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Speaking at 3:30. we'll bring you that live. what are key republicans say now, moving forward on this? >> they're continuing to fight the president's healthcare law, whether it is defunding are or delaying. bottom line they're worried that obamacare, as it is known, will hurt a lot of american families and they continue to fight the law. >> sounds like the democrats here in washington are obsessed with shutting down the government. i don't know anyone who wants to shut down the government. the only thing we want to shut down is obamacare. and that's because of the harm it's doing to the americ...

First and foremost, america's strength depends on a strong economy, where our middle class is growing and everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead. let me say a few words about the situation that has developed over the past few weeks on capitol hill. here at home, the united states congress had two pressing responsibilities. pass a budget on time. some pay our bills on time. if congress chooses not pass the budget, by monday, the end of the fiscal year, they will shut down the government along with many vital services that the american people depend on. the good news is, within the pa...

Public does with obamacare and then see how much members of congress like that. and so they are waiting to figure out -- they want to meet with their members tomorrow around lunchtime here, the house members, and once the house leadership has the meeting with the rank-and-file, they'll go forward with the plan, and the clock is running. there's not a whole lot of time before we run up against october 1st. >> trace: it's a double deadline. but a lot of people think that this budget deal, shutting down the government, is really like the drop-dead. it's catastrophic. critics say it's not. the big...

Stand by. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. what do you believe the process will be. the president is eight minutes late. what do we expect to happen with this bill starting right now? >> trace, i've had candid conversations with a number of memberses throughout the course of the day, and they say, look, this is a funding bill that harry reid cut back even further. so now you're talking about funding the government from october 1st through mid-november. six weeks or so, so they say considering a short-term funding bill, they're expectations should be somewhat modest and they think the debt ceil...

So, you could see some effort to delay obama care for a year. you could see some effort to, frankly, strip out some of the weavers and exemptions for lawmakes, congressional staff, administration officials, as an effort to kind of ping back to the senate and say how are you going to vote on this? of course the backdrop here, as you mentioned, is the shutup, which is tuesday. >> trace: it's tuesday, and then if that for some reason passes and the government stays open, then you have the debt ceiling, which is even a bigger problem. when you go fur, what is considered a victory for the republica...