>> good morning. i'm chris jansing. this morning it it looks like speaker john boehner is caving to tea party pressure. tomorrow he'll call for's vote on legislation that keeps the government running only if obama care is defunded. now that's wildly popular with conservatives, but it's dangerous in two ways. if the government shuts down october 1st, social security checks won't go out. government employees will be laid off, embassies will be shirted and not to mention the political consequences. >> and now we are going to let our party run into moving traffic against a red light. it's idiotic. >> i can't remember when a major political party did something like this, threaten the u.s. economy with a body blow that

could kill the recovery. >> this is such a scam and we are there literally playing with the lives of the american people. >> i want to bring in "washington post" political reporter nia henderson and lois romano. good morning. >> good morning. >> it seems to me we have seen two john boehners. i want to play first what he said in march. >> do you want to risk the full faith and credit of the united states government over obama care? that's a very tough argument to make? >> fast forward yesterday. here's what he said. >> it's a train wreck. we will continue to do everything we can to repeal the president's failed health care law. this week the house will pass the c.r. that locks the sequesters in and defunds obamacare. >> lois, what changed from then until now? why is john boehner doing this? >> i think what changed is that he was confronted with losing his speaker shship.

i think the right flank of the house is so dead on this that they told him that he wouldn't be reelected speaker unless he did it. john boehner is actually a very practical politician, and i think he knows it's a train wreck. you do something like this and the american people and it's going to backfire. it's true that 50% of the american public do not care for obama care, but it you look at the cross tabs on that they don't want it repealed. they don't want it fixed and there's this internal battle in the republican party. you have the tea partiers who seem almost giddy at the prospect of this all happening and the ability to possibly defund obamacare. senate republicans are the opposite. john mccain called it a suicide note and lamar alexander said he's not in the shutdown crowd and john cornyn questioned the endgame and even ted cruz admitted this was going to pass

the house. i don't know, nia malika, is the tea party running washington? >> well, i think they are for the time being with this, john boehner caving to the tea party crowd. this is a crowd that got him elected and his speakership depends on it it. it's a short-term gain for him because he's able to appease the 40 or 80 or so members in his house that are part of the hell no caucus, right? and i think he's obviously looking down the line and he's looking at 2014 and he's guaranteed to win back the house because it's just unlikely that democrats will be able to gain enough seats to take that over and the question is whether or not they're able to muster enough political center to take the senate. ultimately, we know how this is going to end and maybe it will shut down for a day or so and ultimately they will strip out the decisions and it will bounce back to the house.

that's my guest, and he didn't have votes in the senate and tray said gee, thanks for the support. >> sdens cr for the senate that defunds obamacare and senator ted cruz and mike leigh refused to wave the white flag and surrender. what do you think the endgame is here, lois? the endgame is exactly what she said. it will end in disaster for the republicans, and i think ted cruz decided to be practical. they do not have the votes. the democrats control the senate and it's not going to happen. plus, the democrats have just begun to fight on this. you make a run to defund obamacare, you are affecting a lot of health care thing, medicare, and all of these things will come into play and if the democrats can get their act together and get on message they'll start explaining that. >> there's another threat that's out there that we haven't talked about. let me play what the president had to say about the threat that

they won't raise the debt ceiling. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states the debt ceiling or the the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt. >> even karl rove in an opinion piece today if you saw it is arguing that this is a bad idea. going down that road would strengthen the president while alienating independents. and it is an ill-conceived tactic and are there any that can lead them back to where there could be some kind of deal or compromise? >> i think you saw the president meeting yesterday with business leaders and those are traditionally ally -- business

leaders traditionally allied with republicans and that's where you feel like a lot of the pressure is going come in ultimately especially with those moderate conservatives and then a lot of those conservatives who rely on funding and a donor base of business folks. i think that's where the pressure is going to come ultimately, but i do think that they'll have something to crow about, some of these tea party republicans in the house because they will be able to vote for defunding obama care and we'll certainly see them go back to their districts and talk about staring down obama and the full faith of the government and we're standing up against what they see as an excessive government spending so they'll be fine, i think, in their backyards. i think more broadly for the republican party as a brand, it will be damaging. >> let me bring into the conversation senator chris murphy. it's good to see you, senator. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me play for you what congressman brooks had to say on "hardball" last night. >> i don't want a government

