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To. don't talk about his life line. talk about mine. >> reporter: even as the parties battle for the upper hand in the shutdown blame game, behind the scenes they're bracing for the next fight. in less than two week, october 17th. congress must raise the debt limit or face default. >> i don't believe we should default on our debt. it is not good for our country. >> reporter: cnn is told, privately boehner told colleagues he is willing to trays debt ceiling with democrats' help. but boehner also told his rank and file friday, the president must negotiate. give in on something to chip away at th...

>> well, my view is that they -- going to have to play out their hand now. you know. i was shut down in minnesota. lived and experienced this. there is a little bit of -- week or would from now you may some people, not all of them, say it was not as bad as i thought. >> you as the chief executive came through fine on that. this president might come through fine. >> i think it is all going to merge into the debt ceiling issue and that's two weeks away. that issue has to be solved. they will solve it. their backs will be against wall and clock will have run out. >> governor, thank you. it is alw...

Want one big package. >> i think you are right. that they are planning for the next battle. the debt ceiling one. you know, you and i were -- we talked through the last debt crisis. this can create a crisis. do you think the only way -- maybe that's what the president was saying. the only way that -- these guys -- either party moves is that if the market tumbles. >> that would be one factor. what the president may be saying is, look, the markets perhaps should pay closer to attention to this. this is not 20 years ago. this not reagan and o'neal. this is a situation where politics changed and s...

House. >> we're trying to protect the lives and health care of these wonderful veterans who did for us. >> a spokesman for the national park service says they did not want to shut down the monument but were instructed as a federal agency to close the grounds. with all of washington not getting the government up and running, jack lew chiming in as to how all of this could impact the looming debt ceiling issue. yesterday lew sent a letter to skron boehner warning about the nation's borrowing cap. he wrote in part, as of today, treasury has begun using the final extraordinary measures. there ar...

Continue to twist and turn themselves into north, negotiating with themselves whether or not to have the shutdown. as long as the shutdown goes forward, to a large degree the president is spoonsable for the execution of that shutdown, his judgment and his administrations judgment as it relates to that become as bigger and bigger deal. for republicans it's a dangerous game but one they do have some chips to play. martha: they have to decide if they hold out until october 17th and loop this with the debt ceiling issue and can they? looks like some republicans are starting to get nervous how this...