and the number two republican in want senate john cornyn of texas. plus, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's take on a potential thaw in u.s.-iranian relations. analysis on that and the rest of the news from the ""newshour's" "gwen ifill. dana milbank of the "washington post." jim vandettei of politico. and our own john dickerson. the government is shut down. but we're not. this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning gaining gwen and for the very latest on the terror raids carried out by u.s. forces in weekend we're joined by our national security correspondent david mart and i know former bush motor adviser on terrorism, juan zah rawty. david, what is the latest on what happened? >> who trait sprait operations in two separate countries, both in africa and libya. u.s. commandos snatched one of the f.b.i.'s most wanted terrorists off the streets of tripoli in broad daylight, and he is now in u.s. custody, probably on a ship in the medit

bob, i want to congress you for chasing jacob lew and john cornyn around the table to try to get them to say something this morning. clearly, the reason they had very little to say to move the the ball is because very little is happening. they're out of town. there are no secret meetings going on. i think boehner said on another network this morning there was a backroom, but nobody was in it. this idea of punting i think is the best possible outcome and how sad is that? i think they're all hoping for external-- whether it's wall street revolting, whether it's the american public, public opinion polls slidingly-- they're look for something else to force them to do the job they agree the other side should be coul dike. >> isn't it different this time around. in 1996, there were moderates in washington. even today when you talk about a republican moderate in the house. we need to find a new word. they were not moderate, they're not pro-life or prolabor. you could say slightly less conservative republican who might be willing to wheel and deal but it's just a different world today in wash

here is dick durbin and john cornyn calling opposite viewpoints. >> why wouldn't he call this measureor a vote in the house? i tell you why, he knows it will pass because every democrat will vote for it and moderate republicans will vote for it. >> they are refusing any compromise. my way or the highway. >> you hear dick durbin make that point all that john boehner would have to do is put it on the floor and it would pass easily. it is just not the way it is done, oddly enough. >> isn't the other problem for speaker boehner is his party is rather divided on this issue. >> all along that's absolutely true, stephanie. democrats have been united through the white house to the senate democrats and the house democrats, and one of the interesting aspects of this is the white house while the president sort of hammers republicans in public statements yesterday he was in the rose garden with beneficiaries of the affordable care act which obviously as we know enrollment for the exchanges happened yesterday, but he has left it to harry reid to carry on the tactics, and harry reid has drawn a ver

and the number two republican in want senate john cornyn of texas.

i wouldn't be surprised to see that and as you pointed out, john cornyn is gearing up for that.aving said that, i also think the white house expects she will ultimately be confirmed. this is someone who has broad support amongst democrats. and also sort of a bipartisan support from the sense that a lot of people believe she is highly qualified. she is a 67-year-old woman who has more than a decade of leadership experience in the fed. she is, of course, the number two at the fed right now. so no one really questions her readiness. and in terms of the market reaction today, the markets responded positively. she is someone who is well-known to the markets. and it is expected in terms of her policy she'll probably sort of continue what we have seen from ber naenk in terms of keeping interest rates low and also continuing with that bond-buying program, the biggest question might be when she would scale back that bond-buying program. so this is someone who does have broad support amongst democrats and who is widely believed to be someone with good credentials to bring to such a positi

this week, texas senator john cornyn released this ceem ad as a warning. >> join the fight to keep texas red. >> reporter: norah, the election is still more than a year away, but radio ads against davis will start airing this weekend in both english and spanish. >> manual bojorquez, thank you. photo journalist bill eppridge died today. among his assignments was covering new york senator robert f. kennedy, as he ran for the democratic presidential nomination in 1968. perhaps his most famous photo is of a dying kennedy comforted by bus boy juan romere orb moments after the senator was shot in los angeles at the ambassador hotel, the night of the california primary. bill eppridge was 75. america reaches a milestone in energy production but folks in this town are not celebrating. that story is next. >> people who lived through the gas lines of the 1970s during the arab oil embargo might be surprised by this. today's "wall street journal" says the u.s. has overtaken russia as the number one producer of oil and natural gas. u.s. production, much of it from shale, has hit the equivalent of 22 m

