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♪ >> i love that music. and how much do you love those hats? the hats are awesome. a phrasen threat to shut down the government if the gop doesnt get what it wants. of course, thats what they always do. a day after john boehner said he didnt want a shutdown, he seemed to have changed his tune and of course, drew a line in the sand. again, thats twha they always do. he said he wouldnt support a short-term funding bill if he didnt get his cuts and that the budget battle takes longer than two wee...

Always nice to have you. thank you so much for your insights today, sir. jennasir. >> thank you for having me. jon: police search for a missing ohio woman, what they found and who cops are calling a person of interest in this case. plus -- >> our goal here is to cut spending, but i am not going to move any kind of short term cr at current levels. when we say we are going to cut spending, read my lips, we are going to cut spending. jon: thats the speaker of the house john boehner not mincing word...

Fraud. martha: okay. all right, well, the clock is ticking as the spending debate rages on capitol hill right now. in less than three weeks, money to fund the u.s. government through the end of the year is going to run out, beginning of march is when this continuing resolution is good until. but so far the lawmakers cant approve more spending if they dont get through a mountain of amendments on this c.r. first, which is a pretty interesting process how they do that. chief political correspondent...

Short-circuit our recovery, that dont take us off track on the path were on to create jobs and turn the economy around, which in the last year, in the last two years, weve been able to do by delivering over 1.3 million new private sector jobs. you know, the republicans, i mean, give me a break, bill, theyre not exactly pure on this. they just voted, first thing out of the gate, to add another $230 billion to the decifit by propose -- by repealing health care reform. bill: but this budget knocks ...

Cuts. we need to reduce our decifit. but suggesting that we make over $100 billion in irresponsible cuts that are going to hurt people in communities across the country as opposed to striking the right balance, like president obama does in his budget, by investments and innovation -- >> bill: but is it irresponsible -- even "the washington post" wrote this: obama kicks the can one more time, obamas budget proposals are remarkably weak, and timid documents. thats from "the washington post". >> we...

Point, this year might not be seen as a bad thing. >> sean: dana? >> i dont think it is going to get to that point. i think they will get a short term cr and it will keep going. while i think that is true, you get up to the line and it begins messy. -- >> sean: if they just fund the bare necessities, i donty the american people would care. i think the american people would be like fine, these guys are fulfilling their promise. i think that would force america -- bernanke said the other day at so...

Properly carry out its mission. >> some programs may take years to recover if the cr is extended through september. >> they have joined this debate by saying that the immediate cuts are really threatening national security? >> reporter: exactly. and there was really some tough questioning about that as well today especially from republican members who are pressing to try to see where the trimming can take place because, as you know, secretary gates overall supports a sort of tightening of the be...

Their own internal dissent is and how much thaifr theyre going to play hardball. i think a lot of it is on them to come up with sort of a unified bluff, as it were, or markerdown about what its going to be. then i think the white house will respond because thats their m.o. in everything. they sort of let congress take the laedz. i think theyre waiting to see what comes out of the house before they decide how much of a war they want to wage. yesterday the president indicated that he would veto th...

Continuing resolution and for those who are watching that dont know washingtonese, the cr is a continuing resolution, a way to just keep government going when you dont have an overall budget settled. we didnt settle our overall budget from last year, so this is carryover business from last year for government functions this year. i want to work with everybody, democrats and republicans to get that resolved. i think it is important to make sure that we dont try to make a series of symbolic cuts t...

Dont know washingtonese, the c.r. is a continuing resolution, a way to just keep government going when you dont have an overall budget settled. and we didnt settle our overall budget from last year. so this is carryover business from last year funding vital government functions this year. so i want to work with everybody, democrats and republicans, to get that resolved. i think it is important to make sure that we dont try to make a series of symbolic cuts this year that could endanger the recov...