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Are senate democrats going to go to the speeding cut to avert a government shutdown on friday? >> reporter: its likely theyre going to, christine, at this point. thats because if senate democrats made any major changes to this, its likely then signs are pointing to a government shutdown. and you have to consider this. in this two-week spending bill, this stop gap measure to keep the government running for two more weeks so the house and senate can use that time to negotiate a longer term measure...

And new jersey. the crash closer to the new york side. it backed up traffic for hours. wisconsin. bolders breaking off a bluff and tumbling into a house northwest of madison. one of the rocks the size of a dump truck. authorities evacuated nearby homes. they say they were concerned more boulders would come down the hill. nobody hurt. california. a rare surgery for a san diego man born with an enlarged heart. doctors implanting a second heart in his chest. they say the 36-year-olds own heart is s...

Government if they cant get cuts in that budget, yes, they do, but you have to seem serious as part of the negotiating process. i do know the republicans believe the atmospherics were different now than last time when the government shut down, that people do want cuts in spending, but as you mentioned theres a lot of things that hit home to people when the government shuts down. social security checks keep coming for a while. in fact, in the last shutdown they werent disrupted, but, you know, th...

They galloped back to oklahoma and called a republicans bluff. republican rick perry had other ideas. he started wheeling and dealing. 11 democrats saw him and raised him. and they took off again for new mexico. they held out for a month but they missed their spouses and their kids and so they came home and the legislation passed. the same thing happened in 1979. 12 democrats, known as the killer bees, took off for the mexican border to prevent a vote. then they turned themselves in after five...

But this sort of game is nothing new. but nobody does it like texas. they walked into the state house in austin, they were trying to block redistricting plan and thats when it really got interesting. the republicans called out the texas rangers. no, not the baseball team, but the real texas rangers, to haul them back to austin. they galloped back to oklahoma and called a republicans bluff. republican rick perry had other ideas. he started wheeling and dealing. 11 democrats saw him and raised h...

The amusement. it was disbelief at first. because i was in italy when the pride and prejudice thing happened. i hadnt seen it. >> shes italian? >> yeah. we met in colombia. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can tell you dont speak italian. >> i cant. >> that was a very, very good bluff. no. they just sort of thought, well, why -- is this repressionist? sexy for the british people or something? do you think -- do you find john major sexy? >> not personally, no. they have learned to love you, her...

It was disbelief at first. because i was in italy when the pride and prejudice thing happened. i hadnt seen it. >> shes italian? >> yeah. we met in colombia. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can tell you dont speak italian. >> i cant. >> that was a very, very good bluff. no. they just sort of thought, well, why -- is this repressionist? sexy for the british people or something? do you think -- do you find john major sexy? >> not personally, no. they have learned to love you, her family. i was ...

Pride and prejudice thing happened. i hadnt seen it. >> shes italian? >> yeah. we met in colombia. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can tell you dont speak italian. >> i cant. >> that was a very, very good bluff. no. they just sort of thought, well, why -- is this repressionist? sexy for the british people or something? do you think -- do you find john major sexy? >> not personally, no. they have learned to love you, her family. i was reading recently. they suddenly realized oh, wow. he means ...

It was anti-smetic. gadhafi the same. anti-semitic. its been anti-american. it has always been about hating america and hating israel. it looks like this generation is calling their leaders bluff saying you know what -- >> we saw saw, i think some people are disappointed in this, tiananmen square, they had a statue of liberty there. people often looked as the jeffersonian -- >> barack obama goes over there and he gives a speech in cairo. i will tell you that -- whether people like to admit it or...

Their own internal dissent is and how much thaifr theyre going to play hardball. i think a lot of it is on them to come up with sort of a unified bluff, as it were, or markerdown about what its going to be. then i think the white house will respond because thats their m.o. in everything. they sort of let congress take the laedz. i think theyre waiting to see what comes out of the house before they decide how much of a war they want to wage. yesterday the president indicated that he would veto th...