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grover norquist. the president does not even have the money to engage in this.e your mind? stuart: wait a second, i am not arguing for war. i am arguing for a strong and vigorous response to the gassing of children. >> so unpredictable. it is so relevant to our national security. stuart: judge, welcome back. and ramsey is still with us on obamacare. we have a deadline at the end of this month. will we do this? will we see it fully complemented? >> i think so. a total lack of leadership. you wait until these young people find out that they have to buy a $2000 health insurance policy when they happen where had to do it before. it is going to put a lot of small businesses out of business. it will be the largest tax increase on the middle class that has ever happened. it is not a tax, it is a penalty. this thing will be a mess. stuart: interesting. i am sorry we cut you short there, but it was good stuff. thank you. the president speaks, the dow is up 81. house speaker john boehner is vowing to fight president obama over raising the debt ceiling. he promises a whale

said grover norquist, who is my favorite sesame character.t's such a long phrase people will never say it. >> you know who also lies? this fella a. >> well, that was interesting, i guess. tracy -- >> own it. that was very interesting. >> not for me. tracy, what -- why do they have to make up new words? isn't that dumb in. >> so let me clear up my language, it's total bs, it's a tax. it's a total tax and it's more bs that you think you are going to buy this new phrase or coin phrase. anything that the irs is involved in is tax related. it's a tax. >> tom, thoughts? >> i wonder why john roberts ruled the way he did when he -- it made no sense. and he kind of gave them this loophole and now they can go back on it. now they admit that it was not a tax, but it does not matter, we are saltddled with this thing. >> he ruled according to the constitution. >> he thought, i'm not going to overturn it, it's your job, voters, and we let him down. >> i think it's because he is a rhino. >> animals cannot be on the supreme court, bill. >> yes, they can. if

the correct answer to our gps challenge question was c, grover cleveland.sident cleveland signed the law which designated the first monday in september as labor day. but ironically, cleveland was perceived to be anti-labor for sending 12,000 federal troops to stop a strike by the american railway union at the pullman company in chicago. about 30 workers died as a result and the bill was actually seen as a way to pacify organized labor. despite giving everyone a holiday, cleveland's party deserted him and did not nominate him for the next election in 1896. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> good morning. i'm fredricka whitfield. cnn's "reliable sources" hosted by brian stelter of "the new york times" will start in just a moment. first an update to the crisis in syria. let's go to nick payton walsh at the united nations where a briefing has just wrapped up. nick, what's the headline? >> reporter: well, we're getting a bit more indication of how long this process will take to get some sort of results out

the answer to our question was c, grover cleveland.1894, president cleveland signed the law which designated the first monday in september as labor day. ironically cleveland was perceived to be anti-labor for sending 12,000 federal troops to stop a trike by the american railway union at te pullman company in chicago. about 30 workers died as a result. the bill was actually seen as way to pacify organized labor. despite giving everyone a holiday, cleveland's party deserted him and did not nominate him for the next election in 1896. thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >> hello, everyone. i i'm fredericka whitfield. you're in the cnn newsroom. secretary of state john kerry says there's more evidence of hair and blood samples that syria used serin and that the u.s. has to act. that decision is now up to congress. president obama said he will seek congressional approval for action and his administration is busy makecation, a

grover... made the rounds... during today's visiting hours,.../ during their stop in town for sesame street live's... "make a new friend"... show..../ .. the show plays tomorrow ...thru... sunday... at the modell performing arts center at the lyric. ad lib toss to wx when we come back, a frightening scene as small plane falls out of the sky, crashing onto a crowded parking lot. hear what investigators believe went wng in this deadly crash. and a wall of sand pummels an arizona town. more of the amazing pictures, when the late edition. some dramatic video out of a chicago suburb, where a small plane crashes into a bank parking lot, killing one person, and badly burning another. police say the two seater plane was approaching for a landing, when it clipped a tree and a light pole, then crashed into several parked cars. no one on the ground was hurt, but a woman on board the plane died, while a man suffered severe burns. it's unclear tonight who was the pilot. a rising democratic star in the state of texas is hoping

