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0 and reminding us whats important in life. so thank you all very much for joining me. >> thank you so much. >> amazing people. thats all for us tonight. there is problems with the website, really? i havent argued that the problems go much further than that. >> we did not, until the problems manifested themselves after the launch, that would be as significant as they have turned out to be. >> the blame game over obama cares rocky rollout heats up. today, the contractors who built the problem-p...

Here is jay carner. >> the operations and procedures are you preparing for the possibility that the congress will not pass it today. >> the treasury is the place to answer those questions. what i have told you. secretary lew made clear to his testimony to congress. the treasury will exhaust the borrowing at the end of the day and beyond that point, the treasury would have only cash on hand and not able to borrow new money to meet obligations. >> jay, how confident is the white house that the con...

0 might happen, wendell. what about the president? what is his role in all of this? >> reporter: the president is criticized for not leading the negotiations and accused by the republicans for refusing to negotiate. president has been meeting with congressional democrats to try to hold them together. he met with them here at the white house late yesterday. his efforts in the house fell apart. he told wabc that past efforts to negotiate directly with speaker boehner havent worked out too well. >>...

0 right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting. >> now, president obama and vice president biden were supposed to meet with the four congressional leaders but that meeting was abruptly postponed. were getting word mitch mcconnell will present a potential plan to senate republicans tomorrow morning. ed henry is following it from washington. he joins us from the white house. >> the bottom line is that thats actually good news, that the meeting here at the white house was delayed. no...

To have to get moving quickly and we anticipate if not a late-night meeting today, wed anticipate a meeting here at the white house tomorrow to try to seal all this, andrea. >> by the way, theres some rumors floating around the internet about you, that you stormed out of the white house briefing on friday, because allegedly you were mad at jay carner but thats not really true, is it? >> not really true. look, the bottom line, what i was mad at is i wasnt getting called on and jay carney was clea...

And these negotiations, these discussions with congress, the way it was explained to me, wolf, is that because mitch mcconnell has also been very silent through much of this, he is facing a primary battle back in kentucky as he is running for re-election. he is basically being primaried by the tea party in kentucky. he has a tough re-election battle. according to that source, mitch mcconnell has pulled back from the discussions. mick mcconnell and joe biden were sort of working together in that ...

microphones about an hour from. the president earlier called the house speaker john boehner but it wasnt exactly the conversation that boehner has been speaking. here is what the speaker said before he spoke to the president. >> americans expect us to work out our differences. but refuse to go negotiate is an untenable position and, frankly, by refusing to negotiate, harry reid and the president are putting our country on a pretty dangerous path. listen. there has never been a presiden...

0 shutdown dims hope for retail. they are worried about the economy too. the paper says a big concern is that a prolonged government shutdown could severely hurt the economy and necessarily consumer spending and, therefore, annual growth. and we got another front page from the independent and the uk that ill mention saying its about the budget standoff and says chinas fears over the political deadlock, highlighted there. can you see that telling president obama to get a grip and mentions world m...

Yet? >> well, theres a host of diplomatic countries that were looking at, treaties, trades, all sorts of issues. and i think that president obama and -- and secretary kerry and eric holder all today made clear that they view the situation as -- as really serious. >> peter, ill give you the final word. when -- when snowden left hong kong, jay carner, white house press succeed, set, "im not buying. this is a technical decision by hong kong." a deliberate choice to release a fugitive despite a vali...

0 garden. youre always family here. >> reporter: better food than on the aeroflot flight. jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ >> reporter: new york. >> the plane on the ground in havana right now. thats it for me. thank you very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. next, edward snowden on the run. president obama pleads for the return of the nsa leaker, but is anyone listening? plus, the supreme court rules on affirmative action today. the reverend jesse jackson out front. and actor ...