thank you very much, chairman landrieu. it's a pleasure to be a today and i thank you and the members for the opportunity to speak their i also wanted to let you know how much we appreciate the example that you have set in this committee for the rest of congress in working together in compromising to bring back 504 debt refinancing which is in the best interest of small business to the impact -- first, i'm sally robertson, the president of business finance group. we're a nonprofit certified development company providing 504 financing in maryland, d.c., virginia and west virginia. i'm also the chairman of the national association for developing countries and our 270 cdc members to 95% of the 504 loan volume in the country. the government shutdown has had a very large impact on the 504 lending. clearly there are no new loan applications being approved. one thing that is often overlooked is that we are a fixed asset financing come as a borrowers enter into contracts to buy fixed assets. those borrowers have deposits at risk. i

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and so it actually does allow people like mary landrieu then keep that promise. not for not to sign my bill. >> complaining about the web site. we have a funding issue aren't going to buy it. where regetting the money for this? >> basically borrowing from our kids and grand kids. $2.5 trillion. i mean, taxes fees and penalties and other taxes are going to be about a trillion. there is 1.5 trillion-dollar deficit question mark right now. is that coming out of medicare? no this is totally understandable. 30 years ago healthcare law $13 trillion, greta. we can't afford it. >> i truly believe we have got to get medical care to everybody, but i am trying to figure out where the money is coming from. that's my concern about it we will see what happens to your bill. get more democratic support beside mary landrieu. >> i'm optimistic that we can pass this thing and on to promise that president obama made to million of americans. >> packers will win this weekend, right. >> absolutely. >> kathleen sebelius testifying she was clearly wrong to give it the green light. upton

landrieu: thank you, madam president. i am happy to have an opportunity just to speak for a minute, particularly following my good friend, the senator from alabama. he and i have worked so closely together on so many issues, and it just goes to show you, one day you can really agree on something and work together, and the next day you can have very different points of view. he and i worked together successfully on the restore act. we are working on the fair act where we can get a portion of our revenues to bring back to alabama, mississippi and louisiana from offshore oil and gas production, and i have to say i have enjoyed many times working with him over the -- over the years that we have both been here. but tonight, i take issue with some of the things that he said. just to sum it up, with as much due respect, that if this -- if everything the senator said about the affordable care act was actually factual -- and it is not, but if everything he said was true about the act, this time and this method of shutting down the

even senate democrat mary landrieu appears to be putting a similar bill together. now, back with us to talk about all this, bob, dr. scott and ovki roy. can i just talk about, ovik, i think this was your story. the 93 million uninsured. in other words, let me get this right. for the viewers and myself. the same strictures that app applied, the same mandates that applied to individual are going to apply to the employer financed or backed insurance and they're not going to measure up. people are going to be out of luck in a year. >> it's not necessarily that they're going to be uninsured if this happens. right? their old plans will be canceled and replaced with new plans that might be more expensive, have higher deductibles, narrower networks and all the things we were talking about in the last segment. >> will those new plans come from obama care? will they push into obama care? will they come from private exchanges? will they come from medicaid? >> the bulk of them will be issued by the same types of private insurers who offered the plans before. some people will b

senator cardin. >> well, chairman landrieu, thank you very much for bringing us together. thank you for pointing out so frequently on the floor of the senate, in our caucus, to the american people harm being caused to this country as a result of the shutdown of government. i represent the state of maryland. we have 10% of our work force that works for the federal government. 10% of our work force. that's had a huge impact on the maryland economy. so we know about that 10%. e know about that 125,000 or 130,000 workers that are furloughed. it's having a major impact on small businesses in our state. i stopped at a restaurant last week near the baltimore beltway and i know the owner and i asked him how things are going. he said terrible. he said we don't have the federal workers who usually come in here and have lunch. i don't know how much longer that welcome deal with our current situation with the government shutdown. so businesses are hurting. i want to thank all of the guests that we have here today that are going to relay their particular stories. i'm particularly pleas

