tell harry reid. >> they are having a tantrum like a little child and refusing -- >> let's play harrythis government work. >> play harry reid in his own words where he says why help a kid with cancer david limbaugh. >> oh, please. >> you know, juan, the sky may not be falling but america is. its health care system is. the entire obama care system is based on a lie, based on a false premise about the number of insured and obama said we want these 47 million people uninsured. even b after obama care is imple meanted supposedly 25 million will be uninsured? everybody will have less access to care, higher prices. it will be a budget buster. people can't keep their doctors, their insurance. 47 million was a lie in the first place. 18 million could afford insurance and chose not to. a high number of millions had access to government benefits and declined. something like 8 million people actually could afford it. then didn't qualify for government benefits and they fell through the cracks. so we have revamp the united states economy so obama and the liberals can implement socialism on the am

in 1989, harry reid personally banned him. d reid reported a bribe to the fbi and arranged a meeting with the guy in his office. by agreement, the fbi agents burst in to arrest the guy at the point where harry reid asked, is this the money? but although he was taking part in a sting, harry reid was unable to control his temper. the videotape shows him getting up from his chair and saying [ bleep ], you tried to bribe me. and then harry reid, on tape, with the fbi there tried to choke the guy, the guy got eight months in prison, and later married latoya jackson, seriously. we have more with our interview today, including what harry reid thinks about cory booker, who is to be sworn in tomorrow. but when you see harry reid, there is something about the way he talks in person that is different in person than it is on camera. you have to trust me. it makes you remember where he comes from. trust me. we have more ahead. >> that must be music to the ears of frank sinatra who says he may eventually open a hotel casino now in las vegas,

you have senators harry reid and mitch mcconnell. for decades, but here's the but. they don't exactly get along. at least they haven't always. this past summer, in fact, mcconnell said reid could be the worst senate leader ever. that's an actual quote. when asked today about friction between these two men, reid said, quote, that is greatly exaggerated. senator mcconnell and i have worked together for more than 30 years very closely since we have been whips so no problem. no problem, he says. c nrx nrnn political director m preston is in washington. you have covered these two men for a long, long time. what's the story? do they get along? and whether they do or not, will that affect them brokering a deal? >> well, brooke, in many ways it doesn't really matter how they feel about each other personally when we have reached this point in the negotiations. it's been put into their court. they're the ones who have to craft a deal. obviously, we have seen the white house and house republican leadership unable to do so, so as we often see, t

trying to come up with a deal that can barely stand to be in the same room with each other because harry reid defeat mitch mcconnell up for re-election in the state of kentucky. mitch mcconnell did the same when reid was up for re-election. they're not really best of friends. >> mitch mcconnell has a tea party challenger challenging him, as well for the republican nomination. gloria, see you later in "the situation room," as well. the senate may be moving closer and closer to a deal to end the shutdown, extend the debt sealing. will it get through the house? we're going to talk with a republican congress mann from virginia, scott ridgell and find out if he's ready to give his stamp of approval. 20? new purina one true instinct has 30. active dogs crave nutrient-dense food. so we made purina one true instinct. learn more at purinaone.com cg/úÑÑ ido more with less with buless energy. hp is helping ups do just that. soon, the world's most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. multiply that across over a thousand locations,

we've heard harry reid speak. nancy pelosi and harry reid took a lot of questions. the president of the united states is completely quiet. is he going to say anything or just stay in his lair? >> i don't know with that. we're wondering if it was possible earlier this evening. because the speaker of the house was coming out. and those democratic leaders from congress, harry reid and nancy pelosi, came out. but i can't really surmaze why the president did or did not come out. he did talk to a white house official who said if you look at what happened in that meeting, if you listen to what they said coming out, it is obvious no progress was made. that was plain to see and hear as we were standing outside the west wing. i was there as john boehner walked out for a few moments. and up that harry rood received took questions. john boehner took no questions. we want to continue on the resolution. and he said, and the white house won't do that and democrats won't do that. and he walked off. and then harry reid and most pelosi, it was striking to me. harry reid said we are l

this time harry reid really wanted to take charge. >> harry reid wasn't happy with that deal in 2011. looking back on it, i don't think the president was very happy with it either. he didn't like the sequesters that came as a result and so i think both the president said i'm not going to do that all over again, which is why he stood firm this time. and harry reid said you know what? let me do the negotiating this time. i don't want joe biden to do it. i can get this con. harry reid is tough. he's very tough, he's very wiley. he figured out a way to get this done. if you look at the deal dana bash has been reporting we've been talking about since yesterday, it is essentially a white flag. the only thing that's in it is an anti-fraud measure on obama care which basically everybody can agree toe. >> who can oppose that? >> who can oppose that? the republicans in the house have marched themselves right over to the point of irrelevancy where effectively after two weeks of this wolf, it didn't matter what they did. we wound up with a deal that they could have had on day one. and they've los

