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Blackmailed to vote for an aploep rations bill. this is a ransom. this is blackmail. you don't get a bill unless wall street gets its taxpayer cough rang. >> the president himself started making phone calls to try to persuade lawmakers to vote for the bill. then, just hours ago, democrats held a caucus meeting. they've been joined by white house chief of staff. with time running out to o vert the shutdown, congress has to pass a short term continuing resolution tonight to give lawmakers more time to pass the comnibus or pass a different bill. otherwise, at mid night tonight, the government wil...

>> it just seems like if he really needed to, he could marshal the votes himself, right? >> it's very difficult for speaker boehner. he's trying to any sense. and he's trying to go to the appropriations committee saying i'm still with you. but there's just not a lot of conservative am hit to put in an appropriations bilge forward. so boehner keeps losing votes 20 try to get this past. he's in a difficult spot. >> so thaetlet's say there's a term continuing lever e resolution. if we kick it back,with e're going to have less loef rang. is the thinking of the repub p republicans on the same line?