it's just what has to be done. >> what do you think zerlina?ing jobs. yet when they got into office, the first thing they did was pass bills to restrict abortion access and health care for women. so i want them to be able to compromise and i think they must compromise, because now they have responsibility of governing the country, i don't know i have faith they will do it. they can no longer block everything the president is doing, and then blame him for the dysfunction. they'll have to own the dysfunction themselves. >> saying, we don't know if we have faith they will do it. what would give the american people faith? what do you say? do you have faith, or are you pessimistic? >> i'm really pessimistic. i really am. we've just had the mid terms and mitch mcconnell likely to be the senate majority leader coming out and saying, we're all going to work together for the good of the american people. and what happened today? the supreme court is going to be hearing ob care yet again. come on! the american people are going to get sick and tired of thi

joining me tonight mike dotcom's liz plank, huffpost live josh zepps and the grill's zerlina maxwell.for being here tonight. >> thanks, ref. >>> let's start with president obama using the bully pulpit. he came into office as the president wanting to compromise and getting along. but now he's showing force, almost daring republicans to fight him. is the confrontational politics a good call, or should he have waited? liz, what do you think? >> i don't really view this as confrontation. i don't think it's a power grab. we've seen over the course of the last 60 years 11 presidents do this 39 times, take executive action over immigration. so i think most americans are just happy he's getting stuff done. >> there's nothing illegal and outrageous about it, and there's nothing he should be impeached for certainly. but if you ever wanted there to be an opportunity to perhaps reach across the aisle and get anything bipartisan done in the final two years of his presidency, that is now completely defunct. there's no chance -- well, we don't know. [ all speak at once ] now we'll never know. >> may

it's no good. >> zerlina maxwell, trymaine lee, msnbc will stay on this show.ng in. tonight's lead, the leader of the gop calls for a government shutdown. that's right. el rushbo is calling on the gop to defund the government and trigger a shutdown over the president's immigration plan. >> an unwritten rule in washington whfrp the government gets shut down no matter who is responsible for it, the republicans get the blame and as such the republicans take a giant weapon out of their arsenal of ammunition. it's time to man up and start dealing with this. they were not sent there to govern and participate and compromise. they were sent there to stop it. >> rush limbaugh sees the shutdown as

>> zerlina maxwell, trymaine lee, msnbc will stay on this show. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening. >>> thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the leader of the gop calls for a government shutdown. that's right. el rushbo is calling on the gop to defund the government and trigger a shutdown over the president's immigration plan. >> an unwritten rule in washington whfrp the government gets shut down no matter who is responsible for it, the republicans get the blame and as such the republicans take a giant weapon out of their arsenal of ammunition. it's time to man up and start dealing with this. they were not sent there to govern and participate and compromise. they were sent there to stop it. >> rush limbaugh sees the shutdown as a giant weapon. and he's not alone. the right-wing heritage action which cheered on last year's shutdown is back at it. quote, a long-term funding bill is a little more than a blank check for amnesty. and many house republicans also want to use government funding as a weapon.

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