Of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill our lead story tonight, it was a long day of waitandsee, as the federal government headed toward potential shutdown. It remained unclear whether congress would pull back from the brink. Democrats still insisted on a straightforward bill to fund the government. Republicans kept demanding that any bill also target the president S Health Care law. The house will be in order. In fact, disorder mostly prevailed as the hours ticked down. Speaker john boehner defended the house which was in session this weekend and blasted Senate Democrats. The house has done its work. We passed a bill on saturday night sent it to the United States senate that would delay obamacare for one year and would delay permanently the million device tax that are costing us tens of thousands of joshes that are being shipped overseas. Senate decided not to work yesterday. Ooh my goodness if there is such an emergency where are they . Ifill the senate returned this afternoon. The chambers democratic majority leader harry reid says its time to stop playing political games. So our negotiation is over with and ive said that to two weeks. They should pass us here. They are closing down the government. I dont know what in the world is wrong with them. Either fictionated on obamacare, it is the law fixated on obamacare. We are not going to wait until they pass rcr or otherwise the government is going to shut down. Ifill without even a partial compromise, the government will close down at midnight. Among its most recent effect airnd,000 federal employees would be forced to stay home without pay. National parks across the country and popular tourist sites would be shuttered and first time home buyers could face delays in the government backed mortgages. Services would include uninterrupted, including military Law Enforcement and intelligence activities and Border Patrol and air Traffic Control operations. In addition, Social Security beneficiaries would still receive checks. With the ball back in the houses Court Leaders of both parties huddled with their members this afternoon then Top Republicans emerged with a new proposal to individual mandate to buy Health Insurance for one year and eliminating exemptions. Special treatment and carveouts and exceptions under obamacare for big interest, special business, and yes it has provided a carve out for members of congress. Our position is very clear no special treatment for anyone. We all live under the laws equally applied. Ifill Senate Democrats are expected to reject that bill as well. Good afternoon, everybody. President obama weighed in saying he is not at all resigned to a government shut down. It does not have to happen. All of this is entirely preventible if the house chooses to do what the senate has already done . And thats the simple act of funding our government without making extraneous and controversial demands in the process. Ifill but with pressure mound mounting as the hours slipped away spieker boehner said that house will not yield, asked they would have a clean funding bill one with no additions he said thats not going to ifill well have more on the shutdown showdown, after the news summary. The brinksmanship in washington did little to reassure wall street today. Stocks fell amid fears the government might shut down, and that Congress Might also fail to raise the debt limit next month, triggering a national default. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 128 points to close at 15,129. The nasdaq fell 10 points to close at 3771. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu warned president obama today to keep sanctions in place against iran, despite a potential diplomatic warming. The two men met at the white house. The Prime Minister said it will take more than words to resolve his concerns over Irans Nuclear ambitions. More on this, later in the program. The Justice Department has filed suit against the state of North Carolina over alleged Racial Discrimination in voting rules. A new state law scales back the period for early voting, and imposes strict voter identification requirements. In washington today, attorney general eric holder said its clear the laws main target would be black voters. We stood here today to announce this lawsuit more in sorrow than in anger. It pains me to see the Voting Rights of my fellow citizens negatively, rationale that is tenuous at best and on concerns that we all know in fact are not ifill North Carolina, texas, and other states have moved to tighten voting laws since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights act this year. Bank of america will pay 32 million to settle charges it made thousands of Debt Collection robocalls to cell phones. Under a 1991 law, the calls are illegal without the customers consent. The bank denied the allegations, but said it settled to avoid paying more legal fees. It faced multiple class action lawsuits involving nearly eight million customers. In iraq, the latest spate of bombings left more than 50 people dead. Nearly a dozen car bombs went off around mostly shiite neighborhoods in baghdad over the weekend. The explosions left streets and markets littered with rubble. Iraqs interior ministry blamed insurgents linked to al qaeda. The Prime Minister of greece vowed today to do whatever it takes to eradicate the extreme right golden dawn party. Half a dozen of its neonazi leaders were taken into custody over the weekend. Paul mason of independent Television News has this report. The leadership of the greek far right including sixmp arrested and indicted for organized crime. Christop papov is the strategies of golden dawn. Changed the political situation here overnight. Police say they found weapons in his villa and some photos of adolph hitler. And here is the prosecution report. Seven pages, 32 charges and one chilling word. The fuehrer princep, the which golden dawn followed to the letter. 