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after weeks of drama in washington we finally have ideal that brings the government back in to business. and we have the debt ceiling raised, but, again, the deal is such that it's only temporary. as all these other deals have been and other continuing resolution that will only last a few months and we'll be back again to discuss the government shutdown in the middle of january. and raising the debt ceiling again in the middle of february. so we will be right back to have this discussion in just a few months. so, again, no real budget being passed in washington. the dysfunction continues, the vote in the house was 285-143. so you still have a majority of the republicans in the house voting against any kind of ideal. in the senate it was moreover women, almost everyone votes, almost all of the -- the majority of the republicans in the senate did vote for this bill. so the senate continues to be more moderate than the house on the republican side.

but there is still some very serious divisions within the republican party and, again, no ability to cut a longer term deal that really deals with the deficit, with the debt with the real issues that face this country think president obama talked about this deal and he said that the american people had lost trust in washington. and there is little doubt about that. the wall street journal article that talked about the winners and losers in this whole debt and government shutdown debacle said that clearly the biggest loser of all was the american people. and we want to have a discussion about all of this with a anybody of people now. the first person we want to go to to talk about the economic impact is ali veshi, host of real money joining us from washington, d.c. after all the of this drama, amie, the government will be funded until january 15 account the debt ceiling raised until february 7th. again, isn't it just a big old band aid that will have to be ripped off early next year? >> it's ridiculous, there is no

victory for anybody in this thing. just the defeat the what would have been a very bad situation. it's just ridiculous. this is exactly the stuff that have seen erode public confidence in it the united states over the course of the last several weeks. antonio, things were going fine in america, we had been growing jobs for over three years straight. sure it wasn't where we needed to be, not enough jobs, home prices going up they were starting to moderate. we were starting to see a slow down in mortgage applications because, you know, the fed was talking about tapering and interest rates went up bay a full percentage point since may. and we were ticking along. things were okay, stock market was up strongly. we start today see it peel back. this is an economy in recovery. to stick your leg out and trip a runner that's gaining momentum is what congress did. that runner stumbled but didn't fall but we are saying that watch out, we might stick our legs out again in january. it is simply irresponsible for

that group of people over there to be standing in the way of a recovering economy where people are out of their jobs, they are still in homes that they can't pay mayor mortgages on. there is no victory tonight whatsoever. >> right. >> there is simply relief that it's not -- that we did not trip ourselves and actually fall. which we would have done had we reached that debt ceiling. >> again, it happens over and over. every time this happens, as you said it hurts the economy. the bill for this gridlock is in the billions, estimates are over 20 billion. >> sure. >> it threatened a downgrade to our credit rating again. it's had a negative impact on employment, business earn beings, borrowing costs, consumer confidence took the biggest hit since 2,008. residential real estate may have suffered. >> correct. >> where due see the bulk of the impact ? >> there are two problems, all the stuff you just mentioned doesn't mat some 50 members of congress that go back to air

that i stood firm. they don't care that china is talking did the deamerican saying of the economy and yield rates might go up and it might be more expense five america to borrow money. they singing minded in the focus, it doesn't matter on that side. where the impact will be felt is that remarkable intangible called confidence. this is an economy more so than most economies in the world where economic decisions are good bide decisions of that are taken by american individuals and businesses. sometimes small businesses, sometimes big businesses, this is not a plans economy. it doesn't emanate from washington it emanates from all the points across america. when those people don't feel the certain toy make investment because they don't know what will happen next, whether mortgage rates are going up or costs are borrowing or going up, people will be laid off their customers won't buy they do the safe thing and keep their money in their pockets. when individuals do that you don't think that you have an effect on the economy when a lot

of people do it you show economic growth we can't afford that to happen. >> let me play devil's advocate. the stock market went up and down depending on pessimistic or optimistic about ideal. wall street seemed to some shrug off the washington drama. they'll figure it out by the time that they have to. >> el with, i tell you two things, one is, yes, the moves on the stock market were small, but, in fact, the snp500 which is how most people are invested is down over 4% from one month ago exactly. what else could you ascribe this too? interesting rates haven't gone up in the last month. nothing else has happened, sure isome people who made 18 percent may have taken their profits, doesn't explain the drop we have seen. it's only gotta be washington that did that. that's real money . bond yields had got down, in this happened they would have gone higher.

