whitehouse. >> the mythology cheney was a public master is oversimplistic. but he was influential. he was able to have a weekly lunch alone with the president where he gets to lay out his case for things unrebutted by anybody else. he willed this sort of quiet power. you think of him being this robust force in the whitehouse but in meetings he would actually sit back quietly and not say anything. people around the table would look at them and he was say where is cheney coming from and a lot of times they wouldn't know. >> rose: we conclude with two of the greatest chefs in the world grant achatz and thomas keller. >> i don't think there's in the professor i know of any way that has such a strong bond. just with the generation we're part of but also the previous generation and the following generation. >> we're really trying to be original and be creative in our own way with our own voice. much in the same way that chef keller did and all the great chefs of the world. all of the great chefs. they

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: before i join the colloquy, let me do two bits of housekeeping. i have been asked to ask unanimous consent that at 5:30 p.m. all postcloture time on the griffin nomination be yielded back and the senate proceed to vote without intervening action or debate, motion to reconsider move to reconsider, that no further motions be in order, that any further statements be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. whitehouse: may also ask that two fellows in my office be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, this is my 48th trip to the floor to remind congress that it is time to wake up to the threat of climate change. i am joined here by senators blumenthal and schum

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i would note that the president and leader reid have both indicated a willingness to negotiate on virtually everything. but in late of the difference that the presiding officer pointed out on the floor a moment ago between good faith negotiating under our established constitutional procedures and negotiating while holding hostage, either the continuing operation of the federal government or a united states default on its obligations for the first time in history, that that difference does indeed bear on this discussion. and i yield the floor. ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, today marks the fifth day of the shutdown. and i come to the senate floor once again to call on the house of representatives to take up the senate bill. it is a simple bill. it has no bells and whistles. it simply says let's open the governmen

whitehouse. he was his mentor friend, vacationed together. eventually owned homes next to each other. they were very very close. it was hard to beat in the first administration. they carry a great deal of swag. and it stayed that way and that's interesting and that's sort of the story of this book. >> rose: a relationship evolved. >> relationship evolved. the day of fire. the title comes by president bush's second term inaugust recall address he uses the phrase a day of fire to describe 9/11 by saying days of fire we're in effect saying this is eight years of crises one after the other. natural disaster, war, financial crises. and as that second term comes along, vice president cheney finds himself increasingly distant from the president. president bush is moving in a new direction. he wants to repair some of the alliances he feels were fractured in the first term and changed some of the controversial elfments and it becomes so problematic. >> rose: and the tendency of condaleesa rice. >> he puts

as you know, we have tonight both senator whitehouse of rhode island, and senator cruz of texas, but the point i was going to make, which i think is close to what ted was saying earlier -- if we were not in the middle of a budget shutdown, the number of stories you would have on the front page about the collapse of obama care in most states would be unending. i think in a sense obama care has been helped, though polling data indicates not by much -- it's been clouded. >> senator whitehouse said that the teamsters' letter was -- >> that's not what i said. that's what mr. hoffa said. >> i understand what mr. hoffa really wants is an extension for unions. so i have the entire letter. i -- >> he's the author and he told you it was context. i will leave it at that. >> let me read the sentence i read. on behalf of the millions we represent, we can no longer stand silent in the face of the elements of the affordable care act that will destroy the very health and well-being of our members, along with millions of other hard-working americans. for the viewers that are watching this, i'm going

is this your analysis, senator whitehouse? >> the notion that obama care is a failure i think is a product of right wing histrionics. i went into our insurance exchange in rhode island when i was home over the weekend. there was a family at the front desk. they had been in earlier to get waited on and to get served. and they were so happy with the way they were treated that they were now coming back. they brought in two big tubs of dunkin donuts coffee and stacks of doughnuts for everybody. the report from kristi ferguson who's running it is that people are hugging their employees when they find out what the options are. the idea that cms, that's a pretty anecdotal story. cms has adjusted the long-term 2010 to 2020 costs for medicare and medicaid down by $1.2 trillion from the 2010 estimates to 2013. you got to believe that obama care has something to do with those huge savings. the republican party decided that obama care was going to be a failure early on before obama care was even decided. it was a political choice to pull

