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Shutdown. >> we will not provide republican votes for raising the de l >> reporter: congress at odds over how to avoid an historic default on the nation's debt and keep the government open before funding expires friday. without a resolution, agency services could be halted and roughly 800,000 federal workers would be furloughed with suspended pay. at the white house, president biden exuded confidence as the main pillars of his legislative agenda lang in the ambulance -- hang in the balance. >> i think people will go well. we'll get it done. >> reporter: house democrats huddled behind closed do...

Politics. i'm going to spend a lot of money on buying a team or investing in a super pack. because i've been so successful in my chosen field. i think it will also work in this field. so i'm going tell the gm which quarterback to draft. tell the coach which plays to run. i'm going to tell the superpac operative. even though by all outside calculations newt gingrich has no chance of winning the nomination or presidency, try telling that to adelson who made billions of dollars betting against conventional wisdom in vegas and was so successful. obviously didn't translate to politics. >> riddle me...

No one claimed the cash. could evetch ventually go back to the family. >> wow. another kid with a whole lot of cash in his hands. an eighth grader from queens, new york, is $30,000 richer this morning. but he earned every penny of it. >> sure did. 13-year-old, arvind mahankali. mahankali. say that ten times fast. the new spelling bee champion, clinched the scripps on his fourth trip to the competition. lana zach, good morning. >> reporter: with $30,000 on the line, best spellers, age 8 to 14 took to the stage nervous and confident tackling words most of us have never even heard. d-e-l, knaid...

Should not speak at this time because the fbi raided their offices, took all the documents, their hard drives. so there's a lot of information that's going to come out about this. in essence, it's not that surprising they're not talking at this point. >> you're absolutely right, martha. they're following attorneys' advice, and we all understand that. we know the drill. but we get an opportunity, as i did a few moments ago in our opening statement, to propjut to them in the two minutes allotted to us the questions that we would like to have answered if they would answer like why was this loan o...