This is a Gab Fest Extra, the 2013 government shutdown day two. It's Wednesday, October 2nd,

and I'm Slate's David Plotz in our DC studio. Joining me is my regular GabFest co-host and Slate's

chief political correspondent, John Dickerson. Hello, John. Hello, David. So this is the second of our

short nightly updates that we're going to be doing throughout the shutdown.

And we're focusing on the political situation in Washington in particular.

Here is a quick rundown of what happened in shutdown news today.

The president summoned congressional leaders to the White House for the first meeting that they've had since the shutdown began.

That meeting is unfolding as we are talking right now.

The White House is also trying to enlist business leaders and to lean on the GOP to pass clean

versions of the budget CR and also a rise in the debt ceiling to roll those two things together.

The White House says that President Obama is going to veto any piecemeal bills that the House and the Congress sends him to fund the government in pieces.

So the idea of getting the museums funded or the NIH research for children with cancer funded, the president is going to veto those bills.

The White House says the president canceled part of his scheduled

trip to Asia next week because of the shutdown. And so far, House Republicans are sticking with

their demand that the Senate negotiate with them in a conference committee, which is an idea that

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already dismissed. So, John, as we're in day two,

is anyone feeling any pressure so far? Is one side or the other feeling like we've got to get this resolved? Well, no, I don't think so, or which,

or maybe a better way to put it, is they're feeling pressure, but they're also feeling a weird sense of a little bit more unity. I mean,

so that the adversity of the pressure is causing people to close ranks a little bit.

I've had a couple of conversations with Republican senators who are very much in the anti-Ted Cruz

caucus, very much in the it didn't want

the republicans to tie continued funding the government to defunding of Obamacare

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