all right. admiral, gordon, thank you both. julie pace, stay with us. i always love the orange behind the admiral. coming up on morning joe are i didn i didn t get any . talk about setting they will up. the state of new jersey is back open for business after a three day shutdown. and chris christie defends his time on a stretch of state run beach saying he doesn t care about optics. also ahead, senator blumenthal joints the table.
they ll be very happy with that. well, other republicans, particularly some, you know, can t call them moderates. people like john mccain and lindsey graham in the senate, don t want to be known for blowing up government. and they don t like this. they have been very upset about ted cruz leading them down this path without any exit strategy. and so these parties are you know, factions are at war with each other and john boehner is caught between them. and he s going to have to make a hard decision before midnight, october 17th. right. and i don t know how i don t know i put it. which republicans and they become i think the hero to a large part of the problem. david corn, thank you very much for being here. sure thing. coming up, our republican member of congress will have the opportunity to respond to the president s remarks. and later in the hour, speaker boehner himself with a statement and we ll bring that to you live.
statement from the speaker of the house, the american day shutdown hits day eight and the whole world is watching. just ask secretary of state john kerry. i want you all to know that in 2004, obviously, i worked very, very hard to replace a president. this is not what i had in mind. le e le e store and essentially they
we re not there? at times like this, the american people expect their leaders to have a conversation. i want that conversation to occur now. the president said today that he would negotiate if there was a temporary yield. the president said today was, if there is unconditional surrender by republicans, he ll sit down and talk to us. that s not the way our government works. thanks, everybody. all right. that was house speaker john boehner, making a statement from capitol hill. and now joining us also from capitol hill is luke russert, nbc correspondent. and luke, let s have a conversation. reporter: let s have a conversation indeed, sure, sure. the word of the day is conversation. so that was the main talking point from john boehner, a conversation. but he seemed to bypass the whole question of the continuing resolution and jump right to the debt ceiling. what about the continuing resolution? reporter: i was struck by that, joy. because here we are. in the midst of a gover
federal government? with house speaker john boehner independent. independent, sorry. maintaining that all he wants to independent from vermont. do is have a conversation with thank you for the clarification. the president, he got his wish senator, is this the pain today. threshold we need to see for the when president obama rang him up. members of the other party to and we have just learned that speaker boehner will make a finally reopen the government? statement at 4:30 p.m., which, well, i would certainly hope of course, we ll bring you live. so. and president obama today called it is it is humiliatinhumili on the speaker, reiterating that is embarrassing that when people he s willing to negotiate with lose their lives in battle, if republicans, just as soon as their families can t get proper they reopen the government and stop threatening to default on burial benefits. that is unspeakable. the nation s debt. but i ll tell you, we re looking just because they don t like the h