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The united states government to continue functioning. it is not a major ask that the united states government pays its bills so that for the first time in the history of this country we default, create an international financial crisis and what your commentators a moment ago were saying is absolutely true. interest rates will spike for mortgages, for car loans, et cetera. businesses will go under. unemployment will go up. it will be in all likelihood a disaster for this country. what i happen to...

How i could monetize twitter. look it shows that twitter is really the way to sort of take things to the next level. esh -- everybody looks to twitter for everything. i know congressmen and congress women who say i get my news from twitter. or commentators say if i cant log on to the wall street journal they look to twitter for a summary. everyone out there is looking to twitter to see what is hot and what is trendy and what people think and how to make a quick buck off of it. >> i will be tweet...

Afterward. because he came in under a lot of fire. >> he said he sent a tweet out "i want people on the committee that eat, sleep and breathe college football during the season. it has nothing to do with being male or female." i happen to know a lot of college football fans who eat, breathe and sleep it, who happen to be women. >> just said it doesnt have to do with a man or a woman. >> hes running his mouth in trouble. >> arent there announcers, commentators, nfl special people who also didnt p...

Commentators donna brazile and will cain both joining us now. so youre hearing from the gop leadership right now. donna. there have been partial measures initiated but till snoeg. you heard the president reiterate yesterday, no, were not looking for peace deal meals. were looking for a budget. are we at an impasse? if so for how much longer? >> i know. maybe when they come next week we can proceed for a discharge motion in the house that takes seven legislative days. the earliest is october 14th...

Shutdown, everyone calling each other nasty language doesnt make us look good. >> its not the american model anymore. youve had commentators -- >> sorry. this is the vehicle in question. clearly this woman who is now dead. she didnt die from running the vehicle into something. the vehicle is sound and in good shape. thats a close up look at the vehicle from united security. she was shot and killed. were told at both security points -- checking points if you will, she was told to get out of the c...

Neoconfederate party that seems dedicated to all kinds of apocalyptic outcomes. i dont know if this comes from their fundamentalist religious outlook for whether its just good fund-raising for them among their base, but they are no longer a normal political party. they are an insurrectionist party that is bringing down the government. >> okay. no longer a normal political party. i have heard a lot of commentators say this. i want to play devil as advocate and check my own biasses here, bruce. we...

I have heard a lot of commentators say this. i want to play devil as advocate and check my own biasses here, bruce. we had more shutdowns between tip oneill and the democratic congress and reagan than we have now and theres some who argue a system like we have invest minority parties with a lot of power and so this is a natural system. what do you think of that? >> well, thats certainly true up to a point. but i think what were really seeing here is a crisis of democracy, where one party believe...

I dont know if this comes from their fundamentalist religious outlook for whether its just good fund-raising for them among their base, but they are no longer a normal political party. they are an insurrectionist party that is bringing down the government. >> okay. no longer a normal political party. i have heard a lot of commentators say this. i want to play devil as advocate

Columbia. so a lot of this is all about strategy and not about how do you get to an end game or a goal. neither has changed their goals. and what i think is going to happen is this is going to play out until you meet the debt ceiling and then while you think they may or some of your commentators think they may be all rolled in together, i think there is a colossal crisis building up then about the middle of october and the district of columbia will be caught in that crisis unless you let my peop...

And we want to hear from you, send me a tweet about the show thats @howardkurtz. the coverage has been as chaotic and as polarizing as i have ever seen it. left wingers are slamming right wingers and conservative commentators are slamming each other over the republican tactics that have again brought us to the brink of an impasse over obamacare and government spending. and everyone has strong opinions on the freshman senator whose 21 hours of speechifying put him firmly in the media spotlight. t...