in the united states senate they had a repeal on the medical device tax. we passed unanimously a bill to fund the troops. this should be passed by united states senate. we're trying. we're passing something out. work with us, united states senate. don't take us right to the finish line. that's what they are doing. >> what about the fact you put in the exemption for the waiver for contraception and reproductive health for women. that's also dead on arrival. that's a new element added. what if you, okay, wanted to deal with repealing the tax which does have support in the senate, democratic support, what about not delaying obama care, not defunding it but working out something on the tax side alone and sending that back. >> the process set up in the constitution. what united states senate needs to do is make adjustments and send it back to us. when they are not even convened, not even talking, doing interviews monday morning from new york, you can see why those of us in washington, d.c. have a case to be made. make adjustments necessary. adjustment tax is an

history, there were two black people in the united states senate. was also appointed to a senate seat to fill a vacancy. he got his seat at the very beginning of the year. and when mo cowen got there in february, their overlap in the senate was historic. we had never before had two african-american simultaneously serving in the united states senate. and since mo cowen is gone now, we are no longer in that situation. aside from that brief overlap of those two appointed senators, every single one of the few african-americans who have ever served in the united states senate, every single one of them has serve there had alone, even back during reconstruction. the only african-american woman who have ever served in the senate is carol moseley braun, the senator from illinois. she served in the 1990s. carol moseley browne remaining the only black woman to have ever served in the senate. and she was the only black senator of either gender in the senate one august day back in 1993. so ten years ago, when she stepped on to the senator's only elevator in the u

stand by. >> shepard: continuing coverage of the vote in the united states senate. committee voted to authorize the use of force in syria by the president of the united states in a 10-7 vote. back to jennifer griffin in washington. a couple things i think are important for people to think through. first of all, john kerry said if we don't do this, he'll strike again. there's no way to know that. i'm curious, is there intelligence to suggest if we do this, if we make surgical strikes ascribed, assad won't either, a, gas his people again, b, suggest to hezbollah they gas israel and begin a full-blown thing, or, c, president assad won't escalate this in other ways? >> the thing that there's been no answer given to is that since they -- since they have given assad so much warning, you have these artillery scuds on the move. they've been hidden in civilian areas. so assad will basically be able to use chemical weapons a day after the tomahawk strikes occur and there's nothing stopping him from sharing them with hezbollah. >> if he shares them, hezbollah could use them in

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome members of the united states house of representatives and the members of the united states senate and the speaker of the united states house of representatives. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] >> good afternoon and welcome to the united states gavel. the congress is celebrating the heroes of the civil rights movement. a time that proves frederick douglass was right when he said if there is no struggle, there is no progress. it was three weeks in a day after the march on washington, martin luther king jr. was in birmingham, alabama. he was not there to sermonize, he was there to eulogize, to make sense of the sunday morning murder of young addie mae collins, denise mcnair, carole robertson, and cynthia wesley. the innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force. what may have been discomfort turned out to be prophecy. birmingham had to go through hell, but found its way back and pushed itself forward and pushed the whole country forward as well. this is one o

secretary hagel and i both voted in the united states senate. so both of us are especially sensitive to never again asking any member of congress to vote on faulty intelligence. that is why our intelligence community took time. that's why the president took time, to make certain of the facts and make certain of this case and to declassify unprecedented amounts of information in order to scrub and rescrub the evidence and present the facts to the american people and especially to the congress. through you to the american people. we have declassified unprecedented amounts of information, some of it, i might add, not because initially that might have been the instinct in the sense of protecting sources

the ted cruz strategy in private meetings. let's grant every one of those. say all eight senators are with ted cruz. so, so the cruz wing of the senate is 8% of the united states senate. >> yeah, what was interesting. by the way -- rand paul went on fox tonight i think. and -- and, kind of renounced the -- the strategy. he did it gently. carefully. but did it pretty artfully. you know, what he definitely was separating himself from cruz. but here is -- here is the disturbing reality. if you are worried. look at all the primary candidates running in 2014. all most to a person candidates endorsed what cruz was doing. and i think they did that for the same reason that i think that cruz was happy with his performance. there is an activist base in the republican party. they're overrepresented in republican primaries. off year elections. and, and they -- they buy this. they're the rush limbaugh republicans. they're willing to follow this stuff, right over the cliff. >> steve schmidt, quickly before we go. what do you make of ted cruz not being able this time to intimidate more republican senators into coming to his side during the show? i think it is long overdue. h

