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John boehner's dilemma. he was around for the 1995 shutdown, and he knows personally how much it hurt the new republican majority in the house. but he's got a new caucus. 87 new members. 34 of whom have never even held elected office before. tea party, no tea party, they're just new and they came to congress promising to do business differently. promising to start cutting the budget, cutting the deficit. and this is kind of the first big vote they have. lots of republicans i talked to say you want to make your point, make it on lifting -- raising the debt ceiling or make it in this next big bu...

For republicans. it was very bad. democrats, though, they are worried about it, because they are not sure that things aren't different now and perhaps they could get the blame, as well. >> let's show what president obama said about 15 minutes or so ago. let's watch. >> i remain confident that if we're serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown. but it's going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved. it means that people have to recognize that a government shutdown has real consequences. >> we did ...

Say when you look at all the polling, republicans are less concerned about a shutdown than democrats are. democrats want a compromise. republican voters say it wouldn't be so bad if we made our point and shut the government down. >> some tea party rallies, you had some folks on the ground saying "shut it down." >> they were outside the capitol just today with signs saying shut it down and some republican members of congress egging them on. but everybody who has spoken is right, there seems to be less of a desire, even among the most ardent supporters of doing whatever you need to do to stick t...

Gloria borger, and correspondent dana bash is with us, as well. david, what do you make of the president's statement, saying it would be inexcusable if they were not able to come up with a deal and avoid a shutdown. >> well, we didn't get the breakthrough we were hoping for, anderson, that's clear. and i continue to think we're likely to get it here in the next day or two, they're very close. what's so unusual about this, the president is keeping some heat on through the bully pulpit, but ordinarily in these kinds of negotiations, the white house is in the room helping to drive the negotiation...

Warped here. what i was trying to say is the image of those two men together really speaks volumes, it really does. the fact that they both came out and said that they're working together instead of what we saw, you know, all day today, which is each of them launching public grenades across the capital rotunda at one another. >> david, this goes on, this crisis is averted, say the shutdown doesn't occur. but there are real philosophical differences and you also have differences within the republican party. you have the this new blood in the republican party, tea party groups, who have come, wh...