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And we're making great progress to come together with a very strong voting rights bill that every democrat can support. so we are going to come up with that legislation. we are going to rally around it, and this morning i filed closure on a vehicle to allow the senate to take up that compromise voting rights bill when we return. voting rights will be the very first matter of legislative business when the senate returns to session in september. ready for your questions. mr. pink shirt. >> senator mcconnell said this to me yesterday. they have the house, the senate and the presidency. it's their...

Extend the debt ceiling without opening the government. maybe that was part of the discussion. maybe the president said, obviously i don't want to let the country default, but i want to reopen the government. what i can see, and this is really important to underscore. we are hearing so much more from republicans on both sides of the capitol that they are very concerned about the public backlash to them personally, reply dale and to their party in general over the shutdown. >> we'll see if they speak out once they get back to capitol hill. coming up, a cramped dinner, it sounds delicious, but...

67622. you can leave a comment at ed.msnbc.com. the results later on the show. i'm on record tonight saying we will default. it's the republican plan. they want to tarnish president obama. they want him going down in history as being on his watch that he's the first president to see this country default. they love that history book. for more, let's bring in senator john tesser of montana who serves in the senate finance committee. your thoughts on the environment in washington and where we are right now. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you, ed. well, we've got a long ways ...

The clean cr and nancy pelosi is saying the votes do exist, but then you have john boehner saying they don't. so how do you think this is all going to play out? >> that's really interesting. what you'll see this week when congress gets back into session is the democrats trying to put the pressure on the white house, a as well, on boehner to bring the senate bill to a vote in the house. but so far he's shown no indication he'll do so. i think republicans and the way john boehner is talking is that each day that goes on as we get closer to october 17th, they think they will turn on the white hou...

Anymore. >> i don't think anybody thinks when you hear them talk about the affordable care act that they have given up on getting rid of the affordable care act which they think will destairway the world and all the people in it. >> aren't they just trying to escape mow? >> they should be. >> i would hope it would be. speaker boehner had a hard line yesterday when he said we don't have the votes. >> why do you think he did that after saying this week, we'll get a clean debt ceiling. >> he gave a little bit of confidence and said, i'm not going to let the country default. then he pulled back ye...