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Coppers are expensive to mint, weigh down a wallet and, these days, can rarely be used to buy anything in the shop.

Agenda, but how does he do it when some republicans are threatening shutdown? chuck todd and howard fineman. chuck, you know, i get the sense i was listening to the late general schwarzkopf, the man shaping the battlefield. he's basically saying if this government gets shut down and we're not paying our bills, it's a decision by the republican-led house of representatives. he wants the story played that way. will the press or can it objectively say that if the government shuts down, it's the republicans, simply their doing? >> when it comes to the debt ceiling if we -- there's two separate que...

Pocket, things like minting coins, 14th amendment, which senate democrats are begging him to do. he's saying, no, if we default, he wants to make it clear then republicans will have decided not to send out social security checks, not to pay our military, not to do these things, so you're right -- he's hoping that the political blame -- now, the irony here, chris, is senior republican leaders, they agree with the president on that. they know that that's a politically bad place for them to be. the question is it's going to shift to the government funding and shut down going forward, and there ta...

Message. we have the best safety program in the magnet industry. we restrict sales to where the rod can be sold. we did not sell to toy stores or stores with only children's product. we take our safety problem seriously. and they would not listen. they want to put us out of business. >>eric: let me read this. we did research on it. there have been 12 incidents of people ingesting buckyballs but 38,039 who have ingested government coins, pennys and nichols, et cetera. the studies indicated 4 percent of all children ingest the coin. should they be banning minting coins? >>guest: well, a better e...