whitehouse misestimated on that. republicans were okay with that and that has not unchanged. so we're still talking about spending levels that are much more in line with republican desires than with democratic desires. >> i was going to say that's right because some of the grumblings i was hearing from the democrats is that they kind of misfired back in 2013 in january over those fiscal cliffs negotiations that they got one bite of the revenue apple then. it's going to be hard to go back and try and get the trillion dollars or so in revenues, $1.4 trillion they've been trying for earlier this year. >> rose: senator ted cruz had been mentioned. he could have delayed what the senate did before it could go into effect. will this, why did he make the decision he did. what pressure was he under? where does he go from here? >> he's had a bad couple weeks. the houston chronicle which endorsed him came out today and said we take it back, we missed billy hutchinson who is a very conservative senator from texas, republican but not quite as conservative as ted cruz. there's no question

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. >> rose: so the whitehouse is estatic about this. they think they fought the good fight, they had the right strategy on their side, the president stood firm and the president wins. >> i don't know that they're estatic but yes everything else. they fought the good fight. the president does come out the winner in this. but it's hard to be ecstatic over averting catastrophe so that's what they're saying. yes, this is good, this is an important bill because it does provide the economic certainty, removes the cloud of the threat of default that's been hanging over. but as david was just saying, it's still, we're still bracing for another fight several months from now. and the sticking point in this budget discussion is still going to be entitlements versus revenues. >> rose: david, you and i talked about this. go ahead. >> i was going to say i think that's well put and i think there's two reasons they're not estatic. one they're trying not hard to seem publicly estatic because they don't think it helps them to look like they're spiking te

joining us now is senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, a member of the senate budget committee. senator whitehouse, thank you so much for being with us. >> very happy to be with you. >> growing up, my dad always told me close only counts in horseshoes and hend grenades. >> this is the hand grenade version of that. >> oh, i was going to ask, does close also count in debt ceilings? are we already in dangerous territory? >> yeah, it absolutely does. there are two consequences of a default from not raising the debt ceiling. one is if you actually don't do it, and then markets and interest rates adjust in probably unimaginably bad ways. but even when you get close, other countries, bankers, people buying treasury securities look around and think this security doesn't seem quite as secure as it used to. i think i'm going to have to charge a little bit more in order to come in and be a buyer. and because we pay the interest, that comes right out of the taxpayers' pocket. so, it's very irresponsible to drive too close to the debt limit and to force all those costs on the taxpayers and

joining us now is senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, a member of the senate budget committee. senator whitehouse, thank you so much for being with us. >> very happy to be with you. >> growing up, my dad always told me close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. >> this is the hand grenade version of that. >> oh, i was going to ask, does close also count in debt ceilings? are we already in dangerous territory? >> yeah, it absolutely does. there are two consequences of a default from not raising the debt ceiling. one is if you actually don't do it, and then markets and interest rates adjust in probably unimaginably bad ways. but even when you get close, other countries, bankers, people buying treasury securities look around and think this security doesn't seem quite as secure as it used to. i think i'm going to have to charge a little bit more in order to come in and be a buyer. and because we pay the interest, that comes right out of the taxpayers' pocket. so, it's very irresponsible to drive too close to the debt limit and to force all those costs on the taxpayers and

