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Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is sunday, september 24th. Thanks for spending part of your morning with us. Heres what we are watching for you. Its time for them to do job america elected them to do. Lawmakers up against a clock and working on a deal to fund the government ahead of a looming shutdown. The real world impacts a shutdown would have on everything from air travel to members of the military. Ophelia has moved inland after bringing heavy rain and flooding to parts of the...

Boss-tweet-like sessions with his gang of four, the people that he is most concerned with. mueller is going to want to know every witness who he can bring in that will show the pathway right up to where obstruction was done. and if spicer has no information about that, he will have all of the information about what went on in that hallway right up until the minute he was shut out. and thats where mueller will have every -- you know, three or four people that were in the room that could have had ...

Both parties meet with the president today at the white house. they all say look, here we are on the precipice here. lets come up with something so we stop these tax hikes from happening on january 1st. lets come together and come up with kind of a stopgap deal. in other words, something short term. this is something congress will typically do when both sides are at an impasse. they find a way to get by for a little while longer. buy themselves more time. if they come up with a deal like that, t...

Leadership, without a doubt, i think, took a huge hit with that one, but that still represents one-tenth of the problem. wheres the presidents leadership on spending? >> that represents the entire problem. >> really? not according to the bipartisan debt commission. revenues represent the entire problem. >> this is the speaker of the house that cant do his job, thats what that represents, and he cant lead the rest of the republicans in actually -- >> john boehner has put forward two proposals. th...

Aggressive on entitlement reform? and im talking specifically about medicare here. >> you know, he does face some similar challenges. theyre not exactly the same. theres not an absolute line drawn by most democrats, but i think most democrats would be willing to talk about some sort of means testing. but thats a difficult conversation to have in a couple of weeks, i think, for the democratic base. he could get out ahead. he does have a lot of running room right now. i guess i kind of join congre...

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