Correspondent Kristen Welker and capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell. I feel like were doing sideline reporting of a major Football Game or something. Kelly, let me start with you because i know in the last hour there have been a lot of fluid motions going on behind the scenes, but break it down, the expected plays well see through this hour. Well, there are some critical nuggets to report, thomas. Ive been able to report in the last half hour that House Speaker john boehner has signalled to fellow republicans that he is prepared to rely on democratic votes if necessary to pass something. Now, that means the senate has to come to a deal, and we expect that could be announced within the hour. Right now Senate Republicans have been going into their own team meeting. I was able to talk to a number of them as they were headed into that meeting. They expect to sort of get the lay of the land and find out what the next steps will be. Im also told that at least going into that meeting t
I work for the people of texas and i fight for them. The most fundamental thing this fight was about. This fight. This fight. What they like is to fight. Were in the midst of battles. They dont seem to have a goal. The fight took us off message. The fiasco has been obscure. He operates on the basis of division. We elevated the National Debate. We accomplished a great deal and we need to reflect on that. Ted cruz is not backing down. The shut down should be in our rear view mirror. There will not be another government shut down. Dont do this again, ted. The architect of government shut down leading the civil war inside the Republican Party went home to texas this weekend to continue his attack against the Republican Party. And when ted cruz went to speak to the Texas Federation of republican women he got this welcome. Thank you. We love you. That is is a slightly different reception than i get in washington d. C. And having spent the past month up in dc, it is really great to be back in
Among them dallas, houston, orlando, and detroit. Kathleen sebelius is expected to step in the line of fire last week but last night came to the president s defense in a new primetime interview. First knew that there was a problem . Well, i think it became clear fairly early on. The first couple of days. So not before that, though . Not before october 1st there was no concern at that point in the white house or at hhs . I think that we talked about having testing going forward. The final front four, the appointment of the new glitch czar, omb director jeff zientz will lead the socalled tech surge. David axelrod had this advice for zientz and the white house on the last word. As im sure they are kicking a bunch of folks in the butt every day to make sure that what needs to be done is being done. Kicking folks in the put. Nbc White House Correspondent Peter Alexander joins me now. Peter, we just heard that Kathleen Sebelius saying that the president was not aware of the websites problems
Decide it is. Those that cant stand strong to defend the republic, the constitution, heck yeah. They have to be primaried. Otherwise were going down. What i intend to do is to continue standing with the American People. This is really just the end of the beginning. That is fight thats going to continue. Isnt this going to happen all over again in a few months . No. How do you like me now all right. The government is open. We just barely avoided defaults on the nations debt and the gop forced to accept that the Affordable Care act is the law of the land. Okay. At least until 88 days from now and thats when cruz and the cuckoo caucus can have the opportunity to shut down the government and president obama tried to get back to the business of running the country. We still need to pass a law to fix our broken immigration system. We need to pass a farm bill. And with the shutdown behind us, and Budget Committees forming, we now have an opportunity to focus on a sensible budget that is respo
Decided to kill his Health Care Law. It max them feel rotten just to stand in the same room with this president. My question, is this going to be like this all the way to 2016 . This anger, this right wing fever that never breaks . The sheer hatred that the American People, that the American People chose him as their president. Not once, but twice. Tonight the insatiable crazed anger of the right about the harsh reality they assumed would never be. The presidency of barack obama. David corn for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. And joy reid, an msnbc contributor. Having lost in their plot to block the Health Care Law by taking the federal government and the economy hostage, republicans have now decided to go home. They wont work with this president on anything because he had the nerve to beat them. Politico reports republicans plan to block president obama on all his initiatives including Immigration Reform. Quote, prominent immigration supporters like marco rubio have also bac