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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:17:54:00

another war. sending troops and boots on the ground to a base, and as a rubben strategist, a very hard sell for the gop to be all war gung ho. >> okay. stick with you, noel. your reaction to senator susan collins of maine on the floor basically saying, hey, congratulations. we have fixed this with regard to the faa. passing legislation to end the furlough stemming from the sequester. wasn't it congress' fault we even were here in the first place? >> you know, as far as putting the blame game, this is spart of the problem, and this is why americans are so frustrated with both sides. nobody can work it out. obama wanted more taxes. the republicans are not going to give. a sequester happened. then look who got hurt? it's the american traveler, the pilots. everybody involved. saying that they've come together and didn't something

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:16:00

jihad, this is how you conduct an act of violence, including training. joining mess is dana mill badge and erin carmone. dana, if the how intel committee chair is saying this, what does it tell you about the dredge of where they are? >> you always have to take it with a grain of salt when members of congress are giving police briefings, because sometimes they have a, dare i say, political charged affect to it, but it does suggest that things are more involved than we had otherwise known. i think people have generally been responsible about this thing, let's not jump to conclusions, let's gather the facts before all the political screaming and yelling begins. >> it also -- he opened up the possibility that there are more people involved, and i guess since you can't rule that -- >> i also want to talk about the fbi having a line on the older

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:52:00

president was doing. for the last two years, or the bush administration. they stopped everything that we want we wanted to do. that's the way it works. there also a always be finger pointing here, but i think we need to find a more -- so that both sides are forced to get together. we're like there's pain if the clock runs out, and the other team gets the ball and they get to do stuff. >> that was sequester. >> put control of the decision-making in one hand or the other whenever the clock runs out. >> who wants to tackle this one, that is how many people in congress look at merely their own reelection capabilities. >> you know, i think they ought to do it the california way, which is you have this unelected group of people, and you've got

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:51:00

>> very low. it does come down to the budget process. unfortunately it only work when you have the president of one party and both houses of congress controlled by the other party or both houses of congress controlled bit president et cetera party. when you have both parties split, you can't force them to come together. >> i'll push back just a bit. reagan was president, he had a democratic house, wide wide margin, a republican-led senate. for six years of his eight years as president. you know, he got a lot of stuff done. >> yeah, but he got most of it done in the first two years, where it was, you know, where he got his plan done. >> sure, sure. >> after that, he was conceivdi to tip o'neil the rest of the way. what's your reaction you can go back to gun control on down? >> republicans will always be blamed for stopping what the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:17:55:00

tan task, i don't want to reward anybody. and the blame game? it takes two sides. that's my answer on that. >> doug, do you think the faa needs to implement the furloughs or was this a level of grandstanding. >> probably strategically selected in tile. the fact is they've been through all--all agencies corrected to make cuts. i agree. this does not help with congress' image. we can take action with easing sfeed get it done, but can't get it together ta avoid what hurts the middle-class people. >> ptrying to be about optimist. lightning speed done. will it extend to headstart, people treated for cancer, needing chemotherapy? all things that are important? peoples on wheels? the list goes on. >> in addition to the program, each agency affecting real people, working more hours for less money. people taking big hits to their budget. all ahead. when you do something public,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:17:53:00

there is no appetite among the american public for military entanglements on the ground. >> what's the message that gets gent a wrong message sent to the rest of the world? >> this is why the president is communicating he wants to take plenty of time. with congress out on recess for a week it gives them a couple more days to do more digging, get more information out there and share with all the intelligence leaders in congress to say, talk through it deliberately. you can't just say you have a headline and how do you exactly define that? a. swishy. >> and paraphrasinparaphrasing. john mccain, create a safe zone arming rebels, helping with refugees and be prepared with an international force? far enough? >> it does. a lot of people saying that the administration needs to take action. ip think that is a step. i think that is action. you know what, alex? americans are war wary. we are tired and it's going to be a hard sell for obama to sell

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:49:00

nods through stories going around they'll exempt themselves from the obama care. how will this get -- they want to exempt themselves from obama care and fix the flying privileges. i mean, do they think the american people are really that stupid? >> it's these kinds of things, the ad hoc nature does break down support by congress. we do this over and over again. i don't care whose idea the sequester was, right? even the whole concept was we need to come up with artificial promises in order to do the job we needed to do. this goes back -- we did it in the health care bill, right? everybody winked and nodded that we're -- don't count -- let's pretend it's not going to get fixed. we'll come back and do it later, right? it just loses faith of the american people. >> here's the silver lining that i took away from this. congress put their minds to it, and they fixed something in, what, like three days? what? the expedient wait was i thought

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:17:40:00

how railroad faring compared to them? >> we are doing pretty well, compared to some towns, especially the towns to my south. they really were hit very hard. they don't have the same commercial tourism industry we have, so it's a different dynamic, so to speak. in bell mar, i think we are probably ahead of where belmar is. >> you know, it took more than two months after that storm, and then we heard the famous youth burst from governor christie, before congress finally voted on a relief package. what was running through your mind as all this was playing out? >> dealing with the issues on the ground p there was very little as a mayor of a 5,000-person town that i would have to be able to do. though i will tell you this --

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:50:00

maybe they can do this. i don't know how many 3 and 4-year-olds will call up and say, what about my headstart program? but their parents certainly can. patients wanting chemotherapy with cancer. >> here's the dirty secret about congress that. congress is reactive, they are not proactive. there is no vision, and it's been this way for a while now. it's frustrating. what i would like to see our government do is to actually come up with an idea. why don't we rebuilt the electric grid and update the interstate system. chris matthews talks about let's do big things. maybe congress should start doing big things again instead of stupid tiny fixes. it's a great that they did something on a bipartisan, but it's almost myopic. >> what are the chances it will happen?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:16:47:00

here's what susan collins said on thursday after the senate vote. >> i'm dilated that the senate has just passed a bipartisan bill to resolve a serious problem confronting the american traveling public and our economy. it's nice to know that when we work together, we really can solve problems. here's the only issue you have with that, because, um, the serious problem was actually brought on by members puff congress, so you're congratulating yourself for something you created. >> welcome to congress 101. we screwed it and we're going to fix it. i have a big problem with this piecemeal sequester waiver over and over again. they fixed it for the business men and women that flew across the country, oh, and for -- i think the president should veto. you're going to stay care of the

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