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Now to the pop culture lead. washington, d.c. calls it a partial government shutdown, but hollywood calls it something else. comedy gold. we've seen this on primetime tv. harry reid and the president are putting our country on a dangerous path. >> the government is closed, and it's closed because they have helped close it. >> if you're starting to feel like you've seen this show before, that's probably because you have. >> effective tomorrow morning, the entire government will be shut down until further notice. >> reporter: i'm not just talking about the '95-'96 shutdown. there's nothing fun...

The shutdown would end today. call a vote. call a vote. put it on the floor. and let every individual member of congress make up their own minds. >> ever since the country entered shutdown mode, president obama has been pushing that message. take a vote. he has been calling on house speaker john boehner to bring up for a vote what everybody is calling a clean cr. that just means money to fund the government without strings attached to other policy things like getting rid of health reform or whatever. on the first day of the shut down. the president spoke in the rose garden and called for the h...

Floor, for an up or down vote, every congressman could vote their conscience. the shut down could end today. call a vote. call a vote. put it on the floor. and let every individual member of congress make up their own minds. >> ever since the country entered shutdown mode, president obama has been pushing that message. take a vote. he has been calling on house speaker john boehner to bring up for a vote what everybody is calling a clean cr money to fund the government without strings attached to other policy things like getting rid of health reform or whatever. on the first day of the shut dow...

National guard. and most of those bills -- every one of those bills has passed with support of dozens of my democratic colleagues. >> but do we run the government on appropriations bills? in a shutdown mode, should we run the government on appropriation bills? >> i think what our position is we know where we disagree. let's fund the areas where we agree. and that -- by the time we're done tonight, we will have funded over half of the government. the president continues to say that he won't even negotiate. frankly, i think it's not ringing well with the american people. >> well, i think the ame...

At the pentagon. washington is in shutdown mode. just about everyone has an opinion on the politicians inability to get things running again. and we can count tennis superstar martina among them. she will sound off on gay rights, women tennis and the u.s. government shutdown. >> we're actually striking down the government because we don't want the people to be healthy, we don't want people to be taken care of? it's crazy. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.