Its not like taxes or regulations. Its peoples health. Its life or death. Its not a political issue. Its a moral issue. It goes back to the Good Samaritan in the bible. Will you help your fellow human beings when they need it most . And thats what president obama was talking about today as we wait for a Major Supreme Court ruling on the laws future the president talked about the human side of this issue. America is not a place where we simply turn away from the sick. Or turn our backs on the tired, the poor the huddled masses. It is a place sustained by the idea i am my brothers keeper i am my sisters keeper that we have an obligation to put ourselves in our neighbors shoes and see each others common humanity. And so after a century of talk after decades of trying after a year of sustained debate we finally made Health Care Reform a reality here in america. Before the Affordable Care act, millions of people were one illness away from losing everything. It wasnt bad politically. It was
One might imagine that state governors are none too happy about it and addressing the National Governors association today, the president called out Speaker Boehner saying all it takes to avoid the ax is just a little compromise. I stand by those commitments to make the reforms for smart spending cuts. But we also need republicans to adopt the same approach to tax reform that Speaker Boehner championed just two months ago. So will Speaker Boehner agree to sensible balanced measures on the debt or will he dig in his heels. Three guesses and the first two dont count. With us from washington is msnbc political analyst karen finney. And Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page and Louis Russert live from capitol hill preparing for the great john baper to speak at another of his magnificent press conferences. Karen, you have agreed us to preview your column for the hills in which you blast the republicans for trying to cast blame on the white house. You write at some point the gop im afraid
A shutdown only by delaying obama care president obama will veto it anyway. The government is set for a shutdown monday at midnight. Chad joins us. Chad, first of all, they have not yet started voting, is that correct . . Thats right. We would expect them to get to votes in the next 30 to 40 minutes. There are two amendments to this continuing resolution, the stopgap spending bill theyre going to send back to the senate later tonight. One would be to repeal the medical device tax. The other would be to delay the imt tags of the Affordable Care act, obama care for a year. Then the ball is back in harry reids court. The majority leader said today that as far as hes concerned theyre at, one. He can easily dispense of what the senate has done here. All he has to do is table what the house sends him with a mere 51 votes. They dont have to go through 60 votes staving off ted cruz from getting on the senate floor. He can say im not taking the state senate. Give me your forecast. In terms of d
Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, polite but unproductive. Today both sides sticking to their positions with republicans refusing to fund the government unless obama care takes a hit. The white house insisting that the house pass a clean bill that funds the government. We start our Coverage Today with nbcs kelly odonnell, whos on capitol hill. Kelly, i know there was at least a little bit of a bipartisan lunch with senator rand paul. Then you have two members of congress, one democrat, one a republican, coming out with some kind of
Alan grayson suggests anyone criticizing his fundraiser that links the tea party to the ku klux klan must support racism. What . And a gruesome beating on an american student in london. The investigation into a Muslim Street gang and the troubling theories about a possible motive. From the World Headquarters of fox news its the kelly file with megyn kelly. We start with new uncertainty for millions of americans as the people in charge of obama care keep passing the buck. Welcome to the kelly file. Im megyn kelly. The numbers are getting bigger. We are up to 750,000 americans dumped from their insurance plans in recent days. We are going in the wrong direction. As for the mess of a website folks are supposed to use to sign up for insurance the administration now says it will be almost december before the obama care website is mostly fixed. The woman in charge, Health Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius. On the road today, visiting a Community Health center in texas. When pressed