also, we saw the chief of staff, dennis mcdonough at the white house greeting executive members of the staff of the president returning to work. the metra was awfully crowded this morning. things getting back to normal as the democrats and republicans try to pick up the pieces, particularly the republicans. january 15 the date of the next expiring spending bill to fund the government. a lot of piss mix that we will not be at that precipice in three months. >> we go. >> john standing by live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. taking a look at the clock, leaving the president to speak at 10:35 leaves you 20 seconds to tell us about the markets. >> let's go straight to the full screen. there you will see the market is presently down 75 points, 15,298. the reason is there are key stocks down, i.b.m., united health care, goldman sachs. in other words, it's pretty stable compared to yesterday. the rally of 205 points on the day we saw that this deal was finally done in the senate and house a signal to washington, d.c. that wall street is on to the political shenanigans. they know a

approximate p.a., chief of staff here at the white house, dennis mcdonough was out on executive drive, greeting returning workers here, as well, washington certainly getting back to normal. it bears repeating how long is normal and what is the new normal. this deal, you to have remind folks amid this jubilation or euphoria today is only good for four months. there's no indication that the precipice is going to change in terms of politics. ok, and i understand that the president is being introduced right now. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> last night, i signed legislation to reopen our government and pay america's bills, because democrats and responsible republicans came together, the first government shutdown in 17 years is now over. the first default in more than 200 years will not happen. these twin threats to our economy have now been lifted and i want to thank those democrats and republicans for getting together and ultimately getting this job done. now, there's been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. let's be clear. there

valerie jarrett and dennis mcdonough will meet with health care insurance ceos at the white house. health and human services will then powwow with house democrats and kathleen sebelius will be in that meeting as well. cabinet secretaries and white house officials will hit the road to sell the enrollment. among them dallas, houston, orlando, and detroit. kathleen sebelius is expected to step in the line of fire last week but last night came to the president's defense in a new primetime interview. >> first knew that there was a problem? >> well, i think it became clear fairly early on. the first couple of days. >> so not before that, though? not before october 1st there was no concern at that point in the white house or at hhs? >> i think that we talked about having testing going forward. >> the final front four, the appointment of the new glitch czar, omb director jeff zientz will lead the so-called tech surge. david axelrod had this advice for zientz and the white house on "the last word." >> as i'm sure they are kicking a bunch of folks in the butt every day to make sure that what

that's the president's chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, greeting federal workers as they get to comek to work today after the partial government shutdown ends. of course, the deal to reopen the government and avoid a default is getting a lukewarm reaction from many circles this morning, including from investors. stock futures are actually down ahead of the opening bell. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange to tell us more about that. good morning, alison. >> good morning, carol. not a lot of love for this deal this morning. that's despite that 205 point pop on the dow yesterday. global markets mostly lower this morning. what gives? because this debt ceiling deal is temporary. so guess what? we're going to be right back here again in about three months. the same recession warnings. the same downgrade warning. the same risk to social security checks. the same stuff we've been watching happen on capitol hill, we're going to see it happen again. china is even chiming in. they're one of our biggest foreign debt holders. a chinese ratings agency is already saying even with the ba

dennis mcdonough the white house chief of staff came and met with the house democrats today.oom said he talked about poll numbers and said they are winning. talked to republicans yeah we think we are winning and we thought they were going to call our bluff. noble is moving. until something happens to force -- until people start to get jumpy, there is probably not going to be any action. that could mean a very long shutdown. >> bret: we saw on the web this clip between rand pal and mitch mcconnell how they thought it was turning the republicans' way actually as this no negotiation stance by the white house and senator reid continues. in the senate, behind the scenes, what's going on? >> well, i think the one thing that has been notable is you have seen folks like rob portman, bob corker, john mccain, some of the more deal-making inclined senators, not necessarily moderate, trying to refocus whether it's within senate features or even behind the scenes background talks with other democrats. trying to refocus the debate away from obama care and back to spending and tax reform, a

they're not meeting together with dennis mcdonough, and a very interesting scene on the senate floor this afternoon when harry reid called for what is called a live quorum call health fake forum calls where they're -- this was a live quareom call to get everybody to the senate floor and then reid spoke out against what is going on, saying this government shutdown looks bad to the rest of the world, concern about the debt ceiling. misch mcconnell then spoke and had a pretty good exchange of ideas on the floor with a lot of senators in the chamber which doesn't happen vary often. most of the time it's an empty chamber. >> neil: this measure has a couple of republicans behind it that would call for a trillion dollar increase in the debt that would carry us through presumably the next election, and that it would pass -- i don't know where it would go from there. what do you make of that? >> they're starting to be some crisis management to this. we're into this more than seven to eight tase at this point, and some people are starting to get jumpy. there war a couple of members on the repu

business leaders met with dennis mcdonough to discuss a way forward. there's also a push from evangelical leaders who have been debating biblical immigration. here was the president yesterday. >> it's good for our economy, it's good for our national securi security, it's good for our people, and we should do it this year. >> well, the problem for the president, of course, house republicans who were quick to reject the senate's comprehensive reform bill, instead opting for a piecemeal approach. joining me now, russell moore. good to see you, good morning. >> good to be with you, chris. thank you for having me. >> you have said that this is much more than a political issue, this is a gospel issue. so help people understand what exactly is biblical immigration? >> well, i don't speak in terms of biblical immigration, i speak in terms of our biblical mandate to think about immigrants not as issues but as persons. that doesn't mean that we're all going to agree on how to fix this problem, but it does mean that we do have a sense of needing to have compassio

valerie jarrett and dennis mcdonough will meet with health care insurance ceos at the white house.ill then powwow with house democrats and kathleen sebelius will be in that meeting as well. cabinet secretaries and white house officials will hit the road to sell the