. >> and i don't believe that my former colleagues in the united states senate and the house will turn their backs on all of our interests. >> secretary of state john kerry says the case for military action in syria lies in the evidence of chemical warfare. two years after the beings tsunami,ing radiation reaches new levels. >> egyptian president mohammed morsi will stand trial for the 2007 deaths of seven people. >>> and flames are now 45% contained as firefighters battle on the edge of yosemite national park. and breaking news right now out of afghanistan, where taliban fighters have launched an attack near a u.s. military base in afghanistan. that is right near the pakistan border. the blast sparked a gun fight and sparked, jennifer glass is in kabul and joins us with the latest. jennifer is there any word of fatalities? >> we -- nato says they have incurred no fatalities, that is ooh ang operating base with afghan forces on it. a district spokesman says he sees bodies on it, a little over four hours ago now and there was a firefight with nato gun ships engaging the fighters. the ta

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if you judge how smart a senator ted cruz is by what he says and does in the united states senate, bynd getting and doing in the united states senate right now at this moment as he stand on the senate floor. if you score him fairly on that he is, as he stand there tonight, on the senate floor, the stupidest guy in the building. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room. [ static warbles ] >> in a new poll of the new jersey senate race, democrat cory booker has the lead. the race is tightening. cory booker is at 53%. republican lonegan at 41%. cory booker led lonegan 54-29. coming up the answer to tonight's question -- who is the shrewdest political strategist since lbj? david corne asked that question today and has the answer for our next. hint -- he has one of lbj's old jobs. [ engine revs, tires squeal ] [ male announcer ] since we began, mercedes-benz has pio

the government going to shut down? it's up to the senate now. >> our message to the united states senate is simple. the american people don't want the government shut down and they don't want obamacare. >> what's brought to the floor today without a doubt a measure designed to shut down government. >> i don't think we should shut down the government. we should defund obamacare. >> this is not the right, not fair. it is not just. >> we are going to delay and shop a law that everyone in the country knows is not the ready. i don't think will be reasonable doubt di. >> people who think this is fun and games ought to tell people who didn't get b jobs in august of 2011. >> democrats don't want to balance the budget. they don't want limit osss on s ing. it's how they buy t voes. >> this place is a mess. >> let's defund the law now and protect the american people from the economic calamity we know obamacare will create. >> i will not be party to the disinvestment in america's greatness. >> since when do americans not fight for what's right because they are afraid they might lose? >> the president is looking

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. >> i don't believe that my former colleagues in the united states senate and house will turn their backs on all of our interests. >> secretary of state john kerry making the case for military action in syria. >> hopes for a political resolution in egypt fade as ousted president mohamed morsi stands trial for inciting murder. ♪ theme >> it's a new day, as presidential pressure to attack syria intensifies. it's been less than 48 hours sips the president said he needs congressional approval for his attack plan, and now the full court press is on. sunday, obama dispatched secretary of state john kerry to the sunday morning talk shows. kerry along with several members of the obama cabinet made their push for support. the big name they want in their corner is senator john mccain. he's been invited to the white house today. the arizona senator has been an outspoken critic of white house plans to limit air strikes. in fact, he said the united states' failure to intervene in syria's civil war is shameful. >> aljazeera reports from washington on the obama administration's plan. >> he would as

. >> our message to the united states senate is simple. the american people don't want the government shut down and they don't want obama care. >> reporter: and it's a bill that has zero chance of becoming law. >> in the united states senate, we will not repeal or defund obama care. we will not. and to think we can is not rational. >> reporter: bowing to tea party pressures, agreed to use it as leverage to help derail health care reform. >> the next ten days are very important for our country. that is doing everything we can to stop and delay and defund obama care. >> reporter: the white house has promised to veto. and touring a ford factory in missouri today, a fiery president obama almost seemed to relish the chance to slam house republicans. >> they're not focused on you. they're focused on politics. they're focused on trying to mess with me. they're not focused on you. >> reporter: here's what will happen if there's no agreement by october 1st. non-essential workers roughly half the government workforce would be furloughed. those who st

secretary hagel and i both voted in the united states senate. so both of us are especially sensitive to never again asking any member of congress to vote on faulty intelligence. that is why our intelligence community took time. that's why the president took time, to make certain of the facts and make certain of this case and to declassify unprecedented amounts of information in order to scrub and rescrub the evidence and present the facts to the american people and especially to the congress. through you to the american people. we have declassified unprecedented amounts of information, some of it, i might add, not because initially that might have been the instinct in the sense of protecting sources and methods, but some leaked. after its leaking, we thought it was important to verify whether it was true or not. so by now you've heard a great deal from me and others in the administration about the comprehensive evidence that we have collected in the days following the attack on august 21st, so i'm not going to go through all of it again right now