shuttown. that's something that the democrats in the house and the senate want because they think they can use it to their political advantage in 2014. >> he said it's your fault. senate democrats and the president if the government shuts down. what do you say to him? >> that's absolutely ridiculous. it's the republicans and the house of representativeses representing a real fringe element of the republican party that essentially is trying to make a political point and they're not going keep it open unless we defun the obama care and it was upheld by the supreme court and people in the country wanted to be immremed and maybe some aren't completely happy with it, but they certainly don't want to shut down the government over it. there are 15 senators that support mel brooks' position. there are senators that say we should defund obama care or they'll shut down the government. they're so for out of step with the american government and so far out of step where the government is, let's get the government back funded and move on to other issues that are much

more important to the american people like creating jobs. >> what are the chances, do you realistically think is you're taking the temperature of the hill where you are, and i'm wondering with the clock ticking and we're less than two weeks away, what are you telling constituents? how worried are they about a government shutdown? my constituents are sick and tired of listening to washington going from crisis to cries cries, and we've heard about the government shut down and the fiscal cliff. ultimately the republicans do get the sense kicked into them and the house will send a ridiculous bill to the senate. john boehner will create a big stink and reach across to get a bipartisan deal, and i hope we don't shut down for a couple of

days and my constituents don't care about this because they watched this play out over and over and over a ben and they know that they go irrational for a period of days and they get pushed to the side when boehner decides he wants to do a deal with democrats. >> we'll talk about the horrific shootings and the navy yard is a mile, mile and a half from where you're standing and yesterday we showed the presser from the newtown families. more than 200 people have been killed by guns since december 14th and 12 more innocent lives have been lost. look, you can say enough is enough and that's what a lot of people were saying there, but i talked to a lot of people in the last couple of days and even leaders who work for organizations about gun control and i didn't hear any optimism. is there any reason for optimism? >> i think there's always reason for optimism. the fact is that we are only five votes away in the senate

from getting something significant passed. >> have any minds been changed by this, do you think? >> we are trying to find out right now. listen, i said yesterday at the press conference that ultimately this might have to be about elections. ultimately, these groups may have to go out in 2014 and hold senators and representatives accountable for voting against 90% of con stitch wen, but what we know is that laws do matter. what we know is that this guy tried to purchase a semiautomatic weapon. he was stopped from doing so and is -- by a law and as bad as the carnage was there it probably would have been worse if he'd walked into the navy yard with an ar-15 which he tried to purchase. all of this talk that laws don't matt matter, once again, we're seeing in the navy yard shooting, new laws keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people can make a difference. >> senator chris murphy, thanks. >> thanks, chris.

>> we were talking about the news conference and i also wanted to play nancy pelosi. >> we don't need a moment of silence. we need a day of action in order to get it passed. i believe that if the bill were brought to the floor it would pass and it would pass in a bipartisan way. >> nia, is there bipartisan support out there in the house? peter king and mike thompson both sponsored it, but seriously, you have to wonder if there are votes throughout for change. >> well, i think the only vote that matters in the house side is on speaker john boehner and whether or not he would bring that to the floor and whether or not he would want to go through those different committees and a bill would not get out of those committees and that's the math that they're dealing with, and remember, on the senate side, nothing was able to get done there. harry reed had decided at this point he doesn't have the votes there. i think everyone thought that that terrible massacre in newtown would change things and

that didn't and it's hard to see a way forward with this. in 2016, you will see a democratic, presidential candidate talking about gun control and that is definitely a change in terms of where democrats have been around gun control. >> this may have to come down to whether or not people can make this an election issue and what we saw has to be a little chilling to gun control advocates in colorado with the recall to two state legislators. >> that's a very big issue and i'm glad you brought that up. i think the colorado situation has scared everyone. in the senate, yes, it will be a campaign issue, in the senate they haven't picked up one vote. they needed 20 votes and they've not been able to persuade any other senators. i don't think anybody has the stomach for this right now. the moment was when children were killed and i think as tragic as this situation was at the navy yard, i don't think it changes the political equation

