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Speaking at 3:30. well bring you that live. what are key republicans say now, moving forward on this? >> theyre continuing to fight the presidents healthcare law, whether it is defunding are or delaying. bottom line theyre worried that obamacare, as it is known, will hurt a lot of american families and they continue to fight the law. >> sounds like the democrats here in washington are obsessed with shutting down the government. i dont know anyone who wants to shut down the government. the only t...

First and foremost, americas strength depends on a strong economy, where our middle class is growing and everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead. let me say a few words about the situation that has developed over the past few weeks on capitol hill. here at home, the united states congress had two pressing responsibilities. pass a budget on time. some pay our bills on time. if congress chooses not pass the budget, by monday, the end of the fiscal year, they will shut down the government...

Public does with obamacare and then see how much members of congress like that. and so they are waiting to figure out -- they want to meet with their members tomorrow around lunchtime here, the house members, and once the house leadership has the meeting with the rank-and-file, theyll go forward with the plan, and the clock is running. theres not a whole lot of time before we run up against october 1st. >> trace: its a double deadline. but a lot of people think that this budget deal, shutting do...

Stand by. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. what do you believe the process will be. the president is eight minutes late. what do we expect to happen with this bill starting right now? >> trace, ive had candid conversations with a number of memberses throughout the course of the day, and they say, look, this is a funding bill that harry reid cut back even further. so now youre talking about funding the government from october 1st through mid-november. six weeks or so, so they say considering a sh...

So, you could see some effort to delay obama care for a year. you could see some effort to, frankly, strip out some of the weavers and exemptions for lawmakes, congressional staff, administration officials, as an effort to kind of ping back to the senate and say how are you going to vote on this? of course the backdrop here, as you mentioned, is the shutup, which is tuesday. >> trace: its tuesday, and then if that for some reason passes and the government stays open, then you have the debt ceili...

I said this yesterday and let me repeat. its not going to happen. more than 100 million americans currently already have new benefits and protections under the law. on tuesday, about 40 million more americans will be able to finally buy quality affordable health care, just like anybody else. those market places will be open for business on tuesday. no matter what. even if theres a government shutdown. that is a done deal. as i said before, if republicans have specific ideas on how to genuinely i...

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