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>> the president reiterated one more time tonight that he will not negotiate. we've got divided government. democrats control the white house and the senate, republicans control the house. we sent four different proposals over to our democratic colleagues in the senate. they rejected all of them. >> i thought that they were concerned about the long-term fiscal affairs of this country. and we said we are, too. let's talk about it. my friend, john boehner, i repeat cannot take yes for an answer. >> okay then. a gop congressional source told our own dana bash that the meeting only involved the pr...

Premise. he's actually given up 100% of the position to the republicans. the c.r. is a republican document. the republicans wanted 988 billion. he said we will give you 100% of what you want on the budget. where do you negotiate after giving people 100% of what they want? >> tom tom tom. >> emily, please educate tom. >> former congressman, first of all the number we're talking about in the c.r. spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this was agreed upon. because i think on all of our sides we agree that $17 trillion is just a little bit high, the debt to have, that we need to start bringing i...

Force base that are signature home. they have a few problems of their own. >> i have right here -- this was tweeted by eric cantor. this is a statement from the president's office. it's the threat to veto. the honoring our promise to america's veterans act. the research for life-saving cures act. >> those are really cool names you guys made up for this stuff. >> no, it's terrible optics. this is your party. how do you defend this? >> do you think the optics are hurting the democrats right now on the government shutdown? >> i think this is terrible optics. >> i don't think anyone takes this ser...

Issue. >> don't you think it's a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obama's idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? they love saying -- >> it was agreed upon to be something both sides disli...

That we are going to take the ted cruz strategy and we are not going to fund the government until we get rid of obama care. >> why do you think boehner did that? his original inclination, back last spring, was we're not going to do that. >> he said in march exactly the votes aren't there. it doesn't make sense. we'll keep voting against obama care but we're not going to shut down the government. >> so why the change of mind? >> because we had the majority of republicans who had went home and gave some indication to their constituent that is there was some magical way to get rid of obama care b...