But let me start tonight with this. The Government Shutdown was shattered just hours ago by the death of a woman who just minutes before that had crashed her car into the white house gate. A city already tensed up with a compound of unpaid salaries required essential services and an uncertain future was shaken by the crash at the white house gates. A televised car chase, the violent death of a woman driver, a young child in that vehicle witnessing the horrible end. [ gunfire ] the death will no doubt become an iconic tragedy in this period of Government Shutdown, driven by the hatred of the president s Affordable Care act and the compulsion of his critics on the hard right to punish him politically. Whatever mix of causes drove the woman to this day, the event is now a vivid tragedy played out in the streets of the nations capital. We get the latest now from nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, give us a sense of this. What do we know . Well, we dont know the motive. We
Repeat cannot take yes for an answer. Well, that went well. All sides emerging just as dug in as before. What is the end game here . Youd have to ask the group. Our guest congressman nunez calls his fellow republicans lemmings with suicide vests for their refusal to Fund Obama Care along with the rest of the government. I dont understand the strategy. This is shutdown showdown. Good evening, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to this special half hour of cnn, shutdown showdown. Were coming to you live tonight from the nations capitol. The only city in america where you have to work this hard to get absolutely nothing accomplished. Were coming up on 48 hours since the government partially shut down. And if you are a furloughed government worker, do not bother setting your alarm tonight. This mess will not be any closer to a resolution when you wake up. You can be forgiven if you got your hopes up. Earlier tonight the four top leaders in Congress Went to the white house to meet with presi
today. where we have to get something out of this, and i don t know what that even is. yeah. it was that was amazing. his war room s working. he picked up on stutzman s comments and referenced them in his speech already this morning. let s listen to his reaction to stutzman s strategizing here. if you re being disrespected, it s because of that attitude you ve got. that you deserve to get something for doing your job. and then came the stutzman walkback a little while later. stutzman s office put out a statement that reads in part, yesterday i carelessly misrepresented the ongoing budget debate and speaker boehner s work on behalf of the american people. i don t know. but i guess he was trying to say in a tongue-twisted way, senator, we ve got to get something for all this grief, or what? what are they talking about? well, here they hurt millions of innocent people without a strategy, with just strong-arm tactics, and now they say they need to be respected. the reason the
the tea party always wanted to shut the government down. and they did. and unfortunately, they used very strong-arm tactics, particularly in the house, and scared people. one of the leading, more reform-minded people who was trying to round up votes among the moderates, and now we seem to have more than enough votes to pass opening up the government, but while he was rounding up the votes tea party forces would go to the people he was going to and say if you do this we re giving you a primary. so ted cruz doesn t have a strategy. they have a bludgeon and they have this desire, fanatical desire to end obama care, but they don t have a strategy of how to do it. republican congressman marvin stutzman of indiana gave perhaps the most revealing quote about why congress is paralyzed. he says that for republicans it s about saving face. they need some sort of consolation prize for what they ve been doing. let s listen. we re not going to be disrespected. and so that s where we re at
0 news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, give us a sense of this. what do we know? well, we don t know the motive. we don t know why this woman, identified as 34-year-old miriam carey of stamford, connecticut, a dental hygienist, why she came to washington in the first place and why she did what she did. police say that this all started about a quarter after 2:00. this car hit a security barrier at one of the checkpoints that ring the white house. now, this is not right by the white house. it s one of the very outer perimeters. and for some reason she then drove off at a very high speed, pursued by uniformed officers of the secret service. and in fact, the secret service says when she hit one of the barriers at the gate, at the white house gate there, at 15th and e street, the secret service tried to stop her using these little portable gates, i guess you could say, that they put out in front of a car to keep them from going. and a witness said she simply floored the engine,