it would surprise me to learn that anybody besides manchin toomey and schumer have actually read any of the legislation. >> guest: i don't think schumer did because he threw his name out at the last minute. >> host: he was working on a proposal like that. >> guest: the schumer one didn't even go to the floor and that's how rush this thing. they took a bill that they knew wouldn't be on the floor saying we are going to change it later in the committee. >> host: are gun politics has become really sloganeering and not an attempt to wrestle with serious issues at hand. isn't it legitimate to want to protect the right of the public to live in safety with the 300 million guns we have in the country? every gun owner -- >> guest: that is why they have begun, so they are safer. >> host: shouldn't there be a way we can talk to each other about these things rationally and try to find common ground rather than say your proposal -- you want to ban guns and you want to take my guns away and you don't want to talk with me. >> guest: it's only coming and want direction. if they're coming from the ob

and you know, and schumer, senator schumer is right about this.ttacked on this and they still won, in fact, expanded their majority. this is not what the american people want. they do not want to shut the government down over obama care and litigating this is litigating this for a far right base and the house should work its will. let's just have a bill on the cr go up and it would pass. it would pass tonight. >> kevin, senator john mccain raised this issue that neera just did. there was an election on this, mitt romney was against obama care, mitt romney did not win. former senator jim demint, now with the heritage foundation, was asked this and said that romney, that that wasn't really true, because romney was a flawed carrier of the anti-obama care mantle. >> i think he was a great carrier. >> because obviously, he passed romney care which was the model for obama care. i don't want to relitigate those, obviously there are differences, but do you buy that? were people not thinking this guy's going to repeal obama care when they voted for romney?

obama's gun control agenda is forbidden as it should be. >> host: in that amendment that schumer and manchin and toomey -- >> guest: here's the thing. you have the irs conservative groups and the nsa spy spying on all of us and granting the record. no one anymore believes the federal government that the are not keeping records of you. if you do, you are being spied on. i will wake you i mean mailed now just hi, nsa. [laughter] hi, eric. so, we are living in a year especially in this year when it's come out how outrageous the government is in their privacy. so if you are a gun owner and i am a gun owner -- i am and i know my registered to beat co - registered -- i have zero doubt that they would like to go back to the ban if they go back to the ban my gun will not be grandfathered in and they would want to get it back. >> host: i wonder why they would see going back to the band. one of the more fascinating figures in your book -- and i forgot the exact number now is how few people have gone through the process you did and actually bought and registered guns in the district. >> guest:

senators, including gop senator john mccain and democrat chuck schumer, are working on an alternative resolution to deal with syria and its use of chemical weapons. let's get straight to msnbc's kacie hunt who has more. >> fast-moving developments regarding syria. we've learned senators john mccain and chuck schumer, as you say, are working with a group of other senators to essentially rewrite the resolution the committee passed last week. that old resolution would have authorized the president to use force in syria. this new resolution focuses on a process in the united nations. it basically says if the u.n. were to pass a resolution saying chemical weapons were, in fact, used in syria, and that's an important point, forcing the international community to recognize that these weapons were, in fact, used, and then the u.n. were allowed to go in and remove the weapons within a specified time frame, by a certain date. if it didn't happen, then the president would be authorized to use force. >> all right. that breaking news coming to us. i know you'll keep us updated as these details com

it was interesting, i had a conversation this morning with chuck schumer. you don't get more pro-israel than chuck schumer. >> we actually have a sound bite from that conversation from this morning. we have seen this charm offensive but there are people who are still skeptical. let's take a listen to what he had to say on your program. >> i think it's appropriate the president talk to him. i think we cannot let up on sanctions. the sanctions are working and working very well. that's what has brought iran to even this stage. i think we should make it clear that the sanctions will continue full steam ahead until iran gives up its nuclear weapons and every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed. >> friendly exchanges aside, have we seen any real willingness to compromise? >> that's the $64,000 question and it's going to be part of the president's message of how he wants to put a little bit of shine on what was at best messagingwise an un -- a little bit of a shaky syria during the whole syria crisis, where he's going to make the argument, yes, it may not have

