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Let them vote to keep the government open or not. and they can determine where they stand and defend that vote to their constituents. and let them vote on whether or not america should pay its bills or not. and if, in fact, some of these folks really believe that it's not that big of a deal, they can vote no. that'll be useful information for voters to have. if it fails and we do default, i think voters should know exactly who voted not to pay our bills. so that they can being responsible for the consequences that come with it. harry schapiro. >> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned the sup...

do over the last several days is hold small, hastily arranged events at the last minute. yesterday he went to fema. today's holding this news conference. on friday, he went out for a sandwich. every day he's made the point of saying basically the same thing, that he's not going to negotiate with house speaker john boehner on a continuing resolution to reopen the government or on a debt ceiling increase until they basically, in the house of representatives, agree to do it in a clean fashion. these things have to be done without partisan strings attached. you mentioned, wolf, that the ...

0 say they would be willing to join all 200 house democrats in favor of such legislation. if you do the math, that would make 218 yes votes for this clean cr, or continuing resolution. you need 217 given the two vacancies in the house right now. that would be a bare majority. but that kind of rovote is not likely to come up unless the speaker would allow it to come up. they don't have enough votes to go around. let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. he's standing by at the white house in the briefing room. it was pretty hastily organized, today's news conference. only ...