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Going to take when one doesnt want to talk at all, first of all. you dont have a discussion by yourself. you cant go to the dance unless you have a partner. again, im not saying there isnt blame to go all the way around and in a position thats good. i want and will do whatever it takes to get the government turned on because i know how hurt people are now but at the same time i expect some leadership from the president of the united states. he doesnt get a pass just because he feels, you know, t...

>> you think i can do that? >>elisabeth: i do. >> i brought a prop. a wad of money not from my wallet. but this is real to me at least. what do you want to know about? >>elisabeth: c.r., what is it? why do we care? >> there is mass confusion. lets deal with c.r., continuing resolution. just for the moment i am uncle sam. make believe, okay. make believe. i want to spend more money, but i cant. i cant spend any more money. we havent got a budget and ive run up right against the level that im allo...

Limit with the cr, to get a compromise for the deal. and earlier today, speaker boehner met with several republicans in his office and talked about his potential grand bargain. >> so we were just talking about the weakness he has, the basic lack of trust, and the conservative in the house. we think back to the last grand bargain negotiation in 2011 where at the end of the day, john boehner had to sort of walk away from it because he did not have that support from his own members, presumably, thi...

Democratic votes according to multiple republicans." has the republican party totally alienated its business allies and with the economy hanging in 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. congr...

Fund it for a period of time without any delayed nonsense, but the number attached to the clean cr, if youre going the fund the government how much should the government get? what is the budget, it is a budget bill. lets start out with what the obama administration asked for when they released their budget. 1 trillion, 203 billion, that was the obama target for the budget. by comparison, this was the 2011 compromise, a budget of 1 trillion 66 billion, and here was the budget put together by sena...

A chance to take care of the children with cancer that democrats were talking about two days ago. they have a chance. i think it shows flexibility and shows the president to be the bigger man in washington. what do i know, willie? >> it uh just shows -- >> im watching mika cool herself down. >> dont you think its time to go? >> is that product placement? >> no. >> by the way, i know we are going to tease. this is bigger not smaller. >> its just time to go. >> talking about tax reform, entitlemen...

Were the boss, the john boehner figure if you like, suddenly you got a ted cruz. >> i thought i was a better marketing guy than that. >> if you had a ted cruz, certainly burst out of nowhere and began to run your gig and call the shots, what would you do? >> i wouldnt deal with him but i would be listening to him to see what he had to say and i would be trying to figure out if he made any sense. in this case, i dont buy defunding the government, showing obama care, we got to let it go but i do t...

Elections of more members to vote out different bills instead of holding the cr and the spending to do this? i know its been done in the past but its really painful to the economy and its painful to the rest of us, and its painful to all those people who are out trying to work check to check today and they cant because theyre not working. thank you, congressman, for being part of the conversation today. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. congressman johnson joining us live on the hill....

And thats what this group, this small group in the house has been blocking us for three years. and i am not going to be like them. >> how many of your fellow house republicans agree with you? >> 200. >> really? i mean, a lot of people have been coming up to you and saying atta boy or i agree with you? >> nobody likes to criticize fellow republicans, especially myself. but this is a case where somebody decided to leak private conversations, and so i was forced to basically come out and defend mys...

Havent heard them stock exchange solidly off their ask of obama care. to me thats their ask. >> even if millions of people sign up for me. so the ask includes -- >> it was ridiculous to start with and more ridiculous by the minute. >> essentially we are saying we will stop poor kids from going to health insurance unless you take away their health insurance. its an insane ask. they want to end 20th century, social programs. i dont agree john boehner is a hostage. i want to go to you, margaret, on...