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Because theyre going to nominate people that are far to the right of the mainstream and that is something democrats can take advantage of as long as they dont do a proverbial, were going to screw this up by, you know, leading with lets defund the police or something like that that is frankly just not true but something that we have given them on a silver platter. >> so mike barnicle, obviously the president made his campaign visit to boost gavin newsom in california, vice president kamala harris...

Hate him donald trump put the vaccine in place. jillian: every time we talk about this that moment where kamala harris at the time was not vice president set of donald trump tells me to take the vaccine i wont take the vaccine. now you are having the administration push this vaccine so hard and it should but it feels a little hypocritical. todd: a little, she said dont do it. there is this other hypocrisy streaming through the democratic party about defunding the police. here is president biden ...

Things to fry. the game changed when republicans started to say, oh, lets defund obama care. the government shutdown may be temporary, but it looks like the see quester is here to stay. joining us now from washington is "huffington post" white house correspondent sam stein. sam, thanks for being here. >> of course. thanks for having me. >> i think its very easy to paper over the sequester because the shutdown of the government is so much more dramatic, but the reality is democrats gave a lot whe...

Keep the government open and they want to defund obama care or certainly delay its implementation. and ted cruz has been leading the charge to do just that. >> the polls show in fact that americans dont want to shut down the government. they dont think that getting rid of obama care is worth a government shutdown. every single poll has shown that. >> and thats exactly why house republicans have voted to fund the government, to keep the government open and to defund obama care and keith is laughi...

Lee or ted cruz in the senate, marco rubio is also in the corner of lets defund completely, lets take the government potentially to the brink of shutdown to do so. they feel that this is the last chance to put the brakes on a law that they feel is fundamentally destructive. and so theyre willing to do whatever it takes in order to do that. i think that there are some other folks who dont think that there is no -- there are other mechanisms, jamie, that youll hear from more clear headed republica...

Will you vote over and over again to repeal or is it possible well get gridlock on the budget process because a number of your colleagues said lets defund it. if the house doesnt put it in its budget and the senate does, then you have gridlock. you either give in or what, we shut down the government? >> budget is different than shutting down government. these are different things. shutting down government in your language is discretionary spending and that means do we put riders in appropriation...