Lagarde, head of the monetary fund. Ill ask her what kind of damage has been done to americas reputation and how that could affect the worlds economy. And former secretary of defense, leon panetta. Is the shutdown hurting our National Security, and what he thinks is different today from the last shutdown in 1996. Policy of threats and basically holding the country hostage whether its on a continuing resolution or debt ceiling or raising these kinds of blackmail approaches. Im david gregory. All that ahead on this edition of meet the press for sunday, october 13. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longestrunning television program, this is meet the press. And good sunday morning. Wish there were better news to tell you but congress and president obama are still crawling to the finish line in the race to end the fiscal crisis with the deadline this coming thursday. The focus is now in the senate. In session today, House Speaker john boehner annouced saturday the talks between the ho
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women around you, men and women, to break those barriers. and third, don t take yourself too seriously. try to bring a bit of humor in the equation. it helps. as you have said on more than one occasion, smile and grit your teeth a lot. yes. sometimes you have to, right? i ve done quite a bit of that. merci beau coup. coming up, how failure to reach an agreement could impact the markets. a new poll out this week of some jaw-dropping numbers. has the american people agreement in washington finally reached bottom? kathleen parker, judi woodruff, harold ford, jr. and our own chuck todd. back in a moment. judi woodruff
0 they can t agree among themselves about what they want to have done in this negotiation. the conversation that started yesterday between senator mcconnell, the republican senate leader, and senator reid, i think, has the promise of finding a solution. i don t want to be overly optimistic, but there s a lot at stake. it isn t just the government shutdown, and that s laid off 800,000 federal employees and denied basic services. it goes way beyond this, as we know. if in four days we default on our debt for the first time in our history, it is going to have a dramatic negative impact. senator portman, i want to get beyond talking points, i want to get beyond just pure argument. the american people simply want to know, why can t congress do its job? first of all, congress can t do its job unless democrats are willing to talk, and the reason he said it was a breakthrough is because the president has refused to negotiate. it s unbelievable. this is the first time in history that a pres