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Percent off the economy. They are more concerned about the october 17th debt ceiling deadline that is fast coming and president obama met with senior staff this weekend to discuss the potential shutdown, but unlike past shutdown showdowns, aides say this time theres no back room talks happening between the president and capitol hill. The president says he expects to hear from congressional leaders later today. Theres still time on the clock to keep the lights on in washington. What could the plan look like . We have special shutdown coverage set for today starting with Peter Alexander at the white house and mr. Luke russert on capitol hill. Peter, democrats have said that the president is looking at this as time to punch the bully in the nose. Is that the vibe youre getting . Reporter well, the vibe that they are communicating to u. Jay carney finishing up his press briefing, they say this is not about politics. Its about people not getting hurt, even though the white house and press s
0 show. i spoke to some members going in today, charlie dent from pennsylvania says a clean, republican, a clean government funding bill would pass tonight if it went on the floor as did peter king of new york. there s an idea floated around here to keep in mind this is all fluid, that mitch mcconnell is perhaps putting forward a one-week government funding bill extension to come out of the senate. there s hesitancy about from senate republicans we hear on that by putting the house colleagues on the record for that type of vote. dave camp, chairman of the house ways and means committee told me that s something that they could possibly take a look at. from where we stand right now, tour e, you ll have a repeat of saturday night from the house republican conference. they are going to put forward this bill they know will be shut down by harry reid. then it goes back to the house and then john boehner has a decision to make. does he shut down the government or put a bill that could get dem
members passed a bill to allow the government to borrow money to pay off foreign lenders and social security recipients, the pay china first bill the president vowed to veto it. as the economy picks up steam it could be throwing a wrench in the republican plans to focus the debate on deficit reduction. john boehner yesterday struck a more conciliatory tone. we know we can t cut our way to prosperity. we need real economic growth and that s why you continue to hear a lot of discussion about tax reform, regulatory reform, that would help us produce more economic growth here in our country. we do both, we can begin to solve this problem. joining me today, political editor and white house correspondent at the huffington post, msnbc contributor sam stein, national political water at the washington post mika henderson, ben smith and joining us from washington is cnbc s chief washington correspondent mr. john harwood. this is anything but a casual friday panel, ladies and ge
we didn t actually i don t know that you could see it. but there s, either actually removing the flag from the floor as stenny hoyer is trying to bring up the senate bill. joining us now is luke russert who covers capitol hill for nbc news. give us a little bit of background on this is a fluid situation as we know. what is going on? well it s now a game of optics alex. whichever side feels they re going to win the pr war is going to end up winning this fight. but the house gop is in a very precarious situation this morning. for a few reasons. number one, the article in the wall street journal, it was almost the authority of kind of sophisticated republican politics, really slamming them for this fight. that will resonate with a lot of rank-and-file members who don t want to be on the wrong side of the wall street journal. on top of that, they re not get anything support if their colleagues in the senate. mitch mcconnell has been silent about this, has not spoken out