on the hill and they're not going to use capital on it. >> thanks to both of you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> we're just a week ahead from the general assembly meeting and we have a revealing look this morning at the mindset of iran's new president. in an exclusive interview with ann curry, hassan rowhani, he also said iran is looking to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction in the region. ann pressed him on that issue. >> mr. president, these are israeli prime minister netanyahu's word, not mine. he has said about you, his strategy is to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, smile and build a bomb, can you say now categorically then that iran will not build a nuclear weapon under any cirque stannes whatsoever? >> translator: firstly, an occupier and usurper government

that does injustice to the people of the region and has brought instability to the region with its warmongering policies shouldn't allow itself to give speeches about a democratically and freely-elected government. we have clearly stated that we are not in pursuit of nuclear weapons and will not be. >> andrea mitchell reports that both president obama and high-level state department officials were watching for what president rowhani said and while no meeting is scheduled between the two leaders next week during the u.n. meetings officials say that could change. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier.

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>> this morning we have new, but pilzing clues about navy yard shooter aaron alexis. after his mother said yesterday she has no idea why he killed 12 people, investigators say two cryptic messages were everyoned into the former navy reservist's

sawed off shotgun. one said better off this way. my elf weapon. elf can mean extremely low frequency and that may be in reference to an imaginary microwave something he said when he was hearing voices and people were coming after hem. can laws help prevent the rash of mass shootings. let me bring in terry williams. thank you for being here. >> glad to be here. alexis called rhode island police after hearing voices and people were following him with a microwave machine. he haven't to the va twice, but he said it was for insomnia. he never said he was fsz hearin voices and he didn't say he was going to hurt him or other people. was something missed here? >> we go to work every day and

we put on the mask and put on the face and act as if all is well. underneath that so many of us are dying inside and we don't pay enough attention to the mask that we see. >> well, there are two bills and they're trying to legislate this and one is the mental health bill that would provide grants to mental health awareness training programs for groups like teachers, police officers, school administrators, veterans, nurses. >> yes. >> congressman ron barber has introduced a bill to help mental health providers provide electronic health systems. i want to play what he said about that. >> the mental health first aid act provides training across the country to all of these first responders and others who might come into contact to give them a better understanding of mental illness and understanding what they're seeing and knowing how to get someone into treatment. >> it sounds good. can it work? >> it can work if, in fact, we pay attention. the reality is that you never

know what a person is going through and we have to really work on destigmatizing mental health and mental illness. it is an illness just like anything else is. we consider it a weakness and we don't want to ask for help. >> can you train people? can you train teachers? can you train first responders to see those signs? >> you absolutely can and the sign is often the happiest person that you see and we don't know what his particular background was, how he was raised, what kinds of things might have wounded and scarred him that he never got help for because that's so many of us, but absolutely we need to train people and if you see something say something. >> part of the problem is there still is this stigma, right? >> when we heard from martin dempsey, he said those who served in the military should not be stigmatized from having to answer questions come they go through the security clearance and let me play what he had to say.

>> this particular individual, of course, wasn't a simple matter. i don't know what the investigation will determine, but he committed murder and i'm not sure that any particular question or lack of question on a security clearance would probably have revealed that. >> or i suppose, even if they would answer that honestly and is there a balancing act between protecting people's privacy and also getting information that could be incredibly helpful. >> we have to get the information. that's the reality. we have to get the information and we have to make it okay. i myself am someone who suffered from depression and got help for it, but what i know and it's especially harder for men because you are born, bred and raised to suck it up, to be a man and not show emotions of any kind. you can't ask for help. where do you go for that? but that's where we have to begin that everyone is dealing with something and that talking to a therapist is the gift that keeps on giving because you're

dealing with some of the unresolved childhood wounds and scars and things that happen in the workplace that you don't think about, but that affect you very deeply. it's the hardest thing that we have to do, that we have to be more compassionate. we walk down the street and we don't look at people and we don't acknowledge them and people feel as if they don't matter and it's especially more difficult for men. especially dark-skinned, black men in this country who are oftentimes considered intimidating to other people. so i think we have to be more compassionate and when you walk down the street, look them in the eye, say hello and keep it moving. >> we talk about in the wake of the shoot bgs this whole attitude and the programs need to change so we'll continue to follow this. teri williams. thank you so much for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> with each passing day in colorado comes hope. more and more of those

