all. the winning team is celebrating with us today, thursday, september 26th, 2013. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. i don t care if you know nothing about sailing. this was cool stuff yesterday. all you need to know is that this team came back from an 8-1 deficit. won eight straight races and retained the america cup. that s cool. i hear they re going to play pittsburgh next. anthony from behind camera one over there. thank you, anthony. i had nothing to say about sailing. people will be excited when they hear how they pulled this off. today s top story and that is this looming government shut down. nbc s peter alexander is in washington. peter, good morning to you. matt, good morning to you. simply put, everyone is zeroing in on october 1st. that s next tuesday. if congress doesn t reach a budget deal boy then, federal agencies close. it s also the first day when uninsured americans can sig
amateurs hoping to get one from duck dynasty. it s all going according to my plan. really. take your pants off. take your pants off. and twerk it. yeah. i m not twerking. that would be degrading. yeah it might be degrading but we would be degrateful. good morning, everyone. it s monday, september 23rd. welcome to morning joe. with us on set, mark halperin. and former communications director for president bush nicole wallace. on capitol hill new york times reporter jeremy peters. there s only one thing to talk about and it s not the emmys last night. barbara o reilly you heard it. we had music for six years. that s okay. it s nice. we have a lot of news to get to. get over your happy talk. let s go. no happy talk. only thing to talk about. what s that? cranston getting screwed last night. jeff daniels. i like the show. a lot of haters from that show. but he s a humanizing force. i love it. but giving him best actor last night over brian cran
point. forget that story, duck dynasty impression, here s the real headline. i m a big fan of eating white castle burgers, there s 24 places you can t go to get them. it s going to be a good day. despite the drama, the senate did take a concrete step towards avoiding a shutdown. it s a procedural vote and it sets up as you may know 30 more hours of debate on the underlying bill. then democrats will amend this package to ensure the affordable care act is fully funded before what is scheduled for a final vote on friday. obama care, of course, has dominated the debate over funding the government and it was a big theme for senator ted cruz who held the senate floor overnight in a nonfilibuster speech. here are some things he said. you know, it s a little bit like the world wrestling federation, the outcome is predetermined. they know who s going to win and lose and it s for show. obama care is a far less intimidating foe than those i have discussed with the possible excep
today, august 20th, 2013. good morning everyone. happy tuesday. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer along side al roker and natalie morales. dick van dyke keeping that trademark sense of humor. could have been a really scary situation. the imagines are so scary but if he is smiling about it and making jokes then it s okay for to us smile, too. so happy he s okay. we ll have more on that in a little while. meantime new developments tied to the ongoing saga tied to yankee star alex rodriguez. his attorneys are preparing a lawsuit now against the team doctor. we ll have details on that in a moment. but let s begin this tuesday morning with developments on the tense situation in egypt following the violent crack following the violent crackdowns. richard engle is in cairo. richard, good morning to you. there is an article on the front of the new york times here s the headlines egypt in tumult as court orders mubarak freed. he s free but the article goes on to sa
question. antics meaninging blood sucking insects. and we open with a look at the hottest ticket in consecutive circles this month, the defund obama care summer tour. in a few hours, ted cruz whose canadian citizenship well get to in a minute will take the stage in dallas to explain why now is the time for a government shutdown if democrats won t help repeal president obama s signature health care law. obama care is at its most vulnerable it s ever been right now. there s bipartisan agreement it s not working. the wheels are coming off. the unions are jumping ship. defunding obama care is just as much his signature issue as the actual law is president obama. he s is so attendees probably shouldn t expect the main act to stray too far from the hits that always produce the biggest applause. they say this is a fool s errand. you re tilting at windmills. if we can hold 41 republicans in the u.s. senate, or 218 republicans in the u.s. house, we can defund obama care.