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Lamont hill. we are ganging up on you because thats how important it is. >> were taking it out on you. >> let me ask you why, anna, heres what it is. the republicans are saying got to sit at the table, got to compromise, got to compromise. the president comes out and says ill take short term, which he hadnt said before. has to be clean, dont condition it on anything. ill even take short term. the response from leader boehner is, this is unconditional surrender or nothing. is that fair? >> no. >>...

Kidding. >> the amazing thing is like richard oren hatch, the ranking senator on the senate finance committee, dont believe the business community. its not just that theyre skeptical of obama. thats understandable for republicans. theyve stopped listening to business community, economists, expertise in general. >> luke, the predicate here is that somehow john boehner quiets the tea party or throws them under the bus. if there is a deal, i thought yesterday some big things happened, which is to s...

Where do you see -- i mean, ultimately, is this two sides having to give? >> well, unfortunately some people think that the mark of a good deal is that both sides are unhappy. id like to see them do better than that. but theyll hopefully take some gains and theyll appreciate the gains that theyve made, and then theyll be able to recalibrate and figure a way to get to a more common goal. >> one of the things that maybe chris said or somebody else said was this notion of unconditional surrender an...

Cameras and in front of the flags. >> the presidents position that, listen, were not going to sit down and talk to you until you surrender is just not sustainable. its time to have that conversation. not next week, not next month, the conversation ought to start today. >> just so were clear, when speaker john boehner says the word surrender, hes saying vote on a bill on a public level on -- zero pressure to reopen the government, because on day 8 of the shutdown, how do republicans think theyre ...

Days were told is acknowledgement that finally some sort of conversation has to get going. jenna: they could do it all together and call it a party well leave it to them to figure out what is best in the situation. some movement from the president. that is notable. what about the republicans, are they signaling any sort of change? >> reporter: well thats a good question. so far speaker boehner is not signaling a lot of movement. shortly after the presidents news conference yesterday you remember...

Foreign policy and negotiations. lets say with irans nuclear program, right? if theres no attempt to compromise and everybodys just going to be demanding unconditional surrender its just not going to work. so you can take it from the government shutdown and to these other things that the united states has to deal with. >> twitter following rather than to actually good policy. >> yeah. chris, great to have you on. well see if the government can call in black swan on this. up next, major arrest ...

Surrender by republicans, hell sit down and talk to us. thats not the way our government works. >> when will somebody listen? on the left, stephanie cutter of the on the right, s.e. cupp in the crossfire. bill burton who supports the presidents refusal to negotiate and david limbaugh who says republicans should force him to the tabl. more talk or more action? tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire. im stephanie kurt on the left. im s.e. cupp on the right. president obama and the democrats ...

Were not there? >> at times like this, the american people expect their leaders to have a conversation. i want that conversation to occur now. >> the president said today that he would negotiate if there was a temporary yield. >> the president said today was, if there is unconditional surrender by republicans, hell sit down and talk to us. thats not the way our government works. thanks, everybody. >> all right. that was house speaker john boehner, making a statement from capitol hill. and now jo...

Thats the problem. alex, you identified it. eric ericson is not going to accept a compromise. i dont think special interest groups, heritage action for growth, are going to accept any sort of compromise that comes out of this, anything that isnt total surrender by the president on health care or total surrender by the president on other issues. we know where the president is on this and we know where harry reid is on this. i agree with you, david, i think the only way out for boehner is its not ...

Or engage in ransom taking to get 100% of your way. we cannot make extortion routine as part of democracy. what is not fair and will not result in an actual deal is ransom taking. you dont pay a ransom. you dont provide concessions for congress doing its job and america paying its bills. >> the word ransom, pretty incredible there. i want to make sure that we show this went both ways, heres john boehner. >> the president refuses to negotiate. negotiate, negotiate, negotiation. presidents posit...