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>> the more to talks, the more interviews he does, the lower his approval rating goes. >> shepard: everybody is mad that nothing is getting done. >> you opened the segment by saying the republicans offered a least a way forward to at least have a conversation. can the democrats get off their high horse to say maybe thats a place where we can start? >> shepard: what do republicans want? i cant figure it out. theyre all saying they want different things. >> i think thats right. and in some -- this...

We have a budget deficit problem that we have to address. >> i am not going to keep cutting the discretionary budget which, by the way, is not out of control despite what you hear on fox news. >> here with reaction to the dangerous ideology, the co-hosts of "the five" bob beckel and andrea tantaros. good to see you. >> great to see you. >> by a number of two to one fox news poll people want the government to vote against even raising it further. it seems americans are becoming very aware of how ...

Problems facing the country is the massive debt one would think this tax and spend president has no idea under his watch alone the debt has riz nearly $7 trillion. as president obama prepares to call on congress to raise the debt ceiling again he declared yesterday doing that doesnt increase our debt. really? sadly this isnt the first time our fearless leader or his democratic cohorts made false claims b about the nations embarrassing spend ing habits. take a look. >> so we dont have an immediat...

Stability to the world markets if the debt ceiling were not raised. i want you to first of all tell us if those quotes were accurate and what you meant. >> yeah. those quotes are accurate. i appreciate you having me on, wolf. not raising the debt ceiling does not automatically trigger a default. what i meant by that article there was, you know, i feel like groundhog day, its kind of like the debate between jimmy carter and ronald reagan. there you go again. we are doing the same things weve done...

Cares at this point whether republicans overplayed their hand initially or whether the president is overplaying it now. i for almost 20 years of my life run down to the lincoln memorial. it is shuttered up. all kinds of open air monuments in washington, d.c. in a way that was not the case before. in many cases it has never been the situation in the history of our government. yet this president has chosen to shut them down. so i would say either side, whether theyre overplaying, is irrelevant to ...

That we were going to be slow pay, no pay. >> yeah. well, first of all, you took away my opening line, which is -- thats okay, because it bears repeating. you very correctly identified something extremely important that the speaker just blew by. raising the debt ceiling means borrowing for spending that has already incurred. okay, lets get that straight. these are spending bills that the congress, including speaker boehner, has already signed. these expenditures are already on the books. so for ...

Saying at 11th hour when the president refuses to negotiate on the debt ceiling you will run a clean debt ceiling bill. can you be clear as where your conference is on the debt ceiling? you. >> all heard me say this going back over the last two or three years. our goal wasnt to shut down the government. our goal here was to bring fairness to the american people under obamacare. i dont believe that we should default on our debt. it is not good for our country but after 55 years of spending more t...

Our spending problem and the lack of economic growth in our country. >> there we have it. house speaker john boehner just moments ago talking about fixing the nations spending problems. there are new reports that john boehner has privately told republicans he wont let the nation go into default even if it means relying on democratic votes to strike a deal. only congress has the power to raise the debt ceiling and they have just a matter of days to make that happen. so if the u.s. does go into de...

Down the government. our goal here was to bring fairness to the people under obama care. i dont believe we should default on our debt. it is not good for our country. but after 55 years of spending more than what you bring in something ought to be addressed. this year well have more revenue in the history of our country and have a deficit. and i think the american people expect if we raise the amount of money to borrow, we ought to do something about the spending problem and lack of economic gro...

>> i think its really clear that if anything, that diminishes the affordable care act is not something to support. >> mike emanuel in the middle of this and probably working late nights to trying to consecutive this. that would you make? >> house republican leaders put some key components they knew would win the support of their republican members to try to get them to buy on to increasing the governments ability to borrow. they include that one-year delay of obamacare. building the keystone exc...