Groundhog day only a little scarier and a lot stranger. And our story begins here, the speaker of the house, theres no need to adjust your set because this is supposed to be a photo of jim demint. He resigned from the senate back in january and he last served in the senate eight years ago. He might as well based on what happened today the guy who controls the United States house of representatives. John boehner gets to hold the gavel so he controls that but not much more. Jim demint no longer holds any office in this country anymore. He now runs a conservative think tank, even though hes no longer in congress, jim demint might as well be the speaker of the house. Today we entered day 15 of the Government Shutdown, just over 24 hours away of defaulting on our national debt, hitting the debt ceiling and running out of money to pay our bills. There are Tea Party Republicans who say theyre not worried about the thursday deadline for hitting the debt cells. China is calling for a deamerican
And our story begins here, the speaker of the house, theres no need to adjust your set because this is supposed to be a photo of jim demint. He resigned from the senate back in january and he last served in the senate eight years ago. He might as well based on what happened today the guy who controls the United States house of representatives. John boehner gets to hold the gavel so he controls that but not much more. Jim demint no longer holds any office in this country anymore. He now runs a conservative think tank, even though hes no longer in congress, jim demint might as well be the speaker of the house. Today we entered day 15 of the Government Shutdown, just over 24 hours away of defaulting on our national debt, hitting the debt ceiling and running out of money to pay our bills. There are Tea Party Republicans who say theyre not worried about the thursday deadline for hitting the debt cells. China is calling for a deamericanized world because of the quote intensifying domestic po
0 it would score that vote, it s the political arm of jim demint s heritage foundation. reid has been calling the shutdown a temporary slowdown and we essentially told republicans in congress to keep it going. that left boehner with no choice but to call off the vote, not because he didn t want to pass a bill, not because he didn t want to get this all behind him but because he didn t have the votes. back to senator reid and back to senator mcconnell. there are reports that a deal is imminent. any deal they reach still has to get through the house. john boehner still has to somehow get it done. can he survive getting that done? why should anyone believe he can? he s not been able to do it so far. crashing through the debt ceiling would be where does john boehner get the votes to make ur it doesn t happen. joining us right now the robert costa, thanks for being here, robert u appreciate the time. so let s start with the reports i m not entirely confident of that? they say boehner ha
0 around this time last night. that is not where congress left the news. because late last night, after senators reed and mcconnell announced that they were on the verge of that deal, republican ted cruz went to work. he s been meeting with and delivering pep talks to republicans in the house. telling them not to cave in, not to listen to house republican leadership, not to fear any political consequences and last nights on the news, the senate would be sending over a plan for the house to consider, cruz met with about 20 house republicans at this washington tex-mention joint. according to role call report, the group is a collection of members that have often given compromised measures as well as packages crafted by fellow republicans. continuing from roll call quote, the dinner meet wugz held in a private basement room, the group was spotteded by majority whip kevin mccarthy. let s stop there and remember kevin mccarthy s job as the republican whip in the house is to keep republican