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That he has. is this helping red state democrats? >> well, i think what hes trying to do is establish a lot of facts on the ground that are going to be hard to reverse. but he said two contradictory things. he did say lets move on, lets not talk about it anymore. but then he also says, i dont think the democrats should be defensive, it this is a strong good story to tell. so he wants them to defend it even though he doesnt want to talk about it anymore. i think what endangered democrats have bee...

Situation this kind of trial is on hold for the duration of a shutdown? >> i think brian can answer that better. >> i actually called nih today and its actually a good thing this trial is not effected because its already open. but i think this caused greg a lot of distress with everything going on, and i think everything that were doing to nih right now is actually quite dangerous and if we dont start impacting our -- the things were doing and actually correcting it very quickly, well hurt peopl...

Powerpoint that speaker boehners office had put out at the time. they did that yesterday. he created it when he was trying to sell the deal to his more conservative members. so republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a montana democratic senator, max caucus whos up for re-election in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester. >> the white house recommended it frankly, back in august 2011, so now were feeling the effects of it. >> of all the dumb things washingt...

Back and demonstrated on the state capitol and heard from the american medical association and a numb of other interest groups where the governor decided to amend the bill and actually just require these external sonograms. but lets be clear. there is no need to require anything. if in fact a woman medically needs this procedure, doctors will perform them. so there is no room for the state government in these decisions. no room at all. its just totally inappropriate. >> do you think theres any e...

Its on that list of words i cant say. i bought them for her. she broke up with me because she found out i have cancer. >> wait, wait, hold on. she didnt just break up with you, she broke up with you why? >> because i have cancer. >> expressly she said thats why? >> she said it was too much stress for her to handle to have a boyfriend with this disease. megyn: now this modern day mother teresa wants the tickets, claiming she is entitled to them. kimberly guilfoyle and defense attorney mark eiglar...

>> i dont think you can make it argument president obama has been politically disadvantaged. the broader issue of healthcare reform has hurt him, but cutting medicare so deeply for years to come has not hurt him. bill: thank you, carl, well talk again. alisyn: two air traffic controllers fired for sleeping on the job. now the obama administration saying it seize no need for an faa review. bill: baby joseph, the terminally ill baby was treated at hospitals in london and the u.s. now his family is...

Vancouver olympics. whats the case that there was discrimination at work here? it was partly that men have been ski jumping in the olympics since 1924. women were ski jumping in international competitions and doing so very well, but they were not doing it at the olympics. the president of the international ski federation felt comfortable saying this out loud. >> dont forget, its like jumping down from two meters, on the ground about 1,000 times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladie...

Happily a current msnbc contributor. welcome to you all. i know youre not the parliamentary but it argument seems to be this is a kind of not fully sanctioned subgroup of this larger committee. working on a politically motivated issue perhaps with powers of investigation. >> its quite murky. its quite unusual. its a big of a rogue operation, you might say and it certainly is not one including democrats. you would like to think theyre bipartisan and both parties are -- they may disagree but they ...

Republican voters going to be open to somebody who says i want to raise the retirement age a couple more years and im willing to means test benefits -- entitlement benefits based on income is that going to play? >> look i think that this election this primary, thats going to be more of a possibility that republicans are open to that than ever before. they want a debate on reform and forward-looking policies so theyre going to be open to it. the bigger question for christie is are they going to b...

Made me do it argument. i dont think theyre going to feel any sympathy at all in the penalty phase. >> you sound skeptical that his life will be spared. >> i think his life will be spared. i think the jury is going to say if he gets the death penalty, hes going to get the platform he wants, hes going to be viewed as a martyr. i think the jury will say if he put him away for the rest of his life it will be a much more severe punishment for this guy in the long run and well never hear from him aga...