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Are so conservative or negative on the issue of immigration, too few hispanic people and too many people that care about hispanics theyre never going to vote for that group of people, so youre never going to get to 218 in the house because republicans will never be interested in helping them? is that possible? were talking about something that wont happen. >> i dont see a path in the house. >> we had a civil war over slavery. we only got civil rights in 64 because they had a liberal supreme cour...

Offers himself to serve in what is a very difficult position and often a short-term position. if you look over the last couple of decades, how many speakers have lasted as much as four or five years? not very many. >> a lot of people dont seem excited about doing the job. one of the main issues is a lot of folks talking about the return to regular order, the house is operating from continuing resolutions to funding governments, that sets up the issues with funding planned parenthood for people w...

Fight in the halls of congress. before that, there was a series of aggressive maneuvers from both sides. it thooz do with whether confederate flags can be displayed and sold when the federal government is involved. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell explains. >> reporter: congress is battling over new restrictions to remove confederate battle flags from federal property like national parks. democrats say there is no room for debate. >> dont republicans understand that the confede...

Against john bane and house republicans for -- they abandoned his state. i dont -- >> boehner will not hurt you with the tea party, though, right? >> raging against boehner and raging against the tea party. he has spoken out against the shutdown -- >> from the left, boehner from the left. >> i dont see how he ever -- on a national platform, walks that back. that is kind of who he is and how hes built his whole personality. >> well, first of all, most tea party people sort of look at new jersey a...

>> the big question at 5:00 in the morning, will they finish in time. were just hours away from hitting this debt ceiling, and theres no deal yet despite a day of feverish discussions and now the attention is back on the senate leadership who are trying to reach a compromise. cnns senior correspondent jim acosta has the very latest. >> reporter: time is running out, the debt ceiling is in sight and the last best hope avenue voiding a potential default once again rests with senate leaders harry r...

Agent. the top democrat on this house committee, congressman elijiah cummings, has written what we are told is a long letter to house speaker john bane everybody -- ive actually seen part of it -- urging him to hold off on tomorrows contempt vote suggesting there were some errors in the mechanics leading up to the vote among other bases. as we get the speakers response, we will bring it to you. we are also standing by right now, we are less than 24 hours away from one of the most important sup...

The president giving his thoughts and we heard from speaker boehner. i have to be honest with you. a lot of people are quite confused. we know the president as he stated wanted a one-year extension and this is the deal. the high five moment with mitch mcconnell and it was believed that the house republicans would support this or most of this. help us understand where things are. >> tamron, right now we are in the blame game situation where on december 31st nothing is done. taxes go up for millio...

People at the top of the pyramid on both sides dont want it to happen. they dont always controlç events. i think most people in the newsroom around me would bet they find a way to avoid this, because both sides are so uncertain about who would ultimately pay the political price. sometimes events get out of control. that could -- that is a very real possibility in these last hours. >> how would that play out? the out-of-controlness? >> it would basically be if john boehner -- any deal that is a...

Was no progress. everyone has their own narrative. the democrats are trying to drive a wedge between the two party and speaker boehner and the republicans are trying to say that the democrats are not ready to deal. >> right. you get the meat eaters on both sides who their game is all about the warfare and it is all about the rhetoric. youre not going to hear the compromising words from eric cantor and not going to hear them from schumer. it is their job to carry the message for the party. the pe...

>> reporter: thank you, mr. president. president obama, are your respect and permission, because of the translation questions, could i direct one first to president hu? >> of couse. >> thank you. president hu, first off, my colleague asked you a question about human rights which you did not answer. i was wondering if we could get an answer to that question. and then also on capitol hill, senate majority leader harry reid, house speaker john bane remember not attending tonights state dinner. many...