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>> there you go. >> thanks to our kids. coming up tomorrow on the show, former d.c. schools chancellor michelle reed. >> donald trump will even be live. tune in to "fox & friends" for the after the show show. well, this sunday morning, still a deadlock. no sirens of compromise from the white house or republican leaders and that debt ceiling deadline is looming. four days. just 86 hours to go. but this afternoon, the senate will be back in session to try to solve this whole thing. finally, after 13 days of the shutdown, can they come up with a deal to reopen the government and make sure our nation has enough money to pay our bills? good morning everyone on this sunday morning. i'm eric shaun. >> i'm jamie colby. i guess we can hope it's lucky
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day 13, but meanwhile, we welcome you to america's news headquarters and tell you the situation in washington is reaching a boiling point. also set up with the whole thing, our nation's military veterans who are now fighting back in a million veteran march on our nation's capitol. they have been gathering there all morning in huge numbers because they want to get paid. they want their benefits. and peter, who will be joining us live in just a few minutes, no question there, will be weather or not the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c. will be open for them as well as the money they deserve. >> and later on today, senate majority leader harry reid and mitch mcconnell will be getting together. can those two gentlemen save our nation and get us out of this mess. it will be up to them to cobble together some type of deal that will be acceptable to both sides. how did this all start? back on september 20th, you may
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recall the house voted to approve legislation that denied funding at the time for obama care, but it did keep the government open through december 15th. tea party favorite ted cruz, marathon speech against obama care in which he talked all night on the senate floor, garnering national attention. that was on september 24th. he talked for 21 hours. with no budget deal by midnight on the 21st, the government shutdown did take place. four days after that, the government voted to pay furloughed workers, but on september 8th, the pressure began to mound between the house and john boehner over the failed debt ceiling negotiations. they did vote to pay for halted death benefits for military
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families. the same day house republicans proposed raising the debt ceiling by six weeks, and on saturday, they proposed ending the stalemate while yesterday, the house and senate both held sessions. senate democrats m s met with t president, but this morning, no deal specifically in sight. day 13 as the shutdown continues and falls to both mitch mcconnell and harry reid to try to cobble together some type of solution and we'll find out later on today if they can. >> thanks for bringing us up to date. meantime, the world's leading financial experts are urging the u.s. to take control of this situation and raise the nation's debt ceiling or risk, as we all know, setting off another global financial crisis. something we definitely don't need. brendan butler is joining me now. anchor of "bulls and bears" to tell us what we can expect as
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individuals. what does this mean for us? >> we're watching this kind of crisis governing, which makes no sense at all. but we have to remember that if we don't raise the nation's debt ceiling, we don't know exactly is october 17th, the date, there are some who think it's the end of the month, but if we don't raise the debt ceiling, it does not mean the nation automatically goes into default for the first time. tat means we do not pay the interest payments on our deblt. we as individuals, what does this mean to us? s should we move out of stocks, into bonds, take it out in cash? we can't figure out what washington is going to do, so the best thing is to have a diversified strategy and stick with it. the worst thing to do is sell off everything because chances are you're not going to get in when the market bounces back, which inevitably it does. >> at the same time, a sell-off by individuals hurts all of us because if they sell off, what we own goes down.
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it's every man for himself. >> i'm sure people at home are quite frightened. >> and they should be. there's a lot of fearmongering going on by officials in washington because wants their agenda pushed. but when we look at our own money. think about if you had from the bottom of the crisis in 2008, the s&p 500, which is probably what you have in your retirement account, has gone up 150%. the markets are pretty resilience. we would see a selloff. last week, we sue a big jump in stock when we saw there was a thaw in the chill in washington, that there might be negotiations. and then it came back a bit, at least. >> quite a bit. >> overall, it's been a really great year if you have your money in the market and you're thinking about retirement, you're saying no change in
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strategy? >> don't change because you're worried about our hitting the debt ceiling in the next few days. if you sell off tomorrow in the hopes something is going to happen by thursday or won't happen, chances are you're not going to be able to time things. nobody can figure out what washington is going to do. don't put your money on the line with that. that's why you have a diversified strategy of cross asset classes. >> finally, what will institutions do with their pension funds and money they have invested in the market as they are concerned about obama care, what it will cost them, the ability to hire and produce and export? >> that's the big question. and we're already seeing, for example, small businesses, which are the engine of job creation, they're sitting on the sidelines. because this shutdown has hurt them, and talk of the default is making them at least -- consumer confidence is down. that's bad. what washington is doing is making everybody nervous. and when everybody is nervous, they don't spend and they don't
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hire. >> it seems like you eased our concerns by saying if we have a strategy, and people should from time to time look at it. i know a lot of people who don't look at their retirement accounts. they're afraid to even open the envelope. especially now. your advice to them. >> not to look at it in a crisis. look at it -- you should look at it, you know, every six months or so and make sure you're on the right track. if you look at it now and say, i have to make sure i go to cash because the sky is going to fall because we don't raise the debt ceiling, that's not the best investment strategy. >> i have about 20 seconds. what should we look for over the next we to see how we do in the market? >> the markets are very, very volatile. when we see there might be talk of negotiation, we'll see the market go up. and the converse is true as well. >> it's lucky day 13. we'll take lucky day 14, whatever it is. nice to see you.
