anything in the house unless a majority of republicans in the house support it. not a majority of the full house, but just a majority of republicans and what that does, chris, is it gives the most radical and extreme members of the tea party caucus, a veto over any progress in this country and that s just wrong. it s always good to see you. thank you. good to be with you. last week, high ranking democrat in this studio and we were talking about this and he said, i wouldn t say this publicly, but i think a lot of us feel sorry for john boehner because he can t corral the tea party. you saw the first line in nbc s first read today, it says if obama is having a bad run, just look at the house gop. i agree with my former colleague, maureen dowd. the house gop is obama s secret weapon. so, you know, they can t control themselves. if they go ahead and shut down the government, that would be politically, wouldn t be good
yeah. we were there, in fact, michael after one or two takes, there was a lot of scenes. my favorite scene was the only scene we had. he wanted to turn the rearrange us so that the stuff we had shot wouldn t be good. but then he changed his mind. thank god. cleared up right there, one of the best scenes ever. if you haven t seen it, check it out. steve: you re telling us that was on your bucket list? you had to get the answer to that and now you can check that off? i was practically sitting this tearing up. it was unbelievable watching him talk about that scene in front of me. that was my ticket stub. i didn t ask him to sign that. i handed him my heat stub from 1995 and he signed it randomly. brian: how much would it take for someone to get that off you? that s what this is really about. priceless. that is a priceless moment for
and maybe you were countenancing some sort of swift changes, but you let us down. i think you re half right on that. i do think i don t think they signed off on something they knew wouldn t be good. i think they hoped the changes would be made neil: i don t know. you re a very smart guy. all i know is that i don t think you would go out on a limb and promise and extol the virtues of any subject without being fully well versed in it. i am just saying a lot of union heads didn t do that. and i m wondering whether that strikes the union member s core, we have either lazy leadership or leadership trying to cut a deal because they didn t do their job. i don t subscribe to the laziy, but i think that and that s what was expressed at the afl-cio convention. there is a lot of concern, and would submit more broadly. one thing in my book, the union
he has dual citizenship. it not like he needs to worry about that. ted cruz s focus is not on diplomacy with ottawa. dual citizenship between israel and the united states would he be renouncing that? that wouldn t be good politics. next segment. there you go. all right. are we destined to be fighting over fiscal issues forever. deep dive, upcoming budget battles in washington and whether we re heading for another fiscal cliff. one of the smartest guys on budget you can possibly get on this issue, i promise. somebody you don t see enough. watching the daily rundown on msnbc. [ male announcer ] if you ve run out of tissues and considered other things.
as it should be, all options should be on the table, the president would only be stepping in because congress is failing to do something. and, you know, that s on the house republicans. many don t have to answer to their own districts. doing something on immigration reform is not something that s helpful to them politically. but that doesn t mean that it wouldn t be good for the country. even grover norquist and the institute agree comprehensive immigration reform would be good for america, good for the economy. and house republicans, really, i mean would be dropping the ball by not doing something. so putting this on the president, that s only after congress fails to do the right thing. and i think people would agree with that, that there does need to be comprehensive immigration reform. both sides talk about the need for that. but, matt, the majority of americans seem to support securing the border first. that s right. this is the problem. that s part of the bill though. this