A rare live for room call used by majority leader harry reid to bring senators to the floor to talk about the Government Shutdown, now in its eighth day. Also on capitol hill, an immigration rally which about 200 people were involved in. A dozen or so democratic lawmakers were arrested during the immigration rally on capitol hill, including john lewis of georgia and joe crowley of new york. We are going to open our phone lines to hear from you on this eighth day, as the Government Shutdown enters its second week. Can be part of the conversation by phone. The numbers are on your screen. I mentioned the house passing a bill that would create what is called a working group or so called supercommittee, the king at spending issues, including entitlements and other issues. It has passed in the house but not received much favor in the white house. Here is a headline in roll call this evening. Emily pierce said president obama dismissed the house gop posner was idea of creating a supercommitte
Together with photos of the shutdown at different parks. According to the National Park service, 401 National Park sites are closed under this partial Government Shutdown. Over 20,000 furloughed staff. 3,000 staff deemed essential. 715,000 park visitors per day turned away. 450,000 in lost federal revenue per day. 300,000 in lost entrance fees. 150,000 in other lost spending. On the 715,000 visitors turned away, who makes that decision . How and why they are turned away . Guest under the federal shutdown, the Government Shutdown, congress basically has shut down the federal government. And so what that has caused is all the National Parks must close their doors. As you can imagine the National Parks is responsible for the protection of our National Parks and Public Safety. And so when they have to furlough 85 of their workers, they dont have the staff to keep the parks opened and to maintain them, provide the kind of Public Safety and assurances that people visiting the parks can count
401ks and home values fall, borrowing costs for mortgages and Student Loans rise, and there would be a significant risk of a very deep recession. At a time when we are still climbing our way out of the worst recession in our lifetimes. The American People have already fought too hard and too long to come back from one crisis only to see a handful of more extreme republicans in the house of representatives precipitate another one. The good news is over the past 3 1 2 years our businesses have created 7. 5 million new jobs. Our Housing Market is healing. We have cut the deficit in half since i took office. The deficit is coming down faster than any time in the last 50 years. Americas poised to become the Number One Energy producer in the world this year. This year for the first time in a very long time we are producing more oil than we are importing. So we got a lot of good things going for us, but the uncertainty caused by just one week of this nonsense so far has caused businesses to r
The nasdaq is selling off the most. We are nine days away from a potential that the fault if we do not raise our debt ceiling. Adam president obama is urging john boehner in a phone call this morning to hold a vote on raising the debt ceiling. Rich edson is at the white house where we are expecting the president to make a statement and take some questions in about an hour. Rich that is correct. There was a phone call earlier this morning. Fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and then we will have a negotiation. We continue this impasse. As for our markets, is the method really missing or hitting washing washington . This. The first thing that will not happen is we will not default on any of our obligations in terms of our debt. That will not happen. It seems that this will get rolled into the debt ceiling fight. Speaker boehner, the president and harry reid, no real substance there. Back to you. Adam president obama will make a statement and take some questions at 1 00 p. M. Lor
Tweeting the ed show. All right . I appreciate you doing it very much. I appreciate you having me. Its great to hear your story. Its important to hear your story and i appreciate it very much. James macdonald, thanks for joining us tonight. Thats the ed show. Politicsnation with reverend al sharpton starts right now. Good evening, rev. Good evening, ed. And thanks to you for tuning in. Tonights lead, dishonoring our fallen heroes. This republican shutdown of the government has created a new outrage thats shocked the conscience of the nation. Nbc news reports since the shutdown, the military has been unable to pay death benefits to the families of u. S. Troops who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. This is marine Lance Corporal jeremiah collins. His family called him jay. Jay died saturday while serving in afghanistan. Corporal collins was just 19 years old. His body was returned to Dover Air Force base in delaware yesterday. By now, his mother should have received a de