that would have cost everybody that needed to buy money and take a variable rate loan including morgue ins, this is one of those things where we don't know how booed it could have become, but why were we dallying with how booed bad it could have become. there has been a cost and a real cost it's entirely unnecessary, it wasn't a hurricane, you could see fore coming and did damage, too bad. this is entirely foreseeable and preventable and we might be here in january and february again. >> let's hope we aren't. talking about the political players we havening badly . libby? the capitol right now. how did you see it all play out today. sorry, how did we see it all play out? give a blow by blow is that what you are asking. giants interesting 48 hours. two days ago we saw a plan really materializing from the senate and in the house of representatives really threw a

curveball and said we don't like what we are seeing, we want to go our own way. but the house republicans couldn't come to agreement. there was in fighting between the moderates. the more conservative wing. speaker boehner that was offense said was herding cats. they got blown up. we got back on the senate plan and got on a smooth glide path once we saw senate majority leader harry reid and the minority leader senator mitch mcconnell come together and handle it out. >> how ugly did it get? how divided -- how bad are the interpersonal relationships that are so necessary to come to compromise? >> reporter: the cock is a different body than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. and some of the lions of the senate that sort of the name people give them who really are sort of phases out right now. evensen tour frank of new jersey a decembe democrat that passed s year that's the seat that cory

booker won in new jersey tonight. that older generation of senators were so much more used to working across party lines. vice president biden talks about it all the time, i attended the funeral a couple of years ago to cover the funeral of senator ted stevens of alaska who served in the senate in to his 80s and vice president biden spoke at it and he said ted stevens may have been a republican but we were friends. we worked together. our families were friends. we would fight during the day in the central@and we would spend the evening together over dinner. and you had to build coalitions across party lines in order to get anything done. well, the new generation that's come in they are not playing by those rules. you get the folks like senator ted cruz who are less concerned about building coalitions so that they can get something passed and they are more concern the about sort of their core values, what the people back home are saying, and really the a generaagenda that they bring e senate independently. >> and congress needs to work with the white house and mike

have care is there. viqueira is there and mike, the president spoke tonight and he was clearly dispoint it had came to this. >> reporter: that is a theme that the president had struck throughout the course of this drama, impasse, crisis really. considering the fact that we just walked right up to the line here of midnight on october 17th. yeah. the president at this point, however, it's a clean victory, antonio. no question about it. nobody wins, yes, the white hospital been careful not to do the victory dance, not to spike the football in the end zone, pick your metaphor, walking very gingerly around all of this. because anybody who looks at this can understand that republicans caved in the end after all the gyrations that they faced a unified december krafb decembercontact front throughous controversy, they were divided and divided they fell. press didn't have to criticize republicans anymore. certainly he has done that over the course of the last several days, he's played that outside game. he's gone to different venues,

he said basically the same message in different settings and on different days . gone places where federal furloughed workers were getting discounts, went to a food bank in washington . >> reporter: trying it pressure them. and he left it to senate democrats to be the tough guy in the person of harry reid to be the bad guy, to turn back republican bids to draw wedges between the awn identified and solid democratic stand and it didn't work, republicans caved and now the president is seizing the initiative. they have laid on al jazerra an event tomorrow at 10 tater that's. the president will talk about the agenda moving forward and tonight he did strike a conciliatory tone because between now and election day, between now and january 15 account, when we are going to go through this crisis or at least this exercise all over again because the next spending bill expires then, the president is going to try to push again for immigration, perhaps even gun control.

although that's sort of a far bridge at this point. there is also the farm bill, some of the mundane things that they have been unable do in congress because of all the gridlock. >> let's hope we are not in this gridlock again in january but i suspect we l.mike viqueira, libby casey, amie jealousy, at this tuiasosopo all. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? >> they share it on the stream. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories.

