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Deal with the fairness issue. why would you vote against it. >> it would raise the debt ceiling. hundreds of billions of dollars. >> any deal will have to raise the debt ceiling, sir. >> the deal we tried to offer a few weeks ago suggested no we can raise it for a few weeks but not to raise it until next year and another 300, 400 billion dollars of debt. americans want to face this problem and the problem is not that we can't come together it's a problem we have folks that don't want to ever cut spending which is why you have to raise the debt ceiling. that's real issue. president has no propo...

If republicans want to extract something out of the cr debate and the debt limit debate, why not go after getting more spending cuts out of obama? preferably from an economic point of view over the long run and not the next 12 months. that could get them something. >> quickly, on the economy, this battle back and forth as we push to another series of deadlines, this and the debt ceiling, what does that do for the economy overall? >> the economy is lumbering along and i think it continues to lumber along. while all of this is going on, syria with the deadlines coming up, the stock market is wel...

I've been there two years, many of us thought that he would behave like bill clinton, once he lost big in the first off election year, 2010 he'd come to the center. he didn't do that. so now you see our house-- i was just there yesterday. they are more focused than ever to engage in this fight. whether it's going to be during the debt limit debate that's going to come in two months or we have a cr debate and the government is funded through the march of this year. to fund the government the rest of the year, have another opportunity for a spending fight. you're ready to have people who will en...

points. that continues to fluctuate. coming up in a couple of minutes. i'll speak live with the man who ran the government's bank bailout a couple of years ago. by the way, he agrees with the downgrading of the u.s. credit rating. don't miss that conversation with him here. i do want to begin with this. the commander in chief of the u.s. armed forces is at dover air force base in delaware right now. president obama is attending the dignified transfer, right there, that's what the military calls the movement of war fatalities from the place they died back to american soil. those who...

Money, jon. jon: we mentioned that you're a member of the tea party caucus in the house. it has been suggested that tea party members are just simply being too inflexible when it comes to this budget. how do you answer that? >> you know, i just don't, i don't think it's inflexible at this point. i had some conversations with members that aren't viewed as tea party, and they believe that we have to raise the debt ceiling. i don't know that we have to raise the debt ceiling, but i believe this: we must not raise the debt ceiling until we get at some reasonable kind of compromise. it will take us...