well, i don't know what chuck schumer is worried about. it's still going to be overseen by these great government agencies like the u.s.d.a. and the -- i forget the other one, i'm sorry. but my point is, this is going to be overseen. if the chinese wanted somehow to poison us, they already would have done that through 90% of the tilapia or apple juice we get from them. >> china has been plagued by major food-processing scandals. >> yeah. and one of the problems is they don't own brands like smithfield. consumers will have to deal with your mistakes and ruin your company. the problem with china is they make the products that are then resold in america. i'll take it one further than gary. i don't think major brands in america need the government doing consumer safety. maybe other regulations. because disney can't make a dangerous ride. they'll get sued. they don't need that much oversight. in china, they need it. in small companies or a fly-by-night fair needs government regulation, but not a major name. they would go out of business quickly

it would surprise me to learn anybody besides manchin and toomey and schumer had actually read any of the legislation. >> guest: i don't think that schumer did because he threw his name on a last minute. >> host: he was working on a proposal -- >> guest: the senate actually passed the senator schumer won and they knew that. that is how rushed this was. they took the bill on the floor and made people vote on it saying we are going to change it later in the committee and then re-ride is one that might. >> host: the whole politics has become really slogan and not an attempt to wrestle with the serious issues at hand. isn't it legitimate to want to protect the right of the public to live in safety with the 300 million guns we have around the country? i mean, every gun owner would agree on that. shouldn't there be a way that we can talk to each other about these things rationally and try to find common ground rather than saying you are proposing gun-control you want to take my guns away? i'm not going to talk with you. >> guest: but it's only coming from one direction. it's coming from the

one politician in particular, charles schumer. he uses the middle-class basically it's his whole platform and has sold back to the rest of the democratic party. it's called the schumer method. obama embraces it as well. he writes a book called possibly american, he proposes, you know, let's do so. let's make college tuition to death to both because this is what's killing the middle-class. has any of this have been? no, of course not. it's basically the platform of the democratic party these days. the democratic party is basically moved away from the working class and poor. there's just bigger numbers in more money to be in the middle-class. [inaudible] >> there is no middle-class? [inaudible] >> yes, yeah, basically. exactly. we all think we are middle-class. there's definitely an upper middle class and a lower middle class, but no central middle-class anywhere. the numbers just don't bear that out. folks that marks a command with the u.s. news & world report is a big advocate for the middle-class. due to have to do much and has b

new york senator schumer is the vice chair of the democratic conference.ry reid running and i asked them if congress can get their act together before midnight. >> i think it's very likely we will avoid a shut down. it's becoming clearer and clearer that ted cruz has climbed out on a and it is getting sawed off. he is trying to figure out a graceful way out. the vast majority of people and most republicans thought this was a bad strategy and pushed by a very powerful right group and i think it got too far ahead of them. >> how quickly will you be able to accepted your version of this budget resolution that we were just talking about two months. that seems completely absurd to me. >> we can only do what the majority of the house republicans will send us. obviously that's the amount of time they chose. that's the one place where and his small band have weight as to how quickly this can happen. they can use procedural delays and can't stop it as long as republicans don't go along with them. many think this is a bad idea. yesterday tom coburn sat in on one of

it tastes great. >> why doesn't chuck schumer and his staff go on obama care?rolling in the exchanges -- >> jay carney said he would. >> it took me two hours to get in here to the show today. why? because the u.n. is in session and everybody is in their cards. the president of all these countries. and they stop traffic so they can get through. hell me tell 99% of you, most people don't want to kill you. you're not worth killing. you're here to let your old ladies go to fifth avenue and shop on your home country's taxpayers' dime. if you would just stop at a red light once in a while, i'm telling you, we're tired of it. and pay your damn traffic tickets, too. >> would you just get rid of the u.n. altogether? >> no, i wouldn't. >> why not a virtual u.n.? >> i'd like to meet in the middle of the east river. >> dana, >>> welcome to "red eye." it is like the girl with the dragon tattoo if by girl you mean middle aged man who got it on a dare so don't pretend to hate it. let's women come our guests. she is so hot she is often mistaken for the equator. she anchors fox

