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The past couple of months. let's bring in our gaggle, angela, kristen and anna. kristen, your firm does a lot of polling of both the senate and the house. clearly boehner was in one place on this and you can't help but see his hand was forced. this was not the strategy he believed was the best strategy. >> he's got a very diverse group of voices in his caucus. they have stayed united through plan a, plan b, plan c and plan d and that's to his credit. what's fascinated me most about this dynamic that's emerging is the one way i see out for republicans is if this very public posture that you see...

Crisis, it has to come to an end. >> they understand that what they're doing is nuts. >> i'm alex wagner. if at first you don't succeed, try plan b, then plan c and now plan d? that is the latest reporting after the senate just rejected plan c, the third attempt by the republican led house to defund the health care law by shutting down the government. to plan c, a one year delay of the individual mandate with a bonus amendment that messes with health insurance employer. this afternoon, president obama made it crystal clear that the only bill he will sign is is a

I think a delay is is a reasonable expectation. i believe the obama administration unilaterally and multiple times have cherry picked which parts they are going to delay. this is my opinion. i don't care what john mccain thinks. >> hash tag awkward. demonstrating how broiken the republican party is, 12 house republicans voted no on advancing the latest spending bill. also among the no votes because they don't think this bill is extreme enough our members like michelle bachmann, paul brown and steve king. weirdest voting block ever. joining me now bruce bartlet, he now writes for the new york

To try to maximize their position as john kerry goes in to his discussions with lavrov and create the maximum ability to get the result that they want. >> is that a yes or a no? >> well, it means that they're going to maximize their position. and if maximizing their position is taking efforts to try to divide the american public and try to undermine the very efforts that the americans are in a weakened position, but i don't think he'll achieve that. it's very clear that we're going to insist on a verifiable process with the u.n. resolution, otherwise we have nothing. >> all right, senator mene...

>> they're not sympathetic at all? >> he wanted the death penalty. he seemed to be wanting to negotiate that with you. tell us about that aspect of it. >> well, that was just another strange turn in this case. but fairly early on, he communicated to us that he was actually seeking the death penalty. and that's something that he, you know, wanted to talk about. >> like i said, you want to have the death penalty, you think the more information the judge and jury has, the more likely that would b i guess my plan c is, i guess we can kind of do quantity over details of what happened. i think that ...