Without pay. Furloughed until congress can get its act together to fund the government. Ironically, its also the 123rd anniversary of yellowstone becoming a national park. Just one of the many places forced to close until further notice. At 1 16 a. M. , after the shutdown had taken effect, Speaker John Boehner held a press conference offering to take the resolution to conference. Thats an offer rejected by Senate Majority leader harry reid but what did not shutdown, the sign of obama care. Sign up for the Affordable Care act. Health exchanges still kick off today. Boy, the headlines reflect it all. Heres the New York Times talking about mirroring the shutdown. The wall street journal talks about washingtons grim standoff. The usa today talks about the shutdown showdown. The boston globe not my favorite but close. Big font. Huge font. Its about as big as rock dyes. You can read that. The Washington Post has down to the wire. The Financial Times and they are accurate here. Republicans fe
There. Zip it a little more. Little less shirt. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. And msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Im rochablely overdressed. In washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie page joins us. Good to have you all on board this morning. We have a lot to get to. A couple of things. Hillary clinton is back in the news. She got some good news but got heckled at an event. Well show you how she handled it. How the former secretary of state was hammered on benghazi but she handled it pretty well. I think. You decide. Also made accommodate in america, why are you all looking at me. Medicaid in america. Actually a very serious story prescription pills account for 75 of deadly drug overdoses in the u. S. So the fda is working to try to do something about that and dr. Nancy will be joining us to give us details on that. Also just a ti
Neck out. I want to commend Speaker Boehner for listening to the American People and for leading. For the house of representatives to stand up and vote to defund obama care is a tremendous victory. If and when we win this fight its going to be because House Republicans have stood up and showed the courage that they are showing right now that they dont stand up. The house is the one branch of government that the republicans have a majority. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, september 20. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have msnbc and Time Magazine. Are analyst mike halperin, Eugene Robinson on the set with us. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst ste Steve Rattner and john mecham. Well be talking about the pope in just a second. Also new information on the potential motive behind the Navy Yard Shooting and the effort to defund obama care, Mark Halperin well get to that in a second. How would you characterize where that stands . Not since Danny Bona
Children. Matt borges said he was a good guy and one of the good guys was gone way too soon. Morning show starts right now. I like to play golf. Im a good golfer, believe people are shocked. People are shocked. Let me [ applause ] i should play obama for the presidency. [ applause ] ill do it. [ applause ] then id be assured of winning, okay . Assured. Good morning, everybody. How are you doing . Its thursday, august 4th. How do i sound . Much better today. Okay. Hopefully it lasts. Ive got lemon water here. Joe has the morning off. With us on set we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnacle. You might be talking a lot this morning, mike. Managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and cohost of withual due respect that airs at 6 00 p. M. On msnbc. Mark halpern, how are you . Good morning. I loved watching your show yesterday. Was so good. I lost it a few time because they kept putting hillary up in speeches. I like watching your show. Speak out. Let everyone know. I did. I
If yall want to translate that political speak into plain english. What jeb bush is saying is we need to hide our conservative ideals. The truth is if we go down that road again, we will lose again. Okay. Here we go president good morning, everybody. Welcome to morning joe. Joining us onset managing editor of Bloomberg Politics mika what was going on up at that prison . New developments on the prison break. Theres another arrest. Theres a dude putting stuff in meat . Who amongst us does not put power tools in meat. Yeah. But you know what i do that as a way to spark conversation. Now were getting closer to what happened. Willie, nobody did this for us when we were in turkey. Im not laughing yet. The oldfashioned way. Two guys on the run. We can laugh imus is cheering for the killers . He said theyre so crafty they deserve to go free. Thats just sick. Thank you. Youre laughing about it. I know. Seriously, whats with these people . This lady is like in this camp thats sad. Love triangle.