certainly you weren t have democrats ever do the deal if republicans are sitting in the presidency. this is a legacy moment for boehner and mcconnell together. do we want to do this? if we really believe in it, obama is our only hope finding a democratic party that would do it. john boehner once again offered a legacy moment. we will see if he actually seizes it. nbc political director chuck todd, thank you as always. you can catch chuck weeks days at 9:00 a.m. on msnbc. after the break, they have been called everything from obstructionists to extortionists. we will discuss deniers and defaulters who starred in the shutdown finale as soon as mark halperin answers his phone. next on now. mike rowe here at a ford dealer with a little q and a for fiona. tell me fiona, who s having a big tire event? your ford dealer. who has 11 major brands to choose from? your ford dealer. who s offering a rebate? your ford dealer. who has the low price tire guarantee, affording peace of mind to anyon
takes. it s time if they want to run and be anti-obama, a party at war with themselves or restore fiscal sanity in the long run making a deal because they are not going to get harry reid to sign onto a deal that has a lot of things democrats want. that s where john boehner is going to have to be a leader. how can i build a coalition that will make a deal. that deal between murray and ryan is really going to have to be between boehner and reid and the president. chuck, to that end, how easy is it to, quote, restore fiscal sanity in an election year. the president isn t running for re-election. certainly there s a thinking there s a chance democrats could take the house. how much are they going to dance around the edges of the question of earned benefit, social security, medicare and so forth. here is the thing. you re having less than a year before an election, midterm election that will be dominated by senior voters because midterms are and seniors turn out in greater numbers. reme
folks who have been insurrect n insurrectionists wanted the vote. not that they wanted the outcome. they needed to go back to their districts and prove they fought the good fight. when john boehner said that, we fought the good fight and lost, my translation of that is, didn t i tell you? his objective is to get things done, accomplish things. he doesn t want to prove he s this great warrior and he doesn t need to do that. the point is p convince them they need to play ball to the end. i kept hearing older guys saying regular righter. they are basically saying cool down young turks. i ve been here 50 times before and it ends the same way. now you ve learned. lets move on. you were about to say
president can have a successful second term, reimagine the possibility of john boehner working with nancy pelosi and enough republicans and most or all democrats to continue to pass legislation. that could be a huge development. that s what he was emphasizing today as far as i was concerned. lets get the votes, solve the problem. let nancy pelosi a tweet, nancy pelosi controls 198 votes in the house. john boehner controls 87, ted cruz controls 144. how is that for the makeup of the power. i have to say we re all being optimistic here. you do have several members of the tea party out today saying the problem wasn t our message. we didn t communicate the message to the american people. when did we hear that? after the election. the 2012 election. all our lives. when chris talks about this we and we represent the american people, there is still a faction within the republican caucus
something about john boehner. my question is ted cruz and his enchilada you mean that seems more sinister, enchilada. lets have a secret meeting next door. red sauce. no green sauce. where do you think boehner s power lies here? all republicans, john boehner, paul ryan, has decide if they want to be the party of entitlement cuts. that s the trap the president will lead them into. he wants to smoke them out the way he wasn t able in 2011 or 2012. you guys are for this. you ran against me in 2010 saying i m the guy who favors entitlement cuts. if you want to be for this, lets have you talk about it. if he smokes them out and offers to bail them out i think finally that may be a deal boehner