it is seamless. in a single day, trump shows his 2020 cards. he s still fighting. a woman who was upset after the hurricane shutdown, she was upset with trump. the quote she had for him, i voted for him, he s the one who s doing this, i thought he was going to do things, he s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting. that s what he s trying to do is harming the right people. he s running a based selection and govern as a base president. i have never seen this where the president decided i am not president of the united states, i am president of the make america great part of the united states and that s 20% to 30% of the population. he s now going to ratchet up the rhetoric and the action. it is not just words. it is his policy to get his base to vote. it is the only way he sees a
process, but until it s 100%, i m not going to be satisfied. elizabeth, as you know, they had two or three years to get that website ready, spend hundreds of millions to do is. the president himself is clearly frustrated and ringry that it s not yet ready i want it s interested. on october 1st he came out and said, you know what? new programs, new web sites have glitches. he used as an example the apple ios7. it had a glitch and it got fixed quickly, and it wasn t a big deal. people were saying this is not a minor glitch. this is a big deal. so it s interesting to hear him say two weeks into the process, you know, that yes, this is a, you know, a substantial problem that needs to be fixed. that isn t the tone of what he said in the beginning. all right. thanks very much, eleads bicohen reporting for us. culling up, once again we re awaiting a senate vote to end the shutdown, extend the debt
news coming into the situation room right now. even with lawmakers apparently poised to temporarily reopen the government, extend the debt ceiling, americans have already paid a huge price for this government shutdown. standard & poor s now says, it estimates that the shutdown has already taken, get this, $24 billion out of the u.s. economy and warns that a default will roll back all the gains made in the recovery, put the economy right back in recession. doesn t look like there s going to be a default right now, but once again, in february, that whole issue could be decided. once again, this whole issue could be revived. this standard & poor s estimate, by the way, it already says, based on what has happened and the uncertainty of what will happen in january, when there could be another government shutdown, or february, when the debt ceiling once again has to be raised, based on that uncertainty, they now estimate, they now estimate that the u.s.
$24 billion, and they ve now downgraded the estimate of the economic growth in the fourth quarter of this year. they earlier thought it was going to be 3% economic growth. they now think, because of the uncertainty of what s about to happen in january and february, and people are going to be reluctant to hire, big business or whatever, they now think it could be closer to 2%. that means jobs. that means a lot of money. it does. and when you re talking about jobs, 2% economic growth is not going to be churning out a whole lot of new jobs. and when you talk to business leaders, they are really worried about these budget battles, one after another, wolf. even though we ve gotten past this countdown clock, there will be others ahead. when you look at $24 billion, for example, think of that has a natural disaster, hurricane shutdown, i ve been calling it, right? self-inflicted, self-inflicted. washington made this mess. you can get over that kind of economic damage from a natural disaster
more people don t like the shutdown, but the farther it s gone, they re finding out that practical effects on their life and livelihood. if you vote, excuse me for interrupting, congressman. but if you vote in favor of whatever emerges the from the senate, you fearful that you could be primaried next time you seek re-election? i think the people in my district want us to be able to resolve this. they also want to see the long-term debt resolved and start to make progress in the affordable care act. it s a combination of all those things. tive got to be able to look and see, are we making progress on long-term debt. you mentioned fitch earlier. fitch in 2011 did not downgrade us, specifically because in our last debt ceiling fight, we actually came to an agreement that has reduced spending and has started to balance out some of that. that didn t happen in this one. so while fitch didn t like the partisan bickering and neither do we, they also want to see some resolution. that s not