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>> i will go to what's going on in the senate right now. are you as optimistic as i am? >> i never thought we would have a shut down. there is no desire on the part of the republicans. somehow they always come with the time constraints to something short-term. if someone worried about it, i have been trying to work behind the scenes to pass the resolution since july. it's not only september 30th, but i want americans to focus on the dysfunction as washington, d.c. and contemplate taking over larger shares of the health care system and start questioning that. >> let's talk about the debt limit ...

Newsroom" and into the day. now we have to take you back to washington because the president is just about to speak before the business roundtable, a group of business leaders. you can see that man is introducing the president now. let's check in with jim acosta, covering this event. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. you know, i think you'll hear the president responding at least in part to what house speaker john boehner said within the last hour. you know, the president, his administration, various officials here at the white house have all been saying over the last week...

Filner shopping into his suv and you could see packed boxes in the backseat. experts have been saying all week long that resignation is the main negotiating tool that filner has. the big question is, if he did decide to resign, what might he able to get in return? would that include help with his legal costs? and would the city council be willing to approve that? city leaders and filner's attorneys emerged after three days of mediation talks. they say they cannot discuss the details of that agreement until it's presented to the city council in a closed door meeting on friday afternoon. after t...

Position he will not compromise. because he wants to kick the habit of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool. obviously, it was a telling time for secretary geithner to put out that statement yesterday. >> did you find it political? >> no, i would never -- >> if the budget matters. >> no. but it does suggest that the white house wants a grand bargain type deal, that their investment is in getting something big together so that they can resolve all these things right now. you don't have to go and ask do this all over again in two months' time, they can start focusing on other legislative...

Monday. that's not a great sign. the focus is on the hill, on this vote on plan b. conventional wisdom is this gives house speaker john boehner a little bit of cover, maybe gives him a little bit of a negotiating tool as we head into the final countdown to the new year, but i have been speaking with house republicans, republicans on the hill who are senior who say they, quite frankly, are surprised by the fact that this has gone in the direction of plan b. a lot of senior republicans saying that they were expecting a deal to be done by this weekend. they were expecting to go home. so they are ...