going to meet with the iranian president and won t meet with us. so they re getting their wish. let s be clear in, some ways president obama is sort of calling their bluff. however, if brianna is right and i m sure she is, based on conversations she s had and i ve had with democrats that they are insisting they are holding firm, they are not going to negotiate, they will not do anything beyond just passing a, one bill that funds the government, you ve got to wonder where this is going to go. one possibility is to sort of wrap these discussions about the government shutdown or funding the government with the very soon, what is very soon, which is the debt ceiling which is, of course, we ve talked about this so many times. so much more catastrophic potentially to not just the u.s. economy but the global economy if the u.s. defaults on its loans. so that date is october 17th. we re not that far away. we re what, 15 days away from there. it s possible that the president might start to say
clean funding bill as you ve heard it called. so a funding bill without any conditions attached, without any obama care delay or defunding and that he wants them to increase the debt ceiling, as well without any conditions. what we ve been watching in washington is this kind of endless loop of the house putting a bill out there, the obama administration putting a vote toe threat on it, the senate dismantling it sending it back to the house. i think the white house after four sort ofs go of that, president obama is having this meeting. as far as we know at least right now, this isn t going to be on camera. so we may not see it. i think this is president obama bringing congressional leaders in and telling them to move forward, that they can t mess with his signature health care reform program. it s more of what we ve heard him say, just saying it again. brianna, is this more about the image here, the perception, the theatrics if you want to be cynical about all this, if he s not willin
anywhere. we re at an impasse. let s start talking about the debt ceilinging and what we can work on vis-a-vis that and maybe they can wrap it all together. who knows or it just might be optics. i know it s cynical. but it might be the president can say i sat down with leaders. all right, dana bash, brianna keeller is, thank you. it is hard to imagine what are they going to get done here? they ve both dug in pretty hard. and the senate democrats including the president say he s not going to deal with this piecemeal refunding the government. that s not going to happen. at least i suppose as dana was saying, at least it looks like they re meeting. that s what everyone s been calling for. better than not meeting. who knows? a lot of americans watching all of this, frustrated by the shutdown. especially those losing money over it. i m frustrated because if they don t get this budget fixed, then my husband doesn t
via a tweet from the white house press secretary saying potus invites senator reid, nancy pelosi, mcconnell press and speaker boehner to the white house later today to discuss the need to reopen the government. raise the debt ceiling. want to bring in dana bash on capitol hill, brianna at the white house. brianna, first of all, we know the pressure s on here. the president has made very clear he s not negotiating actually the obama care and attaching it to the budget. so what is he going to offer? well, at this, point, we don t expect he will offer anything. that s what white house officials i ve spoken to are saying. this isn t going to be a negotiation. we are told that when congressional leaders come here at 5:30 p.m. and meet with president obama, his message will be what it has been, which is that he says he will not negotiate on obama care. he wants congress to pass a