landrieu: thank you, mr. president. i am not happy to be here, but it is an honor and a privilege to be on the senate floor representing the people of louisiana and speaking for constituents around the country on this important subject. and it is unfortunate that we're here today because of the irresponsible behavior of one group of members from one party in basically one chamber. and while i most certainly respect my colleague from maine and think that the proposal that she's generally outlined has a lot of merit -- and, i would add, there would probably be 15, 20, or 25 other senators from both parties who have worked together to find common ground on many, many issues that could come up with equally meritorious proposals -- it misses a very important point. and the point is simply that the house republicans and a handful of senate republicans have forced the government into a shutdown, hurting their own constituents -- hundreds of thousands of their own constituents -- and small businesses in their district who don't

senator landrieu talked about the sba lending impact from the shutdown.new hampshire, sba loans lester helped 630 small businesses get access to over $130 million in loans. so this is having a real impact across the board or our businesses, for their families. it's bad for the economy, and it's bad for the country. it doesn't need to be this way. what we need is for the house to come to the table and be willing to put the bill on the floor that would run the government and to get a clean vote. the votes are there to pass it. it is time now to bring the bill up and pass it, to get this government open again. i'm very pleased to be joined this morning by a new member of the senate who is a great advocate for small businesses. she has a lot of them in her home state of north dakota. >> thank you so much. during the time that i was an elected official i served on something called the industrial commission. we ran the bank of north dakota. what we did at the bank of north dakota is we participated on a regular basis with the small business administration to pr

landrieu: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: mr. president, i know the members of the senate are going to be retiring to caucuses to try to figure out how we're going to move forward, and i'm confident with the good work of the people in this chamber we'll find a way. mrs. boxer: the senate is not in order. i cannot hear my colleague. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senate will be in order. ms. landrieu: mr. president, senator johanns and i have been working along with many of our colleagues to try to come to some resolution about funding a city in the united states, the district of columbia, that is not an agency of the federal government, that happens to be the city that the seat of government sits in. and while i'm not going to call for a consent now, i just wanted to ask senator johanns to just express if he could just a few views about this as we try to work our way forward for some time maybe later this afternoon. mr. johann

where he should have been was helping out people like mary landrieu or talking about what's moderatensible or useful about the law or talking about how he might keep some of that promise he made instead of going and talking about health insurance as a right and how the government was going to save you. martha: democratic scramble in a lot of states on an effort to try to change this thing and make their voters happier as it goes to 2014. chris, thank you so much. we'll see you later. >> yes, ma'am. martha: sign up for fox news first, foxnews.com/foxnewsfirst. you'll get chris' wisdom every morning. bill: oh, and he has a lot of that. thank you, chris. so what is your take at home? if you're watching at the office or at home or on your mobile device, what do you think about the president's claims? send us a tweet, @billhemmer. twitter lines are open, as we like to say. and let me tell you, put something out there, you respond. so we're watching for a reaction. martha: hearing all kinds of good stuff, so keep those coming to our twitter accounts, and in the meantime -- bill i'll bill t

landrieu: thank you. let me put into the record, in the event that my colleagues did not, a letter that i received, and i think all the members received a copy of a letter that went to senator reid, senator mcconnell, speaker boehner and representative pelosi from the governors association that came yesterday. governor mary phalan and governor john hicken looper signed the letter. it says the governors urge congress and the administration to quickly reopen the federal government. the fiscal health of states is inextricably linked to the fiscal stability of the federal government. and while state economies have improved, a failure by our national government to secure a solution to the current budget issue undermines our states' recovers and endangers the u.s. economy. it goes on to say that states have so far, now ten days or so into the shutdown managed to avoid closing or suspending most programs and services by using carry-over funds, but they say in some cases by using states spending to fill in missin

