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There are enough members of congress to pass the continuing resolution. so you have one man who is afraid of losing his speakership, essentially, saying, its either my losing the speakership or the government shutting down. >> what about this idea that boehner should bring the clean cr to the floor for a vote? >> 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 m...

The balance can boehner take on cruz and live to tell about it? steve latourettes a former republican congressman in ohio. he served as a key ally to speaker john boehner up until he left office last year due to his disgust, he said, with party extremes m. we also have joshua green here, senior national correspondent at bloomberg business week. congressman latourette ive got to ask but john boehner. im getting two signals from him. one is were really not going to fight to the edge on the c.r., w...

Budget. >> again, i dont care if hes republican or democrat. i just think what a jerk. but a guy whos getting paid, whos on capitol hill getting paid and part of this group thats caused the shutdown. but to be taking it out on a parks service employee? >> hes not turning in his salary. >> of course. >> this is the problem. i dont know if this is supposed to be some like jedi mind trick or something the republicans are trying to pull on us. the republicans did this. >> oh, charles. >> no, theres ...

>> what if we were to agree to set a framework for that. >> if you can do that. >> we didnt want a government shutdown. we wanted solutions. we wanted the senate to work with us on the budget, on the cr, on the debt ceiling. we want them to work with us. on getting this out of control spending under control. >> i got to wrap it up. you just heard the president say he wants to negotiate. he wants to work with you on all of these. >> come on down. >> all of these issues. >> ill bake him cookies. >...

>> back to work! >> we should be -- we should be creating millions of new jobs, not furloughing and laying off millions of federal employees. >> so meanwhile, house minority leader eric cantor announced that the house will vote tomorrow on a number of new mini funding bills. joining me now is republican congressman andy harris of maryland. sir, its great to have you here. lets talk about these mini bills because what theyre going to deal with is basically the fda, emergency disaster recovery, he...

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...

But, no, i think the point is. when you listen to previously, from seven months ago what that was diagnosing big picture, the problem with the republican party, in the big picture what the way out is. every single elect owed official in the republican party on capitol hill right now. basically lives in a world where they cant afford to think of the big picture. theyre haunted by it. if you have to reduce it to one thing. what you say, september 2010 in delaware. christine odonnell. a political g...

Issues. when we are looking at the debt ceiling. you know, we have the ability to raise revenue through taxation. people are not willing to be paying more in taxes. what they are wanting to see is less spending and more prioritization on the items of importance for the federal government. they are so tired of waste, fraud and abuse in the system of spending. theyre tired of stimulus and bailouts that dont work. and they continue to say to us, please, address the fiscal responsibility issues of t...

Us. we have hundreds of millions of dollars behind us. and if you dare to support a continuing resolution, a clean cr, were going to primary you, and we have unbelievable sums of money to defeat you. so what you are looking at now is what citizens united is all about. and that is giving a handful of billionaires the koch brothers and others, incredible power to tell members of congress what they can and cannot do. very dangerous. >> senator, what did you think of that conversation caught on came...

In fact, government shutdowns, like the one were having right now, are abnormal, but not extremely freakish, right? i think weve had 17 since the modern budget process was inaugurated. the most actually under ronald reagan and tip oneill, who of course we all now think of, chris matthews just wrote a book about this, about having this amazing relationship, those were the most shutdowns. but they handled the debt ceiling negotiation in 2011, the way theyre handling it now is genuinely unprecedent...