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To put aside the big fight over giving fema more money and also requiring spending cuts to offset that. that was the republican point of view. democrats were deds against that saying that these kinds of emergencies should not be immediately offset by cuts somewhere else for orprograms. they came to their sort of kuumba ya moment last night. there's one more thing to be dealt with last night. that's the house agreeing to this on thursday by voice vote. we don't expect any glitches there. it's not 100% done. it does give us a sign in the end they can work together. they sounded collegial at the ...

Fight? is there any cary recovery from an event like this into a showdown over the debt ceiling, especially when there's talk of crisis. the president will be talking of the crisis that we don't raise the debt ceiling. polling indicates that the country doesn't believe that it will be a great disaster if we don't raise the debt ceiling. does this somehow adds to the president's strength going into that? >> i think it does. but in this particular fight, i think it doesn't give him a whole lot extra. it adds incrementally re-enforces his hand. i think it's a different kind of fight. the whole bu...

>> laura: last one chosen by him. >> yeah. and others. i think there is a lot of confusion and anxiety what's going on foreign policy and what's going to happen with the oil prices, gas prices. and i think that this whole -- i think people are very confused about the budget. very confused. it's really confusing because you have. >> laura: mary ann, let's end with you here. the budget issue, taxes, obviously an attempt to demonize wealth rich tax warfare. that's an old playbook of washington. is that going to work now? is that the smart way to go? >> i think he is going to give the middle class...

For an answer. every time we agree to meet in the middle they move where the middle is. >> reporter: and what you're hearing from house speaker john boehner, he'll continue to fight for the largest spending cuts possible and that is the republican position. he's refused to give any information what he would settle for, not even answering yesterday what would constitute a fair deal because he does not want to negotiate with himself in front of the media. begging the question what is the number? there really is no honest hint of what is acceptable. more of a political issue rather than in terms ...

Effect. to carry on the point made earlier this has turned into a political issue more than a financial or budget issue. republicans want to put the line in the sand. speaker boehner wants to appear to his conference that he's fighting as hard as he cannot to look like he's agreeing with democrats have wanted $33 billion in cuts. he wants to show he's going to be tough on spending. democrats are saying this is ridiculous, we've compromised, what else do you want? it's more political than financial. >> luke russert watching the debate on the hill. of course, we will go to the hill from f. repub...