he was supported in that effort by senator schumer we just saw a few moments ago. when we get lectured -- when the american people get lectured by the president on why we should raise the debt ceiling without any offsets on spending or get lectured by senator schumer how it's wrong to not raise the debt ceiling, just remember they were on the opposite side of this not too long ago. >> in the last day or so, president obama referred it to as extortion by congress. i guess in 2006 when he was doing the same thing, it wasn't extortion, it was something else. >> i have to defend him on this. he was not trying to extort. he was trying to end the war. republicans are trying to say, yes, mr. president, we will give you the debt ceiling increase but we want you to give us and the american people something in return. what they're asking for is a dollar for dollar offset. if you're going to raise the debt ceiling for the next year offset it by spending reductions in entitlement spending over the next decade. that's an entirely reasonable formula the president already agreed

we have to have a broader, more available options. >> mccain and schumer they are proposing somethingimilar. i assume you'll all work together and come up with one unified approach? >> i've said all along heidi and i never felt comfortable after day one after our first briefing ten days ago on a secured call with all our other colleagues. we talked to each other then, talked immediately after the phone call and we've been working diligently. we don't have pride of authorship or ownership, we do have pride of country. we believe diplomacy will work on first basis rather than war strike. if they are going to adopt and all our colleagues are finding different, we want to work with everybody. we want everybody to be part of this process because we as americans will come out further ahead than getting embroiled in another civil war. >> let me ask both of you, senator heitkamp, let me ask both of you, why would you trust assad. assad has until this initiative denied there was an attack, denied he was part of it, denied he has chemical weapons. why on earth would we trust this man to tell us

he was supported by senator schumer who we just saw.hen the american people get lectureded on why we should raise the debt ceiling without any offsets on spending or when we get lectured by senator schumer how it is wrong not to raise the debt ceiling just remember they were on the opposite side of this not long ago. >> president obama referred to it as extortion by congress. back in 2006 it wasn't extortion when he did it. it was something else. >> he was trying to end the war. the republicans are saying we will give you the debt ceiling increase but we want you to give us and the american people something in return. they are asking for a dollar for dollar offset. if you are raising the debt ceiling for the next year then offset it by spending reductions and en titlement spending over the next decade. that's a reasonable formula which the president has agreed to in a previous debt ceiling vote. >> i think the american people -- if i can be so bold to speak to them, they have now seen the debt ceiling fight over 40 times in the last 30

schumer: okay. then i withdraw the last -- mr. reid: he can have, to make up whatever time, he can take it from us. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: so just point of information, so i'm in order after the senator from arizona? the presiding officer: correct. mr. schumer: okay, thank you. mr. mccain: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: madam president, i won't take a lot of time here on the floor. the floor has been well used over the last day or so. i would like to make sure that my colleagues and especially those who are not here -- who were not here in 2009 understand that there are many of us who are opposed to obamacare as it's called, the affordable care act, and the opposition that we mounted in 2009 is a -- 234n 2009. it's a matter of record, to start with, the senate finance committee considered the affordable care act over several weeks and approved the bill on october 13 of 2009. at that time, members of the finance committee submitted 564 amendments. 135 am

senators, including gop senator john mccain and democrat chuck schumer, are working on an alternativeia and its use of chemical weapons. let's get straight to msnbc's kacie hunt who has more. >> fast-moving developments regarding syria. we've learned senators john mccain and chuck schumer, as you say, are working with a group of other senators to essentially rewrite the resolution the committee passed last week. that old resolution would have authorized the president to use force in syria. this new resolution focuses on a process in the united nations. it basically says if the u.n. were to pass a resolution saying chemical weapons were, in fact, used in syria, a

