democratic senator ken conrad. that last point is what the hope is. the co-ops again, is credit union a fairway to describe it? we have hundreds of them in my home state of north dakota. farm plots. we have them at every variety. it works extremely well. it s really the motivation for this. i read the book tr reid wrote, the healing of america. he looked at systems that worked. what he found was universal coverage and at least the opportunity for universal coverage, but not government-run systems. private insurance. this not for profit model he found especially effective. that was the impetus for the co-op plan. you satisfied with what you have seen. some can t get started because of that. i was extremely disappointed what they did in the last
kinship running high. washington is not only blaming the other side, but other government workers. take a look at them confronting a park ranger at the world war ii memorial as if it s the ranger s fault. we are just the park service. we work at the site. how do you feel people who travel with their family, how do you lock at them and deny them access. it s difficult. i m sorry sir. the park service should be ashamed of themselves. i am not ashamed. you should be. this woman is doing her job. i m out of work. it s because the government wants to pass a budget. that man who confronted him to came to the defense of a park
0 resolve that, we get into the sequester where at least many law enforcement people will be furloughed for perhaps as much as two weeks. they won t get pay for that. needless to say, regardless of your point of view of the shut down, it s not doing much for the morale of people who carry a gun and a badge. that s an important point to make. i want to talk about quickly, what are authorities saying as to the decision by the officers to fire on the car, considering that they found out she was unarmed? did they believe she was? they didn t know. there has been pretty universal support from members of congress and from police officials about the decision to use deadly force. they say that this is a woman who twice ran into disobeyed orders to stop and hit a u.s. secret service officer at the white house and driving at this changed all that. after the all clear was given, lawmakers praised the first responders. i join the majority leader in expressing our gratitude to the capitol p
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thanks, john. morning joe starts right now. our country will be heading over the fiscal cliff that we ourselves dug and put in our way. it s the set of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that can only be averted if our nation s leaders are able to display bear bones competence and middle school-level maturity. so is there a deal? there s, of course, no deal. of course! is there a prospect for a deal? there s not a prospect for a deal. of course! but the ongoing talks. there aren t even very many talks going on. you re killing us! give us something. but for the first time, there are numbers on pieces of paper from both sides. numbers on paper! good morning. it s wednesday, december 5th. welcome to morning joe. live in the nation s capital. this is exciting. and you know, i said, let s do a show from washington, d.c., because they get so much stuff done there. it s like silicon valley. and going there when steve jobs was really bringing apple to the f