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0 correspondent kristen wielker. luke, time has not been set but aides will expect there will be a vote this evening. what else can you tell me. >> reporter: it's going to start in the senate and the reason it's going to start over there is because the idea is they want to move something over to the house that has a lot of republican support as kelly o'donnell mentioned in your report. this gives the house a little cover. expect the senate to vote between 5:00 and 8:00 tonight, could be earlier or later but that's the dinner time window on the east coast. the house will follow afterwards. th...

0 what they're closing on is reopening the government on january 15th, getting the debt ceiling raised through february 7th, and having broader budget talks, they're promising to get that done before the holidays, we've heard it before, they have not followed through. and even if they seal this deal tomorrow they would have to work at lightning speed to get to the thursday deadline when we lose our borrowing authority, megyn. ed henry, thank you, as we learned the house would not pass a deal tonight, the folks over at fitch credit rating sent a warning saying they are reviewing our country's...

But sometimes you can't say that. both sides are not equally guilty here. this is a republican shutdown caused by a small group of extremists who have intimidated the speaker of the house, john boehner, a decent man but not a strong man, who's afraid of losing his speakership if he stands up to them. that is why -- 800,000 americans have been furloughed. >> chuck todd was on earlier and says that at least in part of his -- you have the red and blue and people who don't watch the same shows or cable networks and listen to different radio stations and have these very clear differences but to you...

>> well, 1995 was pretty bad. it was the longest shutdown in u.s. history, lasted for three weeks. this one, this one feels that it could be as bad, because of the level of gridlock that is currently in place right now. >> roger simon from politico, he just said this feels different from '95 because he said that legislators are meaner. i mean, there is no -- there is no cooperation between the two sides at all. do you agree with that? i mean, no whigham roiggle room >> i agree with the comment about the atmosphere being meaner. i started working on the hill in the '80s. i worked on both sides ...

A larger percentage, 74% disapprove of the job the republicans are doing. for many americans there's enough blame to go around. chuck todd spoke with very frustrated tourists in d.c. >> who do you blame? >> me personally? i blame both sides. >> if it shuts down, who do you blame? >> oh, man, i'd say everybody. >> why does it have to come out last minute? we had how long to figure out a balanced budget. i don't get to do this at home when balancing my budget. >> roger simon writes a scathing op-ed, one does not know whether to laugh or cry. we live in a time when outright buff foony passes for ...