ju jeanne robinson and jim vandehei, thank you beau core and coming up, rudy giuliani backtracks on his latest about a trump tower project in moscow, climing a drbt can claiming that it was, quote, hypothetical. morning joe is coming right back. i hear it in the background and she s watching too, saying [indistinct conversation] [friend] i ve never seen that before. i have.
was trying to say vote democratic. even just strategically as a check on this administration. his theory of the case is that you have to make that very, very broad appeal. you know, my theory of the case would be that you have to make the broad appeal. you have to make the narrow cast appeal to progressive. you have to make, you know, 1,000 points of light basically just to try to boost that turnout because that s what it s going to turn on. all right. the three of you, thank you. ben, stick around with me. au jeanne robinson and yamiche alcindor, thanks again for joining us. coming up, what happened to the republican party? that from president obama today as he squared off against the gop. more of the former president s return to politics after this. this is an insurance commercial. but let s be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance. which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i m highly likable. see, they know it s confusing.
whole life, frankly. usually around issues, because right now i think there s this scene that washington is a mess, there s too many distractions. they want somebody work forge them, which is what i ve always done. but focusing on the issues that their aspirations, not the special interests who call the shots around washington too much. senator jeanne robinson has a question for you. sneer, so does what you just said, does that mean that for you the key this year is energizing and bringing out the democratic base as opposed to trying to appeal to, say, some voters who might have might usually vote democratic but went for trump last time? you know, i think it s all of the above. so let me there was a clip about the president saying he s going to visit all the states. well, the president has visited wisconsin since his election. the first time he came, he
of challenges, and the establishment of the principle that, yes, part of the voting rights act is out. congress probably won t fix it the way it ought to be fixed. but the rest of it is in force and he s going to use it. jeanne robinson, we ve seen the news within the last hour. the president has come out and gave a statement on what is unfolding over on the legislative side. it looks like we re fed headed for a shutdown or maybe there is a miracle between now and midnight tonight. what do you see john boehner s options at this point, dealing with the tea partiers? are we headed for shutdown? well, you know, if it wasn t for bad luck, john boehner would have no luck at all. in a sense, he got himself in this mess. by encouraging or allowing the extreme right-wingers to believe that they could get the impossible out of this deal. it was never in the cards that president obama was going to gut obamacare. it was never in the cards that
0 risk is the height of irresponsibility. and it doesn t have to happen. let me repeat this. it does not have to happen. all of this is entirely preventible if the house chooses to do what the senate has already done. and that s the simple act of funding our government without making extraneous and controversial demands in the process. the same way other congresses have for more than 200 years. unfortunately, right now house republicans continue to tie funding of the government to ideological demands like limiting a woman s access to contraception or delaying the affordable care act. all to save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right wing of their party. so let me be clear about this. an important part of the affordable care act takes effect tomorrow. no matter what congress decides to do today. the affordable care act is moving forward. that funding is already in place. you can t shut it down. this is a law that passed both houses of congress, a law that bears