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Negotiating position. it would seem like mid february would be a little early. >> i was shocked by the frankness of these statements. i knew they were not going to do a lot. that said, to declare in february, not july, february, were not doing anything the rest of the year was surprising. automaltically said that its an issue. this is is a do-nothing congress for a long time. there was a very surprising and not very smart political tech i thought there. >> really quickly. billionaire democratic ...

Entirely done before the clock runs out, so youd have a very short-term what we call a continuing resolution, but i am confident well get there at the end of the day. >> we know that the president is expected to release his budget proposal next month. its getting pushback from democrats for a new formula to calculate social security benefits. heres how the hill characterizes it. "democratic lawmakers say obama should shelve the idea now that they are facing a difficult midterm election where the...

Asked about in this yesterday on a radio program in cincinnati, and he said we fought a good fight, you know, on behalf of you and other members of the house. how do you feel about john boehner now? >> well, i think john boehners done a very good job as speaker in that hes working under very adverse conditions. hes tried to pull us together. hes listened to all members in the republican conference and tried to work with through the concerns. but its time for members in the house to step up and s...

Interesting. >> going back to the first story in the news cycle. >> its full cycle. i do want to tell you weve been reporting this hour the shutdown could come to an end very soon with a deal between the white house and republicans and the problem is and i want to get to this, it could be a deal with the devil. i say that as someone who doesnt even believe in the devil thee logically. heres my problem. this is preliminary. were now hearing about a deal that would have january 15th reopen the gov...

Now that he has to say to the democrats, you better not humiliate us, you better not do that. i mean, we dont have a good negotiating position right now, but dont come in here and human ill ate us because some day the pendulum might swing. i dont think so, senator, you were ominously silent. and 30 years of wages being depressed in the middle class, i dont think youve been an advocate for the middle class. i dont think the middle class voted for you in 2008. so this just exemplifies how frustrat...

Even get started until after 4:00 p.m. which immediately said to me they deliberately made a decision to wait until the stock markets closed because of what he was about to say. tell our viewers what he said. >> reporter: well, wolf, thats not a bad guess. i cant confirm to you that thats the reason why they delayed the briefing. but i can tell you that what that briefing entailed for reporters was not exactly great news for the financial markets. white house press secretary jay carney came out ...

Sit down and have a conversation about this is putting our nation at risk of default. >> are you saying if he continues to refuse to negotiate, the country is going to default? >> its the path were on. >> chuck, whats this zigzagging to the cliff all about? explain it analytically what boehner seems to be doing. saying one thing to the inside crowd, denying it. whats he up to? >> the problem is this is the strategy boehner wanted to pursue all along. he didnt want to tie all this to the shutdown...

Have another sequester type trigger. i want to scream and put my hair out. weve seen this before. what gives us any confidence that six weeks down the road were not going to be faced with another totally unnecessary crisis? >> sure, you can see politically that why obama has to say he would agree to 6 to 8 week clean cr. he said he doesnt want cuts. he wont agree to cuts. now looking at a way to avoid default without cuts even for short term he has to say yes. by the same token, still refusing t...

>> well, i think -- if they allow this to happen, if they do these piecemeal bills, for example, i think the fear is this will keep on happening, and thats why the president has taken such a hard line. the refusal to negotiate, we need to remember what hes refusing to negotiate over. hes refusing to negotiate over defunding obama care. this is a pretty significant thing. and so you can go through your history of the different things that people have done, democrats holding up reagans budget over...

Dug in at this point and no one is really looking to give anyone else any kind of face-saving provisions. so until someone is going to give, were going to be in this stand still. >> it seems like they stopped talking about obama care so much and have moved on to things like medicare and medicaid. >> you started hearing that this weekend from senator rand paul and some others. theyre really talking about spending now. and this started about defunding, delaying obama care and it seems to have spre...