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No major spending reforms attached is also pie in the sky, so at the moment i dont know what there is for them to talk about unless the two of them privately can come up with some other formula. martha: it feels like we started off at, you know, one place with ted cruz trying to defund obamacare and the democrats completely dug in that that was never going to happen or that wasnt a possibility, and then they had to back pedal and figure out, well, what are we going to fight for now? what are we ...

Time since the korean war. were not budging on this. here is senator rand paul on the sequester versus obamacare. >> i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing sing really not even -- the one thing i think is not a compromise at all is democrats want to exceed sequester caps, things we put into law to restrain spending. they are about obamacare being the law of the land but so is the sequester. the sequester is the law of the land and if we exceed that it is a big step in the wrong ...

We keep spending more money than we have. if we continue to do that, were going to make it difficult for our kids and grandkids, for future generations to enjoy this amazing thing we call america. >> answer my direct question. are you prepared to make a deal and let it go past thursday. >> you should be asking harry reid and barack obama this. >> if they were here, i would. im asking you. >> we are prepared to do what needs to be done to address the underlying problems in this country. >> but yo...

Automatic cuts next year would kick in. and so the republicans have to be giving up the hammer in which had they pass and would they pass right now a year-long c.r., they would be the ones in control of the cuts and obama would have to be the ones who undoes them, and they are giving away the hammer, and with with the debt creeling that is the trump card, obama cannot allow it, they are extending all of the way to february, which if you make it short, you will force the president into negotiatin...

We have. if we continue to do that, were going to make it difficult for our kids and grandkids for future generations to enjoy this amazing thing we call america. >> answer my direct question. are you prepared to make a deal and let it go past thursday. >> you should be asking harry reid and barack obama this. >> if they were here, i would. im asking you. >> we are prepared to do what needs to be done to address the underlying problems in this country. >> but you wont raise the debt limit if it ...

Debt ceiling before the deadline next week. ran paul met with a president on the senate floor with a group of republicans. do you have a bottom low below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff. i think compromises is in the eyes of the beholder. we offered 13 compromises this week to open the government. the democrats rejected each one of them. to me, there is a big picture problem. we have the debt. were borrowing more than a million dollars every minute. we d...

Out of negotiations with the president saturday leaving their members in the senate to try and cut a deal that will reopen the 2k3w0 government and resolve the debt ceiling before the deadline next week. joining me now is republican senator rand paul who met with the president on friday along with a group of republicans. senator, thank you for being here. do you have a bottom line below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff? >> well, you know, i think compromi...