todd jasper, associate director, homeland security emergency management at m.s.a. inc. now on to the 800,000 federal workers still furloughed as the government shutdown persists into day four. with the economy leaking $300 million a day, cancer stricken americans denied access to treatment and impoverished families seeing food benefit lifelines dry up, republicans in congress are not backing down from demands to get something in return for any deal to reopen the government and raise the debt limit, even if it's not concessions on obama care and it's a stance they're taking in private, too. earlier this week, an open mic picked up this exchange between republican saunders mitch mcconnell and rand paul. >> do you have a second? >> i'm all wired up here. >> i'm doing cnn, going over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate. i think it's awful for them to say that over and over again. >> i do, too. i just came back from a two-hour meeting with him and that was basically the same view, privately, as it was publicly. >> if we keep saying, we wan