so why dunce the president come out with his version of events? well, that s a really good question. i don t i suspect that he will come out with his own version of events, right? he said he sleing to testify. he said he s willing to testify under oath. while that will be incredibly dramatic if it comes to that, i suspect that either through the white house or through trump himself or through a statement or through a well, probably not a tweet, we ll get to the bottom of what that means. he has an interesting dichotomy of words. he doesn t speak the way most politicians or reporters do, so you re always sort of left, you know, hangs as to, you know, literally what does that mean? it s a completely different authentic with this man. so, paige, if you were the president s counsel, a, i m sure
government shutdown. reporter: one of the few pieces of the president s key agenda not affected by most of the federal government now being shut down, the president going on to say a much bigger deal than this government shutdown is on october 17th we have a second deadline which is when the nation will reach its debt ceiling. he warned today if there s not a deal on that, lit will not be just a government shutdown but an economic shutdown. 16 days away. what has the president been saying? for the past 48 hours the president said he sleing to sit down with lawmakers and deal with a long-term deal, figure out the debt problem long term and yet he still hasn t sad sat down with those republican leaders in the last 48 hours or even the last couple of weeks to figure it out. instead the president today in the rose garden compared republicans to spoiled children. you have jay carney, the white house press secretary suggest that republicans are extorti extortionists and that s what