>> i'm del walters live in new york, waiting for president obama to talk about that deal reached in washington last night, a historic deal in which the senate and house both voted to end the government shutdown, into its 16th day and to avoid the debt cele crisis, wimp many said would have been catastrophic had it occurred. all 144 votes being cast by republicans in the house, we go now live to mike in the white house. the fact that the democrats steered this through not speaking well for house speaker john boehner. >> well, it was an extraordinary surgery. john boehner waited until the last minute. if you look at the internal mechanisms and dynamics in the house of representatives, that's what he has to do. unfortunately for the rest of the country and world, billion was dollars were lost in economic growth, many suffered

financially because they were furloughed, not only individuals who work for the federal government, but many contractors who make their living working with the federal government. we are going to see the president in the state dining room in the white house. what you're going to see is a president seizing the momentum from a victory he has scored over republicans, that uniformed wave, wall of democrats walking hand-in-hand in lock step with president obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi, until republicans broke ranks and ran for the hills. that's what we saw yesterday, a surrender from republicans. now, we did hear the president in between the senate and house votes last night. he appeared in the briefing room, a very conciliatory tone, talking about the need for the agenda, at the top of the list,

immigration reform. this morning, little baby steps, but imagine the house and senate actually sitting down in a form formal conference. it caused the economies around the world a great deal of problems and losses. we have seen this sort of ritualistic glad handing, happy faces all the way around. vice president biden greeted employees returning to work after three weeks of being off the job. those employees have an extra reason to smile today. tucked into the deal gives them back pay for the time that they were off. also, we saw the chief of staff, dennis mcdonough at the white house greeting executive members of the staff of the president returning to work.

the metra was awfully crowded this morning. things getting back to normal as the democrats and republicans try to pick up the pieces, particularly the republicans. january 15 the date of the next expiring spending bill to fund the government. a lot of piss mix that we will not be at that precipice in three months. >> we go. >> john standing by live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. taking a look at the clock, leaving the president to speak at 10:35 leaves you 20 seconds to tell us about the markets. >> let's go straight to the full screen. there you will see the market is presently down 75 points, 15,298. the reason is there are key stocks down, i.b.m., united health care, goldman sachs. in other words, it's pretty

stable compared to yesterday. the rally of 205 points on the day we saw that this deal was finally done in the senate and house a signal to washington, d.c. that wall street is on to the political shenanigans. they know about it. the feeling on wall street i can tell you both seriously and somewhat amazingly is that the biggest threat to the u.s. economy and by extension the global economy may actually turn out to be u.s. elected representatives in the congress, because they continue with the short termism, and we could all be back to where we were the last two weeks just three months from now. >> there is the picture of the podium as we await for the president. this was cavity. $24 billion in damage done to the u.s. economy. nobody on wall street could be smiling right now. >> that is $24 billion that is

never going to be spent again. furloughed workers weren't spending at the time they weren't getting their money. they will of course get it now, but those three weeks are gone forever. they are spend money in different ways with thanksgiving and christmas looming. there is a threat of going through this again in early january. people may not spend the way they might have through thanksgiving and christmas. wall street is not happy. i think this is economic data yet to come out, because it's been backed up because of the furloughs, couldn't be released and now will be. i'm thinking in particular of the jobs report. the jobs report is the single biggest piece of economic data that comes out every month in

the world. it wasn't released in october because of the furlough. they are right now selecting data on the november physician. they may combine the physician and there might turn out to be no jobs data or october, and at a time with a delicate economy, that is a big figure. you want to be seeing on a daily basis what's going on with your auto sales and home sales and that's not been coming to us. depending how those figures turn out, the market could sore or fall. we'll have to wait and see. >> john, thank you very much. we have some video that we want to show you. you heard mik mike viquiera inde that the metra system was crowded because of workers going back to work today. they are going to receive back pay, but it was a pinion and needles time, that 16 days that they were off.

you have to ask yourself whether there is a danger in a victory lap. some say it's like lincoln taking a victory lap after the north won the civil war. congress is deeply divided. >> he had longer than a minute there. i'm going to indulge myself, del. it's true that yesterday, the white house, the spokesman jay carney at his regular briefing and president, almost as if they were walking on egg shells, tiptoeing around object the good karma. didn't want to disrupt the environment that brought the congress to the point they made a deal, actually the house made a deal and the house was forced to approve that in a disspirited way. there was no spiking the football, along with kick the

can down the road, a phrase we have been using a lot. certainly no gloating by the president. i don't think you're going to see that as well. i think what you're going to see and what you have seen over the course of the last several months, since the day after the election is the white house that recognizes that the republican party, particularly the congressional republican party is a sharply divided party, and is therefore a weakened party. therefore, the white house can press their advantage at every turn and pressure them, house republicans to do what they did yesterday, which was essentially surrender, to capitulate. i think you're going to see the president trying to press that advantage in sort of a sub -- not an overt way.

