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Much. lets bring in now to talk about the political implications of all this, ryan grim. its good to see you. let me play with the president said over the weekend regarding the gas prices and the weariness were hearing from so many folks. lets listen. >> whenever gas prices shoot up, like clockwork you see politicians racing to the cameras, waving three-point plans for $2 gas. you see people trying to grab headlines or score a few points. the truth is there so no silver bullet that can bring dow...

This is the sticking point. but it is an interesting turn of events, ryan, when you think about weve just been talking about the dollar figure starting initially at $100 billion in cuts for the next six months of the fiscal year here and to be where we are now is an interesting turn of events. when you factor inç the pressu the tea party is putting on obviously speaker boehner. you have reports there were tea party members chanting shut it down, it is a lot to chew on even with this chock tick...

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Twitter account on that one. harry reid is calling the stalemate with republicans ridiculous. reid claims the gop is on the brink of shutting down the government over womens access to health care. house speaker john boehner had this to say earlier. >> theres only one reason that we do not have an agreement as yet, and that issue is spending. when will the white house and when will senate democrats get serious about cutting spending? >> im joined now by ryan grim, congressional correspondent for ...

Cannot come it a compromise by midnight tonight. democratic senator mark udall and cynthia lumnus and senator claire mccaskill will join me live and analysis from the huffington posts ryan grim, all next on "news nation." democrats have been saying that the budget stalemate is all that the budget stalemate is all about womens health, planned efforts to zero out funding for the organization, which uses nonfederal dollars for some abortions. congresswoman jackie speiers became the face of the wo...

Guard members who care more about these culture war issues. so theres an irony here that the tea party will ultimately end up getting blamed for this and theyll end up kind of conflated with a social movement which is not what they are, and yesterday on chris matthews show the tea party leader said, no, this is not what we want. all we want is the spending cuts. >> ryan, theres a lot more to talk about, were out of time though for "news nation." thank you for joining us. i greatly appreciate it....

The senates fault. >> eric cantor says listen, the time sup. no more extensions. but youve got this the report indicating there are symptom house republican leaders courting moderate democrats that one side seems to be willing negotiate and im not even clear how you classify the other side at this point. >> right. and cantor appears not to be very aware of the talks going on. and that allows him to position himself over towards the tea party wing of the republican house conference interests it s...

Plan. well, great. pass the damn thing. all right? and send it over here and lets have the real negotiations. instead of sitting over there rooting for a government shutdown. >> the "huffington post" ryan grim joins us. pass the damn thing, was that meant for democrats or to show tough talking to satisfy tea party members who had said to be really push mr. baner? >> what that was about is trying to blame the senate for an eventual government shutdown. all -- everything were hearing from both bes...

You point out the president will talk about cuts and our issues with spending. does the president need to be specific here? it is one thing to be broad in saying this, everyone is saying this, we have to get spending under control. how specific does he have to be tonight? >> i think he needs to lay out an approach. hes been talking about an approach. he does have that report thats in front of him by the -- by his bipartisan deficit commission. but i think he needs to begin to lay out an approach...

Correspondent for the huffington post, hes joined us late but always the life of the party. let me ask you, regarding the president, and perhaps getting some kind of compromise a spirit of compromise with the republicans who are watching, youve got a tea party response from michelle bachmann, you already know that ryan will respond for the gop. how does he counter what were expecting? particularly which is intriguing from michelle bachmann? >> senate republicans are having lunch in the capitol n...