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he was comparing his salary to his staffers who can eventually leave and make much more as lobbyists. it kind of remind meese of an interview i did two years ago with a tea party congressman who complained about high taxes and his income. >> the amount that i have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 of that 6.3 million and so by the time i feed my family i have $400,000 to invest in new locations, buy more equipment. >> you do understand, congressman that the average person out there who is making $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a year when they hear that you only have $400,000 left over it's not exactly a sympathetic position. >> bill de blasio has made income and equality the centerpiece of his campaign for new york city mayor and he's picked up the endorsement of the clintons, not a huge shock

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i think it's flourishing throughout the senate and the house and that can lead us to a successful outcome. >> at the end of the day i think we will pass the immigration reform largely as they proposed it. >> i think a comprehensive package would stand in the house. >> ceo mark zuckerberg met with lawmakers including speaker boehner on capitol hill making the case for immigration reform and that comes on the heels of president obama blaming speaker boehner for the holdup. >> the only holding it it up is j john boehner, and the house of representatives who would vote for it now if it hits. this is a question that should be directed to john boehner. what's going ahead to make him

stop the bill? let me go to keith boynkin and republican strategist and publisher of mullings.com good morning. >> immigration reform has brought public support and it looked like it was in the bag. there's a political imperative, i think, many republican strategists would agree for republicans to move forward. so why isn't it happening? >> keith might disagree with this, but i think it has not much to do with the substance of whichever bill or series of bills more likely that will go to the house floor at some point and more to do with if this is going to sound ridiculous, filing deadlines. i suspect that there are a lot of republicans who understand the need to do this immigration reform even if it's done piecemeal over the the course of three or four bills, but they don't want to be attacked on their right so it may well take another six, seven, eight months when most of the filing deadlines have passed and these members are more confident that they're not going to be attacked

from their right. >> you're laughing, keith. >> i don't disagree with that analysis. what he's basically saying by using the euphemism of the filing deadlines is the conservatives will attack and destroy their political careers if they support immigration reform even though they realize it is in the best interest of the republican party in the long term. if you look at the 2016 elections and look at what happened in 2008 and 2012 they're losing 70% of the latino vote in the presidential elections. they've got to do something and immigration is one step along in that election. >> i think that's right. >> it does seem like nothing's getting done, nothing is going get done. when you look at statistecs here and we just played that piece of sound or we just had the report about the congressman who was complaining about making $174,000 a year, congress has nine working days in september, 14 in october, eight in november, eight in december. that says nine.

i guess maybe it's nine in december, with the budget battle and let's not forget syria, rich, does immigration reform, did it ever stand a chance? >> no, i don't think it did. i don't think it did. i tweeted yesterday that they have delayed next week's one-week recess because they worked for two consecutive weeks following their five-week holiday. so you have to give these guys some rest and it's just hard to believe that they would work for two straight weeks and probably four days a week. remember, the senate -- the house can't go out without the senate's approval for more than three days under the constitution and so this -- so this is -- and this is why, i think, one of the reasons that congress is held in such low regard. it doesn't matter whether it's a house of the democratic senate. people think these people are making too much money to too little for what's best in the

country. >> he has staked a lot on this and he did believe that this was something that he could get done. does he have any options? >> i think the president has a few options, but i think he was right in the most essential point which is john boehner's house of representatives has to do something. the senate has started to move on this. the house has been so busy focused on 40 vote, defunding obama care and they're trying to do something with this and they still are threatening to stop the government because of the debt ceiling limit and they've been so focused on syria over the past month that nobody's had a chance to talk about immigration. so when i heard that we were talking about it today i was shocked because i hadn't heard much talk about it in washington. >> i had the same reaction. >> i have yet to see going work, and i don't know who works a 40-hour week, anybody who has a real job and knows what it's like and everybody is on their blackberries because they can't be disconnected from tr jobs and you say well, we were distractioned by syria so we

