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Government and. mike lee is one of few of the non-presidential candidates who is actually speaking today. the values voters summit is bringing them together from all over the country and, what we have coming up is speeches from none other than that ted cruz, the texas senator, who spoke for 21 hours on the senate floor and sort of a filibuster of sorts against the affordable care act. rand paul of kentucky. he will be speaking later this morning. he was among the first to start blasting the president and democrats for their refusal to negotiate, something has given republicans some renewed lev...

Itself marks a fundamental shift between the people and the government. what did you mean by that? >> yes. well, because the most important thing that you have is your health care, and if that is under the control of the government, then it fundamentally gives them a great deal of power over you. the people are supposed to be at the pinnacle, and the system that we have, and now we're willingly placing the government in charge. and, you know, vladimir eleven insaid that -- lenin said that socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the social state. what he meant by that is if you're at...

Problems with the implementation and it's been such a disaster, they thought they might be able to do that, so now they have to come to terms with getting less on obamacare. because of the gambit to defund it, they're not going to be able to delay it, so republicans have to wrap their heads around they're going to get less out of the deal on obamacare when they finally reopen the government. what exactly that's going to be, how long does it take to come up with what the ask is on obamacare, i think, i think it'll take into next week. martha: yeah. it's tricky because, you know, when you don't ...

This has been handled by the white house? >> i think it's been terribly handled by the white house, but let's have a little straight talk, martha. they wouldn't have had the opportunity to handle it that way if we had not shut down the government on a fool's errand that we were not going to accomplish. the whole premise of shutting down the government was a repeal of obamacare. i fought against obamacare harder than any of the people who wanted to shut could down te government. i campaigned all over this country in 2012 saying elect mitt romney, and we'll repeal and replace obamacare. we weren...

Repeal and replace obamacare. so we're in serious situation right here, and we'd better wake up, and we'd better try to come to an agreement, salvaging something out of this but get the government going again and get our grand canyon open again where we're having to fly food up to people who are employees of the concessionaries up there. martha: what would you ask for, senator? what would you want in return? >> i would want to fix the medical devices bill. on the debt limit -- martha: do you think the president will vote for that? >> i don't know, but we ought to ask for it rather than saying ...