schumer, they ve all been out there over the last few days saying, we re prepared to make contentions on the regional airport part of it, for example. somehow the democrats are getting blamed for saying, stop beating up on us, stop having these additional requirements. it s like the wife being blamed when she says, wait a minute, you can t keep beating me like this, i m not going to do what you say. democrats are standing up, they could have a little help from their leaders. barack obama talks about congress being the problem. it s not congress, it s the republicans. well, do you see any similarities in this attempt to weaken unions and reagan s strike breaking 30 years ago saw on the camera? we have to be careful. it s not air traffic controllers affected in this case, but there are safety workers being required to come in or expected to come in and work, they may or may not be paid, that s different even from reagan s time. when people were furloughed like that, they were guarant
the prayer shouldn t be in the unemployed workers. the prayer should be pass the bill so that american workers can come back to work. it s easily done. they have done it on 20 other occasions. there s a procedure for doing it. come back to washington, pass the bill, let s get american workers back to work, let s put all talk about creating jobs, all the talk about job is now the one priority, let s make it a priority today. pass the bill, american workers go back on construction sites and hard-working, dedicated safety workers at the faa go back to work. mr. secretary, are you on the phone with congressman micah and senator rockefeller and schumer and harry reid? when you look at where these small airports are that the republicans clearly were targeting harry reid, they were targeting jay rockefeller, you know, the house knew exactly what it was doing. everybody is playing the game here. are you on the phone with them
there over the last few days saying, we re prepared to make contentions on the regional airport part of it, for example. somehow the democrats are getting blamed for saying, stop beating up on us, stop having these additional requirements. it s like the wife being blamed when she says, wait a minute, you can t keep beating me like this, i m not going to do what you say. democrats are standing up, they could have a little help from their leaders. barack obama talks about congress being the problem. it s not congress, it s the republicans. well, do you see any similarities in this attempt to weaken unions and reagan s strike breaking 30 years ago saw on t camera? we have to be careful. it s not air traffic controllers affected in this case, but there are safety workers bei required to come in or expected to come in and work, they may or may not be paid, that s different even from reagan s time. when people were furloughed like that, they were guaranteed to be paid at the end of the d
looks. all day long the dow headed south until it finally closed down an ugly 266 points. on wall street, 4:00 couldn t come fast enough. we ve had eight straight days of losses, the first time that happened since the global financial meltdown? 2008. it is a scary picture, and we re going to walk you through it all in just a moment. but first a look at the other stories we re drilling down on tonight. it s ramadan in syria. instead of peace, more bloodshed. graphic new images of bodies dumb it ped like garbage as the death toll rises. can the world look the other way? and japan s endless disaster. radiation levels at their highest since the earthquake and tsunami in march. you won t believe what they re testing now. then with grim news on wall street, everybody is talking about transparency. but these folks did something about it, striptease for social protest. the bears rule in more ways than one. now back to the batd news on wall street. we finally get a debt deal
a ton of money. this hour, how he s dealing with the new messes that the country simply can t afford right now. and from the seat of power to an iron cage in a courtroom, the ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. sort of vacation right now, they re on leave while tens of thousands of american workers are going without a paycheck because of their inaction. a lot of new anger and fingerpointing over the partial shut down of the federal aviation administration. senators went on break yesterday without extending the agency s funding. today the president is urging them to get back to work and solve this expensive and very embarrassing problem. let s begin our coverage this hour with cnn s ted rowlands joining us live from chicago s o hare airport. this is an outrage, ted, what is it like out there? well, wolf, people around the country are absolutely disgusted