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Permission to borrow the money necessary to pay all of its bills. if it does not happen, experts say it would mean economic catastrophe. now the leaders are trying to work out their own deal to try and force the house's hand. >> i think there's a view in the senate that we have to take over, that the house will get nothing done, but hopefully, if we can pass something with a broad bipartisan majority that the house will then act. >> we offered 13 compromises this week to open the government. the democrats have rejected each one of them. to me there is a big picture problem. we have the 17 tril...

Automatic cuts next year would kick in. and so the republicans have to be giving up the hammer in which had they pass and would they pass right now a year-long c.r., they would be the ones in control of the cuts and obama would have to be the ones who undoes them, and they are giving away the hammer, and with with the debt creeling that is the trump card, obama cannot allow it, they are extending all of the way to february, which if you make it short, you will force the president into negotiating. >> and now, listen to senator rand paul talking about the big picture here. >> to me, there is a ...

Debt ceiling before the deadline next week. ran paul met with a president on the senate floor with a group of republicans. do you have a bottom low below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff. i think compromises is in the eyes of the beholder. we offered 13 compromises this week to open the government. the democrats rejected each one of them. to me, there is a big picture problem. we have the debt. we're borrowing more than a million dollars every minute. we do have to address that. i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is rea...

Out of negotiations with the president saturday leaving their members in the senate to try and cut a deal that will reopen the 2k3w0 government and resolve the debt ceiling before the deadline next week. joining me now is republican senator rand paul who met with the president on friday along with a group of republicans. senator, thank you for being here. do you have a bottom line below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff? >> well, you know, i think compromise is in the eyes of the beholder. i'm willing to compromise. we've offered 13 compromises this week...

Rolled out, 1.2 trillion over ten years, it would barely move the needle on our gross domestic ratio. so what we are following blindly and stupidly won't have an impact in solving the problem that is there. >> let me ask you a big picture problem. a question really quickly. the violence against women act, something that actually passed congress yesterday, it was the third piece of legislation that passed without a republican majority. what does that say to you? >> well, it says to me that john boehner is doing the right thing. my view is that when there is an important issue for america, like ...