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>> its going to be a fascinating dynamic to watch. and its a little scary also. i dont know at this point, its unclear to us whether boehner will try to raise the debt limit before he leaves office. whether hell push that through. now, we had heard for a couple days the treasury was getting ready to send a letter to the hill, which they officially did yesterday. we heard they were going to do it. treasurys not stupid. they want this vote while goners still speaker. they want to avoid any problem...

The house gop caucus tonight is teetering on the edge of full-blown chaos. last friday in an unprecedented move john boehner said he was resigning the speakership, seemingly falling on his sword in order to avert a government shutdown over gop intransigence on planned parenthood funding. and while boehner did temporarily avoid a shutdown over the objection of more than 60% of his caucus, it wasnt for long. congress only funded the government for an additional ten weeks, setting up another possib...

Longer than investigations into president kennedys assassinati assassination, iran contra, and watergate is essentially a political operation to damage hillary clinton. mccarthy tried to walk back his comments last night. >> point -- the point i was trying to make, and i want to be very clear about, this i wasnt saying that committee is political. that committee is solely to get the truth out. what happened within the truth, you found out about a server. this committees sole purpose is to find t...

Through in his last 30 days novice, that alien yates all the hard-liners who mccarthy needs to be speaker. >> right. >> their power is on the floor. and these guys know it and theyre not going to forget it. and theyre going to -- theyre going to, you know, extract it. now, the question is when will the speaker vote be? there had been some thought it would be late in the month of october. theyll go into leadership elections next week but its just a nominee for speaker. its not the floor vote. now...

Boehner will bring a bill that passes the democratic vote and we will be left with whether boehner survives as a speaker. president obama weighed in by talking with new york and told them this. the problem that weave got is that for speaker boehner, its not good for the extreme faction. it weakens them. there have been repeated situations where we have agreement and he goes back and it turns out he cant control it. senator lindsay graham told "the washington post," of all the damage to be done p...

Talking about, and that is whether boehner will decide to go with a minority of the majority. he just spoke with boehner. boehner has been brutally attacked for what happened last night by conservatives. look at this. washington post conservative columnist jennifer rubin called the fiasco a stunning miscalculation. boehner lost control of the caucus and with it, any juice he might have. i mean, the washington examiner says boehner is now useless. if im john boehner and theyve already given me th...

Ive got a mandate to help middle class families and families that are working hard to try to get in the middle class. thats my mandate. thats what the american people said. they said, work really hard to help us. >> that is the presidents plan date. whether boehner and company like it or not. and today at the white house, the president continued to build his case. he met with small business owners to keep the focus on letting the bush tax cuts expire for the rich. its all part of a campaign to g...

Will take both sides. >> im not suggesting he not make a deal. im suggesting he use the strength of his bargaining position to make a deal. >> the key thing, whether boehner at the end of the day can make the deal and remain speaker. >> exactly. >> thats the whole issue back in the summer of 2011. its the same issue now. and the interesting divide is going to be between the house republicans and those senate republicans. we tend to lump them together. remember there was the gang of six that ende...

Hes doing and the republican party is leaderless, and it has no idea what its doing. >> while everyone was pounding the president on this, you were looking ahead to the damage that was going to be done to your own party. what was your instinct? >> its just what mark said. the republican party is leaderless. they dont have a strong leader in the house. they dont have a strong national leader in the senate. im not talking about whether boehner and mcconnell can run their institution. >> theyre gre...

can pass it in the next day or two and avert the first default on our national debt in history. >> i am worried about the size of defense cuts that may be contemplated, but that doesnt mean im therefore rejecting the agreement. im just worried. >> this is a head scratcher. stocks take a tumble after the debt relief rally that happened earlier this morning. the dow surged more than 120 points, but a weak manufacturing report, just sanction the market. stocks posting the worst weekly per...