cookie, it's going to be okay, grover.> i'm hungry. >> they sound delicious. >> they do sound delicious if lara made them. >>> she is the first lady of rock. sharon osbourne is here. she will sit down with us to talk about a brand-new children's book. and what it's like to run a famous family. >> this is one of my true favorites. unvarnished. >> she'll tell you what she's thinking. >> have you heard? britney spears on "gma." he's going to reveal the cover art of her upcoming single. she looks unbelievable on it. the superstar will be joining us exclusively next week. a megalive event on tuesday. she has a big announcement. and she's choosing to receive it only on tuesday. >> everything is supersecret. everything. >> we don't know anything. >>> guys, come on over here. it's opini ee's been a huge wee tory johnson. >> congratulations. >> so excited. tory's book, "the shift," is so fantastic. "how i finally lost the weight and discovered a happier life." it's fast on its way to becoming a best seller. and speaking of selling,

i had witnessed with grover and bobby's unanswered prayers over my cousin, or my own prayers for larry smith's sick brother. if i prayed for natosha and her brother didn't make it, it wouldn't be need who had disappointed her. it would be god who let her down. i didn't want to initiate in natosha the long and painful journey of doubt that i had experienced. for the first time i turn to reason. natosha, i said in a calm, reassuring voice, it sounds like everyone at the hospital is doing everything they can. your brother is a young man and the strongman. they are bring in specialists so wwe're just going to have to wat this out and see what happens. but natosha, i'm telling you it sounds like he's going to be all right. natosha thank me for taking the call so late at night informed hard -- for encouraging words. then, just before we made our goodbyes, natosha said, keep him in your prayers. i pause for a moment, and then replied, of course, natosha. of course. when i hung up the phone i was heartbroken. i knew that deeply disappointed natosha. i realize at the moment if i could not pray

your boss, grover norquist says it's crazy, it's batty, don't do it. he's saying, you're crazy.ing to happen is, when the whole thing is over, then the center is going to keep the sequester funding. the sequester was the most controversial policy in all of domestic fiscal politics that we have seen in this country in several years. and it's going to be the base lane. sam, am i wrong about this? does it drive you crazy as it drives me crazy? >> yeah, it does, but it also speaks to some larger problem in our culture, where this notion that we're going to be punishing poor people for being poor, essentially. and what's also stunning is that we hear constant, and i think some of this is legitimate, that the economy, you know, from the right, that obama has tanked the economy, that the growth is sort of not really happening. there's some truth to that, but you can't turn around and say, and now we are going to punish the people who are suffering under that. >> explain to me why this vote today was not morally monstrous. >> smart people need to disabuse themselves of the idea that spe

. >> my favorites were oscar the grouch and grover. grover was like else me mow.nspiration for elmo before elmo was elmo. and i was fascinating about what oscar had in the trash can. and what was up with snufflofagus. he was so sad. >> i wanted people to see him. i felt bad for big bird. he'd tell gordon, he was right there, i swear. ♪ >>> all right. something you don't see every day. this is an interesting one. a mother rat nursing baby squirrels. >> it is thanks to washington state woman with a fondness of snakes. just hear us out. it is an unusual cycle of life and joe english from our station in portland, oregon, has the story. >> reporter: tanya and her husband have some big old snakes as pets and they raise their own rodents to feed the snakes. before you reach hasty conclusions, she took the baby squirrels home and tried to bottle feed them every two hours. >> i kaem home and fed them and went back to work. and came home and fed them and said why don't we try to put them with a mama rat. she just had babies the week before. >> reporter: so they did. and mam

grover norquist, who is head of americans for tax reform persuaded politicians never raise taxes. and steve moore is with us from "the wall street journal." so rome had high tax rates? >> not always. efforts were about 400 years they had no real direct internal taxes. because they looted their neighbors. john: we are not advocating that. [laughter] >> even that wasn't enough. so they had dramatically higher taxes. taxes started with tariffs. constantine had the first one. property taxes, people were actually abandoning their property. things got towards the end, very rough and it's a part of why things did not work. >> one penalty of being sold and slavery. >> or killed. >> that is what they do and the modern-day irs. the only way they would get it was to sell into slavery to get currency. john: by 1% was the highest income tax. >> over is exactly right. they kept collecting more and more money in the outlying areas and there wassa massive revolt. >> that is happening in america today. people are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars in washington. that is one of the reasons

