Your thoughts on not only what could happen if the government shuts down but your thoughts on if it should or not reviewed here is how you can reach out to us or not. Here is how you can reach out to us. cspanwj on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. And you can send us email, journal cspan. Org. Newspapers highlight will happen over the next couple of days. From the front page of the post joining us to give us a sense of what could happen, the leadership editor of roll call. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lets start with the house. S speakere boehner has regarding the short term funding bill. Guest republicans are scheduled to meet at noon today. I think that is going to be a pretty important meeting. They have to decide as a behind ae, do they get specific alternative to send back to the senate . They have some choices here. They could just take up the senate bill, put it on the house floor, and it would probably pass with mostly democratic support. A lot of republicans would not vote for it because it doesnt the fund doesnt defund obamacare. Or they could polut on a rifle shot, something smaller like a delay. There are things that they could considerably do conceivably do. Harry reid has said they are not going to accept anything that is related to obamacare. Of,e is also the question even if they do agree on something and can get it through the house, whether they can get it through the senate. Once it gets over there the way the senate works, anyone senator ken delay it till four days anyone sentence her any one senator can delay a bill for days. Entirely clear that a bill would be fund by the president and can get through the senate. Host some of the papers saying ted cruz and mike lee have been meeting openly with House Republicans. 202 737000 guest absolutely. There were House Republicans on the floor cheering on ted cruz and the company. It does not take that many votes on the outside to really handcuff the speaker. If he wants to pass something that has a republican wish list item on its he is not going to get any democratic votes. He is going to need republican votes. If 18 or 30 republicans are sort ,f in this defund or bust mode that limits speaker boehners options. Conceivably he could go into that meeting at noon today and say, we have three choices. We can all agree to do something that we think can pass the , we can let the Government Shutdown and be blamed for it, or i can put the senate bill on the house floor and see where the votes are. We have to decide which would go. Host i suspect part of this thinking, he has to figure out which group he has to appeal to the most. Guest i think that is right. There are a lot of republicans in the house who are not happy with ted cruz, not happy with his strategy, who want to keep the government open, who want to at least have some kind of vote have their constituents their conservative constituents feel like they doing something about obamacare. I guess that is where a lot of republicans are. They want to see something done that shows there fighting obamacare. They also do not want to shut the government down. I know the speaker really does not want to shut the government down. He has been resisting this idea of having some kind of shut down of obamacare for over two years. It is not clear how strong he is as far as being able to put something on the floor that could potentially have its own conference have his own conference turn against him. This they connected decision to the future of the speakership as far as john boehner is concerned. Guest absolutely. This is the one thing that congress, despite all of the crazy we have seen in the past couple of years, the one thing they have been able to do and, sometimes making it past the deadline, they have prevented the government from shutting down. There are a number of servatives who certainly who have been agitating for a tougher stand. Close toer came pretty losing his speakership this year. They had a number of defections when voting for the House Speaker on the floor. You cannot lose that many more. A problem for the speaker, if he wants to stay. Peaker for much longer he is caught between two very difficult positions. Isther very important issue how do you deal with this bill and in a few days how do you deal with the debt ceiling bill . That is potentially a bigger issue for the economy. An even bigger issue for john boehner. If that bill goes through clean as the democrats are demanding, that would be a bigger problem. Or the speaker if you pass a clean debt ceiling bill, that is potentially a lot more problematic. Host Stephen Dennis covers leadership in washington and talks about the latest. Your thoughts on it possible shutdown, we stand two days now. On a possible shutdown, we stand two days now. Our first call is from michigan on the democrats line. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. When i tuned in this morning, it was a breath of fresh air. Rocky called the republicans out. All he did was ask them one question and he scurried back into the darkness. It is just sad that a few people think they can hold our government hostage like this. The American People are tired of it. We are tired of them messing with the economy. Up next republican line of from fort lauderdale, florida. Caller im beginning to think we ought to look into dividing this country up. Want to livee that off each other and live in one part of the country and all the people that want to pull their the people that want to be victims and think nothing is therefore their fault can live in one part of the country and people who take personal responsibility can live in a different part of the country. Thinking of people that if the government cannot do it it cannot be done is going to kill the spirit of this nation. Became great because of what obama wants to did say and it became great because of what he isnt doing. Host lets hear from thomas in san antonio, texas. Caller i do know that once you have rung up a bill you must pay that bill. That is common sense, basically. Is a faction of our government that basically is theg things because of president of the United States. We cannot function in a situation