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>> they will try anything and lie and prop people up. fox and friend, theyre not the only ones spreading more lies about this health care law. last week, sean hannity featured six what he called average americans who were feeling the pain of obama care. from cancelled policies to financial burdens, for small business owners. so lets take the interest of a former aide, montana governor, brian schweitzer. he did some research, and turns out none of them have actually looked into the exchanges. act...

Are musically interchangable. >> i would not, could not, with a goat. >> the houston chronicle walks back its endorsement of ted cruz. >> all caps, and three exclamation marks. ill let you decide whether thats a good or bad thing. ♪ >> lets bring in senator ben cardin of maryland. good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. good to be with you. >> the tea party has -- really infiltrated our government and done some real harm to us on an international level when it comes to how people v...

Government of the united states not pay its bills on time. they thought this was a bad strategy by the republicans. and they have sent that message to them. and i am very hopeful that we will not repeat it. because to repeat it will damage our country and its people. so that this deal -- you are absolutely right, ed. this could have been cut on september 28th. never had a shutdown, never had a debt at risk, paying our bills. and let me say on that, its unfortunate that we havent extended the aut...

China is talking about deamericanizing the world. theyre certainly not on our side. >> no. >> does this teach our politicians in washington anything? >> i dont know. i dont know that they have -- that the republicans have learned anything, ed. you know, christine lagarde, the head of the imf, told david gregory this weekend this mess was a big topic of conversation at the imf, because we are a pillar of the imf, international monetary fund. were not some debtor nation, you know, thats a failed s...

Mitch mcconnell, will not pursue this strategy again, because it clearly will not work, shouldnt work, and we ought to get down to -- >> but you have no assurances they wont go down this road again, do you? >> no, we dont. >> okay. and i think thats -- >> but let me tell you, e. the american public needs to -- and voters and every one of these districts needs to tell every one of us shall dont do this. stop this playing games. get them to work. make sense with one another and for our country. >>...

Feel he has to put it on the floor in the national interest. >> you know, we just heard from senator robert menendez and he brought it up, because it happened since we have been on the air here at the top of the hour, that the influential outside right wing special interest group, the heritage action, is now connecting with members of congress and telling them to vote no on the plan. the leadership is going to bring to the floor tonight. i mean, to me that tells me that cruz and these republican...

Because if you start that process, every time the united states faces the issue of paying its bills on time, somebody is going to try to attach something unrelated. >> thats not going to happen again -- what guarantee do you have it wont happen again? >> ill tell you one thing that will guarantee that it does happen again, if you feed the beast. in other words, if you start adding these extraneous provisions now. so what were saying here in the house, ed, is stop it. you cannot bring down the fu...

I mean, i think were headed for default. why would i he be wrong in my thinking. your thoughts. >> well, ed, i certainly hope not. and as a member of not only just the finance committee, but the senate foreign relations chairman, i can tell you, globally, this is rattling marketplaces across the globe. today china put out an editorial. this is an example of why we have to deamericanize the world. you know, mexicos consequences of our neighbor to the south, rattling, based upon what were doing he...

Now, late-breaking news at this hour. when we say in this business just moments ago, this is the case. the house rules committee has postponed the new house debt limit deal, quote, subject to the call of the chair. the bill was postponed right after the heritage action committee told congressional members to vote no on the plan. this is absolutely stunning. so what has happened here is that the house rules committee is saying were not going to vote on this thing tonight. and the heritage action ...

With us tonight. great to be with you, ed, as always. >> where are we? what was this meeting like with the president? was this a no-ransom moment, was this a hold the line moment? where are we, congressman? >> well, it was a very productive moment. the president indicated that he thought they had been making progress in the senate on a bipartisan basis, that that effort had been, you know, coming together. what weve seen on the house side and our caucus, the democratic caucus in the house, is no...