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Compromise, and it will apply to the republicans if they reject whatever, assuming obama or harry reid offers some proposal, if they reject it. >> all right. >> it applies to everybody. >> lets be clear. this is a -- from my opinion, this is a republican manufactured crisis. and i think the president rightfully has said, were not going to negotiate onset ld l s law. thats not a game were going to play in this country. lee, i want to take it to you. one of the things we heard today and sort of a ...

Cant be extorted in the future. he has to draw a tough line. talk about overplaying your hand, the poker analogy. the sequester levels would be baked in. now not only are they not going to get any serious extractions from obama care, but they might lose sequester cuts as well. >> maybe you can clarify, yesterday morning we were talking about maybe democrats would be willing to go along with this. i think a two-year delay in the medical device tax with obama care. is harry reid saying thats not p...

Say, wait a minute, we want the government to do these things. we want it to go out and patrol, you know, food-borne illness. it makes the government look good and people trying to stop the government look bad. >> thats in the poll numbers, as well, when we look at who is blamed by the american people here, we have a clear sort of preponderance of people blaming republicans rather than blaming president obama. 53% of folks saying the shutdown is really the republicans fault, but in the end, is i...

>> paul, with all due respect you act like harry reid bent over backwards to compromise. >> yes. >> when basically what hes agreeing to is common sense. >> current law. >> we racked up $6.1 trillion of debt under president obama -- >> but you say its common sense but not what the democrats wanted, correct? >> its hard for the democrats to do -- >> paul -- >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> the sequester levels in spending were already current law, paul. he simply agreed to current law. he didnt agre...

All of the time. one of the first things he said. there will be absolutely no negotiating over raising the debt ceiling. no negotiating. and these people did not believe him. they did not believe him though he had been rock solid in the statement from the very beginning. alug absolutely -- no wiggle room. i think boehner worked on ape deem with reid where they were going to do a clean cr, at sequester levels. a lot for democrats to swallow. boehner had no control of his caucus to be able to deli...

Statement from the very beginning. allowing absolutely -- no wiggle room. i think boehner worked on ape deem with reid where they were going to do a clean cr, at sequester levels. a lot for democrats to swallow. boehner had no control of his caucus to be able to deliver on that. so thats where we are. >> joy, i think there is something here in, in their complete misreading of the president. these republicans. >> absolutely. based on 2011. a lot of reporting about it. people in the white house wh...

Likes public policy and likes trying to fix things, yes. and i worked here 40 years ago as a staff member in the senate. and to come back as a senator is almost surreal. but it is pretty -- i mean this, week is pretty awful. i mean, theres no question. >> can i just turn the conversation back? we only have a minute left to the paul ryan op ed. because ive heard republicans talk about maybe this could be a big grand bargain. maybe what we could get out of this is lifting the debt ceiling, reopeni...

>> for those most hardened on that it wont be enough. but you can expand the group of people willing to be a part of the conversation. were seeing more of that. im talking to senators who are republicans and who are not among the more vocal tea party affiliated type senators looking for these sort of topic areas to say, cant we come together. these issues have been talked about before. but perhaps they could be talked about in the context of the debt ceiling, coming to some agreement, these are ...

Down with a senate minority leader a month ago. he always wanted entitlement reform and you look at paul ryans op-ed in the "wall street journal" tomorrow morning that just posted online. hes asking for entitle reform with chain cpi. thats what republican leadership has always been moving toward, entitle reform and budget talks whereas the tea party reform has been focused on became care. >> joining me now is a democrat from michigan. i am seeing the conversation turn from the discretionary budg...

Place. i thought sequester levels was a win for republicans and we should have taken the fight to the debt ceiling where it belongs where you actually have a valid point to say if we dont have reforms, then were going to have a debt crisis in the future. lets be responsible. lets do the difficult thing and actually do some reforms and avoid a real debt crisis where we dont have the luxury of just raising our debt ceiling because no one will buy our debt in the first place. >> anna, why not take ...