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Very, very fledgling, we're going to back again in january with friday the 13th part four, and we may begin to activate that. >> what do you think happens with what we're hearing january 15th, if this all passes, if this gets resolved this week, january would be the new deadline, february 7th would be the next debt ceiling default. do you think democrats have succeeded here at all changing the norms of the system so that republicans won't do this again, or do you think we will go through the brinkmanship again and do you think that boehner having gone through what he's going through right now ...

This is not the last time we're going to bat, you know, these are short-term fixes. the government, the budget until january, the debt ceiling until february. so it requires further negotiation. or, wolf, he can say to the white house and to the senate, look, this is my last and best offer. you'll either take it or not. i think the white house, the senate would be smart to meet john boehner halfway. and then let's buy the time, let's avoid the debt ceiling default. and let's have more negotiation. but if john boehner is asking for two years of the medical device tax for the love of god, give h...

Averted. that situation, we could replay that this october. >> thanks for the history lesson, i can think of a couple better ways to spend new year's, but that's your way. that's cool. let's turn to washington editor for the national review, writing about the divide within the republican party when it comes to the debt ceiling in particular, though we know it doesn't end there. frightening quote for me, out of the official chinese news agency saying it is perhaps a good time for the befudled world to start considering building a deamericanized world such alarming days when the destiny of other...

That are saying things like a default would be stabilizing for the economy or this isn't such a big deal. they don't understand the urgency of what default would mean. >> but with regard to accepting the short-term deal, and i understand what you're saying there, but are the democrats at all letting the perfect get in the way of good enough? >> no, i think, you know, most democrats have two priorities. opening government right away. the american people deserve a functioning and open government. and secondly, doing everything we can to extend the debt limit so the united states does not default...

Said sequestration was going to lead to ruin. it didn't. they said shutdown would destroy the country and it didn't and now they are saying a debt ceiling default would be the same thing. why should i believe them? that's a profoundly erroneously way of thinking. this kind of coverage fuels it. >> joe concha, as our media watcher, i want you to weigh in but i want you to let me know how you think the media has done on this other story which is the debt ceiling. >> if you want to talk about coverage as a whole it goes from government shutdown to debt ceiling. look at the president's press confe...