congress is there to pass spending bills, a budget, a farm bill. a trillion dollar farm bill can't pass congress. this is something that is normally a goody bag, a grab bag that when you leave the party, something for every congressional district in terms of earmarks and special projects. in a day and age that we live in now with budget shortfalls, with conservatives, tea party conservatives on the rise, there simply aren't those goodies to pass out anymore. congress is challenged to function in a way that is not functioned for many years, as a matter of fact for generations, to get something done in congress is to give a bridge, an earmark. it could be worth millions of dollars, could be worth trillions are dollars. there was something stuffed into that bill last night. we can get to that if you like. congress are functioning in this new environment, the emphasis on

budget cutting, and this normal tension use that here is the result of this new environment. you saw the president two years ago in 2011, the last time the debt ceiling was a major issue, we danced along with precipice as a nation. you saw the president enter into negotiations. that is something he said he doesn't regret entering into, but said it was a mistake to bargain with the full faith and credit of the united states approximate you. heard a lot of the rhetoric that rubbed republicans raw, talking about ransom, guns to the head, things of that nature, the president saying he refuses to negotiate in that context. now they're negotiating, but the dynamic that changed the relationship between the parties. it's hard to see how it's going to improve, really. one of the remarkable results of yesterday and something that, you know, a lot of us including myself expected john boehner to have to make a choice, accept that senate deal, put it on the

floor, risk his speakership, a result from conservatives. this is something they hated and felt they had the rug pulled out from them on previous deals like the previous debt ceiling and the fiscal cliff of january of last year. instead of a revolt among republicans, he was lauded by many of the hardest hard core tea party republicans. they felt he had fought the good fight, he just did not win, they came up short. >> mike, i want to ask you about that. i'm looking at the vote done in the house and basically the house bill passed with democratic support. in fact, overwhelming democratic support, but not overwhelming republican support. is speaker boehner's speakership threatened? >> not in the short term. that is a bit of a surprise. as i was saying, i think he faced a choice between risking his speaker ship and putting that on the floor or risking the

world economy and he did the second. he allowed his own internal dynamic within the republican conference to exhaust itself and punch themselves out to the point of exhaustion. you saw that last night. they didn't even bother to show up on the house floor to debate this thing. i've neve seen anything like it in 23 years of covering washington, something of that magnitude flying through the house in less than an hour with very few republicans coming to the floor to talk about it. those that did was a dying breed, the mod receipts, charlie dent from the philadelphia suburbs, one of the last that can be called a swing district, an individual republican who felt this was very bad for him politically. that represents the dynamic here. you've got the traditional chamber republicans and you've got idealogically driven tea party republicans. that is something that has not yet been resolved and many thought it might be after the struggle we've seen over the

last days. >> to remind our audience, right now, we are awaiting word from the white house concerning the deal reached in congress last night, both houses of congress now voting to end the standoff, the shut down of the government into its 16th day and extend the debt ceiling. the government will be reopened and funded. some say we are now simply kicking the can down the road, others saying we are looking at what could be a new era of bipartisanship in washington because they are so bloodied and bruised in the polls. we have just starting to see how the government shutdown could impact american consumers, ebay warning about the holiday shopping season, saying consumer confidence has been rad would and spending for the holiday

will drop, declined 2% from last year. consumers are now asking about the stability of the economy, our government and their own finances. we are still waiting from the white house, but that does not bowed well for the upcoming holiday season. >> the congress has done damage to the economy, $24 billion is the estimated cost. we are explaining why that money will never be spent again, the opportunity lost and now thanksgiving and christmas looming, and may be well concerned about spending in those holidays knowing we are going through this all again at the end of the year. the real message that's gone around the world is that the in many ways, the biggest problem facing the u.s. economy right now is the elected representatives in washington, d.c. what an extraordinary thing to have to say, but that is the commentary in most of the

newspapers this morning and on the websites as people realize that what is happening is we are just moving from short termism to short termism and there's no real effort being made as mike was saying just now to look at this in the long term. that is what wall streeted message was. wall street looked at the basic facts. they looked at the government shutdown and in particular at the debt ceiling needed to be raised by today, and they came to a logical conclusion that whatever happened, has congress would finally do it and they did. >> the dow down 78 points. we are awaiting word from the white house concerning the debt deal that was reached last night ending the government shutdown. we are going to take a break right now to pay some of our bills. we'll be right back.

