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Going with 988 as a limit, but that's the sequester levels. and i'll tell you, there are many, many democrats who are not okay with that. at the end of the day, chris, what has to happen, in order for us to avoid government shutdown, is set aside the ideological battle over obama care, and focus on making sure that we can come together, as a congress, not as hyperpartisan tea party -- >> let's balance the scales. house democratic caucus says you won't vote for anything unless they get rid of the sequester. everybody threaten a shutdown and let's make it happen. debbie wasserman schultz, thank ...

The government down, and just going with 988 as a limit, but that's the sequester levels. and i'll tell you, there are many, many democrats who are not okay with that. at the end of the day, chris, what has to happen, in order for us to avoid government shutdown, is set aside the ideological battle over obama care, and focus on making sure that we can come together, as a congress, not as hyperpartisan tea party -- >> let's balance the scales. house democratic caucus says you won't vote for anything unless they get rid of the sequester. everybody threaten a shutdown and let's make it happen. de...

And defund effort is a trojan horse in some respects. whuflt it is allowi what it is allowing. put it over here. we are getting continuing resolutions which will make sequester levels. we will end up with $988 billion bill reduced to $967 billion. basically everyone across the board says that's unacceptable. you can't govern at this discretionary spending including house republicans. that's what we are going to get while our attention is focused on this kabuke theater. >> let's listen to ted cruise's nonanswer to sean hannity's question how he was going to convince harry reid to defund obama c...

Or reject that advice from karl rove? >> as an end strategy, karl may have some very good points but where we're at right now is we've had these conservatives in the senate who have been throwing bombs at peter king and i in the house asking for a defunding of obama care funding package. so what we're doing now is giving them the fight. wolf, if the senate sends us a package back that full chy fund obama care because senate conservatives have failed in their mission to hold the senate, then we will have a conversation about how we move forward. i'm not one -- >> how will you vote if that happe...

That's exactly the opposite of what we need right now. we get the story that they like the private sector. that's wonderful. i like the private sector too. but no one in the private sector invests because politicians like them. they invest, hire people. see the demand. they're not seeing it. and a big part of the story right now is the cutbacks of federal, state, local level. they're putting in further cult backs, and would have the effect of cutting things like national institutes of health. cancer research. other things. direct provision of services. also slowing the economy. throwing people...