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The budget in a vacuum, a piecemeal way. >> thats the appropriations process. >> its the budget process. talking about something like the social security, by the way, the president has already come quite a long way in terms of compromising and making compromises when it comes to entitlement programs an i think the concern that people is that, you know, were talking about something that is a matter of settled law. people like yourself i think, you know, my question to you would be, would you be w...

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Republican conference we shouldnt be paying federal workers for doing a job they didnt do. however, it seems the gop leadership is able to dissipate that and pass this bill unanimously today, which is a quite significant win for federal workers decided to get their money. however, if you are a federal worker, you dont get your money until after the shutdown. its retroactive. so its still tough for a lot of folks who if they dont have savings, some are still going to be filing for unemployment un...

Crises that you couldnt win in the normal course of politics. >> jackie, both sides have dug in their heels. thats glaringly obvious. whats the way out? how do we get out of this mess? >> one of the ways out is that boehner could bring this cr -- the clean cr to the floor. there are enough members in both parties to support this and get it through. however, to do that it would be politically very perilous for him to do that particularly because his conservative tea party members are hearing good...

Right now. the house opened a rare saturday session this morning to vote on giving furloughed federal workers back pay and restoring funding to more chunks of the government. house republicans earlier this week already voted to restore fund to allow the national institutes of health to continue clinical trial, to reopen national parks, and to allow the district of columbia to continue operations. democratically controlled senate has refused to take up the piecemeal funding bills. the democrats a...

Leaders to trust him. in other words, that we will address these issues that are near and dear to you. republican congressman from ohio jim jordan on that. thats what he seems to be saying, i will deal with these issues that you want me to deal with, congressman, but first give me a continuing resolution, reopen the government and well talk. you dont trust him? >> no. look, neil, what we dont need is a clean cr. we need a fair cr. and this argument has been talked about, but why should big busin...

>> so then why not vote on a full -- just like full cr if you dont care about obama care anymore? >> good question. if this is not about obama care anymore, which is exactly what you just said, if its just about how bad it is for all these other parts of the government to be shut down, why not just open up the government again? if its not about obama care and you dont want the government to be shut down and its terrible that the government is shut down, why dont you just stop shutting down the g...

Look -- they say clean cr, that translates into truly a blank check, and so obama care is an issue for me and my constituents, but what happens is today is weve got to figure a way to open it back up. and with that, in opening it back up, when we start to look at these issues, it is critical that we make it -- the decisions we make to be as least harmful as they possibly can be. >> so can you explain -- >> ive got to check on the next vote. >> so you got -- the -- twofold, blank check, obama car...

Ago, which was their kind of fallback plan after the clean cr was rejected by the majority of house republicans, they said lets let ted cruz deal with this. well show he es a fraud, doesnt have the votes, raising money after the health care law, and they want to show he cant do what he says he could do. he wants to let the situation develop on its own. he understands the system well enough, and thats what you were alluding to, that it kind of germinates and happens without him having to push it ...

Were calling them the reasonable republicans, 20 or so of them, if boehner brought a clean cr to the floor, they would be willing to vote for it. representative simpson and peter king, when you look at their districts, they have a high percentage of federal government workers in their district. is that what has to happen here? >> right. el, its so confounding because when you look at those districts and those workers it just makes no sense. each day when i read about this, im just trying to figu...