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Republicans have laid the ground work telling our constituents in town halls this is where we need to go. >> so we showed that clip. we didnt show the clip of them giving the standing ovation and carrying you out on their shoulders. during this crisis, you went to town hall meetings and you told your constituents hey listen the shutdown strategy, this may not be the best way to go. you told them thing that want they may not have wanted to hear and while you got blasted for it you also had a grea...

For your health. lz, ted cruz says he is not going way. he is not backing down. not even ruling out another round of this shutdown strategy in january. mccain vows that will never happen. so what do you say? >> you know, this thing has a couple of tentacles we need to look at. the tea party came into power in 2010 under the guys of reeling in some of our -- [ inaudible ] they werent happy with the stimulus package. i think thats a good mission to be on. but what happened once they got into power...

Fever, i do think about something different with this point. so you had your tea party group of people who got convinced and the conservatives got conventioned the shutdown strategy might work. some might be chasing. but throughout the whole period since the election, you have people like paul ryan saying when we get to that next debt limit, when we get out there in september, october, thats when we will get president obama to the table to negotiate. so we have to continue to make demand, whethe...

Talk about the government shutdown and ted cruz, the texas u.s. senator who has been at the forefront of this, didnt disappoint. he got a standing over vision forms 21-hour speech against obamacare in the senate and wasted no time urging the right not to abandon its principles and keep up the fight to defund obamacare, cut spending before they raise the debt limit and make sure they come out withal e government and hold to conservative values. watch. >> listen, none of us know what will happen o...

Health care is another slide in their mind towards the horrible society and theyll say shes part of it too. >> it wouldnt have happened if they won the civil war too. anyway, thank you. a lot of changes we havent liked. thank you for coming on. have a nice weekend, both of you. up next, shutdown strategy. how republicans will try to get back in the game, if you will, after the devastating new polls by nbc and the wall street journal and how democrats will keep the pressure on if theyre smart a...

So what we are going to do is take back our country 2012, is the time that we are going to send mr. obama home, to kenya or wherever it is. we are going to do it. >> send him home to kenya. turns out that -- relatively random congressman, that send obama back to kenya guy, who nobody had ever heard of, is now, an out of nowhere force in congress who is apparently leading the shutdown strategy in the house. turns out that has the less to do with him being an unusually effective member of congress...

And the second term anti-obama strategy meeting right after the president was sworn in, was for a government shutdown. the meeting convened at an undisclosed location some where on capitol hill. and it was led by the radical reagan era attorney general, ed meese. and their demand. plan from the beginning. buzz the government should be shut down. no funding of the federal government. unless president obama agreed. "the new york times" reported this, this weekend. how more than three dozen conserv...

And their demand. plan from the beginning. buzz the government should be shut down. no funding of the federal government. unless president obama agreed to repeal health reform. "the new york times" reported this, this weekend. how more than three dozen conservative groups joined forces on the shutdown strategy at the very start of the second term. although that initial meeting was convened by ed meese, what the time pieces together is many of the people involved and much of the money in the shut...

His paycheck. whatever floats your boat, sir. the problem here is that he had to pretend he did not say what he actually said. and that kind of thing keeps happening because republicans in congress do not seem to be sure of why they are doing what they are doing anymore or how to explain it. take also north carolina congressman mark meadows. hes the guy from the most republican district in north carolina who wrote the letter to john boehner a month ago with 80 other republicans as co-sponsors de...

Were going -- i think i know we dont want to be here but were gonna win this, i think. >> hot mike, hot mike. nothing like a hot mike to keep you honest. what a not so secret conversation says about the gop shutdown strategy. we have to remember that were wearing hot mikes, too. >> all the time. >> we know the hot mike lesson. >> we know it very well. good morning, happy saturday, im poppy harlow. >> im victor blackwell. welcome to this "new day saturday." >> first, to wayne, nebraska, shocked b...