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>> if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. let the bill go to the floor and let's see what happens. just vote. let every member of congress vote their conscience and they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down. >> so why not just allow an up or down vote on a clean resolution without any strings attached, if you have the votes, fine. if speaker boehner says there are no votes there, the president says there are, why not simply allow the vote? >> well, we have bipartisan support now to pay our veterans and ...

More than 218 votes. i believe comfortably. >> reporter: 195 democrats trying to call boehner's bluff signed a letter demanding a vote on a no strings attached bill to fund the government. that would mean 22 republicans would have to defy their leadership. now, on the question of whether a clean bill could pass the house, cnn has put a vote count together. right now, we have identified 200 democrats, including some delegates, and 14 republicans who have either publicly stated or told us they would vote for a clean continuing resolution, which of course means a bill to fund the government to en...

They would vote for this, and won't do so because why take the political risk if john boehner isn't going to put this on the floor. the other point i would like to make that is i was talking to a senior republican source today who said point blank the main reason john boehner is not putting this on the floor is because that would be the end of his speakership. >> gloria borger is here with us as well and ryan lizza, our contributor from the "new yorker" magazine. a quick follow-up on that. all 200 democrats, every single one, 200 democrats in the house, they are now committed that they would v...

I believe it's more than 13 or 14. >> but the fact that only 13 plus you are willing to say so publicly, and all the others, they may privately be willing to go ahead when it's all said and done, but they're reluctant or afraid, whatever, to tell us that they would vote for that so-called clean continuing resolution. unfortunately you get to see a lot of that around here. all i can say in my state i believe there are five who are declared publicly they would vote for a clean cr. again, i know that many members are concerned about primary pressure, but i tell my colleagues we cannot govern out ...

>> very tight. >> cnn has been done our own count, to see whether a clean funding bill would actually pass. what they have done is identified 200 democrats that had vote yes. that does include, as we talked about last hour, five conservative democrats who didn't sign on to a letter over the weekend. that means that all house democrats have pledged to vote yes. as for republicans, the key here, 14 republicans have publicly stated or told cnn that they would vote for a clean, continuing resolution to fund and reopen the government. that's three votes shy needed to pass a bill in the house right ...