. >> by the gracious of senator whitehouse and then we'll go to senator whitehouse and then will go to senator boozman. >> thank you, madam chairman. and i appreciate senator whitehouse letting me go in front of him. we have a conflict that i so didn't get out of, but i got a message i got to deliver, and i'll need your help in doing this. one of the frustrating things that i went through a year ago when we did our small 27 month we authorization was not the democrats but republicans. i mean, i can say this, others can't say because i've been make as most conservative republican more than anyone else's. and yet we have a lot of born-again conservative republicans using this issue down on the floor to sound like this is a huge liberal versus conservative issue. and it was an. because clearly as i mentioned gary ridley back there, and he will not his approval, it's hard is it just a much more it costs if we would rely on extensions. we don't get any of the reforms. i was in shock and i want to applaud the chairman. there are a lot of things that senator boxer went alone with that i know

senator sheldon whitehouse and ted cruz will be on "crossfire." erin burnett starts right now. >> let's make a deal. we'll do everything we can to get this solved. >> is president obama only talking about the royal we? and a woman vanishes from a hospital. she is found dead weeks later. it turns out now she may never have left. >> what happened

there's a group of republicans going to the whitehouse to talk about resolving the set limit and that's pushing the markets up today. >> rose: where are we on the issue of the debt ceiling with the president meeting with some republicans and some democrats at the white house. where are we and is there any change after the president's press conference and after the conversations that have taken place about, you know, who goes first. >> you're going to have to say which david you want. >> rose: go ahead david wessel. i only refer to david leonhardt because we had recently talked about it. go ahead. >> i'm glad to know that roger says a small ray of hope. i'm sure david leonhardt would agree with me that the closer you are to this thing the uglier it looks. >> i do. >> so something will have to happen in the next ten days or so. but it's not happening yet. the politicians are spending an awful lot of time talking to the press and to columnists and not talking to each other. they don't seem to have found a negotiating strategy that will get them to yes. i think it's better that they're talk

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask consent to speak for up to 15 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, a colleague recently described on this floor his experience flying in a private aircraft when a fire broke out in the cockpit of the plane. he observed that putting out the fire distracted the pilots from flying the aircraft and that they precipitously lost altitude just so this tea party shutdown and the tea party's threat to our country's credit, like that fire in the cockpit, are distracting us from flying the plane. and i dispute the notion that those who caused the shutdown have good standing to come to this floor and criticize the obama administration implementing a shutdown that we don't want on our side of the aisle, that the obama administration does not want. the tea party and speaker boehner for their insistent on lighting that fire in th

. >> the secretary met with insurance company ceo's at the whitehouse. >> the group is expected to discuss the on going efforts to fix the technical issues. >> reporter: before the website's launch, insurance companies expressed concerns about possible technical glitches. a test run showed warning signs. critics want to know what went wrong, who's fixing it, how much will it cost, and when will it be finished. >> when it comes to obamacare, certainly, there's a lot that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: and they have no answers. >> we've asked all of our contractors to bring in their a- team. . >> reporter: the secretary was asked twice if she considered offering the president her resignation, she refused to answer. >>> instead of more money, mcdonald's employees have a hot line to help them out. theadvocacy group low pay is not okay released a call from the line. nancy has worked at a mcdonald's location for 5 years and makes 8.25 an hour. whenshe called the number, the operator told her about a food pantry and other resources. more than half of fast food workers rely on government help to

house oversight committee when asked if she discussed confidential tax payer information received your whitehouse officials presented at the same time the meals that contained language to precisely that he fact she could only say that she could not remember the reveal the mails from 2012 that shows they're in grump try to counsel the white house of lawsuits relating to the obamacare contraceptn mandate a and in those e-mail's confidential taxpayer information was revealed the and shared among top white house ofcials. jim a goal has the report. >> the hearingf obamacare put the agcy under a microscope. >> 18 new taxes expected to raise $1 trillion of the next 10 years and a program that will cost many times that. >> sarah a. ingram the on the witness was once in chargef tax-exempt organizations although she left in 2010 there were questions asking out tax-exempt status because they we politically conservative. -> do you believe tea par groups were targeted? >> i do not think it is ever okay to use people's political vieoints in the managing the bin for -- inventory is a tax agencies. >> although t

