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"bleacher report." lets begin with the perfect storm forming in our very imperfect congress right now. four days left until a government shutdown. senate leaders hoping to approve a spending bill by tomorrow that would keep washington running beyond october 1st. and also include funding for the presidents health care law. when republicans scramble to find ways to stop obamacare, another bigger deadline loom, the debt ceiling must be raised in just about three week or america wont be ...

0 with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. welcome to "new day," thursday, september 26th, 6:00 in the east. yes, of course it is. coming up, secretary of state john kerry and his iranian counterpart are meeting and it matters. why? it will be the highest level meeting between the country since the 1979 iranian revolution. what is on the table for syria and irans nuclear problem? well tell you. and former president bill clinton sat down with piers morgan in a wide-ranging intervi...

The people to go to in the training with the state of ohio and secondly who drps the kri teria. you can be disbelieved and not physically disabled and that disability can prevent you from benefitting from the program. >> chris, what do you think? >> i think, as leslie pointed out the. bill clinton and gingrich worked together. and it is too bad we live through obamas economy. and in john can you sacks state in ohio, he is lowering the unemployment rate difficult as that is. and this is obviously...

Now john boehner, theres a different personal side to this. i bring that up, because people think its about republican and democrat, its about personalities. and the speaker has to cater to a group of people. and speaker boehner is more interested in counting votes and they need to sit down and look at the big picture. they created this fiscal cliff and sequestration, thats all hype, so they temporarily solve it and not addressing the big picture. >> i appreciate that. because i think theres a w...

Space. bob, is this the worst -- i mean, you were there when you guys shut it down. is this actually worse than then? >> most people think the congress is already in outer space. lets make that clear. i was part of that government shutdown. it was a little bit deferent. we had the senate under republican control and then, of course, the senate, bob dole blinked, probably to help the house too. president clinton, his numbers went down during, but came back up afterwards. he got elected. we did ge...

Care, where maybe middle ground is, you get to delay the individual mandate, the mandate that i have to buy what aetna is selling thats the idea. does the republican party stand for something? >> josh is shaking his head. >> this is not an actual point of leverage for them. the complaints have not come from squishy republicans who want to move off this fight and want to find ways to compromise with the president. what happens when you shut down the government, everybody in washington starts poin...

Does the republican party stand for something? >> josh is shaking his head. >> this is not an actual point of leverage for them. the complaints have not come from squishy republicans who want to move off this fight and want to find ways to compromise with the president. what happens when you shut down the government, everybody in washington starts pointing fingers at each other about whose fault this is. this is going to blame the republicans because theyve specifically said, were going to shut ...

Going to be increases as high, so they called it a cut. >> thats a washington cut. >> the media portraying this as a debacle and an absolute disaster for the republicans, and clinton cleaned gingrichs clock. but in reality, the republicans won two seats, set the stage for some pretty good things that happened policiwise after that. its not a debacle to shut down the government. a majority of people oppose obama care, whatever poll you look at it. why doesnt the republican party want to embrace t...

Republican party adapted? we dont want nothing done, we dont want this guy to get anything done. thats our primary purpose. >> i think the latter of that is certainly true. it goes back to mitch mcconnells opening salvo on the night of the inauguration where they got together and said, you know, one-term president. so so, yeah, i think thats the political operative or operation of this whole thing. >> is that a party-building move for your side? >> i dont think its a party-building move. as chai...

Spending problem here in washington and im hopeful that we wont have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown. >> reporter: back in 1995 and 1996, the federal government did shut down when clinton was president and gingrich was speaker of the house. national parks were closed and national monuments and many americans had to wait longer for passports and theres a chance it could all happen again this month. >> march 27th when the government runs out of budget authority then you would see ...