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We ate the release of a hostage, colombias president has refused the meeting. We will talk about that and more with the reverend himself later in the show. It is tuesday, october 1, and you are watching rt. Happy Government Shutdown day, everyone. Because of congressional inability and unwillingness to find congruent compromise on a spending bill, the government has shut down for the first time in 17 years. Across the country, museums have closed, 8000 people have received furlough notices, nasa is essentially shuttered, the list goes on. Congress is still no closer to a resolution. In fact we might be moving in the exact opposite direction. The senate voted to reject the houses request to hold formal talks on a stopgap spending bill in a Conference Committee. The stopgap measure would have been a six weeks spending bill to spun the government and would have kept the debate in congress going, essentially kicking the can down the road. President obama weighed in on the shutdown. I will

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