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We can't get a response from the senate democrats, this shut down's at their feet. look, contessa, they lost the substantiative argument. their only hope is to get to you, the media, to paint the republicans like the bad guys. the american people are miles ahead of them. >> listen, i don't have a horse in that race. i'm not trying to paint anybody with any kind of paint brush, congressman. but the thing is, there are pros and cons. and you're coming on and you're talking about the pros of pushing forward and if the government shutdown happens because there's no deal, well, then, there are cons...

Home front. >> shannon: a lot of good work. chris, thank you. see all of chris' exclusive interview with wisconsin governor scott walker right after america's news headquarters at 2:00 p.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m. eastern and find out what senators coburn and mccaskill have to say about a potential government shutdown. those interviews plus the power play of the week on "fox news sunday." a budget crisis is looming in both houses of congress. a leading democrat says senate officials are working behind the scenes to keep the government running. peter doocy is here. >> there is a chance the gove...

Demonizing?" >> no, we all have to move. we just came off a very successful labor conference in denver. school superintendents, school board presidents and union presidents all coming together to say how do we provide the best education for our country. that kind of collaborative work, that building of trusts, that building of relationships, i is so critically important for having this country be great. >> mayor bloomberg presenting a budget a little later where he's anticipating asking for 6,100 teachers' jobs to be cut. the president talked about outinnovating and outeducating and making inv...

We're trying to make adjustments so that we have a sustainable budget a that works for us over the long term and there are things not working at all. on the education front, we're consolidating from 33 programs to 11 programs. there is waste and inefficiency there that, you know, is long overdue and we identify a number of these programs that just don't work. let's take that money out of those programs that don't work and put that money in programs that do. >> mr. president, you say you are feeling our pain instance you were a community organizer. >> listen. i definitely feel folks' pain. some...

2011 budget a year early, you could say, and propose about 25 different cost saving ideas and looking at some things that were cost savings this year or in the future. so what i proposed was something that we weren't taking away anything. we aren't currently paying any cost for translation so we weren't taking anything away. what we were doing is putting a cap or limit on how much government is going to spend in this area. and so, you know, that's why some of the complaints about being mean spirited and all that just don't work because the -- we didn't -- we haven't had any costs so if once we...