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At the national journal. james patterson is a professor at lehigh university and msnbc contributor and igor volsky is the managing editor of think progress. thank you all for being here this morning. lots to talk about today. jill, i want to start with you. republicans say that the provision to delay obama care is actually a compromise and that a delay could actually make sure the legislation runs smoothly. now, you wrote a piece for the national journal titled why delaying obama care could ultimately do as much damage as defunding. how devastating would a blow be for this law if it were delay...

>> thank you. well, is senator ted cruz winning his kamikaze crusade or is his campaign to defund obama care crumbling. and the clinton campaign. joan walsh is the editor at large for salon and msnbc political analyst. steve ben an is a msnbc contributor and judd legam is the editor in chief of think progress. thanks for being here this morning. i want to start with senator ted cruz here. there's no shortage of headlines about him today. the "washington post" writes ted cruz happy to be outlier in show down. the week says is ted cruz brilliant or deranged and the daily beast writes can cru...

Side. >> the gop fears obama care will eventually be credited for w slowing the rise of health care costs to a more manageable rate. i want to play a clip from cruz on what he calls a discrepancy in the prediction of obama care costs for the average family. let's listen. >> the president promised a $2500 cut for the average family of four. instead you're looking at a $7500 increase. that's a $10,000 swing. judd, these numbers, is that accurate? >> well, it's not. you know, we delved into the numbers on our website, think progress, and found that actually the reason why there's going to be a li...

The gop's obsession for repe repealing obama care. three years after the law was passed and just shy of two weeks before the rollout, house republicans -- attaching the funding of obama care to the funding of the federal government. this is today's topic. the managing editor for think progress, suzie kim, a national politics reporter and frank goddard, editor of political wire. good to see all of you. let's start with what the president said a few moments ago. at this business round table in washington, d.c., saying this country's credibility was not a bargaining chip and that he was sick and ...

Right now. tropical storm ingrid is bringing heavy rains and major flooding to mexico's gulf coast today. according to the national hurricane center, ingrid is getting stronger and could become a hurricane before the weekend's out. a recipe for disaster in hawaii where hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses are spilling into the sea from a storage pipeline. the thick, sticky substance is coating the ocean floor, sucking the oxygen out of the water. it's also killing lots of fish as well. officials are still trying to figure out just how to clean up that mess. and is george zimmerman ...