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A fox news alert. we continue to report on the government shutdown and what will happen with all those workers who are furloughed. now at this point the associated press is reporting that the pentagon plans to bring most of its furloughed civilian emplo e employees back to work. we've put our calls out, checking all our pentagon sources to bring you more information on that. again, it's according to the associated press. we'll have more coming up this hour. the showdown may be taking its toll on our nation but there is another budget issue creating an even bigger cause for concern, and both ...

The republicans wanted 988. we finally agreed to that number. i call that compromising. i don't like that because i want to get rid of the sequester. they say they want to get rid of the sequester. the way to do that is to agree to go to a conference on the full budget and during this six-week period we will work out a way of getting rid of the sequester to the satisfaction of the republicans and hopefully the satisfaction of the democrats. that's what we ought to be doing. but to say that the president must give up his signature program that they would like has got nothing to do with the budg...

I mean, what response are we hearing today from the white house and lawmakers. >> well, the white house says, allison, that congress should just pass a bill to fund the government and overt a government show down. they don't want house republicans messing with obama care. and we've heard this from president obama, they will negotiate on budget issue, taxes or spending or entitlement reforms, budgetary issues. but they don't want house republicans trying to make these big changes to the president's signature health care reform law. no now, to hear some republicans say it, we've actually budged ...

Probably the worst couple weeks in washington. because he is in the center of this -- republican circular foreign squad. obama wisely did not get engaged with negotiating a budget deal or get involved in negotiating a debt ceiling hike. he will get to that's eventually. he sort of stepped back. let the other side, self-emulate. spectacle tonight of ted cruz trying, doing a fake filibuster, while most of the republican party, mitch mcconnell and others are scratching their head and saying this is just really -- dumb. and the republican look like they're -- like they don't have -- a consend us. ...

Tea partiers are crashing the place. maybe messing up the place. rand paul would disagree. what do you make of that that this is more than taking on a budget issue, it's searching for the soul of the party? >> we need disruption. we need a rebellion and need to rebel against the status quo. that's been a little bit from both parties. we need an uprisings and i think ted cruz brought us on our feet, got a lot of people talking. obamacare is a disaster and we need to fight it. >> neil: but i think you said last time you were with me, it's a numbers game, it's a prohibitive numbers game. it looks...