. >> new york senator schumer wants the federal government to step up regulation of the chemicals used to make the design are drug, a new form of ecstacy blamed for a string of deaths. two died of an overdose at new york's electric zoo festival over labor day weekend. schumer says the traffickers are getting around federal law by changing the composition of already batched substances. >> hillary clinton could be in the running for president in 2015. in an interview in the "new york magazine "secretary of state, hillary clinton said she is resolution weeing with the idea of jumping into the ring weighing factors that influence her decision one way or the other. previously she said she had no plans it run for office but close freeways say they have no question hillary clinton is going to run. >> shocking revelations from the quite of talk, oprah admits the toll of trying to save her cable network pushed her to the brink of a nervous breakdown hit as she filmed "the butler," but did not realize what was happening. she finally slowed down but it took a while saying "i reached a point i cou

see a lot of anger as with the clip you played with harry reid describing an anarchist your chuck schumer saying that in all his time in the senate he's never seen anything like this happen before and you see especially on the house side a lot of the democrats putting pressure on speaker john boehner to bring the senate's clean c.r. because the votes are there if if the speaker of the house john boehner is willing to bring democrats on board for this vote it will pass and we will avoid a government shutdown and really this is the only way to avoid a government shutdown at this point and right now the house is voting on a rule as we speak that will bring the house floor to bring the house bill to the floor to de lay obamacare and there's about twenty republicans who are saying that they're considering joining with democrats to defeat the rule which would pretty much for spain or to bring this clean resolution of the floor but yeah i talked with senator reid given the way this debate has gone over the over the budget here and government shutdown and given the fact that in two weeks we're go

next, chuck schumer of new york joins us.. >> for so many of us, it was another great fall weekend. the pacific northwest had the worst weather conditions. this was a strong storm for this time of year. the rainfall was off the charts. they received to eight inches of rain in seattle and also in portland. the wind with over 100,000 people without power. these are not normal. the leaves on the trees in the northwest. power companies were out there and you can see they have their work cut out for them. that storm went onshore up here into vancouver island. a lot of rain and the high winds of moving out. into the northern rockies. we are talking some areas could have wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour. there is a lot of great weather out there. no problems from much of the east coast all the way back to the ohio valley. dry conditions. you know it's good when you can't remember the last time it rained. one of those is washington, d.c. look at the sunshine. going down on the green leaves. not for long. you are watching "morning j

. >> take a listen to senator rubio and schumer on the different tone of the messaging today. >> sounds democrats here in washington are obsessed with shutting down government. that's all they talk about. i don't know of anyone who wants to shut down the government. the only thing we want to shut down obama care. and the reason why is because of the harm it's doing to the american middle class, to hard-working people who get up in the morning and are working hard just to try to get ahead. >> the tactic of waiting until the last minute to come to deals has been used a lot in recent years. and in the past, it's worked out at the very last minute. let's hope that happens again, but if speaker boehner attaches anything, the likelihood of that happening becomes smaller and smaller. >> the likelihood, if anything comes back. you're saying if anything comes back, kirsten, we're headed for a shutdown on tuesday? >> i think as long as they're trying to defund the obama care, we're headed for a shutdown. i want to address this line that everyone thinks is so cute about the terrorists. i think it

would argue that somewhere itself to approach towards the taliban if you want the full article so schumer must create the conditions for reaching such political solution and if we use. the conditions to troops to enable those on the side of the taliban to to choose to be a part of political solution. will do the. science technology innovation called elites developments from around russia we've got the future covered. hello welcome to. the shevardnadze today where we're in beirut capital of lebanon when you're in this beautiful middle eastern city it is hard to imagine that there is a battleground next door in syria with endless blood tears and destruction and the echoes of this conflict cannot resonates around lebanon and whoever you talk to in beirut has one question on their mind when is it going to be over. syria shattered into pieces. little remains of the peaceful little kept for a peaceful future. as rebels fight the government. of the people. his president. should. feel to share the border with such a neighbor. lebanon. with the syrians general michael. our own thank you very much

chairman, ranking member corker, members of the committee, senator schumer thomas senator jim the brands an honor to appear before you this morning as the president's nominee to serve as united states ambassador to japan. i appreciate the confidence that president obama and secretary kerry have shown in nominating you for this important position, and i am grateful for consideration of this distinguished committee. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today to answer your questions and hear firsthand your thoughts and concerns about our central relationship with japan. forward tod, i look working with the committee and with other members of congress to advance the interest of the , protect the safety of our citizens, and strengthen the bilateral relationship for the benefit of both our countries. i would also like to thank my family for their support throughout this process and their enthusiasm for this mission. my husband, ed, is here, along with my three children. my. are taught tiana and my son jack, and i am so pleased that my aunt vicki could be here. she's gary -- she carries ev