congressional reaction to the nomination has been favorable on the left but republican texas senator john cornynns and questioned his qualifications. rather than selecting someone who knows the unique dynamics of our southern border, president obama has tapped one of his former new york fund-raisers. >> they label him a bundler in fundraising for president obama meaning he helped president obama raise big money by calling on friends to help. fred? >> joe johns in washington, thanks. >>> demanding answers about the obama care enrollment websites, healthcare.gov and other websites have been rid ddled wi issues. among other things, the problems may delay lunch of the spanish language version of the website. >>> a shark gets a little too close for comfort. take a look. >> [ bleep ]. >> he's checking me out. whoo! oh, my god. right under the board. oh, my god. i'm shaking like a leaf. >> he had the wherewithall to be videotaping that? are you kidding? this is just one of many close encounters on the california coast this week. scary fish stories straight ahead. this summer, we got the ball rolling. i

in a statement, senate minority whip john cornyn said, ms. yellen prescribes to the liberal school of thought that the best way to handle fiscal challenges is to throw more money at them. this stimulus obsession is the reason we find ourselves in the calamity it is today. >> yellen would be the first democrat to lead the federal reserve since 1979. >>> with less than a week until the special election, the debate for the u.s. senate seat in new jersey getting a little bit heated last night. republican candidate steve lon began called newark a big black hole for taxpayers money. cory booker serves as the city's mayor. the two contenders grew heated more than once over the topic of gun violence. >> shootings in newark, since i've been elected from 2006, are down 27%. murders are down over 15%. we were innovative doing more with less. my opponent's solution to big cities, again, is lits level camden. he talks down to newark. critical issues are not solved like background checks in the secondary markets which my opponent opposes. he's getting supp

john cornyn says it's premature unless a worker is deemed essential it's illegal to work or receive pay. >>> you may wonder what's in the name according to the a ohnida nation, a lot. [audio not understandable] >> you shouldn't be using that to a national sports team. >> the nfl is getting ground on the fight to change the redskins name. we will explain the next step. >> also ahead, apple the newest operating system a fast but a number of users wish they never made the upgrade. find out why and how to fix the problem. >> i was this close. >> reporter: this close to makeing that upgrade. good morning. take a look at the fort mchenry tunnel. it's construction related delays a we will update the traffic and weather and more news coming up after the break. >>> 6 cities vying for a chance to host super bowl 2018. you can't tell it right now but this is new orleans super dome. they want to do it again. they want to host the game and it appears they are in the list for 2018 so is miami, dallas and minneapolis and indianapolis and tampa. the league super bowl advisory committee will pick one fr

we know that mitch mcconnell and john cornyn and others in the senate are working actively to cause thisle effort to fail. so yes, you will see primary challenges of people like that and it will be good and healthy, competition is good. charles: time and resources, those are all critical. a lot of tea party representatives in washington, they are more or less entrenched. it seems seems like they will be reelected. the idea is that if you are going to win this war that you are fighting, you need numbers and you guys are squabbling and taking more republicans out of office. how does that fit your ultimate goal? >> the goal is to trade up to get better. ted cruz and mike lee the kind of fighting republicans that we need in today's world of gigantic government and massive dead and a health care takeover that the american people don't like. so you want to get people like that in office. i understand that the business community is now thinking about primary tea party candidate. my feeling about that is let's have competition. but let's understand that the tea party supporters are a majority of

when we started to tear apart the law, progressive republicans like john mccain and john cornyn startedo try to tear down us. instead of standing with us and fighting a united front against obamacare and holding the president accountable and bringing him to the negotiating table, they capitulated. the republican party had success when we run principaled campaigns on issues like the affordable care act and the bailouts. that's why we won big in 2010. if we want to capitulate to the middle and run moderate candidates, we'll lose. that's what 2012 was. >> you won big this districts heavily republican. the way the country has been distributed in districts has favored some of these congressmen. won strongly in congress, but they haven't regained the senate or the white house. >> that's because we put health care capitulators like mitt romney at the top of the ticket and john mccain. >> let's talk about john mccain. here's what he had to say about the shutdown today. >> we're not going through the shutdown again because people have been too traumatized by it. there's too much damage. >> tom,

