therefore does not deserve reelection that was kristen soltis director of policy research for the winston group. switching gears now to a man who was arrested in liberia yet his fate will be decided by a judge and jury in america fighting a russian pilot constantine your yard shango he's facing trial in new york this afternoon for alleged international drug trafficking there are generals lawyers say the case is outside u.s. jurisdiction due to several violations committed by american officials among them kidnapping torture and rendition are you going to suffer jerkiness in our new york studio with the latest. on a fast tell us a little bit about what you've heard whether day one has wrapped up and what the latest is. christine i do want has definitely wrapped up at the downtown manhattan courthouse we did hear statements from the members of the russian consulate here in new york as well as the wife of constantine you're show me a couple of statements basically the result of this first day of trial was jury selection which took an entire five rounds to decide some hearings lasted for almost four

will they notice what will it all mean kristen soltis is the director of policy research for the winston group joins us here to talk about this what do you think chris in your prediction on friday will the government shutdown or will i hope not you know there's a lot of folks that are sort of cheering for a government shutdown sort of privately you have democrats that think it's politically good for them in terms of policy you have tea party folks that they don't want to see a compromise they want to see the line get held on government spending and if democrats or republicans can't come to an agreement on cutting spending they want it to shut down so i think that eventually speaker john boehner is going to come up with a sort of solution that will bring everyone to the table right now that there's a deal in the works of a billion dollars in cuts i know a lot of republican. to fifty or sixty billion right now they're really got to figure out what's the bigger battle that's looming and where should they be using their political capital and that's the thing that's really interesting i mean we can