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Republicans cave? >> thats the only reasonable explanation for the fact that they have moved the goal post. their iron principle was they wanted a clean cr and a clean increase of the debt limit. now theyve attached something to it, they want to change the law, the budget control act of 2011 to break the sequester. for years weve been told if only the republicans would listen to the moderates like susan collins. susan collins comes forward and says lets delay the medical devices tax for which th...

In the budget act, and we know that on january 15th, thats the second year of sequestration. madam president, we voted differently than that. we voted to extend the cr to november 15th, not a word about breaking the caps. were happy to go forward with the cr as weve already voted for in this body. so any talk about breaking the caps is not anything that came from us. so yet every single republican refused yesterday to even talk about paying the bill now that its due. madam president, the presidi...

Democrat. you were a dlc democrat. and the dlc was a group of moderate democrats, clinton being the most successful one, who got together after the 60s when the democratic party was pulled many felt way to the left and could not win national elections. do you think that sort of -- should there be a formation of that sort of group? do you disagree that republicans are -- >> i think its going to find the middle ground. you just had a couple people on that are looking for that middle ground. and th...

Guys have been keeping track, assuming the senate can get a deal that the white house can buy off on and they vote on it and send it over to the house at some point this week, assuming they can do, that you have been keeping track on the number of house members, republicans, who would vote for a clean cr. what is that number and where are we on that? >> reporter: there could be an incredible amount of pressure put on house speaker john boehner. lets assume there is some kind of deal struck betwe...

You can bet your life on it. theres no way in the world that the 1% of american that owns 20% of our wealth is going to allow that wealth to go down the tube because of a handful of republicans that want to bring down the government. its not going to happen. doesnt make any sense. as a matter of fact, the last time i was on the show, i told you that the house republicans were going to back down off the health care, and they didnt back down off a cr. when they went to meet with the president, the...

>> i think our demise is a little bit overstated. i would say that both parties are going to catch a lot of blame on this. this is not -- >> do you agree republicans are taking a lot? >> well, i think both are, and i think democrats who think this is a parlor game, who think this is fun -- here is what the democrats think. they think well send a bunch of government workers out there to close off the roadside viewing of mt. rushmore because that will be funny, you know, so i think it isnt funny, ...

Do we have a deal? well, heres how republican senator bob corker described the situation this morning. >> well, there was some movement a couple days ago. i think things are not moving now. i think were in a status quo. i do think we will see our way through this. but the last 24 hours have not been good. >> talks on a bipartisan plan apparently broke down over the length of the debt limit increase and whether to lock in additional sequester cuts that are set to start in the beginning of next ye...

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...

Crisis and a c.r. is all you can come up with? i have an idea. if the debt limit is higher when you leave congress than when you entered it, you dont get a pension no, retirement, nothing. you didnt do your job. in fact, i think we should be able to sue you for the ineptitude and waste. a few weeks ago. i talked about how russian president putin played you, mr. president, in the syria debacle. but tonight the american people are the ones being played by all you losers in washington. many of you ...

Spending already, and its funny, theyre all about obama care being the law of the land but so is the sequester. the sequester is the law of the land, and if we exceed that, its a real big step in the wrong direction. >> just for our viewers, the sequester are forced budget cuts that unless there is some agreement on capitol hill about spending, they go into place, and the next round is expected to go into place in january. so now -- >> yeah, and to clarify -- >> go ahead. >> and to clarify what ...