At the same time, republicans in the house are holding their own meeting to discuss the way forward on the budget battle. This is all happening a day after the Senate Passed and then sent back to the house legislation that would continue to fund the government until november 15th. Senate democrats stripped a provision that would have defunded obama care. Meanwhile, the president is holding firm on the budget and the debt ceiling. I will work with anyone who wants to have a serious conversation about our economic future. But i will not negotiate over congresss responsibility to pay the bills it has already will racked up. I dont know how to be more clear about this. No one gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States of america just to extract ideological concessions. Lets go to capitol hill. Nbcs luke russert with a good saturday to you there in the rotunda. Where do things stand right now . Well, good morning. Sorry. Good afternoon. Its already been a long morning here. The House Republican conference is meeting right now, but what we can report to you coming to us from gop leadership aides is that the House Republican conference is going to plan to vote on a bill to fund the government however it will contain something in there pertaining to the president S Health Care law that democrats will not like. It could be cutting an existing tax on medical devices, could pertain to delaying the law for a year, could pertain to the benefits by members staff around capitol hill. We dont know what that will look like. The plan is to vote tonight, get it out of the house. All republican support and put it back in the laps of the senate. Now, to set up this whole debate going on here, take a look at this little spot we put together. Countdown to shutdown. A warning from president obama to congress. My message to congress is this do not shut down the government. Do not shut down the economy. Pass a budget on time. Pay our bills on time. Reporter this after the Senate Passed a bill along party lines that would fund the government through november 15th. The legislation now heads to the house where it faces opposition from republicans who oppose the bill because it doesnt defund obama care. This is like holding a gun on each other now, standing in a burning building, and deciding whos going to blink. Senate democrats say the position of House Republicans is extreme. The countrys not going to be extorted. Were not going to going with a gun to our heads. Today the house begins a rare weekend session to try and forge a compromise or the government shuts down on monday at midnight. For kerry galloway, a shutdown hits home. Her husband is a federal worker. If it went on for very long and the bullies couldnt decide to share the sand box, i think the effects of that would be quite dramatic on my family. Many americans are just tired of the partisanship. Each of them have their own agenda. For whatever reason, they cannot work together. I dont understand why. Reporter and you heard that gentleman there, alex, saying they cant work together. So far from what weve learned today of this plan for the house to pass something out of here that will be the republican bill and it goes back to the senate had, harry reid says he will not take any bill that touches the president S Health Care law. They just cant work together. All this as we tick towards monday night midnight when the government would run out of funds and we go into shutdown mode. This is a fluid situation but as of right now, looks like its going to get kicked back to the senate and well have a standoff. So luke, do they for sure try to pass a gop plan today or might they just spend all day discussing options as that clock ticks down . They original will i when we came in, we were unsure whether or not they were going to vote on a bill to fund the government. From where we stand right now lady of the meeting at noon, the Leadership Team believes they can put something on the floor that will pass that funds the government and does something to the president S Health Care law that would get the 218 republican votes necessary that would placate what i would call the cruz caucus within the House Republican conference. Really . Yeah, they believe they can do Something Like that that would fund the government for a year, however, because it touches the president S Health Care law, harry reid will do nothing with it. He will laugh at it and shrug it off. Then youll have the house gop saying we did our job. We were trying to fund the government. We passed our plan, the one that hurts the Health Care Law. Harry reid said im not going to goeshts on that. In order to fund the government cleanly without any change to the Health Care Law, the only way boehner can do that is with democratic votes. What day does he do that . What time does he do that . Thats the Million Dollar question. We dont know the answer. Thats why you have your track shoes on today. Thank you very much. You might wonder what would happen if the government shuts down. If theres no agreement by october 1st, nonessential workers roughly half the Government Workforce would be furloughed. And those who stay on the job including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers would not get paid. Instead, theyll be issued ious. Passport and visa applications would stahl. So would student loans. National parks and monuments around the country would close to tourists, including one of the nations most visited attractions, the statute of liberty in new york city. But in the 0 everything would come to a screeching halt. Social security checks continue, medicare payments, federal prisons will stay open. Mail delivery and members of congress will still be getting their paychecks. Joining me now, congressman adam schiff, a democrat from the california, member of the House Appropriations committee. Its great to see you. Just about everyone thinks the government will the had in fact shut down. What is your informed opinion. Well, as of 12 hours ago, i was saying i still thought it unlikely. I couldnt imagine they would go to the brink and beyond. But now im really not so sure. If the house takes up a bill that once again tries to defund part or delay part of the health care plan, then i think we will have a shutdown. It may be a short one, but i think this is so incredibly irresponsible. Here in the house, democrats are kind of in a wait and see mode. This is really a fight between gop and gop. In the senate, weve seen that democrats, republicans can get together to keep the government running with a clean continuing resolution. But here in the house, the House Republicans wont agree with that. And so every hour that ticks by, we get closer to a shutdown. I find it astonishing and really just horrendous when you consider that if we had avoided this kind of selfinflicted wound over the last year and a half, our economy would be humming right now, but we continue to throw up manmade roadblocks. Its just all of. You heard luke russert just before saying that among the things that could be considered were would be some faction the gop would say lets attach some amendments here that affects the Affordable Care act and would be able to claim we did our part. But in can the fa, arent they doing something if they do that we already know will no chance and you know what get passed by either harry reid or the senate or the president. He said ill veto it. How can they claim weve worked in good faith . Well, they cant. All they can claim is that they kept their conference together. The speaker got to hold on to his job. And they could try to