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About more than just the short term damage of a temporary shutdown. it's also about the accumulating and lasting damage that comes from a paycheck to paycheck approach to budgeting for the defense of our country. we need to innovate. we need to continue to attract the best people to develop the next generation of capabilities and to meet the current generation of threats. yet again, we face the real risk that political gridlock will hold us back. without a negotiated budget solution in which everyone comes together at last, we will again return to sequestration level funding. reducing to the l...

Mitch mcconnell and john boehner have contacted the white house about budget talks. mcconnell was hopeful they can start soon. lawmakers want to negotiate a long-term budget solution. one spaning the next two years. meantime president obama and raul castro is meeting at the united nations. they are working to normalize the relations following the cold war era. cuba's foreign minister believes removing the decade long trade embargo is a vital step. he said it will be lifted with time. >> as these contacts yield progress they will inevitably lift. an embargo that may not be in place anymore. >> ...

Talk of default behind us and instead start talking about finding solutions to the problems. >> reopen the government. let's pay our nation's bills, and then let's negotiate a sensible budget solution that secures our country's long-term fiscal means. >> reporter: now, why are they moving? well, look, both parties are feeling some political pressure right now. you look at this nbc news/"wall street journal" poll this morning, it suggests republicans have taken a real hit for combining the health care law with the shutdown. on the other side of this, that same poll suggests the president made a...

Was that a three weeks ago, a week ago, a day ago? jay carney went on i point out to say he thinks the solution if the republicans reopen the government, we wouldn't fight over the benefits, wouldn't fight over the grand canyon being shut down. that battle is obviously going to go on the broader budget battle. the president will have house republicans over here to get the government reopen. to deal with the government being reopen so we don't have the drip, drip of of the government being shutdown. martha: the big question whether this was part of the feel the pain program. i think that is wha...

It takes some time to. >> reporter: there are people who care about it and want it done quickly. why won't you tell us what date he learned. was it yesterday or the day before? >> when the president found out, he was disturbed and he asks his lawyers and the l & b to work on it and we expect an issue today. >> reporter: nice try. you won't tell us a simple fact when the president learned. >> when he learned about it he asked for a directive -- direct those who work for him to find a solution and we expect a solution today. bill: wendall goler lead our coverage at the white house. do we know pr...