grover norquist, who is head of americans for tax reform persuaded politicians never raise taxes. and steve moore is with us from "the wall street journal." so rome had high tax rates? >> not always. efforts were about 400 years they had no real direct internal taxes. because they looted their neighbors. john: we are not advocating that. [laughter] >> even that wasn't enough. so they had dramatically higher taxes. taxes started with tariffs. constantine had the first one. property taxes, people were actually abandoning their property. things got towards the end, very rough and it's a part of why things did not work. >> one penalty of being sold and slavery. >> or killed. >> that is what they do and the modern-day irs. the only way they would get it was to sell into slavery to get currency. john: by 1% was the highest income tax. >> over is exactly right. they kept collecting more and more money in the outlying areas and there wassa massive revolt. >> that is happening in america today. people are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars in washington. that is one of the reasons

so, yes, but i mean, this is one of those books that is not a the grover cleveland administration, right piece of discrete history. not explosive, but definitely a book that people were nervous about, and i let them see what they wanted to see, but they were generally across the board terrific. there is a great line, referencing the text, that you know you have made it in this town when you can use the word impact as a verb. >> yes, that is true. one of the many verbal tics. common inery, very this town. .ell, i am going to impact my english teacher would have said something. what do you make of how then the book has been received in washington? and i say received because as i can tell from making the best- sellers list, it did not just list, itthe "times" "harted on "the washington post list, as well. >> washington is interested in a itself.out washington puts the me in media. is not gossip driven, but it tit-for-tat, who comes off best, who comes off worst, who is marked the nicest two and the meanest to, and the best part of the reaction has been from out of town. it has been amazingl

we're going to talk to grover norquist, founder for americans tax reform.going to talk to pimco about the yellen effect on the markets and the treasuries. i thinks he was the yellen guy probably all along. right now as we head to break, check out the "squawk box" market indicator. here at fidelity, we give you the most free research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed 1-second trades. and at the center of it all is a surprisingly low price -- just $7.95. in fact, fidelity gives you lower trade commissions than schwab, td ameritrade, and etrade. i'm monica santiago of fidelity investments, and low fees and commissions are another reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> welcome back to "squawk box" this morning. live in washington, d.c. today, five years after the financial crisis. but there's another fight over the debt limit and it is looming with the federal government expected to run out of money on october 1st without congressional action. grover norquist, fo

president bashir rights groups believe a total of fifty four people have been shot dead so far driving on grover the police's increasingly lethal crackdown calls approaching from the shooting which is almost a quarter century and. up ahead russia's growth plan get started by people of own is guess the latest edition of on the money that sonic's program. i bet anyone who lives in the united states knows a few people or just dismal geography a certain small percentage of the country just can't get it that canada is above us but how important is doing geography anyways what one author on the washington post blogs recently wrote that knowing geography really doesn't matter that much he was writing in response to the game where is damascus which challenges people to find syria's capital on a blank map he said that whether americans can find here on a map doesn't affect the wisdom of a punitive strike meant to uphold international norms against the use of chemical weapons and often disasters draw our attention to places we'd never heard of before like pearl harbor or columbine or syria but let's look

president bashir rights would be the total of fifty four people being shot dead so far driving on grover the police's increasingly lethal project was a growing for by should to end is almost quarter century in power now. a massive people trafficking network in china has been smashed in a major nationwide operation police rescued ninety two abducted children made over three hundred arrests a group many children women and sold them as workers or wives to families across china will force them into prostitution trafficking is a major issue for china it is blamed on the strict one child policy. the number of people killed after that residential building collapsed in mumbai on friday is no reason up to fifty in the last hour a similar number of been pulled free though including young children at least two people were rescued on saturday although several are still thought to be trapped decorator's no been arrested accused of altering the building basement which may cause them to keep. coming up say twenty six no moscow time or top notch gadgets of the most advanced devices now the twenty first

