Leader of the house . Were in a bad place. The fight was about defunding obama care. All of us are talking about spending. The republicans will have to admit they lost this crazy fight. How do you tell youre losing in american politics . Sarah palin. Sarah palin is standing right beside you. Is this anyway that a commander in chief would show his respect . Thats how you tell youre losing. The tea party republicans. Isolated and ted cruz is going to try to do us in. The president who bows down to allah. Total an arky and chaos. Well this is awkward, but the government is shut down. This whole shot dun has been completely unnecessary. On day 14 of the federal. But in fact two more 90 to nothing. The Senate Confirmed madeleine as a u. S. District judge in northern alabama and by unanimous consent, that is without any bothering to have a roll call vote, the Senate Confirmed andrea wood as a u. S. District judge in the Northern District of illinois. Mitch had to work behind the scenes for weeks with harry reid to quietly bring those two confirmations to the senate floor and to deftly submit them to a vote without provoking any crazy objections from anyone else. And it is not easy to do that. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnel do it all the time and virtually invisibly. While they were at it, the other thing that they tried to do today is save the country from going into default and reopen the government. We have made tremendous progress. And Everyone Needs to be patient. We will have no more votes tonight. And we hope with good fortune and the support of all of you recognizing how hard this is for everybody, that perhaps tomorrow will be a bright day. Were not there yet. We hope it will be. Let me echo the remarks of the majority leader. We had a good day yesterday and another good day today. We look forward to making more progress in the near future. The agreement would reportedly fund the federal government at current spending levels and raise the debt ceiling through the first week of february. As well as Income Verification measures for people seeking subsidies under the new Health Care Law. The Senate Republicans are scheduled to meet at 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The House Republicans will have their weekly 9 00 a. M. Meeting as scheduled. This week will be going into the third week. There will be differences in terms of priorities but we dont need to inflict pain on the American People or risk the possibility that americas full faith and credit is damaged just because one side is not getting its way. If republicans are not willing to set aside their differences we stand a good chance of defaulting. And the president gave his view of the state of play in congress. I think there has been some progress on the senate side with republicans recognizing its not attainable or smart or good for the American People to let america default. I think House Republicans continue to think that somehow they can extract concessions by keeping the government shut down or by threatening default. My hope is that a spirit of cooperation would move us forward. Joining me now, nbc news course respondent luke russert and mark patterson, former chief of staff of tim geithner. State of play as of this very moment, 10 06 p. M. . The state of play, lawrence, is that more likely than not we will see the official unveiling of this deal that you mention in your opening tomorrow and possibly if everyone agreed in the senate could it leaves john boehner less time to try to bring up a different bill, really trying to jam the u. S. House of representatives. However, from where we stand right now, from conversations i have had, House Republicans are already limited this deal because they dont feel it does enough to address the president S Health Care law. So in theory, the conversations within the House Republicans is thursday really the drop dead deadline . Could we try to negotiate to get to Something Better that does more to the Health Care Law that wouldnt necessarily leave us having to pass the senates bill . Perhaps that would spur them to act more quickly but youre starting to hear that maybe not thursday. Maybe we could go into the weekend to try to get a better deal. Its a fascinating dynamic. We always knew the House Republican conference was not going like this. We have all gone along thursday, there is some folks right there who may drag this on further and the leadership might not have control of it. Whats your analysis of the moving parts of the deal as it is being currently described . The fundamental change is they are taking a process that began as an argument over obama care. They are trying to make it an argument over see questions trags. The timing of the deal is that the government is funded. But the debt ceiling is raised until after that. The reason they chose january 15 is thats the day when the next set of the sequester cuts begin. Today in the washington post, abc news poll, their disapproval is up to 74 . Theyre not going to want to have another shut down. Theyre going to create this process that i think will end in mid december. The hope is that they can use that to replace or change or modify sequestration. Democrats really hate that. Mark, i have so many questions for you tonight. Having worked in the