we heard a funny equip from chuck schumer, out of new york, and wondered if he had paid attention to the green eggs and ham that was read on the senate floor. it was something tha about somee trying something new and liked it and tried it. >> they also quoted duck dine dy last night. they warned house speaker john boehner that the government is going to run out of money in mid-october. what does that mean? are they heeding the treasury secretary's warning? >> reporter: the big fight is keeping the government funded past monday night when the government face as shutdown unless government can come to an agreement. but a much fiscal issue looms. they will run out of money in the sense that the bills going out are bigger than the money coming in and cash on hand. we saw the treasury hit it's spending limits back in spring, but they were able to use extraordinary efforts to extend ththe funds. >> thank you very much. the united states is the 91st country to sign on the u.n. arms treaty. controls regulation in controlled sales of arms. >> this is about keeping weapons out of the hands of t

senators mccain durbin and schumer came to the floor later to respond to comments made by senator cruz. this is 20 minutes. sneed madam president i won't take a lot of time here on the floor. the floor has been well used over the last day or so. i would like to make sure that my colleagues and especially those who were not here in 2009 understand that there are many of us who are opposed to obamacare as it is called, the affordable care act, and the opposition that we mounted in 2009. it's a matter of record that the senate to start with the senate finance committee considered the affordable care act over several weeks and approved the bill in october 13 of 2009. at that time members of the finance committee submitted 564 amendments, 135 amendments were considered and 79 roll call votes taken. 49 amendments were adopted and then the senate health education labor and pensions committee approved the affordable care act by 13-10 after a month-long debate. 500 amendments were considered and more than 160 republican amendments were accepted and then it came to the floor of the senate. the a

here's democratic senator chuck schumer. >> and as long as prime minister putin acts like a bully, wehoice to stand up to him and show him that bullies pay a price. >> this is exactly the kind of talk putin wants. the russian president works hard to create a cult of personality where he's strong, powerful and important and op eds like john mccain's and chuck schumer's play into that. the more the rest of the world sees him as relevant and dangerous. if you don't believe it, putin will tell you so himself. because when mitt romney called russia a threat a year ago, putin thanked romney, actually, saying i'm grateful to romney for formulating his stance so clearly. putin wants to be seen as important and u.s. lawmakers might be the greatest promotors. a new poll shows 50% of americans now see russia as an enemy. that is up from just 20% in 2006. >>> still "outfront," eharmony says it can help you fall in love with your job. when you have diabetes like i do, you want a way to help minimize blood sugar spikes. support heart health. and your immune system. now there's new glucerna advance

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but the top lawmakers on both sides of the aisle including senator mccain as well as senator chuck schumerd the president to tread cautiously and to make sure that any messages that are sent to iran include the message the united states will not settle for an iran nuclear weapons program. >> and let's go ahead and continue with the foreign policy, kevin. earlier in the show we were looking at video of bill clinton on "letterman" last night talking about russia and syria and whether or not his wife will run in 2016. could he be more any more vague here when it comes to hillary in 2016? >> you know, everybody wants to know will hillary clinton run and so i think she has a lot of questions. what's interesting, though, the former president as well as president obama, they're joining together to -- as this obama carrollout, you know, and crisscrossing the country trying to get this obama care off to a successful start because, you know, i think that there is an interesting nexus. if you think all the way back to 2008 during that epic primary battle, it was hillary care and so i think that it's

. >> one other thing fed related news, chuck schumer, powerful senator said if not larry summers whoe out for the next -- and janet yell inz, chuck schumer doesn't say things that private will he he doesn't think will happen. both worth noting, when we talk about who the next chairman of the fed might be. i'd add, the president's fate on the economy is very tied into how the fed handles interests rates going forward. >> the economy is more important but what's more important than the economy right now? we have a pennant race. >> still believing. doubleheader yesterday, i agree, by the way, i just used we for a time i'm not a part of. we have pennant fever and i feel the spring and summer were hugely disappointed but i hope it's not too late for the nats. >> it's been quite a run and we've got now two against the braves, the third coming up and let's hope that cincinnati begins to falter. >> cincinnati lose a few out there, dusty baker. >> okay. >> thanks to you, chris, we'll be watching it all. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and on

