Shutdown continues, Netanyahu warns U.S. about Iran

(CBS News) - With less than two weeks until the U.S. government runs out of money, the administration is pushing hard for Congress to act.

"Congress needs to do its job; it needs to open the government up and it needs to make it possible for us to pay our bills on time," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Sunday on "Face the Nation."

Lew also cautioned that "nothing good" will come if lawmakers failsto raise the debt ceiling and urged House Speaker John Boehner to put a "clean" resolution to fund the government on the floor. "Why doesn't he put it on the floor and give it a chance?" Lew asked. POLITICO has more on our conversation with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

As Congress braced to begin its second week in government shutdown, Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn urged President Obama to step in and resolve the gridlock.

"My hope is that the president would rethink his decision of sitting on the sidelines as a spectator and he would roll up his sleeves," Cornyn said Sunday.

"He's got to do his job," Cornyn insisted. "We rejected the concept of a king when our country was founded and created three co-equal branches of government. The president says he won't negotiate on the CR and now he won't negotiate on the debt."

Host Bob Schieffer pressed Cornyn on the GOP's strategy of attaching the defunding of Obamacare to funding the government. "Isn't there something wrong when you say we won't fund the government unless I can attach my personal wish list to the legislation every time we vote?" asked Schieffer.

"I know you can't reach the agreement and get past this impasse if the president won't negotiate and he's not at the table," Cornyn told Schieffer.

"We've moved from the defund ObamaCare effort to eliminating this congressional carve out, and eliminating the penalty on individual Americans, like the president's done for businesses. We would have the government funded today, if Harry Reid and Senate Democrats had agreed to vote for that." The Huffington Post and Mediate both ran pieces on Schieffer's tough questioning of the Texas Republican. Turn to POLITICO and Newsmax for analysis of our conversation with Cornyn.

Turning to issues in Iran, Bob Schieffer sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Echoing the speech he made at the UN this week, Netanyahu expressed concern Iran's nuclear weapons program and Rohani's leadership.

"The real leader of Iran, who heads this cult that controls Iran, that controls with an iron fist the Iranian people, is the Ayatollah Khamenei," Netanyahu explained. "He's the so-called supreme leader, in this case, aptly named. And he wants nuclear weapons."

The Israeli Prime Minister also suggested that he and President Obama have the same goal with regards to Iran.

"He spoke about his determination to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. He also said that Iran's conciliatory work should be met by meaningful action," Netanyahu said of President Barack Obama. You can read more about Netanyahu's take at Politico, UPI and Newsmax.
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