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We have been blamed by the supporters of morsi. we have been blamed by the other side as if we are supporters of morsi. >> senator bloomenthall, trying to walk a fine line and i a neutral line has alienated both sides. what is your opinion of how heal has handled this crisis? cr >> i agree with the president that the people of egypt have to decide their own future. bloodshed, the violence in the streets has to stop. the practical reality is that most of the military aid for this fiscal year, 201...

Am in favor of using our leverage to try to make it less bad. includes funding for obama care -- >> mcconnell sign that letter too? >> thats his decision. >> in boston for the rnc summer meeting, chairman priebus yet again refused to take a side. >> is shutting down the government a good idea? >> look, im not going to get into tactics but i do understand both sides of the argument. i dont think thats an unreasonable position. at the same time, i dont think its unreasonable for republicans to be ...

Castle chanoshannon, yet the cr could hardly wait for the truly big event of the evening. the president and mrs. nixon ended the suspension with a light hearted move. >> i understand im supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time im supposed to make a surprise announcement, i find some way its leaked before i get to make it. even though the information may have leaked out, until i say it, its not official. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> and so tonigh...

Fund obamacare and the continuing resolution. theyre talking about maybe a compromise of delaying the individual mandate. they should just go ahead and defund it altogether through the cr. this isnt going to be ready even if we devoted more federal resources. they cant get it done in time because the obama administration never thought they would have to do all the work. they thought the states would do it, and they were wrong. heather: you mentioned the nsa briefly. were not just talking about h...

Vote for the cr. >> so where do you fall in this debate? would you support defunding obama care and not support any bill that funded it? >> i want republicans and conservatives to be as united as possible. we are absolutely united in wanting to repeal obama care, defund it, delay it. remove the most damaging parts of it. anything we can do to prevent obama care from taking solid root. i think most republicans will support. what the strategy, what the tactic -- im for an all the above strategy. t...

Obamacare, the parts of obamacare that are kicking in are the mandatory parts. theres not much we have jurisdiction over that we can control in this cr. plus weve got a president thats never going to sign any bill that doesnt fund it. >> we dont want republicans maybing the same mistake we made when we shut down government and basically reelected bill clinton. this is something that can be done. front page of "the wall street journal." i talked to a lot of republicans on the hill this morning wh...

T ted cruz is suggesting that the house pass a continuing resolution that funds the government except for obama care. and then basically kick that up to the senate and make it look at if democrats are resistant to the idea of passing a cr without the funding for the affordable care act which is settled law of the land and somehow in that way implicate the democrats in the government shutdown. i really doubt that that works. >> i dont think, alex, it is a question of whether it will work. i think...

Than practicality here. most of this strategy is more to give political cover to senator rubio in terms of his opposition for the tea party for his immigration reform. on the house side, they dont like this strategy. this is not going to happen over on the house side. they look at this as a losing strategy. they say for two reasons. they say that its temporary. you know, its a cr, its a temporary government funding bill. but number two, if this actually happens and the government were to shut do...

Want, but were not going to pass a continuing resolution or other appropriations measure that includes funding for ongoing further enforcement and implementation of obama care. >> congress has the authority and the purse. so you would -- you are encouraging the house and the senate to fund everything else, medicare, social security. the military, every other function of government, but obama care. how is the supporters a great divide on that issue? >> yes, theres a significant divide, even withi...

Obama care. if youre against it, you must commit to vote against any cr that contains obama care funding. >> you say to the republicans, rather than symbolic votes to eliminate obama care and remove it as law in the land, they could use their constitutional authority to defund obama care and fund the rest of the government? it seems to me that is the only way out, are you saying this is the last opportunity we have? >> yes, this is the last stop on the obama care express. before this law kicks i...