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Don't get 100% of what they want. and so that's why it's such a dangerous situation for the country and with respect to governance right now. ma that's why i want to emphasize that it's important for the speaker to step up. i just introduced today the preventing government shutdown act that come december we're not left in the lurch once again. but as you know, this is a chaotic situation. you know, we just got word that a budget committee session that we had scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed till later in the day. they're going to have a caucus meeting to figure out what the next step ...

Literally, it's like are we going to give tax cuts to big oil and to these companies, or can we just make sure that our vets are taken care of and don't have to put in more money on their pensions? >> that's right, karen. if you look at the budget deal that was agreed upon last week, these conservative outside groups are angry. but they should be pretty happy about this. there are slight rollback in the sequester cut in 2014. then they all re-emerge in 2015. these are severe cuts to head start, a program that helps homeless children. these are severe cuts to medical research nih funding. there...

Indicating this is a problem, the strategy was a failure and we have to retake control of the house of representatives. now, i think democratic unity was very important throughout this entire process. the white house, leader pelosi, harry reid, members of the rank and file all did a tremendous job. and what we see now is an emerging civil war. i think there are three factions. you have to business faction, which largely includes moderate republicans, you have the tea party faction, which is responsible for the reckless shutdown, and now we're going to see the power of the defense faction, trad...

Dana bash was talking about the deal would fund the government until december and raise the debt ceiling is that one end of the bargaining table? >> republicans are going to ask in return for what? they're going to want to see a continuation of the sequester cut. they were looking for a concession that has anything to do with obama care. they'll look for a repeal of the medical device tax or reduction, something. and something to increase the debt ceiling for six to nine months. they insisted all along, and apart from the shutdown argument, that every time in a $17 trillion debt, you come back...

More fix. and in this case, obama isn't even saying, look, this is the last debt limit increase ever, he's, in fact, he's not saying that, he's just saying give me more now and then we'll talk next week about how much more you'll give me. you know, that just isn't that way to run a country. >> wasn't he like that in college? >> i am betting he was. >> does anybody remember the sequester? i remember the rhetoric of the sequester, it was the apocalypse. what happened? >> every kitten that was born since the sequester died. >> exactly. >> the sequester cut 1% to 2% of total federal spending over ...