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That didnt happen. but now they keep trying to bring it back into the negotiations. they still want to overturn. they want to repeal it, they want to nullify it. they have lost touch with reality, except theyre holding our economy hostage as they lose touch with reality. >> do you take issue with what boehner says. if he puts it on the floor, would the cr have the votes? >> i think the cr would have the votes, a clean cr, because we know theres 20 to 22 to 23 republicans out there. >> so hes lyi...

Virginia that is saying the same thing and some other colleagues. i think its time to open the government up. i think if we had a vote on a clean continuing resolution, cause in reality, were talking six, seven weeks now. then we should go back to our budget process. >> steve: john boehner said yesterday that if he did a vote on a clean cr, it would not pass. >> lets do it. lets try. i think we should -- i know that there are congressmen from new york that want a clean cr and they want to reopen...

I love you. it wasnt edge equation. it was about paying down the debt. >> and what happened? we balanced the budget, paid down the debt. how? >> by bringing democrats to their knees. >> i -- >> you know im joking, steny. we worked together. >> joe, hold on. its an interesting analogy. gingrich made a deal with clinton. that was important. his right wing at that point in time in the party, you remember it. >> right now obama says he doesnt want to negotiate. clinton did negotiate. >> my point is ...

Trajectory. positive positive. the idea you need to strap the suicide vest to your chest to get the other side to pay attention to you is clearly not warranted by whats going on. so the question is why are they doing it? >> congressman, i want to ask you, too, about nbc news had the whip count of 22 republicans who said they would vote for a clean bill of funding. were talking about the cr and not debt ceiling. i asked you as deputy whip, moderates, moderates in back rooms, moderates out there w...

Over the c.r. line line he will not negotiate over the debt court of appeal ing. they have to pass a clean c.r. and debt ceiling. which is surrender on the part of republicans. is that realistic in what would you advise the president for having a discussion to maybe as a bridge to a longer conversation about a bigger deal? >> first of all, you understand -- and i know you do -- the house sent the senate a number to fund government. in 95 the difference was clinton wanted to spend more money on e...

Tuesday. i would bet there are the votes to pass it. >> why doesnt he put it on the floor and give it a chance? i worked for a speaker for eight years. i worked for speaker oneill who believed deeply the one thing american people wont tolerate is obstructionism. he put things on the floor and sometimes he won and sometimes he lost. >> of course theres another huge battle looming. ten days away from october 17th, the nations credit card hits its limit then, and without a vote to raise the debt ce...

Challenge the veracity of that report. as you know, there have been a number of procedural motions on the floor where if 20 or 25 people wanted to defect, they certainly could have. the defeat of that procedural motion would have allowed the democrats to do basically whatever they wanted with the next motion, which presumably would be their clean cr. so the fact that all republicans or almost all republicans have held together on this i think is telling. weve had a whale of a lot more democratic...

Will, in fact, impact not just millions of people, but billions of people, because it will cause a global cascading of events that we simply cannot foresee and predict all of them. what we do know is that it will mean calamity in the markets. it could mean a freezing of the central line of funds that get transferred overnight in this country. and so i just think that we have to kind of take a step back and reexamine who were talking about here. speaker boehner has not shown himself to have the p...

Let every member of congress vote their conscience. they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down. >> were back. that was a confident president obama today at fema headquarters in washington. as we enter week two of the government shutdown, were watching an emboldened president obama. the president stuck to his guns and refused to yield any wiggle room to the republicans over the affordable care act. and one reason the presidents so confident, democrats in congress are ...

♪ >> monday, monday, it was all i hoped it would be, except that the tez cruz shutdown continues amid doom and gloom from mother nature and theres a tornado watch from the mid-atlantic states up through new york. and of course and also in d.c. here now seven days into the government shutdown and just ten days away from the more severe deadline hitting the debt ceiling. cant wait for that one, ari. >> president obama is demanding the house vote on a clean cr and raise the debt ceiling without h...