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Wants anything to do with whats going on with the government shutdown. >> lets talk about the house rpz quickly. a number of them voiced support for clean cr. at last check it was 15. is that a number thats likely to grow? >> it has grown. so my colleague frank thorpe had 15 earlier in the day. other news outlets say its gone up to 16 or 17. it will be interesting to see where it is throughout the end of the day. all of the signs are slowly but surely some republicans are saying, look, we need a...

Calling for leadership on both sides to resolve the issues. the fbi is being impacted. the cia is being impact the. the national terrorism center which is looking at lead that are coming in to keep this nation safe is being impacted. and nih, cancer research, alzheimers research are being impacted. people and families are being impact the. this is bad for america. its bad for america. enough its enough. its time to be leaders. its time to govern. open up the government. >> republican congressman...

A lot of sense to talk about whether there is phone calls. right. whats there to talk about. >> there its nothing left to give. the budget as the cr would have it is almost down off to the paul ryan levels of funding. so right, democrats have already given republican is a lot when it comes to the actual number. republicans are now asking for things that are extraneous to the budget. theyre still insisting we want to defund or delay the affordable care act. we are now talking smaller and smaller ...

It has bipartisan support. it could pass the house snfrl republicans say heres a handful of things that we want. the president says well get to that. first do all the things that im asking you to do. i prols on good faith because ive been so trust worthy before. well get to your thing and ill come to the table and negotiate with you like did i on entitlement reform and tax reform. >> excited for 988. democrats think it would be a 1056 or higher. they gave 100% of the republican number. >> lets c...

Boehner went then to his plan e, a piecemeal approach to funding a few parts of the government he likes. support for veterans. national parks. and this one is important to beltway residents, funding for operations of the district of columbia. that failed as well. now there are some signs of cracking. a virginia republican took to twitter with a novel idea today." "we fought the good fight he wrote. time for a clean cr." look, politics love the bumper sticker simplicity of tweet negotiations. he ...

Reason we are here, while -- you pointed out in your opening comments, you might be able to blame republicans, one of the problems we have here is the senate is dysfunctional. while both the house and senate passed a budget, they have not been reconciled, and beyond that, 13 appropriation bills were supposed to be completed by the end of september. it is now october. not one single appropriation bill has come to the senate floor. which means that is why we have the cr. continuing resolution to f...

In a bit of a bind, joe. but there is a reason they were conducted on a two-thirds majority. the reason was that procedural maneuver prevented house democrats from adding a clean cr as an amendment. everyone in this town knows if a clean cr were brought to the house of the representatives it would have the members there. we are there. >> when does john boehner finally say screw you guys? im going to put this on the floor. were going to threat majority rule. we want to destroy the republican part...

C.r. i think we all agree it would be great to have a grand bargain, at least a budget, but in the absence of that, its your jo been to pass a cr, and the president agreed on the -- >> let me tell you what -- republicans have offered to reopen slices of the government to fund veteran services, for example, national parks, a number of other things. nancy pelosi called this pa theic. here is what harry reid had to say about it today. >> but if you can help one child with cancer, why wouldnt you do...

The vast majority want to do. it is this tea party fringe that has been wagging the dog, pardon my mixing may metaphors, tea party tale. and someday, john boehner will pull on his big boy pants. do you think john boehner has overplayed his hand? >> i would not talk about bill clintons pants like that? honestly. i think thats a little bit of a low. a little bit of a low blow. john bainer could put a clean cr on the floor. sure. but the ultimate point is that the republicans are united on obama ca...

This is a veritable question. let me go, ill call him senator tim kaine. >> hi, guys. >> excellent senator tim kaine. >> im a former exellency. >> what are you going to do former exellency if you get a chance to do what democrats had a chance to do last night and vote to fund d.c. on a stand alone bill. let say the nih. lets hope we get a stand alone bill for nih. what would you do? >> im not sure. its a missed ton. we ought to be spending and doing the: r at the houses own budget level. thats w...