couldn't work on immigration. you can't walk and chew gum at the same time? >> to keith's point, i don't think a final bill has come out of the senate either. so i mean, we can make the same case about the senate as we are making about the house. the broader point is that immigration will come in its time and my sense is and i don't have any inside info, but my sense is that the time will be next april, may, june and meanwhile, these are real issues. the debt limit and syria became a congressional issue because the president couldn't figure out what he wanted to do and was looking for some congressional coverage and that's not the congress' fault. the president threw that at them so there's a lot of stuff going and not everybody is on the ways and means committee and not everybody is on the foreign affairs committee. there are 100 members of the senate. real quick, keith. >> ultimately, it's about john boehner and his leadership and what we've seen this week indicates he has no control over

his own house caucus. >> unlike nancy pelosi had great control over her caucus and it cost her 63 seats and the house of representatives and there's a down side to that. >> you're right, rich, but if you have to continue to concede to one small faction of your party in order to stay in office, which is better? to be booted out and stay and not be able to accomplish anything. >> keith boynkin, rich galen. >> we could go on and on forever. >> thanks to both of you guys. appreciate it. let's check the news feed this morning. in a new interview, bashar al assad said he doesn't bow to u.s. threats and had a suggestion to president obama about how to do his job. >> are you interested in speaking to our president? >> that depends on the content. >> if you wanted to send him a message right now what would you say to him? >> listen to the -- to your people. follow the common sense of your

people. that's enough. >> remember the controversial op ed vladimir putin for the new york times warning against military intervention in syria. it's been answered by senator john mccain. mccain fired back in a russian newspaper saying how has putin strengthened russia's international stature, by refusing to consider the massacre of innocent, plight of millions of refugees and the growing prospect of conflagration that engulfs other countries. more than 5,000 employees we're talking about. analysts say the company may be trying to make itself more attractive to a buyer who would continue to face formidable competition from apple and samsung. the stock market today trying to go further into record territory after a pleasant surprise from the fed. cnbc's michelle caruso-cabrera.

retirement accounts got a nice boost after the fed decided let's just keep the stimulus going full strength. >> absolutely. we had a big, big rally and it was not just yesterday, chris. we're's little bit flat today. when you add up all of the gains so far year to date it's been a great year for the stock market. so if you got your 401(k), your retirement account and your ira. take a look. all of the major averages are up more than 20% year to date. you can see the it is up by 12. we had a huge rally yesterday. there you see it, the nasdaq up 22% and the s&p 500 higher by 21%. we're doing a lot of r recovery from the lows of 2009. speaking of records, michelle, priceline has gone boldly where no stock has gone before in the cent. that's right. it is made up of 500 stocks and that's why they call it the s&p 500 and priceline is the first one in history to get to $1,000 a share and it did that briefly

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and who's not according to social media. we are joined by howard bragman, vice chairman of reputation.com and chairman of 15 minutes public relations and he's here with an exclusive analysis for "jansing & company." always good to see you. >> good morning. >> we'll start appropriately enough with twitter. first they announced they're going public and then they tweeted out a picture of the staff with the caption now going back to work. it was on the front page of just about every newspaper. what's the verdict? >> the verdict is very positive. it's 70% positive and following facebook's disappointing -- >> 70% positive. >> which is huge in social media. facebook was very poorly received when they went public and a lot of people were nervous. people are excited and, you know, one of the real reasons is people use social media to make buying decisions. 22% of those decisions are fueled by twitter. so very powerful force in social media. >> a rough couple of weeks for

president obama. he's taken heat over his handling of syria and he's come under fire as republicans are threatening to shut down the government unless booobama care defunded. the affordable health care act is still unpopular. >> folks here in washington with like to grade on style and so had we rolled out something that was very smooth and disciplined and linear. they would have graded it well each if it was a disastrous policy. i'm less concerned about style points. i'm much more concerned about getting the policy right. >> so how is he trending? >> not very good. he's about 72% negative. he did a very important speech last week about syria. 30 million people watched and did not move the needle one point. larry summers, his hand-picked

