which i m not doing a very good job of right now, americans aren t quite making the grade compared to what s happening in other countries. i don t mean just school kids. we re talking about grownups here, adults. adults scored below average in math, reading and problem solving using technology. researchers tested about 166,000 people in more than 20 countries in a study called the program for international assessment of adult competencies. back with some of the most competent adults i know, christiane amanpour, jeff toobin, anna thnavarro and fran kooby. it s distressing but not surprisin surprising. u.s. spends more of its gdp than most countries. i didn t say it was acceptable. the most nobel laureates. all of us have been talking about it for years about how much education needs improvement
county date back to august. last month, a fire was reported at a different substation, then yesterday, two power poles were cut, causing that massive outage. and after 22 years of marriage, kris and bruce jenner separating. they managed to keep the split under wraps for a year. they say they re much happier living apart. the pair says they are still best friends and their family remains a top priority for the pair. the jenners have two daughters together, both have four children from previous marriages. just in case you needed to know before you headed out for the day. even with the matching vespas, couldn t make it work. matching vespas are not the glue that holds together a marriage. thank you for that. let s get back to the battle in washington over the partial shutdown and looming debt ceiling deadline. could there be a way out? let s hope. that s the question. let s try and get some answers, joining us, cnn political commentator, anna thnavarro and
exactly a red state democrat. yes. yes, paul ryan would be a perfect person two things have to happen for that to work. obama care has to stay off the table. the wall street journal piece doesn t mention obama care. if that becomes the focus and it s a solution through raising revenue and cutting spending, that s great. boehner has to stop looking over his shoulder for the tea party. you can blame boehner for taking into considering the full influence. the president has to do the same thing. plenty of his members of his party are worried about where this is going. that s politics. this debt ceiling, we re about to have dr. coburn come on here, the senator, he s going to stay stop talking about all this bad stuff that s going to happen. it s not going to happen. whether we raise the ceiling or not, we ll pay, we ll get into it on television. i m just a reporter. what do you make, anna, of that theme bubbling up out of the party? this credit stuff, this is bogus, scare tactic
lamont hill. we are ganging up on you because that s how important it is. we re taking it out on you. let me ask you why, anna, here s what it is. the republicans are saying got to sit at the table, got to compromise, got to compromise. the president comes out and says i ll take short term, which he hadn t said before. has to be clean, don t condition it on anything. i ll even take short term. the response from leader boehner is, this is unconditional surrender or nothing. is that fair? no. is that the right way? you say compromise, boehner says he wants to compromise. at least there s something and it seems like a slap in the face. let s give it 24 hours, right? one thing is, the immediate reaction, let s give it 24 hours. i m sure he s hearing from his caucus. i m sure they re looking at what president obama said. i saw a little give in what he said. really?