the moderator. a rubio adviser tells the washington post today says he has been asked to introduce the bill in the senate. he did not make the final decision before leaving on a family vacation. i expect an announcement when he gets back to d.c. next week. joining me now, democratic senator from north carolina kay hagan, and msnbc s joy reid. senator hagan, what would this bill mean to the women of north carolina if it becomes law? well, if this is a health care bill about women, i am glad any state legislator in raleigh is not my doctor. when i look at what the leadership and the general assembly is doing, under a sneak attack they put forward they forced a sweeping anti-women s health care bill that with no
we had the governor down here yesterday, both of our u.s. senators are engaged in helping with the permit process. that road runs to a national wildlife refuge so permits become an issue, and we re hoping that between our governor and our two u.s. senators, senator hagan and senator burr, that they can cut through that bureaucracy that so often times holds us all up. bill: i bet. we ve talked to all three of them, by the way, the governor and both senators, the governor yet said that parts of north carolina were inaccessible, cut off. is that the case? that s the case with hatteras island. the only way to hatteras island right now is by ferry you can t get on the island any other way. and that s a long ferry ride. so bill: are you able to put a dollar amount on this in terms of damage? no. it s been kind of tricky for
conflict? joining us is kay hagan. senator, thank you for your time today. thank you, shannon. shannon: i want to ask you, first of all, how you felt about the president moving ahead. many on both sides of the aisle have been critical about him taking the action in libya without coming to you first in congress and what do you feel about the level of involvement now that operations are underway? well, we did have a closed briefing, the senators didnd at u.n. security council did issue a resolution going forward with the no flight zone. and the president needed to take action to prevent bloodshed in the streets. when you see colonel qaddafi actually saying he is going to go from house to house, the atrocities that have been committed needed to be stopped and that is why we went forward. and i did want to highlight the north carolina marines based at
shannon: all right. senator hagan, we thank you very much, out of north carolina. we thank the many troops that we know you represent there around their families as well. thank you very much. shannon: well, lawmakers are still trying to work out a long-term budget to fund the government, congress returns to washington in week i and a numr of top republican ares are said they are through with the short-term measures aimed at preventing another government shutdown, two weeks here, four weeks there, they want a long-term solution. for more about that here is peter doocy. new york senator schumer feels that both parties will be able to make a deal for the budget the rest of the fiscal year as soon as they stop blasting democrats and start moving away from the newest members. the speaker knows his problem is with the tea party, not democrats. instead of lashing out at democrats we hope house republicans will finally stand up to the tea party and resume the negotiations that had seem
not to mention the fact that they obviously want to keep the government open. obviously. i ve got to talk to you about what you are proposing regarding education. i was looking as the some of the points both of you have made as moderate democrats. senator hagan, one of the things you would like to see is an improvement or a change from no child left ind behind. some of the mistakes that were made with that policy. you know, we ve come together to reauthorize no child left behind. it hadn t been done for about four years now. we ve got to focus on changing this. we ve got to be sure we re not doing the washington as usual. we ve got to focus on the sounds. we ve got to have accountability based on student progress. innovation like the race to the top. we ve got to be sure we have a process in place to turn around those low performing schools. and retaining and paying our teachers is the absolutely most critical component. these are the principles we put together, and we ve got a lar