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Imagination. Good morning, and welcome to am joy. Joy reid is wrapping up her appearance on memeet the press and will join us shortly. The trump show is painfully real and bolstered by his partys congressional leaders and cabinet members all who flanked the president to outline the agenda. Yet his proclamations that hes, like, really smart, underline the prepliomise of the book. What wolff described as some of the most peculiar remarks delivered by a president. I say i had an uncle who did a fantastic job in so many different ways, academically, he was an academic genius, and then they say is ...

Legislatures to the congress that we have a convention of states or a constitutional convention and so that's what's been going on here. let me just provide a little bit of context. this is something that happens about every 70 years interestingly in our political landscape as a nation and in 1790 to 1830 there were the antifederal lists that filed for state conventions, constitutional conventions to limit the federal power. then of course in 1861 the confederates filed a fleury of papers. and then the segregationists in 1963 started an effort of calling for constitutional conventions to limit...

All kind of things we're not fully aware of aren't going to happen when these federal employees get furloughed and put off the job. i don't care about the blackberries not working. they can be pretty offense sieve at times, but what do you think is going to be the mood of the country two or three weeks into a government shutdown and how are they going to feel toward the tea party? >> i think they're going to be thrilled with the tea party because the tea party is reflecting their values. we can get the soldiers paid. there's a bill out there right now to authorize paying the military. the demo...

These are big, big cuts. but no matter how cleverly, and i think pretty well boehner has played the inside game, he's losing two levels of the outside game. the first to the tea party people. you had one of them on saying $61 billion or bust. and i think the wider public, which is upset with everybody, but i think in the end will still, despite the clever maneuvering by boehner on the military funding and all that, still more likely blame the republicans. >> richard wolffe, is boehner in a vise? he's got the president pushing from one side, the tea party behind him and social conservativists. ...

That. >> starting with zero. >> yeah. these are big, big cuts. but no matter how cleverly, and i think pretty well boehner has played the inside game, he's losing two levels of the outside game. the first to the tea party people. you had one of them on saying $61 billion or bust. and i think the wider public, which is upset with everybody, but i think in the end will still, despite the clever maneuvering by boehner on the military funding and all that, still more likely blame the republicans. >> richard wolffe, is boehner in a vice? he's got the president pushing from one side, the tea party b...