number two is to make sure that the bills are passed on time. and what has happened is that a small minority in the house of representatives has decided rather than to sit down and make sure that it does its job, is essentially to hold the government hostage. so, look, there right now is a majority in the house of representatives that is prepared to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government and they should do that immediately. david simas, white house deputy senior adviser for communications and strategy. great to have you on today. thanks for having me on. everybody started running. a lot of people that worked at the counter started ducking behind where the packages go and just everybody started running. two suspicious packages clear an airport in florida. now two people are under arrest and one biker in custody after this, that scary chase of road rage right here in manhattan on the west side highway. those stories and more in the news now. stay with us. in
coming off the election, john boehner conceded that obama care was the law of the land and that it s time to just basically sit back and watch and gleimplement. since then he s had to dial that back because that conservative wing is absolutely entrenched and will not let him bring this vote to the floor. meanwhile, this was interesting because ann romney actually weighed in on what s going on in washington, d.c. and proposed this solution. take a look. i d like to invite everyone to come to my table, sit down, have some coffee cake and let s not get up from the table till we ve got it figured out. the coffee cake summit. it s not a bad idea. so bill, let me talk to you. maybe coffee cake is this afternoon at 5:30 when the four show up at the white house with pelosi, reid, mcconnell and boehner. but you noted that there is this new strategy among republicans, the piecemeal bill approach. we just had congressman duffy on talking about that, that this is just the way that it s done
exchanges, people also encountered problems trying to apply. surrounded by families who enrolled for insurance coverage president obama asked for patience in a statement yesterday afternoon and also made this argument to shoot back at critics who seized on the glitches. just a couple of weeks ago, apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days they found a glitch, so they fixed it. i don t remember anybody suggesting apple should stop selling iphones or ipads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn t. that s not how we do things in america. joining me now from the white house is david simas, white house deputy senior adviser for communications and strategy. david, it s great to have you here. obviously, sure, when something is new, there s going to be glitches and you have to figure out where those hurdles are. the rnc released a list of articles and other media reports on those glitches and republican lawmakers say this is evidence, this is the proof
columbia. so a lot of this is all about strategy and not about how do you get to an end game or a goal. neither has changed their goals. and what i think is going to happen is this is going to play out until you meet the debt ceiling and then while you think they may or some of your commentators think they may be all rolled in together, i think there is a colossal crisis building up then about the middle of october and the district of columbia will be caught in that crisis unless you let my people go. correct, october the 17th. so a lot of people do speculate that these two could be funneling and barreling down to the same dateline. i think americans do believe in what you re saying here, that it is more important about the long game than the short kick the can down the road measures. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, thanks for your time. always a pleasure. the longer the shutdown continues, the more we re hearing about how it plays out across the country.