p. walter. corporate funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that is why we are your retirement company. additional support provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. this is pbs news hour weekend. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us on this first sunday of our new broadcast. i'm hari sreenivasan. the president of syria, bashar-al-assad, said he is readying his nation for an attack by the united states and plans to retaliate if there is one. assad made his comments in an exclusive interview with charlie rose. rose talked to us by phone . >> my first question would you expect a strike. he said he did not know. asked if he was move things around. he talked about that retaliation if there is a strike he couldn't talk about that but suggested clearly that both syria and some of his friends would retaliate in some way. he denies that he had a

p. walter.porate funding provided by mutual of america, designed and customized individual product. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> from new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. >>> evening thanks for joining us. because of wnet's american graduate initiative we are coming to you tonight from a different studio in new york city. we begin with the latest from congress which now has little more than 48 hours to reach some sort of bargain otherwise parts of the federal government could shut down as early as tuesday morning. yesterday as you know, the democrat controlled senate approved a spending plan that restored funding for obama care. today the republican controlled house of representatives met to consider its options. for the latest, we are joined by the washington correspondent for the take away from public radio internationa

p. walter. corporate funding is provided by -- mutual of america. designing customized individual and group retirement projects. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and by -- the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> this is "pbs newshour weekend." >> good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for joining us. the budget impasse continues and a federal government shutdown is now set to begin in a little more than 24 hours. today, a top democrat said the partial shutdown is all but certain. >> we know what's going to happen. tomorrow the senate will come in session, the house position, which is basically the same one they sent us the last time, is going to be rejected again and we're going to face the prospect of the government shutting down come midnight monday night, tuesday morning. >> durbin warned a government cloture would create hardships and jeopardize the snags's economic recovery and blamed houmgs republicans for tying the

p gop. this is felt very deeply, very deeply across the military family. again, they're sending chapla chaplains, assistance officers. the wounded are given access to walterded in the war zone. for the military, just like the tragic shooting at ft. hood, this is best described as family business. this is the military family in the united states, whether they're civilians working for the department of defense or active duty carrying a weapon on the front line. this is the military family in this country and very much heartfelt that they look after each other. the chief of naval operations, the civilian head secretary of the navy moving very quickly yesterday afternoon to put all those procedures into place so that, as families were notified that their loved ones had been killed, there would be a casualty assistance officer, a chaplain available to them, and grief counseling, trauma counseling for anybody at the navy yard that felt they needed it. this is -- i can only keep say, for the military, it's family business, just as it has been at so many scenes across this country, aurora, colorado, mokc movie theater, sandy hook, people really come together. thi