Avenue. It is the position he will take until the republicans do the right thing, right . Why not just open the government at funding levels that they were very content with and that demands ofesents the the president. That is our position. What about the decision of the Security Council will that anyway affect the push by the administration to raise americas profile in asia . The cancellation is another consequence of the house force aansdecisions to shutdown of the government, and it is completely avoidable of a completely avoidable shutdown. To advance u. S. Leadership and interests in the largest in theg region world, the president is committed to the pivot of u. S. Policy toward a jeff asia, towards this important region of the world come and he looks forward to work with allies and partners in asiapacific region and returning to the region at a later date. Secretary kerry will lead delegations to indonesia and brunei in place of the president. Your opening comments today, that th
Millions of dollars have been spent on uavs for local Police Departments. It is monday, september 30. 5 00 p. M. In washington, d. C. U. N. Weapons inspectors are due to arrive in damascus tomorrow, to begin taking inventory of the syrian weapons arsenal, the first step in ridding the company of Dutch Country of its stockpile, the result of a Unanimous Un Security Council agreement after a point of contention between the u. S. And russia was stripped from the resolution. The requirement of punitive action against the Syrian Government if it did not comply with disarmament. Syrian president Bashar Alassad has vowed to fully cooperate with the mission, a mission that aims to destroy the full chemical arsenalfor the latest,. The syrian foreign minister address the u. N. General assembly this morning. Did anything notable come from this speech . The syrian delegation is breathing out a sigh of relief in new york city, following the latenight friday vote on the United Nation security resolu
Of irresponsibility, saying it does not need to happen. Were going to be talking with the White House Communications director in just a couple minutes. We are right now awaiting movement in the senate. Just this past hour, House Republicans voted again to make funding of the government contingent on delaying the implementation of Health Reform. In the next few minutes, the senate is expected to reject what House Republicans just passed. They did it before, expected to happen again. Then back to the house, rinse, repeat, ad nauseam. At this point, House Republicans are expected to be meeting behind closed doors to plan their next moves. Throughout the night, of course, we will bring you live, breaking news as it comes in. When president obama was first elected in 2008, he, of course, came to washington with something every president wants, a house and a senate controlled by his own party. And in the two years where the democrats had the white house, the house and the senate, we got wall
Lagarde, head of the monetary fund. Ill ask her what kind of damage has been done to americas reputation and how that could affect the worlds economy. And former secretary of defense, leon panetta. Is the shutdown hurting our National Security, and what he thinks is different today from the last shutdown in 1996. Policy threats and basically holding the country hostage whether its on a continuing resolution or debt ceiling or raising these kinds of blackmail approaches. Im david gregory. All that ahead on this edition of meet the press for sunday, october 13. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longestrunning television program, this is meet the press. And good sunday morning. Wish there were better news to tell you but congress and plt obama are still crawling to the finish line in the race to end the fiscal crisis with the deadline this coming thursday. The focus is now in the senate. In session today, House Speaker john boehner, and on saturday the talks between the house gop an
The conversation that started yesterday between senator mcconnell, the Republican Senate leader, and senator reid, i think, has the promise of finding a solution. I dont want to be overly op optimist optimistic, but theres a lot at stake. It isnt just the Government Shutdown, and thats laid off 7,000 federal employees and denied basic services. It goes way beyond this, as we know. If in four days we default on our debt for the first time in our history, it is going to have a dramatic negative impact. Senator portman, i want to get beyond talking points, i want to get beyond just pure argument. The American People simply want to know, why cant congress do its job . First of all, congress cant do its job unless democrats are willing to talk, and the reason he said it was a breakthrough is because the president has refused to negotiate. Its unbelievable. This is the first time in history that a president of the United States has said, look, im not even going to talk about it. I served thr