very dramatic partisan musical chairs. we will find out on monday. meanwhile, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. i will see you again on monday. now it s time for the last word with the great joy reid sitting in for lawrence. good evening, rachel. it always comes back to killing obamacare. all roads lead back to that one, same, exact place. well, when you re within one vote, every vote is the most important vote in the world. i got to say rick perry as homeland security director blows my mind. my mine is blown. here s the thing. could you imagine rick perry as energy secretary? right? no! no. no! here s been my theory. my theory has always been that now that there s nobody at ho homeland security, they move jeff sessions from attorney general over to homeland security. it s his mission in life to deport as many people as possible, so he could act that out. then you have to appoint somebody else to be attorney general. rick perry? well, anybody who woul
put together, what would actually happen. 59,000 american dead. 490,000 korean dead in 90 days. yeah. we don t even have an ambassador to south korea to sort of sit him down. it wouldn t be nuclear. this is conventional war. this is the real deal. let me read you what senator ben sasse had to say. he said, no, congress obviously isn t going to war in venezuela. nicolas maduro is a horrible human being, but congress doesn t vote to spill nebraskans blood based on what the exclusive lashes out at today. i recently saw the movie lbj, and i m struck by the fact that when you look at all of these previous presidents whether it s johnson, clinton in the 94
now that blater has won reelection as fifa president. we will get back to this as quickly as possible but seth sepp blatter will remain president. and the provision that allows the nsa to sweep up your phone records in bulk. if congress doesn t vote to change or reauthorize those provisions the government will no longer be able to spy on some companies to turn over information on the phone calls like the number you call, the time and duration of your call. .
check on these things and exactly what we re doing directly in line with the constitution. shouldn t you put a check on things by passing some sort of budget which has nothing to do with the debt ceiling. it does but they are different issues. they are different issues and i hear a lot of budget talk but the budget is not going to address the situation we re in right now. finally the senate passed a budget after 1,100 some days. harry reid dealt with it this way. the system is dysfunctional because the house has passed appropriation bills consistent with the budget that the house passes, we send them to the senate, 12 appropriation bills that s what it takes for a full year, we re not there yet. harry reid puts them in his desk and that gives them the leverage to try to run the government on the political leverage of a continuing resolution. that s where we are today. don t you think the answer is to take for the republicans to have the majority in the senate and you wouldn t hav
about the budget may happen around that date. so maybe november 15th could be something that doesn t have the pushback that we ve seen on this particular continuing resolution. okay. david, so we could hit the debt ceiling as early as october 17th. if congress doesn t vote to increase the ceiling, the u.s. would default for the first time ever. how much is at stake here for the president if not the country? a lot s at stake. even though the president is trying to project an air he s going on with other priorities and going to draw the line, especially the debt ceilinging is a big deal. not only the budget but the debt ceiling could affect the u.s. economy. we saw two years ago, even though they made the deadline and they did lift the debt ceiling, you recall in the summer of 2011, they were downgraded by one of the wall street rating houses for the first time ever. that did hurt the economy to some extent analysts say. if it took longer, there is more uncertainty in the economy. th