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Policy. theyre the majority in the house. i expect that they will come up with some fantastic ideas that i can support on the environment, on so many different things including prescription drug prices, which weve made a big dent in already, including some of the thing that is were working on for the vets. weve gotten choices approved -- but there are a lot of other elements we want. there are many things we can get along on that we agree with them and they agree with us. i would like to see bip...

House. i expect that they will come up with some fantastic ideas that i can support on the environment. on so many different things. including prescription drug prices, which we have made a big dent in already. including some of the things that we are working on for the vets who have gotten choice approve. we have gotten a lot of things approved. but they have some other elements that we want to. if there are many things we can get along on. it can be without the trouble that we agree with them ...

Are hearing this debate, theyre hearing nancy pelosi disagree. let me play for you a democrat who three weeks ago said there would be a scheduled daca vote within two weeks because of the schumer shutdown strategy. this is a very prominent democrat. take a listen. >> we have a commitment to make sure that we bring up the dream act on the floor of the senate in the next two weeks or so, what we have to do is keep fighting like heck, because this aint over. this is why when i think of the dreamers...

Skilled immigrants in this country. there have been a lot of polls out over the past couple weeks and none of them are good news for democrats. >> i think democrats realize that the shutdown strategy was a mistake, whether it was shutting down in the first place, whether it was folding and not following through. theres been a lot of criticism of it. the fixing things for the daca kids is very broadly popular, but tying it to a shutdown kind of risked, i think, that from a political perspective. ...

Contradict some of the advice he has been getting. >> mike -- mike you and i might be old institutionalists who is there to say mr. president we dont usually put much talk in play about the debt ceiling and how it may or may not be passed because that can roil markets and this is a global economy. >> sno question and the markets are already having jiters about the possibility of a government shut gown goldman sachs last week before the comments in phoenix telling clients there is a 50/50 chance ...

Wont work. its a real fringe. >> it is a real fing. eric ericsson and you got "wall street journal" stepping in. i may add in "wall street journal" defense, they were warning all along about the shutdown strategy saying it would kill the republican party. they have been helpful. i do want to say, though, if you can shed a light, jeremy peters, because you report for "the new york times" on capitol hill, the frustration that a lot of house members also feel about facing -- passing one piece of le...

Outcome this year with the two bodies in such a different place. >> those republican primaries kick off march 4th in texas. so why poke the conservative base in the eye? now, the reaction from the right, talk radio world, the boehners announcement shows the challenge he was up against. >> people are going nuts here. i keep getting e-mails and cookie sent me a sound bite, because i keep mentioning amnesty today, as i cant believe it. amnesty. rush, rush, rush, boehner has said that there wont be ...

Storm. think about occupy, the tea party. we are in 2014 but there was a lot of violence at the end of 2013 that hurt both parties. it makes me wonder, did they use that ammo too soon? and they cant go into straight obstruction mode again because it cost both already. >> thats a great, important point. the republicans definitely feel the scars of that shutdown strategy. they were dragged into by the activist groups pumping basically a fools gold saying we can shut down the government benefit pol...

Journal," the koch brothers last time who were really upset by the shutdown strategy and a lot of other business, the chamber. >> yeah. hes worked this very carefully over the years of being subservient to these groups. now he can say youve gone too far. what they are trying to do here is governing as usual. a small conservative. i dont mean policy conservative but behaviorally, a conservative step in a direction of adjusting sequester spending levels. thats what they are trying to do. and becau...

Were unsatisfied, but its better than endless cycles of gridlock. john boehner was quite feisty. he continued his attacks, his real create similar soft -- criticism of some of the conservative groups that have been urging republican lawmakers to vote against this deal and have often been voting conservatives to vote against some of the things that the speaker has brought to the floor as though he was somehow off the reservation of conservativism. today boehner said those groups have lost all cre...