chris: all of this isn t going to happen in two weeks. let me bring in our other two colleagues. guy, how do think this will play out? even though the possibility of a shutdown is serious. obviously, we are here talking about it. if there is a shutdown, it s always a partial settlement it will be even more partial in this case because the republican congress has passed for appropriations bills regular order than they ve done in more than two decades. including defense. i think the urgency and the scare tactics in the fire around the shutdown won t be available to the democrats. although i think they will get their licks in on the president if the wall is the sinking point. who pays the price here? this is the last stand for the wall with republicans in control. if there s a shutdown over the wall, i think the president will be reported for his base for making that struggle.
chris: all of this isn t going to happen in two weeks. let me bring in our other two colleagues. guy, how do think this will play out? even though the possibility of a shutdown is serious. obviously, we are here talking about it. if there is a shutdown, it s always a partial settlement it will be even more partial in this case because the republican congress has passed for appropriations bills regular order than they ve done in more than two decades. including defense. i think the urgency and the scare tactics in the fire around the shutdown won t be available to the democrats. although i think they will get their licks in on the president if the wall is the sinking point. who pays the price here? this is the last stand for the wall with republicans in control. if there s a shutdown over the wall, i think the president will be reported for his base for making that struggle.
this is the quicksilver cash card from capital one. unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere, every single day. so let me ask you. what s in your wallet? u.s. made big news by announcing who it is sending to the winter olympics in russia in seven weeks. not the athletes. they have to earn their spots. i m talking about the official u.s. delegation. the kind of folks who wear lanyards with laminated passes on them. people who get to hobnob with the members of other official delegations and get the best seats at the best events because they re official, i guess. more on who those people are going to be in a moment. the bigger story of all of this isn t who is on that list, it is who the u.s. left off the list. vips who you would normally expect to lead in the delegation, but who will not be going to sochi. president obama, for instance, is not going.
the scorched earth partisan politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesn t act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our home-grown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane that s blowing our way from europe. i ve been berating congress on this show to pass legislation now to head off a series of tax increases and spending cuts mandated to take effect on january 1st. because congress couldn t come up with a better deal to raise the nation s debt limit last year. i am not alone in my calls. the federal reserve chairman and the international monetary fund are warning congress to act before it s too late. if you get hit by another recession, you ll join me in pointing my finger directly at the political partisanship that sr. has poisoned your path to economic stability and t
you know, and i was wondering if i was one of those gadhafi soldiers. and by the way, i think i d rather be discharged than promoted. but if i m one of those soldiers and those bombs and missiles are dropping on me, i don t think i m worried about lines of authority. the president isn t worried about the soap box. he knows if two or three weeks from now we have the right outcome here, all of this isn t going to matter. i don t contest that, but i do wonder whether this kind of divide and command can lead to the outcome. well, and let me try to answer that, if i can. on my radio show, we ve been interviewing retired military folks, colonel just yesterday who said really it s a fig leaf. when you put nato in charge, you re putting americans in charge and they will be making, calling the shots strategically. we have much better technology to be able to accomplish that. however, there are some military folks who are worried about divided command and we ll have to see. look, obviously