joining us now is john stanton. thank you for your time tonight. are you surprised republicans are allowing this to happen? i guess the 6:00 vote tonight was thought of as a solution, but it's weird to me it has gotten this late. >> i have to admit that is kind of adorable. it is not surprising to me at all. republicans, their desire to go to get in a fight with obama over these issues for executive overreach, is the biggest right now. more importantly, in a lot of ways, 2016 republicans will. they see this as a winning issue for them. they're base guys are telling them this is a good idea. they're willing to go and pick this fight. and you know the fact they have done this now several times, gone to the brink on this one, a shut down, this does not unfortunately surprise me at all. >> are they going -- i guess i feel your judgment of my naivety. this is not shut down the evil federal government. this is like shut down the one part of the government that we will never say a bad word about. shut down the one hart of the government that has a creepy

. >> let's bring in now friend of the show, john stanton from buzzfeed, and john this is the first test gop congress and here we are once again at the 11th hour getting way too close for a shutdown it. makes you wonder if we are getting -- and funding homeland security at a time like this is that too much to ask for? >> unfortunately, it is. if you look at what is going on in the house right now, they are not going -- in a mood to pass this bill. at least if they do it as a republican-only kind of operation, they can't pull this off. speaker boehner will end up having to pass a short-term extension while he tries to fin angle his caucus into supporting this plan that mitch mcconnell has put forward. and politico this morning was reporting that neither mcconnell or boehner have talked to each other in two weeks. while the staff is talking it says a lot of tensions within the republican party, particularly between the house and the senate over the handling of these senates. and house republicans are okay with it so it looks like we'll have forge one of these. >> and as the clock keeps tic

joining me now to answer those questions, we have buzzfeed's washington bureau chief john stanton. john, bottom line, we're a week away from this deadline. what are the odds we are going to see a shutdown at the end of this week? >> pretty good. there's a chance that they might be able to fund some way forward with a short-term extension on funding before friday but i kind of doubt it at this point. it seems like both sides are pretty comfortable where they're going towards except for maybe a set of republicans who are looking at this entire train wreck trying to figure out how they got themselves into this situation. you know house republicans certainly don't seem to be in any kind of mood to make any sort of deals. and democrats, you know are looking at the polls. they're looking at who's been blamed for shutdowns in the past and they're feeling like they don't have to do a whole lot. >> you mentioned the last government shutdown everyone remembers in 2013. republicans being blamed for that. there was new polling this week. this was a cnn/orc poll. who would you blame? by a 53/30

ben labolt the press secretary for the 2012 campaign and john stanton at buzz feed news. john i'm going to put you on the spot right away. how does that work you wink and stick your tongue out? >> the winkie emoji, i had no idea. >> just making faces in the mirror. >> what was that all about? >> you know, i think -- i don't know a whole lot about how they come up with these crazy ideas for these videos. >> you work there, right? >> yeah. yeah. and -- but, you know, i think it's hilarious, right. it was funny. showed a human side of the president. people really liked it. i thought it was funny. >> and, matthew, over at vox, you guys had this interview with the president and it was also sort of in a nontraditional format in that you took the interview, you guys went back, you edited it together you added some new media flair to the presentation. why did you take that approach in your interview? >> well we wanted to try to do something a little bit different. i think people have seen interviews with the president before. it's a great -- you know it's an honor. it's a big deal

john stanton for buzz feed news is joining us. thank you for your time tonight. are you surprised republicans are allowing this to happen? i guess the 6:00 vote tonight wasn't necessarily thought of as -- thought of as something that would be the solution. i have to admit it is weird to me it has gotten this late. >> that's adore able actually. given how much they have done to this point. it's not surprising to me at all. what you have to understand is republicans, their desire to get in to a fight with obama over the issues of what they say is executive overreach is the biggest over-arching issue for them right now. particularly in the hupt where the members don't face the electoral pressures that republicans in the senate do or more importantly in a lot of ways 2016 republicans will. they see this as a winning issue for them. their base guys are telling them it's a good idea. they are willing to pick this fight. the fact they have done it several times, gone to the brink on this one and a shutdown and all sorts of brinksmanship it does not surprise me at all. >

stanton, secretary of war, determined that theater would never reopen. and john ford was determined it would reopen. it was costing him thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of dollars. the equivalent as near as i could figure, about 440,000 today for not being able to reopen that theater in the weeks after the assassination. and he drew very keen die diagrams. he sketched out the floor plan of the theater and used in the trial of andrew johnson. i found this in the benjamin butler papers in the library of congress, because butler was the congressman who was keeping the interrogation going. if anyone knows of material that would help in john andrew's impeachment. so some of this got filed in the john impeachment files. laura keene if anything can be viewed as a tragic figure in the theatrical figure, it's laura keene. up until the assassination she's one of the most respected, feared admired theater managers in america. in a man's world she's a highly successful theater manager and actress. she's completing her two weeks starring engagement, they've had good

stanton as secretary of war was determined that theater will never reopen. and john ford was determined that it would reopen. and it was costing him thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of dollars. the equivalent as near as i could figure about $440,000 today for not being able to reopen that theater in the weeks after the assassination. and he drew very keen diagrams. he sketched out a floor plan of ford's theater. this was one that was actually used in the trial of the conspirators. and used in the trial of andrew johnson. i found this in the benjamin butler papers in the library of congress, because butler was the congressman who was keeping the interrogation going of anyone who might know material that could help with andrew johnson's impeachment. so some of the stuff got misfiled in the johnson impeachment files. another interesting person, this is laura keene. i think if anything can be viewed as a tragic figure in the theatrical family it's laura keene. up until the assassination she's one of the most respected, feared, admired theater managers in americ