and i will do everything i can to make sure they do. >> i am senator john cornyn will stop every day capitol hill police officers attacked members of congress and our visiting guests with courage, dignity, and professionalism. their efforts often go unnoticed. whenever there called upon to act on what we are reminded of their bravery. i want to take this opportunity to thank the capitol hill police for all they do to protect our collective safety and security. like most americans, i was disappointed when certain parts of the federal government was forced to shut down because senate democrats refused to make any changes whatsoever to the deeply flawed health care law known as obamacare. republicans are eager to end the shutdown. the fiscally economic reforms that our country urgently needs. we are never going to make real progress without better cooperation with our friends across the aisle. set upepublicans have legislation that will fund government operations but senate democrats have rejected each and every bill. they are arguing that the house bills are simply illegitimate because

and the number two republican in want senate john cornyn of texas.'s take on a potential thaw in u.s.-iranian relations.

i can tell you john cornyn expressed concerns about the fact that he worked with president obama in 2008, calling him nothing more than a donor and expressing concerns about the fact he doesn't have a whole lot of experience when it comes to border security. i spoke to a white house official and he said this is a management position, no one will come in having a broad knowledge of all of these different areas and that that is part of the job. so there is some early criticism coming. i anticipate we will hear more at this point in time. no reason to think he won't get confirmed. >> kristen welker, while you were speaking outside of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, we also are getting a rare look inside the white house, president obama spending time there talking with his soon to be nominee jeh johnson, we saw them sharing laughs and joe biden, appearing to gather there before heading out to the rose garden for this announcement that we expect to happen again any moment now. kristen, one more question here quickly before i let you go. who else was on the short list? do we know who else the white

john boehner, eric cantor, mitch mcconnell and john cornyn will ensure that obama care is fully fundednd -- as the party starts to show more signs of internal strife, some are starting to openly express their concerns of the republican, about the republican infighting. listen to senator john mccain today. >> i do worry i do worry about the republican party. because if we are, this is the first time i have ever seen republican senators running ads, raising money that is used to attack incumbent republican senators. i have never seen that in my life. and -- i think that is terribly wrong. in a new twist though, tea party income of bents in states like michigan, tennessee, north carolina are facing primary challenges from more moderate republicans. the divide between tea party republicans and non tea party republicans plays out in new polling from nbc and "the wall street journal." which shows a majority of moderate republicans saying their party is putting politics ahead of the country while only 29% of tea partiers say that same thing. joining me now is an adviser to president george w.

and john cornyn, republicans from texas, put out a statement just in the last couple of hours saying, quote, grave concerns about johnson's nomination. jeff sessions who is on the senate judiciary committee, basically said that johnson is not really the man for the job and referred to the department of homeland security as perhaps the most incompetent in the federal government. there are still tough feels up on capitol hill. and that might make johnson's nomination a difficult one. that is supposed to get rolled out this afternoon at 2:00. but i have to tell you, jay johnson maybe the least of the president's concerns right now. there's been a flood of articles come out in the last 24 hours about glitches with the obama care program. house speaker john boehner's office has been putting out a lot of those stories and e-mails to reporters. and a lot of people here in washington in the curve stiff movement would like to see kathleen sebelius out the door at health and human services. but right now they say sebelius is not going anywhere. a lot of challenges with this president even with

