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Government. my question to you, crystal first, then amy. do you agree there's not that big of a divide? >> no. i think -- look, speaker boehner is doing what he should do as leader of the house. he's trying to bring together the coalition, which is a problem. there's a divide where the tea party needs real work is once you are elected, the work begins with consensus building. we, as republicans can't have everything we want. what looked bad is when senator ted cruz, who was brought into congress through the tea party. we have good folks like rand paul as well, but when ted cruz stood on princi...

Nelson mandela. it's just a strange counter factual to think of. but south africa would be a different country. i think it would be a different world. he was such, more than an icon, such a giant of the 20th century, that i think the 21st century would simply not be the same without nelson mandela. >> i just want to mention something about the way he used all of the different layers of his experience, beginning with growing up in a little village on a dirt floor. he used his law school experience, his educated man experience. and there's a wonderful quote in his auto biography where he talks a...

Piece straight out of the "new york times" explaining how republican senator susan collins got together with two other family senators to form this bipartisan group, and it's that group that "the new york times" is reporting who developed really what's the blueprint, the framework for this bill that is right now the best shot at ending the shutdown and this debt ceiling crisis. here is one congresswoman, her explanation of the difference that the women can make. >> i think we need more women because in my experience and the women in congress on both side of the aisle talk about this all the ti...

Blocked out the sun when there is a government shutdown and we almost breached default. we have to work together. it doesn't have to be this way. the tea party has taken us to the absolute extreme edge of the political process. and we need to come back together. we need more parents to get engaged. >> more women, do you think? >> more women. >> are women better at negotiating? would more women get more done if there were not all of these testosterone males running around? >> if they just put us in a room together more often, we could solve the problems. women are more focused on consensus buil...

Around? >> if they just put us in a room together more often, we could solve the problems. women are more focused on consensus building, not every woman, but the times i worked with women, women are not as focused on obliterating the other side. they want to get the work done. >> thank you very much, a wake-up call to the nation's problems, much needed. >> thank you. and when we come back, suze orman is here to tell you what you need to do to protect your money. let me tell you, she is going to let rip. i was made to work. make my mark with pride. create moments of value. build character thr...