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I think the doctors have no idea what is coming their way. >> the other shoe, too, if they like these two doctors, they wont be able to keep them. >> youre with the liberal group think progress. >> i wanted to caulk about pelosis comments. in some areas of the country, in kentucky, rhode island, in the states that built their own exchanges, it is going well. people are coming in, signing up, 38 getting the subsidies and they hike the coverage. thats the true story. the states wont take obama car...

Not even beginning to look at. that is very, very tragic. >> a great point about the tremendous waste of time and energy that has gone into this. senator bernie sanders, always great to have you on. thank you. so a house divided. is john boehner a speaker in name only? and mia, where are ted cruz and mike lee? do they still plan to derail this deal. irin carmon is a national reporter for msnbc.com and susie kim is also with msnbc and igor volsky is the managing editor of think progress. all ri...

Net weight 340 grams. [ sighs ] [ chuckles ] [ announcer ] always rich, never bitter. gevalia. welcome back. im melissa harris-perry. we are now in the 13th day of government shutdown. how did we get here? now, we were driven here by texas senator ted cruz, who engineered the obama care defunding hostage strategy. weve stayed here because speaker john boehner is unable to tame the tea party and unwilling to work with democrats to pass a clean continuing resolution that would reopen government....

Down. >> reporter: a metaphor tweet from think progress, a democrat read it on the house floor, likening it to republican tactics. >> can i burn down your house? no. lets talk about what i can burn down? no. youre not compromising. >> why just dress up your argument with a metaphor when you can actually dress up? rachel mad do you portrayed them as a harpooned whale. >> it turns out the crew is bunkers form the air got more poisonous when jon stewart radsed republicans for not owning up to havin...

>> hospitals will never drop medicaid or medicare, because the sickest people in america are the poor and elderly. furthermore, the elderly people have medicare, all of them. so even the states who are opting out of the medicaid expansion like aka, turning down $500 million for their states, theyre going to cave, because if they dont take the money, then the hospital is going to suck that loss up. hospitals never want to pay out of pocket for the uninsured, so once again, another smokescreen and...

At the national journal. james patterson is a professor at lehigh university and msnbc contributor and igor volsky is the managing editor of think progress. thank you all for being here this morning. lots to talk about today. jill, i want to start with you. republicans say that the provision to delay obama care is actually a compromise and that a delay could actually make sure the legislation runs smoothly. now, you wrote a piece for the national journal titled why delaying obama care could ulti...

>> thank you. well, is senator ted cruz winning his kamikaze crusade or is his campaign to defund obama care crumbling. and the clinton campaign. joan walsh is the editor at large for salon and msnbc political analyst. steve ben an is a msnbc contributor and judd legam is the editor in chief of think progress. thanks for being here this morning. i want to start with senator ted cruz here. theres no shortage of headlines about him today. the "washington post" writes ted cruz happy to be outli...

Side. >> the gop fears obama care will eventually be credited for w slowing the rise of health care costs to a more manageable rate. i want to play a clip from cruz on what he calls a discrepancy in the prediction of obama care costs for the average family. lets listen. >> the president promised a $2500 cut for the average family of four. instead youre looking at a $7500 increase. thats a $10,000 swing. judd, these numbers, is that accurate? >> well, its not. you know, we delved into the numbers...

The gops obsession for repe repealing obama care. three years after the law was passed and just shy of two weeks before the rollout, house republicans -- attaching the funding of obama care to the funding of the federal government. this is todays topic. the managing editor for think progress, suzie kim, a national politics reporter and frank goddard, editor of political wire. good to see all of you. lets start with what the president said a few moments ago. at this business round table in washin...

Right now. tropical storm ingrid is bringing heavy rains and major flooding to mexicos gulf coast today. according to the national hurricane center, ingrid is getting stronger and could become a hurricane before the weekends out. a recipe for disaster in hawaii where hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses are spilling into the sea from a storage pipeline. the thick, sticky substance is coating the ocean floor, sucking the oxygen out of the water. its also killing lots of fish as well. of...