>> i'm del walters coming to you live from new york. right now, we are awaiting word from president obama concerning the deal reached late last night while many of you were sleeping to avoid the debt ceiling debacle and also end the government shutdown into its 16th day. mike in washington did not like my analogy of the victory lap after the civil war, but the

approval rating for both houses, both sides, including the white house were among the lowest and worst that anybody had ever seen. do they understand that across the country, people were really upset? >> they do, but it gets back to what we were talking about earlier. which constituency are those house republicans responding to? so when you look at the dynamic and this is a longer discussion within the house of representatives, del, and you look at the conservatives there who are driving this train, i mean, they are not necessarily concerned about the larger republican party approval rating. they, the true believers, the nature of a true believer is they believe they are doing the right thing and will go down in flames if they have to. that's basically what happened last night. i do have breaking news from the smithsonian. the panda cam is back up at the do after being down for some 16 days. >> mike, that is not trivial at all.

we know that generates more web hits than most of anything in the country. >> we don't want to make that crash by recognizing that publicly here. it's funny almost that some of the symbols that have emerged as the result of the shutdown and this crisis over the debt limit, that really illustrate what's happening around the country for many people who are feeling real pain, as john and you have been consistently pointing out. look what happened at the world war ii memorial, how that tried to be highjacked by conservatives down there, the bicycle rack barriers that were placed around that, around the lincoln memorial and other venues around town. the panda cam did become a symbol of the put somedown where people were accessed. i can report now that the panda does now weigh five pounds, del. >> michael, this was different this time. people, we saw this time, a level of anger that i have not seen directed at the washington.

i mean for years, it was always considered that this is what they were going to do and then at the last minute go ahead and kiss and make up, if you will. but this time, you heard people saying my life has been ruined. i have had to make very difficult decisions right now and i don't like this process. >> yeah, you know what, del, whether that has an impact or not really depends on the next selection. i mean, will enough time have elapsed by then or will we go through another crisis or crisis after crisis to keep this in people's minds throughout the course of next year, a mid term election year for congress. people don't want to think about this stuff. that's been borne out time and time again. they don't want to see bickering. they don't want to concentrate on the congress. they want to trust their representatives to be honest. they want to trust them to do the right thing and certainly they want to trust them to don't do -- to avoid doing things that result in what we have seen the last two weeks.

there's a short memory on the part of the public. 12 months, the time between now and the next congressional election is an eternity in politics and that really rings true. so will people -- what are you left with the people who vote in congressional elections? exactly the grandstand that the people on the right and to some extent on people to the left, to the great extend, the more hard core conservatives people have been playing to. these are the people that show up. when the silent majority to borrow a a term i don't mean your youth and my youth does start showing up, voting in favor of people who hold up compromise as a virtue, things will change. that is not the pattern and practice of the way these mid term elections work, del. >> stand by as we continue to await word from the white house from the president concerning the deal that was reached. john on the floor of the stock

exchange. fitch came out and put the warning out on the eve of approximate deal, saying that something must be done in washington. is fitch satisfied with what just happened? >> i'm going to talk about panda cams. do you see the picture of the little boy who was up on the gates of the zoo in washington, d.c., looking so sad with a bear hat on, as well and couldn't go in because of the shutdown. i can see when the president comes out. >> i'm glad that you threw that in. >> that was the cutest picture. fitch, well, i think it had an impact, yes. fitch is one of the rating industries, the other standard & poor's and moodies. standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. credit rating in 2011 from triple-a to double-a plus. that means some around the world can't invest in the u.s. economy. it was humiliating for the u.s. for that to happen. fitch said we're going to do the

