We will wait and watch and see what happens when the house comes in at 9 a. M. Eastern time. The senate is also in session. You can watch that on cspan2. We want to get your thoughts as we continue into day 11 of the Government Shutdown. The lines send us a tweet or post your comment on facebook. Com cspan. You can also email us, journal cspan. Org. Joining us is steven dennis. We should not call them negotiations, should we . Guest it depends on the meaning of the word negotiations and what they are negotiating about. The president has made it clear many times that he will not negotiate over some kind of ransom. He has been open to talking about setting up a budget process, some kind of framework, for getting a bigger budget deal done. That seems to be where they are going. Opening he provided a few days ago at his press conference, and it is one they thereontinued to put out as a way to give republicans some assurance that the negotiations would be real and substantive and cover the issues they want to cover. The real question is not just the short term debt deal, which is starting to look more and more like something that is cake, and whether they can reopen the government on tuesday after the holiday on monday. That is something that, if you are taking the temperature on capitol hill, there is enormous political pressure on republicans to find a way to reopen the government. Two major polls in the last two days hummel one from gallup, one from nbc in the wall street journal showing republicans of the worst poll rating they have had, the worst poll rating that any Political Party has had in those two polls going back for decades. That is not what you want to see. Host this is from the last time the government was shut down 31 blame the president this go round, 53 blame the republicans in congress. The positive rating for republicans is at 24 . That is not even a majority of the minority. The is it is a minority of a minority. You have to do better than the democrats to keep the house. At least be in shooting distance. What you are seeing on capitol hill as this is playing out with a lot of republicans looking for , weexits on the shutdown have talked to a number of Senate Republicans in recent days who are desperately trying to find a way to reopen the government. They are not in love with what they saw from House Republicans yesterday, which was a plan to keep the government closed while they extended the debt ceiling. That is a not enough for a lot of the Senate Republicans. If they did not hash something out, i have spoken to some staffers morning and they sort of are still ash we will let you know when they are they are still in the we will let you know when there are so the to know stage. Senate republicans are going to be meeting with republicans today. There is a possibility that democrats who try to reach a deal with Senate Republicans who are eager to end the shutdown this weekend and then try to send Something Back to the house , something that is hard to resist. That there is a lot of pressure on the republicans to find a way to save some face, move on, and maybe salvage something from this. One of the things you saw a couple of days ago in the wall street journal was paul ryans letter to the editor, talking about everything but the reason why we have a shutdown, which is obamacare. That is something that leadership wanted to be discussing all along. A lot of them see obamacare is a box canyon. Let me show our viewers this blog, it is a blog you contributed to jack hutton on twitter wants to know this is that true . Guest its not really true. The way the speaker made the proposal yesterday, he made it d conditional that is something democrats were not happy with yesterday. I asked harry reid when he came out of the white house is today after meeting with the president , is there any chance you would negotiate on reopening the government . He said, not going to happen. Clearly they are talking. There is some negotiating going on, according to the republicans. Here. Is a path it seems to me if you have some kind of budget sidecar where the president can say i didnt pay a ransom, the healthcare law remains intact, but i wanted to give republican some assurances that i am going to negotiate over the healthcare law with them, im note im going to igotiate with tax reform, think there is a way to give everybody something to point to and say we are going to make a goodfaith effort over the next month. Possible,ink it is given the politics of the situation, for there to be real negotiations while the government is shut down. Democrats are going to look at these polls and say, hey, we are on the side of the angels. We are more popular than the other guys position. They are going to have to break, whether it is monday, tuesday, or wednesday. The other thing is you are seeing people on capitol hill, they have stocks just like everybody else. People are donors. They are calling and saying, hey, lets end this shutdown. There is a minority amount of pressure to find some way out of this situation. What have you heard from senator ted cruz, from Tea Party Groups about this latest offer . Guest i think this is the idea that you would extend the debt ceiling for six weeks but keep the Government Shutdown is something that ted cruz and Heritage Action and some of the ,onservative bloggers have said we will keep fighting obamacare over the budget and wont have this risk of default. It has been something they can countenance. The whole up with enchilada where the government is reopened for at least five or six weeks and the debt ceiling is extended for at least five or six weeks. November 22 is the date we are hearing. Obamacare is not really part of the discussions. Thing thee of the appropriations chairman toles when he came back from the meeting in the white house. Obamacare wasnt a big part of the discussions. Understanding that the president is not going to keep on that issue. Have understood that for months. That is why they try to get their members to not have the ation they kind of got railroaded into demanding. Gy of will wait and watch and see. Thank you for your time. In at 9 a. M. Eastern time on cspan. The senate is in as well over on cspan2. Go to our website to find out our coverage of all of the events happening here in washington today. On twitter what is your take on this . Paul is a republican in tennessee. