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Break. there they were. we will talk to them in just a little bit. congress worked until after midnight last night. but it looks like we are headed for a government shut down. anna navarra, republican strategist. and robert zimmerman, democratic strategist. i want you both, and the audience at home, of course, to listen to a sampling of shows. they are already trading blame. >> i'm afraid, bob, we know what will happen. tomorrow the senate will come in session. the house position which is the same one they went us the last time, will be rejected again, and we will face the government shutting ...

Shift from what was the problem with the house, we go to the senate, democrats couldn't get it done there either. where do you see this in terms of the help for students, to me as i watch this process it seems like it's getting worse, not better. >> it's getting messy. sometimes when things seem messy and confusing we should fall back on old adages. if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. some of the democrats think a one or two-year fix and deal with this down the road. lot of republicans and democrats see that as a political stunt, they want to do something temporary, something driven...

The senate was going to pass most of what we were talking about. >> that is why he is actually an accomplished politician. that is how you get to be house speaker of this crazy mess. it is the only practical way that anything will happen. if you have to go to a focus group where cutting spe inting more important than creating jobs, you would rather do nothing than trying to go in with what is the official house position. >> what he is saying has always been the dynamics that exist between the two parties. if they believe that the senate could do nothing they wouldn't put the house through a vo...

Tax rates as they are. larry summers, the former economic adviser to president obama has said we need to keep taxes where they are. and now, luke, just yesterday, the senate democrats were having conversations among themselves about, you know, the fact they think perhaps we should extent the rates for at least one year. >> do you -- but you're for it to be put in forever. >> well, actually, we're not. the republican house position is we need to extend the tax rates as they are for one year, but also put instructions in that extension that in 2013, the ways -- >> are you saying -- are you sayin...

generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i'm quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." you're looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for pa...