Masse to israel for his funeral. And it all happened really, really quickly. The Prime Minister was killed on november 4th. The funeral was held two days later on november 6th. And the world essentially coalesced for the funeral. The u. S. Contingent for that funeral in 1995 was enormous. It included not only the current serving president , bill clinton, who was very close to rabin, but also former president jimmy carter and also former president george h. W. Bush, three president s traveling together on air force one for the funeral. There was also a big congressional delegation that went along, including the then spoo speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich. And that trip to israel for the funeral of rabin in november of 1995, that trip, not the events that precipitated it, not the assassination, but the trip itself, specifically the flight, is in part how we got the 1995 shutdown of the federal government, which is the last Government Shutdown before the one were in right now. Quote, gi
Compromise. If youre being disrespected, its because of the attitude. Put your tail between your legs, go back up on the hill and do your work. Nobody gets 100 of what they want. I am happy to have negotiations with Speaker Boehner. A very good friday afternoon to you, and we close out the week with thousands of American Workers on furlough. Air force one stationary. The president cancelling his planned trip to asia. And the prospect of a financial catastrophe in the form of the debt ceiling deadline. And earlier today, House Speaker john boehner appeared ready to crack under the pressure. This isnt some damn game. The American People dont want their government shut down and neither do i. He says that, but we all know that if the speaker wanted to end the shutdown, all he has to do is to put a clean bill on the floor and it will pass. The president will sign it, and were open for business. But the speakers remarks are part of the gops laserfocus on an anonymous white house official quo
Its the bottom of the ninth day of the Government Shutdown. And with the nation edging closer by the day to a firstever default, the president is summoning lawmakers to try and break through the deadlock. All House Democrats have been invited to 1600 pennsylvania avenue to meet with the president this hour. And tomorrow the president invited all 232 House Republicans to follow suit. 18 of them are actually planning to show up. A small group of leaders and committee chairman, handpicked by the speaker. The white house moments ago issued a statement saying they are disappointed that all would not attend and earlier today in what passes for bipartisanship during these dark days in washington, House Republican leaders boehner and cantor met with their democratic counterparts, pelosi and hoyer. Unfortunately, to listen to speaker boehner, he spent the last nine days distilling his talking points on the president S Health Care law. What a train wreck. We need to sit down and have a conversat
Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, polite but unproductive. Today both sides sticking to their positions with republicans refusing to fund the government unless obama care takes a hit. The white house insisting that the house pass a clean bill that funds the government. We start our Coverage Today with nbcs kelly odonnell, whos on capitol hill. Kelly, i know there was at least a little bit of a bipartisan lunch with senator rand paul. Then you have two members of congress, one democrat, one a republican, coming out with some kind of
The new democratic plan, really more like a new democratic trick to try to end the Government Shutdown, even if the republicans in congress do not want to. Two of these democratic tricks were actually unveiled today. The first one they tried already, and it didnt work. But the second one they are announcing, and its going to take a while, but i suppose it might work. Heres how this goes. The guy on the right side of your screen here is a republican. His name is pete sessions. The woman on the left side of your screen is a democrat. Her name is Louise Slaughter. Shes the top democrat on the rules committee, and hes the Top Republican on that committee. Because the republicans are in charge in the house, that means that he is the chairman. But even though shes a democrat and doesnt chair the committee, Louise Slaughter makes the most of her time on the rules committee. Shes a bit of a schemer. Shes always coming up with something. So the first thing the democrats tried today was a Louise