weeks. >> reporter: house republicans led by speaker john boehner wanted the white house to -- demanded that any funding bill delay implementation of obamacare by one year. >> refused to compromise at all. >> reporter: national parks were shut down. even the world war ii memorial in washington d.c. obama took a lot of heat. after 16 days, speaker. a funding bill that in the end even after the shutdown did not defund obamacare. >> we have been locked in a fight over here trying to bring government down to size.