putting riders in is only prohibiting us to get to a compromise to move forward. congressman stay with us, mika will run news and then get back to the question. let s run president obama, there was a meeting last night. john boehner and harry reid met with president obama at the white house and the president spoke afterwards. take a look. we ve been working very hard over the last two years to get this economy back on its feet. we ve now seen 13 months of job growth 1.8 million new jobs, we had the best report, jobs report we had seen in a very long time that just this past friday. for us to go backwards because washington couldn t get its act together is unacceptable. what i ve said to the speaker and what i ve said to harry reid is because the machinery of the shutdown is necessarily starting to move, i expect an answer in
about the economy getting better and some numbers look like they re improving but all of our friends are hurting. my wife s friends in south carolina, my friends in florida, mika, your friends in pennsylvania, they are all hurting. they are doing worse than their parents did 30 years ago. no question about it, joe. you look at families that call our office, every member of congress gets the calls. they re losing their homes and jobs. uncertainty is a problem. if you want to point a finger at someone, it has to be what s happening at washington. the true adults have to show up. you feel like a kindergarten teacher does you have children fighting over the same crayon, essentially what s going on and we have to move on. john, it s such a small percentage of the overall problem. it is. i should to go back to what steve was saying, this issue of the for the reasons you tried, steve, this issue of the
so i will guarantee you, as a guy that had a 100% rating with national right to life over 3 1/2 terms, i will guarantee you that most independent voters in middle america don t give a damn about funding for planned parenthood at a time when our economy is staring along and may fall off a precipice again. they don t care! i agree with that. i would say on the matter of principle, i think these are legitimate debates to have as mark points out. they are. let s have the debates outside the budget. have you always felt that way about riders in the budget? have i always felt that way? i m not sure i have a long historic record. if you want to have an argument, let s have it and have it about epa and environmental protection but outside the guillotine hanging over the government
certainly, mika, that s not a message good for independent voters. i remember during the health care debate where democrats looked the most disconnected where they started debating abortion provisions wanted to fund abortion inside health care, a week and and a half, two weeks not only debating abortion inside of jobs an abortion health care bill inside of jobs and darned if republicans aren t doing the same thing. by the way, the economy is horrific out there. it s absolutely terrible. talk to your friends and neighbors, it s horrific, yet we will shut down the government over an abortion fight. i understand people care about it on both sides of the issue. americans don t understand jobs jobs jobs jobs. what the white house is doing, they re talking about the impact of a government shutdown and what it will cost in terms
they re playing politics with a still shaky economy, playing politics with our brave men and women at war. i think there will be a price to pay in both parties for this. john boehner is the guy with the most to lose politically right now. that s part of what s wrong with the debate and light nig late night business playing politics and people say what about my job and house and kid s school education and these people are talking about shutting down the government. mark halperin has a question for the senator. take us through what s going on with the republican party and senate nationally in this fight, talking to your colleagues, from your point of view, are you afraid of a shutdown? do you feel emboldened to figd whfigd fight for what you can get? enormous frustration. i don t know any of us wants a