right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all. >> we begin the hour with this reminder. assumptions in the new washington are dangerous. but with the midnight deadline approaching, the prevailing assumption is that the government won't shut down, that the mammoth two-year framework brokered in the senate will end up on the president's desk. there is a lot of complaining on the left and the right. the plan itself, stunning. in washington where republicans control everything, this new plan is anchored on massive new spending, massive new deficit spending. and on erasing those restraints from the obama administration. gone, banished, it seems, from this republican party. >> what we have here is a spending gusher that's going to keep on gushing, and they have no plan to get this fiscal house in order. we are cutting spending. you haven't heard that kind of statement before around this town, but we really do believe that the value of this