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They continue the $40 billion for oil companies to encourage them to do drilling but they dont care a bit about taking away all the nutrition and w.i.c. and programs for the poor. but then we can get together and sing a rousing chorus of "amazing grace" and make it all right. it is really terrifying to me whats going to come out of this conference. >> it is interesting -- interesting that the republicans who are critical of this whole process from the right, the far right republicans who wanted ...

President, then argue for your position. go out there and win an election. >> was their temper tantrum worth $24 billion? >> did the scolding, if you want to call it that, was far less severe than some republicans have received from members of their own party. >> you know what? the president said just go out and win an election. well, mr. president, with all due respect, remember, the american people reelected the house of representatives to be under republican control. how many members won thei...

For oil companies to encourage them to do drilling but they dont care a bit about taking away all the nutrition and w.i.c. and programs for the poor. but then we can get together and sing a rousing chorus of "amazing grace" and make it all right. it is really terrifying to me whats going to come out of this conference. >> it is interesting -- interesting that the republicans who are critical of this whole process from the right, the far right republicans who wanted shutout and everything, theyre...

>> so much gets done here. behind those doors, that is where house republicans have their meetings. so much of the roller coaster that weve seen -- >> what roller coaster? i dont know what youre talking about. >> on the debt ceiling and the shutdown, has been hatched in those walls. thats where all 233 members meet like pretty much every day at this point, multiple times a day. what we do as reporters, usually, these hall ways are completely filled with cameras, with us, with everybody trying to...

The senate. >> they wouldnt even wait for the senate to take it up and send it to them? >> for a whole host of product procedural reasons it would be quicker to do it this way. load it up with the agreement just described and then send it back to the senate. and the senate then would vote on >> it one of the big sticking points on this, youve been saying for a long time you wanted to pass a clean government spending bill. one of the big sticking points is, would john boehner bring up a bill that...

Ceiling problem was going to roll around in mid october. enough to they have made this mess. apparently what stopped any sort of progress tonight is heritage action, which is a conservative group, who apparently sent some memo around that to republicans in the house saying it doesnt do anything to obama care. and that suddenly was putting, you know, a stink bomb into any possible vote tonight. so, yes, it is a real mess with you its a very painful one. >> look, it doesnt do much to obama care. i...

The medical tax industry was there at the table with the hospitals, with the insurance companies, and it said, were going to give you 40 million new customers and you make 90 corrects on the dollar for every new device you make. youll be making a lot of money out of this. how about ponying up some stuff? if we delay that for having corporations by some gimmick to come to a better resolution on the whole problem, i think the president would be doing the right thing. >> representative sestak said ...

The message, no matter what, is abundantly clear. let me give you a little bit of the headline here. not what we werent expecting. speaker boehner did say weve been trying to have that conversation. they dont want to talk. president doesnt want to talk. here is the weird part. president did extend the overture of an invitation to all 233 members of the house republicans to come to the white house to talk. here is how it was received. no. not all of us are going to come. the speaker, instead, is ...

Not, what are you hearing? >> i am hearing that the republicans are reluctantly coming around to the idea that next week they will have to come around to a short-term debt limit extension. that is what they will try to do as a first move before they move on the broader fiscal talks. >> so debt ceiling extension, but keep the government shut down. >> well, speaker john boehner knows he would like to have the republicans just pass a cleaner extension on the debt limit. he may have to go to leader ...

Have gotten to the shutdown, which is why were trying to do right now and what the president is trying to do is find a way for everybody to back down from the treaty the speaker climbed up on and get back to a point where we restart the government, we take the debt ceiling off the table and have the six, seven, eight, ten-week negotiation to deal with the long-term stability of this country. >> james lang ford, youll be with the president tomorrow with the republican delegatiodelegat. clearly, t...