there is any option right now is what you and i talked about last night, which is that six week stopgap debt ceiling increase, and that is the time they will have to negotiate. it s unclear how much they can get done that paul ryan and others are suggesting, big picture and big changes in entitlements and so forth. there was a meeting between house democrats. you got news from a lawmaker that attended. what came out of it? that s right, a democratic lawmaker i spoke with said the president was more firm in his commitment to having that temporary six-week increase in the debt ceiling than he has at all in public. he s signalled it in public but much more clear in private and the reason he said he would be willing to do this if republicans agreed is because this is a quote, if that s what boehner needs to climb out of the tree he s stuck in, that s something we should look at. the fact the president is signaling this to house democrats could be yet, another sign this is where the exi
that s something we should look at. the fact the president is signaling this to house democrats could be yet another sign this is where the exit strategy is going, in fact, this democratic lawmaker said that s how he came out of the meeting feeling. however, as we said, there is no direct conversations so we re not sure how far it can get. but house republicans, the leadership and key committee chairmen will go to the white house tomorrow and invited the cause cut and leadership said no, we won t do that. we ll bring people we think can actually have the negotiations republicans have been demanding. thanks very much. appreciate it. steve king of iowa is a hard liner in the government shutdown and debt ceiling. he told chris that talk of the default if the country doesn t raise the debt ceiling is wrong. thank you for coming. thank you very having me. the idea of a possible maybe gl
nine days into the government shutdown, and house speaker john boehner insists there will be no unconditional surrender by republicans. today, with negotiations in washington, d.c. stalled and with republicans and no exit strategy, the gop is changing the ransom. they are no longer demanding the president and democrats delay obama care, their new demands are actually their old demands. and to deliver them from this hopeless situation, the gop is turning to a familiar face with a familiar refrain. the next president of the united states, paul ryan. i accept the calling of my generation to give the generation of my children to us. you have to pull it from my generation. i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction so let me get into it. yes, paul ryan, the buy whose budget helped to cause the gop an election, today, in an op-ed piece, ryan revealed the strategy of the republicans.
when i say this, this is a temporary six-week increase in the debt ceiling to give more time for negotiations. as you said, i was told by a democratic lawmaker who was at a meeting with the democratic caucus of the house at the white house, that the president said that he would be open to this. he said so publicly but it seems in private he was even more open to it. i was told that he said, if that s what speaker boehner needs to climb out of the tree he s stuck in, that s something we should look at. he also made clear to democrats, according to this lawmaker who i spoke with, that they feel that they re on firm ground right now. and if they say no to this. if the speaker wants to do this, they won t be on that firm ground they are right now. so this lawmaker will me, that came away with the quote, small measure of hope that this does become the exit strategy. of course, as with everything, the devil is gt to be in the details. and the question is going to be if this is the road that
united states, the blow to our prestige, how the rest of the world views us, that is irreparab irreparable. mr. ribble, what do you think in terms of an exit strategy that gets us through the holidays that we don t have something very horrible happen? yes, my own plan would be of course to actually address what are the true drivers of our long-term fiscal condition, which would be entitlements. there is broader agreement on some of the reforms to actually reform social security. my encouragement to the speaker is that we actually look at that one, completely drill right into it and craft the policy necessary to take that 9.6 or $10 trillion of unfounded obligation and secure and save social security for the next 75 years. it can be done. this is a perfect time to do it. we have divided government.