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Us is the final countdown around raising the debt ceiling. so now it's not just a question of ideology or debates on the house floor or senate floor or whether or not people will negotiate with one another, it's actually very serious business and it's going to ripple into our mortgage markets. it's going to affect people like the guest that you just had on whose life is literally at stake because she can't go to nih. so the american people now i think are realizing just how serious these problems are. but at the same time, we also know that we have to be very serious about how we move forward....

An economic shutdown. refusing to pay our nation's bills. endangering american jobs. tell them to stand up to the tea party. enough already! breaking news to fill you in on. it was less than an hour ago that john boehner had asked to have a conversation with the president to talk about where they stood on the issues, willing negotiations about the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling. minutes later, around 10:45, we're hearing now from the spokesperson to house speaker john boehner, the president called the speaker today, reiterating that the president called to say that he won't...

Elevated game of stall tactics. >> first thing is to restart the government and stop this nightmare developing for all too many people. by the way, let's stop screwing around with the debt ceiling. i heard people saying the debt ceiling breach won't be that bad. it will be a catastrophe. so let's take that off the table. and then by all means, let's do it. look, there are any number of democrats and republicans here who are willing to do what the president said he would do, talk about entitlement reform, talk about making those programs long term viable, just we'll have a negotiation. but we'r...

We're not going to negotiate on that. >> yeah, i think that's inconsistent with what the american people want. house republicans have been saying for day that say we recognize there's disagreements and we need to come to the negotiating table. the president has said that he won't negotiate on the debt ceiling and he won't negotiate on the budget until he gets his way. frankly, i think that the american people are starting to understand why we're in a shutdown. >> but isn't that more an answer of what part of republicans and the answer of no is not being understood here? because there is a nego...

Which is the government shuts down the next day. in both of those cases, congress has total control. they can stop a fiscal cliff, they can stop a government shutdown. we can stop a government shutdown today if speaker boehner would bring a clean cr to the floor. that is not the case with the full faith and credit involved in the debt ceiling. when the markets decide that this place has finally and completely flipped its lid and we see a 3,000 point market drop, there is nothing we can due in this institution that will recapture the business confidence in this country that we need for the reco...