Verge of requiring these terrible weapons be destroyed. Last night a tearful fairwell at Yankee Stadium as an amazing era in baseball came to an end. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Following the action on the senate floor right now. Lawmakers with a series of votes to kick a vote to avoid a shutdown back to john boehner but what the speaker does with it is a mystery. Joining us from the fix and nbcs David Gregory, moderator of meet the press. Chris, we just had the votes for cloture, they will move to the next series of votes, then it goes back to the house. Right. As weve seen, not good news to project from the house side. Well, you know, andrea, this is in many ways formulaic. We have known since the house passed their version of the continuing resolution with defunding obama Care Provision it would go to the senate and the senate would do whats in the midst procedurally and will do in the next couple of hours send it back that takes out defund obama care then back where we thought it would be in John Boehners court. Off the floor we have senator whose bill it is. Well get you to comment in just a moment. Senator, i know finally youve got the cloture vote. What do you project will happen with the continuing resolution. Im calling you from the senate floor. Its very dramatic and very tense here. We have a series of four votes that we have to go through to send what we call a clean cr back to the house. Our goal is to avoid a shutdown of the government, lay groundwork for shortterm funding of all of government for november 15th to get to a longterm solution. If any one of these four votes fail the senate has to go back to the drawing board. Its a formula, a formula for disaster, because the whole strategy of the other party has been to try to delay obama care and is willing to hold up funding for sink Government Services by doing it. Were in kind of shootout okay corpor coral here. Youre for all appropriated spending by federal government. Americans dont seem to be taking this seriously until now. We saw what happened last night. Republican senator corker from tennessee stood up against ted cruz from texas because of the delay of this vote on cloture until today. What was the purpose of that, delaying it . They could have voted last night. The reason ted cruz showed up and asked for a delay is so that he could have a vote for today with the tea backers in his tea party were going to watch. This is what i repeatedly said the greatest deliberative body has become the greatest esest g in the world. Those come from a small minority in the Republican Party. What you saw with senator corker and others, including people like myself, were pragmatists. We know we have to negotiate. We know we have to compromise. We know we have to focus on not only keeping the government open but we have to reduce public debt. We understand that. But we also have to deal with other important issues, unemployment, increasing educational achievement, investing in research and development for new ideas for new products for american jobs. This is the kind of thing were going to be working on. Instead we have to put up with tactics focusing object defunding obama care. President obama won the election, obama care is the law of the land, weve got to get on with government. Senator, your amendment would put the obama care or Affordable Care act, funding back in the bill before it goes to the house. Correct . My amendment is very straightforward to keep the government open. Strip out the veto debate limit or defund obama care. If the congress sent president obama legislation that would defund obama care hed veto it. All were doing is playing pingpong politics. All right. Strip out obama care, government functioning through november 15th to work out the longerterm solutions of that actual fiscal policy. How do we reduce debt but at the same time produce growth. Ted cruz will be on David Gregory. What would you say to ted cruz, if you could . He had an exclusive interview. He spoke for 21 hours. Hes had a lot of air time. Were focusing on him. What we should be focusing on is the delay tactics they are using jeopardizing the funding of the United States of americas essential services. Also trying to hold president obama hostage over the debt ceiling. I think its time that we start focusing on the people who are the pragmatic people providing Solutions Rather than the naysayers and those senator, thanks very much. Call us back any time from the senate floor. Its pretty dramatic here. Thank you. Lets bring back Chris Cillizza and David Gregory with the drama going on. David, youve got the center of the action coming up on sunday. As we see this, what is the likelihood the house is going to come up with some kind of compromise that can get through the senate in time for monday night. What they may do is send Something Back on funding the government to include Something Else on obama care and at the same time try to do a temporary measure to keep the government open. We know the house leadership, Republican Leadership doesnt want to shut the government down. There may be two dozen tea Party Conservative members who arent really willing, as i understand it, to give up the fight on funding the government. What the speaker wanted to do was move on to the debt ceiling fight, delay obama care and add things to that ceiling bill. Those folks dont want to do that just yet. They will know at the end of the day if they have been able to get them off this and move to the debt ceiling fight. The reality, what senator mikulski says, people will lead them out of this. Thats not the case. Even if he hasnt done a filibuster he has delayed the process and gummed up the process enough there is now a delay. He has put the house in a much more difficult position in terms of what its going to do. So ultimately the question becomes whether they take their stand on ab care here with regard to the Government Shutdown or try to shift it to try to get some sort of negotiation on the debt ceiling. Of course the irony in both cases, they dont seem to have the votes to legislatively affect what they want to affect. David and chris, there were 19 republicans, according to Kelly Odonnells count, 19 republicans voted against cloture. Hatch and another had family issues so they were not present. Going forward the house is going to have sessions now on saturday. Chris cillizza, what do you expect to happen this weekend at John Boehners house . John boehner has a choice to make, andrea. David laid it out pretty clearly. There are 40, 45 republicans in the house who voted against john boehner on major measures, half the time, all of the time. These are people he is not going to convince. We saw this with the farm bill. We saw this when they last week tried to roll out their plan for continuing resolution in health care and it didnt work of the question is, is he willing to say were going to lose these 30, 40 people and were going to sub them in can they sub them in with 30 or 40 democrats to help them pass something or does he say, no, were not doing this. Were sending it back. Were going to put another obama Care Provision in, send it back to the senate, which i assume harry reid would strip back out, then back to a Government Shutdown. Really a choice of what direction he wants to make and what direction his political future holds. If you pass this bill with lots of democrats, what is already very hot seat for john boehner is just going to get hotter. If he does it here, andrea, this is the point, what people say. If he does it on the Government Shutdown, he really weakens his hand going into the