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Pamela harris. individuals stepped up in light and wake of what has gone on. how much leverage now do the democratic haves in budget talks and what are they using it for? >> the interesting thing the house appropriations chairman put out the so-called continuing resolution last night. that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. through next year. what it includes is funding the defense department. you know, getting rid of the sequestration levels, essentially allowing de...

>> getting nar rmarried in the was something personal and inkrid ebl. i highly remt it. >> two of us are married at this table. >> not me. >> i think i see chad griffin talking on the telephone, which i believe is with president obama. chad is right there. >> mr. president, this is chris perry. >> we thank you so much for your support. >> im proud of you guys. >> welcome back to moore, oklahoma, you can see up close the devastation and just how bad it is. >> the thing about it is the budget is s...

Sam, what is the consistency here in their argument that, you know, the park guards and going after the ww 2, theyre good pr, but dont they know that that was a measure imposed by ted cruz. >> reporter: the broader point is what you touched on earlier is all these separate things they wanted to fund, whether it was nih, whether it was head start, all these things are limited in funding by the sequestration levels that they adhered to. so theres limitations to their devotion to the nih, you cant ...

Liz winstead the co-creator of todays show. sam, what is the consistency here in their argument that, you know, the park guards and going after the ww 2, theyre good pr, but dont they know that that was a measure imposed by ted cruz. >> reporter: the broader point is what you touched on earlier is all these separate things they wanted to fund, whether it was nih, whether it was head start, all these things are limited in funding by the sequestration levels that they adhered to. so theres limitat...

We cannot continue to live this way. and we want something done about it. and when obama care is one sixth of our economy, another huge entitlement program. i mean, when are we going to address that. >> health care is 20% of the economy. >> i think we can all agree as amy said, we need to deal with the deficit and the debt in particular. but the point is that this whole kamikaze kabuki has increased costs. it has not helped deal with the deficit and debt. if were serious about that, thats when y...

Read things on the internet, is this whole back and forth over sequestration levels and whether they go through january or march, is that all really maybe perhaps just a run-up to a fig leaf necessary to get republicans to buy in, which is to say democrats at some point need to theoretically concede something. is this fighting about sequestration and sequestration levels inevitably going to be the ne they take in the chamber. >> there are many democrats in the senate who will just not go along w...

Forth with disappointment the way people are talking. they dont quite get it. its like the child not getting as many cookies as their brother or sister. looking at the parent saying why did you give them more than me? this look of indignation. hes hurt. hes hurt because he didnt get to shut down obama care. hes hurt. >> for months ted cruz was leading an effort to shut down the government unless obama care was defunded. but then to turn around and say its harry reid is bizarre. its worth repeati...

Ive never heard a man or woman speak with so much whine in their voice. his eyebrows comes down every time he expresses himself. he shakes his head back and forth with disappointment the way people are talking. they dont quite get it. its like the child not getting as many cookies as their brother or sister. looking at the parent saying why did you give them more than me? this look of indignation. hes hurt. hes hurt because he didnt get to shut down obama care. hes hurt. >> for months ted cruz w...

Little bit in the senate and by that i mean this restart the government one section at a time which has passed in part in the house. today the the texas senator john cornyn tried to offer a bill to reopen the parks and museums and senator harry reid who runs the senate on the democratic side objected to that, stalling that idea. so were seeing a lot of these tactical moves playing out. plenty of talk going on, but not much in the way of progress and there is this expectation that what is happeni...

>> no think i dont think they should capitulate at all. >> so what would you suggest? >> do you think if we had a republican president in office and the democrats wanted to stick some gun legislation into the budget, a cr, a continuing resolution for our nations budget, how do you think that would go over? would you approve of that tactic from the left because thats the tactic of the right? >> if the republicans were in the white house we wouldnt have a president that didnt pass the budget. >> j...