there are right now three members of the united states senate on the floor of the senate and two members of the united states house. if you ask the american people how many senators should be here in the debate over defunding obamacare, the biggest job killer in this country because the american people's top priority is jobs and the economy, the american people would say all 100 senators. what possibly do have you that's more important to do? i suspect some of our colleagues are at a fundraising dinner, some of our colleagues are at home with their families. you want to know why congress is held in such low esteem? it's not that we don't pass enough laws. it's that the priorities of the men and women in this body are not the priorities of the men and women of america. we're not listening to america. 0 the most important objective, what i hope will come of this week, more important than the continuing resolution, than the budget, more important than obamacare, is that we make some real progress to changing the culture of this place. so that both democrats and republicans start listening t

can you imagine what the well of the united states senate, the floor of the united states senate wouldbe. >> there are only 100 in the u.s. senate. it would be the whole senate. >> that's my point. that's exactly my point. what kind of country would we have, and no one, no one in their right mind wants to go back to that period in time. >> but again, i can understand that we very extremists, ryan. i can understand we've got these guys that go off wagon in maybe even one or two senators, three or four congressmen, a lot of the pundits and hosts of talk shows. but the fact that none of the leadership, none, two days later has stood up and said this is wrong, this doesn't represent our party, that's what i'm talking about. if people go off on the deep end on the left, they are widely denounced. if they go out from the right, it's like they didn't say anything. >> right. the left tightly polices itself from the center, no doubt about it. with jesse helms, you were not cherry picking, you know, i an few quotes of his. it's not as if there was. >> his whole life. >> it's not as if there were

want. >> actually, brad we took care of the credit problem in the bill we sent to the senate had language in it that said the united statesill always play principal and interest on the debt and the senate stripped that language out. >> that's the china -- >> we're committed to protecteding the full faith and credit of the united states, as you know, brad. >> could you imagine going back to your district and saying we paid china and we're not paying social security recipients. >> social security runs on autopilot. those checks will continue to go out. what i'm concerned about is our military. >> congressman culbertson, let's move ahead two weeks. >> you're confusing the appropriations process with the debt process. >> let me go ahead two weeks if from now. congressman culbertson, tell me your thinking about the debt and the extending the debt limit and how you deal with those amendments. a lot of them got to do well in gas. i understand oil and gas. what about the debt limit. why would you put in access for exploitation of federal lands -- what does that have to do with keeping the full faith and credit out there? it's not

the house republicans saying as they wait for the u.s. senate act? >> talking to a number of house republicans they are expressing outrage that the united states senate is not in session today. the house late night last night passed a bill to keep the government's lights on to delay obamacare and to repeal the medical device tax which is an unpopular part of the law. meanwhile, the senate has not shown up for work today. you can hear some growing frustrations. >> what i am hoping is that because of this circus that went on, that finally all republicans, the far, far right and the mainstream republicans can come together and say this strategy hasn't worked. let's unify and let's do things like make offers to the senate that will make them look completely unreasonable. >> the president was out golfing and we were making sure we didn't shut the government down and we put a funding bill across. >> a number of house republicans will take to the east senate steps of the united states capitol to hammer the senate for taking the weekend off. >> mike emmanuel, thank you very much. the government closed down on two separate occasions in recent history between

the united states senate, they can be the slowest institution in america. when they want to, they can be the quickest. they can snap their fingers and deem a bill. we have all weekend. we invite them to come back from the golf courses and work on behalf of the people in america like we do. >> reporter: what happens on monday morning if the markets open and tumble or get spooked? will that be enough to get everybody here spooked as well? >> we are here, the house is here, the republican house is here. >> reporter: to vote to fund the government is a different thing. >> republicans have voted to fund the government. we are going to continue to vote to fund the government. it's those who, again, won't sit down and negotiate and use the hyperbole who aren't listening to the same constituents we are that small businesses can't hire and obama care is not ready. why have we delayed it for employers but not employees? it's crazy. all we are asking for, if it's not ready for prime time, don't force it on the people. >> before you let him go -- >> reporter: yes. >> i

senator cruz that. he said, of course, the pair is the united states government. -- the payer is the united states government. what they're proposing, what they desire, what they intend to impose on the american people, because they had a brief shining moment -- they had 60 senators in this body. they were to ram through a fundamental change in the health care policy of this country and the american people do not want it. and senator cruz didn't waste time. senator cruz raised this issue in a way i hope resonates throughout this country, just how serious it is the health care question facing our country. it is fundamentally the biggest change in government, in the size of government, we've had in decades. i guess since at least medicare, maybe bigger than medicare. and they say it's paid for. don't worry, it's all paid for. the american people know this can'ting so. how can you do all this and not cost money? well, we've got a score from the congressional budget office. over the life of this bill, they've gimmicked it up to make it look like there's an advantage in the short term, but it's really not. i'm go

