problems, which is to say if they can t pass healthcare, how are they going to pass tax reform or infrastructure or anything? i don t think there s a reason that democrats now would work with them. they have no incentive. in fact, i think their incentives are perverse. they should be obstructionisobs. they will do to republicans what republicans did to them. this could be ugly. we are looking at a possible government shutdown coming up. man who would have thunk it it would end up this way. you raise a bunch of issues. we want to get to the democrats and the government shutdown possibility. rebecca, the president said he would repeal and replace obamacare, that didn t happen this travel ban thing he proposed, that s not happening. he s not building the wall right now with mexico. when he does, mexico won t pay for it. does he have a delivery problem here politically especially with republicans?
don t believe that it s been said that you should not put everything on the table but it was and seems the headline that the conservatives saw the word compromise as the dirty word. right. and so, okay. so john boehner departing, in doing so, they ve been able to punt the government shutdown until we get to december. we ll deal with the government shutdown possibility, we re going to deal with potentially another debt ceiling crisis and that is i m thinking if it is kevin mccarthy, poor him. how do you deal with that situation? offend the same people who are claiming john boehner s scalp and make a deal with the democrats or you actually stick to the hardline and get blamed for a government shutdown and then your majority potentially goes up in smoke so that s the very difficult situation. he s going to confront within the first few weeks of his leadership. what a day. thank you both for joining me. greatly appreciate. pope francis, he is in new york.
that makes i think the kind of process of fixing glitches as they come up and fine tuning the law, more challenging the i am optimistic we can get them fixed. joining me now is msnbc analyst ezra klein. i want to take suspense out of the government shutdown possibility by playing something that paul ryan said today where he took a swipe at ted cruz without of course mentioning ted cruz s name. let s listen to this. it is very clear a government shutdown does not stop obama care. government did shut down and didn t stop obama care. so i don t think that will be repeated. it is in the past. it is clear that won t stop obama care. we will keep the government funding at current levels if need be at the end of the day not have a government shutdown. so, ezra does that settle it? i think it does actually.
kind of process of fixing glitches as they come up and fine tuning the law, more challenging the i am optimistic we can get them fixed. joining me now is msnbc analyst ezra klein. i want to take suspense out of the government shutdown possibility by playing something that paul ryan said today where he took a swipe at ted cruz without of course mentioning ted cruz s name. let s listen to this. it is very clear a government shutdown does not stop obama care. government did shut down and didn t stop obama care. so i ve dent th don t think tha repeated. it is in the past. it is clear that won t stop obama care. we will keep the government funding at current levels if need be at the end of the day not have a government shutdown. so, ezra does that settle it? i think it does actually. they will not have a government shutdown.
i m doing great, bill. bill: welcome back to america s newsroom. what do you think about cruz s position on another government shutdown possibility? he has got to fight. we have got to fight. the american people are looking for solution to the runaway government. they want to do away with obamacare. cruz is filling the void of leadership and, and the fight has to be stand on principles and if standing on principles leads to a shutdown, then that is what has to happen. you can not surrender before you even fight. you can t win unless you do fight. bill: what did you think of his tactics? did you give it a thumbs up? absolutely, i totally support it. it is amazing to me everybody is criticizing cruz for standing on principle but they don t criticize obama for doing exactly the same thing. obama said, early on, months ago, that he was not going to negotiate. that he wanted a clean cr, he want ad clean debt ceiling and he was not, he would shut down