appointee for fed chair had to withdraw. he's got budget fights coming up. he's got immigration, as i like to say, if it walks like a lame duck and it talks leak a lame duck. and then paula deen. she lost all those endorsements and millions of dollars in endorse ams after it was revealed that a long time ago she used racial slurs. take a look at the comeback. >> i am so grateful and so full of gratitude for all of the love and encouragement that you all have shown me. as you all know, unless you've been under a rock, i had a little rough patch. this summer, but, you know, it was an opportunity to learn. >> so how has social media reacting to paula deen? >> well, i'm not sure it's a

comeback. i think it was a good authentic moment for her and understand she did not walk into the lion's den. she walked into a den of kittens and people paid hundreds of dollars to see her. people who liked her continue to like her. people who didn't don't and they continue to talk about her and i think it was a good pr move and it's a longer term climb back out of the hole she's in. >> howard bragman, always good to have you here and we'll talk to you same time next week. every week. welcome. >> see you then. >> thank you. after saying nasty things about miley cyrus' vma performance cher has issued sort of a mea culpa. it's our tweet of the day, quote, what i should have said i didn't like it that much, but she's pushing the envelope, being an artist. she's talented and didn't commit a felony. cher said she is not apologizing for what she thought. [ male announcer ] pepcid® presents: the burns family bbq.

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there's breaking news out of russia and president putin was speaking at a forum and he said that he could not be 100% certain the government of syria will comply with a plan to destroy chemical weapons. of course, that is the deal that they helped to broker, but he does see reason to be hopeful. he also said, quote, responsibility for syria relies on all, not just russia and as we were talking about earlier, the u.n. general assembly is coming to new york next week, but we'll continue to follow those breaking comments from vladimir putin. back here at home, if you're fed up with congress and most americans are, the 2014 midterms are shaping up to include a colorful cast of characters, shall we say including a former miss america, a gitmo commander and a beekeeper. the rundown of compelling candidates is in roll call and joining me is schirra center. good to see you. >> good morning to you, too,

chris. >> let's start with 2013 miss america, erica herald and she's been the product of attacks from her own party. >> she's beautiful and she also has brains and she'sa a harvard-educated attorney which is puzzling that she's chosen to run against a freshman member of congress in illinois and this is a competitive district. we expect to see a lot of money thrown in the race and she's certainly angered local republicans by choosing to take on a member and she's a fascinating candidate and in any other case, republicans would be clamoring to have her on the ticket. >> army major general retired jerry cannon. >> one of the most interesting military careers i've seen for a candidate running for office. he served in vietnam. he served in iraq. he served in local law enforcement and ten years ago he was a commander at guantanamo bay, cuba. if he's elected we are pretty

sure he's the only one who has served in gitmo. >> they profiled another military man, shane osborne. what a back stories on born has to make "people" magazine's 50 most beautiful people issue, too. >> he did. about a decade ago he made "people" magazine's 50 most beautiful people. he was the pilot of a plane that went down over the pacific. the nose came off the plane and he was interrogated by the chinese, he and his crew for days and days and he came back to america as a war hero. he survived, obviously, and he came back and ran for state treasurer. he won and served for a term and now he's running for senate and his chances are pretty good in that race. >> and you cannot blame me for the bad pun. we have time for one more candidate who with's generating a lot of buzz. >> very funny. yes. that is michael eggman in california. he is running for the house. he's a democrat and he is a bee

farmer. he is part of the beekeeper mafia. he has 2,000 happy bees, happy beehives and it's a very unique background for a candidate. i don't think we've seen this one before. >> great story in roll call. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> that will wrap up this hour of "jansing & co." richard lu i is in for thomas roberts and soo roberts a roberts and i'll see you back here tomorrow. my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. you should not start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you're prone to infections,

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next phase of obamacare will tie in and one is smith republicans right down the middle. some see defeating the president's legislation is top priority. others fear the gop will be blamed if the government shutdown happens. >> we will continue to do everything we can to repeal the president's failed healthcare law. >> we can't let the government shut down. -- >> this as a new abc-washington post poll says the majority of americans can't -- when asked who they trust more, they are split nearly right down the middle between the president and republicans. president obama ripped into the latest republican play yesterday. take a listen. >> had never seen in the history of the united states the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort