Page 181 - Extensions News Today

And congressman chris van holim and others who are fuming mad. but they are placing the blame on very different people. congressman michael grimm is here. good evening, sir. how do you like the deal? >> good evening. obviously, i dont like the deal because its bad policy. but at this point, its all we do. the reality is, i went into this trusting the president. i really thought that when he said that we needed one year and all of those in industry said one year made sense and stop doing the band...

His team was out of position and started calling a huge time-out to restructure themselves. if youre john boehner realizing that on a conference call yesterday, the house gop would not pass this two-month extension, 90% of support was negotiated by mitch mcconnell, who i dont think anyone would say is a progressive liberal, if you will, trying to undermine republican clause. and this bill is now being seen by the house gop as just another temporary band-aid. they want to have a full year extensi...

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.

Comes to me, except to say that the white house said, you know we want it to be on the same night. how do you read it? >> well, if the president, it was kind of interesting when you now look at the tick tock of the entire day. the president, this morning at the event with the chamber of commerce and afl-cio calling for passage of a couple bills, some extensions of a couple bills in order to not harm is the economy deal with some job issues, he talked about the political gamesmanship must end, an...

Will bubble back up, and now that weve seen the examples of real people who have been put in a hard spot because of this, it may give them more motivation to come up with a longer term solution. but this has been going on for a very long time with just short-term extensions and this one they really dropped the ball and now theyve tried to fix it and there will still be some people who have not been happy about this process and how it didnt really come together until the final moment. >> and they...

Default, its market and outside forces that they cant control that come into play. no one wants to talk about extensions because that might be viewed as just more of the mess, but they realize they need every option in their back pocket as we get closer and closer. of course, they will be working the weekends, so if people want to know their members of congress are at work this weekend, they will be here. >> thank you, kelly. it was not an easy day in front of parliament for uk prime minister ...

However much you want to raise that debt limit, you got to cut more spending. thats where we begun this debate and harry reid has basically agreed with that premise. >> when you talk about how much money the democrats want and remember, harry reid & company and the president of the united states, they would like $2.4 trillion as a debt ceiling extension. that would help the democrats through the next election. but people are going clearly this is a political thing, right? because in the past, us...

Latest updates on this topic.

Score on it, that kind of thing, so as much as they may be in a spirit of cooperation, the details do take time, and thats where the fight always ends up. >> but kelly, the next question, of course, is then would they agree perhaps to some kind of short-term agreement? we know the president has been against that, but if they have something in play might we see that as a next move? >> reporter: nobody wants to be too out front on that because that sort of takes the pressure off, but were getting ...