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Have the fight around the debt ceiling and hes getting his wish. there wont be a clean cr or any kind of cr brought up to the floor of the house. there will be something at the last minute brought up that is it everything at once. the debt creeling is where he always believes he had the most lunch with the president, but its also where he has the most lem lem leverage with his open members. the question is what kind of face saving members will be put in there so john boehner can say i didnt get ...

Believe is that some 21, 22 republicans in the house have said given the opportunity to vote on a clean cr, they would. so we think that boehner is not being accurate when he says there is not the votes. bring it to a vote, lets find out whats happening. third point, something ive been saying for a while and i think "the new york times" just confirmed it, confirmed it on its front page yesterday, lets not kid ourselves. this shutdown is not something that just came about a couple of weeks ago th...

The clean cr and nancy pelosi is saying the votes do exist, but then you have john boehner saying they dont. so how do you think this is all going to play out? >> thats really interesting. what youll see this week when congress gets back into session is the democrats trying to put the pressure on the white house, a as well, on boehner to bring the senate bill to a vote in the house. but so far hes shown no indication hell do so. i think republicans and the way john boehner is talking is that eac...

Point all weekend and the president did it again. if you held a vote, would it pass? do you know what the numbers are now? >> no. i couldnt predict that. we are not worried about a clean c.r., its a fair c.r. we are concerned about. that provides the funding to the federal government. we are passing bills now but we want fairness for americans to have the same delays from the mandate to sign up for the obama care that hes provided businesses and members of congress and exemptions for insurance c...

The debt ceiling or funding the government. instead, he wants entitlement reform. >> my goal is those things that are driving the debt up. >> reporter: the white house wants a vote to fund the government no strings attached, again, rebuffed by republicans. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. >> reporter: but president obama, bombstered by many objective observe es, question that assertion in an interview with the associated press, saying, quote, we know that there are eno...

Increasing the debt sealing. >> my goal is to have a serious conversation about those things that are driving the deficit and driving the debt up. >> reporter: as the government remains partially shut down for a seventh day, the white house wants a vote to fund the government, no strings attached. again, rebuffed by republicans. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. >> reporter: but president obama, bowlstered by many objective observers, questioned that in the associated p...

Wanted somebody else to vote for them. i can explain myself to my constituents, and frankly most of them agree. i have very conservative republicans, but many of them are very practical people. we have a lot of common-sense conservatives who have a great sense of governance, and this is one of the things we must do. again, i dont know how many republicans will vote for you for this cr, but i will guarantee you, there will be enough for it to be enacted into law. >> you can go over the head of th...

Tactics that are being installed, obviously, you know, americans are frustrated with whats happening or not happening in washington, d.c., right now. but ultimately what do republicans want to see happen at this point, sir? >> well, you just pointed out one of the big problems with super pacs. to tell you the truth, i think they have got to the point of not irrelevancy or near irrelevancy. who pays attention to superpac ads anymore? certain lly not me and i think majority of americans sort of jo...

Kind of fake concession. boehner will have to accept it and pretend hes actually won something. and then well like krystal said come back and do it again in a couple of months. >> you cant get to a deal without a clear policy goal, you cant negotiate a contract unless both know what they want. let me read you a quote. enactment of a cr would contain $64 billion in less spending compared to the current funding levels president obama signed into law a mere five months ago, he would be endorsing a ...

Country. and back then i was hoping that maybe, just maybe, we would avert a government shutdown and not come anywhere close to the october 17th deadline for when the united states officially bumps up against the debt ceiling and doesnt have enough money to pay its bills. but after yesterdays performance on this week with george stephanopoulos, im not so sure if hes going to choose his country over his caucus. clearly, as we all know from the whip counts that were doing here at the "washington p...