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Like all sides would like to get some deal done. there was a lot of talk about should they separate the cr from the debt limit issue and continue -- and now it looks like, you know, this is one big ball of wax at this point, right? >> reporter: yeah. theyre all circling around what could be a compromise, but the house republicans want a win on this obamacare issue. they really want to put a skin on the wall for that. and so far the senate proposal, what we know of it, really doesnt give the hous...

Families all across america. you know some are furloughed, and they know theyre going to get their pay when they come back. a lot of families are not in that situation. i mean, theyre flat out unemployed. 900,000 jobs have, you know, are estimated to have been lost because of this whole thing. i mean, this is deeply troubling. but whats equally troubling is our failure as a country and this institution and the president to agree upon a long-term plan that slows down the growth of mandatory spend...

Go directly to the rules committee as all of this is done. we will find out about it after they finally file a bill. the things that we are concerned about is that it will make such a major difference in what the senate is going to pass. and once again having to vote a -- and it will cause a further shutdown. and we could take the senate bill off the floor at any time in the last two weeks. i called for votes on it three times in the house. and the republicans were desperate to vote in the shutd...

Did he say he would support it? >> he is holding his cards close to the vest. i asked him if he would use all the tools available to him that any senator has to try to slow this train even the first train, the senate train and he said im waiting to see the details of the plan. but that is something to remember he could use it and could delay the sequence of procedural events that need to happen in the senate and we could reach thursday -- >> to andrews point what has ted cruz got out of it? >> i...

People are so afraid of grabbing something. this has bipartisan appeal, it has things that democrats like and things that republicans will like, and it also has things that both parties will object to, which means i think that were on the right track. >> well, i want to talk about the sort of budget negotiations that may come in a second, but first of all, if it comes to pass, a deal is hammered out in the senate along the lines of what weve seen so far, it goes to the house and if it comes to p...

>> a late-break chain of event bringing you up to date on what has been happening. shortly before 4:00 eastern time the g.o.p. released new plan for getting rid of this gridlock. a clean cr and a clean raising of the debt ceiling. thats clean. no strings attached. moments ago former speaker pelosi emerged from a meeting with the president at the white house, saying she is now optimistic to senior white house correspondent ed henry. as an observer, seems to me the president and the democrats have...

Okay, rich, what do you think? >> well, quite a day in the house. the leadership initially in the morning and early afternoon had a package that they thought they could pass, turned out they couldnt pass it. they come up with a new package, which is the one that they now appear not to have the votes for that was really just stripped down when you got down to it to clean temporary debt ceiling increase and clean temporary cr with a so-called bitter amendment on top of it. >> explain that, the cr ...

Income verification, possibly, a few things around the edges -- if thats the contours of the deal, then is john boehner going to bring it for a vote? and if you bring this to a vote, why didnt he just bring it to a vote two weeks ago? >> chris, thats obviously the big question. first, i should say we dont know all the details to this agreement. we believe that we should have a clean cr and a clean debt ceiling extension. the dates you talked about are the dates that i think have been under discu...

>> no, look, i will vote for the deal. but lets understand -- >> vote for a clean c.r. but lets understand the president wants and is happy, signed a bill that said members of congress and their staff would quote, be in obama care. he didnt put himself into it. its time for him to be in that program along with the vice president, all the thousands of political appointees. having said that, the question of subsidy, look, im a wealthy member of congress. let me say something. the american people d...

Modifications to obama care. >> just a moment. the cr does not. ment cr was agreed on. the number was agreed on between bain remember and reader. reader passed his part. boehner couldnt do it. he could have done it. as you know, they changed the rules so that nobody else could bring it up on the floor. and i personally put on the floor tree times a chance to vote to the cr. it could have gone to the president that afternoon. it would have been the same bill that the senate had passed. >> i think...