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pleasure. >> while we worry about our wallets and wonder what is going to happen tomorrow morning when the opening bell rings, the shutdown still affects those in washington. let's check in in washington where peter is live with more on the shutdown. >> there's a big crowd here, very emotional crowd on the sidewalk in between the washington monument, which is to my left, and the world war ii memorial just behind me. they started gathering here before dawn. there are definitely several hundred people here. we have heard many different speakers. the theme is the same. the people are upset with the way veterans have been treated during the government shutdown. at one point, before folks started stepping up to the mike, the protesters took it upon themselves to take down the metal barricades that surrounded the entire memorial. they took down the barricades, lifted them over their heads and took them down around the corner
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and stacked them all up. now they're laying there in a heap, ironically, underneath the sign that the park service put up that said this memorial is closed except for first amendment activities. across town, on some of the sunday shows, lawmakers are talking about this government shutdown, about the impact it's having on people and the prospect for reopening the government. listen to this. >> to think that someone would inflict this much pain. this is what is hard for me to believe. i didn't sign up for this duty, for public service, to put undue pain on people, and it's hard for any of us to accept that. i have faith in our leadership. i believe they'll come together in a rational way and fix this problem. >> across the aisle, some republicans are saying senate democrats like senator manchin from west virginia are the ones to blame for the government continuing to be closed. >> some of the democrats have pulled back at the regrets of the white house, and now maybe
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trying to look at sort of busting the budget caps that were established back in 2011. i think we're in the status quo. i do think we'll see our way through this, but the last 24 hours have not been good. >> so you can see a big crowd here. a loud crowd here in washington. at the world war ii memorial. the way the organizers have things set up, they're hoping to have similar -- maybe not this big, but they want people in small towns to show up at their local monument, their local war memorial so the word gets out across the country about their beef, basically, about the treating of veterans and active duty women and men in the shutdown. >> in 12:00, two hours from now, we'll talk to a senator, and he thinks there could be a deal. >> good news out of secretary kerry's unannounced visit to
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afghanistan. the feate of a preliminary security deal now in the hands of afghan tribal leaders. john kerry and the president, hamid karzai announced this deal after two days of talks and it would keep some americans in afghanistan past the withdrawal deadline by the end of next year. one point of contention is the issue of jurisdiction over american forces charged with committing crimes. we'll keep you posted. and now to iran and the negotiations over its disputed nuclear program that began on tuesday in geneva. tehran announcing its own red line on its nuclear program, saying it will not agree to ship out its stockpile of enriched uranium. >> and that recent trauma set the bar high for the talks. he's claimed that his nation is open for compromise on a potential deal, but despite the
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supposedly friendlier image, iran keeps growing their uranium stockpile and refuses to obey six u.n. security council requests to stop. fox news contributor john bolton, former ambassador to the united nations and senior at the american institute of enterprise is here. good morning. what do you expect to happen at the talks that start on tuesday? >> i'm worried that both the obama administration and the european union are prepared to give way on a number of key points, notably the economic sanctions. i think they're hungry for a deal. i think iran senses that the obama administration in particular is hungry for a deal. therefore, the tactics that iran will use will be to call to sequence concessions. so the first concession will be
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a weakening of the sanctions. iran will make promises that are superficial but not give way. i'm very worried that that's the direction we're taking and that will lead to legitimizing iran's nuclear weapons program in effect. >> let's take a look at the list of demands on iran right now. we have this list and it seems like they have already given up the one to stop uranium enrichment. they reduce it from 20% to 5%, so they have already thrown that demand to stop out the window. also, to close its underground facilities, to ship that material out of the country, which they have already said no to, and open up their facilities to full u.n. inspections. so ambassador, have they already said, never mind, we didn't mean it when we told you to stop? >> they're close to that point. our president has already said that iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program. that's flatly wrong. iran has been seeking nuclear
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weapons for over 20 years, in violation of the commitments it made under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. alize there's no evidence we should believe the latest promise they won't go for nuclear weapons. this question of 20% enrichment as a concession that iran might made is an utter red herring. it's flatly wrong as a matter of physics. it's a complete misrepresentation of having any uranium enrichment capability can give in a short period of time. nuclear physicists don't believe in the concept of medium enriched uranium which is a term journalists use all the time. a complete red herring based on bad physics, bad policy, bad litigation. >> this will be headed by wendy
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sherm sherman. she's been an official for a long time back in the '9s, '97 to 2001, she was the special adviser to president clinton on policy and coordination on north korea. oops, remember that deal with north korea and their nuclear program in exchange for oil and food? what can she do now differently with tehran that did not work with peyoung yang? >> maybe lurj from the mistakes that the clinton administration made back then. i remember when the bush administration was coming in, we learned in secret, the clinton administration had offered north korea to launch satellites for it if north korea would give up its ballistic missile program. this is a view, this is a mindset as you mentioned also in the case of north korea, we were prepared to build the north koreans nuclear reactors. if i were a negotiator, i would be popping my orange juice bottle in anticipation of
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sitting down with this crew. >> finally, how do you know if the iranians are sincere? what should we look for to find out if they're not? >> i don't think there's really any way here. this is a government you cannot trust, and iran is a big enough country, you cannot verify. the only long-term solution is regime change. obviously, that's not what obama wants. and in the shorm-term, i think iran is going to come out with a legitimized nuclear program and a capabability to break out the nuclear weapons at a time entirely of their choosing. >> don't you think the administration would want regime change, potentially? that seems almost impossible? >> well, they have done absolutely nothing during the entire four and a half years they have been in office, beginning with the fraudulent elections in iran in 2009 when weeks went by before the administration spoke out. they have a fascination with this islamic revolution in
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tehran. that's why they have been trying for four and a half years to negotiate with it. i think it's going to leave the united states and our friends like israel and the middle east in a gravely weakened security position. >> success, yes or no? >> no success from the american point of view. i think in iran, they're getting ready for the victory parade. >> u.s. ambassador john bolton. 48 hours and the talks begin. as always, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. we have some extreme weather to report. india has been left to pick up the pieces. they were hammered by the most powerful cyclone to strike the country in more than a decade. tens of thousands of homes destroyed. so far, though, thankfully, only 17 deaths confirmed. the weather here, not so extreme. >> i remember being there for the tsunami years ago. they don't take weather well in india.
