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Alexander and news capitol hill correspondent luke russert. Pete, lets start with you. What are you hearing from 1600 pennsylvania avenue . Does the president fully expect these congressional leaders will show up at 3 00 with a deal in their hands . Reporter well, craig, hes hoping that is the case obviously during his visit a short time ago to a local food pantry where he visited with the volunteers there. Among them federal Government Employees that have been furloughed, trying to reemphasize the impact that the shutdown is having on real merpz americans. If the republicans dont come to some...

Minutes. The president greeted by the states republican governor about an hour ago. One day before a controversial right to work bill the white house is opposed to is signed in to law. Well have more on that later in the show but as far as the fiscal cliff, our First Read Team says we are already at the end game if the goal is to get a deal passed by december 21st. Now that means the president and House Speaker boehner have five days max to reach an agreement. That takes us to the 15th. Then the legislation has to be written by the 18th. The president is now working two strategies to get a dea...

Make progress right now. Passing a budget, Immigration Reform, farm bill. Those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now. The american peoples hopes and dreams are what matter, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, democrats and republicans, to cooperate and compromise and act in the best interests of our nation. Meanwhile Vice President joe biden welcomed furloughed federal employees back today at the Environmental Protection agency. He even brought muffins along. And greeting visitors this morning, ted cruz, who...

Sputtered back to life, leaders are plunging into the next count of budget talks. Can he use capital to bridge the partisan divide and win a broader agreement and will he . President obama challenged republicans to work with him on a longterm spending bill. Nothing has done more damage to americas credibility in the world, our standing with other countries than the spectacle that we have seen these past several weeks. You dont like a particular policy or a particular president . Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. The Vice President happeneding out muffins to return...

Guessing over his shutdown strategy, senator ted cruz takes a victory lap back in texas. And a very good morning for washington, its tuesday, october 23rd, 2013, and this is the daily rundown. Im Kristen Welker in for chuck todd. The markets have been flying blind for more than two weeks waiting for the september jobs report, which was delayed by the shutdown. We finally got that report this morning, but its not moving wall street much one way or the other. Take a look. 148,000 jobs were added in september. Below what analysts had expected. But we also saw the Unemployment Rate tick down to 7....