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0 that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us this hour. happy hump day. william jefferson clinton, bill clinton, was elected in 1992, look at how young they were. he did not win a huge proportion of the vote in 1992, because there was a third candidate, ross perot was running, and bill clinton won enough to unseat the incumbent president at the time, he ran to unseat papi bush. he ushered in not just his own presidency, but unified democratic control of washington, democrats controlled the house, the senate and the whi...

0 obama in the first mid-term election after he took office, the democratic party got shallaked again, once again, democrats took dozens of seats in the house, once again, the republicans thereby took control of the house. that was the 2010 mid-terms. all the new house, john boehner got sworn in, got his gavel in 2011. and then once again, americans got to see what the new republicans wanted to do with their new found power in congress. deja vu all over again, turns out what they want to do again is shut down the government. >> around the country, the clock ticks down to a u.s. shutdown of the...

0 cruz talked for 21 hours overnight. then he stopped talking. the senator was not filibustering anything, he was not delaying anything happening in congress. there was nothing in the legislative procedures, due to the fact that he was talking. there was supposed to be a vote today, and then after all the talk there was still a vote in the senate at mid-day today. and in that vote, the senate, even ted cruz, voted unanimously with everybody. he voted with everybody after his 21-hour long stand saying he wouldn't, they all voted the same way. so ted cruz' talking pageant had no material effect ...

0 the more rational move right now, the better decision is to actually fight for a debt limit battle, maybe even put default on the line to get concessions from the white house, you and i discussed it before. doesn't seem like the best play for the republicans, but for the speaker establishment of the republicans that seems to be the best play on the table. >> and much higher factor, orders of magnitude, running through that deadline -- precisely that reason that i think that john boehner thinks he has more leverage there. but i just can't see under any circumstances the white house negotiatin...

0 many want a show boat to contend to their constituents, to show what they're fighting for, rather than actually fighting for it and winning. >> joining me, robert costa, a cnbc contributor. robert, what is the fallout in. >> it has been devastating for senator cruz within the senate republican conference. there is a lot of frustration when i get to his colleagues, they say he is launching a political campaign, doesn't have many allies in the base. >> does that mean the idea does change? to the extent there was a plausible strategic imperative here. does it mean the momentum would gain -- i h...