against the clock, it s steve kornacki. thank you, bill. thank you to our live studio audience. thank you to those of you joining us at home. can you forget high noon is three hours from now. the gunfight at this okay coral is just about to begin. we are joined by two new contestants, todd and mj. they have both passed our rigorous contestant screening process. welcome to both of you. for the first time, we are joined by a celebrity contestant, lawrence o donnell. we know you from the last word, eknow you from the west wing. we know you from monk. it is an honor to have you today. there is a problem. i didn t get the questions ahead of time. lawrence, this is the ultimate test of challenge. they told me there were supposed to be here. if you did your homework for your show this week, you will be ready. tweet me the answers, okay,
show, it makes me stop and think, is there a point at which the gop could damage itself so badly it could pay a real political price in 2014. is this what that point looks like? still with us to talk about this is perry bacon, jr., msnbc s corinne carmone and todd zwillig, international take away. i said my piece there on this a week ago, i was saying even if this backfires against the republicans and they re losing the pr game, they re still really broekt protected in 2014. i don t think ago republicans certainly included, it s one of the reasons we expect the numbers would fall this low for them. they now have a year to recover, in politics, pom numbers create reaction. these numbers where so bad republicans have completely adjusted their strategy to deal
the chickesau nation. i think they re ahead of me. todd has moved into the lead. mj him when they lost in four games to the los angeles dodgers this week, it marked the eighth consecutive time the atlanta braves made major league baseball s post-season without advancing, who was president of the united states when they won a series? sports questions aren t fair. adult questions only. time the correct answer is george w. bush if 2001. sports questions. a.of a former democratic for who is seek stock win the seat her father once held next year announced tuesday she had raised $1.7 million over the last three months. go ahead him. show off your political intelligence. todd. cleland, steve. incorrect. answer, time, todd, that would have won you the game, instead you fall to 100 points, j with 500 points.
because i haven t read the paper. there is no tweeting during the show. tweet me the answers, please, okay. let me get a quick refresher, lawrence needs one. we should have confiscated that blackberry. this is a rapid fire quiz about the week in politics, therer three round in regulation play, each round will be 100 seconds long, in the first round, questions are worth 100 point, in the second, they re harder the third round, we call this the ph.d. round, we will move fast and get through as many questions as we can. don t forget, there are a few instant bonuses. these are follow-up questions for a no risk chance for to you double your winnings on one question. contestants, remember, you will be penalized for encorrect answers. i will remind our people here in the studio. it s hard. not as it used to be. we eliminated the early in. no outbursts.
basic tension we are talking about playing out here, this whole idea of using the shutdown and the threat of a default to make a real dent in obama care. it is not going to happen. i wonder after going through all this, watching the parties get dragged through the mud. ted cruz the guy that led them into this, right into this, if hess standing in the party could be diminished. you took a huge price. you don t have much to show for it. the influential comments, laura ingram s radio show, this was him talking about ted cruz just yesterday. how exactly was it akeefd? abolition of obama care? explain that to me. has he ever explained it? and where is he now? his sidekick, senator low said, oh, we re past obama care. we ve moved on. i mean, you know, these are the