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Shot ake to give a shout out to the fisher group for stepping in and doing what obama couldnt or wouldnt do. I believe this man is trying to rip us apart from the very seems that were put together he would not spy on americans like ocean it, right yet though she wouldnt bring like what did it right . Like bush did, right . Now the Muslim Brotherhood of egypt, we send 500 million to them and everything is ok. Republicans we know what the democrats are up to. They have two games, blame and race. They are already blaming us. Before long it will be throwing that race card at us. That is why the republicans are not catching the fire. Become the cans out here know the democrats are up to. Republicans out here know the democrats are up to. If it had been me, i would not the splintd obama off the end of my fingertips. He has absolutely turned his back on us. He said he would not negotiate on a failed policy that is going to force americans to buy Health Insurance. Fi do we have soldiers ghting for freedom when this man is not going to fight for story the stock market reacting yesterday to republicans on how site meeting with the president , coming out of that meeting and talking in positive tones. , stocks wereacted sent soaring. Mike from georgia, democratic caller, hello. I am unsure because i am not a republican. [indiscernible] you are one of the most partisan moderators on the show. I might speak with an accent that i serve my country as well. Republicans, the first thing they want to say is wrapped themselves in the flag and act like they are a patriot. I serve my country, as well. I am proud of that. They are not the only ones whose opinion should rule the land. Theyre not the only americans. When you bend over backwards so much, because that is this president has done everything in his part to please the right to the absolute annoyance to those of us on the left. Finally maybe he has some backbone to stand up to this white to these rightwing extremists. If they dont get everything their way they are going to bring the foreign down paper this president has done everything to please them. They cost this shutdown. Host is the president standing up now . Lets move on. Michael from new york, independent caller. Caller you are a great host. Cspan is truly a national asset. And i senior professor have 250 students in my graduate class. I want to give you a quick observation of the discussion of the two hours yesterday. The Social Security pays, on average, 30 per day. At food stamps it is six dollars. You cannot even buy cheerios at that price. Obama a seven president oks a 250,000, for each soldier for one year in afghanistan, the war is lost and they want us out of there. Give does not even want to an increase to people on Social Security. My mother is on Social Security, she makes 872 per month. Is 829. She has no money to live on. Obama signs a budget, the 16 billion. We have enough armaments to destroy the entire world. Detroits 16to million bankruptcy, he gives them 200 million. We are 27th in taxes. Germany is number one. They pay their people on retirement Something Like 3000 a month. We rank 49th in health care. France all ofand eight years longer. They have government systems. The private system has brought us to a point where our Life Expectancy is 49th. Are the editorial boards weighing in on this latest from republicans to extend the debt ceiling for six weeks. The wall street journal says the New York Times also waiting in also waiting in eighing in usa today the opposing view written by a republican from florida lets go to john next, a republican caller. Caller i am ashamed of the leadership. I think boehner caves in every time. That doeslegislation not have a chance of passing because yes to deal with harry reid. Harry reid is due the president s wishes. He has got to get blame for anything that the democrats done democrats have done that people do not like. The president is behind all of this. He is the commander in chief. To bed he have to wait shown the derelict in his duties . He couldnt care less about the military. You saw that with benghazi. He did not lift a finger to save those guys that were fighting for their lives and a loud over 30 people to leave libya. The president is a villain. I would not give him a dam thing. Give him money when he has added 7 trillion to the National Debt in less than five years . That is like giving a kid a credit card with an unlimited amount. That is who he is. Host you and the previous republican caller, both angry with president obama over this. Latest upset with this from your own party, from House Speaker john boehner . Caller i dont care what he is doing. He is doing it he is not doing the right thing. I was there in the Senate Chambers and they treated me like a bum because i am 70 three years old and have white hair and i was wearing a Navy Baseball cap. They told me i could not sit in the front row. There were only a dozen people in the gallery at 5 00 in the morning when this filibuster started. Take notes, out to you could not take notes, they took your cell phone away. This is not america. This is more like the ussr. And speaking of the ussr, they have edward snowden, why isnt this country is so screwed up that we have to have a whistleblower stay in russia to be protected from this despondent president . He is a hateful guy. Everything he has done is out of spite. Host we understand where youre coming from. The caller mentioned House Speaker john boehner. Here is the