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Energized for the come uping election battle. you've got them looking back to the government shutdown fight between bill clinton newt gingrich, who will get the blame this time. but if you peel all that away, the policy is ultimately what matters to our viewers. because the bottom line, as brianna was laying out, how this affects military pay, for example, it really affects real lives, all of this fingerpointing and blame game in washington. you have people, for example, with april 15th tax deadline coming up waiting for their refund checks. they're not going to get those if the government shu...

And my wife is also working in congress. so we'll be without both of our incomes. >> if the parties can't pass a spending bill by midnight on friday, here's your reality check of what it will look like. what is it going to mean to you exactly? first of all, for starters, the irs will close. that means many people waiting on refund checks will have to keep waiting. processing of paper tax returns and refunds will have to stop. and you'll have those electronic filings, refunds will continue. social security check will still go out. so seniors who are concerned about this, remember, your social s...

Ground soon, the money will stop flowing down to you. christine romans with exactly what that means. >> reporter: for starters, the irs will close. that means many people waiting on refund checks will have to keep waiting. processing of paper tax returns and refunds will have to stop. and you're going to have -- you're going to have those electronic filings of refunds will continue. however, social security checks will still go out. so seniors who are concerneded about this, remember, your social security check will still come. medicare also will pay claims. that will continue to fund. and con...

Hot this country is going to get if people can't go to national parks, they can't go to yosemite, they can't go to the smithsonian institute, their refund checks are not coming, soldiers are not getting paid, all kind of things we're not fully aware of aren't going to happen when these federal employees get furloughed and put off the job. i don't care about the blackberries not working. they can be pretty offense sieve at times, but what do you think is going to be the mood of the country two or three weeks into a government shutdown and how are they going to feel toward the tea party? >> i th...

Long term but gets it to the ending of the fiscal year. that's what the president is looking at and i am too. >> what are you worried about in terms of the government shutting down out in montana? what's real? people can live without the smithsonian. i always tell people come to walker, you already pay for these museums, you ought to come once in a while. but absent museums, smithsonians, national parks, things like that, i'm told that the big money is still going to roll. checks will still go to social security recipients, medicare bills are still going to be paid. what are you worried about....