It feels like today is we have a hump to overcome for some reason. It is a wednesday. That i show it to my kid. They like that and the naked m m commercial from the super bowl. Brian shactman. In sports the oldest person ever to hit a walkoff home run and the Martha Stewart relationship may be ending. Lets start with that dysfunctional business of d. C. Politics. Senator ted cruz part of a marathon speech in protest of funding the president S Health Care plan and took the floor at 2 41 p. M. Eastern time. This is him right now live at 5 31 a. M. Eastern time. I mean people are still wondering if he has a catheter. I think hes been taking turns up there at the dais declaring he will talk until he cant stand anymore and with the help of his tea party friends, the debate continues of course, as we continue. It is not technically a filibuster because it has no chance of delaying todays senate vote. But apparently speaking about obama care for hours on end, not enough to pass the time. Most americans could not give a flying flip about a bunch of politicians in washington. Who cares . You know, almost all of us are in cheap suits with bad haircuts. Who cares . You know, its a little bit like the World Wrestling federation. Its wrestling matches where its all rigged. The outcome is predetermined. They know who is going to win. Im a big fan of eating white castle burgers. Obama care is a far less intimidating foe than those that i have discussed with the possible exception of the moon. Do you like green eggs and ham . I do not like them, sam, i am, i do not like grind eggs and ham. Would you, could you in a car. Eat them, eat them, here they are. Could you would you with a goat. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green inc. S and ham. I think his pacing on that was a little slow. The communication director for senator harry reid tweeted out this socalled fun fact last night. Senator cruz prenegotiated the terms of his fake filibuster with senator reid yesterday. Not exactly a mr. Smith moment, end quote. All right, joined now by nbcs political reporter casey hunt. I dont know how you keep it together. We appreciate you getting up with us. The front page of the Dallas Morning News he leads lonely attack on budget bill. He is alone on this. Why is he doing it . He has become a hero to the conservative grass roots over this and, brian, you have to remember whats going on here. These third Party Conservative groups like the club for growth, heritage action, those are the people who got him elected and other senators elected like mike lee and marco rubio as you heard him just talking about was actually the establishment basically rejected early on and they went on to win. So they dont feel beholden in any way to their Party Leaders and youre seeing that play out on the floor and cruz is being played out as a grassroots hero on right wing blogs as much as his critics say he deserves to be ridiculed because he cant actually change the process Going Forward and those critics would also say that hes painted himself into a corner and this is his attempt to prove that its not fruitless. Right, so hes following through to prove that he can follow through but in the bigger picture, kasie, especially for the republican party, what does it mean that there are other prominent republicans against h him. At this point it is a gop bloodbath. Theyre trying to argue behind the scenes this is an argument over tactics and not strategy and says everybody wants to defund obama care but the reality is theyre really split on this and even senator rand paul who stood on the floor earlier with cruz and who says that he plans to vote with cruz on these key procedural votes coming up this week, still stood up inside a private meeting and backed senator minority leader Mitch Mcconnells proposal to do this a different way and rand is in a particularly difficult spot because he falls into this conservative Grassroots Tea Party group on the one hand but on the other is one of the most vocal supporters of mcconnells bid for reelection and mcconnell, rands support for him is very important to him. And it could affect him in a primary against businessman matt bevin. Kasie, get some rest. Good follow on twitter kasie and live tweeted the thing as much as she could stay awake. President obama bringing in one of his most powerful supporters to help sell his Signature Health plan. Former president bill clinton. Hillary introduced the two former president s at number 42 and number 44. Setting off speculation that the moment may prove to be historic with number 45 there on stage, as well. Maybe someday. A q a about health care between the two commanders in chief quickly turned into a sales pitch for the Affordable Care act. What does this mean . How will people get involved . Ill give the president a chance to talk about the good stuff. In the last three years just since we started doing this inflation and Health Care Cost has dropped to 4 for three years in a row for the first time in 50 years. What youve this is an unprecedented effort youve seen ramp up over the last month or so in which those who have opposed the idea of universal health care in the first place and have fought this thing tooth and nail threw congress and the courts and so forth are have been trying to scare and discourage people from getting a good deal. What were saying to people is, look, go to the website yourself. What we are confident about is when people look and see that they can get high quality, Affordable Health care for less than their cell phone bill, theyre going to sign up. Lets turn our attention overseas now. The tense fourday standoff at a mall in kenya appears to be over. Today the first of three days