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Shutdown is over, they started turning the lights back on again on thursday. that means stuff like, oh, we're finally getting a new jobs report 2 1/2 weeks after it was due. the people who put together that report got furloughed, so we won't get the 2 1/2-weeks-late jobs report until tomorrow. new poll out today from cnn says for the first time since taking control of the house, americans think it's a bad thing that republicans have control of the house since they used that power to shut down the government and bring us to the brink of default. a majority of americans in the new cnn poll say t...

And in a great many places, this road show is working. it is having the effect the koch brothers intend, with all the millions they have spent on this cause. that said, it's not working everywhere, notably ohio today became the 25th state to say that they would expand medicaid to hundreds of thousands more people in the state who currently don't have health insurance or an affordable way to get it. ohio's republican governor, john kasich today steamed past the hard right legislature to get more people covered, even if it costs him the support of some in his own party. ohio's decision leaves ha...

All of the rape kits to be tested and by doing so she gave the police and prosecutors a very powerful tool. >> it raises campaign money. like wendy davis. this is so clearly targeted at women. >> yes. yes it is. republicans are so scared of women voters right now they can't see straight and they have really good reason. they have been waging a war on women for a number of years getting more and more aggressive. so in 2014, going into midterm elections which means good news for republicans. this seems to be their really appalling strategy. >> is this going to --

>> he said some extraordinary things to you about some of the republican members that normally especially after a win like harry reid had you tried to be mag nam mouse. >> i think a lot of the debate touched him deeply and emotionally. it's really the employer contribution. he thought it was incredibly rude and awful of the senator to launch and make that the signature push for health care. he thought it would have led to brain drain and putting the burden on the backs of staffers who are generally not paid that well. he had some choice words much more than you usually see and i thought that w...

President. and that may be true. it may also be the dying gasps of a group that calls itself national -- that's the "n" in nom, nom, nom, but lately they have to go to russia to get any of their ideas put into law. it may that be they're desperate. in any case, it raises a question of what chris christie is doing and how antigay republicans are to be to aspire to office. jeff cook mccormick is with american unity fund that gets republicans to support at least some gay rights. jeff, thank you very much for being with us. nice to have you here. >> rachel, thanks for having me. >> so, governor ch...