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Representatives who are trying to force president obama into compromises did not get their way. Speaker boehner had to lead those republicans to this vote thats taking place right now. Joining me now, howard dean, former dnc chairman. Sam stein, Huffington Post political reporter, and we will soon, i believe, have like russert. We dont have him yet. Sam stein, this came at a at the end of a day that now seems inevitable. There was no one, absolutely no one saw a way for republicans to win in this fight when they started it. Yeah, i mean whats remarkable is that after two weeks, 2 and a half we...

Of them by a mile voted no on that. Most republicans in the house wanted to blow past the debt ceiling and keep the shutdown going. They wanted that by almost two to one. What this means is that House Speaker john boehner passed the bill without the support of his own members. But thanks to all of the democrats and minority of his caucus who did support him in this vote we brought about the end to this self imposed National Crisis tonight. President obama is expected to sign the bill right away as in basically now. After that the federal government will begin the work of reopening itself after...

National debt by the skin of our teeth. Starting right now, midnight, the source the moment that the u. S. Treasury said we would begin the risk of defaulting on National Debt if congress did not raise the debt ceiling. With 90 minutes to spare, the house finally did vote to avoid that catastrophe, voted to raise that on end the shut down. The bill had passed the Senate Earlier by a vote of 8118. The 18 no votes were all republican no votes. All of the Senate Republicans voted in favor of ending the crisis. That is not true in the house. Democrats voted yes as a bloc, unanimous on the idea tha...

Constitutional perfection . Despite a clear provision in the law he cant do that . This president faced a Service Member in peril in activity and exercised a constitutional duty and authority to recover that Service Member. In circumstances in which it was the judgment of the policy, the leading policy makers of this country, that the circumstances were not going to permit the 30day notification. Thats a very concrete response to what was a very compelling situation. I understand that youre saying that under these particular circumstances. Youre not saying that its a blanket thing. But you thi...

Can change. Its a packed sunday, im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis are nbcs joe scarboroughboro, Malika Henderson of the washington post, andrea michelle, andrew liter, buzzfeeds john stanton and amy walter of the political report. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. And good morning. Obviously its a pretty big honor for me to be sitting in this chair as the 12th moderator of this program following in the footsteps of the likes of tim russert and, of course, david gregory. As you can see, were making a fe...