harry reid decided not to come in.orked late into the night on saturday night. >> right. >> he didn't show up until 2:00. this is a one-year delay on the individual mandate. >> right. >> this is taking away special exemptions for congress including the administration. >> i'm for that. >> a one year delay. i they gave it for the employer mandate. >> businesseses. >> they are favoring big business over individuals. >> exactly. >> they think they deserve the exemptions they won't give us and the subsidy? >> apparently they do. that's exactly what either saying. they have to go back to january of 2011, sean, when the democrats were whispering around the house and senate that if they could force a shutdown the public will blame republicans and they can get the house back. they are still on that game plan. all we want to do is something reasonable to stop hurting the american public. >> if they didn't want the shutdown maybe reid would have shown up on sunday. nancy pelosi was away and the president was playing golf. doesn't

harry reid will not let the senate vote. so, for example, jack luke said we need to fund our veterans and disability payments. i agree. the house passed a bill to fund our veterans. every senate republican believes we should fund our veterans regardless of what happens in the shutdown. our veterans shouldn't pay the price. and right now harry reid and the senate democrats are refusing to have a vote and blocking it. the only reason the va is not adequately funded right now is because harry reid and the democrats are blocking it. >> how about a cooling off period? cnn is reporting kind of a cooling off period. that you pass a clean spending bill for six weeks and on it you also increase the debt ceiling for six weeks. in that six weeks, you negotiate on how to fund the government and you negotiate the debt ceiling. >> candy, that would -- >> that would accomplish what you want, which is the president at the table? >> look what you just asked. you said how about the agreement be give the democrats 100% of what they want with n

the man and woman on the street or harry reid? >> harry reid has lost his ever-loving mind. i don't know who he thinks he's listening to. what alternative universe he is in. look at the migration out of california right now into places like texas and where i am right now, florida, because people are trying to get away from these ridiculous taxes and governments that are massively inefficient. if we had a government that was completely efficient and spent money well, people might be willing to pay more taxes. but people look at it and say, why would i send money down a black hole which is called our ff federal government? they do not want to get spending under control. they just want to continue to give everybody everything that they have ever promised them so they can be great politicians and get re-elected. this is an absolute disaster. that mindset for our country. >> mark, everybody wants to pay more taxes? >> nobody wants to pay more taxes. i think we can all agree, nobody enjoys paying taxes. but it's really easy to take a politician out of context, which is what i thin

>> i believe that harry reid. the white house came out with a similar statement, i don't know if he is speaking on behalf of the white house. i didn't support the defunding strategy because this is where we would end up and not deliver a result. i do think at this point that the president is overplaying his hand with ill concieved strategy. and so it is time for everyone to get it together and get it resolved and to see harry reid dismiss the house plan is not the right thing to do and it is time to let the house if they can pass something get it done. but is the president trying to break the backs of john boehner and the house? >> by dismissing it he is saying that he doesn't want to negotiate and that is not a reasonable position. >> senator, you never supported the defunding proposition, and so now it doesn't seem as though the republicans and defunded or dismantled or delayed obama care. was all of this messiness worth with it >> the reason i didn't support it, i fully support repealing obama care, but i didn'

here's harry reid. let's take a listen. >> -- this motion when it arrives. >> ice here. >> it's here? okay. it's here. momentarily. that's what i meant. >> the chair lays before the senate the following message from the house of representatives. >> resthoovl the house insist on its amendment to the amendment to the senate of the resolution -- >> when they speak of the message, what they're eventually saying is they're bringing over what the house did last night, and the house voted to send their bill, the bill that includes the one-year delay and the individual mandate, plus the idea that the members of congress and their staffs do not get any special deductibles or treatments when it comes to the health care law, and they voted to go to conference. and now the senator reading that business, dealing with it, and senator harry reid in a minute will officially start dealing with it. now they're calling the roll. as they do that, which of course means they have to call 100 names, now we will sneak in a qui

not just in harry reid's office but also physically harry reid's office is facing the west front of the capitol which if you see those pictures facing the quarter where this driver went into those barricades, where your right now, jake. so this is a system that was put 2 in place after 9/11. it's not used very much for the real thing. but to hear "shelter in place" and suddenly hear that shots were fired and not know, actually fit was in the capitol, at least at the beginning of course was very frightening. you mentioned the fact that these capitol police officers who rushed to the scene were not only heroic but they were heroic in the circumstances, and those circumstances are because of a government shutdown they're not getting paid. >> that's right, dana. when it was white house correspondent it happened periodically there would be a lockdown maybe once or twice a year some jerk would throw something over the fence or throw a firecracker. usually it was something that didn't turn out to be that big a deal. but they were very intense about security. you were referring to how often thi

