p. walter. pacific islanders and communications, corporate funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish wnet studios in lincoln center, new york. hari sreenivasan. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. secretary of state john kerry traveling to europe early next week to explore ways to end the civil war in syria. international peace conference could be held in switzerland next month. just today, at least 30 people were killed near damascus, after a suicide bombing against syrian security forces and the clashes with rebels that followed. earlier this week, a senior syrian intelligence official was killed by rebels. estimated 100,000 syrians have been killed during the three-year long civil war but extent of the suffering is rarel

p. walter. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from vars like you. thank you. from the tish wnet studios at lincoln center in new york. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. during his weekly radio address today president obama accused congressional republicans of root formal the affordable care act to fail. he also tried to reassure the public that the healthcare.gov website will be fixed soon. >> we've got people working overtime 24/7 to boost capacity and address these problems every single day. but even as we improve the web site, remember that the website isn't the only way to apply for coverage under these new plans. we've updated healthcare.gov to offer more information about enrolling over the phone, by mail or in person with a specially trained navigator who can help answer your questions. >> in the

p. walter. pacific islanders and communication. corporate funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. 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 the tish studios in new york, hari sreenivasan. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. several national parks around the nation are starting to reopen following a decision by the obama administration to let the states pay the cost of operating them. the parks have been closed to tourists since the federal government shut down 11 days ago. the park closures have cost businesses tens of millions of dollars. a much larger deal to get the government up and running again and to raise the debt ceiling continues to prove elusive. cable news headlines throughout the day told the story. one said talks have hit a brick wall. another blared, senate test vote fails. a third, no house v

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p. walter.dditional 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 the tish wnet studios at lincoln center in new york. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. senate majority leader harry reid and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell spoke again today in the latest efforts to avert a u.s. government default, an event some warn could seriously damage the world which i. the deadline to increase the debt ceiling is now little more than 71 hours away. today the head of the international monetary fund issued a new warning about the dangers of a default. >> if there's that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the u.s. signature, it would mean massive disruption the world over. we would be at risk of tipping yet again into recession. >> negotiations between president obama and house republicans faltered yesterday, so the two senate leaders began talks to try to en

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stay with us, i'll be back with more in just a few minutes. p >>> this is al jazeera america coming to you live from new york city, i'm del waltersss appears to be more polarized than ever. you are looking live right now at a briefing room that has been set up on capitol hill in washington, d.c., that's where we are awaiting word from house speaker john boehner. it has been another day of political wrangling on capital hill. we are moments away from that news conference from speaker boehner w

p in smoke. while marijuana sellers are having a tough tile doing business with -- time doing business with traditional a banks. >> reporter: ♪ ♪ >> welcome to al jazerra america. i am del walters can a week away from a potential government fault. threw some encouraging signs coming out of washington. you are looking live at capitol hill, john boehner promising to hike the borrowing limit and talks of ending the shutdown as well. mike viqueira that is all the districdetails from washington. >> reporter: they met for an hour and a half behind closed doors, there is no deal yet it's the first positive sign in weeks. returning to the capitol after the meeting, republican leader eric canter was upbeat. >> we had a very useful meeting. it was clarifying, i think for both sides as to where we are. the take away from the meeting is we will meet our teams tonight and the president said that he would consult with the administration folks and hopefully we can see a way forward after that. >> reporter: no deal yet. but in a statement the white house cited continue progress in the talks all marking a big change in tone with exactly one week left best debt ceiling deadline. it began with a

walter mondale. >> i had worked for mondale in 1980. i liked him and respected him. as a matter of honor i pnt to vote against the man for whom i had respect and affection. >> you had a vote reagan and mondale. >> that was the only election i left that line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> a few months after i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column. for a while he praised him on a number of policy issues, he was crediting him with a break through insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what bresh neve have done. whenever we take over a country it is ours. all of a sudden what reagan had done was to challenge that and say no. y we don't get to keep what you have got. we are going to challenge your possession wherever they are. this is a good idea. i am going to give it a name. >> he invented the reagan doctrine. now everyone ha

p 500 dipped eight. the nasdaq was off 22. >>> president lyndon johnson is said to have once lamented during the vietnam war, if i've lost walter cronkite, i've lost the country. which brings us to obama care and how the mainstream media has turned against president obama during the recent days. here's a look. >> you know the president's health care law is in trouble when it becomes a punchline for the man who usually mocks republicans, jon stewart. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> snafu. >> the bugs, the kinks. >> whatever you want to call it. >> glitches. apparently the healthcare.gov website has 99 problems but a glitch is all of them. >> but the mounting media criticism is no laughing matter. on msnbc which usually supports president obama, there have been accusations that the administration is withholding information, even lying and comparisons to war and natural disasters. >> just like on katrina when the big problem president bush had was diminishing tefrts. >> the problem is the administration could get into sort of a credibility death spiral. >> reporter: conservative commentators have been predicting doom for