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Its time for the "big three." government shutdown? nomination battle? and best week, worst week. lets bring in the "big three" panel for the day. susan dell persio, and morris reid, and harry bacon-reid. good to see you all. perry, you first, republican senator john cornyn was writing in an op-ed and said a partial government shutdown may be necessary to ensure long-term government stability. do you think its a possibility and who has the most to lose? >> i think everybody has a lot to lose. if ...

Hand in this debate? >> well, listen, the president doesnt want to overplay his hand here, he does have a leg up and hes been very focused the way he handles the last situation, what i call obama 2.0 is the way hell handle this. but the one thing the president is a student of history. the republicans need to be a student of history and remember the last time the republicans shut down the government and newt gingrich, it was a disaster for the republican party with bill clinton. i think the presi...

Next topic, nomination battle. what are you hearing about chuck hagel possible nomination for defense secretary? whats the word where you are, perry, in washington? >> chuck hagel will have trouble getting confirmed. he has his problems. republicans dont like him because he criticized the iraq war, he criticized george w. bush, he and john mccain disagree on a lot of big foreign policy issues, and democrats dont like him either because on most foreign policy issues hes a pretty conservative repu...

Affair with the iconic figures. ronald reagan for the right. or jfk to the left. we have cant get rid of the ideas. short of that were out of luck. >> greg: you are tough on everybody that is not the most conservative candidate in your mind. do you throw the baby out with your bath water? >> eric: no. i have a problem with the conservative conundrum. we want a far right candidate. i defer with dana and bob. there is a vast difference between established republicans and conservative republicans. ...

Affair with the iconic figures. ronald reagan for the right. or jfk to the left. we have cant get rid of the ideas. short of that were out of luck. >> greg: you are tough on everybody that is not the most conservative candidate in your mind. do you throw the baby out with your bath water? >> eric: no. i have a problem with the conservative conundrum. we want a far right candidate. i defer with dana and bob. there is a vast difference between established republicans and conservative republicans. ...

Counter punch and parry, not perry, but parry, take what perry gives him, confront it and keep his eye on the prize, the white house. >>shepard: he has to do something to shed the flip flop image which his republican opponent is working so hard to work into everybodys brain? >>guest: what he relies this is the campaign, the silly season. you have three months of budget primaries and eight people are trying to get noted. he has to stay above it. a good candidate is like a diamond. brilliant. but ...

Hell be a major player going forward and a big ally to the nominee here this fall. megyn: the conventional wisdom, take it for what its worth because it comes from the pundits, is that hes likely to endorse romney, not perry, that hes more of a new england moderate, northeast moderate, less so along the stripes of rick perry. do you think thats likely, are you seeking his endorsement? >> we would love to have his support, theyve been friends for quite some time. fact of the matter is, if youre l...