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agreement on the long-term spending bill and that would just be a way to kind of tide congress over until they could kind of get all of the logistics done on the long-term deal. right now, it s kind of up in the air but he is pooh-poohing what house republicans have proposed. a former congressman is in libya right now meeting with moammar gadhafi. curt weldon met the leader in 2004 but this time the trip is private. he says the following. weldon talked with cnn affiliate wpix before the meeting. i m here to tell it him face-to-face it s time for him to leave, it s time for him to step down, allow the people to take over the government of this country. wellon says gadhafi s steve
minutes. no deal on the federal budget but did you think there would be? deadline friday 11:59 eastern p.m. and if they can t make a deal the federal government will shut down. here are a few of the ways you will feel it. looking forward to your tax refund? the new york times says the irs might stop sending checks. the national weather service will keep watching dangerous storms but it might not deliver services like the five-day forecast. and you may have to postpone that trip to a national park. they could close along with some museums. passport applications could be held ub, too. the president is telling congress to act like grown-ups but he not the only one talking tough. here is what a republican congressman paul broun told me last hour. i got a challenge for the president. start acting like a leader. he has been absent and finally came to the table yesterday. we have been dealing with this for months and months. brianna keilar is live on capitol hill.
preparations and lining up contingency plans and some members of congress are ticking off the seconds until the oba / obama/reid shutdown occurs. congressman brown joins us live. thanks for having me. thanks for being here. do you really think democrats want the government to shut down? absolutely. i think they are doing this for political purposes. during the lame duck session, they started trying to figure out how to get nancy pelosi to give harry reid a big majority in the senate and reelect obama next year. since republicans pledged to cut $100 billion in spending, they said, here is the way we will do this. we will give them a few crumbs, look like we are reasonable. we will shut the government down, blame republicans. there will be a backlash against
republicans and we will get all these things accomplished. i think it was a very diabolical plan they put together back last year after the november election. they are carrying it out. a good example is the fact that barack obama has not even been engaged in these budget talks. president obama did engage yesterday. i want to play a bit of what he had to say. here is president obama s take on things. i think what the american people expect from me is the same thing they expect from every member of congress, that is that we are looking out for the interests of the american people and not trying to score political points. i think what they are looking for from me is the same thing they are looking for from speaker boehner and harry reid and everybody else. that is, that we act like grown-ups. your reaction to the act like grown-ups. if you look at the polls, americans are split evenly on who is to blame for this possible government shutdown. i have got a challenge for