of course, i do. really? if it works for you? i m happy with it. it s just your preference. it s a fascinating i suppose, union is the best way to describe it. the show is called the governor s wife. good luck to both of you. i appreciate it. you made us feel young at heart today. now to my new book give away. we found two winners tonight. let s start with yankee goddess who is diana samuel, she tweeted thank you for acting like a true american. love you. and incident commander, frank gamez who said i can t understand your accent on piers morgan tonight. send me your book. of course i will. we ll have another competition tomorrow night. there will be another winner tomorrow night. thanks to both of you for coming in tonight.
prosecutors say he was living a double life, and his motive for the murder was to live with his girlfriend, a woman named gypsy. and a cruise ship requiring parental supervision for kids under the age of 13. and a florida woman got trapped on a drawbridge as it was lifted in to a the air, and held on for her life, citizens are not supposed to use the draw bridge, but again, she was rescued. thank you, that does it for us, we ll see you ac360 later, hope you join us for that. piers morgan tonight starts now. this is cnn breaking news. this is piers morgan live. and breaking news, the senate is close to a deal. close but not yet done, the clock, as you can see, isti is
we are in, to carry on the battle for his widow and orphan. words so strong, for the veteran s association. and the pentagon made a deal with the fisher house foundation to pay benefits to the troop s families. the government will reimburse fisher house when the shutdown ends, if it does. and as far as the end of the shutdown and a looming deadline, both sides seem as far as possible. i want to bring in two congressmen, democrat jim hines of the financial services committee. gentlemen, welcome to you. let me start with you, james langford, you two are standing next to each other, which i guess is an encouraging sign, is there any real sign of movement or has everything moved to a debt ceiling debate which will be resolved around that
promise to harry reid been fulfilled we never would have gotten to this shutdown, which is what we re trying to do right now and what the president is trying to do is find a way for everybody to back down from this treaty that the speaker climbed up on, and get back to a point where we restart the government, take back the debt ceiling, and have the ten-week negotiation which allows us to deal with the long-term stability of this country. you re going to be with the president tomorrow with the republican delegation. clearly the president has made it crystal clear, repeatedly that any amendments to obama care are not on the table. he will not have this held, some metaphorical gun to his head, given that you know this to be, what will be the strategy for the republicans, on this situation that caused so much havoc to the americans? the president wanted the conference to meet with him. we didn t think it would be
we ve seen the stock market numbers when they started to talk about a shutdown, the stock market has also lost ground, the dow was about 6% below what it was before. and all of these things have some pressure on the republican party. let me get to the second point you just raised. there is, in fact, you are right that a default does not automatic trigger by october 17th, that is jack lew and the treasury could prioritize interest payments on our debts. but that would mean at the same time, no, this is the important point, it would mean cutting dramatically everything else the government owes, to social security recipients, to medicare recipients in other words, millions of people would be jeopardized even though creditors would get their money. this would be only by a couple of days. any prioritization will take care of the entitlement payments. medicaid, medicare, social security payments.