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To resolve this situation prior to october 14th which i believe would be the earliest you could deal with that discharge petition. but i believe you couldnt deal with it until october 28th for all practical purposes. >> i hate to get into the weeds of washington -- well inside washington legislative talk right now. but if it were to come up, that motion to discharge which would force the speakers hand and allow a continuing resolution to come up nor a aye or nay vote on the house floor, would yo...

Agreements, just measures to keep the united states functioning. >> i think its a fair point as it relates to the debt ceiling, which is the ceiling needs to be raised to address spending decisions that have been made in the past. in other words, you dont get to dine and dash. but when it comes to the budget, the so-called continuing resolution, whether it should go up or down or stay the same or continue, thats the place where these two sides have a legitimate difference and legitimate fight. i...

Government. >> thats exactly what they said. >> no. >> thats what ted cruz. >> ted cruz is just a part of it. what congress voted -- what the republicans voted was to keep the government going and de fund obama care. the president then says, you dont fund obama care we are not negotiating. theres nothing to negotiate is there? take over. >> the president brought this on himself. the presidents law was passed obama care no doubt about it. but the way you repeal it, the way you amend it is going b...

Negotiations. last point im going to make, the bill that is being presented to end the government shutdown reflects republican priorities. its the republican budget. the funding levels of this short-term funding bill called the c.r., is far lower than what democrats think it should be. nevertheless, democrats are prepared to put the majority of votes on to reopen the government. so when you hear this notion that democrats arent compromising, were compromising so much were willing to reopen the g...

Important. while they may not be the sacrosanct pentagon, everyone is afraid to touch the pentagon because that touches that live rail of national security, there are a lot of other dimensions of national security that have nothing to do with arms and facing missiles. the future of our children, science, investments in cancer, those are part of national security as well. >> its about shifting the conversation instead of these governments arent worth funding to why should we shut down programs an...

Economy which will be better for jobs and growth and investment. the important thing is that they not threat en default and that they not put our country on the brink of that. >> so two or three week temporary stop gap extension is not out of the question? >> again, i think that longer is better for economic certainty and jobs. but it is ultimately up to them. >> it wasnt a no. >> no, it wasnt a no. and if the purpose of a short term cr and short term debt ceiling was to allow for negotiations o...

Attention. before that, you remember all of the talk about immigration reform. it felt like the united states might actually be close to a big important deal for the public interest. and then all of that other stuff happened. joining us now to roll back the clock, is the democratic representative from illinois, luis gutierrez who has a new book out "still dreaming" might also refer to the search for common sense in the shutdown fight and everything else. before we get to the book, lets start wit...

Nightmare scenarios, and destroy the backbone of the middle-class america. >> thats the tea party -- no one is denies it, thats what the plan is. >> and the american people dont want it down. >> neither do we. >> regardless of obama care. i have a question for you. are you saying you will never vote to reopen the government unless obama care is attached? >> what im willing to say -- thats the wrong question. right now the question is what can we get votes in the house. >> youve got them. >> we...

Towns around yosemite when he was on a jihad against american citizens getting access to health care! >> you regret those words at all, congressman? >> not at all. what they were doing was saying unless you were prepared to repeal the obama care, they were prepared to shut down the government of the united states. and to put the economy -- put the economy into a tailspin and even threaten the debt limit of this country. and the point was this. the point was this. they have since now come to the ...

Entitlement reform. >> my goal here 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 bolstered by many objective observers questioned that assertion in an interview ...