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Bureau chief of mother joenlz, david corn, and special kompbt for the daily beast, michael tabaskian. joining me from capitol hill is nbc's capitol correspondent, luke russert. harry reid just said at the conclusion of that almost 22-hour session of bloefuation, i don't think we learned anything. did you learn anything, luke? has anyone on capitol hill learned anything? >> yeah, this is something, alex, that everybody has an opinion on, but if you talk to the majority on it, both sides, privately, democrats say they love this. let ted cruz as long as he can because then they can stick the gove...

Have enough money to even buy the chicken that they're frying. that's wrong. we got to do something about it. >> congressman, i'm just going to open this up to our folks in new york. michael, we just talked to mayoral candidate joe loda about income inequality in this country. president obama endorsed bill de blasio yesterday, had a sort of on the margins meeting with him yesterday while he was in new york. i thought that was really fascinating, given the fact that the white house usually maintains they don't get involved in local races. i saw it sort of as a distinct effort by the part of the...

Over him, though this was a faux filibuster, as you pointed out. this is what it's about. the tea party tail is still wagging the gop dog. poor mitch mcconnell doesn't know which way to turn. the head of the republican party is on the side of ted cruz, as was just pointed out. you have republicans in the real world like you and a lot on planet bizarre. >> i'm not usually one to come to mitch mcconnell's aid. mitch mcconnell made a decision. >> he's getting hammered for this. >> he decided to air on the side of actually legislating as opposed to ted cruz. michael, alex altman says a senator sta...