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Self-interest. get your act together and do whats right for the country. >> i hope to god in next years election, all of you are booted out. >> congresswoman fudge, arent you the lucky one to be the city member at this table. no matter who gets the blame here ultimately, whether people blame the republicans or the democrats, in the end is it just bad for the institution? is it on awful yoll of your hou? >> yes, it is. there are no winners here. when you talk about shutting down the government an...

But to be able to say that in person is something that im immensely grateful to her to have given me that opportunity. >> you wrote a book called "a problem from hell" and now i was thinking these are your problems from hell. no longer are you a writer or observer, but youre in a position of power. >> when i was a writer or a loudmouth pundit, it was very easy at the end of the day to say, ive spoken my piece. now the discussions we have are internal, youre getting to have these discussions with...

I think we should go back to the problem of the computer sites, because what we have is a perfect storm here. you have the cynics who run the democratic party and you take the stupid wing of the gop. instead somehow a monkey wrench got thrown into the system, and now everybody hates congress and republicans are taking the bigger political hit. i saw a poll where the approval rating of the u.s. congress was 5% and the margin barrier was 6. >> mitch, do you think it was a miscalculation for people...

>> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that, but now were willing to compromise on this, i think -- i know we dont want to be here, but were going to win this, i think. >> senator, i brought those two things up side by side for a reason. winning, losing, battle of the talking points, dueling cable appearances. do you in washington, do all of you have any idea how totally disgusted the american people are with these antics? >> yeah, i think these are all legitimate con...

>> dear congress, i would like you to go without pay for one month. >> stop acting in your own self-interest. get your act together and do whats right for the country. >> i hope to god in next years election, all of you are booted out. >> congresswoman fudge, arent you the lucky one to be the city member at this table. no matter who gets the blame here ultimately, whether people blame the republicans or the democrats, in the end is it just bad for the institution? is it on all of your houses? >>...

From national security analyst peter birgen writing at cnn.com. whoever prevails is hardly going to be an ally of the u.s. its an ungodly mess. in short, a problem from hell. on that note, let me introduce mike baker. hes a former cia agent, "time magazine" editor at large and gloria borger. mike, i want to start with you. one of the things were waiting for before president obama makes his final decision is this intelligence assessment. how quickly are we expecting this. is this something thats ...

Satellite of iran and why they are of such a strategic importance. but mike, really quickly, what do you think? i mean, weve -- the red line has been crossed. we went into bosnia and kosovo for fewer deaths. samantha powers was talking about a problem from hell. no, that paled compared to whats happened to syria. samantha powers now there. over 100,000 deaths. chemical weapons being used. can she sit back and say nothing? can the u.n. ambassador really sit back and say nothing? can assad really ...

Block her if she was nominated and the president decided to go in a different direction, nominating john kerry instead, but national security adviser, well, that position does not require confirmation. the woman nominated to take rices place is samantha power. she covered the bosnian war in the 1990s. she was a national security adviser for barack obamas first run, until hillary clinton beat obama in ohio in 2008. power called clinton a monster in a newspaper interview promping her to quit the c...

It was so self-eft what happened that day, i would have to question her judgment. and the president loves the book "lincolns team of rivals kwaetsz and it seems to me what hes doing is rewarding her and hes putting in a team of loyalists. she cant get senate confirmation so hes going to surround himself with loyalists. he has so many problem on his plate to deal with. why would he create another problem? this will be a big problem, not just with ms. rice, but i think the confirmation of ms. powe...

it is $5.8 billion and counting. thats how much the nations biggest bank said it lost so far from a complex trading scheme that was supposed to hedge against risk. the updated figures came in as the ceo jamie dimon personally briefed analysts on second quarter earnings which still managed to beat expectations. team coverage this morning, alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange to explain how this could impact all of our wallets. lets start with felicia taylor. youre at jpmorga...