hyatt a ohio dispatch. A tweet the two newspapers this morning featuring congressman paul ryan some are saying it was paul ryan a in negotiations with the president who reached out and said lets move forward, lets try to come to some sort of deal. E some sort of deal. Asked thewill be values at the values voter summit. A gathering of social ond serve is of consult of social conservatives. We are covering the values summit when other ebbers of congress are slated to talk. Live coverageite, on cspan three starting at 9 a. M. Eastern time. That is the roster for todays voter summit that is happening. Continues over the weekend. Tom from washington dc, democratic caller. Caller thank you for taking my call. Civics anymore, this is why Many Americans do not know what is going on. Is following congress through this whole thing knows that this should not be taking place. There should be a budget in place that would prevent a continuing resolution. We should not shut down government because of one group that decides it wants to take control on a government it does not have control on. I would like to bring up the point about cspans coverage last week. Unfortunately, its almost impossible to listen to the washington journal anymore because there is a group of evil that has taken control of the phone lines last week. They were calling and as democrats, as independents, and they were voicing the opinion of a radical rightwing conservative group. When one of the most important Democratic Institutions of america is able to be taking control of like it was last week , it really is a shame. I hope we can figure out a way that we can fill to the phone call so that people who actually are in these parties, who are anependent, can voice opinion on cspan and give honest and truthful ideas of what they consider to be a problem in washington dc. Forum. T is a town hall we do not have any sort of delay in our system. We are on the honor system. Youre calling up and telling us what party you are on. If there are violators, if people calling more often than we would like them to, we want you to wait 30 days before you call up again. We are able to see that. It is the honor system. We hope that people play by the rules as well. We hope you will call in on the party line you belong to so we can get an idea of what people think outside of washington. That is the whole point of the washington journal. We are letting you know what people are reading in the newspapers this morning and we get your take on outside the capital. Catherine is an independent caller. Concerning our National Debt and the u. S. Yearly budget, it would seem to it would seem there are two choices, raise the debt ceiling or cut spending. I think there is a nether issue of issue at play. There are thousands of nonprofits, environmental, political, educational, religious groups, offshore companies, none of which contribute to taxes sustaining our economy. To change. Who pays taxes and who doesnt pay taxes . We need to broaden the base of taxpayers. Why should taxpayers get an irs deduction for charitable contribution . I would like to know how other industrialized countries handle these issues of taxation. In other news this morning, front page of the detroit free press, another headline, courtesy of the museum in the Virginia Senate race color hear from the Washington Times senate race, here in the Washington Times on the other side of the newspaper is this on the bp trial, happening in new orleans, front page of the Houston Chronicle this is the case happening in texas. There is another trial happening in that oil leak case in new orleans. This from the companies and the markets section of the Financial Times this morning. Of the Financial Times this morning we are getting your take this morning on the latest on the budget impact. House republicans met with the president at the white house yesterday. They have pushed the idea of a shortterm, sixweek debt ceiling extension. No idea on whether or not the government remains closed during that time. Senate republicans are heading over to the white house today to meet with the president. We will see what they have to say. Cantor here is eric after yesterdays meeting with the president. Clarks [video clip] we had a very useful meeting. It clarified to both sides where we are. Our teams arewas going to be talking further tonight. We will have more discussions. The president said he will go and consult with the administration folks and hopefully we can see a way forward after that. Kathryn from gainesville, texas, what are your thoughts . I watched president obama on cspan on october 8 when he made his speech. He said the messy process of american democracy i do not appreciate that statement. This aually every term ministration has dismissed the ideal of negotiating with the opposition this administration has dismissed the with thef negotiating opposition. Resolutionontinuing on the floor of the house. It is not just the debt. It also has the obamacare in obamacare in their. Me, fore is affecting sure. I am 76 years old. It is changing everything about my medicine. My Insurance Company said it is a stepping stone to a one payer system. That is what obama wants. He will not negotiate. He is ruining and has ruined the character and morality of that country. Host democratic caller. Caller good morning. Our republican leader has stated he will not do business with this man. Right now things are not getting done. People are saying im going to let my caro but payment go bad. We cannot let any of our payments go bad. Both things are compromise will. Around and blame him for that, it is absolutely absurd. They need to work with them as a person. Theyre still getting paid to debate in my question is how why should they get debate why should they get paid to debate . Host you are referring to treasury secretary jack lew. Before testifying to a Senate Committee about the debt ceiling and what happened, many republicans are sayi