Hell No Caucus News Today

In, there will be 246 house republicans. so far, there are only about a dozen who will oppose boehner for speaker. those in the republican leadership who i talked with say this is just the group they not so lovingly call the hell no caucus. there are usually no votes on just about everything. the house speaker is elected by the entire house. boehner has the get a majority 218, that means he can afford to lose 29 republicans and still be speaker. i talked to his allies yesterday. they say they ar...

The latest on this. >> reporter: john and christine, the big question on the opening day is how big will the rebellion against john boehner be on the vote for house speaker? to put it in perspective, when the congress is sworn in there will be 246 house republicans. so far, there are only about a dozen who say they will oppose john boehner for speaker. those in the republican leadership who i talk to say this is the group they call the hell no caucus. there are usually no votes on just about eve...

The first, the president could veto any bills that could rollback obamacare or his action on immigration. the more immediate concern of some unrest inside the party in the house. some conservative house republicans are set to vote against reelecting john boehner as house speaker. our chief correspondent dana bash has the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, the big question on this opening day of the congress is how big will the rebellion against john boehner on the house speaker? when the n...

In the middle of the road on the senate side. and i think theres an opportunity today to brick that to a conclusion and to begin moving something off the senate floor in a bipartisan way. >> lets bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. the key is to get something past the senate so it can go to the house. >> theres the question of what can get through the house. >> if it passes the senate with extensive bipartisan -- a lot of republicans are on board. that will put enormous pressure on b...

Say the senate rejects it as we expect, it comes back, then republicans will divide, okay, and there will be some republicans who would be willing to join with democrats to keep the government open, and some maybe, you know, 30 or 40 or so of what i call the hell no caucus who wont. but he was sort of optimistic that they could work something out on the government shutdown. i think the bigger question is going to be raising the debt ceiling because as wolf points out, the president says theres n...

New washington republican establishment. what made you get in? >> chuck, its a lot of the same reasons i decided to leave my law practice and join the army so many year ago. i did that because of the 9/11 attacks. i thought the country was facing a perilous moment and needed new leaders. i thought i could do my part in iraq and afghanistan. as i watched the drift in washington in the first two years of the obama administration, i thought again we face a perilous moment. this time its the debt cr...

And more recently things like to change like looking at raising gradually rates of eligibility and means testing. theres really important structural changes that need to happen to give the country fiscal stability. but the aadministration will have to stand up to its own party and produce bold ideas and frankly be willing to work with republicans to get the job done. >> one thing i want to show everybody is politico having this front page profile, the hell no caucus, backed up by the conservativ...

Weve got to cut spending in washington. weve got to cut domestic spending. weve got to cut defense spending. but let me tell you what i wont do. i will not reduce our deficit by sacrificing the things that have made america great. >> holding the line on programs he says the country cannot afford to lose. the president is returning to washington today to face a looming fight over the debt ceiling. republicans are trying to extract spending cut and caps in exchange for their votes, but when it com...

President. if he wanted to be president he would have run this time. he was at the vice-presidential running meat to mitt romney in 2012. he is much more about policy, would be perfectly happy if he were never president. as i say, his dream job was to be the chairman of the house ways and means committee in an administration he road like to serve as treasury secretary. so i dont think he hungers for the top job. he hungers to get down into the weeds and get into the crunching numbers and to actu...

Mostly to the tea party, and they are not responsive to the priorities of their own party leadership. theyre responsive to their own constituencies and what theyre worried about is being challenged by someone who is more conservative than they are and when they would hold this vote as a score on whether to support them or oppose them in the last election they got very scared and they said well vote against the party leadership. >> that could have emboldened them. >> so the speaker is trying to p...