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Lawmakers could strike a potential short-term deal to avoid a looming government shut down, a stop began measure would hold off the prizes -- stopgap measure would hold off the cites for two weeks and joining us now are elliot engel of new york and republican congresswoman marcia blackburn of tennessee, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> heather: the first question, goes to both of you. there you are. i will -- toss is first to representative black begburlack the measure make a di...

What are the political stakes of a government shutdown like in 95? gentlemen, you know the score here. and here we go again, howard. last time we had one where the government shut down because they couldnt agree on the spending level. the president wouldnt sign what they sent them. veto, veto, veto. nothing gets done. it looks to me like theyre both ready for this fight. the president and john boehner. is that right? >> yeah, i think so. i think the president on tuesday through the office of man...

It was disappointing to me. jenna: senator, its interesting that you say that about discretionary spending and entitlements because many blame politicians for not wanting to touch entitlements because its not politically beneficial for you to deal with them. and instead discretionary spending is an easier thing to deal with, its easier for the public to swallow. youre saying its not the case, discretionary spending is where we need our efforts now? >> we have surged discretionary spending in the...

Are members of the tea party movement, not necessarily directly connected to you, however, out of washington. this is an article they put out yesterday, this is the suggestion, end farm subsidy, $290 billion. scrap that. thats hud, 550. theres the farm subsidy. cut nasa spending 50 percent. thats # on billion dollars. and urban mass transit grants, 52 billion. privatize air traffic control, 38 billion. a quick glancing blow here, sal. what do you think of that? >> i thought they had very good id...

A good thing those first responders were on the scene in tucson. >> you know -- well, absolutely. but when i saw that poll, i thought it sounds an awful lot like washington, frankly. yes, we all know we have to cut, but when asked, what we should cut, it gets tougher. let me play for you what john boehner told brian williams. >> name a program right now that we could do without. >> i dont think i have one off the top of my head. >> so, doug, what does john boehner, the republicans, have to do at...

How many seats they could work. >> we have talk to the rnc and we are trying to get michael steel or a spokesperson to address this. tony perkins will be on the 3:00 show with david shuster, so we will see that. they are still raising a lot of money. you can argue about the spending level, they dont have as much cash on hand, though. >> four years ago, its the best comparison, its less. and the fact is the two congressional committees that fund house senate campaigns are going to have their hand...

On one level, on the spending level it can provide useful political cover and simpson is right. its not just about waste, fraud, and abuse. you can do a lot just about doing sensible stuff like raising the retirement age for social security and pegging the increase in benefits to wages rather than prices. you can make enormous impact on the deficit. what i fear with this commission is that you are going to see the usual hand wringing about painful cuts on all sides that have to be made and painf...

Extract or talk about or negotiate with president trump in the past and realize if they go in with a plan and sort of a confidence about what theyre asking for and what theyre expecting and what theyre willing to provide, if it is -- whether it is more money, more troops say in afghanistan as sara murray mentioned there, that these negotiations might go pretty well, and i dont think it is in donald trumps interest at this point to antagonize, hes looking in this case to mick a de make a deal. >>...

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