the queue of thoughtful, commonsense, low-cost proposals that have come to the floor of the united states senate. and i hope my colleagues will shortly give us the opportunity to get to this bill. this is tiewns senator, senators -- the the united states senate, senators like to address a variety of issues but we got a very good hydrobill passed right before the august recess, 60,000 megawatts of hydropower, responsible for 60% of the clean energy in the country, this bill is the first major piece of energy legislation on the floor of the senate since 2007. that is light years ago in terms of the dramatic changes. we've made so many reforms in other areas, i mean, for example, i saw in north dakota over this weekend the dramatic, you know, changes in terms of natural gas policies. we have a host of issues to talk about there. we are ready to go on energy efficiency. so i am very appreciative what the senator from minnesota has been working on with the senator from north dakota. i'd like to see somebody explain the houses of worship and museums and youth organizations, why it doesn't make sense t

efforts that members of the teamsters all over this country have done to elect democrats to the united states senate and the united states house and in his words he said because of obamacare their vision of supporting democrats politically, now this vision has come back to haunt us. mr. president, if that doesn't get the attention of men and women in this body, i don't know what does. the letter continues since the a.c.a. was enacted we have bringing our deep concerns to the administration seeking reasonable regulatory interpretations of the statute that would help prevent the destruction of nonprofit health plans. as you both know firsthand, our persuasive arguments have been disregarded and met with a stone wall by the white house and the pertinent agencies. let me stop there. mr. president, the average american does not have the political sway that a major labor union like the teamsters has. the average american especially does not have the political sway that a major labor union has with this president, a democratic president with a democratic majority in the senate. and yet the head of the team

senate colleagues to go to work. >> while we had a victory today for the american people. and also a victory for common sense. and so our message to the united states senate is simple. the american people do not want government shut down, and they don't want obamacare. [applause] the house has listened to the american people. now what is time for the united states senate to listen to them as well. lou: and we will be reporting fully on today's developments from washington d.c. also another terrific drive-by shooting in the murder capital of america. shooters sitting 13 people, including a 3-year-old just when it began to look as the chicago violence was declining at least moderately. and more volatile i'll weather. the earth's strata storm of the year is bearing down now on one of the planet's most densely populated areas. taiwan is bracingonight for a typhoon land fall, a typhoon that meteorologist say is the equivalent in destructive power of a category five atlantic hurricane. that storm is forecast to hit hong kong, a city of almost 8 million people this sunday. and no relief for the flood soapberry is in and around of acapulco, mexico. 40,000

president, i'm going to suggest that for sometime now the united states senate has not behaved as if we, the people, are sovereign. for sometime the united states senate has not behaved as if each of us collectively has 3 million bosses. for a long time the united states senate has behaved as if the rules that matter are the rules that are here in washington, d.c. that is why, mr. president, that the most important objective of this week is to make d.c. listen. the most important objective of this week is to reassert that sovereignty is with we, the people, that calls from our constituents that town haul hale not a pesky annoyance. www.the core oit is the core ofo listen to we, the people. and right now we, the people, are hurting. if you get outside washington, d.c., you ask them about obamacare, over and over and over again the answer you get is is, this thing isn't working. you know, mr. president, a few weeks ago i hosted a small business round table in cu curville, texas, a delightful town in the beautiful hill country -- anyone who wants to come to texas, i would encourage you,

the president said it's not going to pass the senate that is controlled democrats, but the republicans are declaring victory. >> our message to the united states senate is real simple. the american people don't want the government shut down and they don't want obamacare. the house has listened to the american people. now it's time for the united states senate to listen to them as well. [applause] >> so basically what's going to happen is this goes over to the senate. the senate will strip the provision out a clean bill. and then the question do the republicans blink. they say they're not going to. >> if the republicans as you put it blink and then pass the bill without the cuts to obamacare, then the government is in a position--what position financially? what has to happen? >> well, if both sides agree and the president signs a law that continues to fund the government, then they go a couple of weeks, and then the government said they'll attach a lot of conditions to the debt bill. if they can't come to an agreement, let's remember the last five times they've done this, they have gone up to the deadline and come to an agreement, usually kicki

