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>> youre a great american. thank you. >> lets bring in dana bash. you heard there from boehner saying that theres no reason for his members vote no. >> exactly. and i just came from the basement of the capitol where john boehner, it sounds like he was saying exactly what he said in public on the radio show to his caucus in private in the meeting. it was a pretty short meeting as the republican clock meetings tend to go, less than a half hour, and no member of the rank and file got up and spoke. ...

>> i have made clear for months and months, the idea of default is wrong. we shouldnt get anywhere close to it. >> we are very close to it. in fact we are just days away from the united states treasury being unable to meet awful its financial obligations. in the spot light tonight, default and downgrade. as we moved one day close tir t default. harry reider eissued this warn. >> the debt is here. the deadline is looming. rating agencies are talking about downgrading us as early as tonight. as th...

We shouldnt get anywhere close to it. >> we are very close to it. in fact we are just days away from the united states treasury being unable to meet awful its financial obligations. in the spot light tonight, default and downgrade. as we moved one day closer to default. harry reid issued this warning. >> the debt is here. the deadline is looming. rating agencies are talking about downgrading us as early as tonight. as they have said, and they have cheered over there, the governments closed. we d...

Stop. and what is so sad is that the people who are on furlough, the people who are trying to get certain types of home loans in rural areas, all of them are like, what about me? dont i count? theyre americans, we should be fake taking care of them. >> and i have heard about the other people who have become victims of furloughs, lets say theyre not furloughed but running a bar, a business, where the furloughed people are, history says theyre getting their money back, but there are millions of th...

Running a bar, a business, where the furloughed people are, history says theyre getting their money back, but there are millions of them probably. >> you know, i was just in san francisco the other day and it didnt even dawn on me, it is like oh, the parks are going to be closed. i was going to go to the restaurant, the cliff house, part of the golden gate parkway. closed. nothing to do with the government. but there it is, it is part of the park where the park is. what are they doing? >> what a...

Victims of furloughs, lets say theyre not furloughed but running a bar, a business, where the furloughed people are, history says theyre getting their money back, but there are millions of them probably. >> you know, i was just in san francisco the other day and it didnt even dawn on me, it is like oh, the parks are going to be closed. i was going to go to the restaurant, the cliff house, part of the golden gate parkway. closed. nothing to do with the government. but there it is, it is part of t...

Also said this spending bill that weve been talking so much about to reopen the government, its been 12 days that its been closed, that spending bill is sitting on speaker boehners desk. so we get back to the arguments weve been hearing all along, is that the house has the votes, with democrats and a few republicans to pass a bill that would reopen the government as soon as the speaker will schedule one. thats what were hearing. >> perhaps the headline -- and maybe im a pie in the sky optimist, ...

Well that we need to continue. hes been great on the environment, public health, smart about diversity our economy. but its not a state secret that he had a certain thing that grew with time that the closed circle got more closed. decreased. and as he pursued certainly the term limit change in 08 was the break pount point, that ended some of the faith that people had in his independence and reformism and the things that they actually liked about him. and before that, heres a really, really wealt...

Lot of time to walk the dog these days, the defense software contractor, hes been on furlough for almost two weeks. still, hes standing shoulder-to-shoulder with republicans holding the line on obama care and spending. >> i applaud senator cruz, senator rubio and those who are standing up and showing some leadership. and thats more important than my paycheck to me right now. >> reporter: same story for jeff eperson. he owns a civil war relic store in north georgia. with the closed, business is d...

Far? >> nobody now seems to think the government will be reopened until we get to somewhere around the 17th. one of the reasons for that, martha, is the shutdown has turned out to be much less to do about what people thought. by one calculation only 17% closed. you see some conspicuous signs, which you can tell the administration is trying as hard as it can to make it as difficult as possible. but it is not that big of a deal as it turns out. martha: sort of like the sequester. told it was going...