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. >> brand new pressure coming from senators like mary landrieu. remember the louisiana purchase which critics said bought her vote in support of the law. she welcome was booted out of office on that vote. that was controversial for all of them to vote for health care in a competitive district. >> states like louisiana, arkansas. these are states that department vote for barack obama in 2008 or 2012. they have their butts on the line. >> we saw the fiery town halls. thank you. we are now hearing similar krps about the law from house democrats. remember one man who helped write the health care law was warning of a train wreck over the plan back in april. >> i just see a huge train wreck coming down. we discussed it many times. i don't see any results yet. what can you do to help all these people around the country wondering what in the world do i do? >> thanks for that, senator. now you hear senators and house members complaining. mark thiesen was a speech writer under george w. bush and a fellow with the enterprise institute. now it's bipartisan. s

. >> kay hagan of north carolina, mary landrieu of louisiana.he shutdown headline has been completely pushed out of the newspapers because of the failure of the obama care launch. republicans now feel like they are on offense and the tea party is more fired up than they have been in weeks. >> that doesn't matter to democrats the tea party and the republicans. it's weather the drark senators think they are vulnerable and they will lose. >> and they do. >> four in the tent now and you say there is one in north carolina, right? that's vulnerable. landrieu in louisiana, she vulnerable or is she -- >> -- because she comes in from a red state, a state that mitt romney won that has a considerable republican leaning bent. conservative democrats down there too. she sunday pressure. she has been asked these questions over and over and over again. there are handful more. it is entirely possible that given this kind of pressure and a letter to the president from a liberal democrat from a beloved home state of new hampshire live free or die. he needs to do s

landrieu: thank you.let me just respond -- thank you, madam president -- for five minutes to my good friend and then i'm going to have to chair taic the chairchair -- to take d relieve you, as required, and thank you for your consideration. let me say again how much i respect the senator from tennessee. no one on his side of the aisle, except perhaps maybe for the good senator from alabama, has spent more time on budget issues because that's actually the senator from alabama's job. but the senator from tennessee has taken it upon himself to be a leader, and i do agree with him that we are in on the right page, the right chapter, in the right woul book to talk about se fiscal issues. i don't agree that the strategy to get us here was the right strategy. but we're here. no sense in pointing fingers. i do agree that the senate needs to really try to find our way forward, because the senator from tennessee is correct, where we are now, there are no winners and losers. it's just about doing what's right for th

landrieu: so this is the record. when people say democrats haven't been willing to negotiate, that is false, false, false. we have been trying to negotiate for six months, and the way you negotiate is going to a budget committee. now we are in control of the senate. the people elected us. no one appointed me here. the people of the united states elected us in a fair and square election. some of us won by a lot. some of us won by small amounts. but this was an election by the people of the united states. the people elected the republican leadership in the house. they passed a budget. we passed a budget. all we have to do is go to conference. but not everyone in washington is reckless. not everyone loves to fight over our constituents' misfortune of unemployment and lack of business. there's a small group that put them on the chopping block, and they need to take them off. they should not be used as fodder in political fighting and debate. it is not right. that's the argument. so when they remove the constituents and r

i wouldn't be surprised if mary landrieu, senator landrieu was in that too.e were the head-state senators up for reelection in mitt romney states that i thought were going to delay the whole individual mandate to begin with. grace, i want to bring you in on this. first of all, are the senators right? and second of all, the white house acting correctly to extend this? that includes the tax penalty, which would also be extended. >> you know, larry, remember last summer when the administration decided to delay the employer mandate because the employers couldn't comply. and the house-passed legislation said let's delay the individual too and the president said he would veto that legislation because it was so important to this law. and now because of this disaster, it is not a glitch. this is a disastrous roll-out of this health plan, then they themselves are saying that they may have to delay the individual mandate because people can't enroll. you can't force people to pay a penalty when they can't get this product. >> right. >> and applying on paper, every one o

