This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning, im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer and told to have sex. Thats whey read in the paper. If you didnt see the show yesterday, what did he just say . Well fill you in later. I was doing fine until yesterday. Miley cyrus advised people that after 40 people dont have sex. Matt is well over 40. Everyone at the table, actually. You guys arent well over. Just past 40. Were a hair past 40. A little later on, have some fun with it. But first the standoff over the nations ability to borrow. And how it could impact every american right away. Peter alexander has the latest on the stalemate, good morning. Hi, matt, october 17th, thats the next potential crisis to circle. Thats the debt ceiling. As bad as the shutdown is, economists warn that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be infinitely worse. Its now week two of the Government
But it is exactly what our whaling boat crew is trying to do. So hooray for them, they have harpooned the whale. Now heres the thing. The harpoon has a rope attached to it and they tie the rope up to the boat. By virtue of that rope and that harpoon, that little whaling boat is now essentially tied to a very angry whale. Which weighs what, like 40, 50, 60 tons and the whale because it has been stuck with a harpoon, inevitably takes off swimming. And because the boat is tied to it, the whale is towing it dragging our little 19th century crew in our little boat, across the waves, going more than 20 miles an hour. Our whaling boat is essentially water skiing behind a wounded, furious, huge creature, a creature that is way bigger than them. When that creature ties out and theyre able to complete the kill. Our little crew is going to be the richer crew on the ocean tonight, they got their whale. But if something goes wrong, like the whale doesnt get tired and it runs away with them on this
New polls show no one smelling like roses. 70 disapproval rating. 70 , put the fault with republicans. Their numbers are declining. I know the American People are tired of it. Lord knows im teared of ired o. This is not a complicated fpiec of business. Eyeing the debt ceiling. All about the debt ceiling. A all this talk about default. Its nonsense. Demagoguery. False demagoguery. When i hear people trying to downplay the skon conventions of that. Nonsense. A lot of demagoguery. Irresponsible. Alternatives are popping up. Some discussion about my powers under the 14th amendment. Thats going to make people nervous. Very hard to get into sound bites. There is no clear way out of this. There are no magic bullets here. We are now on day eight of the Government Shutdown. Day act of the Government Shutdown. Our goal wasnt to shut down the government. I dont think we should default on our debt we have got to stop repeating this pattern. The American People are tired of it. Lord knows im tired
Here to dover as well as funeral expenses. This heartbreaking impact of the Government Shutdown has now sparked a national outrage, one that washington can no longer ignore. Shouldnt we, as a body, republican, democrat, no matter who we are, shouldnt we be embarrassed about this . Shouldnt we be ashamed . Now Congress Plans to act. The house will vote today at 3 00 to reinstate the death benefits. The senate as well. The chaplain appealed to a higher power. Lord, when our federal shutdown delays payments of death benefits to the families of children dying on faraway battlefields, its time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. No deal, no surrender. Are president obama and Speaker Boehner farther apart than ever . We cant make extortion routine as part of our democracy. Democracy doesnt function this way. What the president said today was if theres Unconditional Surrender by republicans, hell sit down and talk to us. Thats not the way our government works. And a fed first, when pre
70 disapproval rating. 70 , put the fault with republicans. Their numbers are declining. I know the American People are tired of it. Lord knows im tired of it. This is not a complicated piece of business. Eyeing the debt ceiling. All about the debt ceiling. All this talk about default. Its nonsense. Demagoguery. False demagoguery. When i hear people trying to downplay the conventions of that. Nonsense. A lot of demagoguery. Irresponsible. Alternatives are popping up. Some discussion about my powers under the 14th amendment. Thats going to make people nervous. Very hard to get into sound bites. There is no clear way out of this. There are no magic bullets here. We are now on day eight of the Government Shutdown. Day act of the Government Shutdown. Our goal wasnt to shut down the government. I dont think we should default on our debt we have got to stop repeating this pattern. The American People are tired of it. Lord knows im tired of it. Tonight Senate Majority leader harry reid introd