was that unserious? of course not. so why is it unserious when we try to fund cancer research or the national guard or national parks? why is it all a sudden playing games to keep our national parks open? what exactly has changed since monday? why can we only together to pass a bill funding military pay but not to fund veterans' disability payments? and finally, none of these bills have any connection to the implementation of obamacare. i understand that my friends across the aisle support that law despite its numerous and harmful failings. i understand they want to protect it. but none of the bills that we're considering relates in any way to the implementation of obamacare i'm concerned that my friends across the aisle cannot -- i'm concerned that my friends across the aisle cannot see this law for what it is and what it's doing to families all across the country. and now government is shut down because democrats refuse to work with us to do anything to protect the american people from the harmful, potentially devast

resolution unserious scandalous.on a visit to paris, he told a colleague of mine that he is certain the disarmament mission will fail. >> it is a regime which lies. a dishonest regime. last time, they did not hesitate to open fire in order to frustrate their mission. the current mission will fail too. even if the inspectors manage to find some of the chemical weapons, it is a relative success because the regime has been careful to conceal most of their weapons. the others they have transferred to allies like iran or hezbollah. >> 17 countries have agreed to set up special quotas for syrian refugees. among them, the u.s., france, and australia. that was announced by the u.n. refugee agency in geneva. now to the u.s. where nonessential federal services remain shut for a second day after lawmakers failed to agree on a new budget. about 800,000 staff have been placed on indefinite leave. barack obama says house republicans are holding the entire economy hostage. the white house announced that the president has canceled a

obamacare, which showed that honestly their deployment regressive social agenda is as strong as their unseriousness of governance. this is awful. you've got children, the wic program is crazy to me as mother of newborn infant to ii that there are kids screaming and hungry and that's getting caught up, formula being caught up in this political game. it's irresponsible. >> but wait a second. >> obamacare issues -- >> when you hear something like that, okay, as a republican strategist both of you, what goes through your mind about what the message is that's getting out to the very women who the republican party need to recruit if they're ever going to win a national election. >> i think there is a heck of a lot of disdecemberinformation in the medium i have never seen know of by the broad media to try to find what they call these hard cases pretending that it's happening all over the place. first of all even talking about, i love this, all the government workers in dc who were being furloughed or laid off right now how many times in the past like five times we've had government shutdown under clinton,

so was that unserious? of course not. so why is it unserious when we try to fund veterans disability payments or cancer research or our national guard? why is it all of a sudden playing games to try to keep our national parks open? what exactly has changed since monday? why can we come together to pass a bill funding military pay but not to fund veterans' benefits? and finally, none of these bills has any connection to the implementation of obamacare. i understand that my friends across the aisle support that law, despite its numerous failings and indications that it's harming the american people and the economy, that it's hurting jobs and threatening the affordability of health insurance. i understand that some of my friends across the aisle want to protect that law. and we're going to continue to have that debate about that law. especially in light of all the problems people are having with signing up with the exchanges, not to mention the ongoing problems of job losses, wage reductions, hours lost and people losing the

is he an unserious, incurious bystander, as one critic put it?gregg, if you remember, a couple days after the launch, the government was shut down, no fault of his, and you had some big things to worry about. i think the fact of the matter is, these are pretty -- he's a smart guy. he showed it during his campaign that he could get ahead of this tech stuff. but at the time a couple days after the launch, he had some pretty big things on his plate just then. so i don't really think you can fault him. look, the fact is, again, we were the last industrialized country to not have universal health care. thanks to him, we have that. since truman with republicans and democratic presidents alike we've been wanting to get it. he's got it. so yeah. >> dd, what wrangles a lot of americans is how they got this. it was purely partisan. there wasn't a single republican vote. you look at medicare and medicaid, social security, other big entitlement programs, there was bipartisan support. americans grew to like it. this is different, isn't it? >> yeah. very unpop

it's obviously very unserious way to manage business. it's very sad. it does, i think, affect america and it would be good if politicians here could get their act together. >> for sure. what are you seeing in terms of consumer in mexico? for a long time we looked at mexico sort of the way the u.s. was in the 1950s. people were rising the ladder of success in many ways and spending money, buying a lot of goods. what are you seeing from the consumer in retail? >> that's still valid, but in the past couple of years, retailing has been under kind of a recession because the government stopped their spending, especially the last 12 months. and that's sort of cooled things down. still the fundamentals, this is a young country. more than 50% of the population are under 25 years old. they have to make a livelihood, they have to get their stuff together. there's lots of opportunities, especially in telecom. >> we've seen consolidation in telecom. >> everybody wants a smartphone. >> everybody wants a smartphone. there are 6 billion phones on the planet, not obvio

. -- unserious. the biggest head scratcher of them all -- the president issued a veto threat for bills that fund the very things he said he wanted funded. why won't the president and why won't senate democrats take yes for an answer? why are they demanding that we have to fund everything? they tell us, you have to fund everything, or we won't allow you to fund anything. third, all of these bills received significant bipartisan support in the house. in the middle of the government shutdown, surrounded by all of this divisive rhetoric, republicans and democrats came together in the house overwhelmingly to approve these bills. i think we owe it to the country to show that we can do the same thing in the senate. fourth, this approach, the approach that has been advocated by the house of representatives, represents a path forward that was first introduced by none other than the distinguished senate majority leader himself. on monday afternoon, senator harry reid ask for unanimous consent to pass a bill th