7 in the last greek election. Violence against migrants but free food for greeks. Meanwhile the police seemed unwilling to react. But when this man pavlos fisas, an antifascist wrapper, was murdered, police came to organized criminal gang. The Greek Parliament today moved to cut off golden dawns state subsidy. And its been a lesson learned. Violence in greece is over. We dont care who makes the action, but the law will rule, and whoever is violent, he will face the law. Tonight three Police Officers have been assigned as Close Protection to golden dawn mps was suspended for illegally possessing ifill the rise of golden dawn has tracked greeces descent into financial crisis in recent years. The New York Times reported today that a leaked al qaeda terror plot may have damaged counterterror efforts more than disclosures by n. S. A. Leaker edward snowden. The report found theres been a marked drop in Al Qaeda Leaders use of major Communication Channels since the plot became public in august. Word of the plot led to temporary closures at 19 u. S. Embassies and consulates. The 20th centurys two most influential popes, john paul ii and john xxiii, will be canonized as saints next april 27. The vatican set the date today, and officials said retired pontiff benedict xvi may join pope francis in the ceremony. Still ahead on the newshour, two takes on the possible shutdown, from the white house and a house republican. The push to get latinos to sign up for the new Health Insurance exchanges; israels Prime Minister visits president obama; plus, violence against christians in pakistan; and tracking religious persecution around the world. Woodruff we return now to our lead story with two takes on the showdown here in washington over funding the federal government. First, the Obama Administrations view. Dan pfeiffer is a Senior Adviser to the president. He joins me now from the white house. Welcome again to the newshour dan pfeiffer. Let me just cite to you what Republican Leaders in the housing are saying this afternoon. Theyve modified their position somewhat. Theyre no longer insisting on a full delay or defunding of the Health Care Law. Theyre now saying only if the president will only agree to delay the individual mandate, because they say after all, hes already delayed the business mandate. Would the president consider that . My apology, we are not able to hear dan pfeiffer, can you hear me now . Can you hear me now judy . There we go. I had a long winded question about whether the president would consider what the house Republican Leadership is now saying which is delay the individual mandate for ayear. No, the president will not consider that. The house is continuing to pass legislation they know will never become law. They know it will never pass the United States senate. It will never be signed by the president. They are trying to use the threat of shutting down the government to extract things that they dont want to become law. Pass the majority house and senate stop letting the stay Party Conservatives controlling the house and senate. It should be very easy. Woodruff they say it should be a matter of fairness, equal treatment and they say they want to take away the subsidy that the law now provides for members of congress and their staff and for white house staff members. And they say again, its just a matter of fairness. Would the president consider that . Absolutely not. I think its important to understand exactly what theyre proposing. This socalled amendment has nothing to do with obamacare. They are reerveg to subsidies that members of congress and their staff and all members have been getting for years, long before obamacare was even something that was considered it makes no sense. Im very confused with why they want do that. All of this is just getting if the way of what they should do which is keep the government open. Lets not hurt the economy, lets not hurt the middle class families, lets do something very simple here, has majority support in the house and the senate, but they have veto power over everything that comes in the house. Dan pfeiffer is there any flexibility in the president s position . No. We have to break this cycle where the House Republicans use the threat of shut down or default to try to extract some sort of ransom list of policy concessions that are unable to win through normal order through passing it in both houses or through election. That has to happen now. Woodruff do both sides have to give somewhat to get to Common Ground . Are you not creating bigger problems down the road by insisting that all the