but as harry reid said he will table it.hat is interesting, i spoke to republican members and they were caught off guard by speaker boehner's motion not expecting him for the conferencees on the cr. they are going to have a press conference around 1:00. they want to continue this message. they want to see the government open and basic fairness for all americans. kind of this push of the vitter amendment. but in terms of where we go from here as we move into tuesday, the idea has always been from republ republicans that a one day shutdown is not the end of the world. however, we've seen practically every single vehicle they could alter the health care law. now the question goes, what will they do after they've seemed to exhausted every option in trying to change the health care law. and then we get into all sorts of exciting things. do they pull away from health care and go to something else like keystone that is part of the goody bag wish list, or sake you down the path of going back and forth? a lot of republicans i spoke t

harry reid was on the senate floor as you probably heard. he indicated he may be talking with mitch mcconnell later today, and he said that he was confident there might be some kind of deal in the works or that republicans may relent and give them the clean debt ceiling bill and the clean continuing resolution bill they have been seeking, but it's all very much in the air. but at least we can report at this point, miguel, that things have settled down outside the white house, although i can tell you that there are some vehicles going down pennsylvania avenue, park police vehicles, with their sirens on in case you're hearing some of that noise. >> we can hear that. >> reporter: but for the most part things have settled down here. >> these protests though are very emotional obviously. the veterans, many groups have not been happy with this administration and have expressed their concerns with them. they have been growing over the days. there were world war ii vets that went owe the memorial to begin with. congressmen went out there to open the

throws only two that the president can't hide from and harry reid cannot win on.why this is a mess. the president's response has been to attack republicans. to have no negotiations. the office bill clinton in 1995. >> newt, please. the president has been one of the most conciliatory negotiators over a period of time. and i have to correct my good friend. i was here during the passage of the affordable care act which went through regular order, which both houses, the senate and the house asked for republican input. asked for amendments. allowed them to have it. it went through what this has not gone through. the hearing process and as well, the mark-up process which technically, if you look at the morning show that's on abc that talks about how you do a bill cartoon. we went through the regular order. our speaker, speaker pelosi was an excellent leader. one, because the 111th congress was the busiest, most successful in terms of bills that helped the american people, including the g.i. bill that hemmed our returning iraq soldiers. >> what you call a successful agen

>> reporter: harry reid just announced. when he comes back in at 9:30 and wants to be recognized and whatever message the house sends over, i'll go ahead and table that. in washington speak he's saying if the house sends over this vote to go to conference or conference committee and we want to take this dispute about how to fund the government for the next 55 to 75 days, 45 to 75 days if you're going to go by november 15th or december 15th. they have two different end dates on this. he's going to strip it out again and say no, we're not going to do that. now the ball's back in your court. that's why schumer did that little thing to reenforce that. and the house still plans on doing this. this is another, another ask of the conservative wing of the house republican caucus. they are the ones suggesting to go to conference. this is not a boehner idea. this was coming -- i first heard about this at about 5:00 this afternoon, coming from some of the conservative side of the house republican conference. so this is, again, sort of

you about the harry reid, sort of the perceptions of harry reid.watching him on television. there is apparently, i think this is from this town as well, he has this habit where he'll hang up the phone s that true? you're on the phone and he just hangs up, he never says good-bye. >> never says good-bye. he actually even does it to the president of the united states as well. it is one of the quirks of -- >> ever asked him why he does that? >> he said he just -- after he's done, he just basically hangs up the phone. he assumes the other person wants to do the same as well, to get on to the next call. so just one of the little quirks about him that i love. i got to tell you. let me go back to what you said about whether this is senator reid freed up. you see these gray hairs on my head? a lot of them came because of senator reid. he has a refreshing habit of speaking what is on his mind, which is -- can be a very dangerous thing for a politician. i worked for ted kennedy for 12 years. say what you will about the man, but he was -- he rarely made reddic

harry reid said he will table it.the move out of speaker boehner's office. they did not expect him to issue a motion for conferees on the crs. they will continue the message they want to see the government open in basic fairness for all americans under the health care law, the amendment you have been talking with in the last hour. in terms of where we go from here as we move in to tuesday, the idea has always been from republicans that a one-day shutdown is not the end of the world. they have time to ma throughout the rest of the day. we have seen just about every vehicle they can send over to alter the health care law. the kwef goes, what will they do after they seem to have exhausted every option in order to try to change the health care law? and then we get in to all sorts of exciting things. do they pull away from health care and go to keystone or something like that that is part of the goody bag wish list or continue down the path of going back and forth a lot of republicans is a say they will see a clean cr bill

