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>> thats the scary thing to me if the idea is to get through the cr and use the debt ceiling as leverage, what suggests to them that the president will be anymore willing to take a hatchet to obama care then than he is now? >> thats exactly right. and the white house is in a better strategic position now than they were in the summer of 2011, when they did deal on the debt limit. now the president just won re-election, and he has a senate majority. heres the question for baoehne. can he break the...

Number of people, no the just senators, about you a number of people ran around in many of our districts in august and said this is the way it has to be done. this is the way it has to be done. we can get it done. we all know that jim demint does not have a magic wand. it will take a lot of work to get something moving and i think the posture that we needed to see was the posture that ted and others portrayed in the press conference yesterday where they said we are unified and we are going to fi...

Cruz has been fanning the flames for a government shutdown over the affordable care act and actively taunting republicans not to back down. yesterday he became a target himself of fellow republicans when he conceded the absurdity of trying to shut down the government over something that will never happen. in a statement he said quote, harry reid will no doubt try to strip the defund language from the continuing resolution. and right now he likely has the votes to do so. at that point house repub...

If your buddy, ted cruz, can come up with a strategy where this can get all the way through and the pressure isnt all on the house, then im willing to do it. and ted cruz cant do that, and they know, the tea party knows that ted cruz will just put all the pressure on house republicans, so theyll say, forget about it. you know what, you know, well pass our bill, you know, so the house will pass their cr, that will defund obama care. then the senate will push it back to them. and the house will sa...

>> thats the scary thing to me if the idea is to get through the cr and use the debt ceiling as leverage, what suggests to them that the president will be anymore willing to take a hatchet to obama care then than he is now? >> thats exactly right. and the white house is in a better strategic position now than they were in the summer of 2011, when they did deal on the debt limit. now the president just won re-election, and he has a senate majority. heres the question for boehner. can he break the...

The white house and check in with jim acosta. wheres the president, jim? >> reporter: the president is on his way to kansas city for what is looking like a campaign style event on the economy. hes going to be going to a ford plant out there. he will be talking about all the strides that have been made over the last several years since the financial crisis but white house officials are very up front about it. the president is also going to go after the republicans on this prospect of a government...

It is a wolf in wolfs clothing. the underlying bill, to shut down government, the cr, is reason enough to object to it. because that bill will cost at least a million jobs in the course of the next year. >> so that was just really moments ago, nancy pelosi. shes still on the house floor. and with the economy hanging in the balance, lawmakers are quickly running out of time to reach that high-stakes deal to avert a government shutdown. its a road weve been down before, as youll see in this "today...

Right now is so fragile, if he actually has to break the hastert rule on the cr or debt limit, the chances for immigration reform will be very small. and speaker boehner right now is just trying to survive. hes going to his conference every day and saying, just try to come with me. im throwing you a bone with this vote on friday, but eventually well have to come together. >> finally and quickly, why do they hate ted cruz so much? i cannot get over the anonymous quotes weve been reading. it feels...

>> heres the thing. the reason that the drama seems so high and the reason that people are now going at each other in the public spotlight is everyone understands, they are now all collectively pursuing a doomed strategy. i mean, is that realization dawning on everyone? >> thats exactly right. theres really a strange thing happening within the republican party. we saw in the summer, senator ted cruz went on a nine-city tour with heritage foundation, with heritage action, stoking activists. telli...

>> i agree with you on speaker boehner, chris. i think speaker boehners power right now is so fragile, if he actually has to break the hastert rule on the cr or debt limit, the chances for immigration reform will be very small. and speaker boehner right now is just trying to survive. hes going to his conference every day and saying, just try to come with me. im throwing you a bone with this vote on friday, but eventually well have to come together. >> finally and quickly, why do they hate ted cr...