accommodating has to come on the other side . Were not asking for anything. All were asking is keep the government running for six weeks at the levels that congress has already passed. Theyre trying to use this as a leverage point for Something Else. Were not saying, pass Immigration Reform or we wouldnt sign a continuing resolution, all were saying is do what you have already done. Dont shut down the government. There is a tremendous irony because tomorrow the Health Care Exchanges are going oopen. House members may shut down the government in attempt to to be obamacare but the Health Care Exchanges will open anyway. They are causing damage to the economy for no reason. Its illoyal and unnecessary and they should put an end to it. Woodruff republicans and even some democrats are saying the white house should give ground on tax on medical devices. Because what the Companies Say make these devices is that its just causing them to have to move jobs overseas, eliminate jobs. Theyre saying theres a business reason, an economic reason to change that part of the Health Care Law. Well i think i think a couple of things. First if they want to have a conversation about anything letle take the fault and shut down off the table first. I think thats the most important thing here is you cannot use the threat of hurting the economy as a way to try to extract concessions so thats not going to happen. We are willing to talk to republicans about anything. As you remember the president took them all ought to dinner to talk about a big budgets deal. We are still waiting for a counteroffer many months later. Finally there is an irony here which is after spending so much time running their campaigns they want to reduce the deficit, their big play is to repeal the tax on the medical devices which would raise the deficit by about 100 million i bleach. Woodruff dan pfeiffer thank you. Ifill now, for a viewpoint from capitol hill. We are joined by republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of tennessee. Do you see any way of getting past the government shut down knit . We certainly hope that harry reid and the president both are going to work with us on this judy. You know we have been at this for quite a while. We know that the American People want the government to stay open. We know that they do not like obamacare and that they want to see some changes made. And weve offered different ways to go about this. We have offered all sorts of bills that would deal with repositioning and reworking different sections of the bill with simply inviting once again harry reid and the president to work with us on this so we keep the government open and we address the concerns that the American People have about obamacare, and the impact that its having on jobs. Dan just mentioned, you know, jobs and the economy. And you can talk to any number of businesses. I have a list of about 311 right now. And can you see where its having an impact. You can look at the number of waivers that with have been given have been given, 1200 and the first being the president and his staff and senate and house leadership waiving them out of the law when they were finishing writing the law after it had been passed. All of this is not fair. It is time to address this as fairness. It is time for them to work with us to keep the government open. And to make certain that we do the right thing for the American People, thats what were committed to. Woodruff Marsha Blackburn, im sure youre aware the government has used hostage taking and blackmail and terms like that, using next month perhaps the debt ceiling debate to kill the Health Care Bill . Judy, i have to tell you, i find such language to be very sad and very inappropriate for the issues and the severity of the issues that are facing our country. I am every single day talking with and working with people in my district who are seeing their Health Care Insurance cost go up. Five times. 105 . 300 . That are getting pay cuts that are losing 40hour work weeks. That having to work two and three jobs. This is the very real impact of this law. And what we are seeking to do is to soften that blow to the American People, keep the federal government open. Soften the blow to the American People. Help work through these issues. So that Health Reform is done in a way that it preserves access to Affordable Health care for all america and people are not disenfrashed. Woodruff is this intraparty fight, is it the fight with the democrats in the white house,. It is very clearly a fight with the democrats and the white house. We are sending back over to them another proposal that says please, join us, work with us. The individual mandate which needs to be addressed is a fairness issue. The president has given 19 delays. Many of those to people that are friendly to him in the administration. Lets do this for the American People. The second thing is addressing the subsidy issue. And to correct mr. Pfeiffer, just so he is aware, the way the sever albert clauses are written in the law sever ability clauses are written, an employer cannot do that, so what we are doing is taking that action that well go ahead and remove that opm did not have the authority to make that provision, and to send that memo. So we are address