government shutdown approving a government spending bill that defunds obama care. this is a nonstarter with the senate and white house. so can anyone fix this mess? our mr. fix it is our daily physical chris cillizza, co-host of in play. chris, it s such an exercise in futili futility, such a waste of time given the obvious outcome in the senate, yet there they go again. look, andrea, at some point we could one week literally from today we re having a conversation that is the conversation we spent all this week on, what will the house do, if anything, to avoid a shutdown. can it get past by the senate and signed by the president. what we know is what you pointed out. senate made it clear, the senate is not going to approve a bill to keep the government running that defunds obama care. they are going to strip that out
journal poll are not going to be met with very much excitement in the white house. joining me now for our daily fix peter alexander and chris cillizza and co-host of in play and nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell. peter, first to you. these poll numbers are pretty bad. the president s approval rating only 45% for his handling of the economy, even though economy seems to be sort of slowly picking up. the market has been good. their housing values are going up. it has to be troubling at the white house. heard from the president during the brief spray with cameras coming in yesterday with his cabinet, asked about syria where he expressed optimism and was hopeful.
anniversary of the march on washington days after the justice department filed a suit against the state of texas over a new voter i.d. law. as president obama prepares to address the nation wednesday on the steps of the lincoln memorial on the actual anniversary of dr. martin luther king s speech. how will the president take on the voter suppression laws. joining me for our daily fix, chris cizilla, co-host of in play, washington post editorial columnist ruth marcus and new york times white house correspondenter jackie combs. welcome all. first to you, chris cizilla. this is a very big week, obviously, for all of us, those of us who remember the march, those of us, those people who were not even born and those people who were the real heros of the march. what will president obama do? he has had differing approaches towards this issue, but with the trayvon martin comments we ve seen how he s willing to, you know, grasp it and break new ground. yeah. you know, andrea, i thought the