Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right. Hello. Welcome. Weve got two hours of the good stuff coming up. Were here at work today. Thats the good news. Im still here today and tomorrow. I love working with you, ross. But yesterday i got to work with louisa and we talked hockey the whole time. How do you beat that . You dont. Working with louisa is an unbeatable experience. Ice hockey . No, field hockey i can do. Field hockey . I dont know. The canadians, we dont consider that you should. We have lots of fun stuff to talk about today. Lots of politics still. It is day two of the u. S. Government shutdown and there appears to be no quick resolution in site. How republicans tried to get three bills passed tuesday to fund certain programs, National Parks and operations for the district of columbia. But the measures, which needed a twothirds majority vote all failed. Democrats and president obama opposed the piece mail strategy. Aids say
Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what america is all about. The irrational and the ideals. Those two opposites have defined my life totally because i grew up as a child imprisoned him barb wire american prison camps. Pearl harbor was bombed and overnight, american citizens of japanese answers straight ancestry were looked at with suspicion and fear and outright hatred. But despite that, young japaneseamericans, like all americans, rushed to
Guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. They will have to decide what the scope is. How much we want to fight off and shoe as part of these negotiations. That will be one of the early decisions we try and reach. The good news is that we hope that our republican colleagues have learned the right lesson from the debacle we just went through, unnecessary pain. It did not have to be that way. We are hoping that our colleagues will put down the clubs and recognize that this negotiation should be between the two budgets and no one should try to gain advantage again by threatening to shut down the government or default on our debt. If we can put down the clubs and have a serious conversation, maybe we can advance. Murray,re calling pat saying that you are going to look for Common Ground. Common ground is different than compromise. When of the areas where there might be Common Ground is to try to get rid of some or all of these
What are the chances, particularly now that republicans have given up a tax increase in january and are taking a hard line now, what are the chances of getting a bigger agreement to tackle our deficit . That is a very fair question. I was disappointed in the fact that the supercommittee did not achieve a positive result. In this latest round, the democrats have been trying to get to the negotiating table since march. That is when the house passed the budget and the Senate Democrats passed their budget. The normal courses to begin negotiations. We were blocked by republicans in the house and senate. Now were finally going to the table. Here is one thing i know. Talks do not guarantee success. You mentioned examples where we were not able to get funding accomplished. If you refuse to talk, you are guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. Now the conferees, the negotiators they will have to , decide what the scope is. How mu
Week with the esquire polled began with what they called the new American Center. The study indicates that there is a middle ground among the electorate. In order to facilitate the conversation we will be dividing the lines regionally. Where would you put yourself in your political ideology . Where would you do find it . For those of you in the eastern 212 tral time zones, 585 3880. Two 02tain and pacific, 585 3881. Send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj, or an email, journal cspan. Org. Any email this morning, the theington post and this headline this morning from the jpmorgan post, chase has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to pay a record 13 billion. Morning,t story this there is a similar headline on the front of the Washington Times here go something they talked about online, where would you place your own political ideology echo here is the breakdown. Those that describe themselves as bleeding hearts, 10 , the gospel left, 11 , the minivan , the mba m