eric erickson said men like mitch mcconnell, john cornyn, and eric cantor have preached a great sermon against obama care but now conservatives who supported them see that these men have refused to actually practice what they've been preaching. and sarah palin said quote, rest well tonight for soon we must focus on important house and senate races. let's start with kentucky which happens to be awfully close to south carolina, tennessee, and mississippi. kathleen, i just wonder whether -- who's winning this fight? ted cruz and company and that posse or the regulars, the people who were calling for regular order at those meetings the last couple days? >> the big question, chris, is what happens in the primaries. the candidates who can win the primaries in these conservative districts are not people who can win in general elections. and they're not the people that represent the larger population in this country which as you know from the recent nbc/was it gq -- the poll? >> wall street journal, the big one. >> most people identify as centrist. they are tired of this nonsense. and i think

he wrote, john boehner, eric cantor, mitch mcconnell, and john cornyn will ensure that obama care is, they will sow the seeds of a real third party movement that will fully divide the republican party. a third party? i mean, i'm hearing what you're saying these guys were elected for. i'm seeing what the leadership is being forced to do. is it really possible that a third party could happen? >> i don't think in the current structure that's a good claim. and i know eric and he's a good guy, i just think he's missed the mark here. even if they were to form a third party, what are they popular? 25% that poll came out today. that doesn't win you an election. it doesn't move a people onto your side. these guys came over here and have done everything they were going to do. so you can't blame them for that. where i blame leadership from the top. if you have strong enough leaders on the top bringing these guys in saying, look, this is the way to get it done from a strategic standpoint and how to get some victories and some successes in the future. instead it's become a test of purity. and if

. >> texas, where john cornyn is the reasonable man. anyway, thank you for joining us wayne slater.hat a state. not to knock the people, but election processes. richard wolffe, thank you. >>> up next, the big reason president obama is standing his ground. that's the big interesting thing. the democrats he united. not democrats in disarray. democrats together. this is unique. and also, it's the place for politics. need a spoon, dear? not anymore. ladies... kitchen counselor. it's likely your detergent. cascade platinum's triple cleaning formula delivers brilliant shine finish gel can't beat. it even helps keep your dishwasher sparkling. cascade platinum is cascade's best. >>> just vote. >>> just vote. let every member of congress vote their conscience. they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down. >> we're back. that was a confident president obama today at fema headquarters in washington. as we enter week two of the government shutdown, we're watching an emboldened president obama. the president stuck to his guns and refused to yield any wiggle room to the

john cornyn of texas and jefferson sessions iii of alabama, they've decided to raise the alarm of jay as a nominee for homeland security because jay johnson donated money to democratic candidates in the past, including to president obama. senator sessions said about those donation, quote, this is deeply concerning. senator concernyn included as ag his grave concerns about this nomination. i mentioned before that there have been only been three total leader of this agency the whole time it has existed. two of those three were nominated by president bush and then confirmed by the senate. one of them, former pennsylvania govern governor, tom ridge. second onef gave thousand in donations to republicans including to george w. bush who nominated him for homeland security secretary. when each was nominated to run the homeland security agency, senators were in the senate, they raised no objections to the political donations from either candidates. both senators voted to confirm both nominees without a peep. now though they profess to be outraged jay johnson has done the same thing that guys d

margaret, bloomberg news, white house correspondent and washington bureau chief at mother jones john cornyn, and washington bureau chief michael, i want to start with you. the republicans on the right, suicide caucus don't seem to have a concrete ask. what is the ask among the small group of people holding us hostage. >> right now they want something. they want to save face, go back to the district and say we fought the hard fight. it's not clear what that is. we probably won't know for another week at least. i think both parties have come to terms with the fact the best and maybe the only way out of this right now is to tie the government shutdown to the debt limit. we don't have that deadline coming for two more weekends. so that's really where we stand. no negotiations going on right now. they don't need to negotiate right now. >> i want to cut to the panel. curt, i think that is the problem now. what republicans now seem to want is just to have the white house give them something so they can go back to their super gerrymander districts and say we beat that guy. that's the ask. >> that c

address john cornyn insisting the obama administration thinks the shutdown is good politics. why does he say that? senator cornyn goes "on the record" next. donald trump and bill o'reilly both here. what would they do about the government shutdown. trump and o'reilly will both tell you coming up. guess who is calling? each night each this week we will take a call from a famous surprise caller. i have absolutely no idea who is calling me. this is the "on the record" staff that cooked up this thing. you will find out who is on the line when i do. can't miss this. fighting constipation by eating healthier, drinking plenty of water, but still not getting relief? try dulcolax laxative tablets. dulcolax is comfort-coated for gentle, over-night relief. dulcolax. predictable over-night relief you can count on. was a truly amazing day.ey, without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com take it you are not too impressed with th

