mcconnell's home state of kentucky got two point nine billion dollars almost a thousand dollars a person to build a dam during a speech at the white house today president obama reflected on the republican shutdown and the damage it's done to our economy. but let's be clear there are no winners here. these last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy we don't know yet the full scope of the damage but every analyst out there believes it's slowed our growth. right now the best estimate of how much the shutdown has cost our economy is around twenty four billion dollars that's about the same amount of money needed to cover a head start the children's health insurance program and the wic program with women infant and children's combined economy got a jump start when federal employees went back to work today but here's the scary thing come january we might have to go through this all over again president obama the democrats held a strong line on obamacare and the budget over the past two weeks a much stronger line than they held two years ago during the debt ceilin

in mitch mcconnell's dream america candidates who receive big contributions from the show and from the show the nails and types would have a built in incentive an even bigger one than they have now under the citizens united system to push for policies that benefit their donors and when this happens the issues that affect average americans the people who can't afford to spend tens of millions of dollars on one candidate those issues are going to be ignored. things wouldn't be much different if the court takes the less extreme approach to campaign bribery proposed by shawn mccutcheon and the r n c unlimited total donations if the court allows that wealthy donors could launder up to three point six million dollars through political parties and committees basically turning their candidates into personal property of the billionaires. when candidates are the property of the wealthy few and do only their bidding our nation stops being a democracy or a republic and starts to become something else a political system ultimately controlled by those at the very top. ancient greeks had a word for t

if the supreme court sides with mitch mcconnell sean mccutcheon and the republican party and strikes down sensible limits on campaign donations we will be one more step down the road to a government controlled by the few the billionaire few and that's a pretty terrifying idea. in the republic the greek philosopher plato warned that all oligarchy eventually descend into violence and chaos because control of political institutions by the wealthy few breeds the kind of hatred that only comes from extreme any quality. any quality in america right now is the highest it's ever been and if the supreme court rules in favor of mccutcheon it will make things even worse luckily there is an alternative to oligarchy and the chaos that comes with it and that alternative is a constitutional amendment declaring once and for all that money is not speech if we want to take back our hijacked democracy from the billionaires the lackeys in congress and we need to take away their life blood the uncontrolled flow of money into our elections go to move to amend dot org and find out what you can do to say no

mcconnell if my information is correct tomorrow is going to go to the united states supreme court and basically on bended knees say please would you rule so that billionaires can give me and my friends in the republican party more money with fewer restrictions is that actually what's that pretty much senator mcconnell tomorrow is going to make a extraordinary argument and the court's giving him ten minutes to make that case normally mr mccutcheon the republicans would have thirty minutes they only have twenty minutes the other ten minutes will be given to mr mcconnell in his capacities for the court and his argument is that he should that there should be no limits on contributions to political candidates he should be able to go out and solicit a check for as much as he needs and as much as he wants from one or two political donors from three or four political donors who. clearly have a vested interest in more than you know a rubber chicken dinner and a photo with senator mcconnell they have an agenda and that's why they're going to open their checkbook so it's really an extraordinary

new grand bargain right apparently now both speaker that is john boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell have called it a nonstarter what's with that let's say you ask david alaska director of communications for the new york republican state committee david welcome back good to be with you tom i've got my purple tie and let's see if we can forge some compromise ok well it might be i mean what do republicans hate the most about obama's plan is that the cutting the top tax rate from thirty five to twenty eight percent is a closing the loopholes look we love both of those things here's the problem republicans want the president to revert back to where he was just two years ago when he said that he was amenable to coupling corporate tax reform with personal income tax reform so this president's been preaching that we need to do what's right for the middle class so let's do across the board tax cuts not just for corporations but for small businesses for individuals and families let's jump start the economy not just give some tax breaks to let me get this straight he's offering you a

