robert is wrong, just trying to scare people. take care of veterans payments, any program would do that what is not prioritized? we are going through a debate in this country about the size and scope of government. and that includes some of the lesser programs. do we need everything we have? that is part of this debate. and i think you re going to see, as this debate continues, and obama is going to be part of this finally. he is going to get involved. there will be decisions made. and you know what? we don t need everything we have in our government. and you know what? we don t need the crazy complex tax system that we have in our system. and you know what? we don t need 5, 6, $700 billion deficits every year. we don t need that. that is a major part of this debate. larry, great to see you. let me agree with larry kudlow. you can t say anything robert, i m shutting you down. robert, it is a cnn shutdown
helping the families of the fallen heroes who lost benefits during the shutdown. have hail damage to both their cars. ted ted is trying to get a hold of his insurance agent. maxwell is not. he s on geico.com setting up an appointment with an adjuster. ted is now on hold with his insurance company. maxwell is not and just confirmed a 5:30 time for tuesday. ted, is still waiting. yes! maxwell is out and about. with ted s now ex-girlfriend. wheeeee! whoo! later ted!
the soldiers families, the soldiers who have died. 21 have died since the beginning of this shutdown, if you take a look, it is a higher number than i think it is 26 people who have died since the shutdown started. and as you say, this is the most important duty that many would say government could fulfill. looking after as abraham lincoln said, honoring those left behind from those who fall on the battlefield. and that is why i m so proud to be a board member of fisher house who has stepped up to the plate like they always do, when rubber meets the road. they are there to provide services for the families of the ones who were wounded. they built fisher house in dover, delaware, so the families could come and stay for free when they retrieve the bodies of their loved ones, how dare they?
bring down the global economy through default on our debt by not paying our bills. or that they will hold down a shutdown of the government, with all the horrible implications that that involves, but if we can get past that he is completely open to a six-week discussion on how we move forward on the real issues of the day. how do we make this country long-term, fiscally sustainable. he is more than willing to negotiate. but rightly so. this would be true if this were a republican president, as well. he is not willing to negotiate when one party puts a hand grenade on the table and says here are our demands, meet them or this goes off. and jim, this appalling situation of the payments to dead servicemen and women. because there were clear warnings put out. it was not a secret. there were briefings saying this is what is going to happen. how can the president feign ignorance about it? and how do you feel personally
productive. that is not a real negotiation, that is more of a lecture time, we ll bring over about 17 people to be able to sit down with the president, hopefully have positive negotiations with this. we ve asked for that for two weeks, in fact, when the shutdown started. we said let s conference, work it out the way every house and senate has worked this out since the 1700s. when you get an impasse, you get the negotiators, they work out agreements, take it back to the house and senate and pass it. the president said over and over he won t meet, which is odd to us. newt gingrich and bill clinton talked every day during that shutdown time period. when tip o neill closed down the government on ronald reagan, they sat down and negotiated. well, that is exactly what you will be doing tomorrow and hopefully we can talk to you again after negotiating with him. thank you both very much. i want to turn to john boehner s