schumer? >> thank you, henry. i've been in washington for over 30 years.and all the years of analysis and i've never seen a group of people more extreme than the hard right republicans in the house right now. they are have always been extreme members of congress year but they have been gadflies who come and go without much of an impact. this group of extreme republicans in the house isn't just having an impact. they been handed the keys to the republican party i a reluctant leadership. they have banded together and literally handcuffed republican leadership, so they're forced to pursue an extreme agenda that defense or delays obamacare. and their my way or the highway approach is to today. in this case, the highway lease over a cliff to shutdown or a default commute of which would be devastating to the economy. republican leadership has been dragged, kicking and screaming into a fight that they know is bad for the party and bad for the country. and they should know it's a fight they will not win. and the whole country has been dragged closer to a governmen

>> senator chuck schumer from new york. >> i'm not going to say a thing.out a lot of different things. first of all a possible showdown again of the debt ceiling and the budget. how is that going to shake out? >> at the end of the day, they will blink. the bottom line is when the public is so overwhelmingly against an action and you look at the body language of speaker boehner and eric kantor, they know it's wrong. all the republican leadership knows they are doing this as a disaster and they are not strong enough to resist the tea party. >> we had shawn duffy on. he has been plasting away not at conservative ted cruz, but cynical ted cruz. >> this is a great issue for them to raise money and be the leader and come out as the tea party guy or president. he knows it's a disaster. he took this hot potato that he created. he heated up the potato and threw it over the house. he said not me. you guys do it. that got them furious, as it should. when there is disunity as amongst republicans, there was among democrats two years ago, you almost always lose. >> ther

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and political commentator maurice schumer says the anti euro outearned germany party will shake up the political landscape if it does garner the five percent of votes and needs to get into parliament it's quite clear that there won't be a part of a value coalition government in germany if they do get in most likely then angela merkel's christian democrats will form a coalition with the social democrats a so-called grand coalition and then if that happens the tentative of the alternative for germany one really be a member of stand government that will be a voice in the new german under start and it's a voice that we had in hand for the last four years because it would be it will be if that happens the only party not critical of europe but critical of the way germany is dealing with the financial crisis right now. as europe's largest economy under biggest contributor to bailouts the results of the election will reverberate far beyond germany's borders and reports now from athens cash strapped greece would be particularly vulnerable to any changes montreal to see from its northern neighbo

. >> reporter: senator democrat chuck schumer says his party, which controls the senate, is united againstunding the president's signature achievement. >> this small group of people who even republicans know are off the deep end on this issue, have the republican leadership in the house so shaken and scared, that, that leadership's going along with this insane plan. >> reporter: senate republicans almost unanimously oppose this plan put forward by their house counter-parts. they all oppose the president's health care law, too. they just don't feel, scott, that government funding or the economy should be put at risk because of it. >> pelley: nancy, hold with us just a moment while we go over to the white house for the president's view with major garret. major. >> reporter: scott after we get through the fight over government funding, washington must increase the government's legal authority to borrow money to finance its current $16.7 trillion debt. in mid-october that authority expires and government could default. now, republicans want to link defunding obamacare to this debate as well. t

senator cornyn has a great bill, chuck schumer has a fantastic bill. chairman goodlat put out a discussion draft. i think we're going to get something done and the game is going to change. >> kevin o'connell with findthebet.com did an article talking about his experience dealing with patent trolls and he was mentioning one of the ways to combat patent trolls is get on the phone with the attorney and start forcing the specifics. what other tips do you have with people who may be dealing with the same thing or fear dealing with the same thing? >> if they are a small business and get hit with a patent troll demand letter, you have to hire a lawyer, but have the courage to stand up to your own lawyer, look, we're going to figure this out. >> what about investors who say, come on, pay them, they are small, they want $5,000. they don't want us in court. >> that's right. >> they are not going to ask for more than we can afford. let's ask for $5,000, they'll go away. >> if you can do it for $5,000, that's not a bad idea. you can't be close minded about settlin

