anderson cooper 360 story, anderson ran with it. i know three things. one, if i was in charlotte, north carolina tonight, i would be going to the chop shop to see man man on tour. two, i would steal that tunic during sound check. three, we finally have an answer to a question that a young balloon boy posed many, many years ago as he awaited his interview with wolf blitzer. say hi to the wolf. his name is wolf. hi. who the hell is wolf? i ll tell you. he is an enigma. a muse and forever in song as a vodka-swilling baby eater he shall be remembered. all right, anderson. i also know a few things. one, if i was in tucson tonight i d go to the man man concert at club congress and i bet i d get in for free. two, i know that a band called cryptic murmurs once wrote a song about you. maybe you re just a little bit jealous because my song kind of kicks your song s butt.
affordable care act. i said this yesterday, let me repeat it that s not going to happen. i realize that a lot of what s teg pla taking place is political grandstanding, but this grandstanding has real effects on real people. if the government shuts down on tuesday, military personnel, including those risking their lives overseas for us right now, will not get paid on time. federal loan for rural community, small business owners, families buying a home will be frozen. so any republican in congress who s currently watching, i encourage you to think about who you re hurting. earlier today the senate passed a spending bill stripped of a republican-backed provision to block money for president obama s health care law. that vote sent the bill back to the house with the clock ticking. midnight monday is the deadline. here s where things stand. house speaker john boehner has said the house won t send a bill back to the senate without amendments.
i said this yesterday. let me repeat it. that s not going to happen. i realize that a lot of what s taking place right now is political grandstanding, but this grandstanding has real effects on real people. if the government shuts down on tuesday, military personnel, including those risking their lives overseas for us right now, will not get paid on time. federal loans for rural communities, small business owners, families buying a home will be frozen. so any republican in congress who s currently watching, i encourage you to think about who you re hurting. earlier today, the senate passed a spending bill stripped of the republican-backed revision to block money for president obama s health care law. that vote sent the bill back to the house with the clock ticking. midnight monday is the deadline. here s where things stand. house speaker john boehner has said the house won t send a bill back to the senate without amendments. and senate majority leader harry reid says the senate won t
negotiations to avert this. so i will say, i have seen in the past that congress will pass a one-day c.r. or a two-day c.r., that kind of thing. so that s still possible. but at the moment there does not seem to be any kind of here s our plan that we go to when all else fails. in the old days and you remember this, david, ronald reagan and tip o neal would get together and fight and fight but then they d make a deal. do you see the president and the speaker right now doing anything along those lines? not quite yet, wolf, but i think they will before it s over. for starters, wolf, isn t it interesting an illustration of how upside down the world has become that a president at the podium today was speaking so warmly of our enemies like iran and past days about russia and speaking so harshly about people across the aisle? in his own country? that s really where our politics has come to. it s very, very unfortunate.
other so-called adults would be involved in make sure there isn t a government shutdown. what are you hearing? reporter: that nothing is going on behind the scenes in terms of here s plan d if this whole thing explodes and the clock is about to strike midnight, here s what we re going to do. i hear nothing about cross-party negotiations to avert this. so i will say i have seen in the past that congress will pass a one-day c.r. or a two-day c.r., that kind of thing. so that s still possible. but at the moment there does not seem to be any kind of here s our plan that we go to when all else fails. in the old days and you remember this, david, ronald reagan and tip o neal would get together and fight and fight but then they d make a deal. do you see the president and the speaker right now doing anything along those lines? not quite yet, wolf, but i think they will before it s