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Settle things down. out on pennsylvania vaf avenue, in front of the white house, everything is back to normal. everything is calm. but it was tense for about 30 minutes there. >> someone was saying, take your hand off the koran and put your hand up. >> it is getting embarrassing. thank you. >> something deeper than the typical cross-body bickering. >> this is not only a debate between the republicans and democrats but an internal family feud. even a civil war some say within the republican party. speaker boehner's position all along is that he did not want to shut down the government but once ...

Investors may undue those gains and you may see wall street react. consumers may react as well. that is not a good thing as we get closer to the holiday shopping season. not just the shut down, but the debt ceiling issue that chips away at confidence and hurts economic growth. the economy is recovering but it is fragile. >> thank you very much. stay at it. i'm sure it will be a busy week for you as well. finally justice for baby hope. the girl was murdered and dumped

You may see stocks do a sharp 180. >> how worried are investors about the dell ceiling? is there an expectation that there will be no deal? >> el with, i mean, the way wall street sees, tweenl the shutdown and the debt ceiling issue, the debt ceilingish shup is winding up to be a bigger deal. if the debt creaming sntd raised. all of this, you can't forget. this is really having an effect on consumer confidence.

Really focused on the debt ceiling and the catastrophe if we miss a debt payment. the minute there was movement on the debt ceiling issue, this huge sigh of relief, it's safe to go buy stocks and bonds again, and setting to the side the bigger problems in the economy that the shutdown is. our coverage, we focused a lot on yes, government employees who are furloughed and, you know, restaurants that are offering specials for people. but you can already see it rippling through the consumer economy. you know, car sales were actually not very strong in september. retail sales not looking so hot. yo...

Of the big issues here we'll talk about later, whether or not they can decouple the two issues of the cr, the continuing resolution, and the debt ceiling issue. what are we hearing about what senate democrats would accept? >> reporter: well, martha it is pretty clear that senate majority leader harry reid is going to insist on the government being reopened. honestly talking with a lot of senate republicans they would like that as well. they feel like leaving the government closed for another six weeks may not be a wise decision by republicans. so, we will see if that happens. but after the whi...