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Back in woodside queens, they continue to wake up every morning and pay taxes. no one gives them a reprieve. but they are getting less in return for the taxes they pay. thats the irony here right now, tamron. this is all manufactured. this is a crises thats manufactured and needs to come to an end. we need to get the republican shutdown shut down and move on and get this government operating again. >> chuck todd reported last night about 20 republicans would be willing to join democrats in votin...

Of hope, though. >> congressman, what youre saying is that hundreds of thousands of people are out of work. the government is shut down because youre offended by the senate? theyre not nice to you? >> no, no, no, absolutely not. let me be very clear. that sound silly and im not going to let you frame the argument that way. this is very serious. when we dont fund our government properly, and we have c.r. after c.r., thats detrimental to the american people. when were at a situation where we can...

Representatives, the republican majority, passed a clean cr, this continuing resolution that the democrats support which would allow the government to go back to business as usual at the funding level that the republicans want. and there are at least 19 or 20 of your colleagues, republican colleagues who say they are willing to vote for such a clean bill. what about you? >> i really want to see the president sit down and visit with us on this. you know, i come from a business background. we had ...

Since they obviously vetted her probably this summer. i cant imagine that they decided to suddenly do it, you know, last two weeks. >> dana, in terms of getting out of the shutdown debt ceiling mess that were in now, auto ll the talk yesterday maybe there would be a short term deal. the president seemed to leave some room for we could get a clean debt ceiling and clean cr and then have some sort of a super committee, god help us all. i mean, is anything going to be different if we just push this...

Inevitable kinks that will arise as obama care is implemented and everyone should have access to a quality affordable health care -- >> you two were posting to me a few minutes ago, you would do a deal together so marsha, thats the opening gambit from debbie. go back and lets do a deal here. >> i will. i will. what you have to realize is these extraneous matters that are a part of a budget, they are line items in a budget and if youre going to look at a budget at appropriations, at a funding mec...

Systems. but for the results of this review that the president asked for, i would have to ask to you wait for us to make that announcement pending the necessary notifications. >> okay. going back to the debt ceiling, some of the republicans were left with the impression after the news conference yesterday that if the president would like to do -- or would agree to do this, if you negotiate a short-term cr, then he would be willing to negotiate over the debt ceiling. is this the case? just -- wha...

Crisis. >> let me ask you, though. what i dont understand strategically, why shouldnt the republicans allow a c.r., clean c.r. to come up for a vote? because the republicans are saying the votes arent there. the votes arent there. if thats really true, why not let it come to a vote and take away that argument from the democrats? because the democrats are continuing to hammer that argument. if theres not the votes there why not let it come up and fail? >> well, one of the problems youre asking th...

With it. they should be able to work within this frame and do it in a way -- you know, if you read in between the lines of what president obama said, he gave a little. >> what? but what did he give? >> he said, i will negotiate if you pass a clean c.r. i will negotiate. okay. now, he may not want to negotiate about the debt ceiling. he may not want to negotiate about the government shutdown without the clean c.r. so then they should negotiate about what theyre going to negotiate if and when -- [...

It was about welfare reform, about reforming the entitlements and getting to a balanced budget. the only four consecutive balanced budgets in year lifetime came out of that. >> but you had bloc grants for welfare, for medicaid, for food stamps, social services. >> we were modernizing. >> in the time we have left, a couple more questions for you. two things, i was curious about. one paul ryan comes out -- again, were trying to get to a deal here. paul ryan came out with a constructive proposal. i...

Obama care is not going anywhere. the affordable care act is not going anywhere. and yet we are talking about people from, as we have talked, all the time, they are from super safe districts, and they were sent to washington by people who want them to do exactly whats happening right now in washington. >> but whats interesting, theyre from super safe districts. we can concede that. but do you have about 23 to 25, that public policy poll, krystal, that came out that showed there are vulnerable re...