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>> ive got to get you an online class in civics. >> john boehner isnt going to bring that. >> hes a fool to bring it. >> the chief already -- >> phoenix college will -- >> yes, bob will. >> watch this, one of each. >> boehner doesnt have guts to put a clean bill on the floor to fund the government. why? hes afraid of the tea party. call boehner and tell him. dont let tea party radicals sabotage our government. >> i will not negotiate. >> in case theres any confusion, i will not negotiate. >> the...

What do you think? spaghetti and meatballs. >> cute kid. >> a whoopi cushion? and how about this, sharknado. it was a good one. "way too early" is up next. american people respect when we have a crisis like this that the leaders will sit down and can have a conversation. and i told my members there may be a back room somewhere, but there is nobody in it. >> john boehner was talking on sunday and obviously no back room deals over the weekend. the federal government still shut down. democrats wa...

With himself, obviously, and within his own head. look, he can -- its a debatable point whether there are enough -- there are more republicans who would support whats called the clean cr that the democrats are looking for. but theres no question that there are enough votes for it to pass through the house. thats why it hasnt been brought to a vote there. >> of course. >> theres the old -- theres the traditional thing called the hazard role, if the speaker doesnt have the majority in his own cauc...

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 with the associated press, saying, quote. we know there are enough members in the house of representatives, democrats and republicans, who are prepared to vote to reopen the government today. the only thing that is keeping that from ha...

But you have to put on your poker face. that was really more for the negotiations. im not trying to defend him. i know what he said behind the scenes. i know how he is. i know hes not going to allow the debt ceiling -- for america to default on the debt. i heard him yesterday and, come on, this is an act. did you get that sense? >> sure, a little bit. i think it will get resolved. i also saw john boehner squirming. there are a number of cases where he said, im not going to let the country defaul...

No end in sight. the president taunted the speaker for refusing to have a vote to reopen the federal government. >> if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes they should prove it. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. >> reporter: but some of boehners rank and file republicans disagree. do you agree with that? >> with respect to the speaker, i do not agree with that. i think if a clean cr were put on the floor i believe it would pass. >> repor...

Conservative rating index over the past decade. if somebody says tom coburn is a rhino, you know, i dont want them in my party. i dont want them in my area code or near me. i want the to win elections again. the question is when do they stand up and stop being bullied around by, you know, by a bunch of -- >> first of all, they have stood up and said things about ted cruz and what hes doing? chuck mentioned some of that. here we are now. we have somebody like john boehner who is not a rhino. what...

The republican party, for the conservative cause, for america across the world and put a clean c.r. on the floor and let the majority role. >> those two things are in conflict. whats best for the republican party and whats best for the conservative movement. right now the politics of that are in conflict. they are not in concert on this. the issue is if he does -- there is probably a majority of house republicans that would vote for some clean c.r. -- three, four, five, six weeks. perhaps a thre...

Development. >> exactly. >> were looking at the fact that they already negotiated at sequester levels, at least in this cr thats not getting picked up. >> exactly. >> so none of that stuff is going to change but it is affecting and choking everything off. >> and you see it in the schools. like that -- i mean the tone and tenor, i have to give it to nbc, the tone and tenor of this ed nation is really different. its really looking at what it takes and not vilifying teachers. and teachers voices ar...

Agreed with this but we had a number of republicans saying publicly last week they would be in favor of a clean cr and if there were a secret ballot, that wed probably see the numbers even higher. do you think that there will be more pressure on john boehner this week to break the ties that bind him behind the scenes? >> absolutely. john boehner said that he didnt have the votes to pass a clean cr. and over the weekend, democrats basically called him on his bluff and said, oh, yeah, bring it to ...