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Think be a terrible deal to undermine the house. >> will senate republicans sell out their house counterparts? our exclusive with senator rand paul. then -- >> i did have the opportunity to present the plan that many of us have been working on. >> democrats have rejected her compromise plan, but maine republican susan collins labors on. she joins us along with her senate colleague, minnesota democrat amy klobuchar. plus, our political panel on the republican brand, the president's legacy, and faith in government. how the shutdown and the debt ceiling debates may be rocking all three. this ...

He said i can't shut the government down because i disagree with the policy, one particular policy, even something as grave as a question of war. so if that's the approach that democrats have taken when their core issue, in that case the war in iraq, was at stake, i don't see how tea party republicans can say that unless they get their way on defunding or substantially changing obama care, that we should shut the government down. >> we all know we're looking for a way out. in the past, negotiations between vice president biden and the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell have actually helped...

Members who were willing to default if they didn't get their way. i've been through a lot of budget debates. i've been through a lot of debt ceiling debates. never did i hear people say, if i don't get my way, it's better to default. >> let me turn you quickly to the government shutdown and in particular you have inside the treasury department, the unit that monitors sanctions and imposes sanctions on those who try to help iran or syria militarily. we're now told that office has been gutted, it can no longer do its job because of the shutdown. as you know, congressman ed royce wrote you a lett...

On an even more nightmarish collision course as we get near the mid-october debt ceiling. >> you make a good point with that. you both do, in fact. aaron, today's "washington post," to pick up on this, the house gop's plan is great news because he says, if a shutdown begins monday night, the republicans and democrats will have more than two weeks to resolve it, theoretically, right, before hitting the debt ceiling. so is that somewhat of a silver lining? you both are pointing to that as being the more critical of these two issues. so you think it could be solved? >> well, i like that ezra is l...

Throughout the entire ten-year period. here is the big issue though, i want to see obamacare repealed, but it's not going to happen through paul ryan's budget plan. the republicans, if they want that to happen, to get ryan's plan through, they're going to have to during one of the cr's or debt ceiling debates, they are going to have to shut the government down. we still take in 2.7 trillion, will pay for medicare, social security, will pay off our debt, the full faith and credit of the united states, but isn't that the only way that ryan's budget gets done? >> no, no, not at all. ryan's budget...