who initiated this protest? it was tea party republicans. come on, ben. cut the crap. it s a misplaced emotion. the person in the white house quite frankly did not shut the government down. the republican party. tea party members shut the government down. there s something deeply enraging to these folks that there s a black family in the white house right now. that s why they did that? it s a threat. it s a pretty small group. they said this would be the million vet march and there were only a couple hundred folks out there but they have leaders like sarah palin and ted cruz indulging their worse impulses and paranoid fantasies. joi want to say that the cnn anchor was making reference to that video we saw of them bringing those gates to the gates of the white house. the woman who was on msnbc was
we re back, and i m here with robert george, michelle goalbrick and josh bauer. we re talking about this big kind of tea party rally that happened on the mall this weekend, yesterday, actually. it was called the million vet march, billed as an apolitical celebration of america s veterans and indignation that the memorial was shut down, but then it became the big tea party rally, flags and quite honestly, an iconic photo of a guy in front of the white house with a big confederate flag. my question to you is, is it fair to show this and be like, this represents something about what these folks, where these folks are coming from? well, i think it wouldn t be fair if a similar message hadn t been spouted by one speaker after another at this rally. i mean, obviously, it s in the nature of images to be reductive and sum things up in a single person, but we heard over and over and over again from these
will we surrender our freedom? no! god bless ted cruz and mike lee! our veterans should be above politics. you look around, though, and you see these barricades. this is a matter of shutdown priorities. understand the political spectacle at this weekend s million vet march, you have to go back two weeks when republicans shut down the government, furloughing hundreds of thousands of government workers, including many of the park rangers who patrol our war memorials, you may remember one republican personally berated a park ranger for the shutdown he helped cause. park service should be ashamed of themselves. i m not ashamed. you should be. and the circus was on. republicans and their allies tried to sell closing of the world war ii memorial as an evil obama plot. they want to make sure that world war ii veterans get shut out. to put up barricades to keep them away from their greatest accomplishments is an absolute sin. it s un-american and it s
already mid october mid april? mid october, columbus day. i know. columbus day is upon us. federal holiday. a couple of thing things you need to know. the post office and banks are closed. stock markets are open. stock markets are open. go figure. stay with us and then check your stocks. perfect. there you go. a crucial week for the nation s finances. it is day 14 of the government shutdown. perhaps more ominous is the debt ceiling which will be reached on thursday. negotiations on capitol hill this weekend did not resolve any issues. here s abc s jeff zeleny. reporter: anger boiling over. a protest from the world war ii memorial. let s go! reporter: to the lincoln memorial. a group of veterans calling their demonstration the million vet march. how far is the white house? reporter: then hauling the barricades
reach. hopefully as we move into this next week and markets are reopening, hopefully both sides will get back in the middle of the road, do something that pull a little rope towards making us stronger fiscally and set the stage for something bigger let me ask the final question. do you think it may take the markets tanking, reacting negatively to get you guys off the dime? i think this time more than last time i think people more fully understand the impacts and understand we re in a pretty fragile recovery. i hope that s not what it takes. there are a lot of folks, for what it s worth, a lot of folks in the senate that really want a good solid solution that doesn t gouge either side. hopefully that s what s going to prevail. finally senator manchin, since the shutdown began, we saw the park service shut down the world war ii memorial to veterans. we see a demonstration there. the so-called million vet march