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Verge of being over. perhaps we are going to see much shorter lines in the days approaching the super bowl, dana. >> dana: john, thank you in atlanta. let's bring in paul reynold d, air traffic controllers association, good to have you here. you are in the green room listening to the president speech. giving that -- given the stress that furlough workers have been under, do you think that they wl have a little bit of relief now? >> paul: absolutely commit his euphoria. they have been going through struggling times and i've heard some sad stories of decisions that had to be made and pursing out...

Greg we don't have a manifest who should be on the codel, bipartisan group and they usually are congressional delegations when they go overseas, but probably not a good idea to be gone within this pay period of being missed. the president at the white house has not left and at least using the bully pulpit to try to get them to negotiate. >> greg: i would concur we don't know who will be on this plane and often times, these codels from the speaker's office so we don't know whether or not speaker pelosi would have been on the codel. at least not so far. look, as i said a few minutes back, you kn...

Expired. >> it was a long night. it brings back memories. similar gridlock on capitol hill brought the government to a stand still 17 years ago. christine romans report. >> reporter: the government is shut down for the first time in nearly 18 years. last time was 1995, well before obama care and the tea party. president clinton then vetoed a spending bill from the republican-controlled house, a spending bill that would have cut benefits and hundreds of federal programs. that shutdown lasted five days. 800,000 federal workers stayed home. federal offices, national parks closed. sound familiar? ...

We saw that happen last week, the real-world effects that could occur, things like fewer air traffic controllers, the national parks have to shut down visitor centers and other agency having to furlough workers and reaches across basic government services. we'll have to wait and see come tuesday, wednesday, thursday, get a sense of the country is that concerned or if they are sitting this here and saying, gosh, seeing this song and dance before. government shutdown in april 2011, the debt ceiling showdown that summer, the fiscal cliff on new year's eve, and this -- i think -- and there will be...

Make the kind of changes necessary to restore fiscal discipline. and move towards viability. today, for the first time since 2004, all three u.s. automakers are operating at a profit. first time in six years. last year, sales plummeted and manufacturers and suppliers across the country were forced to idle plants and furlough workers. today chrysler is responding to more demand than anticipated by keeping this plant and others running through the usual summer shutdown. and the same goes for gm's plants, sales have rebounded. across the supply chain. plants that wouldn't exist without the sacrif...