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President? >> listen, i think the speaker looks at the numbers, the poll numbers and he realizes theyve got to come up with something. the great irony is kornacki is right. were talking about four weeks. thats a month. thats nothing. all this stuff, obama care, going to the debt ceiling, all over a clean cr that would have gone to december 15th. now were talking about a month. in the grand scheme of things, theyre going to staunch the bleeding a little bit, but then were going to be right back a...

Cruz. they havent voted on a clean cr. they voted it down. harry reid has only passed that with democrats. so i think hes succeeded in pulling his party to the right even though personally hes destroyed his popularity. >> you know, jim, thanks for joining us. i want you to look inside this guy from closer range. joe mccarthy who has a stylistic comparison to this guy failed because he didnt believe in the cause. it was just a way to create excitement about himself. because he drank himself to de...

Thats the hill were going to die on, guys. how about the hill we die on is the c.r. and we do it on obama care, hes like, no, no, thats a bad idea. politically, thats terrible for us. well, were going to do that one anyway. like jonathan said theres nothing in the history of the tea party to eye date that shows they would vote for this. now heritage and freedom works are both for this. it will be interesting to see -- i dont know about the particular six-week extension, but theyre for getting ri...

Despite that, some republicans arent for the presidents idea, because he said he would sign a short-term deal if there were no republican provisions attached to this deal. some in the gop says hes just being spiteful. lets listen. >> this is a spiteful president, carol. the american people need to understand that, too. trying to run a government with a spiteful president that locks veterans out of their world war ii memorial when theres never been barricades around there before. >> it sounds lik...

Amendment to our constitution, i realize he doesnt get a vote on it. if he says i wont negotiate with you, hes saying i never want to see the federal government compelled to 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...

Srnl doesnt make us feel any better. we just mentioned this. jeff just mentioned this. christine just mentioned this. the government is still shut down. is there any thought that this could lead to a break in that? >> i think a lot of us have always said that both of these issues, the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling at some point would have to become one bigger issue that democrats and republicans and the president could try to resolve in one fell swoop. its going to take some t...

Discussion was positive and were continuing and were not done. were going to continue to work through the night, trying to solve these problems. we offered to the president. we said we would do a temporary debt ceiling to move, to get us into discussions for the next five weeks. we can talk about the big crisis inside our economy. we go to conference with the budget, try to move in a stronger place to take care of those drivers that keep rising the debt inside america. >> so there are really two...

Provided by gym fairies, theyre provided by taxpayers. mr. speaker, if you and the house republicans are serious and not cynical about the shutdown, then shut down the house gym until this madness ends. >> democratic congressman outraged that house members are hitting the gym while government workers hit the unemployment line. it is madness. what will it take to end it? joining me two men that couldnt disagree more about it. from the secretary of labor and also larry kudlow, the host of cnbcs la...

What they want and well be happy to work with them in any way. i repeat for the fourth time right here. open the government, let us pay our bills. well negotiate with you about anything. >> do you accept a short-term deal? >> pardon me? >> would you accept a short-team deal to increase the debt limit? >> well look at anything they send us, coming out of the meeting, two e-mails. theyve changed, the last we got, on how much time they want on debt limit. so i mean, lets just wait and see because t...

Passing bills that made demands to keep the government open. the senate would send those bills back as a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open. around 9:00 p.m. or so, the house republicans vote on their last offer. you had peter king, whos a moderate republican from the new york area, saying that this is a bad idea and they should just pass a clean continuing resolution and he has 20 to 25 moderate republicans who will vote against the rule to bring leaderships new proposal to...