do this and reid was pretty momo on that saying we'll see i notice that behind him senator chuck schumer there was nodding his head big time it seems as though people on the hill are saying how difficult this debate is that we can't afford to have this debate again in two weeks when the country's credit is on the line and we'll have to watch in the coming hours to see if that government shutdown isn't hard at all though as you say it's very unlikely that it will be averted political commentator sam sachs thank you so much. all right so we keep hearing from lawmakers on capitol hill that this government shutdown is a big deal but the question on everyone's mind how will it affect me at least eight hundred thousand federal civil civilian employees will be far allowed and the stock market could tank as a result of the shutdown if you remember two years ago just the threat of a government shutdown was enough for standard and poor's to downgrade america's aaa credit rating so a real shutdown will no doubt have tangible affects on our economy overall but also the smaller day to day services wi

senator chuck schumer. he said that they banded together and handcuffed republican leadership.ve the word you were looking for was figuratively and literally. the assistant press secretary said republicans in congress are being held hostage. earlier this week president obama said that the debt ceiling is being used to extort a president. i wonder which president was referring to. and we save the democrats deepest dive into sad rhetoric for last. this from congressman eric swallow of california. listen to this. >> i invite my colleagues on the other side to wake up from this radical and ideological wet dream and come back to reality. lou: congressman cummings you have made a little history of your own. history that you might one day regret. democrats are going to give us some nightmares if we have to keep listening to them. the republicans are listening to their constituents. a fox poll out this week finds that 68% of all voters in this country are concerned about health care. 60% are opposed to obamacare. breaking down the opposition by party, still 56% of democrats are also co

chuck schumer introduced caroline and made a poignant reference to her storied family history. >> caroline kennedy grew up in the public eye and we as a nation grew up with her. sharing her joys as well as her heartbreaks. >> we're all familiar with the long list of kennedy sorrows but there's one forgotten tragedy not many people know about. caroline and john john had a baby brother named patrick. born three months before their father's assassination in 1963. christopher anderson is the author of "these few precious days -- the final year of jack with jackie." >> i really think that she felt that patrick was the answer to their problems and that's what makes it so sad. >> jackie kennedy went into labor five and a half weeks early while the first family was vacationing on cape cod. >> mrs. kennedy has given birth to a 4-pound, 10.5-ounce baby boy. >> he was suffering from respiratory distress syndrome. the nation was transfixed by the unfolding medical drama. >> as he was rushed from the cape cod birthplace. >> jackie held her son's hand for ten minutes before he was transferred to boston

>> they want a clean bill that would fund the government for about a month and a half bad senator schumer said boehner is doing too much to the tea party members gimmicky is like the agent to mullions doing the sacrificial offering by refusing to except but clean continuing resolution. >> he seemed frustrated as they waited for shutdown to proceed. >> it is time that you listen to the american people to pass a one-year delay of obamacare in the permanent repeal of the medical device tax. >> that is what the house passed a saturday night then they republicans gathered on the steps of the capital to draw this conclusion. >> the fact the senators are not here, harry reid is off somewhere is all the evidence you need to know they want to shut down the government. >> appears to anyone who wants to will get their wish like previous shutdowns there are no private negotiations trying to resolve the standoff. lou: the president told house republicans he demanded that house back down from the demands as long as anyone willing is to let him have his way. >> as the clock ticks the president did not h

chuck sheur schumer and john mcn said the president should remain tough on, questions about the fate of a third, one of them is a u.s. combat veteran a marine from flint, michigan. america tonight sheila macvicar traveled there. >> september 18th, 2011, iranian state television. >> my name is amir. >> amir hekmadi, born in flagstaff arizona, to iranian parents. one of four children in a close and active family. high school hockey star. an american combat veteran as a u.s. marine sergeant he served tours in iraq and afghanistan. >> i was proud of him for wanting to serve his country. >> post-iraq using his language skills working as a defense contractor with a sideline in real estate. then in december 2011, in teheran, accused of being an agent in the cia, making this confession. >> back home in flint, michigan. >> the first time it was the news, his face on tv. >> it was the first time in months that the family new where amir was. >> what did you think when you heard amir speak in that confession video? >> i was shocked just looking at his face. that wasn't -- that wasn't him. i said