suggest he knew how to work in the united states senate and would be an effective president of the unitedtates? >> i think he was there less than two years. >> donny, he was there for four years. answer my question. >> he was in the state senate. >> joe. >> he got elected in 2004. >> joe. >> i'm not debating he came out of nowhere. what i'm challenging you on is to -- >> one piece of legislation. >> extremist views of a ted cruz, it's different. >> donny, i'm asking you a question. i know as someone who loves me -- this is like a scene in "breaking bad" where i'm walter white's wife asking if you cooked meth. name one piece of barack obama passed that would suggest barack obama knew he knew how to work with other people better than ted cruz. >> just admit that you cooked the meth. >> no! >> you just admitted you cooked it. >> one guy was a lunatic, one had a sane level of thinking. >> to go back to the topic before which was the question of the conservative coalescence. mika read a thing from the hill which said although it's true that a lot of people -- and you uh had a list of people wh

the floor of the senate. and two members of the united states house. e how many senators should be here in the debate over de-funding obama care, the biggest job killer in this country because the american people's top priorities is jobs and the economy, the american people would say all 100 senators. what possibly do you have that is more important to do -- i suspect some of our colleagues are at a fundraising dinner. some of our colleagues are at home with their families. you want to know why congress is held in such low esteem? it is not because we don't pass enough laws. it is because the priorities in this body are not the priorities of the men and women in america. we're not listening to america. >> a pretty powerful moment, live, on the senate floor as ted cruz knew continues actually officially into his seventh hour on the floor of the u.s. senate. we continue with dana lash and leslie marshal. you know, cbo came out with numbers last night and said basically were on a path to bankruptcy, 641 billion there$i taxes over a ten-year period of time,

and across the country will be directly affected by this terrible tragedy and we pray for them all. >> reporter: so, guys, reaction on the senate floor from the leaders of the united states senate here, but they're under lockdown, under shelter in place over at the senate right now. here things do appear to have calmed down, but the tragic news of the day, of course, 12 dead now here at the washington navy yard, maria. >> okay, thanks very much. we want to get back to the markets. we will take you back to washington once those briefings happen by the police chief as well as we'll take you to the hospital briefing. but the market certainly lost some of the steam as it wore on but still posted solid gains considering the news coming out of washington. bob pisani, are you surprised that the navy yard shootings did not really impact investors and stocks? >> no. as terrible as it was, it had tremendous momentum going in as mr. summers announced he was withdrawing his candidacy for the federal reserve. here's the point now. two things have been moving the markets. syria is now on the sidelines, mr. summers is on the sidelines. lower interest rates is really what matters here.

now, unfortunately, the united states senate is not hearing their cries. for the millions of americans that are facing the threat being forced into part time work. unfortunately, the united states senate is not hearing their cry. >> it was harry reid's turn and he took a quick shot at senator cruz. >> it's unfortunate that so much time is now spent wasting, not accomplishing anything. that's what this has been about is wasting time. the american people know, they've been called upon by the senator, the junior senator from texas, they've been called upon time and time again. the american people. the american people. alltel you something, mr. president. the american people know that every hour that he has spoken or speaks, pushes another hour closer to a republican government shutdown. >> obama care is just as bad as many of us said it would be. and it's about to get a lot worse. this train is picking up speed and there's a bridge out ahead. sort of like one of those wily coyote cartoons, except this isn't funny. >> for almost a whole day, the senate stage wa

senate. i just want to make sure that folks understand that the pending business before the united states senate is a bipartisan bill offered by the senator from new hampshire and the senator from ohio on energy efficiency. that is the pending business before the united states senate. and one of the measures of this bill is the extraordinary support. we've got business groups like the chamber of commerce and the national association of manufacturers and the roundtable -- business roundtable joining with the national -- natural resources defense council. that is not exactly a coalition that comes up every single day but you have it because of the good work that senator shaheen and senator portman have done. so they had all that in place as we came to the united states senate. and since that time -- and, mind you, madam president, this has been a day and a half now that we have been on this bill -- senator after senator has come to the floor of the senate in a bipartisan fashion, starting with senators inhofe and senator carper, the list just goes on and on. i've repeated it several times. have co

mark the treaty has to get ratified by the united states senate. he way. but this notion that this treaty has any impact on american law in any way, how is the nra creating that fiction? >> well, you know, lawrence. this is classic nra. they have been pushing the myth for years. they were pushing it long before this treaty even existed. it was just talk. this is how they operate, they appeal to paranoia to promote their agenda. which is protecting the gun manufacturing business. so whenever anything comes up that is remotely in the frame of regulating weapons, they have this kind of scorched earth approach that has no basis in reality. as you know, the, treaty is focused on keeping conventional weapons from being trafficked to jen -- warlord, criminals, you would think the political right would be all for that. but you know the right-wing elements in congress are standing against it. they're aligned with the nra on this one. if it's because they are behind this agenda which really has the no basis in reality. >> this is an attempt on their part to p