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>> they did get a lot of people evacuate said. that's good news. and the other good mews is this storm weakened before it made landfall. this is palin, and then we have typhoons targeting places like vietnam, and this is equivalent to a cat 4. a lot of activity in the pacific basin. here at home, we're watching this that could development and tropical storm octave. so not a huge deal. here across the u.s., we are watching the potential for some flooding over texas, and our next storm system over the northern rockies. let's talk about the flooding potential for central texas, west of austin, they received over eight inches of rain in less than 12 hours. so that is really dangerous. flash flood watchings and
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warnings are in effect and i have a feeling we'll get video out of that area. a lot of high-water rescues. don't travel over water you can't see the bottom of. and look at the rainfall on top of what we have seen. in some cases, over six inches of rain. ultimately a good news story because they're dealing with an extreme drought, but too much of a good thing can lead to flooding. our next storm system across the northern rockyici aies is going drop feet of snow as well as potential storms across the midwest. >> sounds like dust off the skis. you know john sougkate will be happy. thank you. >> they were sent to a ranch for troubled youth, but now they're nowhere to be found. we'll have the latest on the search for a group of missing teens and the disturbing allegations, they say, against the owners of that facility. >> we're checking that out. plus, feeling hungry between meals? you want to stop it, but the
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axiron. welcome back, everybody. leaders of the democrat-led senate are rejecting a bipartisan plan to end the government shutdown and raise the nation's debt limit. so far, two of the men responsible for negotiating the plan sounding off today on fox news sunday. >> republicans started off in a place that was an overreach, and to try to change a law that was central to the president's, you know, agenda, was not something that was achievable. a delay, maybe, other kinds of things. maybe. now, i think the democrats are on the verge of being one tick too cute as they see the house
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possibly in disarray, they now are overreaching. >> give obama care a chance to work. if it doesn't work, it will fall on its own. don't have the underlying motive to just get rit of it. we're talking about financial issues of the country. coal and what role it plays in the economy of the government and that's not the place for it. everybody wants to bring their social agenda to the table when we really should be fixing the finances of the country. >> joining me now is chris wallace. fixing the finances of this country. will we get there? >> bob corker, who is one of the key players in all of the negotiations in the senate was pretty pessimistic today. he said we had taken a couple steps forward late last week. we seem to have taken a couple steps backward this weekend. when the markets reopen monday, we may not be in a very good spot.
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interestingly enough, jamie, the key issue seems to be spending. the spending cuts. we're talking about obama care and all these issues, the compromise plan offered in the senate would have kept the government running until the end of march, but with the sequester automatic spending cuts and that's too much for the senate democrats and the white house. they want to bust the cap. they want to increase government spending, so it's back to one of the fundamental fights between the republicans and democrats in this town over how much the government should spend, particularly at a time where we're $17 trillion in debt. >> do you get the sense either side is more willing to compromise? >> no, well, maybe the republicans are more willing to compromise. i think the democrats feel, they look at the polls, they see people are really blaming the shutdown and possibility of default primarily on the republicans and may feel they kind of have the whip hand and
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they can force the republicans to cave, but as we just heard bob corker say, they're in daefrb of overplaying their hand and that could be dangerous and could lead to the republicans saying, fine, you're not going to give us anything reasonable? we won't agree and we'll go off the cliff together. >> do they feel the president has appropriate involvement in the process? >> i don't think they think that's the problem. the problem may be as far as republicans are concerned, the president, they think, is overplaying his hand, but they don't feel he's detaching from it right now. >> country in a precarious position. thanks for brimging us a lot of brain power in the interview. >> and we'll talk to a house republican, jim jordan. whatever they pass in the senate has to get through the house. jim jordan shakes his head, particularly on the idea of rolling back the spending caps. he also said obama care is unfair. we have to fix that, too. >> i gotta go.
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