of mileperhouring for the victims after kenyas president declared victory. He announced five members of al shabaab were killed, 11 other members were captured. We have ashamed and defeated our attackers. That part of our task has been completed by a multiagency security team. Security forces are still at the mall searching for additional victims. Now, the latest death toll at 61. Government and six excuse me, civilians and six Government Troops on top of that officials fear they could find up to 60 more victims. Take a look at some exclusive video that nbc obtained of the moments after gunmen stormed in terrorizing the shoppers. The New York Times reports al shabaab hatched this plot weeks or months ago in somalia even studying the mall down to the vent lakes ducts on the blueprints and recruited English Speaking fighters to be part of the attack and plant ed weapons inside with the help of an employee. An american survivor is back home this morning. Bendita mallika was tearful and shes still coming to grips with what she went through. You would hear the feet and then you would hear some talking, some other languages, sometimes you would hear like ran democrat things like muslim, christian and hear like random things, and, you know, people would respond or scream dont shoot and then you hair some walk and some get shot. Incredible. To the United Nations where president obama says the u. S. Will begin highlevel negotiations with iran on its Nuclear Program this week. He voiced optimism over their new tone for a diplomatic solution but did admit possible roadblocks may be too great. I dont believe this difficult history can be overcome overnight. The suspicions run too deep. We should be able to achieve a resolution that respects the rights of the iranian people while giving the world confidence that the Iranian Program is peaceful. But to succeed conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable. Later in the afternoon, it was president rowhani of iran who took his turn staying talks were possible on equal footing but that his country would insist on its right to enriched uranium. Translator i listened carefully to the statement made by president obama today hoping that they will refrain from following the shortsighted interests of warmongering pressure groups. We can arrive at a framework to manage our differences. Let me say loud and clear that peace is within us. A lot were seeing whether the two would shake hand, speak to each other or do anything to intera interact to become the first lead attorneys mete since the late 70s. It never happened. Rowhani declined the opportunity with some americans saying it was out of concern for hardliners at home. In fact, rowhani didnt attend the lunch that president obama attended with some reports saying because alcohol was served. There are other reports saying he didnt rsvp but we dont know exactly why it did not happen. A 7. 7 magnitude earthquake struck western pakistan yesterday. 238 people were killed injuring more than 350. Now, this was huge. The quake destroyed 90 of the homes in the region and actually lifted the seabed creating a small island. I dont know if you can tell through that Little Mountain in the back off the coastline. It was caused by the eruption of an undersea mud volcano which was triggered by the earthquake. The search for survivors continues and officials do expect that death toll to rise dramatically. To business now, investors hoping to avoid a fifth consecutive day of losses. The s p 500 dipping below 1700. The concerns about the fed and a possible Government Shutdown in d. C. All continuing although the nasdaq was slightly higher. Steve sedgwick live for us. There was one big deal. 29 billion merger between Applied Materials and a Japanese Company as well. Very important for the semiconductor sector. Everyone is worried about that debt ceiling breach. Amazon keeping the pressure on apple and ipads. Jeff bezos group got a whole host of new devices. And an 8. 9inch kindle for 379 and get an 8 megapixel camera on that and mayday support system, as well. So jeff keeping pressure on apple saying its not the money they make out of the devices but selling services theyre after which is the key for amazon. Elsewhere, incredible comments from robert benmarsh. Hes saying some of the criticism labeled at the bonuses paid to the financial industry post the collapse of aig and indeed the broader sector. He said this was intended to stir public anger and get everybody out there with their pitchforks and hangman nooses. I think it was bad and it was just as bad then as it is now, as well. He apparently has regretted some of the phrasing after criticism from social media and regulators, as well. Yeah, and merited by the way. Quickly, Martha Stewart, jcpenney, is that over . It appears so. Not only is macys in the courts with jp penny about whether they can even use the name, the deal struck by the previous ceo ron johnson, this tenyear deal virtually being scrapped it looks like because the Martha Stewart bath and bed linens have been replaced by Liz Claiborne brands and other inhouse brands, as well. Looks like you may have to change your bed linen from the Martha Stewart inspired stuff to snoopy. We might have some. I thought as much. To twitter. Listen to this, steve. A Haunted House in pennsylvania encouraging visit attorneys get the their thrills. My take, a bad idea. We want to know what other things would not be fun naked. Waytoonude. Well put the best answers on the air later in the show. Still ahead, the cardinals, michael wacha, wacha, wacha, does he get it and miley says shes done twerking. Why shes losing her signature move, maybe because its gross. That story and a check on weather when way too early comes back. Thank you orville and wilbur. Amelia. 