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Cr. the president will sign it. the senate already passed it. we know a majority of the house would support it. so this notion that suddenly they want to talk when for seven months or six months we been trying to get them to conference with the senate on a budget, its just really insincere, and its unfortunately another example of john boehners failed leadership. hes not the speaker the house is. i dont know what his job is, but its not the speaker. >> what guidance have you been given in terms ...

American people. >> so, chuck, we have now reached the point where the speaker of the house is on the floor of the house of representatives mimicking a phone call that he had last evening with the president of the united states. we have as mark indicated a few moments ago, people waking up to hear phrases like clean cr. nobody i know on the outside of this bubble that we exist in knows what a clean cr means. we have a group of ideological purists in the republican party on the house of represent...

Congresswoman from illinois. >> we passed that bewitching hour now. >> obviously exhausted and upset is whats going on in half the house. what is the mood like in the house? is there any expectation of any continued forward movement? or does it just feel like its done? >> i dont feely see it. harry reid said unless there is a vote on a clean cr, continuing resolution that hes not going to negotiate. hes not going to appoint conferees. i dont see how it happens. i really dont see how it happens. ...

And down vote on the cr, it would pass in a minute. but they dont want that. they do not want that. they want to shut the government down. i am convinced. and wolf, i have to tell you, it pains me to be able to say that but it hurts. but that is what i believe. and it is very unfortunate. >> if the government shuts down there will be a lot of pain across the country. >> and particularly in my own district. >> you have a lot of federal workers. >> that is exactly right who work in suburban washin...

We will not go to conference until we get a clean cr. government closes. what benefit do we have from that? we have in two weeks -- we have the government is not only going to close down were going to lose the credit rating because they are talking about not raising the debt ceiling. >> madame president -- >> senator from new york. >> madame president, i sort of feel sorry for speaker boehner. he has this hard-right tea party group -- >> chuck schumer is speaking. we will continue monitoring wha...

Now, the speaker would lose leverage on the debt ceiling fight if he wants to have that fight but i have spoken to tea party republicans, had one on "meet the press" on sunday who said he doesnt want to mess around with the debt ceiling. he wants to have the fight here because he thinks this is a better place comparatively relatively speaking to have this fight. my question is there a participation trophy for republicans who participate in this. at the end of it were back to square one. you get ...

Budget, sdmenate republicans objected to that. they want to sit down together and compromise, they know that this conference thing is literally a face-saving move to buy a few more hours before they get out of this. >> does this hurt at battle that boehner wanted to set up on the debt ceiling does this whole what part over the past 12 hours hurt them? >> i think it probably does. i think certainly its the case that the longer this lasts, the more it complicates matters. he moves to a clean cr, w...

Other democrats have said you really should draw the line here. finally he said this is it. lets keep in mind, were talking about a six-week cr, six weeks. so lets say that he gave them whatever ridiculous absurd thing that they want at this point. whos to say at six weeks from now theyre not going to be demanding some other list of goodies. you are upsetting what the will of the people are and were not even talking about a majority of the republican caucus. were talking about 30, 40, 50 members...

Senator cruz and now the house republicans, they have their fantasy draft of legislation. and thats fine. but its just a fantasy. harry reid is not coming and saying were going to shut down the government unless you pass the presidents gun safety bill and unless you pass be pre-kindergarten program and the increase in the minimum wage. these are all things adearly love but they are on my christmas wish list not a hostage taking list. this is not the way to run government. >> heres what i have do...

And the party brand. david gregory, its not just me saying this or chris christie saying this or scott walker saying this -- >> rhinos. >> all of them. >> rhinos. >> the most conservative people associated with the republican party, classic conservative, were all against this. i found out something remarkable this weekend. there are a lot of people in the house that are horrified by this strategy too. its like they see this coming. they dont want it to happen but they cant help themselves. >> ge...