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Tonight 16 days and the government shutdown, the senator approved a deal to reopen the government, avoid default goes to the house and a vote expected tonight and the to the president who said he ll sign it immediately. joining me now is paul, republican strategist rich gayland and matt. lets start with you, is your belief when you look at what happened that what went wrong is that the moderate republicans in the senate and house did not back up hard line consecutives in the house and if they had, they could have gotten what they wanted? well, it s not clear that the republican leadership had a clear strategy on how to deal with the budget and debt ceiling. there was all sorts of different opinions and it was only when ....
Ted cruz and mike lee stepped in with a strategy that we started having the conversation about what the strike that he was and instead of partnering with cruz and lee, they started shooting at each other and i think we probably lost this thing along time ago because they were never willing to stand firm and you re either going to stand firm or you re going to give everything to the president, and there wasn t really a middle ground there. paul, is that how you see it? i really think senator cruz mislead follow lores. there are a lot of good people that want to repeal obama care. they also misunder estimated harry reid. the senate democratic leader has incredibly diverse caucus from a socialist to joe mansion, very, very conservative west virginiaen reid held them together and firm and strong and never blinked and that s why the democrats won this thing and why the republicans fractured. rich, was ted cruz being ....
The threat came it might go away, even though the rollout had a lot of glitches, people supported it more. do you buy that? we should talk in a few months. it s one thing to have a dysfunctional website and another thing to get hit with a huge increase in premiums and co-pays. so months when people see the reality in their own lives, you think there will be a lot of people opposed to it? yeah, this time next year democrats will be hoping for at least a delay in the individual mandate because it will be a mess. we got to leave it there. great to have you on again, rich, paul, we ll be right back. ....
Of staff are two more white men, den is mcdonough and ronald klain. let me get your reaction to this. barack obama is black. some of the president s top advisers are women, valerie jarrett, half of the white house staff is women. that s been a diverse cabinet and white house staff. what we re experiencing now is a communications problem more than an actual diversity problem. rich, is this an optics problem? let me agree with bill. that this is this is a very difficult job to fill because you have to be so much in tune with the president. if you want to start add up blacks and womens and christians, that s fine, but the chief of staff role is not the place to do that because you ....
Word is here s replacement is likely to be a man. the latest administration moves led to criticism about a lack of diversity in the new cabinet. it s worth replaying what charlie rangel had to say about it on our show yesterday. it s embarrassing as hell. we have been through all of this with mitt romney and very hard on mitt romney with his women and a variety of things. i think there s no excuse when it s a second term. if it s the first term, you can see people got to know who is around that s qualified in order to get this job. let s bring in democratic strategist and former kerry deputy campaign manager steve elman dorve and rich gayland. i want to start with this job per se. the chief of staff is described as the second most powerful position in washington. would you agree with that assessment? yes, the title doesn t ....