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With accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. Are you in good hands . Time for sports and baseball, of course, racing toward the postseason cardinals. Michael wacha looking to finish off the nohitter with two owes in the ninth against the nats. Ryan zimmerman chopper past the mound. Tough to break up on this one and beats it out. Cards win, 20. I now it was a bit of a cheapie. White sox and indians tied until alejandro blast the goahead shot over the right field wall but the indians one more chance in the bottom of the ninth. 11 pitch. Giambi, are you kidding me . Oh, my. The indians have won it. Great call. Clevelands jason giambi a monster tworun walkoff homer the tribe win it 54. Oldest with a walkoff home run. 42. Detroits Austin Jackson with a tworun shot over the Left Center Field wall. In the playoffs one win away from the a. L. Central. New york, braves leading the yankees, 30. Bases loaded and james loney. Who . Yeah, hes been killing the yankees, the rays blank them 70. Byebye. We have cleveland has a good chance to make the playoffs along with tampa bay, mr. Karins. This could be fun the last week. Pretty much kansas city and yankees are done, cleveland, texas and tampa. If you get an oakland in the world series or a cleveland in the world series it just would be incredible. A lot of fun. Anyone but boston. Really had to do that. 15 seconds for weather. As long as i got that jab in. Ill talk through weather. Thats all that meant anything to meechlt as far as today same thing as yesterday. Heavy rain for our friends from tampa across i4. This will move out. Tomorrow looks better. Yesterday i mentioned the possibility of a big storm on the east coast, that was one of our computer models. Thankfully its pushed its further off the shore so looks like a glancing blow possibly to the cape or canadian parry time. Not worried about that right now. As far as what were dealing with in the northeast yesterday was bitterly cold. Today warmer. This afternoon should be gorgeous. Were in this great weather pattern. Chilly and nice. Boston, cooler at 65. Rest of the country nice too. Were talking going to be mid70s to 90 dallas. Coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe. Joe and mika joined by Cokie Roberts to talk about what hes trying to accomplish and if hes succeeding. Around the cooler. Bono, a performance like youve never seek and hes spoton with bill clinton. You have to see it. Be right back. [ tires screech ] [ male announcer ] 1. 21 gigawatts. Today, thats easy. Ge is revolutionizing power. Supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. Using data predictively to help power entire cities. So the turbines of today. Will power us all. Into the future. Into the future. With an innovative showerhead plus wireless speaker, kohler is the proud sponsor of singing in the shower. Even superheroes need superheroes, and some superheroes need complete and balanced meals with 23 vitamins and minerals. Purina dog chow. Help keep him strong. Dog chow strong. All right. Time for the cooler. Dnc fundraiser. President obama announced bill de blasio. It was the president s endorsement of his sons afro that got the most attention. President obama took a moment to talk to dante saying he exactly sport tad afro back in 78 and went on to say although i must confess my afro was never that good. It was a little unbalanced. It was a good afro by dante. Pretty solid. All fun and games when former president bill clinton was late for his Opening Panel at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting. U2s bono and improvised a spoton impression of the president. When i first met bono and, hey, he walked into the oval office and actually i thought it was a member of his own road crew. He wasnt really dressed right. Actually i felt like the rock star on that occasion. I must be really easy to make fun of. [ laughter ] i got to tell you we said this on the floor in the break. Ups his coolness factor off the charts. It was perfect. All right. Where would the cooler be without another eye opener from miss miley cyrus. In the club buy some shades mini skirt with my js on with some shades on and a on offense to all Michael Jordan lovers. Her wrapping in 23. Go on tv and watch. Smoke cigarettes. Shes stripping down for the cover of the latest rolling stone. Her twerking was a big topic of conversation. Shes likely done with twerking after all the controversy but says she could have gone much further with robin thicke if they wanted and wants to know why shes faced so much criticism but nothing directed towards thicke although hes gotten some criticism but its a little unbalanced. One of the most anticipated comedy sequels along with anchorman 2. Look at jim carrey and jeff bridges, still look good in character as Lloyd Christmas and harry dunn back for dumb and dumber 2 and spell it t0. The fairrrelly brothers will be back to direct it. Hey. Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world . Aaagh guys, guys, guys i like the kung fu dream sequence the best. I just break out laughing like a camel in the geico commercial. Way too early, alejandro encouraging visitors to get their thrills in the nude. Ill tell you why actually. We want to know what other things would not be fun naked and morning joe has been tweeted by a few people and i dont think that crew would appreciate that. Morning joe just a few minutes away. The secret is out. Hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. Aveeno® naturally beautiful results. Aveeno® nascar is ab. 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