what's harry reid voted to fund? zip. >> why is it the numbers aren't reflecting a huge dissatisfacti dissatisfaction with senator reid. >> the media. 24 reports blame the republicans. four blame both parties. not one blamed the democrats. i think the media have taken up this the republicans are shutting down the government in order to kill obama care. they want the to kill obama care or limit it to one more year. they have never voted to shut down the government. they know this is a tactic to lay it on them. >> who is the leader of the republican party? >> boehner is the leader in the house. i think it's the republican caucus and the tea party isn't 40 guys. i think the tea party and conservative caucus. >> speaker boehner said the house. but there is no -- >> no national leader. mitt romney was a nominal leader. he's the form nominee. >> he's gone. the former nominee is usually the de facto leader of the party. >> pat, nice to see you. >> thank you. >> now to senator ted cruz taking fire from democrats and now some

harry reid needs to do his. [applause] >> president obama is calling on house republicans to reopen the federal government and stop their efforts to delay or defund the federal health care law. he also noted that tuesday was the first day americans could enroll in health insurance exchanges under the health care law. this is 20 minutes. good morning, everybody. night, can last everybody hear me? night, for thet first time in 17 years, the republicans in congress chose to shut down the federal government. one faction of one party in one house of congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government all because they did not like one law. this republican shut down did not have to happen. i want every american to understand why it did happen. in the house of representatives refused to fund the government unless we defunded or dismantled the affordable care act. they have shut down and government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of americans. they dema

the senate will not accept that bill, harry reid saying they agreed to open the government, agree on raising the debt ceiling, but didn't seem to have much love beyond that. democratic senators now talking about where they go from here, but it's very clear from the tenor at this press conference that there doesn't seem to be a lot of room to move and maneuver for both sides. we are expecting susan collins. as soon as the democrats are finished, to come up and take the mike. she will have some words about what happened to her deal that she offered up. we want to bring in athena joans, who is watches all this. so much workers aren't working, congress is sort of working. can you put this in any context for us? >> reporter: hi, miguel, the context is a few days ago we thought there was progress, of course, being defined by the fact that the sides were talking, that the president was holding meeting with house and senate republicans. it at least that appears debt now. on the senate side, this proposal by susan collins and joe manchin that would both reopen the government and raise the deb

mitch mcconnell and harry reid - harry reid suggesting that he and mitch mcconnell have known each other a long time and been through this a lot of times, including 31 december last year and did a behind the scenes deal, the two of them, and harry reid hinted that they may have to do the same thing again. one thing to bear in mind - whatever happens has to happen quickly, it will take a couple of days to sort everything out. the debt ceiling deadline, the serious issue now comes up on thursday. >> and this is called governing now. okay. john terrett, live from the capitol. thank you. >> the barack obama administration is allowing states to seize their own money to pay for park operations. some are jumping at the chance. nearly a dozen national parks and monuments are opening thanks to state funding. one is the statue of liberty in new york city, available to tourists for the first time in almost two weeks. utah reopened six attractions, and a day later it opened canyon lands and the glen cannion national recreation area. arizona's grand canyon opened and colorado's rocky mountain nationa

harry reid has killed every one you president obama and harry reid don't even want to negotiate with the hns and in some cases democrats on bipartisan plans to get the government back open because they think the polls benefit them right now. i don't think we have seen a time in our country's history where they are totally 8 woman and he thinks he can gain politically. we have sear yaws proposals, 18 proposals on the table. the president has yet to put one plan on the table to get the government back open and start negotiations. we are flat out of time. do you expect them to have fallen into default on the debt obligations? >> absolutely not. there is no reason we should default. we have a plan we presented the other day to avoid default without any conditions. the president said he won't even take that offer up right now. the president -- president obama is the only person in washington who could cause default and it would be irresponsible and dangerous for him to pursue that option. >> thanks very much for joining us. >> seniors in one state are scrambling to find a new doctor after

harry reid seems to be keeping him out of the negotiations? >> my sense is he's involved in all the discussions, involved in all the meetings at the white house. i suspect over the long haul he will play a constructive role here. he's involved in the meetings this afternoon with the leadership. i don't think there's any magic bullet, no secret player. there's very fundamental things that have to be done here. room has to be created for a serious discussion about the long-term in terms of the budget and that has to be done in such a way that both houses of congress pass it. the senate seems to be moving that direction. again, the bottom line on it is will john boehner put what they pass on the floor. there's tremendous resentment between the house and the senate as you know. not just democrats and republicans but republicans and republicans. so you know, that is what everybody is going to be waiting to see if there's a solution and there may well be in the next 12 or 24 hours as senator corker suggests. is it one the house will have a chance to