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Democrats to come and now mr. boehner has to bring his republicans to the table. if you need democratic votes, fine, but take sweeteners off the table. >> you brought up the subject matter. i get that jobs and the economy are a very big deal, but does foreign policy come into play, if you're advising a republican candidate, how big a deal is it for them to also take the president on when it comes to foreign policy? >> as we said in the book, 2009 saw more terrorist attempts on us and on american interests than ever before. if you have a terrorist attack, god forbid, that's successful, it could...

Shutdown. where do things stand with john bainer? >> well, contessa, in two weeks from today, march 4th, the continuing resolution, ie the government funding level that the nation's government currently operates under, is set to expire. why is that? well, last year for the first time in the modern era house democrats were not able to pass a budget so the nation is currently operating a continuing resolution. that ends on march 4th. what we've seen on the floor in the house for the past week is john boehner and the house republicans want to cut over $61 billion in non-security discretionary spe...

To prevent a shutdown of government, and now he's resorting to threats to do just that without any negotiations. that is not permissible. we will not stand for that. he's wrong. >> reporter: and there you see harry reid saying that there will probably could have some sort of shutdown. why? because john boehner has drawn the line in the sand, contessa, saying he won't approve a temporary solution that goes beyond march 4 of what the nation is currently operating under in budget levels unless there's a real cut in spending. an interesting debate between reid and boehner going forward. they are o...

We will press john bainer on the new promises his party is making to voters st. a cnn exclusive. i'm wolf blitzer. you are "the situation room." the iranian president hold trying to form, unleashing fiery attacks at the he united states and radical allegation. mahmoud ahmadinejad took his turn at the podium over it united nations general assembly just a little while ago. he cited allegations that the united states had some involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks, prompting delegates at the and several other western nations to simply walk out. u.s. officials are calling ahmadinejad's remarks...

Haven't even put forward a series of ideas of what they're going to do to solve the nation's problems? >> look at what happened in this campaign. republicans went from 20%, nobody wanted them in 2008. by doing nothing, they're going to gain 40 seats maybe. why you would change a winning strategy? peter is exactly right. 1966 when i went with nixon first, we just went after lbj and the democrats. you make the case against them. but to lay out specific budget cuts for an example, the democrats will pile all over them. if you've got waning strategy, don't change it. >> the only problem with this ...