that would be mitch mcconnell all of these are going to turtle matthew bevan a kentucky businessman and tea party favorite is expected to primary mcconnell in the twenty fourteen senate race in the same time that he's going to have to run in a general election against a real democrat and so mark how do you see this thing play out and what do you think. how do you think mcconnell is changing his behavior right now because he's up for reelection when mcconnell's had a tough time of it is you know he's in there he's the he's he's got to be a national leader he's got to run the house he's got to represent his party at the highest level most visible level but he's still also got to go and get reelected with a very high constituency of tea party people who are supported in the past and a lot of it comes down to where he gets his money to you know people are moderates independents a lot of them will go vote but they don't necessarily send any money the people like the tea party highly motivated i think this challenge i doubt it will be successful but the bottom line here is it's very hard to b

republicans lost the republicans got screwed i think connel or maternal whatever mitch mcconnell might have lost the war battle and won the war because i think that what he did was he took a bite out of presidential power here ridiculous for why well first of all you know all you need to know is that when reid gave his press conference he said i was been told by one of my colleagues not to gloat have you ever ever in your life met a politician who didn't who didn't claim victory i mean i know i know john saner when he got the sequester is that i got ninety eight percent over there wanted now cordray one o three hours getting cordray was a disaster because the consumer financial protection bureau spun out of treasury only upon the confirmation of its first director so the care they were starting to average consumer and so the congress was the republicans were unable to get reforms of this rogue agency which is now liberated this this this for reforms of this row you know it's rogue agency it's as soon as the roads i mean own city has already has already taken a half a billion dollars th

it's time to mcconnell. and this is not this is not mcconnell over syria this is my caucus is concerned about where this country is headed but mitch has said said i'm not making this up he is the proud guardian of gridlock those are his words this is really a moment in history when circumstances dictate dictate the need for change minor change no big deal remember all we want to do is what the constitution says we should do meanwhile senate minority leader mcconnell continues to argue that everything's just fine. what is the problem here the president has had fifteen hundred forty of his nominations confirmed only four defeated. he's not lost a single member of the cabinet. he's getting them faster than president bush was at the same comment his second term. the majority of brain lesions nominees up most of them are going to be confirmed it really senator reid has brought obama administration nominees up for consideration over and over and over again and republicans in the senate have filibustered them at ev

mitch i keep calling him a little mitch mcconnell here is they're not filibustering president obama's nominees because they don't like the people there filibustering them because they don't like the national labor relations board they don't want there to be a consumer protection bureau mark well this is a lousy way to do is this is just a bad way to run a country and both i agree to something in there that we have i think i will go way back and find even worse examples back to duels and also rather than you but there is sort of a lack of statesmanship statesmen and states women who really come in and tried to have some civility and i wish it was more there that the filibuster i agree with adam on this that this is a football that goes back and forth and the main problem here is too many of these people if not all of these people are constituents to their party or their their constituents is their party first and second to the people that they represent and then you have these ridiculous procedural things that speaking of speaking of which sarah palin says she may she's thinking maybe

mcconnell primary yeah rand paul put an end to that by supporting mcconnell but i. i would have liked to see and primary upsets that's very interesting because think that there's not is not. the media portrays him as very conservative but he's not no he's no he's an obstruction so do you think that the republicans in tennessee are just going to i wish you were more of them say you know obstructionists which they would defund obamacare do i think anything will happen in kentucky i don't know and i don't know enough about kentucky politics it would be nice if a challenger were to were to fight him for the nomination. so we'll see if those any amount you patrick thank you for being with us thank you coming up our phone lines are now open for your take my take a live segment so if you want to chance to ask a question why have on the big picture give us a call at two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four if you are talking i'll be talking with you after the break. how is the new alert and. scaring me a little. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing

mcconnell becomes a majority leader he's going to change the rules are set up so i've heard righteously so that is that we disagree on this but the truth of the matter is these leaders here already said they were going to do it you know the problem with the problems with reid is that he just wants mcconnell to fail and he wants mcconnell to lose an election it's mcconnell who said that his entire job is to make obama fail i don't like where you're being this idea that he is saying oh my god you know what you're absolutely off you know. disorientation a new a.c.l.u. study has found let's talk about the. new a.c.l.u. is going to has found that on average this is this is actually pretty horrific horrific stuff on average an african-american is three point seven three times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person even though blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates i actually thought whites used we used more right here in the nation's capital to study study found i think i think whites do is just. so i want to believe it and in fact all drugs i don't

