There. Zip it a little more. Little less shirt. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. And msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Im rochablely overdressed. In washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie page joins us. Good to have you all on board this morning. We have a lot to get to. A couple of things. Hillary clinton is back in the news. She got some good news but got heckled at an event. Well show you how she handled it. How the former secretary of state was hammered on benghazi but she handled it pretty well. I think. You decide. Also made accommodate in america, why are you all looking at me. Medicaid in america. Actually a very serious story prescription pills account for 75 of deadly drug overdoses in the u. S. So the fda is working to try to do something about that and dr. Nancy will be joining us to give us details on that. Also just a ti
And expectation is everybody has learned that theres no reason why we cant work on the issues at hand. So hopefully thats a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rankandfile. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , will this happen all over again in a few months . Well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nations economy into the very brink. In the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless theres plenty of damage to go around. 87 House Republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover whats already been spent. Not a single democrat opposed it. On the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand pa
Present when you are talking about the president marking the vote and there were 41, not 40 soontobe 42 when we vote on this mark i understand what you say about him having signed them but that still does not take away the fact that it is a signature piece of legislation that came from this president and those that supported it and its not likely that he is going to change his mind in that regard. That is what i dont see or hear and principally what i dont see is an alternative. The question that i have is what your Republican Study Group a year ago or a year and a half ago repeal and replace and repeal and replace used to be the mantra and now the mantra is defund. I ask you, do you and the study group have a plan or would we go back to the status quo . Absolutely we do have a plan. Let me get this plug. We officially unveiled our alternative called the American Health care reform act. The Republican Study Committee has would endorse this bill to comprehensively address the problems i
Amateurs hoping to get one from duck dynasty. Its all going according to my plan. Really. Take your pants off. Take your pants off. And twerk it. Yeah. Im not twerking. That would be degrading. Yeah it might be degrading but we would be degrateful. Good morning, everyone. Its monday, september 23rd. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, mark halperin. And former Communications Director for president bush nicole wallace. On capitol hill New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters. Theres only one thing to talk about and its not the emmys last night. Barbara oreilly you heard it. We had music for six years. Thats okay. Its nice. We have a lot of news to get to. Get over your happy talk. Lets go. No happy talk. Only thing to talk about. Whats that . Cranston getting screwed last night. Jeff daniels. I like the show. A lot of haters from that show. But hes a humanizing force. I love it. But giving him best actor last night over Brian Cranston, seriesly, in this season . Thats kind of like sayi
Leader of the free world. Thats a pretty huge ego to be complaining about that. Its complimentary and im flattered. Good morning. Its thursday, november 7th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set you introduce and i ask. No, no. Ill ask that question. No. You can take all the time you want. No. Im going jump straight to it. Chris christie, we love him. Hes wallowing in this. You did this. I love that zoom in. Like that 1972 candidate. Chris christie represents all the hopes and dreams. Just answer the question now. Just shut up now. Come on. Political talk, just stop it. Answer the question. Answer the question, if you will. If you were managing Chris Christie, would you tell him to wallow in this just a little bit . Hes not. I dont anybody manages Chris Christie. Okay. But i think that to make sure that this moment is about a rise to national prominence, about a rise to Winning National elections he should stop. He should stop. You should 0 stop. Shut up. Designee doesnt have to say