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That is going to rely on an approval that is going to rely on significant democratic support to pass. so well see how it goes. the only other thing i wanted to report to you is that the house majority leader, eric cantor, im told in private in this meeting sort of implored the rank and file republicans to stop the in-fighting. thats sort of paraphrasing. he said, look, it doesnt help for people to say, youre not a good enough republican because you dont spoerd defunding obama care. youre not a g...

Political correspondent. any word on how the house gop leadership feel about the deal and whether its going to come up? >> how they feel and whether its going to come up are two very different things. that tells you where we are right now. its the whole house republican caucus that is meeting right now, trying to just sort of discuss the terms of the deal that we do expect to be voted on in the senate first now that will happen some time probably between 5:00 and 7:00 tonight. and we dont expect...

>> the cr or the debt limit? >> both. >> both? its expected that well fund the government through january 15th and the debt limit through early february. an agreement reached over in the senate. and it gives us a chance to sit down in the budget process and see if we cant work something out. i think were on a spending trajectory thats unaffordable for the american people. it will create more debt. it needs to be dealt with. >> are you going to allow the whole house to vote even if the majority o...

Spending reform. picture speaker boehner and leader mckhconnell. do you think they will pick tea party members of congress to sit on this particular committee? do you think at that point theyre going to say, you got us into this mess? youre in time-out? >> sal, to you. >> yeah, i mean, i think the big problem is, you know, some of the republican pundits and establishment people have said, well, defund obama care isnt the fight. we should wait for the debt ceiling fight, or now theyre saying we s...

Members who say they have never seen it like this. even in the worst of the old days, people would talk. >> i have been here for 17 years. i was here in the iraqi vote. afghan vote. i have never seen anything like this in the 17 years i have been here. >> does it depress you? >> no, you cant be depressed and you cant give up the ship. were sent here to do a job. thats why were getting paid, not yet, but this is while we will be paid if we do our job. and i intend to do my job. im not going to le...

Im anderson cooper with this cnn live special coverage. the deal on hand for the debt ceiling and partial government shutdown are what many expected, a short-term band-aid known as kicking the can, setting up a short-term fix and moving the issue to later. its so prolific and convolulted that we issued a timeline that still doesnt do justice to it. to get through 2011, congress and the president had to kick the can eight times with short-term funding bills in place of a real budget. to get throu...

Is a family with three franchises. the three franchises together provide them enough income to support their family, but if you separate them out, they cant. they cant keep the franchises together because with them together, they have over 50 employees. the hit theyll take it more than their profit margin. theyre actually looking at divorcing, still living together, so legally, one person can have one of those, the other person can have two, only bouse of the affordable care act. thats the most ...

When ryan and patty murray get together and do this deal? is this like a step on the ladder? >> well, i would hope so, but well see. you know, every time ive gotten into a discussion with the president, vice president, the democrats here in washington, and talking about entitlement changes, trying to make the programs sustainable, all they want to do is raise taxes. well, we cant do that unless youre willing to raise taxes. if theyre going to hold on to their position that were always going to r...

His fellow republicans. so thats the state of play right now. would not be surprised if we heard from a number of republicans coming out of this meeting which is just getting under way right now, saying we dont like this, were going to vote against it. i just got an e-mail before coming on with you from one of the tea party groups, freedom works, sent to all the republican offices, one of them just sent it to me, saying were going to count this, score this, against your record as a conservative ...

Over to the microphones because we would like to hear and see you. and thats what happened. i think a lot of things happened fast. i did mention to him that senator mcconnell was speaking on the floor and would he wait. there was a lot of groaning from reporters who wanted to hear him right away. i think it was just a fast-moving story with a lot of people trying to figure out what was going on. >> for people who dont realize, thats viewed as bad form, something you dont do on capitol hill. dana...