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Something people were interested in. ultimately i think its a win. >> matt lewis endorses the "sportscenter" approach. after all the focus on the political maneuvering, julie mason, the last couple of days when it looked like the government might shut down, it was almost like journalists woke up and said, hey, soldiers in iraq and afghanistan are not going to get their paychecks to feed their families which would have been an outrage. >> thats true. every veteran journalist knew how this would w...

A case in point. you saw the dualing press conferences all day yesterday, as that countdown clock on msnbc screen was ticking down. at one point, it looked very grim. the republicans, democrats coming out and hurling accusations against each other. the president, we did not see him all day. we did not see his press secretary for a regular briefing and white house officials would have us believe it was intentional. planned parenthood, cutting funding for planned parenthood, that controversial pro...

The case, what does it tell us about the final deal and the players involved? >> yes. obviously the countdown clock, which became ubiquitous on television over the last couple of days, is what drove the timing of this deal. i think whatever the deadline was going to hit, members of congress knew and all parties knew, white house, democrats in the senate, republicans in the house, knew they wanted to avoid a shutdown. the question is, how do you align the political forces to make that happen and ...

Taking place as we have our countdown clock as were watching this ticking off every second. >> reporter: i guess the good news is we still have 12 1/2 hours to come to an agreement. in case it isnt obvious, two possible scenarios. a last hi-minute agreement down the wire. others might interpret that as 11:00 tonight. or the other possibility is we have a shutdown and that raises more questions. will this be a shutdown that simply lasts over the weekend and all sides come to an agreement after th...

>> do we have the countdown clock? they made one here at msnbc. okay. great. thats the government shutdown clock. there was one for your birthday. >> thats what it is. >> its my birthday. >> a government birthday clock. >> you know what im going to do. im having bagle heads today. >> i do love bagle heads. >> its the best bagles in this world and i av been over this great world and eat an lot of bagles. you know what im going to have tomorrow for my birthday lunch. jon meacham gave me inspiratio...

What about the rest of the night? working late again? >> reporter: they are going to be working late again. after the meeting at the white house earlier today, staff-level negotiations, were talking top aides. these arent just top aides. these are top aides to speaker boehner and leader reid. theyre continuing to negotiate. were going to see another meeting at the white house at 7:00 p.m. with speaker boehner and leader reid. >> thank you very much, brianna keilar. see the shot of the white hous...

[♪...] >> male announcer: book now, save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. welcome back. the countdown clock and a possible government shutdown is ticking. tempers are flaring as well on both sides of of the aisle, so what exactly is holding things up you ask? tom forman has been digging into the question and joins us from the washington studio. tom, i know you have been busy with this, so first, go over the presidents proposals. >> yeah. the presidents proposal, and this is the tricky part, ra...

The senate budget committee is beginning markup of the final stages of putting together our budget proposal within just a few weeks. we have been meeting, we have been listening to the experts, we have been looking at the very strong proposals in a number of the deficit reduction commissions, the simpson bowls commission. i will commend congressman ryan for putting out a tough plan that makes real progress towards reducing the deficit and the debt, but i disagree with the values choices hes maki...

>> i dont no. >> wheres our countdown clock? >> question sort of raises itself. how much is too much? joining us in washington, amy argetsinger and in los angeles, sara waxman. and in springfield, john avalon. good global story, no question. worldwide interest, no question. this is a journalistic invasion to rival normandy. >> right and a month out? obviously this is a business decision not a news decision. from a news perspective, thats completely ridiculous. im sorry. i dont care if -- we can ...

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