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If your buddy, ted cruz, can come up with a strategy where this can get all the way through and the pressure isnt all on the house, then im willing to do it. and ted cruz cant do that, and they know, the tea party knows that ted cruz will just put all the pressure on house republicans, so theyll say, forget about it. you know what, you know, well pass our bill, you know, so the house will pass their cr, that will defund obama care. then the senate will push it back to them. and the house will sa...

Picture cantor, boehner, paul ryan encircled by wide eyed republican members excitedly asking, and will be there be food stamp cuts and guns? and gop leaders telling them oh, yes, food stamps will be snatched away from the lazy 47%ers and there will be a rifle in every school room. joining me today "washington post" columnist gene robinson, washington bureau chief at the "huffington post" ryan grim and host of nbcs disrupt, karen finney. joining me from washington the man with the gimlet eye who...

With this, as all. this is a full-blown occasionally profane fight, solely among republicans. about how hard they want to wage a fight, that they all acknowledge will be futile anyway, against something that democrats feel very comfortable about, and are unified around. this is the kind of day in politics where democrats just shut up, pop popcorn, and watch the other side self-destruct. but how does this end and who is likely to be left standing in this very, very ugly fight? joining us now is r...

Resurrected the last standing racist unabashed racist in the united states senate and the sad thing about this, its not just the republican leadership, but you know, where are african-american brothers and sisters in the republican party? they wouldnt be in their position today if jesse helms was still alive. >> thats a very good point. you know, ryan, theres a precedent for this. were not act asking for something that -- in 2002, and joe may remember this because many of us in civil rights were...

But ted cruz wants to make him the partys future, as well. republican leaders need to speak out and tell america theyre putting the shameful legacy of jesse helms behind them. joining me now are joe madison and ryan grim. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >> joe, why arent go leaders like mitch mcconnell and john boehner denouncing this praise of jesse helms? >> because they can relate. this man has now been resurrected by them and they resurrected everything you st...

Conservatives dont think like that. they are regressives. can you imagine what the well of the united states senate, the floor of the united states senate would sound liking if 100 people talked like jesse helms? where would this country be. >> there are only 100 in the u.s. senate. it would be the whole senate. >> thats my point. thats exactly my point. what kind of country would we have, and no one, no one in their right mind wants to go back to that period in time. >> but again, i can underst...

It. but i cant explain how he wound up in there. i think she is running a con on everybody. and maybe thats her subtle hint she knows this is a con. >> do you agree? >> its not clear to me what sarah palins purpose is anymore. keith olbermann is back in sports casting, thats where sarah palin started her career, maybe she could find her way back there. i dont know, why is she on tv at all, why is anybody listening to her? i dont think she is popular with conservatives anymore. >> youre right. jo...

Behind bloomberg and back when we had democratic mayors like ed koch, they were more aligned than de blasio. de blasio particularly has strong ties to the real estate industry, which much more so than wall street and other big businesses in new york really plays a lot -- >> yeah. >> yeah. >> okay. ryan, lets get to health care, because despite the much more significant debate going on in washington, senators rabd paul and ted cruz took time to continue their effort to defund the affordable care ...

Discussing sarah palins new political ad, wherein president kills the old and the young and is trying to get us -- i suppose kill all of us. has this death panel issue not been put to rest or is sarah palin just simply desperately trying, i dont know, to say something that keeps her in the national conversation? >> i mean, i guess her super -- not super pac, its a partly cloudy -- >> its a super pac. my favorite part of that entire ad she made was that she uses bear but takes him at face value. ...

This atrocity of a law. >> the atrocity of obamacare. >> an atrocity. i mean, were talking about 1,400, nearly 1,500 people killed with chemical weapons in syria. >> thats an atrocity. stepping up rhetoric. they have to punt. and basically allow the house to vote and the senate will be able to. and will continue to use obamacare. rhetoric as a substitute policy so conservatives are not happy with eric cantor today. i mean, just like liberals are not happy. because substantively they know what he...