primarily because the rest of the world was in such bad shape. you can t, you know, bet on that forever. i want to play for you congressman, republican from florida, talking about his view of how the debt ceiling works. lets watch. many nonpartisan economists biggest banks in new york say you fail to raise the debt limit it will be a catastrophe for the world economy. it doesn t convince you? i m not convinced that s true. i ve talked to economists and read a lot of articles on this and talked to bankers. we re not going to go into default. so raising hitting the debt ceiling doesn t equal defaulting. now, it s true hitting the debt ceiling does not equal default but should we turn to congressman yoho from florida to tell us how to run the economy and debt ceiling.
they can solve this problem today. and it doesn t mean that the differences between democrats and republicans goes away. that s what elections are for. but between elections we re supposed to be governing and not supposed to be hurting the very people who sent us to represent them. and i hope that that kind of spirit holds true during the course of discussions today and over the next several days. all right? reporter: are you confident that you can good. are you confident a deal can be reached look, are i think that there is there s been some progress on the senate side with republicans recognizing it s not tenable, it s not smart, it s not good for the american people to let america default. there s been some progress in recognizing that we re not going to be able to completely bridge the differences between the parties all at once. and so it doesn t make sense in the meantime to try to use a
it doesn t make sense in the meantime to try to use a shutdown or the threat of default as leverage in negotiations. so that s progress. obviously until the details are done, until these folks are back to work so that they can volunteer on weekends during their free time as opposed to when we d like folks to be on the job, you know, i m going to be continuing to push congress as hard as i can. but we ll see this afternoon whether this progress is real. i think there has been some progress in the senate. i think house republicans continue to think that somehow they can extract concessions by keeping the government shut down or threatening default. my hope is that a spirit of cooperation will move us forward over the next few hours. all right. thank you. thank you, guys. thank you. and that s the president at
3 amazing benefits in 1 super fiber. good monday, i m craig melvin in for tamron hall. following breaking news, president obama saying in the past hour there has been progress in the talks aimed at ending the government shutdown and avoiding default thursday.
will lower the health care cost of all americans and provide access to good quality health care for everybody in this country and it s going to save medicare from going broke. that is the kind of policy we must put in place instead of the obama care. i want to be precise. snars the government shutdown you demand at least some concession on obama care. what about raising the nation s debt ceiling by october 17th? what would it take for you, congressman, to vote in favor of raising of debt ceiling? nobody wants to see america default. in fact, we will not default. it s absolutely critical that we not default. but president obama just the other day said that raising the debt ceiling was not going to cost a single dime. he said it s not going to grow our deficit by one single dime. how preposterous is that? our american people are saddled with a sun sustainable debt. everybody has part of that debt of 53,000 per person.