we had one particular incident at 65 oak grover, a beautiful mural, and it was slightly obliterated. he went back and fixed it. and then they came back and completely obliterated it. and he told me he could not go back up there because the people that did that would hurt him and he knew who it was. so, instead of hiring another muralist to go up there because he gave us that information, we just had -- we buffed it over and had a blank coat of paint put over it. so, in our program we can utilize the artists to get the information we need to keep them safe and also we let the police -- law enforcement know this program is happening and when it's happening so that they're hypersensitive to it. >> i'm going to go back over here and we have a couple comments. i think we're going to stick with this topic a little bit because it looks like there's a lot of interest. i'll get back to you after this gentleman back here. and i'll hold the mic and you just speak into it, okay, sir. let me get on this side of it and go ahead. >> don't wait until somebody gets assaulted like i did. make sure you

argument and and i don't think people should be elected and in compromise to be elected you know grover cleveland had a great quote once he says what is it worth if you're elected and reelected and you don't stand for anything so now the argument is is get elected first get elected say what you have to say bring people together you know do whatever is necessary to get elected because if you don't get elected you can't do any good so i don't buy into that i think you have to believe in something and just getting elected if you don't believe anything you'll end up having a government like we have today that's what they do all the time as soon as they are elected they're worried about the next election so i want people to believe in something i want to people and know what it is and then have a fair and square election over it what is the wrong paul channel. well this is something we're doing on internet it's an outgrowth of what i've been doing and over the years i've always had some vehicle as far back as one nine hundred seventy four in and out of politics but you know during the campai

. >> my favorites were oscar the grouch and grover. grover was elmo like.what oscar pulled out of that trash can. he had a whole life. what was up with >> he was right there, i swear. >> here's all the rest of them. i felt bad for big bird. he'd tell gordon, he was right there, i swear. hd 3. 4 d 3. hd 3. hd 3. hd 3. hd 3. ♪ >>> something you don't see every day. this is an interesting one. a mother rat nursing some baby squirrels. >> it's all thanks to a washington state woman with a fondness of snakes. hear us out. it's an unusual cycle of life. joe english from portland, oregon, has the story. >> tanya and her husband have some big old snakes as pets, and they raise their own rodents to feed the snakes. before you reach any hasty conclusions, tanya took the three baby squirrels home, first tried bottle feeding them every two hours. >> i came home and i fed them and then i went back to, would. i came home and i fed them. my husband said, well, why don't we try putting them with the momma rat. she just had babies the week before. >> reporter: so they did,

we're going to be live tonight with a special edition, at 11:00 p.m., we'll be out front, grover norquist they will with me. meanwhile, our coverage continues with wolf blitzer. >>> erin thank you, as the shutdown gets closer, hard line republicans once again pushing legislation, voting on it just moments from now that funds the government but delays implementation of health care reform. a bill the senate won't pass and the president won't sign. at the same time, moderate republicans, many of whom also oppose the health care law staging a party rebellion against tactics they see as bad policy and worse politics. but right now, those voices are not, at

joining me now, a grover herman fellow in federal budgetary affairs at the heritage foundation. for joining us. >> thank you for having me. gerri: raising the debt ceiling yet again. i want you to hear what they have to say about this. >> on the matter of the debt ceiling the answer is, no, we will not negotiate. >> i will not negotiate on any means or any way on extending the debt ceiling. >> that is why i will not negotiate or the full faith and credit of the united states. will not allow anyone to on this country's reputation or threaten to inflict economic pain on millions of our own people to to make an ideological point. gerri: democrats saying the republicans are hijacking the country. you kidding me? these people don't want to negotiate at all. full stop. what do you say? >> the president and congress should cut spending and put the budget on a path to balance before increasing the debt ceiling. this idea that somehow the welfare of america is dependent upon the government being able to spend and borrow without any limit, that is just simply not true. the opposite is tru

mine was grover and i liked oscar the grouch and ernie. >> ernie was like -- >> he was always bustingoscar the grouch. good choice. >> announcer: this is abc "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. good choice. >> announcer: this is abc "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. >>> good morning. i'm diana perez. >> i'm john muller. here's the top stories this morning on "world news now." the president of iran says he brings a message of peace and friendship to the american people. he tells the general assembly that the u.s. is open to talks with the u.s. we will have the latest from the u.n. in just a moment. >>> the senate takes a key vote on efforts to prevent a government shutdown starting tuesday. the house has passed a bill that funds the government but removes the president's health care plans. >>> attorneys from michael jackson's have made a last-ditch effort to convince the jury that aeg was responsible for the pop star's death. defense attorneys will present their closing arguments today. >>> tea party conservative senator ted cruz promises to sp

