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Moodys saying that the economy might be downgraded, whos the blame going to go to? probably the guy sitting in the white house. >> it could be. on top of it, when joe biden has their commission, they already agreed on it. a trillion dollars worth of cuts but they havent discussed the hard issues. time to discuss the hard issues and use this news as something as a stop gap. not a stop gap. as a deadline that both sides have to come together in an emergency way to get together with some cuts so th...

Is that they would be open to this as long as there was progress to an agreement or there was an agreement. the president wasnt open to just like another one-week, one week at a time cr, but he really wanted something that would be a stop-gap in order to finalize the details of an ultimate deal. what i can tell you here within the hour, ive been reaching out to sources here at the white house, and there is still a sense of optimism that a deal will get done and theyre working out the details of ...

Congress has next years budget to deal with, and president obama says cooperation is going to be key. a few months ago i was able to sign a tax cut for american families because both parties worked through their differences and found common ground. now the same cooperation will make possible the biggest annual spending cut in history. its my sincere hope that we can continue to come together as we face the many difficult challenges that lie ahead. >> in the end $38 billioning will be cut from ...

Government is already in motion. and so if youre going to start pulling that back, he wants to hear from them early in the morning. there just has to be sort of this agreement and the president says he supports a stop gap of two or three days until they can finalize this deal. so well have to see if they can make progress overnight. >> david, what does this debate the way it has played out say about leadership in the democratic and republican party? the democrats could have dealt with this a lon...

The president hopes to meet with them tomorrow? >> reporter: thats right. the president said he will check in with them tomorrow morning. he doesnt want this to push late into the day, because this whole mechanism, the machine to shut down the government is already in motion. and so if youre going to start pulling that back, he wants to hear from them early in the morning. i should point out that the deal doesnt have to be completely done. there just has to be sort of this agreement and the pres...

Boehner and senate majority leader harry reid but they still cant even agree what theyve agreed on. boehner says it is spending cuts, reid says its policy. house republicans tacked on riders to the spending plan they passed earlier this year stripping the epa of the power to regulate greenhouse gases. restricting health care reform. and defunning public broadcasting and planned parnhooparn ho parenthood. harry reid says all of those parts have been resolved accept for planned parenthood. john bo...

I should point out that the deal doesnt have to be completely done. there just has to be sort of this agreement and the president says he supports a stop gap of two or three days until they can finalize this deal. so well have to see if they can make progress overnight. >> thank you very much. let us know what you think. ill try to tweet tonight. up next, a democratic strategist paul begala joins us, who is close to some of the people involved in the current negotiations. also, tea party activ...

This agreement and the president says he supports a stop gap of two or three days until they can finalize this deal. so well have to see if they can make progress overnight. >> david, what does this debate the way it has played out say about leadership in the democratic and republican party? the democrats could have dealt with this a long time ago when they still had majorities. not much has been done on this until now. and on the republican side, the republican leadership, to my understanding, ...

On what they have agreed on. boehner says they are hung up on spending cuts, but reid says it is down to policy. the house republicans had tacked on riders as they are called to the spending plan to the plan passed in february to strip the epa from the power of restricting greenhouse gases, and health care reform, and public broadcasting and planned parenthood, and harry reid says that all of the points have been resolved except for planned parenthood. john boehner says they are close on policy,...

House speaker john boehner is promoting the seventh stop gap will of the year. >> it also funds the military through september. beyond that, boehner is adamant the $33 billion in cuts democrats are pushing for is no longer enough. major garrett is the congressional correspondent. major, something changed with boehner from five days ago where they were -- he had hal rogers, chairman of the appropriations committee working on figuring out how to make the $33 billion number work and yesterday, said...