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Senate which devolved very quickly. any support he might have been able to get, from say, leader mcconnell and others in the senate was just not going to come at that point once house republicans started attacking the senate. >> well, then moving forward, just thinking about his effectiveness in congress, if this all started with he and harry reid and mitch mcconnell sitting down and making a deal and it turns out that john boehners negotiation meant nothing, that he couldnt actually speak for h...

Him. we know house republicans met behind closed doors after the bill failed late in the day yesterday. earlier in the day yesterday house majority leader eric cantor was pretty confident, take a listen to him. >> we are for getting the people, the disaster relief they need and do so in a responsible manner. what youll see today is a cr that will pass the house floor and go over to the senate. >> reporter: but of course after 48 house republican republicans voted know and virtually no democrats ...

Even though they won that debate, they really did, they got pretty much everything they asked for when they went into the negotiations with the obama administration. the public viewed them as less able to govern than even obama. and, you know, his numbers are not doing very well. their own internal polling apparently also shows it being at least that bad if not worse than what weve seen in public. and there was this hope amongst leaders that the rank and file would go home. they feel this anger ...

The political way out, because they really cant control their own caucus. look at this. when you see the contradictory statements and sometimeline it was done in, they seem to have no control over their own forces in congress. so rather than say theyre in disarray, maybe thats why theyre trying to act like its the president. look at this. >> what youll see today is the cr to pass the house floor and go over to the senate. >> i yays are 1935, nays are 230. the motion is not adopted. >> i have no ...

Correspondent mike emmanuel reports on the latest battle to avoid a government shut down. >> a proposal failed because of republican defections and pushback by democrats. the odds of a government shut down just went up. with the government starting a new fiscal ye october 1 and no annual spending bills passed by congress, there is a risk of a government shutdown again. a continuing resolution includes $3.65 billion for fema in the wake of multiple disasters, including the texas wildfires and dev...

Votes. only way he can do it is like the cr. got to have the republicans and democrats and the republicans on the far right will say no . democrats in the far left will say no . among a lot of us. demdeps and republicans that have to come with something that we can support. >> we are hearing right now, we are hearing with the tensions so high at this point and what we may see is a short-term deal. can you live with that? >> i prefer not to do a short term but if i have to to avoid default. becau...

Vote. no, wait until we get to the debt limit we will face difficult time. and the way the president admonished peeker boehner and the gop makes it more difficult to get it done and he continue to use scare tactic to boost his own political fortunes . what do you make of that? >> again, the best situation is not have anybody walk away and attack each other. in tense negotiations, the parties have to have trust among each other and if they dont have that trust. it is hard to really sit down and...

Not with the gang of six but with the ad hoc group called for by president obama, this is their third meeting, the second one this week. joe biden says theyre making progress. if history is any guide, dylan, theyre clearing out of the way the underbrush. we have until the end of august until the government runs out of money and able to pay their bills. but theyre clearing away the underbrush. theyre going to leave the tough stuff to the end, and it wont be to august. you know that congress and w...

Continues and keeps going. the lawmakers in washington, are spinning their wheels, too. joining us now is republican congressman steve king of iowa. republican,. congressman, my concern is the $38 billion and we are looking for trillions of dollars in cut. come up with $38 billion is that enough, sir? >> that is not enough. we need a bright line and stand on it. who had the most willingness to face the government shutdown? all along, part of strategy of harry reid and barack obama to push it tow...

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