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president obama today again called on republicans to quote do what s right, stop posturing, open the government and make sure the united states can pay its bills. in an interview the president offered this reason for what s making negotiating such a struggle. the problem that we ve got is that for speaker boehner, for example, him negotiating with me isn t necessarily good for the extreme faction in his caucus. it weakens him. so there have been repeated situations where we have agreements, then he goes back and it turns out that he can t control his caucus. cnn senior white house correspondent brianna keilar joins me now. i know we don t expect to hear publicly from the president certainly fortnight. how is the white house reacting to the republicans kicking this back to the senate? actually, they look at the senate where a place the compromise can be built. the white house is very much in touch with senate majority
effective leader, but i do think we are getting to a point where, you know, democrats and republicans are going to have to come together and stop posturing, come together, to come up with the ideas that are going to move this country forward because those three deadlines i brought up, they re coming up quickly. something s going to hit the controlling in mid-february. it does have to be done together. a grand bargain was never going to happen because of all the things we ve been discussing. you know, i think this was a contrarian piece. this is something people haven t really been pointing out. but i think the blame lies really everywhere as we ve been discussing. you know, colin powell, one of the things he said, he said i came of age in the party of weinberger and george h.w. bush and richard lugar. the compromise has long, long gone. and i ve got to say, for the white house, it s been frustrating at times. you know, i ve been very