only invoc closure on a motion to proceed on a house passed bill that defunds obamacare, that does not raise taxes. and that respects the top line from the budget control act. cloture will be inn voekd on the bill. mcconnell and other members of the caucus are on the same page. they re having lunch together saying, yeah, go, teddy, go. republicans are being pretty cruel on this issue and have been for a long time. they are willing to shut down the government and hurt people to make an ideological point. they re putting everything at risk for their own political gain. they know once this law kicks in on october 1st and people start signing up, they ve got six months to do it, the american people are going to love it. it s a new opportunity for a lot of people. ted cruz has admitted this. but with kind of a different choice of words.
we have high drama or high theater depending on who you ask in washington, d.c. we have something closer to home and higher interest to some of you. a feature for tablets you ve never seen before, called, wait for it, may day. our dan simon sat down with jeff bezos. he talks about why he got into the newspaper business and bought the washington post. he doesn t speak very often. the major political story playing out right now. that s live, republican senator ted cruz of texas staging a marathon protest, trying to rally support to defund the president s health care law. he s joined, he has been off and on by senator mike lee and others. there s five days to go before a potential government shutdown and cruz has been talking on the floor kins 2:40 yesterday afternoon, all of this as the
how americans are with entitlements. it s like crack to us. suddenly, we re all sucking the glass of not having our old people freeze to death and live off cat food. oh my gosh. 25 past the hour. welcome back to morning joe. joining us the democratic representative from maryland, elijah cummings. senator saxby chambliss. nbc news director and host of the daily run down, chuck todd matt lewis. cham liss saxby, will you stand with ted cruz in its efforts to wipe out the house bill that defunds obamacare? i kind of like the house bill. that defunds obamacare? you won t try to defund the house bill that defunds obamacare? you know, ted s doing whatever ted needs to do.
senate and get out of the senate and go back to the house until late saturday or perhaps even on sunday, this is going to take this fight over this temporary spending bill and obamacare right up to the edge of a government shutdown. this could be a very long weekend for lawmakers up on capitol hill. as usual, it looks like it will go right down to the wire. yes, that s right. iran poses no threat to the world. that is according to the country s newly elected president, making his debut at the u.n. general assembly where, of course, president obama also spoke yesterday. both speaking about new opportunities for progress on iran s nuclear program but is it all just talk? senior national security correspondent jim sciutto is here with that. our christiane amanpour of course pressed the iranian president on this meeting that wasn t and his answer was they considered it seriously, crucially they had a green light from tehran but diplomacy takes
all day yesterday, where s lindsey graham? you have people doing it to prove here i am, i m with ted cruz, others getting criticism for it. house members are saying i ll support him. or send my staff over to be in the gallery. is it changing votes? they are no closer to the solution the issue of avoiding a government shutdown. some republicans are saying if ted cruz goes beyond this today and tries to delay the senate action even more, he could hurt the cause. in the sense the later this gets back to the house, the more limited the house republicans actions are. they would like a shot at changing something. if they don t defund the president s health care plan, maybe they ll send it back to the senate to take away the tax on high-end medical devices or make a modest change to obamacare to make a political point. if it gets there too late and you re on the verge of a government shutdown, speaker boehner has to make a choice, do we keep the government open and