. >>> in kentucky, alison grimes beat out mcconnell and mary landrieu doubled the amount of her rifleagen brought in nearly $2 million more than any of her republican challengers. >>> and on the republican side, liz cheney is giving incumbent mike enzi a run for his money. she raised 100,000 more than her primary opponent. >>> governor chris christie is a staying consistent in opposing same-sex marriage. how he would react to one of his children coming out gay. >> if my children came to me and said that they were gay, i would grab them and hug them and tell them i loved them. just like i would do with any of my children who came to me with news that they wanted to give to me that they thought was important enough to open themselves up in that way. but what i would also tell them is that dad believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. >> the governor is currently appealing a court ruling that found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. his opponent staays he's on the wrong side of history. >>> in an effort to shelf some book books, riley hunt ser is apologizing and

senator landrieu talked about the sba lending impact from the shut down. well, in new hampshire, sba loans last year helped 630 small businesses get access to over $130 million in loans. so this is having a real impact. it's having an across the board for businesses for the families. it's bad for the economy, and it's bad for the country. and it doesn't need to be this way. what we need is for the house to come to the table to be willing to put the bill on the floor that would fund the government, and to get a clean vote if the votes are there to pass it. it is time now to bring the bill up has to, to get this government open again. i'm very pleased to be joined this morning by a new never of the senate he was a great advocate for small businesses, which she has a lot of inner home state of north dakota heidi heitkamp. >> thank you so much. during the time that i was an elected official in north dakota i served on something called the international commission and we ran the bank of north dakota. and what we did at the bank of north dakota was we participat

mary landrieu in louisiana, and also some in arkansas that have really come out and got along with joe manchin to say that we should delay this for a year. but the problem is that this is a huge revenue stream for the affordable care act for the 159 government agencies and bureaucracies that this quasi- wobble bring into effect. and therefore if you cut that out, you are really going to take away probably two of the three legs of this obamacare school. >> what you are stating in so far is this is you keep delaying key provisions and you start talking about what had a clear mandate and a clear rule out and it's nothing like the lotto is implemented. >> that's right, as a matter of fact, you even have a case out there that is challenging the supreme court's decision. because when they said that the individual mandate was part of taxing authority of the federal government of congress, you have violated the constitution and that the affordable care act emanated from the senate and the senate cannot have any kind of revenue-generating generating the legislation so we still have a legal chal

senator mary landrieu and mark prior announcing they are supporting senator shaheen's call for obamacareollment. asking the white house to extend that deadline until health care.gov is fixed. last year's super bowl champions are being paid to do exactly that. the baltimore ravens receiving 100 30,000 dollars from taxpayers to promote the health care law on tv and radio and the team's official website and social media. valued at just under 1.1 billion, but still a surprising deal. my next guest says that spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to fix health care.gov and whatever else is wrong with obamacare is like trying to overhaul what is still moving. it is time to press pause on the tech surge. joining us is congressman tim murphy and a cofounder of the caucus and a member of the energy commerce committee, which we will hear from secretary sebelius next wednesday. let's start, if we may. i just have to ask you here. do these problems manifest beyond the website? this is beginning to look like it may be a complete and utter disaster for the government and this administration and

mary landrieu in louisiana, kay hagen in north carolina.ill see a sea of change where republicans take over the senate. jon: doesn't get much more personal than your health care. people will translate what is happening now the way they vote. >> you're exactly right and they will vote their pocketbook when they go to the polls. right now people are suffering living paycheck to paycheck and there is no leadership in washington, d.c. jon: angela mcglowan, fox news political analyst. thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: we will be back to some of the top headlines in just a moment. today is the day to remember the chaos of the war of the worlds. 75 years after the infamous radio broadcasts. >> that is immense. strikes him head-on. [screaming] it is by the woods. jon: happening now, oh the power of radio. today marks 75 years since orson welles infamous "war of the worlds" radio broadcast. they deliver ad faux newscast detailing and tricked many americans that martians landed in a small new jersey town. listen to this. >> i just hand ad message

