breathtaking in an incumbent president. >> if you had to fill in the but for -- but for the president, you think this wouldn't have happened? >> this is great irony. if the president negotiated, boehner would be under more pressure, because boehner would be trying to figure out a deal. it's easier for boehner to say, look, the president won't call me. i'm doing the best i can. it doesn't hurt boehner in his conference to have harry reid attack him and barack obama attack him. it strengthens boehner. >> newt gingrich, thank you for the perspective has always. just in to cnn, the 2013 nobel prize for physics awarded just moments ago to two scientists to are their work confirming the existence of higgs boson, the so-called god particles. they predicted the existence of the fundamental particle that explains the existence of mass. the government shutdown has not stopped social security checks but hitting the debt limit