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In the world. i should have been there. but i can tell you, because i had to apologize to some of the host countries, that they understood that the most important thing i can do for them and the most important think i can do for the bilateral reputation is to make sure we re-open the government and don't default. i don't think it's lasting damage. like i said, if we deal with this the way we should, then folks around the world will attribute this to the usual messy process of american democracy but it doesn't do lasting damage. in the short term, i would characterize it as missed opportunities...

Thing. john boehner has said that would be a bad thing. i think what we're looking at, wolf, is a way -- these parties all need to find a way to figure out how to talk to each other without talking to each other. they have to come up with a new definition for the word negotiate or they have to have other people do the negotiations for them because they are so dug in. the speak eer is so dug in. president is so dug in. there is no wiggle room here. the president said he's willing to negotiate with republicans but only after you remove the threat of the government shutdown and default. that's hi...

Was appropriate. so let's lift these threats from our families and our businesses and let's get down to work. it's not like this is a new position that i'm taking here. i had speaker boehner and the other leaders in just last week. either my chief of staff or i have had serious conversations on the budget with republicans more than 20 times since march. so we've been talking all kinds of business. what we haven't been able to get are serious positions from the republicans that would allow us to actually resolve some core differences. and they have decided to run out the clock until there's a g...

The gdp and revenues are about 18% to 19% perform gdp. it's unsustainable. we have to bring that under control. so i'm hoping the president says, look, you guys gave me a two month warning. we have until august. thanks for getting that vote out of the way. i got the message. signal has been sent. >> all right, congressman, we'll give you the final word. >> well, you know, my view is this. negotiate, if our leadership can get to an agreement on a long term deficit deal, great. but don't default. and it's typical in politics to try to use whatever leverage you can get but what we're doing now is...

Or 16 is the date that we'll nate limit. how are the sides positioning themselves right now. >> reporter: oh, boy, the fact of the matter is this did look like, really, kiddie stuff with what we saw last week and it really tied the city in knots and capitol knots compared to what we will see. you are right may 15th, the 16th is the date that the u.s. treasury secretary said that the u.s. will hit its limits. eliot, you know this, always a very tough fight for politicians -- vote, i should say, for politicians to take to say, you know, what we're up against our debt limit and we want to raise i...