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President obama according to reuters it is clear irans words are not sufficient. they must give the international community confidence with their actions, some of the things you highlighted michael. the u.s. is entering into negotiations with iran with a clear eye and will consult closely with israel. were awaiting the tape playout well hear from the prime minister tomorrow, i cant help but were talking about the possibility of war in the middle east again to think about the 60,000 troops we sti...

Shays nothing, no negotiation on anything, then were one step closer to midnight. jon: the very fact that he is not even opening the senate for business until this afternoon suggests that, either he doesnt plan to negotiate or he, you know, figures the republicans are going to be hurt the most if this shutdown goes through. >> exactly. theyre not exactly rushing for the doors to get into the u.s. senate to get this thing churning as the clock is ticking. so, yeah, i mean they politically see an ...

Jon: yeah. doesnt get and maybe doesnt care about until, you know, somebody isnt getting a check in the next week or so, you know, from the government. at the same time, the government is still collecting tax revenues, still can pay some of its bills if it chooses to, right? >> sure, yeah. there are, essentially 825,000 roughly civilian federal workers who would be furloughed in a shutdown. these are non-essential work is. they dont like to be called non-essential but technically that is what th...

Problem where youre standing there alone, which is where he is right now, and where even the base that you have inside the membership, inside the club, is not feeling it. >> so, heres my question. obviously, this helps him with the conservative grass roots. >> oh, yeah. >> if he is hated, if john mccain hates him and were beating up on him on msnbc, this is all -- >> oh, hes loving it. >> the thing is -- heres my question to you. the "gq" profile, the fascinating thing about ted cruz is he is a ...

Hes backed himself into a procedural corner. there is no game plan. >> again, when you are taking yourself outside of the process so far that you cant wrap back around into it, you have this problem where youre standing there alone, which is where he is right now, and where even the base that you have inside the membership, inside the club, is not feeling it. >> so, heres my question. obviously, this helps him with the conservative grassroots. >> oh, yeah. >> if he is hated, if john mccain hates...

Procedural corner. there is no game plan. >> again, when you are taking yourself outside of the process so far that you cant wrap back around into it, you have this problem where youre standing there alone, which is where he is right now, and where even the base that you have inside the membership, inside the club, is not feeling it. >> so, heres my question. obviously, this helps him with the conservative grassroots. >> oh, yeah. >> if he is hated, if john mccain hates him and were beating up o...

Of victimization within your own group. >> yeah, and thats about proximity. who do you live near. as much progress as weve made on the front of, you know, integration, were still a very segregated country. so these are the communities that you live in and thats the greatest fear that you have of crime, walking down the street. im not going to necessarily be shot and killed by a white person, you know, but i can be fearful that, you know, there are going to be black people that may rob me. but it...

Problem policy has been incoherent and unfocused. it could be, i emphasized could be a salutary outcome but bottom line there are zigzags by both sides in washington and jay carney who takes the presidents line has been having to defend policies incoherent as best. bill: as a democrat he calls this is a political circus. >> it is. it is. but bill, here is what doesnt get discussed and i think monica would agree with me. solving our budgetary problems, dealing with the debt ceiling. resolving syr...

After all, people will often favor the policy that is good for them and their group. so it shouldnt be any surprise that there would be some white people who would downgrade, lets say, grade point average or test scores if those in merit arent working in their favor. >> we often think of the debate over affirmative action in a kind of battle over a zero sum fixed pie of educational resources, as involving white people and black people, or white people and black or brown people. one of the things...

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