at the white house. attention has shifted to harry reid and the minority leader mitch mcconnell. they have just wrapped up a meeting within the past half hour. reid saying they're getting closer and closer to a deal. minutes ago, president obama said there is some progress on the senate side. we should get the videotape of the president. he's been outside of the white house, any minute now, we're going to bring you his comments as soon as they come in. stand by for that. meanwhile, republican senator bob corker of tennessee says the reid-mcconnell talks under way right now are where a deal is most likely to come from. >> i think at the end of the day, the culmination needs to be something between mcconnell and reid. and i think that all of the side talks that have occurred have helped create an environment for that to happen. so you know, i think -- i know mitch and harry are talking and i think we're about to get to a place where you know, again, we can move something hopefully off the senate floor that's widely bipartisan. i think it's going to take that to having something move pro

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bernstein, zechrlina maxwell, thank you. mitch mcconnell is so afraid of his tea party challenger he is actually taking credit for shutting down the government. it's actually he is so far ahead of the tea party challenger, he is willing to do that. his democratic opponent is giving him credit for shutting down the government. later in a "last word" experiment that could go very, very wrong. we will try to snow washington how two people can respectfully disagree with the last word chaplain, and atheist penn gillette. we'll give the! ly chaplain five minutes to try to convert penn gillette. [ female announcer ] it figures...on your busiest day you see the gray. try root touch-up by nice 'n easy. just brush our permanent color matching creme right where you need it. then rinse. in ten minutes zap those grays and get on with your day. nice 'n easy root touch-up. >>> what can an atheist and priest teach washington about how to have a civilized discussion about the budget? that's coming up later. next, mitch mcconnell is being attacked by his republican opponent and his democratic opponent fo

face they put on posters is not mitch mcconnell's face. they put obama's face. >> i disagree slightly. >> explain that. >> i think everything sam said is true. it led to conservative movement including the republican party. i do think the anger they've felt about obama is as equal part of that. they're looking for the republican party to express that anger. >> republicans don't hate obama as much as they do? >> if you're voting for anything that doesn't stop obama care, then you're supporting obama care. all this is being driven in part by the donors that sam talked about but because the base of the party, the primary voting base has moved so far to the right because of this political cultural backlash against obama. >> thank you, david corn, guys. i think we're on the same page roughly. it's brand. it's the name. it may not be ethnic although a lot of its i think. >>> coming up, republican kamikaze caucus is back at work insisting if they stand firm next time they'll defund the affordable care act. guess who is leading the charge? mr. ted cruz. >> mad money -- angry money. many have

was stupid. john boehner warned against it. mitch mcconnell warned against it. you're absolutely right. there's ways to do it. had we kept the focus on the failures of obama care, we'd have more. >> why were they into going along with this. boehner the last day. mitch mcconnell the last two or three days. why did they sustain this to fight for something and averting for it if they didn't have a belief in that approach? >> because this is where the strategy is. >> they were leading from behind. >> yes, they were. >> i think they had to walk members through it. from boehner's perspective, he didn't have the votes to do anything else until he had the votes. >> let me try something. if he had gotten outside the box and -- i'll come up with cuts, across the board cuts, take them back to where they were at another time. would they have changed their direction, or did it have to be obama? >> it had to be obama care. this had to be the thing. this is what we talked about all august. you know what, they had to walk through the process. it wasn't a good process. it was a painful process. the lea

care. >> he is comparing mitch mcconnell to barack obama. >> our top political priority should be to deny president obama a second term. >> go back to the lesbian food co-op. >> would-be thieves ramming a pickup truck. >> but first, senate officials are grilling top candidates. >> pertaining to the controversial collection of millions of telephone records. >> there are checks at multiple levels. >> don't expect there is no risk or consequences. >> the new york city mayoral candidate, anthony weiner. >> i don't know if i'm going to win, but i'm going to stay in here and keep fighting. >> i get more agree than the taliban. >> i try to keep things on a less personal way. >> little too much sniping here. >> with governor christie, it is a little too personal, so we're ready to kiss and make up. >> president obama went to capitol hill today knowing exactly what he is up against, which was eloquently diagnosed 530 miles away from washington, d.c. in lexington, kentucky today by the 34-year-old democratic kentucky secretary of state, allison lundergin grimes, who is running to unseat rep