debt ceiling. The white house is already saying were not going to negotiate at all. Youre going to own this debt ceiling business if you want to do something that there isnt support for. Then if hes shown hell use democrats on the funding of the government, why wouldnt he do it on something where the stakes are much, much higher. David gregory and Chris Cillizza. Again, david, of course, well be sitting down with ted cruz exclusively this sunday to discuss his 21hour talkathon and the role hes been playing and whats happening. All that on meet the press. Thanks to both of you. Were of course going to be watching all the senate. Thats a live picture of the senate this hour. Stay with us as the Senate Continues to vote on a series of votes on Senate Spending which will bounce back to the republican controlled house. More on the showdown in the senate coming up. This is Andrea Mitchell reports only on msnbc. This is for you. [ male announcer ] bobs heart attack didnt come with a warning. Today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. If youve had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. Mom . Come in here. Come in where . Welcome to my mom cave. Wow. Sit down. You need some campbells chunky soup before todays big game, new chunky cheeseburger. Mmm. I love cheeseburgers. I know you do. When did you get this place . When i negotiated your new contract, it was part of the deal. Cool. [ male announcer ] campbells chunky soup. It fills you up right. See who does good work and compare costs. It doesnt usually work that way with health care. 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Does it have any relationship to the severity of the storms weve been seeing some not just sandy but other storms do seem to be much more powerful. They are a little more squishy, if you will, on that. Clearly when you have Global Warming and more moisture more heat goes into the air, more moisture goes into the air, when it does rain, the rain can be much stronger than in the past. When they are very certain about is the heat. What is longterm future about Manhattan Island . We could be in trouble. So could new orleans. So could miami. We could see drastic inroads in all of those lowlying places if we see that extreme Sea Level Rise of nearly 3 feet. But you dont need that much. Just look at what happened during sandy. We had 12 inches of Sea Level Rise in the new york area not all due to Global Warming. When sandy came to shore, because there was that much more water, the impact is far greater than it would have been and thats what were looking at. Were talking about also the barrier islands, changing topography, north carolina, south carolina, georgia. Cape cod, nantucket. I was in nantucket this summer. You should see the erosion on baxter road. Its absolutely breathtaking. This is a u. N. Report, an internationally achieved consensus. Are there still deniers out there . There are skeptics. Even those who used to call themselves deniers admit most of them now admit the world is warming. The the science is there. Thats hard to deny. The bigger question is what to do about it. Thats where the argument comes. What this report lays out very clearly is we have to reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions. That means we have to either burn less coal and oil and gasoline or do something to capture the carbon created when those fossil fuels are burned. Thats where the split is. We know what the consequences are. The question is do we have the political will to do something about it. As you know in washington, thats a very hot topic. Youve got issues of the key tonight pipeline in play. All of these questions pit the environmentalists against others who look at jobs and say keystone does create jobs but not really permanent jobs. Its all of the industrial sector. But if you dont have a job, no matter how many jobs, one job is all youre looking for. Whats interesting about the president s decision on keystone, he essentially drew a line that said, look, if it increases carbon pollution, thats a nonstarter for me. The question is can the oil sands industry, can canada do enough, put enough regulations in place to bring down those Carbon Emissions to make it palatable to the United States. Just the process of getting the oil out of the sand puts more Carbon Dioxide bought area. Anne thompson, thanks very much. Any time. Good to see you. Learning a lot more about the story taken in this mall attack. The man reaching out to save the little girl is kenyan. The little girl is 4 years old, Portia Walton from north carolina. Katherine waltons three children caught in the cross fire in the mall. The man is being called a hero. He said he did what any human being would have done. He wanted to know what happened at the Westgate Mall was not representative of all muslims. A broadcaster said 4yearold Portia Walton was a brave little girl, running as she was told to do by her mother. Could you please ask the kid to run towards us. I have to admit this little girl is a very brave girl. He used to be really rough around the edges, but hes totally changed. Changed man. [ laughs ] changed man. I mean it took some time, but i softened him up. Mmhmm. Thanks to tide plus downy now his clothes are always super soft and clean and he is totally huggable. Just like one of my teddy bears. Wait. Is a very brave girl. More like a grizzly bear. [ sighs ] a teddy bear. Thats my tide for softness and freshness. Is a very brave girl. Whats yours . Not doubletalk. 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Debra spar, president of Barnard College joined the debate with wonder women, sex, power, the quest for perfection. Deborah is with me now. A conundrum. I cant tell you how many women asked me, how do you do it all. I wasnt blessed with children so i dont have the challenges but we all have challenges. Youre juggling after all. What conclusions do you draw being the president of a Womens College and having really explored all of the cross currents that we all experience . I think one of the central conclusions of the book is that a phrase having it all is just a really bad phrase and a really bad idea. If we set out the expectation that we should be doing it all, by definition were all going to be failing all the time. So we need to move the bar here so that women can follow their dreams and pursue their passions but not think they have to be doing everything at once. One thing i noted that Hillary Clinton this week announced she is 20 years after 20 years after beijing looking forward, is going to look at what have we accomplished since she declared in 1995, human rights are women rights. We see it with women in education, Multiplier Effect of women in developing countries, help for women that us aid tries to engender and a lot of ngos. Here at home a lot of women and working class women really feel they dont have enough support. I think thats true. Sadly over the past 20 years in the United States we havent seen that much progress. If you look at the numbers, there was a surge of women in the workplace in the late 1960s, 70s and into the 80s. What we havent seen is we havent seen those women ascending to the highest levels of power in any number. Across the country, women max out 15 to 20 of the very top positions. These are rich country problems. These are nothing like the problems women and girls face in other parts of the world. In this country sadly we seem to have stalled a little bit. You grew up in the 70s and 80s, the womens images, cultural images were wonder women, charlies angels. I love linda carter, who happens to be a friend, the act