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Considering is a two-month continuing resolution so you fold it in with the debt limit. they want to use that as a massive leverage point. you talk to the white house and talk to democratic leaders, there's not a chance they're giving anything up. they regret doing it in 2011 and at the end of the day this is congress problem, speaker boehner knows he cannot default and he's not going to let it happen. >> i feel like john boehner is like my parents when i was 4 and let's play the quiet game. finally i wised up but they definitely bought at least a couple of hours. >> if i could just say speake...

It expireses on the 30th. they will use that as a leverage point to extract demands from the white house. as much as they can keep the president talking to the american people, they see it as a benefit. >> you're working on a new article about obama care, all the in fighting. and that's leading to talk about a possible government shutdown. what are you hearing? >> that's right. tea party senators in particular have sent a letter to harry reid claiming they will not support any government funding bill that includes money for obama care. but the truth is a lot of establishment players like john ...

Talking about when it comes to north korea? >> reporter: well, wolf, they have the leverage, but in many ways don't want to lose it. that leverage includes cutting off fuel to north korea, food supplies, even conventional military ties, but china doesn't want to see a collapse of this regime, so i'm likely they are going to really take it to that step, that unprecedented rhetoric from china really hinting at the fact that china's frustrated, had enough of kim jong-un and his leadership. pushing the rhetoric to the breaking point. now, one thing that is also a factor, wolf, is this young leader...

That leverage includes cutting off fuel to north korea, food supplies, even conventional military ties, but china doesn't want to see a collapse of this regime, so i'm likely they are going to really take it to that step, that unprecedented rhetoric from china really hinting at the fact that china's frustrated, had enough of kim jong-un and his leadership. pushing the rhetoric to the breaking point. now, one thing that is also a factor, wolf, is this young leader doesn't have the relationship with china's leaders. in the past, kim il-song, kim jong il were able to talk man-to-man with china's ...

Possible, we stress possible conflict. there continues to be tough talk from the south korean government, and among the older generation, people who truly remember the 1950 to 1953 korean conflict, a bloody conflict that also claimed many american lives. there is concern about that possibility. but overwhelmingly, there is numbness in this city. they have seen these missile launches before. so for the place with the biggest target on it, it is praying this will also, if there is a missile launch, only be a test. now, for the view from china, my colleague, david mckenzie? david? >> that's right...