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Our coverage of the government shutdown and it's time to talk strate strategy. what is the end game for republicans? it got more confusing on the house floor when speaker boehner threatened to hold even his own staffers hostage. this was sort of their last gam bit before shutting down the government. they decided to have this bizarre fight, not over whether they are staffers would be on the obama care exchanges because they are, but whether their employer would continue to be allowed to contribute to their health care or whether they would force their own staffers to take a huge pay cut, a biz...

Our top stories making news here on cnn. the gulf coast oil spill could be much larger than first estimated. bp is trying yet another strate strategy. and siphoning out as much crude as possible. president barack obama said a short time ago that the spill could be catastrophic and the u.s. will not rest until it is stopped. in thailand today, more deaths and injuries are reported as booming explosions fill the capital of bangkok. it is the latest eruption in the two-month standoff between an anti-government protesters and thai troops. 10,000 protesters called red shirts are trying to oust th...

>> the fondest memory was not when he beat me, john, i will tell you that. [laughter] it was never personal. in fact, john mccain was able to defeat me in south carolina and that was the turning point. i was getting momentum up until that time but he had decided that if he did not win south carolina he was pulling out because he was about out of gas and out of money and i was a critical moment. he and fred thompson had a great plan. the plan was fred would stay in the race, use ready to get out, fred would stay and basically drive back and forth between greenville and freiburg and beat the stu...

>> the fondest memory was not when he beat me, john, i will tell you that. [laughter] it was never personal. in fact, john mccain was able to defeat me in south carolina and that was the turning point. i was getting momentum up until that time but he had decided that if he did not win south carolina he was pulling out because he was about out of gas and out of money and i was a critical moment. he and fred thompson had a great plan. the plan was fred would stay in the race, use ready to get out, fred would stay and basically drive back and forth between greenville and freiburg and beat the stu...

Strate strategy. the house is moving forward on a particular provision, a rule put in place at the tail end of their final days in office. requiring the social security administration to forward criminal background checks names of anybody listed as unable to handle their own benefit payments. the rationalization was to cut back on their ability to buy guns. that rule has now been blocked by the u.s. house. the u.s. senate is expected to focus -- to vote on it soon. i will tell you guys the reason why is not just because of the nra. the aclu also had due process concerns here. if you want to se...