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We got some good ideas going and common ground that helped senator reid, senator mcconnell as they reached their agreement. that was our role. we worked over the weekend. it's a good model as we go forward with the long term budget issues. this agreement is essentially a few months. my husband was joking as he was giving me grief about it he said he has library books that are overdue for longer than that. but it's a few months that's an incentive to get some long term budget work done which is what we really have to do for the country. >> what at this point, i know you can't talk about, you kn...

>> so does he hold to that assertion he will not negotiate when it comes to obama care on the full faith and credit of the u.s. or of the government being shutdown. >> yes, he has made clear two things, as you know. he is willing within the context of broader budget negotiations, within the context of serious-minded and earnest discussions how to improve the affordable be care act to look at any proposal that might do that going to obama care. that's true on broader budget issues. but you know, as some of the ideas that we've seen this morning when it comes to sort of demanding ran some to try...

Issues. >> but maria -- >> that's exactly the same position president obama and the democrats have. >> how do you get there if the president says over and over i will not negotiate? you can't get to compromise unless you get to negotiating first. >> well, i think what speaker boehner needs to do, frankly, and it's so ironic that they talk about how they are listening to the american people when they're obsessed with defunding, delaying, or getting rid of obama care, when frankly the majority of the american people don't want to do that if it means getting -- if it means defaulting, and if it m...

About the budget and how we move forward, and covering big issues that are important to us. we had obviously chairman camp to talk about tax reform, we had -- we also had paul ryan there, congressman ryan to talk about budget issues. so we want to talk about entitlement reform, tax reform, things to jump start the government. that was on the table along with making sure we end the shutdown of this government, and get america back to work. >> is it still a position of house republicans that the affordable care act has to be -- that that has to be on the negotiating table as well to end the shut...

House meeting was very productive. you said quote took awhile to get there but we had a good conversation. what did you mean by that? >> it was a very useful discussion, and the first time we sat down in a frank and open way with 18 republican leaders from the house with the president, the vice president and secretary of treasury, secretary lew to talk about a path forward here, and it was a good dialogue. a dialogue about the debt ceiling and making sure that the full faith and credit of the united states of america is sound so we put a temporary extension on the debt ceiling. we talked also,...