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Choice but to veto it. >> bill clinton figured out a clever jujitsu. to say newt gingrich wants to make your grandmother destitute. >> think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds. and you'll understand how totally morally bankrupt the modern democratic party is. >> the speaker of the house has made an unprecedented threat. yesterday mr. gingrich told government security he was willing to let the united states default on its debt. >> the republicans decided to go to the wall and shutdown the government. >> we're prepared to negotiate on the budget issues, but let's not thre...

Government. >> we're prepared to negotiate on the budget issues, but let's not threaten the country with shutdown. >> the president said we really ought to meet at the white house in the oval office. it came down to whether or not we were going to cut medicare deeper. the president said something i'll never forget. it may cost me the election, but i cannot do this. >> the washington passport agency is closed for lack of funding. >> due to the shut down of the federal government -- >> social security. >> the library of congress. >> national park service is closed. >> 800,000 federal employees w...

People say, what have you done for me lately? campaigns are about the future. when you pick some fights? policy fights that people say it's worth me going to the polls. >> we remind voters what we have done but then we have to lay groundwork for what we would do and continue to do in the future. you are exactly right. i guess the best example is going back to harry reid in 2014. he decided he wasn't going to vote on anything because he wanted to protect his members. it didn't work out well as a result. think you'll see republicans move forward with an agenda that continues to focus on economic...

That are 20, 30 years old. classes that have been cancelled, like foreign language and arts classes. and the four-day school week in some of the districts that dealt with the budget issues. what the teachers are hoping to do tomorrow is send a message to the lawmakers here by numbers and by showing up and saying we really need these changes and want to see it happen. right now they're saying the walk out could last indefinitely. >> thanks for that. don't go anywhere. we are just getting started.

Students or to abandon their schools. they say they are doing it for the students because in addition to the pay racise, they want to see several hundred million dollars invested in the schools here. they're hoping the walk out will pressure them to the raise taxes in certain areas to accomplish that. they say they have broken desks, chairs, dealing with textbooks that are 20, 30 years old. classes that have been cancelled, like foreign language and arts classes. and the four-day school week in some of the districts that dealt with the budget issues. what the teachers are hoping to do tomorrow...