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President is expected to meet with parties, to discuss the impasse over the government shutdown. however, in an interview with cnbc, the president made it clear, hes not ready to make the vile decision they have put before him. >> i am exasperated with the idea that unless i say to 20 million people, you cant have health insurance, these folks will not reopen the government. that is irresponsible. >> joining us now from the white house is nbc news kristen welker. kristen, the president, as i hav...

>> bret: the u.s. ambassador to the budget committee want other diplomats to sober up. really. joseph tusella says negotiating rooms should be inebryiation free zones but are often not. he suggests that the colleagues save the champagne for toasting successful end of negotiating session. apparently this has been an issue for some time. diplomat told reporters on one occasion the note taker in the room had to be replaced because he was too impaired to complete the task. foreign policy magazine ci...

Former republican senators from massachusetts, narrowly lost his race to elizabeth warren and now what well have, there will be a temporary appointment and a special election in massachusetts. and, scott brown, notwithstanding my home state is democrat, is leading all the democrats, and the issue with kerry, it would cost a democratic seat, likely in the senate. >> rick: i want to go back to the idea the president badly wanted sutures rice to be the next secretary of state and made no secret abo...

The persian gulf, a third of the worlds oil goes through there, and iran has threatened to shut down the strait of hormuz. is that a real threat? >> only for a short period of time. i think our navy is very confidence that it would effectively both its navy and air force if iran tried to do that. i dont think ultimately it will. theyre trying to say to the united states and europe, youre threatening us with sanctions, well show what you can do with those sanctions, by raising the price of oil, t...

Worlds oil goes through there and iran has threatened to shut down the strait of hormuz. is that a real threat? >> only for a short period of time. i think our navy is very confidence that it would effectively both its navy and air force if iran tried to do that. i dont think ultimately it will. theyre trying to say to the united states and europe, youre threatening us with sanctions well show what you can do with those sanctions by raising the price of oil theyre threatening a very weak america...

Invited this morning to a negotiating session with president obama and congressional leaders at the white house tomorrow. boehner released a written statement this afternoon saying i made clear that their 33 billion is not enough and many of the cuts that the white house and senate democrats are talking about are full of smoke and mirrors. this is the first time boehner has publicly rejected the 33 billion number as of friday he was still not publicly taking a stand on the compromise democrats c...

>> i did. >> i dont think i would give you flak for that, because i saw the benefit of the blair government talking directly to the ira. not perfect, but certainly better than what was going on before. do you believe fundamentally that america should be doing more of these trips? >> absolutely, absolutely. and the group that sent us there is a group that supports lifting the sanction against them that was placed on by the clinton administration describing them as a terrorist group. that sanction...

That sanction has been lifted by the uk. that sanction has been lifted by the european union. basically, theyre considered a terrorist group because they oppose ahmadinejad and they oppose the mullahs. and the only two countries that now list them that way are iran and the united states. >> would you meet with hezbollah, with al qaeda? >> it would depend on what could be accomplished. what i believe in is the old-fashioned diplomacy that used to exist, which is when a president or a mayor or a g...

Now list them that way are iran and the united states. >> would you meet with hezbollah, with al qaeda? >> it would depend on what could be accomplished. what i believe in is the old-fashioned diplomacy that used to exist, which is when a president or a mayor or a governor goes into a negotiating session, youve got to have a group of objectives that you think you can obtain from it. and you have to have leverage. >> but as a principle -- >> i wouldnt just meet for the purpose of meeting. >> but ...

I do feel that kim jong un feels he has maximum ledge in nuclear arsenal because technologically hes advanced dramatically. is he capable of hitting us with a nuclear war, i dont think yet, but it could be very close. but this is the time to negotiate, to stop him, curb their use, to put limits, put freezes and hopefully denuclearization, although i have my doubts whether we will be able to achieve that, certainly not in the first negotiating session. arthel: what will it take if it doesnt happe...