these politicians were going to fight for these middle class americans now have this to look at. oh, my pension s getting cut. how did that work? that will kill voter turnout. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, did democrats throw retirees under the bus? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622 and leave a comment on ed.msnbc.com and i ll bring you the results later on in the show. now, what was hanging over america through all of this was the government shutdown. i guess you could say we survived the government shutdown. it wasn t right. nobody died and i would make the case for you tonight that if the democrats had said no to this there probably would have been a deal and these retirees would not have to have taken a shot that they re going to take. for more, let me bring in senator bernie sanders of vermont. good to have you with us
budget is, and i don t care how many caveats are in there or how many deal can be cut, congress cannot set the table for wall street to run amok again, we were on the verge of this country having a total financial collapse, worse than the depression and we want to go back to that? you see, the republicans, they want no regulation. they want no regulation because the boys on wall street line their back pockets when it comes to reelection time. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think, tonight s question, do you think it s acceptable for citigroup lobbyists to write laws? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. chief a comment on our blog at ed.msnbc.com and i ll bring you the results later in the show. congresswoman maxine waters of california who sits on the financial services committee. congresswoman, good to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. i know you re in the middle of this fight. i m just delighted to be
because it is against who we are, against international law and we don t want our people to get tortured. now where do we go. i want to know what you think on this issue. tonight s question, do you think this senate torture report will make america stronger or weaker? text a for stronger. text b for weaker to 67622. go to or blog and leave a comment and we ll bring results later in the show. for more bringing in senator of road island. good to have you with us. i want to go right to the accuracy of this and how it is being debunked by former administration officials. do you believe that this report is accurate and true? absolutely, positively, certainly. the authors of this report, the members of the committee and the staff went through millions of
hogwash. we would be going in the wrong direction when it comes to climate change. these sanctions just, what? five days old are already got billionaires in russia shaking in their boots wondering where this is all going to end. the good news is we have a president who s playing it close to the vest, not showing all of his cards and you can see puti sweat early on. that s a good place to be. because no one on the globe has ever questioned our military and how strong we actually are. because if putin wanted a showdown with the united states, he would be shooting already. get your cell phones out, tonight s question. do you think the united states should lift its crude oil export ban? text a for yes, text b for no. for more, let me bring in congressman jim mcder molt of washington, congressman, good to
can t we agree on that? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question do you believe our bridges are in bad shape? or is president obama doing a photo op? text a for bridges in bad shape. text b to a photo op. go to our blog, msnbc.com. the results later in show. let me bring in the second of transportation from the obama administration, mr. anthony fox. mr. fox good to have you on the ed show for the first time. appreciate your time tonight. great to be with you, ed. why is this such a political heavy lift? this has a lot of americans perplexed that we just all of a sudden have stopped building stuff in america? well, first of all, your observation about the lack of construction in a big point, because we re still just days away from the highway trust fund running short, and going into insolvency and slowing or