the other side is refusing. brit, now we have had 800,000 plus federal workers furloughed, sent home. but essential government employees are t at work. is this a shutdown or is the word slimdown more accurate and does this distinction even matter when we discuss this? it does. look, there is a great many people not at work. their government functions aren t being carried out. there are applications for programs and so forth not processed. there is a lot of work not being done. people will in time if they don t already feel that. whether they will feel it to the extent that the original idea of defunding obama care failed completely. it s dead. it was a bad idea. it didn t work. that doesn t mean there isn t
the possibility that some reform to obama care may be extracted by republicans if they hold firm. they are in a position where they are out on a limb. if they backed down completely now, it would be a disaster for them politically. i don t think they will. i think this shutdown is going to go on for a while. the lion s share of pain, it seem, for the shutdown or slim down is felt at least immediately, i think by government employees worried about mortgages, paying day care or whatever. that s the immediate. then you have the show piece things like the monument. we had a couple on who wanted to get married at the grand canyon. they couldn t. it was shut down. that s where the pain is isolated. i m curious. how long can this drag out. it dragged out in 1995-96 for three weeks.
at the end there was a snowstorm that prolonged the government being closed. it was noticeable. now remember, we have this thing i think the administration is more worried about. the debt limit is coming up. the white house is saying things about that that i have never heard that amazed me . the president said today in an interview with cnbc that this time the markets should be worried. there might be a default. the fact is in the usual meaning of the word default means you don t make payments on the national debt, there is no possibility of that. no realistic possibility unless the treasury department chose not to make payments. there would be tax revenue still coming in even if we weren t borrowing money. jay carney said, republicans demands to tank the world economy, collapse the world
self-defense claim is on shaky grounds. so this evidence is extremely important. are you saying you can t tell based on those photos, the medical examiner examining from the photos, whether or not those were enough lacerations to explain being slammed multiple times? i think you can actually take a fall, bang your head against the sidewalk, and come down with this kind of hematoma situation. i think it certainly, the wounds appear to be super official but that doesn t mean there isn t some underlying trama more serious but if your head is slammed repeatedly on a sidewalk, wouldn t you have more lacerations as the medical examiner said? not necessarily. while your head is being slammed, you re trying to push up against it, i m not convinced that that what she is saying, her observation negotiates what he what george zimmerman is claiming. i want to bring in mark and jeff. mark, from a defense standpoint, how do you think the prosecution did today?
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