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It is $986 billion. that, that you see, 986, that is the clean cr that democrats are asking the house republicans to accept. so weve come a long way, obviously, from the democratic preference of the obama budget or even the senate original budget. and then this, this is what that clean cr is shockingly close to, the 2014 ryan budget of $966 billion, the ryan budget. >> this years ryan budget turns out looks like last years ryan republican budget. i wasnt the only one that said gee whiz, not agai...

Make sure people understand is that the veterans bill last night, you know, was a non-starter. we dont pass a budget piecemeal. we dont have a veteran do you want us to pay for you but not allow your grand baby to go to head start? we need a clean cr. to use veterans, this is political theater and its not acceptable. my dad was a world war ii veteran. and hed be shaking his head right now if he saw what was happening. >> the whole countrys shut down by this. the whole government now is vulnerabl...

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 talk politics the way you might as a top staffer before. and its not...

Stand-off at all, you know that one group of lawmakers is refusing to fund the government and keep it open unless it can defun or delay obama care. another side says, fund the government now andredebate obama care at another time. both of those groups are republican, which is kind of weird. for once its the democrats marching in lock step while the gop in both houses is fighting amongst itself, it seems. pete king is the leader of the fund now, fight later camp, which seem to be getting larger b...

>>brian: coming up. >>steve: vladimir putin negotiating with a terror state like iran. who better to get the peace prize than vladimir. >>elisabeth: stuart varney will break down what the c.r. is, the debt ceil everything in between. hi, stuart. ♪ ♪ ♪ ho ho ho ♪ [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better.

Republican party. and have purposely kept my et rhetoric down. i think im well known for being a calm guy. >> wall street has been calm about this. washington fighting, washington posturing, yadda, yadda. is that the way to look at it? >> no. this time is different. they should be concerned. when you have a situation in which a faction is willing potentially to default on u.s. government obligations then then we are in trouble. if they are willing to do it now they will be willing to do it later...

Premise. hes actually given up 100% of the position to the republicans. the c.r. is a republican document. the republicans wanted 988 billion. he said we will give you 100% of what you want on the budget. where do you negotiate after giving people 100% of what they want? >> tom tom tom. >> emily, please educate tom. >> former congressman, first of all the number were talking about in the c.r. spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this was agreed upon. because i think on all of our sides we agr...

Its happening because of a reckless republican shutdown in washington. >> joinings now, florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, shes also the chair of the democratic national commit q. thanks very much for coming. >> appreciate it. >> a lot of people wonder, why not accept these piecemeal house bills that are passed in the house, they go to the senate, die in the senate? why not fund, for example, children who need clinical trials, clinical work, at nih, they have cancer, why not at leas...

Force base that are signature home. they have a few problems of their own. >> i have right here -- this was tweeted by eric cantor. this is a statement from the presidents office. its the threat to veto. the honoring our promise to americas veterans act. the research for life-saving cures act. >> those are really cool names you guys made up for this stuff. >> no, its terrible optics. this is your party. how do you defend this? >> do you think the optics are hurting the democrats right now on the...

Things we would be happy to talk about or anything else he wanted to talk about. we said well be happy to talk about discretionary spending. well talk about agriculture. well talk about parks, health care, well talk about anything that you want to talk about. and he says, no. all he want to do is go to conference on a short term cr. we have the debt ceiling staring us in the face. and he wants to talk about a short term cr? i thought that they were concerned about the long-term fiscal affairs of...