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Minutes ago. i asked him, no chance on a vote on this clean spending bill and he ignored me and looked at me and kept going. we have heard from other house republicans that in their conference meeting this morning, the speaker made clear there is not a vote on this. his point of not answering is for us to move on to something else. i can tell you what the house is doing today. they are looking or talking about proposals, a possible bill that would put together some sort of committee of house dem...

Kind of discussions on budget issues. he clearly -- he took a little shift, i think, dana, right, to start talking about budget issues in regard to the debt ceiling. of course, the problem is, they have to get beyond the shutting down the government. then they can sit down and talk. and then the presidents democrats, as wolf was talking about earlier, then they can get really update because they dont want any cuts in medicare, for example. >> yeah, the president, he needs to call up john boehner...

I was watching your first segment, and i was thinking maybe you could have reese witherspoon of "legally blonde" come and give a talk at the house. that might be nice to explain how she got that discharge petition through. i was just picturing her up there on the house floor. in any case, its no surprise that you now have over 20 house members publicly saying that they want to simply vote on the senate bill, which as youve explained on the show before, is simply a six-week extension, no bells an...

Surprising. i was watching your first segment, and i was thinking maybe you could have reese witherspoon of "legally blonde" come and give a talk at the house. that might be nice to explain how she got that discharge petition through. i was just picturing her up there on the house floor. in any case, its no surprise that you now have over 20 house members publicly saying that they want to simply vote on the senate bill, which as youve explained on the show before, is simply a six-week extension,...

Well do investigation to see what theyre having for lunch. lets bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta. this was out of the blue. the president decides he and the vice president walk across the street, leave pennsylvania avenue, head out for lunch. they pick this place because theyre giving a 10% discount to federal employees who have been furloughed which is very nice. i see that popping up in a lot of places here in the nations capital. but on the substance, once again the presid...

Uncertainty about government shutdowns, about the new effort of the republicans not to pay our bills on time, which is a debate coming up, is creating great uncertainty in the economy. this is a self-inflicted wound that the country doesnt need. what the president has said all along is that hes willing to negotiate on all the budget issues. weve been trying to sit down at the table since march with our republican colleagues, as you well know, the speaker prevented the appointment of budget negot...

Vehicles going in that direction. >> you guys are walking from dirkson over -- >> were walking from here back to our office. >> we were just hearing from senator bob casey, a number of other members of congress regarding what they heard, which is very similar, eerily similar to what our own luke russert reported. we break into this with breaking news of shots fired near the capitol. theres a report that several capitol police officers are injured. we do not know the extent of those injuries or h...

Chris matthews, an msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman haywahaywarrold -- >> hes a professor, baby. >> and from the national journal group ron fornier and former press secretary under president clinton, dee dee myers. >> shes been through a shutdown. >> but that one meant something. >> it was a great shutdown. those were the days. when a shutdown was a shutdown, dee dee myers. >> at least it was about budget issues. >> i was thinking about that. it was very specific. you know,...

About 1995 and 2013, and i remember because i was in this room covering it as a reporter, is that the republicans then, whether you agreed with or didnt agree with their strategy and whether or not it ended up hurting them politically, you know, had a coherence what they were arguing. they wanted to force the president, then bill clinton, to reduce spending more. so what they were arguing about went to the heart of what funding the government is about, budget priorities. what we see now is repub...

Their constituents. >> it demonstrates the lack of seriousness the house republicans have known in approaching this very simple task, which is fulfilling their responsibility to keep the government open, to extend funding at current levels, no partisan strings attached by democrats, no partisan strings attached by the president, just do your job, fund the president, keep it open. the president said as he has said all along and has all year to discuss negotiations about broader budget issues, how...