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Criticism of blankfein is that he has surrounded himself with like-minded trader types and he could benefit greatly -- a mild understatement -- from having at the top of the firm a more diverse group of senior partners with different perspectives, but isnt this the classic failure, that a leader surrounds himself that confirms the very air he breathes and never challenges him, never calls him to account, and never corrects some of the mistakes hes made. >> its absolutely true. its part of the ar...

Hill for the reaction from congress. and dana if i may pull back for a moment, and we went through a massive, massive battle over making sure that the government is funded through september which finally reaching the 11th hour compromise, and now we are talking about reducing the nations deficit in a decade or 12 years and bigger fight, and how is that going to work? >> well, bigger is a great understatement, brooke. look, no question about it that this is going to be a gargantuan fight, and we ...

Though airlines will then get even more time to implement the pilot rest rules. >> im in washington. so to say that you dont get frustrated a little bit trying to get things changed would probably be an understatement. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the regulator told cnn the faa has taken action to strengthen pilot hiring, training and performance over the last two years. >> the landing gears down. >> reporter: indeed, faa told airlines to ask pilot applicants for their full flight records to ...

More time to implement the pilot rest rules. >> im in washington, so to say that you dont get frustrated a little bit trying to get things changed would probably be an understatement. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the regulator told cnn that the faa has taken action to strengthen pilot hiring, training and performance over the past two years. >> the landing is down -- >> reporter: and indeed the faa toldicants to reveal their full record to uncover any pilot failures. and there is cooperation ...

And house republicans are. there was a meeting yesterday. there was a meeting the day before. this is going to be number three. the other thing were watching right now is the house floor, where house republicans are pushing a bill to fund the government for one more week. but theyre doing it in such a way that house democrats are not planning to sign on to it. meantime, after the meeting last night at the white house where we heard positive signs coming from both senate majority leader harry rei...

They also have to agree on what to cut. >> the numbers are basically there. but im not nearly as optimistic, and thats an understatement, as i was hours ago. the numbers are extremely close. our differences are no longer over how much savings we get on government spending. the only thing, the only thing holding up agreement is ideology. >> the republicans -- well bring that to you shortly. house speaker john boehner will speak to reporters in about 30 minutes. well have live coverage of its comm...

But here, you can see the video. this is the -- from on top of a building there in tokyo and you can see the video. we will continue to watch this and we will bring you more as soon as we have it, more details from our charles hadlock who is in tokyo for us. we want to go to d.c. he though, sometime running out for leaders on both sides aisle to make the deal that keeps our government open and avoids major backlash from people. the president will sit down with speaker boehner and senator reid ...

The president, vice president, speaker boehner, and myself were present to work through these issues. we then went into a meeting with our staffs to try to work through these issues. the numbers, mr. president, are basically there. thats where we are. my staff, present staff, speaker staff, worked through the night to try to come up with an appropriate way to end this impasse. and i repeat, mr. president, the numbers are basically there. but i am not as nearly as optimistic -- and thats an under...

Monday, a security guard shot and killed an armed robbery suspect. one expert compared the value of apples products to jewelry at a store like tiffanys. well, lawmakers are quickly run out of time to avert a government shutdown, just moments ago, senate majority leader harry reid did not sound hopeful. >> i am not as nearly as optimistic, and thats an understatement, as i was 11 hours ago. the numbers are extremely close. our differences are no longer over how much savings we get on government...

I think that secretary gates is probably ready to move on. he in some ways was a reluctant -- >> moved on. >> i have the gift of understatement this morning. >> yes, you do. >> but i was a spokesperson for secretary gates when he went through his confirmation and i know he didnt necessarily want to leave texas a&m and come to washington and do this whole thing again but he did so and he served very ably and honorably and he tells the truth. this is a guy that does not mince words at all and so s...