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The speaker. before tonight's vote, the new york times editorial board argues that the democrats better pass something asap, they wrote this in part, democrats agree about far more than they disagree about, but it doesn't look that way to voters after months and months of intraparty squabbling. time to focus on, and pass, policies with broad support. or risk getting run out of office. important night to have these next two days -- don calloway, democratic, strategist founder of the national voter protection action front, and susan del percio, msnbc political analyst, who is herself a veteran p...

We are not just a speak as one person and nobody else needs to show up. we're in the best place ever today to be able to go forward. >> cute turn of phrase there but it's a euphemism saying vitality and diversity are among the reasons this party has been unable to get out of its own way. as one of our next guests points out that depends on how you define, of course, the best place ever when you hear the speaker. before tonight's vote "the new york times" editorial board argued that democrats better pass something asap and wrote this in part, democrats agree about far more than they disagree ab...

What they pass today will basically shorten the primary and caucus process to about 3 1/2 months. the iowa caucuses will start in february and the campaign will go on through may, if it has to go on that long. and that dovetails the party's move of the convention from late summer to june. so the endgame here is to, like you mentioned, get rid of that bruising intraparty squabbling and to emerge from the primary process who hasn't taken as many controversial positions and is ready to hit the ground running after the convention in june of 2016. >> there's financial benefits to the republicans as...

It seems every other few weeks, there's a brink we're about to go over. >> i think sad to say that it is. i think the partisanship is such and the intraparty squabbling on the republican side is such right now, that it's very hard to see how you get out of this problem unless there's some kind of immaculate conception here, somebody comes up with a deal that everybody can sign on to, but right now, i don't see it. >> you were there with tim geithner. he was the treasury secretary in 2011 when there was a need to raise the debt ceiling and a lot of concern. eventually the u.s. credit rating aro...

Aa whole lot more. go further. ♪ yer always after me lucky charms! whoa. i forgot how good these taste! [ lucky ] ♪ they're magically delicious back to "hardball." now to the sideshow. recent intraparty squabbling between rand paul and chris christie has highlighted the deep divisions, but also ignited a debate over bacon, at least according to jimmy fallon last night. >> actually here's what rand paul said. he said in terms of pork baisch spending, christie is the king of bacon, low bowel. in response he fired back, saying that kind of name-calling