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Are so conservative or negative on the issue of immigration, too few hispanic people and too many people that care about hispanics they're never going to vote for that group of people, so you're never going to get to 218 in the house because republicans will never be interested in helping them? is that possible? we're talking about something that won't happen. >> i don't see a path in the house. >> we had a civil war over slavery. we only got civil rights in '64 because they had a liberal supreme court that said you can do it by statute and didn't have to change the constitution. is this one t...

Offers himself to serve in what is a very difficult position and often a short-term position. if you look over the last couple of decades, how many speakers have lasted as much as four or five years? not very many. >> a lot of people don't seem excited about doing the job. one of the main issues is a lot of folks talking about the return to regular order, the house is operating from continuing resolutions to funding governments, that sets up the issues with funding planned parenthood for people who object to that. how important is it to you to find a candidate you think can actually return the...

Fight in the halls of congress. before that, there was a series of aggressive maneuvers from both sides. it thooz do with whether confederate flags can be displayed and sold when the federal government is involved. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell explains. >> reporter: congress is battling over new restrictions to remove confederate battle flags from federal property like national parks. democrats say there is no room for debate. >> don't republicans understand that the confederate battle flag is an insult to 40 million african-americans? >> reporter: this fight started whe...

Against john bane and house republicans for -- they abandoned his state. i don't -- >> boehner will not hurt you with the tea party, though, right? >> raging against boehner and raging against the tea party. he has spoken out against the shutdown -- >> from the left, boehner from the left. >> i don't see how he ever -- on a national platform, walks that back. that is kind of who he is and how he's built his whole personality. >> well, first of all, most tea party people sort of look at new jersey as a version of hell. number one. i don't think the -- you get much guidance from new jersey or ne...

>> the big question at 5:00 in the morning, will they finish in time. we're just hours away from hitting this debt ceiling, and there's no deal yet despite a day of feverish discussions and now the attention is back on the senate leadership who are trying to reach a compromise. cnn's senior correspondent jim acosta has the very latest. >> reporter: time is running out, the debt ceiling is in sight and the last best hope avenue voiding a potential default once again rests with senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell. we're back to working on a last-minute deal. >> john boehner will likely...