last week senate minority leader mitch mcconnell decided to block the nomination of tom president obama's nominee for secretary of labor and just days after that decision senate republicans also decided to delay a confirmation vote on president obama's nominee to head the e.p.a. gina mccarthy. course this obstruction of presidential nominees is nothing new by the republicans senate republicans since the day obama took office and mitch mcconnell said his number one job was to basically destroy this presidency have had one strategy sabotage the obama presidency by blocking the people he selected to work in his administration and by filibustering any sort of legislation that he supports for example with obama's cabinet nominations senator publicans killed the nomination of susan rice to be secretary of state they delayed the nomination of republican chuck hagel to be secretary of defense they delayed the nomination of john brennan to be cia director and today had been delayed the nomination of jacob lew for treasury secretary and right now thanks to republican blocking efforts there are curr

mcconnell said his number one job was to basically destroy this presidency have had one strategy. sabotage the obama presidency by blocking the people he selected to work in his administration and by filibustering any sort of legislation that he supports for example with obama's cabinet nominations senator publicans killed the nomination of susan rice to be secretary of state they delayed the nomination of republican chuck hagel to be secretary of defense they delayed the nomination of john brennan to be cia director and they did that delayed the nomination of jacob lew for treasury secretary and right now thanks to republican blocking efforts there are currently eighty two vacancies for federal judgeships around the united states even john roberts is writing letters of complaint about seriously one of the most important of those judgeships that sound to you as a four vacancies on the highly influential u.s. circuit court of appeals the d.c. circuit the first circuit the court from which usually supreme court nominees come and the court which ultimately decides things like labor l

mcconnell the majority leader the first thing he's going to. look at all the way not we can only hope i doubt it but we could only hope i don't he's about said it three or four times the scuttlebutt is the scuttlebutt is that the president plans to nominate some very innocuous neutral people that won't disturb the political or ideological makeup of the court and this problem is likely to go away they're not actually looking for a fight he wants to go to claim he got some one point. meanwhile kerry reid says i stare down the republicans this has been the issue all along if you say makes three miss they will be fill of us how can this not be ideological when i mean this is the court that anything that has to do with the federal agencies are so e.p.a. rules national labor relations board rules clean water act i mean you name it why you voted against three missed on the court but but if he is putting on if his own agenda is being thwarted and he puts people on the court who might vote against his agenda i mean why would he do this no president ever

mcconnell and i agree on back in one nine hundred eighty seven he told c.-span that he was against the abuse of the tax code by five a one c four groups take a look. or restrictions now on the kinds of activities that for example the five zero one c three and four going to charitable organizations can gauge on that are being abused not just by people on the right but most of the so-called charitable organizations who are involved in political activity in this country who are. judgment involved in arguable violations of their. tax free status so isn't time that we just enough already if you're engaged in politics i thought i'd say even the political parties if you're engaged in politics if you're promoting politics if you're hustlin politics we're not going to subsidize you by paying for your your roads in your police and your fire we're not going to give you tax exempt status absolutely that may be worth revisiting these to these exemption laws may be worth revisiting but that doesn't make this scandal go away which is about selection of people who just by

mcconnell to abuse the filibuster like he did but in any case he had a sizable majority but it was there was this remarkable thing that happened you know right about that time the president is elected and all of a sudden there's this tea for. exploration across the country and you know where we're where did this come from i mean one of the narratives that has kind of taken hold on the left i think is that. the tea party was this astroturf group you know done for economic purposes but really what they were doing is they were drawing on mostly white racists are you know the first black guy in the white house we can't back. to what extent is that narrative true versus it was really a genuine astroturf organization or i guess i guess that's an oxymoron but. i mean what is it what happened here i think it's a combination of a lot of factors and what's interesting in the book or at least what's new and novel is that. you know there's always been a kind of friction in the republican party and there was a tidy relationship between the reagan years and the bush years where big business republican

