all-out public relations asalt on each other. could there be a ray of hope from within the gop itself? 31 hours now into the mix, we head to washington where brianna keilar has the latest. reporter: good morning. the shutdown is affecting president obama s foreign travel. he was supposed to go to asia next week for four stops. well, last night he called the leaders of the philippines as well as malaysia to let them know he would not be making those two stops. his visit to this point to indonesia and brunei where he is planning to attend summits, still on, at least right now as the showdown over the shutdown continues. the impasse in congress is no closer to being resolved this morning. the motion to table is agreed to. reporter: with nearly 800,000 federal employees off their jobs for a second day, president obama is blaming tea party republicans for shutting down the government over their
angry at president obama and the democrats, angry at the house republicans, depending on their point of view. and, of course, there are many politicians from both major parties here. but generally speaking the anger was on the sidelines and whenever people started yelling, others said let the veterans have their moment. don t ruin this for them. and people generally respected that. jake tapper there in d.c. thanks, jake. we ll see more from you you at 4:00 p.m. notice they said vets did their jobs and they want the government, specifically congress to do theirs, as well. it is impacting real people. one woman has been squeezed since those forced cuts, called the sequester and now taking a second hit with the shutdown, plus, what furlough means for some federal workers. that s next on cnn newsroom. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis
effort to agree with somebody instead of acting like a bunch of babies. you should act like adults, because you are, and agree with people. 9 years old. why is this so easy for you to figure out? yes? because we re kids and sometimes kids, we have smarter ideas than grown-ups. i mean, we think we have our answers, folks. carl for congress. i was wondering what you re drawing over there. he has a great future. he s good looking and he looks at you with a straight face. that s about all you need. can i do that? he s too honest right now. work on that. lose that over time and you ll do well. when i talked to the kids, they look up to public servants. this is something they aspire to do someday. they see there s a heroism involved. we forget that. even in the media, we get caught
absolutely. it depends on how long it goes on. it s counterproductive no matter what. when you have people who are federal employees not getting paychecks, that s going to hurt. and you re talking about 800,000 people furloughed here. when you loo can at the economic numbers, it looks like a two-week shutdown by one forecast about 0.3 percentage points after of gdp. that means you re not seeing as much growth as you like. last four weeks, you knock about 1.4 percentage points off gdp. that s cutting economic growth in half. that s just a shutdown, counterproductive, very counterproductive. christine, the cost to the country here, however, if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, what are we looking at in terms of numbers, employment and long-term? this is so critical. there s so much misinformation about the debt ceiling. there are folks who really truly believe that if you don t run the debt ceiling, you re somehow forcing fiscal as you tirt in washington. america has always
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