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Whatever our current number is. we want every republican to get behind one person to be our speaker. but its a process. well start with someone and get those numbers growing but theyll have to begin to work and make this a more workable process. >> reporter: lastly, shocking, right? >> very shocking. we sat there in disbelief. >> reporter: you heard it from congressman fleming. shocking, sat there in disbelief, no one saw this coming. mccarthy saying at 8:00 a.m. at the conference he was going t...

Important principal to fight to delay the implementation of obamacare. and you know what, interestingly enough with this terrible rollout, this fiasco, i think the president is probably gonna delay the individual mandate anyway. i think he will be forced to, shannon. >> thats an interesting prediction. congressman, what do you think about that? we have had commissions and we have had all kinds of suggestions and meeting of the minds before, and it hasnt seemed to have produce a whole lot. >> wel...

Consequences would be for our economy and for the world economy. i thought it would be reckless to allow the united states to default. a longer solution is obviously in order. this prevented the default and opened the government and created a process where we can hammer out our differences and adopt a budget with a long-term slowings. >> congressman fleming you voted no for many reasons, but are you confident in the structure that is now set up to try to force some kind of compromise? >> we are ...

Sophisticated. brian, thank you very much. the tea party may have lost the government shutdown battle and the latest fight to de fund obamacare, but with new budgets and debt deadlines weeks away, another political showdown is pretty much certain. lets talk about it with two members from across the aisle, one who voted for the fiscal year and one who voted no. republican congressman john fleming is here and congressman david sisslini. >> i will start with you. you voted yes. a lot of folks say...

Said. >> thats a much longer conversation. how long have you lived in buffalo? >> since christmas day. its a blood thing. its the blood brother. >> sure. >> its a blood brother kind of thing. >> this is already getting awkward. there are already some lawmakers that are talking about the next fight which is sadly just around the bend as republican congressman fleming put it to "the new york times." were going to start this all over again but it does seem that congressional wisdom is lessons have ...

De funded and repealed it. obama care and shutting down the the government is like mixing apples with oranges. they shouldnt have done this. really destructive. if you dont like obama care -- >> there is proof to what he is saying the problem is they waited you out on this one. now it is up and on the web site that doesnt even work one that we paid $400 million for. who knows when it is going to work. >> this is the -- it is only going to get worse from here, judge. >> lets hope it gets better. ...

De funded and repealed it. obama care and shutting down the the government is like mixing apples with oranges. they shouldnt have done this. really destructive. if you dont like obama care -- >> there is proof to what he is saying the problem is they waited you out on this one. now it is up and on the web site that doesnt even work one that we paid $400 million for. who knows when it is going to work. >> this is the -- it is only going to get worse from here, judge. >> lets hope it gets better. ...

Do you realize that in this entire time, and even before that, going back to the founding of this nation, not once has a republican controlled house of representatives ever lifted the tax rates on the american citizens. so that means that if we do it here now, this will be unprecedented, raising the federal tax rates on our citizens for the first time in a republican-led house of representatives. congressman fleming is right. that is trivia that is not trivial. there are two reasons that a rep...

Roosevelt. they kept him in the white house because they were intent on winning world war ii and they knew taxes would have to be raised to pay for world war ii. american voters new they couldnt trust a republican house of representatives to get them through anything big, anything historic like world wars. congressman fleming wrote an op ed which he made hits point about this trivia that is not trivial. a republican house of representatives never, ever, ever raising income tax rates. in that pie...

It all your life. congressman fleming forgot to mention something about lincoln and the republican controlled house of representatives during lincolns presidency. that republican controlled house actually passed our first income tax, which president lincoln signed into law to pay for the civil war. it was a progressive income tax. 3% on annual incomes over $600 and 5% on annual incomes over $10,000. the supreme court ruled those taxes constitutional. decades later in 1895, the supreme court sudd...