You havent moved anything legislatively. Do you concede that point . I dont remotely. House republicans are shutting down the government. Its just not so. Mr. Speaker, the house is not in order. As we say in texas, its time to get a few things straight around here. I dont want a little jet. I want a big one. The only thing im hearing here is socialism do you ride this to the president ial nomination . I want a bar. Piano man. Maybe i want to go out of the country. What are we doing this for . Lets burn the roof, and then well do it again lets do it, lets do it, lets do it it was a marathon saturday session in which House Republicans followed the ted cruz playbook. Dont blink. And ran through a continuing resolution that delays obama care and stands zero chance of getting through the senate. With just a day and a half before the government runs out of money and the senate not back until tomorrow afternoon, washington is now careening towards a shutdown. This was how very tired minority
There is a lot that you need to know. So lets go to the phones. Eric, whos our first caller . Melissa, our first caller is jim from oklahoma. Caller, youre on the air. Caller i think its really important, and dont you agree, that people of this country have to know what this is really all about. This is socialized medicine. Now, a lot of them didnt believe that. Well, there is a reason a lot of them didnt believe that. It is not socialized medicine. Health care will continue to be administered by the private sector and paid for by private insurers. Actually, the real goal of obama care is to expand Health Insurance to some of the 48 million people, thats 16 of the country, who do not have it. So first, lets back up and talk about how insurance works. Preobama care, if you dont have insurance through an employer, then you have to buy your own policy, and that really sucks. Especially if youre sick or have anything that an Insurance Company could call a preexi preexisting condition, like
Good morning, everyone, welcome to a special edition of weekends with alex witt. Congress pushed the country closer to a Government Shutdown. It happened as House Republicans passed a spending measure, which delays president obamas Health Care Law for a year. Heres a breakdown of the vote. It passed 231192. 190 democrats and two republicans voted against it. The house took two more critical votes, well have more on that in just a moment. First, heres nbcs brian mooar with how the debate transpired. Tonight, the republican majority will vote to shut the government down. Reporter saturday night fireworks on the floor of the u. S. House. With the Government Shutdown looming on tuesday, republicans passed a spending package doomed to fail because it mandates a oneyear delay in obama care. Why are we doing this . Number one, this is a program that is too expensive to afford. Were going to give a stark choice to the president of the United States and the senate. Reporter democrats say its no
Syria didnt even admit they had chemical weapons until about 30 seconds ago, now, theyre signed on to get rid of them and their closest allies in the world are going to make sure that happens. Unimaginable. That coming on the same afternoon as another diplomatic breakthrough. The u. S. President speaking by telephone to the iranian president tonight for the First Time Since 1979. Were going to have more on both of those stories coming up this hour. This is a very, very big news day. But the domestic news of course is dominated by our own congress shutting down our own government for no externally imposed reason at all. Just because one side has decided they maybe want to use this tactic to try to get what they want. The white house today posted a list of how the many agencies of government plan to shut down starting at midnight on monday. Handily because republicans in congress spent the last couple of years threatening to shut down the government to get what they wanted. Agencies like
Rational argument. So over the next three days, House Republicans will have to decide whether to join the senate and keep the government open or shut it down, because they cant get their way on an issue that has nothing to do with the deficit. Sounds so reasonable, but i hate to break it to you, mr. Preside president , but rational isnt what this is about. Okay. Do you know this man . Well, thats matt mead. Hes the republican governor of wyoming. Now, i know you may be asking why should i care about him . Because in 2010, a midterm year, matt mead won the last statewide general election for the wyoming Governors Office with 123,780 votes. That translated to 66 of the popular vote. His closest opponent, democratic challenger leslie peterson, took home 23 or about 43,240 votes. Now clearly thats an undeniable landslide for the republican, but meades path to the governorship wasnt easy. First he had to become the republican nominee and in the primary he won the nomination with 29 or 30,30