Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100721:22:19:00
Are holding unemployed americans hostage tonight. 2.5 million desperate americans thought checks would be in the mail yesterday. but the grand old obstructionist party decided to play more mind games with the lives of the american people. senator harry reid said it best "now i hope the american people understand how callous this is, people are desperate, can't make house payments, car payments, can't pay for kids' food and they are having us wait 30 hours after cloture's been invokes." the cloture vote, of course, stops everything, stops the debate and then there's 30 hours but normally they j...