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Fight between two powerful republicans going strong. Rand paul is here and like mark levin, is ready to react to this. I have nothing personal against senator paul. If we disagree on certain issues we disagree. His response seems to be he has something personal against me. Thats okay, can he just get in line on that front. And here we go, welcome everybody, im neil cavuto and this is your world a controversial world. Mark levin speaks as the top two low pressures raise a stink. We hope to get on...

Writing a piece on this and that so that the republicans faced a loss with regards to the government shutdown, very unpopular, but fiscally, theyre winning the fight. theyre keeping washington to spending levels that the democrats really dont want. so in the long-term, even if nothing comes out of this budget committee, it is going to be a win for the republicans. >> thats the part that i want to sort of understand here, so -- we had the whole dispute over the shutdown and the default and some c...

We need to pass what we call a cr, which is a budget bill at a level that i detest really, its too low with the sequester level, but we need to pass that so we can get to a real budget committee and begin to talk about how we move forward. thats what we need to do. we have compromised quite a bit so we need to put the bill up. we need to ask the speak tore have some courage, i know that there are enough republicans to vote for that bill. we need to do that and move on. >> barbara lee, thank you ...

We need to pass what we call a cr, which is a budget bill at a level that i detest really, its too low with the sequester level, but we need to pass that so we can get to a real budget committee and begin to talk about how we move forward. thats what we need to do. we have compromised quite a bit so we need to put the bill up. we need to ask the speak tore have some courage, i know that there are enough republicans to vote for that bill. we need to do that and move on. >> barbara lee, thank you ...

Deficits and adding $7 trillion of debt and they wanted the president to provide leadership. simpson bowles turned his back on. that it is insanity we dont have agreement on entitlement reform. >> im for tax reform too. im for a grand bargain. but it has to raise revenues so the democrats have one side of the bargain. what the republicans are opposed its not a grand bargain. its their way or they will destroy the economy of the united states. >> you got $600 billion of new revenue the last go ar...

Or not the new sequester levels should be extended, which are ready to kick in. as you know there are democrats and people in the white house not happy about the sequester level. also the timing. is there some way to cut this in half and figure out how long a debt ceiling extension makes sense so were not facing this again in a couple of weeks? >> i do think there will be an agreement. andrea, lets be clear. where republicans no question in the house overreach to try to defund the bill, its an o...

Probably be based in part on a broader agreement thats been under discussaturday and sunday. theyre just not there yet. they have the outlines of where they want to go, but its the details. the devil is in the details. theyre pretty far apart on those details right now. >> senator susan collins of maine had put forward a plan that was rejected. why? >> right. thats the plan i was referring to. she was meeting with democrats. i know that its rejected at this moment, but i think there are parts of...

And what harry reid did was agree to the sequester level of funding for the government. >> this was a while ago. >> but the speaker agreed in that negotiation that he would not add this extraneous obama care provision. so that was a negotiation. and the speaker walked away from an agreement he reached and now he says,well lets negotiate some more. heres a guy who is not able to deliver his own caucus. >> but he was forced away from the agreement, obviously and he will admit that was his plan. it...

Destroy the affordable care act, which was clearly the law of the land. once we reopen the government, and move toward a situation where we confront the debt ceiling, and hopefully lift the debt ceiling to avoid a default, then i think well be back in a situation where we can discuss the future of the american economy and how to best move forward. >> so the position is, you seem to be articulating there, is raise the debt ceiling, reopen the government, and talk about anything, but there should ...

Could be paying more for years, decades to come. >> congresswoman diane damageette on last word on msnbc last night. she made the point coming from the democratic perspective she would agree to a clean cr, a clean continuing resolution for a matter of six weeks. beyond that she is not willing to go along. they have already embedded the sequester levels. so the republicans have really won the battle of the budget, the battle over spending. the social programs democrats care about have been gutted...