, mitch mcconnell. what did you really think when you heard him say the way he intends to get re-elected is to hammer anyone who might be talking about running against him? any newspaper that might cause him trouble along the way. does it surprise you, he, the senate republican leader who said his number one goal following president obama's inauguration was to detroy him, does it surprise you that he would be sitting there listening to an opp researcher talk about a possible opponent, ashley judd, being emotionally unbalanced? tonight we learn from yet another type -- yet another tape, rather -- what it's like to be in a room with a big name politician and to learn firsthand, again, that they're pretty much the way you figured them. i love these tapes, by the way. i hope they're legal because i think they're great. i'm joined right now by nbc news political director, chief white house correspondent, chuck todd, and the "huffington post's" howard fineman. i want to start with howard tonight. you've got this louisville background. tell me how the women of the state of kentucky will respond

. (laughter). (cheers and applause) and these brave 27 statesmen led by mitch mcconnell took this stand for the noblest of reasons-- to get reelected. i for one cannot wait for the campaign ads-- so i didn't. jim? >> mitch mcconnell claims to be a small-government conservative but he voted with the democrats to raise the debt ceiling. but mitch mcconnell knows that was wrong. he took a stand against mitch mcconnell. (laughter) mitch mcconnell, wrong for kentucky. vote change. vote mitch mcconnell. (laughter) i'm mitch mcconnell and i approve this message. no i don't! (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: folks, with an ad like that one one of them can't lose. (laughter) nation, you watch the show, you know my middle name is "danger." but my first name is "we're all in" and my last name is "run for your lives." this is the threatdown. (cheers and applause) folks, traditional marriage is under attack and this time it's not just from the gays-- although i've got to say, they're not helping. look at neil patrick harris' family halloween photo. (audience reacts) "come to my house, i h

this vote. mitch mcconnell had to negotiate with harry reid so that the recent debt ceiling bill included a provision that there would be a second vote expressing approval or disapproval of the first vote. (laughter) in short, g.o.p. senators voted for raising the debt ceiling on the stipulation they could vote against having voted for it. proving that republicans may not be bipartisan but they may be bipolar. (laughter). (cheers and applause) and these brave 27 statesmen led by mitch mcconnell took this stand for the noblest of reasons-- to get reelected. i for one cannot wait for the campaign ads-- so i didn't. jim? >> mitch mcconnell claims to be a small-government conservative but he voted with the democrats to raise the debt ceiling. but mitch mcconnell knows that was wrong. he took a stand against mitch mcconnell. (laughter) mitch mcconnell, wrong for kentucky. vote change. vote mitch mcconnell. (laughter) i'm mitch mcconnell and i approve this message. no i don't! (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: folks, with an ad like that one one of them can't lose. (laughter

. >> jared bernstein, zerlina maxwell, thank you. mitch mcconnell is so afraid of his tea party challenger he is actually taking credit for shutting down the government. it's actually he is so far ahead of the tea party challenger, he is willing to do that. his democratic opponent is giving him credit for shutting down the government. later in a "last word" experiment that could go very, very wrong. we will try to snow washington how two people can respectfully disagree with the last word chaplain, and atheist penn gillette. we'll give the! chaplain five minutes to try to convert penn gillette. okay ladies, whenever you're ready. thank you. thank you. i got this. no, i'll get it! no, let me get this. seriously. hey, let me get it. ah, uh. i don't want you to pay for this. it's not happening, honey. let her get it. she got her safe driving bonus check from allstate last week. and it's her treat. what about a tip? oh, here's one... get an allstate agent. nice! [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for driving safely. only from allstate. call an allstate

as house minority leader nancy pelosi. also harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell. right now, the senate convenes, and these two huge players, mcconnell and reid, are expected to speak. we're watching very closely. we've been reporting this meeting, reid and mcconnell's office, the talking that's taking place, and what these two say could indicate the face of the country, really, at this point in time. fast-moving story. dana bash has been all over it. she's our chief congressional correspondent. i understand reid has been back in mcconnell's office. tell me, is this a good sign heading into this white house meeting in 60 minutes? >> it sure seems like a good sign. i just came to talk to you from standing outside of mcconnell's office which is kind of on the other side of the capitol, we expect both of them to leave there soon to speak publicly on the senate floor. but as reid was walking into mcconnell's office, ted barrett saw he was holding a piece of paper, which is a good sign, and he said we're going over the deal. the question is, are you there yet? he said, not ye