where we could affect a World Economy in a negative way because of this. There really is only one solution, that solution is 2014, put people in office that will , thatmise and negotiate will look forward into the future. The president of the United States said it is first state of the Union Address that it is time we represent our constituency instead of our own stuff interest our own self interest. Thank you for taking my call. Host off of facebook this morning there are the social media aspects. The president s short statement on issues not only concerning iran and syria but also talked about what is currently going on in congress when it comes to passing the short term spending bill, when it comes to the debt limit. Here is talking about the congressional dispute with congress and specifically talking about what our reporter referenced earlier, the future decision on if or not to raise the debt limit. [video clip] i will not negotiate over congresss responsibility to pay the bills that have already been left up. Voting for the treasury to pay americas bills is not a concession to me. Favor, not doing me a but is simply carrying out the solemn responsibilities that come with Holding Office up there. Can be more how i clear about this. Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the united extract political concessions. No one gets to hurt our economy and millions of innocent people just because there are a couple of lawsuit not like. Of laws you do not like. Im not going to start setting it president setting a precedent not just for me but for future president s where one chamber in commerce can basically say each time there needs to be a vote to make sure the treasury pays its bills, we are not going to sign it unless our particular hobbyhorse get in fast gets advanced. Host democrats line. Comment onanted to how i see this as corporations ruling. I see this as the Insurance Companies and those companies that are tied to them, with their corporate greed, they dont want things to change when they have to use more money for the people. Jobs are laying off people. All that is is greed. People allow it and they go around and say that were cutting our jobs and started at the president. We should be angry at the corporations. We should be putting laws in place to keep that kind of stuff from happening. They do not care about america. The care about the bottom line, which is what capitalism is all about. I am all for capitalism. It has been reined in up until the last couple of centuries not centuries, but decades. I think people are except the are upset about the wrong thing. They should be getting corporations in check. From louisiana on our republican line this morning. Good morning, go ahead. Rumors onre a lot of the internet as far as what is true and what is not true. I do know for a fact that there are some groups that are exempt from the individual mandate. Ive heard there are other ive heardont know, it is a violation of the faith faith to have individual mandate because it is considered whether that is true is neither here or there. If any group is exempted from the individual mandate, why cant i sue the federal its not forr to have one group under equal protection of the law. You cannot have some groups subject to a law and some that arent. I dont know how the federal government can get away with picking and choosing who gets the mandate. What president obama says he is cutting the deficit more than it has ever been cut in the past 30 years, people need to realize that the deficit was running at 300 billion when george bush was office was in office. Obama runs at up to 1 trillion and cuts it down to five hundred billion dollars. He is still spending more money than george bush. He has spent more money in five and a half years than george bush did in eight. He calls george bush responsible. The New York Times oped from Brooklyn New York on our independent line. Just calling to say that i dont think that the government should be taking hostage like this. Cannot let them do terrorism. They did they deliberately did not negotiate with the democrats all year long so that when these point came up, the debt ceiling and continuing resolution to keep the government funded, they now have rough now have leverage points. Even if president obama wanted to, he cannot given to them. When the next president comes in, whoever is in charge, this is what they are going to do. This will be the new norm. You cannot govern like that. As far as the last cover the last caller from louisiana, this is what happens when you let influence those people with their rhetoric. That is aobamacare, solution, a republican solution. That is what it is all about. Everybody poll their full weight. Host mark is up next on the line for democrats. Sayishou they just come together and keep the government running. They can always debate these issues after. This is a big law, this health care law. Take a lot there are a lot of thugs in. They need to work it out, anyway. It is not going to be ready to go right away anyway. Instead of closing the just come together here and work this out and then to and then have your debates after that. The thing on my mind, i have to ask myself and i am sure every other american has to ask himself the same question, should every american be entitled to have health healthyucca insurance . The answer is yes. Everyone of us should have it available to us. That is all i want to say today. Host some of the computer issues connected with the wool out of the healthcare law with the roll out of the health care law, some of the issues saying here is carl from pennsylvania on the republican line. Caller good to see you on saturday again. I was just wondering whether or not the white house and harry aboutre just feeling bad the rest of the world being jealous over us being exceptional. The white house will spend us into oblivion and make the world happy again. I dont know if that makes sense but that is the way i feel host it. Host how did you come to that conclusion . The way i feel it. Host how did you come to that conclusion . Caller watching c span every morning and watching other shows. Hear next from kurt in wilmots, ohio on the independent