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that i today had a chance to talk to grover norquist, who is outside the capitol with some members of congress from the republican side who were talking about that piece of the legislation that's expected to be voted on tonight. and he said senate democrats are not thinking about what it's going to look like in the tv ads run against them when they are held to public account by the votes that they take. by turning done things he says reasonable people in the country want to see. by that they're saying why have members of congress and their staff get a benefit that the public doesn't get. so that's the kind of deep in the weeds negotiating and political rang willing that's going on here. but it's going to be a very late night. ed? >> okay. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, capitol hill correspondent, appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> and one thing that i think is the backdrop of all this, the conservatives have tried to get in the minds of the american people and in some respects worked. we are all confused about obamacare. that none of us understand any of it. oh, it's very easy to under

what they want in the grover -- a government so small enough you can put it down the bath tub.mportant point i don't want to lose here, that is wrong on policy grounds because it is expensive to shut down the government in this way. the studies are out there it would be over a billion dollars a week as a cost. the thing you're doing that you hit government with makes government even more expensive. >> that's absolutely right. there's no pressure coming from their constituents because they hate obama care and government. that's the tea party these sis. >> they are confused obama care is going to be negativively impacted which it won't be. >> i don't want to get bogged down on shutdown because the point is an attack on obama care. they are rooting for it to fail. bill clinton said something interesting about that this weekend. >> can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting around begging for america to fail? >> and it seems it's been that way since 2008, they have wanted america to fail. for the good of their own political desires, which

mine was grover and i liked oscar the grouch and ernie. >> ernie was like -- >> he was always bustingo are adorable. oscar the grouch. good choice. >> announcer: this is abc "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. >>> making news in america this morning -- funding fight. one week until the nation's health care system changes. one senator is taking all night in an interesting protest. >> i do not like green eggs and ham. >> we're live in washington with the latest on the budget battle. >>> and breaking news. flames shoot from a warehouse following a huge explosion. we're learning what's inside that building as the fire rages on. >>> show-stopper. turns out rock star, bono, has another talent. cracking up the crowd. >>> and one wrong turn during a race sends the car and its driver flying. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with the federal budget battle taking center stage right now on the senate floor. >> just days away from the rollout of obama care, one conservative senator launched his all-night talk-a-thon in protest. tahman bradley from washington has more. >> re

stranglehold over the republican party, and to certain extent still does, a guy i went to college with, grover norquist, and he believes, as he is famous for saying, that government should be made so small that it could be drowned in a bath tub. so this was a big choice. a big choice election, and i wanted to put it in some context, but there was also some personal history of some of the major players involved that made the series of stories i wanted to tell that are not known publicly, and one i wanted to start with actually begins on a pitch black night in the florida everglades, in 2005. and a car runs off the road and plunges into a canal, and the woman driving the car -- the car sinks to the bottom of the canal, and passersby stop. one tried to open the door and breaks his arm. and the screaming for help, and the 38-year-old man working at a motorcycle dealership nearby hears the screams and he sprints to the scene, and he is told, she is again, dude. she's gone. and he ignores what the passers-by said and he jumps into the canal, and finally, after several dives, he manages to get the do

mine was grover and i liked oscar the grouch and ernie. >> ernie was like -- >> he was always bustingare adorable. oscar the grouch. good choice. >> announcer: this is abc "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. arly 1 in 200 amerericans suffer with the debilitatating pain and constant disruption of inflammatory bowel disease. the toll is both physical and emotional. chances are you know somne with ibd. i'm amy brenneman and t the crohn's & colitis foundation of america. ccfa was created to help those with ibd cope anand to find a cure. people with d can't wait. won't you help someone you know? >>> making news in america this morning -- funding fight. one week until the nation's health care system changes. one senator is taking all night in an interesting protest. >> i do not like green eggs and ham. >> we're live in washington with the latest on the budget battle. >>> and breaking news. flames shoot from a warehouse following a huge explosion. we're learning what's inside that building as the fire rages on. >>> show-stopper. turns out rock star, bono, has another tale