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Say it would create. meanwhile, thousands of keystone opponents rallying in our nation's capitol calling for the president to just kill it. molly is live in washington with the latest. >> hi, eric. president obama is getting an ear full from groups that are usually loyal segments of the democratic base. labor unions and environmentalists. they disagree on the keystone pipeline issue. environme environmentalists were protesting on the national mall today. they're glad president obama delayed the project last week but they want him to kill it all together. joining today were actress darryl hanna...

The white house is keeping an eye on the senate as they are expected to take up the house bill and dismantle it and send it back. barring some unexpected breakthrough, it looks like we are headed for the government shutdown. >> this is the old football str strategy. >> reporter: house republicans rallied on the steps of the capitol calling for the senate to come back to work, an inside, a ghost town, and not long after the house gop passed a bill in the early morning hours sunday. >> a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> reporter: it funds the government, but delays obama care for on...

Catnip to a lot of their constituents. a lot of these republican members aren't really afraid of whatever democratic challenges they get. they're actually afraid of getting primary challenges. because they've done too much. >> it goes both ways though. >> exactly. about 83% of the house doesn't have to worry about the other party. most of them have to worry about their own party. but these tea party types want to -- they want to get rid of speaker boehner, they ought to be careful what they wish for because i'm not sure that right now the house republican caucus is even governable. >> jonathan...

Deal with oil supply problems. though officials refuse to say which options they are evaluating. shep? >> shepard: rich edson live in washington tonight, rich, thanks. for weeks we have been reporting on the growing turmoil stretching across the middle east. antigovernment demonstrators turning out in huge numbers in the countries you see here. much of the unrest began in tunisia and quickly spread to egypt and beyond. in yemen two protesters are dead tonight as thousands swarmed the capitol calling for the president to leave office. yemen's president is considered important ally in the fight ...