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but as always, the finer details reveal the true winners and losers of the gop's latest manufactured political crisis has a new york times writes, the president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed republicans to claim big spending cuts, even as the reality was far more modest. joining me now is one of those negotiators, shalanda young, director of the office of management and budget director. welcome back to the sunday show. >> thank you, jonathan. >> let's put on the screen some of the provisions of the law. i know we did that in the introduction. imposes...

It incentivizes congress to pass all 12 appropriations bill by the end of the year under threat of an automatic continuing resolution with the 1% across the board spending cut for agencies. but here is my question. does that kick in at the end of the calendar year, which december 31st, january 1st 2025, or does that kick in at the end of this fiscal year, which is september 30th? >> who knew you are a budget watcher, jonathan? >> it would not, clearly you have to give the process time. doing it this far would be much too early to do that. so we give them time into the new year, budget deals ca...

looking ahead to the debate and election day. the so-called green on blue attacks in afghanistan may be escalating. an afghan believed to be a police officer opened fire and killed three u.s. marines in the helmand province on friday. it was the second attack on nato troops in less than 24 hours. friday, three american soldiers were killed by a man in an afghan military uniform. rescue teams are combing through the rubble, searching for signs of life after two earthquakes jolted northwest iran. at least 180 people were killed and more than 1300 injured when the quakes shook the p...

Talk a little bit about the role of women in this race. andrea we've seen women come out since 1980. the voting rates of women are well, higher than man. if it is about the economy and jobs and everything else we heard about candidates why talk about women now? >> well a lot of women have been forced back into the workplace because they called the recession the man is. ession. a lot of men lost their jobs. women headed into the workforce in overwhelming numbers. women are the caretakers in their family. they're taking care of their parents and assumed the role i guess the budget watcher of the...

Indianapolis. carl, not a lot of americans would recognize this guy outside of the u.s. capitol or his district, so why is this such a big deal? >> well if you're a budget watcher or if you watch how the nation's tax dollars are spent then you've probably come across david obey before. he was the guy in charge of spending money for the u.s. house, the chairman of the house appropriation committee. when they talk about powerful committees this is the committee that spends your tax dollars. this is a guy that really matter erred. his decision know not seek re-election has caught democratic leade...