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Get a vote. if he says i wont negotiate with you, hes saying i never want to see the federal government compelled live within its means. >> try and answer this for me because i asked this to a couple people and havent quite got an answer i can understand. republicans are saying there is no point in bringing this up for a clean c.r., for a vote on this in the house, that it wouldnt pass. democrats are continuing to call for that or bring it up for a vote, bring it up for a vote. it will pass. the...

The c.r., one of the two. but this c.r. has been about obama care and shutting off the funding to implement or enforce obama care and i wrote that language back in february of 2011. i am invested in it deeply and i think its important we hold the line and yet, if we cannot actually contemplate the idea we would go on forever and not increase the debt ceiling. lets make sure conditions are right for each one of them. for me if the entitlement reforms are strong enough, ill take a good look at it....

Government shutdown? ill let you do that for a while. but for what reasons, as steve kornacki just said, we dont know because he wasnt talking about obama care like paul ryans op-ed yesterday. he didnt mention obama care. so hes still trying to threaten about what hostage theyre going to focus on for the next couple of days or next couple of weeks. >> so sabrina, is this shifting into a shutdown over nothing? >> well, yes, i think a lot of people think at this point if the shutdowns no longer ab...

The next couple of months that will end up helping us to achieve some real progress. >> david, shouldnt we be clear about one thing? this is one persons decision. john boehners decision. if he brings up a vote to raise the debt ceiling it will pass. if they doesnt bring up a vote were going to have this potential calamity. shouldnt we be clear that this entire matter is in john boehners hands? >> its not, david. >> i dont agree with that. >> why? >> first i think theres a failure on three partie...

The government that is not clean, that there would be some sort of bill to reopen the government that had conditions attached to it. here is how harry reid answered that question. >> you had a very -- the president had a very clear position, which is give me a clean c.r., and open the government before we will negotiate. made clear earlier today, they want to negotiate before you reopen the governmentsh did. >> not going to happen. >> reporter: so that a very, very bankrupt answer from senate ma...

Conversation, well theyre having a conversation today. but they will not, whether its obama care or tax breaks for millionaires or any other of their possible demands, theyre not going to get it in exchange for funding the government at -- in a cr set by republicans. the whole point of a short-term cr, as proposed by the speaker, originally, basically a clean cr set at existing levels was to allow for time to have budget negotiation. whats the rational for refusing to do that in order to have bu...

To deal with other expenditures and issues. at the same time, im sorry to report, the government is not going to reopen. we still dont have an issue with the cr, the spending bill. six weeks seems ridiculous, another can kicking. depending on your perspective, it can be very long or very short. >> well, thats right. to call this a breakthrough, i think, to quote the soft bigotry of negotiations. congress only work on deadlines. it is good news that we will not have this financial crisis, this fi...

Ill extend just a technical one, a short one, couple of weeks. that offer to compromise could start negotiations. he gets a debt ceiling increase so he can say now i can talk. boehner is able to engage in negotiations with what would be a trivial extension whether next week, three weeks. thats irrelevant. that seemed to be the basis. today carney reiterated that obvious offer when he was asked will the president sign a short term signing of the debt limit even if he doesnt get a clean cr, ie ope...

Did with the united states military three weeks ago, and said lets pass that and make sure thats not an issue during this time, that the senate and president did agree on that one. so lets take those things off the table, find areas we can resolve and fix it. >> i get that. although the senate and the president say they want to fund one bill at once. i guess the question i have is, the government spending bill is not a spending bill for another year or another two years. its just for a few weeks...

Balanced budgets in your lifetime came out of that. so if you think balancing the budget matters we did achieve -- >> block grants for well carfar medicaid. >> in the time weve got left a couple of questions for you. two things happened today they was curious about. bun you have paul ryan come out with i thought a very constructive -- again were trying to get to a deal here. paul ryan came out very constructive proposal today. i thought it was interesting to look at. never thought id be praising...