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People are talking and working together. theres 12 of us, six democrats, six republicans. you had bob corker on. were looking for a big fix. i still believe in a bowles-simpson template. it was bipartisan three years ago still bipartisan. i dont know why people dont grab something thats attracted bipartisan. thats why susans plan that weve worked with together and all of us working together is a good template. i want takes into consideration everybodys needs and concerns but does no harm. it rea...

Most successful and largest cutting since the early 1950s and they are giving it away, because if you were to do a resolution for the whole year, you fund for the whole year, you would have the cuts of next year kicking in automatically, and what the republicans ought to do right now is to exe tend the debt ceiling for six weeks clean, and exactly as obama wants, and this is what the house should do, and give a clean c.r. for a year, and exactly as -- >> right at thanksgiving? >> allow -- you me...

Well stay in touch with you for more on a possible deal. still very uncertain. lets bring in someone from capitol hill, reed ribble is a freshman republican congress man everyone wisconsin. youve been hearing about potentially there some sort of deal with the senate leadership there. how close or far are we from this actually being resolved? >> well, i think were getting closer for sure. theyre going to go over to the white house this afternoon. it will be by camera and bipartisan to try to lay ...

>> well, were hearing that the general parts of it are that youd lift the debt limit and we hope for a longer rather than shorter period and youd reopen the government and have the continuing resolution, wed hope be a shorter rather than a longer period, so that you can get to the third major part of the deal, which is budget negotiations. and the sooner you can get through the cr, the sooner youre negotiating a budget and sooner the appropriators can take advantage of the work they have done in...

I dont use my rescue inhaler a lot... depends on what you mean by a lot. coping with asthma isnt controlling it. test your level of control at asthma.com, then talk to your doctor. there may be more you could do for your asthma. welcome back. the senate back in session in afternoon hopefully in an attempt to make a deal on the debt ceiling and shutdown. >> and they can have a new plan as a starting point. thanks to a bipartisan proposal from susan collins of maine and joe manchin of west virgi...

Basher, bipartisan basher on this whole thing. >> do you think if a clean cr went to the floor it wouldnt have the votes? >> im not sure at this point because everything has moved toward answering the big question, which is now the debt limit. i think we need to stay focused on that, because the big systemic threat that we have this week. i think weve got to move off of the conversation on the cr and actually focus on the real issue, which is the debt limit. you can do both of these at one time,...

Yet, not in the senate, where talks are focused right now, not in the house, which is pretty much out of the loop until something comes up for a vote. and i have not even yet mentioned the federal government shutdown that we are all feeling. were in day 14 of that. lets dig into all of it with dana bash on capitol hill. and also richard quest following the global fallout. dana, lets start with you. new developments in the last 20 minutes. democratic senator joe manchin, hes one of those sounding...

Control act of 2011. >> kirsten? >> i am going with yes. >> it shouldnt. what the republicans need to do is to give obama what he originally asked for, a year of the cr and the three-week, and six-week extension on the debt ceili ceiling. that way all of the leverage is retained with the deal in the senate, but unfortunately they would give it away the debt ceiling and the sequester. >> we will follow every minute. up next, a clash of the titans over the washington redskins. im kind of seeing ...

Bowles-simpson, the template of reform and spending and revenue to a certain extent. we might have difference -- >> you cant get that done between now and thursday. >> but we could move in that direction. thats why we said january 31st on the debt ceiling, march 31st on the cr. put the budget conference in place. the budget conference -- conferees arent even meeting. if they want to fix it and come down to a number, then sit down and -- >> i have to throw something else into this mix or some wou...

When it comes to the continuing resolution, we can look at some of the other measures as part of the process, and if not part of the cr that reopens the government, then the process that comes afterwards, once the budget gets announced and once they apoint lawmakers to start to work on a larger deal, then they can get started. >> since this meeting has been postponed? do we have a date and time because that deadline hasnt moved? >> not at this time. i believe somebody from our capitol hill unit ...