treasury and watched the way these calculations are made about when will we hit the debt ceiling exactly even if we use all of our tricks, what would you say to House Republicans who are saying tonight do we really hit some dramatic point on thursday . Right, well there is a lot of misunderstanding about that date. The important thing to know is the 17th is the day after which treasury can no longer guarantee that it can make all payments. And since we have had a shut down, maybe he will have a little more than that. This is kind of like the idea of driving with your car on empty, about to go into the desert and passing the last gas station intentional and say i will take my chances and maybe there will be another gas station on down the road in the desert. You just dont know how far you can make it. When you talked to members up there, what is your sense of how many are just plain disbelieving of everything that comes out of the treasury about this sort of thing. I think there is a caucus of about 30 or so that we refer to as the suicide caucus. But they sincerely believe that with u. S. Could default, the u. S. Would be fine. Remember, ted yoho said it might be a good thing for the u. S. To default. It would help us get our house in order. Going back to when i covered this story and we had this show down the last time. When that 2010 class came in there were dozens upon dozens of republicans who came in who had never held office before. The lack of a fundamental understanding was to me, quite alarming to someone who had just taken one econ class. That mind set has not totally dissipated as we march towards this deadline on thursday. I think that is something that the leadership fears. You will have this group saying we can keep fighting. We can keep fighting. We can keep fighting. What i am interested to see and we have talked about this before, is wall street starting to speak up. At what point do they say hey, we will not fund you at all. The democrats become the party of Financial Stability if you continue to do this. Lets listen to bill oreilly talking about one small piece of the Affordable Care act that might be in the deal that harry reid is working on. No obama care on the table in anyway shape or form . Now there is a tax apparently in this agreement that the labor unions didnt like. Its called a reinsurance tax. So there is a little thing . But all the chaos about funding obama care, thats all gone . Ezra, how would you explain this to bill in simple terms. It is small. You are putting a tax and it will become a tax on Insurance Companies and you are using it to refund money to Insurance Companies and the reason is because you need to create a way for insurers not to pick the healthy people. The way you fund that up front is the reinsurance tax. They are delaying that. Im not exactly sure if they will just make the money up out of the deficit. Its not a huge deal for the law. It would be a big deal if you cancelled reinsurance to begin with. Mark, quickly before you go, i want to draw now on your senate experience when you were working in the Democratic Leaders office in the senate and you would have been there tonight. Describe for us what you think is going on in those offices and what you expect to see tomorrow. They are trying to hash out the last details that ezra just described. I think what they are probably most focused on is the hoops they need to go through in order to get this thing over to the house. That they have determined opposition on the part of cruz or anybody else. You can easily take four days before you get a bill over to the senate because there is a filibuster opportunity on the motion to proceed and a filibuster opportunity on the bill. Luke, ezra, and mark, thank you all for joining me tonight. Thanks, lawrence. Coming up, ted cruz is ripping the Republican Party apart now with the help of sarah palin. And now why the owner of the Washington Football Team and later at fenway park in boston this week its not all about winning. Its also about lifting the citys spirits after the Boston Marathon bombing. We will bring you a very deeply moving rendition of the National Anthem at fenway park coming up. So you say men are superior drivers . Yeah . Then howd i get this. 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Grand Canyon National park reopened this weekend after the state of arizona agreed to pay to keep the park open. This is only the second time the park had ever been closed since becoming a national park. But the price to keep it open is much less than the price of actually keeping it closed. The millions of dollars. So the park alone over a million a day in terms of gross revenues in what was lost. The river operators lost 900,000 in the first eleven days. Up next, what ted cruz and the tea party are costing the Republican Party. Our military, our vets, our youre an idiot. How do you tell youre losing in american politics . Sarah palin is standing right beside you. Thats the position that ted cruz found himself in. Protesting the closing of War Memorials due to the government shut down. The same government shut down that ted cruz helped happen. You look around and you see these barricades and you have to ask yourself is this anyway that a commander in chief would show his respect, his gratitude to our military . We will not be timid in calling out any who would use our vets as pawns in a political game. Our veterans should be above politics. Enough games today yet another poll finds americans disapproving of the way the republicans have dealt with the budget negotiations. 