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In motion. that was the theory. would it hold? >> do you actually see anything changing until we do hit some kind of government collapse? >> i hope not. >> january 31st, butts county, georgia. >> i believe in the constitution as our founding fathers meant it. >> reporter: that's congressman paul brown. president obama had republicans like him in mind when he proposed the sequester back in 2011. >> if we went back to the original intent of the constitution, we wouldn't have a debt ceiling problem. >> people need to remember what the sequester is -- how it came about. and that was over a fight o...

That was the theory. would it hold? >> -- actually see anything changing until we do hit the government collapsing? >> i hope not. >> january 31st, bucks county, georgia. >> i believe in the constitution as our founding fathers made it. >> that's congressman paul brown. president obama had republicans like him in mind when he proposed the sequester. back in 2011. >> if we went back to the original intent of the constitution we wouldn't have a debt ceiling problem. >> people need to remember what the sequester is, how it came about. and that was over a fight over the debt ceiling. >> a fight an...

11 of the partial shutdown. president obama and congressional republicans are starting to work together. >> now to the latest on the shutdown showdown. there appears to be movement to get the government back to work. >> like that shutdown showdown has a ring to it. how has the media done covering high stakes back and forth? ramesh, first to you. how have we done? >> as eleanor said earlier it's a complicated and fast moving story. i give reporters some slack on it. i do think that the atmospherics the media used about the shutdown have made it seem like more of a crisis atmosphere than it actu...

Money to necessarily pay our troops in full. we wouldn't have the money to pay our veterans the benefits in ful full. >> that is treasury secretary jack lew, arguably a pretty important guy right now. he is warning the senate finance committee that default is default. there is no other name for it. and that government computers aren't set up magically to pick and choose between which bills we should pay, which ones we shouldn't and how we should prioritize if that's the way we have to go in the event of a default. with all that in mind, house republicans are now set to come up with an offer of...

Aren't we just giving republicans a fig leaf to get out of the debt ceiling problem? and allowing them to keep their obama care argument on keeping the government running. so you know, the president is getting it from all sides, getting it from democrats. he's going to get it from conservative republicans, so that meeting should be interesting. both meetings interesting. >> i think i would be pulling my hair out if i was working and living and eating -- >> i am. >> thanks to both of you. let me get this in, this just in to us, the senate has unexpectedly approved legislation to restore death b...