Jim DeMint: “There is no excuse for this dismal job performance.”

Well, Anderson, this issue is much bigger than North Korea. We're now living in a world we've got to understand that North Korea is going to have nuclear weapons.

I think Senator DeMint had a really interesting concept.

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.