same thing as standard & poor's, reduce the credit rating of the united states. that would have been two of the three major companies. it would have been doubly embarrassing. it's not something ever anybody wants to see. fitch was using the same reasons that standard & poor's had used two years ago, mainly the chaos in washington, d.c. washington now being the biggest inhibitor of economic growth potential. fitch said the same thing standard & poor's said. these companies conveniently forget to tell us that some of the big industry names that crashed out of bed in the 2008 financial crisis were rated as highly as triple-a when they shouldn't have been. all three of those big companies were doing that then. here they are now getting involved in u.s. politics. so i think the fact that they spoke up when they did

certainly, you know, galvanized thinking. focused minds a lot more on washington, d.c., on the hill there than they might have been potentially otherwise. >> john, only because the two of you referenced it, and i do not want to make the hard transition from the panda cam. >> this is going to be good. >> here is the image of the panda cam. it is not quite up running yet, but this is what we're seeing on the website for the national zoo. our crack team of producers on every angle you talked about. this shutdown cost the united states dearly in terms of its international reputation, the president not able to attend the asian summit, china saying don't put your trust and faith in the united states, put your faith and trust in china. how bad was that damage and did china make in-roads? >> probably not, frankly. i don't think china's ready to become the currency reserve which they want to be, not for another, who knows, some say 50

years, some say 15, we're just going to have to find out. one of the issues here and i know the politicians saying let's just let this debt ceiling not be raised, let's bust right through it and see where we end up, one of the theories is where in the world is anybody else going to put their money right now, all these people who might have lost their interest rate payment because they invested in u.s. bonds. even if the u.s. government is downgraded to double-a plus, it's still pretty safe as houses in terms of putting your money in. are you going to put it in china? i don't think you are. in the you're row? you might do, but there's a lot of economic uncertainty there, as well. i think that that argument didn't win the day in the end, the international economists won the day, people like christine

lagarre, in the end, their voices came through and if they didn't actually win over members of the republican party who voted against this bill last night, then at least they managed to make sure that saner thoughts in the end, saner heads prevailed. of course, the reason that so many members of the republican party are not listening to international economists, authoritative though they are like the head of the world bank is they are not their constituency. what the head of the world bank says is interesting to a lot of these republican members of the house, but it's not who they're playing to. they don't have to go home and meet them every weekends and they're not directed what to do by them. so that's red light issue at the end of the day, so to bring this full circle, when fitch came out and said we are going to downgrade you, and that's going to hurt you further, that's why i think minds were suddenly focused. >> john, two items of

information for our audience, one being the fact that as you can tell right now, the president is late. it is now 10:57. we were told he would address an audience at 10:35. mike viquiera, can you tell us why the president is late. the second item of business, the panda cam is now up and running. take it away, mike. >> where do i begin? first of all, panda cam, the national zoo did tweet out that they might get overwhelmed, you need to refresh every 10 minutes. so why the president is late, the definition of news is news is unexpected. the president is often late, it is expected, therefore this isn't news. he's chronically late as are presidents in past. >> you realize he's taking a back seat right now to of all things, a panda cam.

>> many folks on twitter bring up to the president brings up the pan at a cam when he makes that appearance. you see the president walk into the state dining room. in the audience will be many members of the executive office of the president who have been furloughed over the course of the last 16, 17 days, returning to work, getting that word from the office of manage men and budget. last night, really, del, it was around 11:00 when we were coming on the air for the 11:00 show that the o.n.b. put out this notice saying folks, rise and shine, time to come back to work tomorrow morning, thursday morning. i think it took a lot of people by surprise. i had neighbors i saw straggling out late who had been off for the past three weeks. you will see the president surrounded by folks that worked for the office of the president here. we've seen a number of happy faces around town. the vice president made the trip

to the environmental agency, greeted workers rushing after their furlough there. we should point out that they had plenty of reason to smile, because they did get that back pay. i'm hearing cheers. >> it's footage of the vice president greeting those workers. we were going to tell that we had that, thought it was just the panda cam. >> the president of the e. approximate p.a., chief of staff here at the white house, dennis mcdonough was out on executive drive, greeting returning workers here, as well, washington certainly getting back to normal. it bears repeating how long is normal and what is the new normal. this deal, you to have remind folks amid this jubilation or euphoria today is only good for four months. there's no indication that the prip