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The president's comments. >> when republicans tried to add a discussion about obamacare to the funding process in 2013, we were accused by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer of inserting a non-fiscal, non-financial issue into the spending process in order to shut the government down. how is that not exactly what is happening today? there is no reason you have to deal with daca this week. no reason you have to deal with daca before the middle of february. daca doesn't expire until march 5th. this is purely an attempt by the senate democrats, led by mr. schumer, it's why we call it the schumer shutd...

That tells out of the generosity of people in time of need. >> that's a beautiful story indeed. hopefully those senior citizens are okay right now thanks to those students over at the university. some of your comments of a political question. i want to ask you because money is involved and billions of billions of dollars. some of your colleagues and congress, they're upset of the funding, for example. the funding process for fema and management agency which seems to be used at times of a bargaining trip in the after math of major disasters. here is what i want to know. are you satisfied with t...

Accountable is to do what we have done which is eliminating positions so that they're no longer on the books and cutting the budget actually going through the funding process, which is what we've done with the irs. say their budget's about $11 billion, we think begin to cut them and make them be held accountable for the spending. it gives them less for hiring people, it gives them less for retaining people. >> i only wish that i had any expectation that that would work. i'm going to take the last word on that. congresswoman, thank you very much for appearing. you're getting my wrath. thanks fo...

And he wants to tell his members that he is not part of that strategy. this is a senate strategy. they're doing things on their own. when the senate acts they'll decide what to do. it seems to me boehner is essentially going to let himself get jammed by the senate and say by friday they have no other choice but to pass a senate clean dhs bill. indications are that the senate would eventually approve a clean bill in the next couple days as long as republicans get a separate vote targeting the president's executive actions on immigration that's not tied to the funding process. >> cr is not part ...

Where we contactically be smarter in the long run and actually do everything that we can to push back on the president. it's wait. it's being strategic. but it's the smarter move. >> many conservatives are saying they are ending this year frustrated at their own party's leaders who they feel cut them out of the funding process. what do you say about this? if that's true, isn't that counterproductive, leaving them out? >> look, party leadership has to be very careful right now. and if members are feeling isolated and not included, that doesn't portend well for trying to bring people together. a...