point the finger at someone else. Once they pass yet another defund or delay obama care bill in the house, then it just goes into in their mode, the blame game. They try to deflect responsibility. But its very clear, we cant continue to engage in these petulant my way or the white may way or the Government Shutdown, my way or is the country defaults on its credit exercises every three to six months. And if the president relents here, then hes just going to buy himself more and more of this hostage taking on the economy. So its got to come to an end. I think it will come to an end now. And i hope that if the house gop pushes us over this cliff again, that the country rises up and lets the gop know in no Uncertain Terms if theyre not prepared to govern and theyre the Majority Party, theyre not going to be the Majority Party because i dont think anything less is going to instill in them the notion that they will have a responsibility to the country here. Are there any Republican House members, moderate or otherwise, who are coming up to you and wondering how they got to the this point where the tea party tail is wagging the gop dog, so to speak . Into there are a lot of mainstream members of the gop. Theyre probably a majority in the republican conference who dont want to see a shutdown who think it would be politically disastrous. They have this hastert rule they wont pass anything with democratic votes. Even if you had a majority of the republicans saying lets pass a clean resolution and it passed with democratic votes, but lost that tea party bloc, it would be a violation of the hastert rule. Unless it were a true majority of the republican conference and theyre not willing to do that. I think the speakers not willing to take the risk. So we have this dysfunction in the house. But you know, i do think theres a big bloc of you know, more or less sensible gop members in the house who think this is crazy and clearly the majority of republicans in the senate feel that way. Okay. Soleil out today for me, what is on the agenda . And do you expect youll be voting on, if anything . Well, i think there are two scenarios, and you alluded to one with mr. Russert. That is theyll either come up with a bill today that will once again have this defunding piece to it and pass it, or theyll come to agreement they need to pass a clean cr and maybe they pass a separate bill on obama care, but at least the senate then can pass the clean bill and we can keep the government running, or, and this is entirely plausible, alex, they just cant come to any agreement today and we dont vote on anything today. And it gets pushed off till tomorrow. They are at such a level of dysfunction, theres really no predicting the outcome into thats why youve had a change of heart thinking 12, 24 hours ago we may avoid a shutdown. Because of the timeline youre 24iing huhuh . Thats exactly it, alex. Theres a certain time necessary just mechanically to get bills through the house and senate. Particularly the senate. So even if senator reid calls people back asap, as weve seen with mr. Cruz, it takes a lot of time to move anything in the senate. Each hour that ticks by without the gop and house knowing what they want to do without them being of one mind, we get closer to a shutdown. Adam schiff, always a pleasure. Best of luck. Now to the Ground Breaking phone call between president obama and iranian president rouhani. Their historic conversation 30 years in the making is is signaling a dru direction in u. S. iran reegss. To what degreeing . Kristen welker, is there an indication from the white house how optimistic they are on this. I think they are cautiouslily optimistic. Ive been talking to Foreign Policy experts who are, as well. They will say this could be a new beginning in the relationship between the United States and iran. That phone call on friday was historic. A little bit of background about how it came about. President obama, president rouhani both at the u. N. This past week. White house officials were hoping there would be some type of handshake. Rouhani turned that request down. He wasnt quite ready to do that earlier this week, in part because of pressure from the hard liners in his country, but after a conversation that was described as fruitful between secretary kerry and his iranian counterpart, rouhani came around. So officials contacted white house officials on friday, said that the president of iran wanted to have a phone conversation with president obama. So at 2 30 friday afternoon, president obama called president rouhani. They spoke for about 15 minutes. According to president obama, they discussed a possible agreement about Irans Nuclear program. But they also discussed that there were challenges, take a listen to a little bit more of what president obama had to say about this conversation. Were mindful of all the challenges ahead. The very fact that this was the first communication between an american and iranian president since 1979 underscores the deep mistrust between our countries, but it also indicates the prospect of moving beyond that difficult history. Reporter now, white house Officials Say that that phone call ended with president rouhani telling president obama in english, have a nice day. President obama responding in farcy by saying thank you, of course, the rest of the conversation had been through a translator. So certainly the possibility of a new beginning, but both sides proceeding cautiously, alex. I love that last detail you just shared. Kind of cool. Thank you very much. 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David nather, senior policy reporter for politico pro joining me. Thanks for having me. Here we go. Tuesday the exchanges open and then come january 1st, coverage kicks in. Is the government and the people who will need it ready . Well, no. I mean, if you look at that poll today just shows the word really hasnt gotten out at all. You know, if 12 of uninsured people know that these new Health Insurance exchanges are opening on tuesday, theyve really got to get the word out more. You know, these exchanges are going to open. Most of the function are going to work. Some will not. There are going to be glitches. Some functions have been delayed. The Obama Administration has tried to say look, thats its not a big deal. The main stuff is going to happen. Republicans have been shining a spotlight on all the glitches and delays. Reality is, were going to be hearing a lot about that over the next week or two. Enrolling in obama care is six months. It may shooting out down the road. Okay. Lets talk about the coverage being offered. Its got a tiered system. Platinum, gold, silver and bronze plans. Can you talk about the quality of each one and how it differs . Yeah, its theyre Different Levels of coverage. Theyre basically covering different covering different amounts of the costs of your medical coverage. If youre looking for the cheapest plan, you would probably choose a bronze because its covering maybe 60 . And thats maybe going to appeal to younger people, right . People that are really healthy like kids in their 20s and like i never go to the doctor, i feel great. Yeah, exactly. Theyre going to want to choose the cheapest plan. Thats understandable, but you know, the idea of these plans is to make sure theres some basic level of coverage for everybody. Right now, a lot of young people could go out and maybe find something cheaper but its going to have a 10,000 deductible which means you dont get coverage of anything unless its like a catastrophic medical expense. 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