line. Caller first of all, i would like to say that i really appreciate cspans coverage, being able to watch some history being made over the past week or two, we appreciate it. I am calling is the attention for a Government Shutdown. Some of the services that they are offering that the government provides for the citizenry, i am wondering if they are going to be able to continue it if shutdown. For instance, with the fbi be able to continue to smuggle half 1 trillion worth of dope it to the country . What the white house be able to fund back and train al qaeda . Would the epa be able to continue shutting down plants outside of law . Would eric holder be continue to be able to continue smuggling weapons be able to continue smuggling weapons to the cartel in mexico . Will hear next from shirley in detroit, michigan. Im hoping they dont shut down because there are too many people in america that either work for the government or are either the disabled. I dont know how Many Americans are fed up with this particular type of congress we have. They are a total embarrassment to this nation. Ted cruz down there in texas got up there and talked for 21 hours about why he wanted us to defund obamacare. Look at how Many Americans in this country needed to have health care insurance. The bill dont realize that you can go to the hospital for a day and you may have a 10,000 or more ill and if you dont have insurance or more bill. If you dont have insurance, you are going to get something in the mail saying you have time to pay it back. I have never, in my life, have seen this type of congress that allows these people to get in at 2010 that is when the mainstream got in there, in 2010. It is not about you, me, any of your relatives among no one from the east coast or west coast. It is time for every american to stand up and get serious about these men and women that are elected and being sent to this congress in d. C. Because we need people who are intelligent. Host we are going to continue on on our calls. You heard from the president previously. We now hear from the House Republican conference chair delivering the weekly address and the republican response. She discusses the republican plan among which includes increasing the debt limits while addressing issues of spending. [video clip] the best way to preserve the full faith and credit of the United States is by strengthening it. Coupling an increase in the debt limit with efforts to rein in spending is common sense, so much so that it has been used by president s from both parties. 1985. Ent reagan did in five years later, president bush reached a budget deal with a Democratic Congress that included a debt limit increase. President clinton reached a similar agreement with a democratic majority in 1993. Finally, president obama himself worked with republicans on a large deficit reduction deal tied to the debt limit in the summer of 2011. It has its flaws, including the ofuester the president biased and insisted on. It has cut spending. The president has devised and insisted on. It has cut spending. He wants to take the easy way out. Exactly the kind of foolishness that got us here in the first place. As we know, it is hard working people like you who will ultimately pay the price for business as usual through higher taxes, higher prices, and fewer jobs. To reiterate, every major episode reduction effort of the last dirty years has been tied to the debt limit. This time should be no different. Host lets hear from read in union, washington. I first want to say my biggest frustration and listening to cspan is all of me people. Give try to keep what you made from it radical government to redistribute it. Rand came from communist russia. She says greed is when someone else want something what you have. The democrats wanted to flip this nation to 5149. Will vote for a paycheck from the treasury, we will move towards socialism. This is about the left trying to change the face of this nation, the president is to radical, the leftist radical. I want to remind america that the Republican Party was founded as a split from the whigs. Hat party was status quo our nature has been a center right nation. The president is the one obstructing everything. The people voted the house. Time, cspan. The but i am really tired of this gimme gimme people. The hell with the debt our children have. Host here is claudia on the government on the independent line. You have people with their homes, they lost their homes. [inaudible] thats how dysfunctional the white houses. Obama says he wants to work with them. Why arent they working with them . Host a couple of international concerning iran and syria. It was iran in which president obama made a phone call to the president of iran, talking about their nuclear program. The white house sending out a tweet of a photo of him on the phone, this is him speaking with the iranian president. The conversation took place yesterday. The papers wrote about it today, including the financial times. This is the lead story we will talk about what happened concerning syria in just a bit. Jackson, mississippi, democrats line. I am concerned about the alito summit in washington dc. The elitism in washington dc. I would make sure that they have responsibility again. [indiscernible] greg from kentucky, republican line. Caller i heard different people have their different opinions and my situation is basically i work at the national guard. This particular shutdown, i dont go to work on tuesday. I have a family to take care of. I understand people have certain opinions as far as how the budget should be. Her years keep raising the budget and spending more. They need to come up with an agreement. I dont agree with certain portions of the health care but the budget is everything. If this was a business, the business would be shut down. Host paul from texas on the independent line. Pauline from texas on the independent line. Caller everybody wants to rant and rave about the republicans. We have a president who should be a leader, which he is not. He goes out on the campaign trail and get the American People worked up, cutting down those republicans that dont want to do anything. He is the one who is saying h