honestly, anderson in good faith by all, the white house and house republicans. i want to bring in national correspondent john king because i know he has questions for you, as well. we first met when you were chair wm of the missouri republican party and a successful chairwoman. if you look at the wall street journal 21% favorable opinion of the tea party. both of those are all-time lows. put on your chairwoman hat there are current state chairs that think shutting down the government a fight they know you know you can t win defunding obama care was not only counterproductive but foolish, do you agree? we needed to have this discussion but to shut down the government to have that discussion? well, we re not looking at polls, i have to tell you, john. this is not about polls but governance and coming together to get things down and house republicans don t want to shut down the government. we re sending funding mechanisms to the senate day after day
well, we re not looking at polls, i have to tell you, john. this is not about polls but governance and coming together to get things down and house republicans don t want to shut down the government. we re sending funding mechanisms to the senate day after day after day and probably by the end of the week funded about half of the continuing resolution. so this is important work we re doing. now it seems to be dying at the feet of harry reid at the moment in the senate but we continue to fund the government and will continue to do the work but congresswoman, the president did win reelection, obama care was litigated in that election. let me ask it this way, for children watching tonight, maybe high school students or elementary school students looking in civics books to figure why does it work this way, 35 members of congress and 35 to 40 members of the house, five to six members of the senate in the republican party, why should fewer than 10% of the congress get to essentially st
you will, to modernize the education system, to handle all the new students, new types of students, new types of challenges. it really is sort of a mess here. they ve got some interesting pilot programs. we re going to highlight those. they re trying different things, they re trying to see if they can figure it out, but the big picture in arizona when it comes to education is pretty bleak. you re moderating a series of panels today. i want to get a sense of what the focus is on those panels, some of the guests you ll be visiting with. well, we re going to get, you know, arizona s one of the few states that actually elects its chief education government officer, if you will. they call it the state public i believe the state public superintendent of public instruction. so we re going to have that person here. we re going to have a lot of the state speaker of the house, lot of the leaders here, to try to get at what is this issue, why has it been so hard to either push for new fundi
jobs in america. i can my colleagues to vote with senator hatch and me to repeal this tax. two senators talking about repealing something to fund in part obamacare. talk about it with the panel. charles lane, opinion writer for the washington post. nina easton for fortune magazine and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. welcome to you all. chuck, i start with you. one thing we have seen on the hill which is good news but something that is aimed at one of the funding mechanisms for president s healthcare law while he is overseas doing other things. you know, just because something is bipartisan doesn t mean it s a good idea. i have to say that i can understand why the republicans would vote for this. but what about the democrats? they support obamacare and they re voting to defund it. further more this tax is levied on highly profitable industry. which depends for a lot of its profits on government progra
have other funding mechanisms put in place. even aa tax. it s certainly possible congress could take that up if that proposal had support in the congress. my clients, the american action forum in this case crunched the numbers. juan: they are opposed to the health care act. they are oppose to the health care act. mandate to the insurance industry to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. if the mandate just structure struck and the rest of the act is in place we could see everyone else s healthcare premiums rise as a result. juan: thank you for coming in and giving us insight into the man who will be center staining tomorrow justice kennedy. thank you, juan. juan: most controversial storing of the evening. federal government using taxpayer for ads to get people to sign up for food stamps. is this a giant waste of money? we will debate it after these messages.