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Product. that is now sitting in the senate. and we're waiting for the senate to act. they've had it for 38 days. >> are you concerned about the tea party coming after you? i know the chicago tea party wrote you a letter after the last continuing resolution temporary budget bill was passed. it said, sir. you face much more serious political retribution because like the elephant that represents the true conservatives of the grand old party, we never forget. >> look, i think there's a lot of tea party concern. there's concern about the nature watching washington.gton, d f they're saying stop the ...

A couple of sticking points. sticking point number one for democrats in the white house has to do with these writers that you've passed on one of your budget proposals in the house about defunding npr and planned parenthood. are you willing to take the writers off the table to get a deal done to fund the government for the rest of the year? sh that a nonstarter for house republicans? >> well, you mentioned that we're ten days away from april 8th, which is when the continuing resolution will expire. we're 38 days away from when the house acted and passed something over to the senate. we haven't...

Conversation beyond that, the senate has to move. and it's very clear to me that the white house that has to get involved. and president obama has to put together the same type of effort that he did last december. it doesn't seem like senator reid is table to move anything through the senate absent that. >> democrats have obviously, as we understand it from the reporting, offered some more in the way of budget cuts to try to get closer. >> meet in the middle. how much are republicans willing to come down to get a deal? >> so far we've seen nothing from the senate democrats. absolutely nothing ...

So what the point of passing more laws? let's move forward with federal uniform law and what needs to be done, federal government needs to act. >> eric: some say the federal government will have less credibility because they say the government isn't doing enough to try to stop illegal immigration? >> look, let's start with the concept of a proposal of securing the border. we haven't heard any proposals on the pro immigration on how to secure the border. let's assume the judge that the arizona law was valid. would have done anything more to secure the border? no. there is nothing. it doesn't st...

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