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Its a series of tubes. And if you dont understand those tubes can be filled, and if theyre filled, when you put your message in and gets in line, its going to be delayed by anyone who puts in that tube, enormous amounts of material. We know that every Time Congress investigates the internet, were in for a good time. Is anyone on these committees charged with regulating the internet understand how any of this internet stuff work . Im not a nerd. Im not a nerd. Im not enough of a nerd. Maybe we ought the to ask some nerds what this thing actually does. I think maybe the word youre looking for is experts. The goal of todays hearing before the house energy and Commerce Committee was to get to the bottom of the massive failure of healthcare. Gov. And as one astute tweeter described it, imagine all of your grandparents interrogating a group of facebook product managers. So the < ....
Closer and closer to a Government Shutdown. Some fear mongers are saying the shutdown will be the end of the world as we get it. We even have a countdown clock. The odds of a severe long lasting shutdown are less than the odds of ari not saying something awkward in the next hour. Awkward. What will happen well played. What will happen if the government shuts down and how close are we to that really happening . Lets start with nbcs own luke russert. What do you think . Reporter well, toure, john boehner is in an extremely difficult position. Hes been boxed in by the more conservative element of the house gop conference. They say they will not fund the government unless the president S Health Care law is completely defunded. The government passed a clean bill now in the hands of the house. Were unclear as to what path hell take. He can attach a conservative amendment to mak ....
Joining me today, correspondent for the Guardian Anna marie cox and former director of speech writing for the president i cant get the words out, im so excited, columnist for the daily beast and cofounder of fenway strategies, jon favreau and Washington Post columnist and msnbc Political Columnist eugene robinson. Joining us now is chuck todd who is also, of course, host of msnbcs the daily rundown. Before we get into the actual policy here, i want to talk about the sort of birdseye view as far as what the president is doing on this great middle class tour if you will. To me it seems like hes trying to build up as much Political Capital as possible before he gets back to washington. What do you think hes trying to do . I think hes trying to talk about what p ....