make somebody like a mary landrieu of louisiana or john manchin of west virginia or montana, make them vote on those things and they have to answer that every single week from now until the election. >> eric, does it bother you there's squabbling in the gop. it doesn't bother me much. people say what should the republican platform be going forward. >>> i think they have their platform. in an off-year election they can be against obama. they don't need anything concrete. they have obamacare but certainly have a leader to rally agains against. >> again, we talked about it. we know obamacare is not ready for primetime. the website glitches they're trying to ignore are proof of that. you have a year of obamacare in full force by the time the election comes around. which means, think about this for a second. what do you think of when you think of the dmv, can't stand it, runs poorly, always complaining. post office, the same thing. take that apply to your own health care, can't get a doctor, premiums going up, service stinks, the government's fault, obamacare's fault. take that republicans,

with senators landrieu, begich and shaheen are up for reelection. >> senator joe manchin is asking for delay. he's saying let's fix this while we can. take a listen. >> it should be a transition year for one year. there should be no fines. let's work through the problems. we've got a lot of problems. they have been identified. i think everybody's recognized them. but let's fix it. >> they're going to fix it a little bit. they're going to extend it for six weeks. once again, it has nothing to do with the website. the website was emblematic. the website was supposed to be the easy thing. everybody can do a website; right? maybe not, as we're learning. senator ted cruz from texas says the tide is turning and it is not just as republicans and independents see it. it is hard-line democrats as well. >> i think it is ironic, all the people who a few weeks ago who were saying there is no way you can win this fight, no way you can stop obamacare, we're starting to see democrats flip. it's a train wreck. it's not working. in any political fight, when the truth is on your side, you're in a good s

those red state democrats up for re-election next year, people like mary landrieu and mark pryor aredifference from where we have seen signs of disunity. >> what role could republican governors play in all of this? >> the one thing they can be able to do, look what's going on in washington. anti-washington, anti-congress message is also very popular. after all, congress's approval rating is 10% according to most polls. any governor, be it a republican or democrat can say look at the mess happening in washington, d.c. shame on them and they should get the house in order. the problem for republicans is that's not a good message for their party to have, particularly as more folks point the finger at republicans than democrats at this. in the virginia governor's race of 2013, neither candidate, wants anything to do with what's going on with the government shutdown. >> let's talk about the house rpz quickly. a number of them voiced support for clean cr. at last check it was 15. is that a number that's likely to grow? >> it has grown. so my colleague frank thorpe had 15 earlier in the day.

. >> we should talk about mary landrieu. >> mark pryor. >> we need to take montana and west virginia.publicans, conservatives, rhinos. stop worrying b about purifying us. take the senate first. >> congrats on the book. >> thank you. >> coming up -- >> earlier today the president sealed a deal on health care signing the bill into into law and forever changing the united states of america. to break it down it means higher taxes and lower quality medical care for you and your family. >> our predictions from years ago about obama care have come to pass. that's not all we were right b about. when we come back, we'll show you how right we were. and later the obama care operator who lost her job because she talked to me on my radio show. when we come back, we have good news. she gets the last laugh. and we always want to hear from you. join our companion site, hannitylive.foxnews.com. share your thoughts on the show and more or on twitter. dallas se my asthma's under control. i don't miss out... you sat out most of our game yesterday! asthma doesn't affect my job... you were out sick last we

he is trying to unseat mary landrieu. he does have a potential challenger on the right. representative jack kingston who voted no. he is the top fund-raiser among the candidates running for the open senate seat. that was in line with the recent moves to the right. his top rival is michelle nunn who reportedly raised that. pat roberts from kansas and they both voted no on the agreement to reopen the government. a couple of republicans may take a yes vote to elect the chances. steve daps could run to replace max bacchus and he has taken heat over the shut down at home and voted yes on the deal. shelly is heavily favored in the race to replace jay rockefeller. she voted yes last night in west virginia. a big benefit of federal spending. the most fascinating vote may have been mitch mcconnell. after spending most of the government shut down trying to dodge the spotlight, they wanted to lead on the bipartisan bill. the primary challenge facing the fund-raiser. this was not an easy thing for him. he raised a ton of money and democrats have been praising mcconnell's leadership.

