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Society this morning over on the house side. They allowed a senator to go across on the house side. The presiding officer knows, she served there. Once in a while we get to go over there. They were kind enough to invite us over there this morning. They did remarkable work on this legislation and are continuing their advocacy today even as we speak, and we are grateful for their for their work. Autism speaks is another Great Organization thats done enormous work to bring us to where we are today. And the arc as well. A lot of americans know about the arc, the National Downs Syndrome Society as ...

Number of important Consumer Protections, from new mortgage protections to credit cards to payday lending. An independent source said the credit card bill of rights that was supported by the cfpb saves consumers 20 billion a year. That is a huge step forward for onsumers. And the bureau has been willing to make sensible changes when it needed to. Last year they adopted amendments to the card act that would allow stayathome spouses to take out credit cards in their own names. That was commonsense fix for an unintended problem for stayathome spouses that were credit worthy and they made the deci...

President obama last night i signed legislation to reopen our government and pay americas bills. Because democrats and responsible republicans came together, first Government Shutdown in 17 years is now over. The first defaults in more than 200 years will not happen. These threats to our economy have now been lifted and i want to thank those democrats and republicans for getting this job done. Now, there has been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. But lets be clear, there are no winners. These last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy....

A a massive man hundred dollar after a bizarre prison break. There is a transit strike erupting this morning in San Francisco. Talks broke down and bad news will for 400,000 commuters. Fires running wild near sydney, australia. Dozens of homes have been destroyed. Terrorists stormed the Shopping Center in nairobi last night. Congressional negotiators have begun trying to avert another crisis. We want to find out what we can agree on. 800,000 furloughed employees were relieved to get back to work. The duchess of cambridge showing off volleyball skills. You have seen her playing hockey in high h...

You have fed the children. And once again tonight you have raised millions to address a variety of health care crises. And hopefully a large portion of this years money will go towards fixing the obama care website. [ laughter ] good morning. Its friday, october 18th. Welcome to morning joe. This has been i think the longest week ever. Were still in washington and here with us on set in washington we have a great group. Washington anchor for bbc world news katty kay. Then former White House Press secretary robert gibbs with us. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huff...