eyes upside down stars why do you think mike tell you right now that mitch mcconnell is in a very tough race and because he's in a tough race that even in a race he had to actually judge has now been announced don't tease it. and we will get to that but connell couldn't be in a tough race and you know this and karl rove is only very difficult and karl rove is in a situation where i will tell you right now someone in karl rove's organization told me that they are looking for a tea party person who they could back to the helt just to demonstrate their bonifay days with the tea party to sort of mend fences and not only that i mean look this guy just lost three hundred million dollars other people's money on various is that he widely shot we should really so it has given him a lot more of those skills and well maybe maybe not that still to be seen as to what his spending power will be in the twenty fourteen a lot although we don't want to let you say it was. probably twenty fourteen will be very difficult for obama and the democrats i think that he needs to get as much done as quickly as po

speaking of mitch mcconnell president clinton has repeatedly said doing nothing during the genocide in rwanda in one thousand nine hundred four is the single greatest regret of his presidency yet here at home there's a full blown environmental genocide and collapse happening and we're doing nothing . fathers giving away their daughters at weddings ashley judd's said to this day a common vestige of male dominion over a woman's reproductive rights status is her father giving her away at her husband to her husband at their wedding and the ongoing practice of women giving up their last names in order to assume the name of their husband's family which they have effectively into which they have been effectively been traded and she said patriarchal religions of which christianity is one gives us a god that is like a man of god presented and discussed exclusively in male imagery yet legitimize this in seals which legitimizes seals male power is the intention to dominate even if the intention to dominate is no were visible i hope to any of you guys she needs to disagree with any of those positi

want to talk about ashley judd ashley judd has not decided she's going to run for against mitch mcconnell in kentucky but she has publicly flirted with the idea shall we say and just in case karl rove who apparently has a few hundred million bucks left over from some previous activity or maybe raising more he's running this is a piece of. grandmother says she's a hollywood loop but isn't. actually join an obama family radical hollywood liberal who's right at home here in tennessee. is this a new that's a great it's the service doesn't have to be this is the new face of politics in america is like trash people before the military and i just got to this and i did what i did ironic is that you know i was knocked by people on the left that all you have no political experience i have been a secret service agent for twelve years had managed operations in foreign countries with foreign ambassadors own the business eccentric century could read that c.v. online but they actually attacked me for saying oh you don't have any political experience and yet there are people in the democrat will not all

off the table because presumably mitch mcconnell had entered into a gentleman's agreement with him how do you think this is going to play out it's going to be a disaster that is going to be a disaster for obama for the next four years harry reid was a miserable failure there's no other way to say it he knew exactly what was coming at him can you imagine sitting in a room with a bunch of republicans listening to them say look you can trust us you can ignore our history ignore what we've done for these last four years you can trust us the problem with harry reid is he's too damn old for the job i was just with harry reid he came to you came to los vegas on a program that i put on several months ago and he was he was so weak in his presentation up in front of the in front of this group of people i had to ask the people who brought him to please get him off of the stage because he is so weak and he's a weak leader and that's why the by allowing the filibuster reform not to take place all he's done is he's created four more years of gridlock disaster obama has his hands tied obama can give

mcconnell rand paul was a member of and i guarantee you they are and i walked into that club and i said i'll have a glass of champagne and i'll have a couple of those or d'oeuvres yeah i'll sit here in this nice couch and i'll have a cigar and the fellow comes over and says excuse me sir there's a private club you have to pay dues and i said no it's a right to right to smoke cigars and drink. champagne law that's been passed chris what what do conservatives not get about being a member of a club and dues to that here is the deal tom i'm glad you set it up like this ok you have your club you know you're not a member and the union says you know what unless you join this club you have no right to work you can't get any job do you think that's fair this is a pure freedom people should have the right to get a job if they want to deal with their boss to join a union or not this is not you're talking huge organism it's not right to work for us it is whether or not you have the right to join certain clubs or not and under the under the law it don't have right to work it's like i'm sorry you're