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Political garriunsurprising gallup poll reveals a grim that i can if you are for lawmakers. 17% of americans currently approve of the job congress is doing. while 79% disapprove. thats not deterring house speaker john bainer from picking yet another fight. not about energy or job or even national security. no, he wants to bring back the debt ceiling debacle. >> weve kicked the can down the road so many times. it ought to make people throw up over it. we know what the problem is. we know what the...

>> whats the matter, honey? you dont feel so good? >> weve kicked this can down the road. >> do you feel like you want to throw up? >> okay. >> the inmates are running the asylum. john boehner doesnt have control. >> you know me. i assume they were talking about financial assets will. >> it is called mitt prom-ney. take old prom photos and replace all their photos with mitt romneys face. heres one here. heres another one right here. a bunch of people having a good time there. >> we inherited a g...

A congressman from new york and he joins us live from capitol hill. good afternoon. >> good to be back with you. >> thank you. well get to the debts and deficits in a moment. i want to begin with your immediate reaction to the front page story in the new york time which reveal the plans of one republican super pac to dredge up the reverend wright in a campaign of character assassination against the president. now, mitt romney has just disavowed the pitch. he said he wants no part of it. is this ...

Comfort to the rich and scare the heck out of the poor, and which one could be the meanest among the christians, i thought -- >> between 1960 and last year, the debt ceiling was raised 78 time. 49 of those by republican presidents. just 29 with democrats in the white house. so is this really about the long-term future of the country or is this john boehner joining mitt romney, mitch mcconnell, determined simply to attack the president even if it means it harms the economic recovery of the nation...

So these are constantly changing. we look to the specific moment in time. but its interesting it see how it changes over time. >> shannon: as new people join the conversation as well. >> thats right. >> shannon: you mentioned popularity. senator john mccain and the house speaker john bainer and then jim demint and then bernie sanders and then have you former speaker, nancy pelosi. >> and so folks that are in the mainstream news reflects offline. so because of folks like to harry reid from nevada...

Democrats to come and now mr. boehner has to bring his republicans to the table. if you need democratic votes, fine, but take sweeteners off the table. >> you brought up the subject matter. i get that jobs and the economy are a very big deal, but does foreign policy come into play, if youre advising a republican candidate, how big a deal is it for them to also take the president on when it comes to foreign policy? >> as we said in the book, 2009 saw more terrorist attempts on us and on american ...

Shutdown. where do things stand with john bainer? >> well, contessa, in two weeks from today, march 4th, the continuing resolution, ie the government funding level that the nations government currently operates under, is set to expire. why is that? well, last year for the first time in the modern era house democrats were not able to pass a budget so the nation is currently operating a continuing resolution. that ends on march 4th. what weve seen on the floor in the house for the past week is joh...

To prevent a shutdown of government, and now hes resorting to threats to do just that without any negotiations. that is not permissible. we will not stand for that. hes wrong. >> reporter: and there you see harry reid saying that there will probably could have some sort of shutdown. why? because john boehner has drawn the line in the sand, contessa, saying he wont approve a temporary solution that goes beyond march 4 of what the nation is currently operating under in budget levels unless theres ...

We will press john bainer on the new promises his party is making to voters st. a cnn exclusive. im wolf blitzer. you are "the situation room." the iranian president hold trying to form, unleashing fiery attacks at the he united states and radical allegation. mahmoud ahmadinejad took his turn at the podium over it united nations general assembly just a little while ago. he cited allegations that the united states had some involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks, prompting delegates at the and...

Havent even put forward a series of ideas of what theyre going to do to solve the nations problems? >> look at what happened in this campaign. republicans went from 20%, nobody wanted them in 2008. by doing nothing, theyre going to gain 40 seats maybe. why you would change a winning strategy? peter is exactly right. 1966 when i went with nixon first, we just went after lbj and the democrats. you make the case against them. but to lay out specific budget cuts for an example, the democrats will pi...