i'm sure dennis mcdonough and rob neighbors and the whole legislative team are cleaning close tabs onrything that's happening on capitol hill and actively negotiating. but the president isn't out there being very forceful in his message. as he said in that clip that you showed earlier, sometimes it's not as helpful to have the president pushing things forward in front of cameras. sometimes it's helpful for the work to be done behind the scenes to make sure that we make the progress that we need to make. >> some are saying that he's taken a back seat really here in the process. what's your view? >> i think that that is -- that notion is belied by the facts which show that the president has actually been quite active. he's worked behind the scenes, he's worked in front of the scenes, he's calling leaders, he's trying to do everything that he can to make this work. and it looks like there's enough progress that we are indeed going to be able to get the government open and get the debt ceiling raised. >> 14 hours to go according to their deadline. republicans hitting the president in the

>> reporter: well, dennis mcdonough, the white house chief of staff, kathleen sebelius met today with insurance industry executives over at the white house. and the read i got from the source in the room, wolf, was very clear, which was that the white house said to them, look, we need to use your expertise so please help us solve the problem. i'm told that it was a really productive meeting, wolf, that the white house took notes on what the insurance industry executives had to say. after all, theyed a a lot of experience in dealing with online users with insurance, and that the industry came there and said, look, we're all very preoccupied with the front end of this, logging on to this, getting on. we need to also talk about the back end, because by the time the information gets to them, sometimes it's been muddled and unclear, and so they're trying to work together to figure out a way to make sure that the information that is then give on the insurance companies is, in fact, accurate so they can sign people up more quickly. will they be able to do it within the next few weeks? the an

a number of heads of insurance companies across the country were meeting with chief of staff dennis mcdonough, valley -- valerie jarret and others discussing the specific fixes earlier today at the white house. mark nulner tweeted about that. >> also today a story from the white house ha president obama received a call from angela her tell because of apparent snooping on her phone. here's the headline. >> she made the call earlier today according to reports. tomorrow we'll cover the house energy and commerce committee meeting looking at the health care implementation law. their specific focus tomorrow will be on the implementation of the law by the contractors who have been hired to create the system. hearings ahead next week will include the head of the center for medicare services and also h.h.s. secretary kathleen sebelius in the week ahead or so. house republicans met today, the conference met today, to talk about health care and the agenda ahead in the house. afterwards speaker boehner and house republican leaders spoke to reporters about the implementation of the law and about the effec

white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough greeted workers coming back to their jobs for the first timecouple of weeks. vice president biden did the same at the epa's headquarters. the president last night seemed anxious to get back to business as usual, but he also made clear he hasn't given up his hope for job-creating investments. >> we still need to pass a law to fix our broken immigration system, we still need to pass a farm bill, and with the shutdown behind us and budget committees forming, we now have an opportunity to focus on a sensible budget that is responsible, that is fair and that helps hard working people all across this country. >> reporter: the congressional budget office says the so-called sequester is holding back economic growth. standard & poor's says the government's shutdown cost the economy about $24 billion. the president will have comments within the hour. heather? heather: wendell, how are republicans looking at the coming budget talks? >> reporter: well, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says holding spending at the level of the sequester is a priority

i can tell you, though, that dennis mcdonough, his chief of staff, just left the white house to grabay, but wouldn't say more than that. doesn't give us a lot of indication about where these talks are headed. based on my discussions with aides on the hill, it appears those discussions are stalled right now at least. senator harry reid really digging in his heels over this issue of wanting to increase the sequester spending levels. republicans saying that's a no go for them. so where do we go from here? it's a big question mark. again, all eyes are on the senate as thee negotiations have shifted to that body. on the morning talk shows, both sides continued to dig in their heels. take a listen to what rob portman had to say on "meet the press." >> congress can't do its job unless democrats are willing to talk. the reason what harry reid just said was a breakthrough is the president has refused to negotiate. i mean, it's unbelievable. this is the first time in history that a president of the united states has said, look, i'm not even going to talk about it. >> and in response to that ar

interesting, gloria, when the president's 65-minute news conference, he did mention the role that dennis mcdonoughite house chief of staff, is making talking to republicans on the hill but i didn't hear any reference to the vice president. >> no. look, i think there's much more of a low profile for joe biden this time and it is because, as jonathan reports, that the senate democrats were none too happy with some of the deals that he struck with the republican leader, mitch mcconnell. but i would also tell you, this is a different kind of negotiation. you've got the house republicans to worry about. joe biden is a former senator, deals with senators. harry reid has a united caucus on this. he's not so worried about losing those red state democrats and the strategy is a non-negotiation strategy as we just heard for the last hour from the president of the united states. so there aren't any back room deals that are being cooked up. they're just not talking to each other but biden has been in these meetings. it's very clear, though, that harry reid has said i'm taking the lead, i'm the guy this time ar

officials at the white house, including valerie jarrett and the white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonoughllenges to the affordable care act and secretary sebelius. he says, quote, the law is still standing and so is she. back to you. >> peter, that was excellent. thank you for that update. live from washington, d.c. >> all right, 11 minutes before the top of the hour. did you know deep frying your turkey is so last year? so what's in? famous dave himself is here to show you. >> that's right. first, we're going to check in with martha mccallum for what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> hi there. good morning to you. and coming up right here, two gop stars who want big action on capitol hill, rand paul says congress must also live under obamacare and marco rubio wants a vote on postponing the individual mandate. karl rove and tucker carlson here on those. a washington insider gets the boot for tweeting against the boss and others under a fake name and a big day for the royal family. we'll see you right here at the top of the hour >>> all right. you know what? we're in mid october. we'r