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Is there any chance any democrats come to you privately and say senator rand paul, isle be glad to help you? >> radio eventually maybe. right now, no. they think theyre winning this political battle. theyre happy to watch. they think its a political battle and its gamesmanship for them. but i will say, when you look at this and you see whats happening with these things, theyve been saying they want a clean cr, a spending bill without riders. all of the things that were passing in the house that ...

Before that october 17th deadline. >> yeah. you know, its day 8, and now its like truth or dare, or some other game like that. president obama is now telling speaker boehner to "prove that he doesnt have the votes for a funding bill." i want to get to gene on this. boehner has said it would not have a chance of passing the house, but some moderate republican congressmen like pennsylvanias charlie dent want to end the standoff and are siding with the president on letting congress vote. and by the...

Thank you very much, everybody. >> we just heard there from the president as the government shutdown drags into week two and the debt ceiling limit looms large "the cycle" has you covered. lets start at the white house with peter alexander. peter, what was the thinking behind having this press conference on this day? >> krystal, its a good question. this is part of a continued effort by the white house to be out in front of this to continue to put pressure on house republicans to put a vote on t...

Because harry reid didnt do his job in the senate. and because republicans didnt do their job in the house. and harry reid should really be quiet and go back and do the job that he was hired to do. and at least pass one appropriation bill and then come out lecturing us. >> but all these arguments are based on obama care and what the republicans would like to do with it. >> i dont mean to interrupt you. my argument is based on harry reid doing his business. and if he had done his job over the pas...

I mean, what i get frustrated like a lot of americans that have been following this, about one month ago eric cantor, the republican majority leader in the house said if we get a clean cr, continuing resolution bill, we will vote for it. because it makes the president want spending levels here, its lower than that. theyre getting the cr that they wanted a month ago, but they keep moving the goal post. but now because theyre moving the goal post because they are the ones, the republicans, that ar...

Growing number of republicans who want to bring a clean cr to the floor. i think they are trying to be patient with their speaker. but increasingly, the noise its getting louder. they dont like what theyre -- what theyre seeing happening. and so -- im any just hopeful that they will be able to convince the speaker that he has got to back away from being led by the most conservative element in the republican caucus. and i hope that they will keep telling him that he has got to bring a clean cr, b...

Wrong, if they think we go in with president obama at 45% approval rating theyre okay with that. >> and neera, thats the thing. they look at their own polling in their own district. >> absolutely. >> my numbers are better than all three of that. >> the whole debate here, youre right, john boehner is looking at his caucus and what can be a majority caucus, get to 218 in his caucus and he cant do anything. thats not the issue. the issue should be the mattmaj the house. thats why people are saying ...

Well, the fact is that it passed. and i know they were sitting around just praying that justice roberts, chief justice roberts would say no, no, no, it is not constitutional. but what did he do? he said it is constitutional. you said it a minute ago. anderson, this is the law. it is the law. let me tell you something, i every two years i come to congress, just like mr. labrador, we come and raise our hand and swear to the constitution -- it is the law, so we should be trying to make it work. >> ...

Which is the government shuts down the next day. in both of those cases, congress has total control. they can stop a fiscal cliff, they can stop a government shutdown. we can stop a government shutdown today if speaker boehner would bring a clean cr to the floor. that is not the case with the full faith and credit involved in the debt ceiling. when the markets decide that this place has finally and completely flipped its lid and we see a 3,000 point market drop, there is nothing we can due in th...

>> well, you know, well see how long. mi i mean, i think once you push up against the debt limit it becomes more problematic. >> october 17th. next week. >> i think thats when youre going to see more, you know, more pressure on him to do something. but i think that one of the issues, you go back to 2011, is that what happened there was that we ended up with the sequester, which right now is what democrats are arguing is a concession that theyre giving to republicans and saying just pass the c.r....