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Good day, im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. Congress is trying to crawl its way out of chaos, but a feeling of inevitability has taken hold on capitol hill as the Clock Barrels toward a Government Shutdown. Both chambers are trying to reach shortterm spending agreements, but will they find the votes . Millions of federal employees and contractors are bracing for impact if a showdown does happen, but how significant a toll could it take on our armed services, both at home and abroad. And tributes for a trailblazer, lawmakers emotional remembrances of california senat...

Republicans pold said they were either enthusiastic or very enthusiastic about voting for president next year.led said th were either enthusiastic or very enthusiastic about voting for president next year. that is about 10 points higher than democrats and 75% of republican voters say they are satisfied with their choices in this race. carson and trump on top and people very happy to see it. very interesting numbers here carol. >> athena jones live from washington. is the joe biden guessing game entering the final hours? he's appearing at a washington event honoring walter monodale. and likedal...

Governor as well. cuomo leaves behind his beloved wife of more than 50 years, matilda, and children chris, madeline margaret, maria, and andrew. amazing man. and really what is interesting is this '84 convention when walter monodale ended up getting the nomination. people across the country were like, wow! who is this guy? there was a groundswell for him to run for president. >> as we mentioned, you covered him for many years. he earned the hamlet on the hudson. >> most specifically in the end of 1991 he had some one, others say two planes were waiting in albany to take him to new hampshire. b...

Walter monodale. it was cuomo who challenged president reagan and his vision of america. >> there is despair, mr. president, in the faces that you don't see, in the places you don't visit in your shining city. mr. president, you ought to know that this nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on a hill. >> that speech inspired repeated calls for cuomo to run for president himself. he flirted with that idea twice, he did not do it. today new york city is lowering the flags to half-staff in honor of the former governor. steve corp. knack key covered northeast politics f...

Black boxes. they haven't been able to do that. on top of it you have the strong sea current which are moving the wreckage for the past couple of days. not a technically complex search but whether you add in the weather factor it is prolonging things richard. >> yeah. it's the monsoon season. we're looking at here at the equator and when the storms hit they're sudden as they come and sudden as they go. they have to pounce on the time they have in the recovery areas. a political giant, a liberal lion, those are the phrases you've heard being used in describing former mayor cuomo. he passed aw...