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Urgent deadlines coming. there's the debt. the debt limit is rapidly approaching, the defense bill. walk us through that. the agenda, sure, but aren't there other things that have to take priority? where are we and when? >> we're eight days from a debt limit default, and that's pretty stunning. what congress is trying to do is temporarily change the rules to allow them to lift it. it's a very difficult task for senate majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell, but we're eight days away from that. it's traditionally passed by the end of the calendar year. but schumer's d...

As president of the united states to get his nominee considered for almost a year. we want to see who president trump nominates. if he nominates a mainstream jurorists similar to what president obama did in going mainstream, that's one set of circumstances, but if he tries to go in a narrow philosophical direction, i think you're going to see many of us do everything we can to make sure that nominee doesn't end up on the supreme court. >> let's work through the checklist. debt limit default, probably a debt limit, we hit the ceiling in the middle of march. would you call on democrats to rule o...

Hopefully we get the states to continue to implement and expand medicaid. this is a positive issue a year from now. >> i think the shutdown was a wake-up moment for republicans. i hope that it taught some lessons to my party. i hope it will affect how we -- what we do in 2014 and how we campaign in 2014. >> there are a lot of republicans talking about threatening a default on the debt ceiling. and i think that's going to be a very big question whether boehner and leadership can push against this. when you have paul ryan saying vote for this budget because we'll threaten a whole host of activit...