grassroots republicans believe it was possible. now coming back and say it's on the house of representatives has made people really angry. and he -- again, i don't think he cares. but he has really -- >> what's his game plan? what's his end game? can he be president by republican right wing likes if -- >> i don't know if he gets out of the primary process. >> let me go back to nia-malika. t

some republicans, some, are wising up to the absurdity and bucking at following the wacko bird off the cliffs of insanity. as one republican aide said, senators cruz, lee, rubio are like the kids in school that yell fight, fight, fight but have never thrown a pumpl in their entire life. speaking to reporters a few minutes ago speaker boehner did not take kindly to this. >> guess what, we have a fight over here. we're going to win the fight here. it's time to take up the mantle and get the job done. >> joining me senior political reporter maggie hagerman and chris hayes host of msnbc "all in." joining us from washington political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chuck, it was ugly in the house now it's ugly in the senate. what can we make of this gulf, if we can call it euphemistically between the house and caucus. >> there's a couple of ways to look at it. it's possible this is john boehner's way out. listen to the language he used this morning. listen to the language yesterday, ted griffin, conservative republican in the house, what he said to ted cruz. they ar

. >> i am not a right-wing wacko. >> i pay for my health care cash. >> i want to know if it's coming out of my paycheck, yes or no. >> i don't believe this is just about health care. this is about the systemic dismantling of this country. >> you are a fraud! and you're sentencing this person to death under the obama plan! >> reporter: all of it, aided and abetted by republican politicians. >> we should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandpa. >> reporter: it was the momentum from that frenzy that carried scott brown to victory in massachusetts, giving republicans a chance to, quote, bury obama care with kennedy. a dramatic upset that robbed the democrats of their filibuster-proof majority in the senate. >> i hereby say, health care is dead. >> reporter: but democrats improbably persevered, and pushed through the health care bill. republicans then focused their energy on a spate of surprise lower court rulings on the law. >> thank god! >> contrary to initial reports, the supreme court upheld the individual mandate and broke their colle

with four days to go before a shutdown, republican wacko birds have had their wings clipped and blindlyol hill. ted cruz on the floor. the senate expected to take a series of votes to extend funding. after cruz and his band of merry pranksters blocked progress last night. this did not please members of his own party. what could be the most passive aggressive fight on the senate floor, fellow republican senator bob corker took cruz to task. >> i don't think ever in the history of the senate have we had a 21-hour filibuster, and then the persons carrying out the filibuster voted for the issue they were filibustering. >> why is majority leader harry reid voting the way you're proposing to vote? why is every democrat in the chamber voting the way you propose to vote. >> you voted in favor of the thing you're filibuster and senator harry reid joined you in that, too. it seems to me they are very similar. >> meanwhile inside the bag of blindfolded hungry

it's gotten so far into the wacko bird.hat's wrong with saying barack obama is eligible to be president. >> i said he is president. we're nitpicking over words. >> once again i'm trying to make -- he got into office, but he didn't do it legitimately. did he? just say he did? >> say what? he's president. he's president. what more is there to say? >> repeat after me. he was legitimately like the president. >> president obama was elected president. >> legitimately. >> the people elected him. yes. >> legitimately. so he was a natural born citizen. >> i didn't make that judgment when he was brought in. >> everybody watching knows what you're doing. you're dodging. let me ask you about the united states government. what's your view about the continued resolution funding the government beyond october 1st. you want that to happen or not? >> absolutely. we voted to fund everything but obama care. of course we want to keep funding the government. >> but obama care is law of the land. >> and we're congress. guess who gets the change t

a little wacko bird told me it's all harry reid's fault. >> look, the house voted last week to fund theal government. if harry reid kills that, harry reid is responsible for cutting down the government, and he should listen to the american people, open the government, fund the government, but don't fund obamacare, because it's hurting the american people. it's not working. >> yeah. it's not working. make sure you try to convince people of that before they even have a chance to enroll. but if you honestly think the president is going to play that game, mr. cruz, maybe you're even whackier than we thought. >> we will not negotiate over whether or not america should keep its word and meet its obligations. we're not going to allow anyone to inflict economic pain on millions of our own people, just to make an ideological point. and those folks are going to get some health care in this country. we've been waiting 50 years for it. >> we certainly have. and did we mention all of this is taking place as the president tries to help the nation heal after yet another mass shooting. oh, and he also

with four days to go before a shutdown, republican wacko birds have had their wings clipped and blindly

a gq profile says that he has 'em braid the term wacko bird.also been likened to joe mccarthy, acting like a school yard bully and smeared by nebras members of his own party. he could still end up a political martyr. is this really about his political success and survival or about what's best for the party? >> i think senator cruz is an important member of our party, but he and others have all been part of this charge. house republicans have voted 41 times to defund obama care. so i don't think it's one individual necessarily driving the entire train. there's a lot of folks in our party who have been leading the cause to get rid of obama care, to tackle our national debt and to rein in spending. >> sean spicer, thanks so much for your tile. i appreciate your perspective. >>> be sure to stay with us for the first installation of our new series, rx for america. what you need to know about the health care law. we'll be talking about what it means for young people. that's coming up in just a few minutes. >>> crews are still scrambling to repair roa

. >> the daily beast says there's every reason to believe that the future belongs to the wacko birdsal transpartisan message that government is too big and too powerful. do you think that voters are so skeptical of washington right now that they actually might believe in the cruz message? >> not at all. i think the majority of voters, and polls have shown this, the majority of voters want congress to continue funding the affordable care act. they want to see the law implemented. i think it will happen once the law goes online in less than a week, people start enrolling, they'll start collecting benefits and see the premiums are much lower than they expected and you'll have a large constituency of americans who all of a sudden have affordable health insurance and don't want to see it go away. people like ted cruz who honestly i think is just gripping conservatives with a message he knows is going to be unsuccessful, they will see that their message for the broader public is just unpalatable and no one wants it. >> ryan, what do you mean? >> here's the thing. the only way that the tea

senator cruz and self-described wacko bird is leading the charge to defund obama care and his party overiscuss the latest apocalyptic scenarios. plus new york attorney general eric sneiderman joins us for mental health and safety. >>> sister simone campbell joins me to talk hunger as the house prepares to cut funding for food stamps. all that when "now" starts right after this. s, coughs ] i've got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it's time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won't relieve all your symptoms. new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more sinus symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. oh, what a relief it is. than♪any other behind the counter liquid gel. and now there's a new way to do the same for your dog. introducing new purina dog chow light & healthy. it's a no-sacrifices, calorie-light way to help keep him trim... ...with a deliciously tender and crunchy kibble blend he'll love... ...and 20% fewer calories than dog chow. discover the lighter side of strong. new purina dog chow light & healthy. you raise her spirits. we tackled yo