it s unbelievable the out of pocket cost people like me have to pay. and the person out there who doesn t have the greatest income, i don t know how you handle it. you can t. that s why you have to ask. the medicare bargain question is a totally legitimate question when the drugs cost $85,000. i got to show you one thing, when the advisers are back there with the candidates before the debate prepping for it. rule one, don t get into a macroeconomic debate with jim cramer. you know that by now. you know what i think, the greatest question that i would have asked, everybody has their own favorite questions. if we have another recession, having overused monetary policy to the point we have no interest rates right now, having used fiscal policy, huge deficits, what do we do next time? what s left in our tool kit? what have you got in your tool kit mr. trump? the answer would be chris matthews, we won t have another recession, we re going to have double digit economic growth when i
with the candidates before the debate prepping for it. rule one, don t get into a macroeconomic debate with jim cramer. you know that by now. you know what i think, the greatest question that i would have asked, everybody has their own favorite questions. if we have another recession, having overused monetary policy to the point we have no interest rates right now, having used fiscal policy, huge deficits, what do we do next time? what s left in our tool kit? what have you got in your tool kit mr. trump? the answer would be chris matthews, we won t have another recession, we re going to have double digit economic growth when i m president. they wouldn t go near it. they will just tell you it won t happen. we re just going to have growth. another shower of bs. anyway, thank you, jim cramer and thank you lawrence for warning me about what we re up against. much more coming up tonight here on msnbc from boulder, including the candidates themselves coming here. this is hardball the
conference at the hospital has just concluded, the three surgeons who have been dealing with him have been speaking to the media with an update and they said that he is still in a critical condition fighting for his life. he s in an artificial induced coma, having undergone one operation, suffering severe brain lesions as they put it. he also is in a state of induced hypothermia which is the traditional brain cooling strategy they do to reduce the pressure on the brain. they wouldn t go as far as making any long-term predictions. they said they are very much dealing on an hour-by-hour basis. they did say the fact that michael schumaker was skiing and the fact he was wearing a helmet most definitely saved his life. they said it protected him and without the helmet he wouldn t
let s go to michaela for the latest. let s look at the headlines, with a vote on military action in syria now delayed, congress is getting back to work trying to prevent a government shutdown on october 1st. on wednesday, gop leaders put off a vote on the stop gap plan. they say they would vote against it. athena jones is live on capitol hill. reporter: even without syria, there s plenty of issues for folks here on capitol hill to fight about. and one of the big sources of contention within the republican party is how far to go to try to block the health care law. some conservative republicans don t want to approve any spending that would go to implementing obama care. they wouldn t go along with this vote yesterday because it doesn t fully defund it, link the spending to defunding obama care. now this vote gets pushed off into next week so party leaders can work this all out.
we just mentioned we have thunderstorms also to the northeast today as a cold front moves through. look for severe weather from maine all the way down through pennsylvania. chris? all right, indra. thank you very much. there s a lot of other news developing at this hour. let s get to michaela. with the syria vote off the table for now, congress is getting back to work and gridlock. house republican leaders postponed a bill to fund the government and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month. athena jones is following developments live from capitol hill. reporter: syria had been getting a lot of attention on capitol hill in recent days but there are plenty of issues for folks here to fight about. one big source of contention within the republican party is how far to go to block the health care law. conservative republicans don t want to approve any spending that would go to implementing obama care. they wouldn t go along with this vote yesterday because it doesn t link the spending