. >> reporter: so you hear john cornyn also digging in his heels. i have covered a number of these budget battles. usually when you get close to the deadline you start to see a strategy emerge about how to get out of this. now that we are several days in, i can tell you based on my conversations here at the white house and capitol hill there still doesn't seem to be a strategy for ending all of this which is disconcert issing for everyone here in washington. >> thanks so much. lauren fox and political reporter for the "washington post", aaron blake. good morning to you both. thanks for being here. i want to start with you. we're five days into the shutdown. are we any closer to a resolution? or are things still completely a mess? >> you know, these things always tend to seem so far away until suddenly they are very close. you know, we don't know everything about the negotiations that are going on. what we do know both sides are offering very pitched rhetoric right now. john boehner's press conference yesterday where he basically said this is no damn

john cornyn from texas has a tough senate race ahead of him and david from louisiana who wants to run for governor there. there's no indication anything is going to change, even though they have promised in this bill to get together and try to do something they haven't been able to do in five years, and that's come up with a budget. >> i wanted to clarify more on it. we didn't do it earlier. i want the details on what we're looking at. the deal voted on tonight would re-open government and fund operations until january 15th. it would also lift the debt ceiling extending the government's ability to borrow until early february, but it means, gentlemen, as mike pointed out, we could look at this all over again early in the new year. this is true, right? >> it is. republicans are saying this was round one. they're looking forward to round two. round two is even closer to the election. too -- do they want to do this again? >> what does it do to the markets? >> not enough. we've lost 4% of the markets in the last month or so. the s&p and the dow and nasdaq were at their highs about one mont

this is a final passage, but the senators who voted against literature are, john cornyn, senatorcrapo's cruise, michael lee, rand paul, rubio, shelby, to me, and senator better. are democrats line. caller: i will first say thank you to our wonderful president and harry reid. i would like to thank those on the house side who have done an excellent job standing their ground. i disagree with the last caller on modifying obamacare and shutting down the government. run forsee why people government to shut government down. all these teddy cruises, the rubio's, the people who voted against this bill, i do not understand why they are serving in government if they are against the government. i think we need to look at the laws that are in place that allow our government to be hijacked by a few who are not looking at the bigger picture. i just think we need to step back and take a look at the gerrymandering. the people don't trust us and we did it to ourselves. thank you. this is final passage on the senate floor. she talked a bit about the health care law. art of it when asked for income verific

marco rubio voted no as did rand paul, paul ryan, as did the number two in the senate john cornyn whopens to be running for election. the man of the hour, the man who cannot stop, will not stop, senator ted cruz who thinks the whole thing would have turned out way better if not for the cowardly senate republicans. >> the house republicans marched into battle. they exercised tremendous leadership, tremendous courage. it should have been the senate republicans riding like the cavalry to support them. if senate republicans would have stood united with the house republicans, that's how we won the fight. they were divided and became an air force dive bombing conservatives. >> america did not just see chris matthews doing his impression of ted cruz. >> the hand gestures, so assertive. >> is it real? ted cruz is a very educated man who when it comes down to it will vote against his own talkie filibuster but last night voted no it's very hard to understand the mind of ted cruz and yet he does it quite convincingly. >> i think without making any judgment about it, it's short-term. he's very ho

