POLITICS OF SHUTDOWN John Fortier, director of the Democracy Project at the Bi-Partisan Policy Center and Igor Volsky, Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org, a progressive political blog affiliated with the Center for American Progress, talk with host Carol Castiel about the dysfunctional politics behind the US government shutdown and the looming American credit default as well as the toll these crises are taking on the integrity of the US political system and American credibility abroad.