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>> the president reiterated one more time tonight that he will not negotiate. weve got divided government. democrats control the white house and the senate, republicans control the house. we sent four different proposals over to our democratic colleagues in the senate. they rejected all of them. >> i thought that they were concerned about the long-term fiscal affairs of this country. and we said we are, too. lets talk about it. my friend, john boehner, i repeat cannot take yes for an answer. >> ...

Premise. hes actually given up 100% of the position to the republicans. the c.r. is a republican document. the republicans wanted 988 billion. he said we will give you 100% of what you want on the budget. where do you negotiate after giving people 100% of what they want? >> tom tom tom. >> emily, please educate tom. >> former congressman, first of all the number were talking about in the c.r. spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this was agreed upon. because i think on all of our sides we agr...

Force base that are signature home. they have a few problems of their own. >> i have right here -- this was tweeted by eric cantor. this is a statement from the presidents office. its the threat to veto. the honoring our promise to americas veterans act. the research for life-saving cures act. >> those are really cool names you guys made up for this stuff. >> no, its terrible optics. this is your party. how do you defend this? >> do you think the optics are hurting the democrats right now on the...

Issue. >> dont you think its a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obamas idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually suppo...

That we are going to take the ted cruz strategy and we are not going to fund the government until we get rid of obama care. >> why do you think boehner did that? his original inclination, back last spring, was were not going to do that. >> he said in march exactly the votes arent there. it doesnt make sense. well keep voting against obama care but were not going to shut down the government. >> so why the change of mind? >> because we had the majority of republicans who had went home and gave som...

Going to start micromanaging in that way? this is not how americans deserve for them to run the government. >> why wouldnt you open one thing at a time? >> if youre the majority leader of the senate and you say can you save one child and you say why should i? talk about optics. >> terrible. terrible optics. thats unconscionable. >> hes going to bet beat up for that. i think we all know that reid cares a lot about kids. one of the things thats so weird to me is that hes now suddenly that republic...

The government, you dont pick the same day that obama cares rolled out. because one thing that we know about this white house, and we know about harry reid in the senate, is theyre going to use everything that we give them, which is theyre going to easily say, the reason were having these problems is because the republicans shut the government down. >> stick around. stay there. nobody go anywhere. were going to take a very quick break. coming up, if the president made it clear that there will be...

Obama care to keep government open for eight weeks then were going to be right back in the same situation again eight weeks from now? >> granted we all agree these are c.r. after c.r. the past five years have been ridiculous. how can you have a budget -- look i dont know about the politicians but i think the rest of america wants a budget and a well-thought-out budget and this is ridiculous how its been operating. what is happening here what youre calling the tea party republicans which is a goo...

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