what i want to ask you about specifically is john cornyn who is the whip of the republicans in the senate. and take a look at what he just said, i'll read to you, on the question of a clean debt ceiling he said never has happened and never is going to happen. that was just this week. earlier this year in january he said we'll raise the debt ceiling, we're not going to default on our debt. i will tell you unequivocally we're not going to default. how do we go from this republican senator in january unequivocally saying we're not going to default and now saying not only the opposite, the opposite plus the word never, which is not something you're supposed to use in reasonable negotiations. >> you're seeing a senate republican leader who earlier believed the best strategy for his party was to raise the debt ceiling without actually going into default. then transitioning as he found out his caucus wasn't with him on that. there are a lot of republican senators that at least want to attach something to a debt ceiling increase. i don't think there are very many people in the capitol if any who

today the the texas senator john cornyn tried to offer a bill to reopen the parks and museums and senator harry reid who runs the senate on the democratic side objected to that, stalling that idea. so we're seeing a lot of these tactical moves playing out. plenty of talk going on, but not much in the way of progress and there is this expectation that what is happening now, there's plenty of activities and not much action that would reopen the government and this could go on for a while. no sense that it's actually changing. >> thomas? >> explain for everybody playing along and the minutia that goes along with all of this. they have agreed on a budget level at sequestration levels that can kick in and get everything going and it's just the obama care issue being implemented into this bill, correct? >> yes, and one of the things they would say is that the health care law is not being applied evenly because the administration prior to this standoff had given some waivers and some extensions for parts of the law to be implemented and that became kind of a new rallying cry for house republican

but there's still time for challengers to emerge against people from texas senator john cornyn to lamar alexander in tennessee. right now we're seeing the hardest hits against mitch mcconnell and lindsay graham, the senator from south carolina. >> we'll see how they campaign, the historic moment of where were you then. >> great to be with you. >> we're following developing news as we've been talking about this tornado watch in effect for much of the northeast. including parts of new york state and new jersey and washington, d.c. and virginia. kelly kas joins me more. how much change have we seen over the afternoon? >> not much but get ready for a cooldown. it's a dangerous day of weather from upstate new york towards new york city, philadelphia and parts of the delmarva peninsula are under a tornado watch. that goes until 5:00 eastern time. already a dangerous line that's moving through the capitol district right now. we start you off there and have an accountive tornado warning for portions of the mohawk valley and fulton county, you need to seek shelter now. it is in effect until 2:30

there has been some opposition, senator john cornyn saying that he is essentially a donor to president obama because of the 2008 campaign and also expressing criticism of him for not having a strong background in immigration for example. i asked the white house official about that, other former dhs officials have said, look, someone who heads the dhs doesn't necessarily need to be an expert in every single national security issue. it's an important they are an expert in a lot of them and that is what jeh johnson brings to the table. there's no reason to think he won't get confirmed but now president obama has officially made the announcement, we'll hear views pour in over the next couple of days. >> thank you so much for that. let's turn to business insiders josh barrow, in tour'e's seat today. little upgrade there, we appreciate it. >> feels good to be here. >> really? >> hi, tour'e. >> josh, i want your take on what kristen was saying. do you expect we'll see pushback to the nomination from the left or right? >> i think there will be complaining like you've seen today but this doesn'

earlier today, the number-two oh republican in the senate, john cornyn of texas said in a statement, the pick. what are the expectations of that nomination? any chance republicans are in a mood for another skirmish following the debt ceiling debacle? >> reporter: well, martin, look, i wouldn't be surprised if you had more republicans coming forward and expressing opposition to johnson. cornyn made the point he doesn't have experience in immigration. white house officials say, look, he's an expert in a lot of other areas, to sort of defend that position. but there's no indication that he won't get confirmed. i've been talking to top aides on the hill who say that he does have broad bipartisan support, he after all, has a strong background with the pentagon, the former top attorney for the pentagon. so this is someone who is known to washington, and based on my conversations, they think that he will get confirmed. and this is just not the fight that republicans want to have right now. >> well, you say that, kristen. i'm curious, while we have you, to know how much the white house is gi