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President is expected to meet with parties, to discuss the impasse over the government shutdown. however, in an interview with cnbc, the president made it clear, he's not ready to make the vile decision they have put before him. >> i am exasperated with the idea that unless i say to 20 million people, you can't have health insurance, these folks will not reopen the government. that is irresponsible. >> joining us now from the white house is nbc news' kristen welker. kristen, the president, as i have said, meets with leaders of both parties in something like 35 minutes. what sense do you have o...

>> bret: the u.s. ambassador to the budget committee want other diplomats to sober up. really. joseph tusella says negotiating rooms should be inebryiation free zones but are often not. he suggests that the colleagues save the champagne for toasting successful end of negotiating session. apparently this has been an issue for some time. diplomat told reporters on one occasion the note taker in the room had to be replaced because he was too impaired to complete the task. foreign policy magazine cites another diplomat saying the main negotiator are sober. what does not appear to be in question de...

Former republican senators from massachusetts, narrowly lost his race to elizabeth warren and now what we'll have, there will be a temporary appointment and a special election in massachusetts. and, scott brown, notwithstanding my home state is democrat, is leading all the democrats, and the issue with kerry, it would cost a democratic seat, likely in the senate. >> rick: i want to go back to the idea the president badly wanted sutures rice to be the next secretary of state and made no secret about it and she had to go and withdraw her name from consideration. now, assuming john kerry wins con...

The persian gulf, a third of the world's oil goes through there, and iran has threatened to shut down the strait of hormuz. is that a real threat? >> only for a short period of time. i think our navy is very confidence that it would effectively both its navy and air force if iran tried to do that. i don't think ultimately it will. they're trying to say to the united states and europe, you're threatening us with sanctions, we'll show what you can do with those sanctions, by raising the price of oil, they're threatening a very weak american and european economic recovery, and they're showing tha...

World's oil goes through there and iran has threatened to shut down the strait of hormuz. is that a real threat? >> only for a short period of time. i think our navy is very confidence that it would effectively both its navy and air force if iran tried to do that. i don't think ultimately it will. they're trying to say to the united states and europe, you're threatening us with sanctions we'll show what you can do with those sanctions by raising the price of oil they're threatening a very weak american and european economic recovery, and they're showing that increased pressure is likely to be ...