likelihood? because even some of the republicans who are against the shutdown who say we ve gone off the cliff and we ve gone off together. the democrats still control the senate and the president has need clear that he s unwilling to negotiate until the government reopens and without facing reelection he s the least politically vulnerable that he s ever been. that s the least likely that something s got to happen to break this stalemate? something s got to happen, and for now what we do see is the republican position hardening a little bit as they test the waters to see if it s possible that they can turn the tables politically on the democrats, but i agree with ben in the long term, in the long run, something s got to give. play small ball for now, molly and try to find incremental resolution to the shutdown and get ready for a big fight on the debt ceiling and what do you think the big chance are on that. that s what they re doing on that. there s more of the piecemeal bills t
controversial. and chris stirewalt our digital editor and host of power play. the president is out there again pushing for this gun control legislation, but as i said in the introduction, i mean, his main problem here is members of his own party who led harry reid to conclude accurately, according to most pundits, he doesn t have the votes in the senate. he s not oeven putting this in the main bill. and he made no secret of it. ten votes short, maybe 20 votes short on this. it wasn t even close, so for the president to go out today on what a group led by new york mayor michael bloomberg is calling a national day of action, calling for gun control, for the president to join that push today increases the pressure on those moderate democrats, those pro-gun democrats, including those facing reelection next year
republican president, a republican senate and a republican house and there are, you know, seriously curtailed minority voting rights in the senate and shut out. all that matters to the obama democrats is the next 18 months, the strategy is break the back of the republican majority in the house and divide and conquer the republicans so they can t block things and president can get his larger initiatives through, so he can have more tax increases, that he can do more stimulus spending, that he can do gun control, a larger amnesty program for illegal immigrants, gay marriage, who knows? but he has a big bold agenda that he talked about, including global warming that couldn t get through. couldn t get 60 votes in the senate and remember this, this is the most important part of all of it. if the president can t pass the controversial legislation through his own fellow democrats in the senate and moderates and those in states that are red, facing reelection, he can t ever pressure the hous
owned, though taxpayer purchased computer, refusing us access to search claiming it s private property. this is government-wide and deliberate and often elaborate and sometimes criminal like the last thing i described. megyn: i ve got to run, but i want to ask you, did they all do it? is this something we see in every administration? that nixon guy had some problems, but nobody has approached this, nothing on the record. megyn: all right. may be another problem for president obama, promised to be the most transparent administration. we re trying to hold him to that. megyn: thanks. another potential scandal taking place in washington. did federal agents delay the arrest of a sex offender to protect a prominent democratic politician facing reelection? and the president s new gun control plan is likely to have an impact on millions of americans, but gun owners and gun owner groups may feel the change more than most. lars larsen joins us to discuss the announcement and
make it into orbit. another headline this morning. facing reelection next year, new jersey governor chris christie is speaking out against his state s public education system stressing the need for reform even if it costs him his job. take a look. i will not i love it. i have a great time every day. but i m not your cup of tea, vote for somebody ems. i m never going to pretend to be anything other than what i am. i m going to fight for those kids in those failing schools because i could have been one of them. i was born in newark and i lived there until i was five years old. my parents borrowed a thousand dollars each from each of my grandmother s to put a $2,000 downpayment on a house in livingston. they did it because they wanted me to get the best public education i could. i tell you, it makes me wonder about how many kids are in newark, jersey city and irving ton and camden and trenton who