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>> thank you, s.e. >>> good afternoon, it's tuesday april the 9th. senator mitch mcconnell can't look newtown families in the eye and tell them why he's threatened to filibuster, but he is man enough to take on ashley judd. tough guy, isn't he? we have the reporter who broke that story, just ahead. >> connecticut, this is not about me. this is not about politics. this is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence. >> i stand before you now and ask you to stand with me. with all the families. >> i'm going to take another opportunity to congratulate the louisville cardinals for an incredible championship win last night. >> and yet some folks back in washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent voes on any of these reforms. >> i also want to say a word about margaret thatcher. >> they're saying your opinion doesn't matter. >> she literally turned the tide, so we mourn her passing. >> we want a vote! >> we want a vote. >> we want a vote! we want a vote! >>> it is a beautiful spring

with the president are the cruzes, rand paul and mike lees. not only them, the many mitch mcconnells and lindsey grams all scared at the moment that they will finger them for destruction the way kim young un just fingered his uncle in pyongyang. what is not north korea but boy is it getting tough on the american right. david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones and jonathan capehart from "the washington post." of course, both are proud, i hope. anyway, john boehner continues to face all out revoluntarily for the tea party vote on the right. listen carefully what beck says is the real reason they love whacko birds like ted cruz and mike lee is they're taking orders from them. >> i find him to be utterly feckless. >> i think john boehner is one of the prime examples of worthless, worthless republicans much these guys are big government progressives. they're not liberals. they're not rhinos. they're progressives. we have to take a stand. mike lee and ted cruz, they did what we told them to do. meanwhile, the john boehners and the mitch mcconnells of the world are trying to t

the first big fire bomb of misinformation. it's about the irs problem. mitch mcconnell who said his heart publicly to limiting president obama to a single term is declaring that he -- well, he's declaring there was a coordinated campaign out there, out at the white house, to use the leather raj of the government to target conservatives and stifle speech. this language which sounds like a rico prosecution is based on nothing. there's no evidence of any white house involvement with the actions of the irs. if he was, don't you think, mr. mcconnell, the white house would be dancing in the moonlight? don't you? >> if there was, loose talk was involved, do you really believe the head of the republican party and the senate wouldn't be using it to nail the president into a political coffin right now? give me break. this is a cheap charge, the kind a politician makes when he has no political am moe and the only thing he has to throw on his side is his shoe. thank you for joining us tonight. let's take a look at this right now. mcconnell spoke to conservatives today at the american enterprise

to get to later. it was very interesting and powerful. now, speaking of maneuvers mitch mcconnell had a couple of dirty ones ready for ashley judd, apparently. cenk: oh wow. we're going to talk about those secret thames from mitch mcconn them's office and whether it will get a liberal reporter in trouble. that and a lot more. "the young turks," it's go time. ♪ theme ♪ cenk: all right, i don't know if you've noticed but we're having a little bit of a blackout in the studio. nothing to do with current bring it down. it just happens to be this area in los angeles that had a power outage. nonetheless, look at us, man this is what professionals do, we carry on. let's bring you the news of today. we had another mass injuries today, not a shooting for a change. it happened in texas. it was mass stabbings but guess what nobody's killed. here's a report from abc. >> just after 11:00 a.m., police received a call of an attack at a college just outside of houston. >> the call was described as male on the loose stabbing people. >> at least 14 people were wounded in an apparently stabbing at th