senator whitehouse from rhode island was also here and senator mikulski is speaking on the floor of united states senate right now about the shutdown. we have friends in the united states senate and we have a simple message to speaker boehner. stop this tea party shutdown of government. both -- a vote, vote. [chanting] the message is simple. speaker boehner put down the gun that you have put to the heads of the american people and open the government. i am honored to represent the people of maryland over 200,000 federal workers. they want to go back to work! they want to go back to work area i've talked to a 15-year-old taylor. both of her parents are federal employees that are on furlough. she told me about the fear that she sees on her parents face because they don't know how they are going to pay their bills. open government. speaker boehner, vote. put america back to work. stop putting us at risk. our nation is at risk. our economy is at risk. it's not just the federal workers. it's our entire economy. our federal workers are on the forefront of helping our country vote. open up govern

house oversight committee when asked if she discussed confidential tax payer information received your whitehouse officials represented at the same time the meals that contained language to precisely that he fact she could only say that she could not remember the reveal the mails from 2012 that shows they're in grump try to counsel the white house of lawsuits relating to the obamacare contraception mandate a and in those e-mail's confidential taxpayer information was revealed the and shared among top white house officials. jim a goal has the report. >> the hearing of obamacare put the agency under a microscope. >> 18 new taxes expected to raise $1 trillion of the next 10 years and a program that will cost many times that. >> sarah a. ingram the on the witness was once in charge of tax-exempt organizations although she left in 2010 there were questions asking about tax-exempt status because they were politically conservative. -> do you believe tea party groups were targeted? >> i do not think it is ever okay to use people's political viewpoints in the managing the bin for -- inventory is a tax age

thei ioion ones are against it they are threatening the whitehouse now if they don't get it. it is fascinating that we are still talking about it. we have heard it from so many of you out there. you have a great idea or dream you would love to pursue. but where do you start? >> coming up. our get off your butt panel. telling how they did it and how you can do it too. and what could senator tom coburn have planned for us? he joins us live next. >> i can we ought totary it up. we tear the credit card up. (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest exactly how they want. with scottrade's online banking, i get one view of my bank and brokerage accounts with one login... to easily move my money when i need to. plus, when i call my local scottrade office, i can talk to someone who knows how i trade. because i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) scottrade-proud to be ranked "best overall client experience." >>> new reaction by republicans on raising the debt limit. joining me now senator tom coburn of oklahoma. >> good to see you.

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, we, yesterday heard very optimistic news about steering away from the brink of american default before it became too late. majority leader harry reid came to the floor and gave very optimistic reports. minority leader mitch mcconnell came to the floor, gave very optimistic reports. they hinted very strongly that a deal was close. time was scheduled at the caucuses presumably to make a presentation of the deal. and then what? and then what? we have had some very interesting speeches and colloquies from our republican colleagues on the floor. i found the debate as to whether our defense and law enforcement experts had kept an al qaeda captive in the right location to be interesting. i found the earlier discussion about the insurance exchange web sites to be a very interesting discussion. i found the discussion earlier this morning about iran, very interesting discussion. but what's even more

talking about the subsidies the president has provided to congress, your staff in the administrative whitehouse. this is spectacular favoritism of the easy to empower fall of washington d.c. they will not even think back of stepping back we have heard stories of republicans and democrats to haying on. what you say? >> it is a fairness issue i hear this all the time congress doesn't live under the rules that we make. i believe they should i still believe that. this is a fairness issue we cannot even get the senate to sit down and talk. this is the way the government was set up to have negotiations between the house and the senate in the president the way the constitution was set up and it is very frustrating we cannot evening get them to even talk about fairness issues. fell lot is not ready for prime time. i have a screen shot of what people see across the country with the error messages and i talked about this before even with you before on the data services services, this is not ready for prime time yet we cannot even get an audience with the president that he would read braying american red

