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That obama care is inflicting on the american people. four times, greta, harry reid said jump in a lake. no compromise. no discussion. shut down the government. the house has passed a number of bills, piecemeal bills that senator reid says basically, i dont know if you say a gun to his head, but different things going back and forth. he thinks as the lousy way to try to re solve this. i assume you are with the house on the this. where does this all end up. where are we going? >> were in a remark...

Together a clean cr and the debt ceiling conversation, there were 20 members of both parties who have signed on to a proposal to reopen the government, finance it for six months and repeal the tax on medical devices. is there anything that can be given, any kind of compromise that can happen just to get that cr done? >> look, i think compromise can happen, but the longer the republicans have held hostage the affordable care act, the less time weve had to get there. yes, i think compromise is pos...

Resolution. what do you believe is behind it? is he not doing this because hes worried about losing face or his job? why is there no vote? >> i want to put something -- not particularly in this conversation but something we dont discuss all the time but that is, there may not be the votes there. i talked to nancy pelosi a couple weeks ago. do you like the cr? if boehner put just a straight old spending temporary spending resolution on the particular, do you like it? she said no. theres too many ...

Know. i dont think anyone has the final combination of what its going to be. but there are an awful lot of us that would like to see tax and entitlement reform, stabilization for medicare and social security programs. and we want to continue working through this process of the cr so that we have a funding mechanism for this years budget. maybe they all get rolled together. i dont know, but as we go through the next days, i think that that is going to become much more clear to all of us what trac...

Do deal with this. but i think the path forward is pretty clear. the speaker is going to have to allow the house to do what he has always talked about, which is regular orders. allow the house to be able to express itself through a majority vote, get a clean cr passed, get a lifting of the debt ceiling so we dont face that crisis, move it all to december, then begin negotiating. thats what everybodys talking about. thats what the speakers talking about. thats what the presidents talking about. a...

Worked out. and i commend john boehner for trying to keep his troops together. and ultimately i hope we do get a strategy to get out of this mess. i hope we get a budget deal because we need a budget deal and i think the president has to negotiate to get a budget deal. that will get us out of this mess. but lets not kid ourselves. ted cruz got us in this mess, and its really shocking that he did not -- he was not able to stand up to his members and explain what the end game strategy was. >> lets...

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...

Is the white house betting on that, that the republicans are not going to gain traction because they just pass that clean cr. >> i think so. any bill that passed undermines the larger democratic strategy of just saying we are not going to negotiate with a gun to her head. were going to force this clean cr, clean debt ceiling raise. i write about that this week. theres real damage being done to the republican party, among a pillar of the party that so far hasnt been alienated. weve talked since t...

The republicans way actually as this no negotiation stance by the white house and senator reid continues. in the senate, behind the scenes, whats going on? >> well, i think the one thing that has been notable is you have seen folks like rob portman, bob corker, john mccain, some of the more deal-making inclined senators, not necessarily moderate, trying to refocus whether its within senate features or even behind the scenes background talks with other democrats. trying to refocus the debate away...

>> i dont think that theres any motivation to do that? i think theres more motivation, frankly, after the presidents most recent remarks, to persuade the people who are worried about the markets to bring a clean debt ceiling increase forward as opposed to dealing with the cr. i think that the shutdown from the perspective of republicans is actually working out for them a lot better than they expected. which is one of the reasons why i dont think were likely to see it end anytime soon. >> thats i...