mary landrieu of louisiana. are they down has ration these conservative democrats?ob casey in pennsylvania, they know this is the best we're going to get in these states. why are tea partiers, not tea partiers, it's diletantes. why are they demanding purity from republicans in a state that is a liberal state? it's madness. not thinking about winning elections. >> in the end republicans have to show unity when they fight a general election. last time you basically had again the division with the tea party and the moderates and so. you can see exactly the same bubble beginning to boil up again. you've got a male sarah palin, a much more formidable version of sarah palin in ted cruz. >> ted cruz? >> isn't he the new sarah palin? isn't he the new king of the kaep where she was once queen? >> i don't see the analogy but i love them. >> my point is, do you think he could be more electable to a wider cross-section just to win the nomination? if not anything else of republicans? >> we'll see. it's very possible. look, there will be arguments in a party of ideas. that is one

. >> our energy and money should be spend on taking out mary landrieu, taking west virginia seats back >> i agree. we'll get it. we're going to have a date soon where we'll be together. >> and i will be on "the view" tomorrow. i'm so happy. >> exciting. >> i can't wait to see elisabeth hasselbeck. >> jenny mccarthy. >> what happened to elisabeth? >> oh, stop. she's on fox & friends. >> we're going to talk about politics, obama care, the gop and more with dick cheney. first what you have selected as tonight's video of the day. you have a truck swerving violently on a busy bridge as the driver tries not to plunge over the side. vote for that on hannitylive.foxnews.com. on twitter @seanhasn't. ready to run your lines? okay, who helps you focus on your recovery? yo, yo, yo. aflac. wow. [ under his breath ] that was horrible. pays you cash when you're sick or hurt? [ japanese accent ] aflac. love it. cash when you're sick or hurt? [ undehis breath ] hate it. helps you focus on getting back to normal? [ as a southern belle ] aflac. [ as a cowboy ] aflac. [ sassily ] aflac. uh huh. [ under hi

poor mary landrieu and baggitch from alaska who try to be moderates in their states were forced to vote the way reid told them. to the democrats are put in a very awkward position going into 2014 being told, you can't vote your district. you have to vote who reid and obama tell you to. they've cast enough votes in the last week to lose the senate. and they're going to keep voting against allowing the national parks to open? against nih to fund? at some point the democrats in the senate are going to tell reid, they're tired of throwing away their careers for his tactics. >> do you see this as the democrats being in an awkward position? >> i think it's laughable. i think you can't have the republicans create a crisis and then beg the president to give them cover to crawl out from underneath that crisis. that's ridiculous. i mean, the idea that we are now in this world where we can argue a position like that, we can basically sit down with a straight face and say, no, i created this problem but it is your fault. that is ridiculous. >> this is about inside baseball. and it's nuts. because l

shouldn't mary landrieu represent the state of louisiana the best way she can. let her do that democratic congress is not monolithic. that's just not how they roll. >> part of big ten politics. >> first of all, good luck with the obama death panels. it was nice knowing you. >> enjoying the segment. >> secondly, i think there's two points to make here. one is jimmy's point, there are policy issues they want to consider. if you are going to have problems with enrollment, which happened. if that's going to carry into march, you shouldn't penalize someone who can't have access to insurance because they can have access to insurance. that's one. two, this is not unique. a lot of these same democrats wanted to delay individual mandate or talk about delaying enrollment during the government shutdown. however, they were never going to do it with the threat of shutdown upon them, certainly wasn't with the debt limit debate. it's not like this is bubbling to the surface. there was concern and anxiety before, we're just in a different context. >> is the right politics for t

democrats supporting some sort of change in extension to the enrollment, shaheen prior baggage, landrieu, nelson, manchin, the list keeps going on. those are all thosecrats. meanwhile the white house releases a video today with real people singing praise to the web site and insurance executives are at the white house trying to sort this out. your thoughts? >> well, you know, i'm glad that some of the democrats are actually starting to realize that this is a problem. and, you know, if people could just swallow their pride and let's not make it about democrats and republicans. let's make it about the people. how do we get good healthcare coverage for the people? and not expand the budget deficit. what i have done is put on the table some proposals for ways that it can be done. i hope other people will start doing that you know, this is not a monarchy that we live in. if we use the collective resources, the intelligence that we have, i think we can solve this problem but, you know, when big egos get in the way, it's very difficult to do anything in a logical fashion. >> you have wrote somet