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i join my wonderful colleague from pennsylvania in expressing relief and optimism that it finally looks like we are rid of the wasteful and useless government shutdown we have been put through for the past two weeks, that it looks like we are rid of the dangerous threat of american default that we have faced for the last few days, and let us hope together that we are also rid of the malicious spirit that led us down this evil path in the first place. a colleague the other day on the senate floor used the analogy of a fire in an airplane's cockpit, distracting the pilots from flying the aircraft where it needed to go as they had to put out the fire. well, that's kind of what we've been through these past two weeks. let me hope that we will have no more of our own countrymen lighting fires in the cockpit just in order to try to get their way. we need as a nation to get our heads up, to fly the plane, and to ready ourselves for weather ahead. the last two weeks have been wasted in this u

schumer, murray, baucus, mikulski, warner, cardin, klobuchar, whitehouse, stabenow. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. and i rise here because we are getting very close to a time of crisis. perhaps one of the greatest economic crises this country has known. i have many good friends on the other side of the aisle, and i don't doubt for a moment their motivation, their desire and their love of country. it's every bit as strong as those of us on this side of the aisle. and so i make a heartfelt plea. we must come together and avoid a default of the united states. many have said, i've heard some even say on the other side that default doesn't matter. or it doesn't mean much. well, let me explain the danger. there is a very real chance that if we default, there will be a recession greater than what occurred in 2008 and all too real a possibility it could put us into a depression. let me explain why. what happened in 2008 was s

president obama expected to hold a healthcare event at the whitehouse on monday. he will likely address some of the glitches in the system. immigration is also on the agenda this week. the president would like a vote in the house soon. a vote on this issue. house members say they need more time. they have been tackling single issues like border security rather than comprehensive immigration reform that has passed in the senate. more than 40 million immigrants living in the u.s., documented and not documented not passing an immigration bill, lead to serious consequences on the state and federal level. joining us is audrey singer, with the metropolitan policy program. she is in washington, d.c. this morning. >> good morning. >> president obama wants immigration reform to be a priority. this is what he said in his weekly address yesterday. >> the senate has already passed a bill with strong bi-partisan support. now, the house should, too. the majority of americans think this is the right thing to do. it can and should get done by the end of this year. >> of course, m

senator sheldon whitehouse and ted cruz will be in the "crossfire." >>> welcome to our viewers. the showdown shutdown day 9. how long will this go on for and will we reach a deal before the deadline? i spoke with a democratic and a republican, we'll meet with him tomorrow. we begin with a powerful number. 26 died when the shutdown began. because of the shutdown, there is a terrible loss to the families they leave behind, the loss of benefits at the worst possible time. this country owes them a huge debt. the president made his inaugural address with charity for all, let us care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and for his orphan. they made a deal with a private charity to reimburse the families until the shutdown is over. as far as a deal to end the shutdown itself and avoid the looming debt deadline, both sides seem as far apart as possible. i want to bring in two on either sides of the aisle. democrat jim heinz of the fshl services committee. gentlemen, welcome to you. let me start with you, if we may, james lang. we've spoken a few times through this

senator sheldon whitehouse and ted cruz will be on "crossfire." erin burnett starts right now. >> let's make a deal. we'll do everything we can to get this solved. >> is president obama only talking about the royal we? and a woman vanishes from a hospital. she is found dead weeks later. it turns out now she may never have left. >> what happened >> good evening, everyone. we begin "outfront" with news. a democratic lawmaker who just left a private meeting with the president at the white house tells cnn, the president signals a more, quote, give on the idea of a temporary six-week deal to lift the debt ceiling. that could be significant, obviously. dana bash is on capitol hill. i want to get straight to you. what have you learned? so many questions. is the shutdown involved? will we be in the same place we are now in six weeks? what happened? >> unclear about the first question, probably about the second question. we've been reporting since yesterday, and really even earlier, that this could be the makings of a potential deal. when i say this, this