Good to see you. Im yasmin vossoughian. We got all eyes on capitol hill. High drama, frantic activity, ahead of this midnight deadline. Right, ten hours away. To a possible shutdown of the government. And vote expected to start any moment now. In the house. Kevin mccarthy put forward what he calls a clean Continuing Resolution to end a Shutdown Crisis that he created. Hoping democrats will be forced to vote for. It daring farright members to vote against. It and trying to throw the blame and the problem in the senate slap. Anybody who has watched what has been going on in the past few days knows that the senate did its job in a bipartisan way. I dont know what hes talking about, i have no idea what hes talking about. By the, way as you have these politicians bickering back and forth, millions of people who will be impacted by this potential shutdown, military, border urged, air traffic controllers, all willing to find out if their lives are gonna be upended. Yet again. Full coverage of
the government open in april, signed off on $1.6 billion, so it is a little weird that we are hanging up the entire government over this. that is like one-tenth of 1% of the entire federal budget. but these are not normal times. i hate to use the word normal, no one really knows what that means anymore. it seems like there is a fairly small difference between the two sides and how they resolve it. if somebody is able to save face on both sides, you know, you would think that they can get some sort of deal. that next pay. for them that will cover this period of time, that will be when the pain really starts to set in. rick: and i don t think there s any question that the longer it goes, the more pressure there is on both sides. right. right now we are just not seeing that kind of urgency. they are discussions happening, but the principles are not
disappointment. we talk about main street people kind of know but i don t think they actually under the trend. this is like the proverbial no small that is running down the bill and quickly becoming a gigantic boulder. numbers out of chicago about manufacturing there, they are contracting there since september of 2009. all of these economic signs are horrific. the mainstream media this should be headline news, quite frankly. martha: and you would also think that because this is the number one job of the president, that there would be meetings going on and there would be discussions happening, that there would be some sense of urgency in dealing with this issue in doing the presidential job and taking it on. look what is happening in the streets of spain. you look at what is happening in italy and look at our numbers, and let s play this bob woodward sound byte buy goes t which goes to this effect.