what will likely happen in shut down is that barack obama will look presidential, will try to bring two sides together, tell them to stop squabbling, and members of congress will look back and have a harder time telling voters why they should be reelected. this is congressional versus mo before the possible government shut down. ezra, thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. still to come, the president's speech on libya did little to slow criticism from the right or left, and john mccain has finally snapped out of his reflexive position of everything anti-obama and become one of the president's strongest supporters on libya. nicholas kristof of "the new york times" joins me. and is donald trump pandering to the birthers, or does he actually believe the