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Senators on ballot. a lot of those internal machinations are what's driving this. i think it's going to be another day at least until we know what they're going to work out. >> yeah, yeah. hey, perry, looking at one of your recent articles, "three groups that define the government shutdown," can you break that down? >> obviously the democrats are -- president obama, the senate democrats have a strong view. they want to not only -- they want to keep obama care as it is. they want to open the government. and they want to make sure the republicans don't continue to have this debt ceiling vat ji o...

>> perry, here's what senator reid said about meeting with senator mcconnell. here's that. >> obama care is no longer their number one issue. their number one issue is to do anything they can to divert attention from the fools they made of themselves on obama care. so we're taking nothing off the table. >> so if obama care is no longer the number one issue, what do republicans want? >> my sense is the republicans don't really know what they want. what they want more than anything else is they don't want to feel like they've completely lost this. you heard a member of congress say a couple week...

I think it's been very difficult to work with him. >> so if this is what we're hearing from these lawmakers today, does that sound like a deal is going to be reached before thursday? >> well, no offense to either of those republicans, but they are not really the deal makers here. harry reid is a very key player here. it is important to point out, you know, everything perry said is completely right. people don't want to lose this battle. the republicans have already gotten something out of it. the argument about how much you're spending to fund the government, it is a sequester-level spending a...

Talk yesterday about republican senator susan collins' plan. she offered one to reopen the government with a spending bill for six month, also to lift the debt ceiling through january. senate democratic leaders rejected that. what happened there? >> one thing is that senate democrats are weary that the president is going to cut a deal with republicans to, as perry says, avoid default on thursday. that's not going to be something they like. so they just didn't have the votes there. it's kind of rare to see a vote like that where they put it forward on the floor when they're not confident there'...

Health care program from the government already f. it's called medicare. you know in our politics right now, young people, minorities, tend to be democrats. republicans tend to be older voters. that explains why the republicans in part are so comfortable opposing this program. their base is not that excited about it. many in their base won't benefit from it while a lot of democrat voters will in particular. >> you know, congresswoman, as perry was just talking, wisconsin as you mentioned is also one of the states. what is it? an estimated 90,000 wiscons wisconsinites who will lose benefits of ...