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Good to see you. Im yasmin vossoughian. We got all eyes on capitol hill. High drama, frantic activity, ahead of this midnight deadline. Right, ten hours away. To a possible shutdown of the government. And vote expected to start any moment now. In the house. Kevin mccarthy put forward what he calls a clean Continuing Resolution to end a Shutdown Crisis that he created. Hoping democrats will be forced to vote for. It daring farright members to vote against. It and trying to throw the blame and the problem in the senate slap. Anybody who has watched what has been going on in the past few days kno...

>> mayor zimmer's version of our conversation in may of 2013 is not only false, but it is illogical and does not withstand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined. >> illogical, interesting word there. she wouldn't take any questions from the media. christie's office said hoboken had received $70 million in sandy aid. zimmer claims this $70 million was mostly from flood insurance purchased by residents. >> the 70 million that the governor is taking credit for, the majority of that is from the flood insurance program that residents and businesses have paid themselves. they're paying premium...

And businesses have paid themselves. they're paying premiums and they're getting those flood insurance programs so that has nothing to do with the $70 million and the bottom line is we applied for over 1 had $00 million and we got a little more than $300,000. those numbers stand. they're playing games with the numbers and it is a deflection. the majority of that $70 million that they are talking about is from the flood insurance that they were not responsible for administering. >> did any other mayors so far as you know -- i'm sure you've gotten calls from at least some of your democratic mayo...

Were trying to get in hoboken, they were holding our sandy funds hostage in order to push through and expedite the rockefeller project. >> i did speak to someone inside the governor's office this morning, and they said, listen, our first pot was $300 million. the request from hoboken was $100 million. they got $70 million. and they said when you look across the state of new jersey, all of these places were hurting and needed more money at that point, obviously, than they had. that $70 million out of a $300 million pot at that point is pretty good. it's almost a third of the funds. >> well, act...