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In. he's making threats to congress he'll take unilateral action at the same time he's reaching out to congress saying, help me, let's work together. let's achieve some common goals. >> he's got to thread that needle, wolf, and it won't be easy to do. he comes into a situation where as john was pointing out, he has a low approval rating, he has a public that's very pessimistic about what the rest of his term can achieve. the thing that he has going for him, wolf, is that he's more popular than the congress is right now. so if he says to people, look, i came to washington and i tried to change ...

Are. apparently congressional republicans aren't. is they a mistake? >> i'm not aware that congressional republicans aren't getting an update. perhaps they have chosen not to have an update. but what we need congressional republicans to do is to work with us, find -- let's achieve some common ground here. let's all agree that obama care, the affordable health care act is settled law, as problems arise, let's work together to iron those out. but to stop the gridlock and the polarization and the willingness to shut the government down in the name of stopping obama care and, you know, in just a c...

Personal relationship between president obama and many republicans on the hill, but it's not even close to that. there's sort of an outright animosity. president obama would say it's mostly one sided, it's mostly republicans aimed at him. what it speaks to is that we're talking about the budget conference and maybe getting something big done. the lack of relationship and the outright animosity, i think, really makes that very difficult to imagine. >> all right. dave, peter, and chris, thank you so much for your insights this afternoon. we appreciate it. house republican leaders are continuin...

The president is generally a night owl, staying up as late as 1 a.m., catching up on his day's work. we understand he is supposed to sign the bill, it will be physically brought over here to the white house, we haven't received notification that this is happening yet. but we're expecting it to happen tonight and for the government to be reopen tomorrow, the employees being put on notice, as well, piers late tonight that they're supposed to report to work tomorrow. >> now, you put a brilliant question that just caught him off guard, and he gave a fascinating answer, let's watch this. >> mr. pre...

Next osmond revival -- welcome to you, gentlemen, are you guys all best buddies again now then? is this all bipartisan joy tonight? >> we've got a lot of work we need to do together, and we have to work across the aisle to get it done, so yeah, let's work together. >> it is important for the country. >> put into context for me the politics of all of this going forward. did the republicans really, do you think feel that they have suffered a massive defeat here or is it a temporary setback? >> well, piers, i do believe it was a worthy objective, obama care has significant issues and problems. ...