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the senate, mitch mcconnell in kentucky. these guys are all facing primary challengers. they are all now facing negative adds that are running right now in their home states. negative ads, primary challengers, and all the rest, from what is supposed to be their own side. the senate conservatives fund, the tea party group, that's trying to throw mitch mcconnell out of his senate seat, they are already, already in 2013, doing big, six-figure ad buys against mitch mcconnell in his home state. >> when kentucky needed mitch mcconnell the most, he let us down. now he's asking us to give us six more years in washington. senate conservative eaction is responsible for the content of this message. >> that is not the first, but it's the most recent ad against mitch mcconnell, run by a conservative group against him in his home state. that buy was made two days ago. it was made from more than $300,000 to be spent in kentucky. so where are they getting all the money to attack all these incumbent republican senators and run all these super professional-looking big buy attack ads? where are they ge

kentucky primary that year which was essentially a death match against mainstream mitch mcconnell's protege who rand paul was running against. the protege was a guy senator mcconnell had hand picked to become his junior senator in the job. mitch mcconnell expected to hand that junior senate seat to whoever he wanted, but that did not happen because rand paul beat mitch mcconnell's handpicked guy. senior senator mitch mcconnell is senior senator to junior senator rand paul even though senator mcconnell tried so publicly to keep the senator paul thing from ever happening in the first place. it's kind of an awkward thing, right? once rand paul won the seat, the uneasy resolution of the whole thing in kentucky came when the campaign manager for rand paul in 2010 left the rand paul camp and went to work for the enemy. he went to work for mitch in 2010 left the rand paul camp and went to work for the enemy. he went to work for mitch mcconnell. the campaign guy's name is jesse benton. he is a longtime, lifelong rand paul/ron paul loyalist. now he's supposed to seem like a mitch mcconnell loyalist?

. liberals, i'm going to convince you tonight that this guy right here, mitch mcconnell, is really a good guy. you can deal with him. just take those record number of filibusters and cast them aside. they really weren't real. just let's cast aside that his number-one goal was to defeat president obama. cast aside that his number two goal was to make sure that obama care never got implemented. come on now. we can get harry and mitch together to do a deal. and everything is going to be okay, the shutdown will be over with, we won't default, we'll pay our bills, life will be good. and we'll be the america that we want to be. i'm sorry, folks. i've -- can take on some challenges, but i can't sell that one. i can't sell that one. and you know what? because there's no way anyone could sell it, because it simply isn't the truth. i'm telling you tonight, folks, this is the truth. you cannot deal with this guy. this is all about political cover right now. this is all about republican senators being able to go back home with some terrible poll numbers and say, it's not my fault. not my fault at all

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minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday, and helped forge a deal on taxes. the proposed deal worked out earlier today is said to raise $600 billion in revenue over the next decade through new tax increases on the wealthiest americans. the bush era tax rates would be extended for all single americans, with income below $400,000, and couples with income below $450,000. all income above those levels would be taxed at a clinton era top tax rate of 39.6%. and capital gains taxes above those amounts would also be increased up to 20% up from 15%. the deal is also said to include a permanent fix for the alternative minimum tax, and extends unemployment insurance for another year for two million americans. >>> there is some grumbling about the proposed deal from labor. in the last hour, richard trumka of the afl-cio tweeted the following -- we can't set the stage for further destabilizing hostage-taking from -- in the form of another debt ceiling crisis and another sequester crisis. joining me now from capitol hill by phone is nbc's kelly o'donnell. kelly, tell what's the latest is that you'

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that you need to know about. >>> plus, mitch mcconnell has long lived by the old adage, slow and steady wins the race, but news out of kentucky should make the republican senate leader, too slow and very, very unsteady. >>> we begin tonight with a story that i honestly and frankly did not think would be topping our broadcast. today ariel castro was was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts including rape and kidnapping of three women, two of whom an suggested as teenagers and one of whom gave birth to his daughter during captivity. this may have been a routine procedure for a massively heinous serious of attacks until ariel castro spoke. i couldn't really believe my ears. this wasn't just a monster trying to ex explain and justify himself. this was a teachable moment, raw expression of the most veurulen find. every rapist, stalker abuser who passes through the criminal justice system or missed by the criminal justice system. a warning, some of this may be difficult to listen to. >> i'm 100% wrong. you're trying to say i'm a violent perso