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Administration is trying to follow his lead. he sent out this message on saturday, and now they're trying to sort of get behind what he said. no one knew what he was talking about. >> the fact that he had just learned. >> just learned. >> so as we see is his aides say, well, maybe he was referring to press reports back in the fall. that is not what the president said. he said he had just learned as a fact that he had been wiretapped. >> a lot of reasons why that doesn't make a lot of sense because one of which is that if there is an investigation, and we know that there is an fbi investigation...

>> the people that elected ted cruz are very happy. >> i work for the people of texas and i fight for them. >> the most fundamental thing this fight was about. >> this fight. >> this fight. >> what they like is to fight. >> we're in the midst of battles. >> they don't seem to have a goal. >> the fight took us off message. >> the fiasco has been obscure. >> he operates on the basis of division. >> we elevated the national debate. we accomplished a great deal and we need to reflect on that. >> ted cruz is not backing down. >> the shut down should be in our rear view mirror. >> there will not be ...

For a period of time, and that's kind of like saying we're going to raise the legal limit for blood alcohol, thinking we're going to control drunk driving. we're drunk up there in terms of spending money. and we can keep commitments, but we can't keep commitments if we continue to spend money on things that we shouldn't be spending money on. >> senator coburn, quick follow-up. how much of a reckoning for the republican party has been experienced this week because of going up against the debt default limit and the shutdown? >> well, i think the fight on obama care, the affordable care act, took...

The soul of the republican party? >> this does cause a rift in the party. >> i don't see it so much as a real rift. there are times when there's a new wave, if you will. >> the affordable care act took us off message. >> you have senator lindsay graham this weekend calling the shutdown. >> the political gift of the president by the republican party at a time needed most. >> thank you. >> jeb bush said republicans should have shown -- >> a little self-restraint, and let this happen a little more organically. >> mitch mcconnell said i think we have fully acquainted our new members with what a lo...

she answers critics who say the announcement wreaks of politics. plus, details of a very rare breach of white house protocol during the president's announcement. we now know who the reporter is who interrupted and visibly irked the president of the united states. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." less than five months before election day a dramatic and controversial change in immigration policy by the obama administration. it announced today it will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who were brought to the united states as children if they meet certain require...