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All things in washington with more details. jim, good morning. we keep hearing if they don't come to an agreement, this could lead to a government shutdown, really? >> well, possibly, anything can happen on capitol hill, t.j. one week from tomorrow, the government is facing another potential government shutdown, but you wouldn't know that from watching the budget mess on capitol hill this week. as expected, as you mentioned, t.j., the senate rejected both republican and democrats plans to pass a budget. despite being in the minority, the republicans got more vote than the democratic alternativ...

About her supervisor and general working conditions. public employees, they have more first amendment rights than private sector employees, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with going on facebook and commenting about general things going on in anniston. gregg: we've got to cut it short. we're going to go to an event with the president. thank you folks. jenna: here's the chamber of commerce, the president making a much anticipated speech to the chamber, and to the rest of us on the state of the business community. let's take a listen: >> i want to make a few other acknowledgements, to tom b...

That's what i had. very nice. outstanding. a couple of acknowledgements i want to make. first of all, buffalo mayor, byron brown is here. where is he? byron, stand up. congresswoman louise slaughter is here. your own congressman from this district, brian higgins, is here. congressman chris lee is here. and i brought one of my outstanding members of my cabinet, who is working hard every day with businesses like this to help grow the economy, karen mills, my small business administrator, is here. please give her a big round of applause.

Are they going to have to change it to accommodate the republicans? >> they don't think they'll have to change that such, ali, they think politically it's such a winner because they'll focus especially on the consumer protection agency which polls so well with the general public. people feel so abused as you know by mortgage companies and the credit card kms, so that's a big winning message for them and they think saying effectively we want to bring a lot of the practices out into the open that got us into the meltdown in the first place is going to be a win. so, they're willing to negotiate a...

Income tax. what is being put on the table here is a national sales tax. that's what a value added tax is. >> greta: it is a tax on every change in value of a product pushed on. >> if you bought a $300 iphone under 20% added value tack the cost might be $360. this major tax it hits the middle class. in addition to state sales taxes. a lot of states have hired 6, 8, some 10%. if you have 18 or 20% value added tax you are talking about 25% sales tax at the cash register every time you buy food, groceries, diapers, school supplies, just about anything would be taxed. >> greta: paul volcker saying...