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Break. there they were. we will talk to them in just a little bit. congress worked until after midnight last night. but it looks like we are headed for a government shut down. anna navarra, republican strategist. and robert zimmerman, democratic strategist. i want you both, and the audience at home, of course, to listen to a sampling of shows. they are already trading blame. >> im afraid, bob, we know what will happen. tomorrow the senate will come in session. the house position which is the sam...

Shift from what was the problem with the house, we go to the senate, democrats couldnt get it done there either. where do you see this in terms of the help for students, to me as i watch this process it seems like its getting worse, not better. >> its getting messy. sometimes when things seem messy and confusing we should fall back on old adages. if at first you dont succeed, try, try again. some of the democrats think a one or two-year fix and deal with this down the road. lot of republicans an...

The senate was going to pass most of what we were talking about. >> that is why he is actually an accomplished politician. that is how you get to be house speaker of this crazy mess. it is the only practical way that anything will happen. if you have to go to a focus group where cutting spe inting more important than creating jobs, you would rather do nothing than trying to go in with what is the official house position. >> what he is saying has always been the dynamics that exist between the tw...

Tax rates as they are. larry summers, the former economic adviser to president obama has said we need to keep taxes where they are. and now, luke, just yesterday, the senate democrats were having conversations among themselves about, you know, the fact they think perhaps we should extent the rates for at least one year. >> do you -- but youre for it to be put in forever. >> well, actually, were not. the republican house position is we need to extend the tax rates as they are for one year, but al...

generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and im quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." youre looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was ab...

The house position is very clear, we want the government, we want the administration and president obama to stop denying the issuance of permits for exploration and production, we want the obama administration to lift its moratorium on drilling in part of our country off shore, and weve got other areas in our country off shore that want to actually begin exploration, and theyre not going along with that. bill: the answer to the question is no, you dont support taking away the subsidy. >> i suppo...

Caucus here to some degree believes they could weather a government shutdown as it would look, in their view, honest to their constituents because they were fighting to the bitter end to get as much budget cuts as they could for the rest of this fiscal year. the white house and senate democrats have offered that $33 billion number. their logic is this. look, republicans wanted $61 billion. we wanted zero. were meeting them in the middle at the $33 billion, which is ironically what they requested...

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They will prove the extension but they will fight the largeef cuts and the white house involvement in the dispute. >> well pass this. then well look to funding the government on a long term basis. president is going to get involved in this. he has talked to boehner. >> reporter: he suggested the president will go further as he mention a bully-pulpit of the white house. >> i think the president feels we have to find agreement. the president is going to take this to the american people. >> reporte...