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Government. but boehner also told his rank and file friday the president must negotiate, give in on something to chip away at the countrys debt. his message to you all is im not rolling over on the debt ceiling? >> yes, he actually used that term. were going to continue to use the debt ceiling as a tool, as a leverage point, to require both sides to come to the table and to negotiate for whats best for america. >> reporter: its really unclear how that debt ceiling issue is going to be resolved, ...

Wanted to get this done and go to conference and talk about it and john boehner refused. john avlon, a quick fact check on that. its true but not totally true. >> what theyre doing right now is explaining to the american people why democrats are rejecting speaker boehners offer to solve this in congress. they thought it might avoid a shutdown. they are saying the reason we are having this fight is because we havent passed a budget. we have been wanting to go to conference but the republicans hav...

Tolerate even some days of a shutdown before they might give? its the classic case of a negotiation and trying to determine where will the end game be played out. nobody seems to think it would go long like it did in 1995 where that was a few weeks. most are saying a couple of days. again, we have to see real solutions to try and make it work. >> as people look at this, how much are they keeping an eye on the debt ceiling, which needs to be raised by october 17th? >> thats the other important th...

Speaker john boehner is putting pressure on senator cruz and other senate conservatives to fall through. to get the votes for defunding, but of course we know thats going to be very difficult. >> heres the thing. the reason that the drama seems so high and the reason that people are now going at each other in the public spotlight is everyone understands, they are now all collectively pursuing a doomed strategy. i mean, is that realization dawning on everyone? >> thats exactly right. theres reall...

But of course we know thats going to be very difficult. >> heres the thing. the reason that the drama seems so high and the reason that people are now going at each other in the public spotlight is everyone understands, they are now all collectively pursuing a doomed strategy. i mean, is that realization dawning on everyone? >> thats exactly right. theres really a strange thing happening within the republican party. we saw in the summer, senator ted cruz went on a nine-city tour with heritage fo...

>> heres the thing. the reason that the drama seems so high and the reason that people are now going at each other in the public spotlight is everyone understands, they are now all collectively pursuing a doomed strategy. i mean, is that realization dawning on everyone? >> thats exactly right. theres really a strange thing happening within the republican party. we saw in the summer, senator ted cruz went on a nine-city tour with heritage foundation, with heritage action, stoking activists. telli...

Created a change on -- >> i mean with this op ed. >> on the battle field. thats why i think they began to move this direction. hes trying to maximize his leverage. hes trying to get the american people to ultimately be further divided, and in doing so have a stronger leverage point through his foreign minister in these negotiations. but i think the american people when they read that will reject it wholeheartedly. he may have an opposite result as the result of his op ed. >> i am sure the holy f...

Mean the fun girl in high school. i dont know. >> i would love to know who that text was from. anyway, kelly -- >> that was neither dirty nor fun. >> youre fun, kelly. >> kelly, as i was saying, lets say currents national mood holds even after the presidents speech tonight that the polls are against action in syria, he doesnt have the votes in the house that you have been stew dig, where does that leave the president of the united states? if he doesnt get either of those groups, doesnt get the a...

Allegedly. the question is, how do you basically punish president bashar al assad? i would argue that we, the united states of america, should use this particular heightened moment of threat to try to engineer a diplomatic settlement, to try to ease bashar al assad out of power, to convince the russians and the chinese and the world community its in their interest that assad basically is out of this particular power. this is really the right way to go. ironically, american policymakers, as you w...

One guy. >> the power of the anecdotal runs both ways. >> i understand. but the reality is that guy who is getting $200, if thats going to be the leverage point to deny this woman the the benefits to physical therapy, the republicans are going to have a problem. and they are feeling this. they are feeling this. >> and a more considered thing, though, social security disability has exploded because people have learned how to play the game. there are tragic, horrible stories and many, many million...