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The eligible cities. so the horror she alleges is not there. >> love to ask her these questions directly, which is why we asked her in the first question there, is there anyone who can back up your claims? because if the lieutenant governor came and threatened you, normally behaviors will be, oh, my goodness, what happened. no such behaviors yet, well wait to see what happened, thank you, gentlemen, both. thank you, megyn. and you would expect some backlash to the state of the union, some wi...

Of us in the democratic caucus are grateful. >> were in a situation where the government is, in fact, going to run out of money. were going to have to move a short-term c.r., but we want to get this government funding in place as soon as possible. >> joining me now is democratic congressman steve israel of new york. hes also the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee. congressman, great to see you. we expect to be getting in video from the white house very shortly, when it does...

Handling implementation. theres a pay freeze for the vice president and senior political appointees and it would give federal agencies some certainty and fund the government through october. with the government due to run out of money tomorrow, speaker boehner talked about a temporary extension and the need to act quickly. >> were in a situation where the government is, in fact, going to run out of money. well have to move a short-term c.r. but we want to get this government funding in place as ...

Make those kinds of unforced errors again. explain what you meant. >> well, i felt all along, we had spoken about this before, i felt the government shutdown was completely unnecessary. i knew we were going to have a clean cr passed before or after the shutdown. it happened after. many of our members have learned a lesson that we ought not be dealing with issues that could lead to some type of instability or lack of predictability. and that certainty would happen with the government shutdown. we...

Whether it had inadequacies or not, it was critically important that we move forward and deal with those crazy things that are out there. >> so you guys are going to go through tom coburns wasteful spending book? he says you could eliminate $30 billion. >> i appreciate his wasteful spending book. i look at the ones that he had written in for montana. they had some merit, but the way they were written up by him looked pretty awful. they can go into those budgets now and cut out the fat and weed i...

Republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something of a rebellion and his argument is this is the best we can. do do you think you could have negotiated a better deal with patty murray? >> doing nothing maintains the sequester. it is to undo the limited spending cuts of the sequester. if the leadership was really committed to the sequester which th...

Were demanding a clean cr. the conservatives said okay, we agree. hopefully we can agree to a continuing resolution spending levels for the remainder of the fiscal year. this is a step backwards in my opinion. >> last question. paul ryan seemed to indicate some optimism. he thinks there will be the votes. he said we will. we feel good about that. at the end of the day, do you think votes are there to pass this? >> when you increase spending in washington, thats a bipartisan deal. my guess is it ...

Here, but its from people who are working for us in the military or in the federal government. and theres no shared, you know, sacrifice as the president called for. >> so wheres the left on that? >> and that -- >> but the left -- again and again the democrats have been willing to recognize in divided government you make compromise and dont get everything you want. its the republicans -- >> let me say something here. john, id like to get your thoug thoughts. in the process, as democrats have sai...

Before i vote on for it. i want to make sure no back room -- >> did we get you to agree on something? >> we would actually vote for a clean cr. thats all i want to vote for. it sounds like javier would vote for that, but we couldnt get enough people in congress to vote for that. >> that seems to be a question of leadership. speaking of leadership, your own leader, john boehner, had very interesting things to say about your grass-roots allies in the tea party movement. i want to hear your respons...

At the same time, democrats as we proved when we reopened government. every democrat voted for a republican budget, while two thirds of republicans voted against the budget and were willing to lead the government shutdown. we have to get past this shutdown mentality. >> are you willing to shut down the government. >> i didnt want to before and i dont want to do it now. >> but thats what he does >> i wanted to vote for a clean cr. in fact in this show about a month ago, we were talking about the ...