74 disapprove. 33 approve while 63 approve for the president. Joining me now is a Senior Advisor for the campaign in 08. Steve, we have a winner in the value voters summit president ial straw poll. Ben carson tied. Paul way, way down, rubio at 5 . At this time four years ago, the winner did not even run for president. There is no question that its working. If you look at this political disaster that has unfolded, it may be a precur sur to the great issue. Is it possible for the party to abandon its tradition of nominating the most electable conservative. And we will see a rejection, the likes that we have not seen since 1964. It will not be the root of a conservative resurgence that takes place sometimes later. It will have a profoundly negative impact. John mccain asked the basic question this weekend. Ted cruz is entitled to his views and he is very articulate and intelligent. The question is, should we follow that leadership or should we go in other directions. As you know, when ever a senator says i respect senator so and so, the negative comes right after that. There is john mccain saying we should not be following ted cruz. He was looking at all of these awful polls he said we are living the dream. Its amazing. Included a fact that i think is really important to republicans, which is this shut down lost republicans half of their own party. Only 49 of republicans approve the shut down. 47 disapprove. When you are throwing away half of your party, that ought to send you a message and following your own far right, the people at that rally who are not people who are going win a general election. So there ought to be a real soul searching of the party at the end of all of this if they are not to avoid the future that steve suggested with a blow out in 2016. I want to listen to someone else who spoke from that same microphone that sarah palin and ted cruz were handing back and forth. Lets listen to what freedom watch founder had to say. I call upon all of you to wage a second american nonviolent revolution to use civil disobedience and demand that this president leave town. To get out. To put the koran down, to get above his news and figuratively come out with his hands up. In fairness to cruz, i believe this is after he had left. He is appearing in a group that invites this kind of speech. Larry is disgraceful. What he said yesterday was a disgrace. And ted cruz, despite the political disastrous path he has led the Republican Party down, he is a sitting United States senator. He has an absolute obligation having been at that rally to reputeuate that hate speech directly and clearly. That is extremist talk. It has no place in american politics in the discussions even though they are lively that they had back and forth. It should be reputeuated. This is a very important question for republicans to ponder. How is it that a United States senator who has been there for eight mons was able to take the entire United States senate and if entirety of the conference down this politically disastrous path. Republican parties have got to wake up and look in the mirror and do some soul searching. Peter king has been extraordinary in this. He calls ted cruz a fraud more than once. I dont know if you remember anything quite like this within a party of this kind of attack ing its just beens a stonicing to me. I remember some of this but it always happened within the democratic party. But what is really striking is that if the collection that steve smith suggests, youre going to need a lot more of the nonright wing republicans. They have been incredibly timt they were two of the only people willing to say hold on this is a really bad strady. That they just hang back and are silent. And they cannot let themselves get intimidated any more. The cost of whats when you dont stand up and say this is dumb. Very good to be with you. Coming up, the tea party wants you to know that when they yell racist chants and call him a muslim its not that theyre racist. They just want a white president. Thats why you take charge of your future. Your retirement. Ameriprise advisors can help you like theyve helped millions of others. Listening, planning, working one on one. To help you retire your way. With confidence. Thats what Ameriprise Financial does. Thats what they can do with you. Ameriprise financial. 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Thats a trend we can all get behind. In the spotlight tonight, the obama haters. A protest at the closed world war ii memorial sunday, tea partier and founder of freedom watch knew exactly how to please that crowd. We are now ruled by a president who bows down to allah. I call upon all of you to wage a second american nonviolent revolution to use civil disobedience and to demand that this president leave town. Get out. To put the down and come out with his hands up. Associate professor at columbia university. Your reaction to what we just heard . Many of us have been saying that this kind of racism and open blatant disrespect for this preside