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Win. when house speaker john boehner was asked today about the obama campaign daes decision on super-pacs, he said in. >> another broken promise. >> whether the rules was handed down boehner called it a big win for the first amendment. he said let the american people decide how much money is enough. let's turn to msnbc political analyst and bloomberg view columnist jonathon alter and "washington post" columnist ezra kline. a lot on the table here. first of all, the money war as officially started. johnthon i get a sense this is not the road that president obama and his campaign wanted to trave...

Unbelievable flip flop nom the newtster. he keeps running from his position and running from voters. >> why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself. >> tonight he raent run from me. the most amazing birther development since donald trump. jonathon alter has details. and my colleague martin bashir on the latest revelations in the arnold schwarzenegger scandal. and this is the story that has me fired up tonight. house majority leader eric cantor caught on tape. red handed. telling a bunch of oil speculators the republicans are focused on stopping regulations on the very sam...

And said failure to get a deal would be inexcuse able. senator reid and speaker boehner gave brief comments as well. i'm joined by heather boushey with jonathon alter on the telephone. heather, i want to catch people up to speed on where we are with this budget right now. what happened was there was no budget passed last year. and so the government's been funded by what are called continuing resolution. what is a continuing resolution? >> well, when congress doesn't pass a budget, then they have to -- they have to keep the government going. so they pass what they call these continuing resoluti...

After the meeting, president obama spoke to the press corps in the white house. he emphasized the possible cost of a shutdown to ordinary people and said failure to get a deal would be inexcusable. senator reid and speaker boehner gave brief comments as well. i'm joined by heather boushey with jonathon alter on the telephone. heather, i want to catch people up to speed on where we are with this budget right now. what happened was there was no budget passed last year. and so the government's been funded by what are called continuing resolution. what is a continuing resolution? >> well, when con...

On that. it would seem to me that the white house would have to give reasons that the new yorkers are giving, not that they are going to get a better outcome. >> please, this is pandering at its best. it's not just president obama. i blame the democratic leadership as well. they are -- they could stand up. the democrats lack spine. they lack will, and they look weak when it comes to national security. they deserve our rejection when it comes to this issue again. again. >> jack, thank you. for more, let's bring in our panel. jonathon alter, a nbc analyst and heidi harris, a talk show host in la...