senator landrieu from louisiana is going to introduce legislation saying that people can keep their policy and grandfathering this in and really changing what is becoming a very loud outcry by the american people. >> can we just concede that this is not simply a republican-democrat thing? that's not really at issue here? the thing at issue here is millions of millions of people have no health insurance and are free riding on the rest of us. and that bill, that law that's now in existence will stop that happening. lots of people who currently have insurance will have much more security in that insurance than ever before. they won't be shelved for pre-existing conditions, won't have their plan suddenly dropped are changed. that is what this whole thing is trying to do. let us also focus on that. and i do not think that our priorities should at this point be -- we should absolutely, anna, take this on. last night i was pretty tough on this. but i want it to work. and when hillary clinton after medicare d rolled out under the republicans, she said, i voted against this, but now that it's happe

here is a portion of the debate with mary landrieu and bob corker. it is about half an hour. >> the senator from louisiana. >> thank you, madam president. i want to follow-up on the words of my distinguished colleague from hawaii and also comment on a few points that the senator from wyoming made in this important debate that is happening in washington today, a debate that is happening all over our country. i want to associate myself with the effort underway by senator collins from maine and senator -- from minnesota and others on both sides of the aisle that have been working throughout the evening, the night, early morning hours, talking, trying to find a way forward. forank both leaders blessing that effort and trying to find a way forward. this is a very dangerous situation. despite the fact that there are members on the other side of the capital in the republican party, not in the democratic party, that continue to doubt that there will be any ramifications from default -- i hate to say it, but they are going to be sorry they uttered those words

senators like mary landrieu and mark begich are going to have their hands full trying to explain whygoing up and people are losing their health insurance and these are continuing. >> this is an idea of a split between tea party and establish republicans. a surprising number says that if they lose this presidential election, they will formally split into a moderate party and the conservative party. >> i think it is pretty bad and brian is right about the five nominees that they produced in 2010 and 2012 who gave away these feeds and the challenge is that not that much has changed. they are the people that produce these nominees in colorado and some of the other states where there are six republicans who are facing the challenges and those are more likely to be the tea party thai people than the mainstream rational republicans like my brian and mitch mcconnell, and that is what the republican party has to face. that and that any democrat goes into a presidential election and you can be discreet with the numbers. any democrat entering the context of about 242 electoral votes that are pr

like mark pryor in arkansas and mary landrieu in louisiana.rez the races we need to concentrate on. not on the incumbent republican seats. if you don't like what mitch mcconnell is doing in the senate, give him a majority. that's what the republicans need to concentrate on and the theme of my book. >> end it there. the book is called -- >> "never shut a liberal over three. especially a republican." >> there you go. the latest book. and we welcome you as always. we thank you for joining us for the insight and the best with the new book. >> thank you. >> the swing state of virginia is set to pick a new governor in three weeks. in one of the most watched races in the nation. with election day coming up fast, polls show republican ken cuccinelli slipping further behind democrat terry mcauliffe. the real clear politics average showing mcauliffe leading 46% to 39%. and today, the former democratic rundraiser brings old friend hillary clinton back in the fray. molly henneberg has the latest on what is going on there. molly? >> we haven't seen much pu

. >> senator landrieu, thank you very much. lets hope something can happen this afternoon at the meeting at the white house. lest we forget former congresswoman and shooting victim gabby giffords attended a gun show in upstate new york to continue her campaign against the gun show loophole. among supporters there who backed voluntary gun restrictions. >> now is the time to come together. be responsible. democrats, republicans, everyone. we must never stop fighting. fight, fight, fight. be bold, be courageous, the nation is counting on you. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. ♪ [ male announcer ] old el paso frozen entrées. now in freez