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Much, but i was pleasantly surprised. i do think there is areas of commonality and my sense is over the next few days or week, there will be something thats worked out. there is no reason that i can see that that wouldnt be the case. >> give us an example of what made you pleased. what did you hear from the president that you liked? >> well, i think again, most of our conversation was not about the tactics of how short term, how long term, those kind of things, but more about the bigger policy i...

Thanksgiving. and what if the house republicans decide to extend the debt limit, reopen the government, but add a provision requiring some debt reduction. the whole idea of a six week extension to simply create more time for republicans to pressure obama to break. i, of course, if i were the president play hardball. david corn and jonathan capehart, both msnbc contributors. i guess the question -- i want to start with the presidents situation. david, im really curious what you think. of all the ...

Statement from the very beginning. allowing absolutely -- no wiggle room. i think boehner worked on ape deem with reid where they were going to do a clean cr, at sequester levels. a lot for democrats to swallow. boehner had no control of his caucus to be able to deliver on that. so thats where we are. >> joy, i think there is something here in, in their complete misreading of the president. these republicans. >> absolutely. based on 2011. a lot of reporting about it. people in the white house wh...

Weve got dirchs with the president on some of those spending issues. >> did you talk about it being with the spending bill? was that a topic that you discussed in the white house, the spending bill? and if youre going to get your deal on the debt ceiling, youre going to give us a few aspirins attached on the speptding bill? did you talk about that? >> we talked about the debt ceiling and the funding of government, cr. how we get through this. were not at a point where we have an agreement yet. >...

>> opening the government is a negotiation that will happen tonight. and in the, in the hours ahead, and we hope to have it open by -- you know, monday morning. >> and boehner left questions about the details of any possible deal where those questions belong, the chairman of the powerful appropriations committee. >> we agreed to -- try to find the -- conditions for the cr. >> part of the debt ceiling bill now? >> and well get back with each other tonight. >> so the conditions for dealing with th...

Of the big issues here well talk about later, whether or not they can decouple the two issues of the cr, the continuing resolution, and the debt ceiling issue. what are we hearing about what senate democrats would accept? >> reporter: well, martha it is pretty clear that senate majority leader harry reid is going to insist on the government being reopened. honestly talking with a lot of senate republicans they would like that as well. they feel like leaving the government closed for another six ...

My guess is i had dinner with some of the house members last night that were part of the meeting yesterday, i just think theres too much commonality here to keep an agreement from happening. look, i do think that in fairness, a c.r. and a debt ceiling ought to be worked out simultaneously. i dont think it makes a lot of sense to have them done separately and i think thats the general feeling on our side of the building, on the senate republican side. >> what will it take, senator, for you to pas...

Started, which is good. >> my question to you was specifics. thats a ten minute conversation that youre talking about having a conversation. it true that paul ryan had that moment that weve listen hearing about where he stood up and said, mr. president were not going away. youre going to have to deal with us in one way or another. and did you all come to some kind of a consensus where you said, i want a, b, and c. did you say to the president, you are not going to get a clean cr, youre not going...

>> long-term in washington today seems to mean before thanksgiving. so im not sure how long the long-term is. >> but i mean senate republicans want to have a year. they want to have a year debt ceiling increase. and they would like to have six months in the cr at least. >> again, they want that because they have something important. were losing sight of the fact that the president two years ago made a huge historic blunder when he said propose the sequester and the republicans faced with the cho...

For that on a personal basis. are we really going to say catholics cannot practice their religion? >> its a debate worth having but why attach it to a government spending bill where these passions on both sides of this issue will affect the crab fishermen? >> i think this is the reason. because when they first came out, the catholic bishops, for example, the head of the archdiocese for military services, read a letter that he wanted read to troops all around the world, he said we will not, we ca...