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Togeth together. people realize because you saw the messaging from the conservatives on the sunday shows trying to flip the script, if you will, and saying that it is the president who is being absolutist, and unwilling to compromise, and the polls show that compromise is value that americans do everyday, but absent from the playbook they are per suing, and so some folks think it is a shutdown that is needed for the real think cheit and the people to stop living in fantasy ideology and not fiscal reality when things hit the financial crisis. >> what is the prediction? will the government shutd...

Overseas. >> the house republicans continue looking at going after obamacare. the senate republican leader was considering the idea of funding the government another week. tension is building as we're about nine hours from a government shutdown. trace? >> trace: big talk. with us now the managing editor of the hill newspaper, bob cusack. good to see you. >> hey,. >> trace: trace don't you love how each side thinks the other sized just being absolutely ridiculously stubborn on this? >> both sides -- they're dug in, and i think that we are headed for a shutdown. harry reid today saying, no chanc...

Health care exchanges go into effect at midnight. >> well, most of them are not going to be open, because there are problems, and this is a real issue, and harry reid is pushing this, because he thinks it is a political win in 2014, and quite honestly, it is a diversion with what is really going on with the act and the problems with the implementation. and to say otherwise is not true. >> i am not saying that there are not problems with obama care, but they don't want it tied with the federal budget. they want obama care dealt with in another way, and why not another way? >> well, the thing is...

>> trace: there's a huge gap on the hill. bob cusack, good to see you. >> thanks, trace. >> trace: at the very heart of the budget showdown is president obama's signature healthcare law, and beginning tomorrow americans can begin signing up for insurance exchanges. administrative officials say that will happen with or without a shutdown. lots of questions still remain, including how much it will cost and whether or not those exchanges will be completely up and running. peter deucey is live in washington. what reports? >> reports some of the navigators or the people hired too help enroll americ...

Those who say there is room for agreement should be paid and those who say my way or the highway and it veers to the far right, they shouldn't be paid. >> all right. let me lay it on you, and republicans say that the democrats are using the old strategy of passing something and then send it to the house too late to avert a shutdown. i know you in the house, but why aren't the senators working right now? why are they waiting until 2:00 this afternoon to convene? >> well, because they said to the house of representatives, the republican majority in the house of representatives on saturday, that ...