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Ronald reagan day and tip oneill. it has been sort of like -- you know, rose-colored -- years later that they -- you know, struck this personal friendship and, you know, settled big differences, private -- you know, white house quarters. it wasnt all that really -- >> no, no. there was really hardball conflict most of the time. when we had a crisis on a cr, continuing resolution, or a debt ceiling or the big debt -- you know, deficits that opened up. there was a lot of hardball negotiation and g...

National guard folks that perhaps reservists that are not getting paid, thats where the fight is today. obama care is mandatory spending. its going on. >> 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 o...

Squabbling in washington as the clock ticks down for the potential government shutdown. republicans trying to defund the presidents health care law. to do this shutdown. >> republicans are going to get blamed for it for the simple fact that the country will see this is a shutdown brought on by the republican party. >> the suicide caucus is comprised of 80 hard line republicans who got the ball running toward a government shutdown. >> it is being driven by a committed core of republican members o...

The debt ceiling because quite honestly they dont really know what the republican party wants. the republican party has actually admitted, many members have admitted that they dont really -- they want something but dont really know what it is. ted cruz seems like he would be a pretty bad chess player. hes made this one move but he has no strategy to eventually topple the queen. so right now the democrats are very unified. they want a clean cr and they want to raise the debt limit, no negotiation...

Done it with these continuing resolutions and with where the budget number is between the two plans. its $3.5 trillion, $3.7 trillion. im pretty sure you can get a number in between those two and hopefully well be doing that pretty soon. >> is that where this is heading, do you think, amanda? theres going to have to be something? this is not going to be a clean cr? >> what you could also see is something like what john boehner originally proposed, which was a clean cr coupled with a promise to v...

>> i reminded, i reminded the president the other night that he is famous for saying, well you know in a negotiation nobody gets 100% of what they want. were not going to get in this one either. yes, sir? >> mr. speaker, you got a debt ceiling coming up in the next couple weeks and what were hearing about in conference, you guys focused mainly on the cr. a, is that true, solely on the cr? and b, to what extent would you be willing to look at temporary debt ceiling increase given there is little ...

Pick up 20 republicans, youre going to lose that vote for a clean cr. >> well, i said i dont want to get toot hung up on the exact numbers. i believe there would be a minimum of 1 0 democrats. it could be 190, even more than that. so we provide 0 to 90% of the title necessary to reopen the government. the question is, will the republicans provide the 10 to 20% thats in the balance. >> have you done a headcount of the 200 democrats if they would vote in favor? do you -- have you done a little whi...

Lot of options out of the current stalemate, although i think you could hear from what the congressman was just saying that there are some hopes that they can at least turn the politics of this around. but with democrats not budging, speaker boehner and some of those close to him seem to feel like one option might be for them to go big, to make a big deal on the budget, wrap in the debt limit since boehner certainly feels like he cant surrender twice, he cant surrender on the cr and then surrend...

>> you mean medicare? >> all of the health care. medicare is number one, but we have a big component and the military health care accounts also that node re230erform. >> clean cr and clean debt ceiling and forced six-week negotiations on tax reform to medicare and all of that. >> actually naming a commission for social security. >> an elected official and not outsiders? >> however the elected representatives want to fashion it is fine with me. whats sprnt that we start taking on these issues tha...

Experience here in washington, not only serving as the defense secretary, the cia director earlier, the white house chief of staff, the budget director, a long-time member of the house of representatives. mr. secretary, if anyone can come up with a solution to solve this crisis in washington, i suspect its you. how would you fix this immediate crisis, the government shutdown? >> well, wolf, you know, i think the first thing is that everybodys going to have to kind of put politics aside for the m...