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Spent. not a single democrat opposed it. on the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul and marco rubio. for those tea party senators and their conservative allies in the house it's a stinging defeat. the republican party is left weakened by a political ploy that caused the u.s. economy an estimated $24 billion. good morning, everyone. it's over. it's tuesday, october 17th. thursday. why do i keep doing that. on tuesday i said thursday. with us on set we're here in washington. "new york times" reporter jeremy peters. msnbc political analyst and form...

To healthercare.gov. that's less than 1%. the analysis also found that traffic to the health care website dropped 88% during the first two weeks. seriously -- >> john meacham -- >> what in if world is wrong. >> about how it wasn't just republicans who were the big losers in this, it was government itself. you look at this sort of roll out and it reinforces the republicans message. you know, polls are never static. these polls are going move to. continued focus on this roll out, if it's this messy, it damages, i think, the political viability of it, moving forward totally. >> yes the republican...

On the other end someone will fill that void and ted cruz filled that void. >> that's because nobody stood up, mika, on the republican side on the house and said that's a horrible idea. we tried that in 1995. we got killed and re-elected bill clinton. it's a horrible idea. >> but the republican congress got re-elected in 1996. >> the majority leader didn't. the leadership should have stood up early on and said that's great for the freshman republican thinks that in the senate. that's cute. we tried pickett's charge and it ended badly. >> i feel it's time for a reference to the 1800s. >> we nee...

Texasan, all we're doing is making the house republicans job more difficult. >> well, look the republicans are worried about going into a face off with fortunate. within weeks we have to deal with the shut down of the government and debt ceiling and republicans know the history although the president has struggled in terms of public relations of late this is his chance for a big come back. if they go into this divided confused of what they want which is what senator cruz has done they will lose the show unand end up with little or nothing to show at the end of these two weeks. >> republicans h...

>> oh, my lord. >> oh, my gosh. it was too early in the morning for that. >> let's go back. usually in civil war -- >> you know what that was? >> of course we do. that's why we're trying to move on. >> john mecham, i don't know civil war in the gop works. the media loves to talk about a civil war. this seems to be ted cruz, marco rubio and mike lee against the world on capitol hill. and that's not said in a david versus goliath kind of thing it's said in a pickett's charge of way. >> you look in the last month or so. washington at large has not come out in a particularly warm and effective lig...