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Uncertainty about government shutdowns, about the new effort of the republicans not to pay our bills on time, which is a debate coming up, is creating great uncertainty in the economy. this is a self-inflicted wound that the country doesn't need. what the president has said all along is that he's willing to negotiate on all the budget issues. we've been trying to sit down at the table since march with our republican colleagues, as you well know, the speaker prevented the appointment of budget negotiator. we want to talk about that. the president is absolutely right, that you don't negotiate ab...

Vehicles going in that direction. >> you guys are walking from dirkson over -- >> we're walking from here back to our office. >> we were just hearing from senator bob casey, a number of other members of congress regarding what they heard, which is very similar, eerily similar to what our own luke russert reported. we break into this with breaking news of shots fired near the capitol. there's a report that several capitol police officers are injured. we do not know the extent of those injuries or how they happened. we know the white house, according to kristen welker, is not on lockdown. repeat...

Chris matthews, an msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman haywahaywarrold -- >> he's a professor, baby. >> and from the national journal group ron fornier and former press secretary under president clinton, dee dee myers. >> she's been through a shutdown. >> but that one meant something. >> it was a great shutdown. those were the days. when a shutdown was a shutdown, dee dee myers. >> at least it was about budget issues. >> i was thinking about that. it was very specific. you know, just stop asking us to keep funding government at this level with deficits going up until you agr...

About 1995 and 2013, and i remember because i was in this room covering it as a reporter, is that the republicans then, whether you agreed with or didn't agree with their strategy and whether or not it ended up hurting them politically, you know, had a coherence what they were arguing. they wanted to force the president, then bill clinton, to reduce spending more. so what they were arguing about went to the heart of what funding the government is about, budget priorities. what we see now is republicans, they have abandoned their insistence that we deal with our budget issues. when the presiden...

Their constituents. >> it demonstrates the lack of seriousness the house republicans have known in approaching this very simple task, which is fulfilling their responsibility to keep the government open, to extend funding at current levels, no partisan strings attached by democrats, no partisan strings attached by the president, just do your job, fund the president, keep it open. the president said as he has said all along and has all year to discuss negotiations about broader budget issues, how we invest to make our country secure and continue to reduce the deficits. but in a balanced way. th...