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I would continue doing what youre seeing the two campaign arms for the senate and house democrats doing, putting pressure on individual republicans in their district. i think that you have to keep this about the economy and jobs. thats what really is at risk here. thats what republicans are threatening, with their antics. thats what i think democrats are doing. i would encourage them to keep on doing. ultimately its a republican problem that theyre going to have to come to grips on, that obama c...

Just hours before the government is set to shut down, and, again, the source i talked to said that they have absolutely no intention of playing games with the house republicans. so, that raises the stakes even higher, makes the likelihood even more that there could be at least a temporary shut down of the government, so thats news at this hour. and i also want to read you another bit of news that we finally did get a attempt from the senate majority leader harry reid and he said in part to be ab...

Government shutdown or worse, unless i gut or repeal the affordable care act. i said this yesterday, let me repeat it -- thats not going to happen. >> now, congressman, my understanding was that part of the way boehner was trying to make it shake out this week, he was trying to get support -- part of the reason theres this laundry list attached to the idea of the debt ceiling, he was trying to get people to vote for a clean cr and trying to convince them, lets just put your stuff on this debt ce...

Entered into a perilous situation. long-term hes burned bridges in congress. people are irritated with how hes handled this fight. hes not making many friends and that could cost him later, especially if he runs for president. >> to that point, robert wrote a good article yesterday, i think, about how house republicans came to call senator cruz to get his advice and counsel on what to do with the debt limit measure that house speaker boehner put forward and he counselled them to whip against it....

Already, we are hearing from a couple dozen republicans this isnt enough of whats out there. so i dont see what john bohner can do this weekend. >> yeah, many of us dont know what he can do. i mean, one option would be and this has been some liberals are talking about this as an option that he actually allow, put the cr back on the floor, that includes if defund obamacare provision. its going to keep going back and forth between the house and the senate t. government will shutdown and maybe afte...

Editor of the goldie taylor project. robert, im going to start with you. i know youve been talking to some of the republican leadership. at this point is there any hope that we avert a shutdown or should we start to prepare for that? >> i think you better prepare for one. at the 11th hour lets say the republicans come up with a clean cr they can send over to the senate. maybe it has a minor concession on balm care. but we really look like were heading to a shutdown. >> how did we get here? >> we...

Boehners attempts to get a cr passed? >> i think very much a cr is on the table unless he tells the conference, i think this whole thing could shut down. >> i want to bring in melissa har ris perry. . what i think is fascinating here is looking at this in the context of democratic norms and were seeing norms fall all over the place. there was this great piece ryan l liza put up -- its basically 80 members of the house who wrote a letter to boehner being like youve got to defund obama care and ba...

>> and that was before republicans even announced their plan. joining me live now, democratic congresswoman karen bass of california. what are yall doing? >> dont ask me what were doing. were waiting for the republicans to put forward their effort again to try to delay health care reform. why they dont want the american people to have health coverage, i have no idea. sometimes i think that the republican caucus must be like a football locker room where they get themselves all ginned up. theres n...

Cover every bit of the federal government and in my view, particularly if harry reid forced a shutdown with president obama, it makes sense to focus first on the military. if understood the military, no matter what happens, we should never threaten to cut off funding for the men and women in the military. existing federal law gives president obama all the authority he needs to fund the military even if there is a shutdown. but the democrats are threatening that and so if they pass a simple cr th...

Passed with democratic votes, but lost that tea party bloc, it would be a violation of the hastert rule. unless it were a true majority of the republican conference and theyre not willing to do that. i think the speakers not willing to take the risk. so we have this dysfunction in the house. but you know, i do think theres a big bloc of you know, more or less sensible gop members in the house who think this is crazy and clearly the majority of republicans in the senate feel that way. >> okay. so...