here to tell us if it will or won't is john butters. john, welcome back, good to have you with us again. what is the forecast for the recently finished third quarter? is your forecast for the fourth, and how do you think the impasses in washington will affect those earnings, if at all? >> right now for the third quarter, looking for 2.8% down from 6.5% at the start of the quarter. for the fourth quarter analysts are looking for quite an improvement. the growth rate jumps up to 10% that quarter. in terms of the impact in washington, you probably won't see much in the third quarter as the index closed on september 30s but the fourth quarter is the concern. we haven't seen downward divisions to that but it's certainly something to keep an eye on as we progress through the earnings season. >> john, you've been monitoring earnings for years and listened in on analysts' calls with the ceos of companies. what do you expect the outlook for the fourth quarter and the extend to the washington shutdown and debate over the debt ceiling moves they wi

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john kasich, significant to note, went past his republican legislature, bypassed them, in order to participate in the medicaid expansion under obama care, even though he's opposed to obama care. he knows where his bread is buttered say, from the feds. most of the republican governors have turned it down. but kasich recognizes that the state needs that money. the mental hospitals, poor people, as he said, of all races, creeds, et cetera, need it. he's not going to turn it down. unlike some of the governors who are, you know, much more of i a ideologues about this. kasich taking a different approach. >> interesting, going off workers, turns around and takes the medicatiid expansion of oba care. the rest of these guys, ej dionne, when you look at republican polling right now, you could call it the shutdown hangover, whatever. but it's pretty clear, this is a major reclamation project for these guys, if they don't distance themselves from washington. >> well, that's exactly right. and i think there are two interesting things about that ad. one is, they're talking about america's comeback. what they're not saying is, president obama is driving the country into the ground. which is the message that comes out of washin