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Fund the government in order to make sure that the sequester levels, the new forced spending cut levels that kick in, new spending cuts that kick in in january aren't locked in. unclear if that is still part of the discussion, the crux of the discussion or if they've move on to other issues. the big issue is the debt ceiling and length of raising the debt ceiling and what price if any democrats are willing to pay on that. one last thing, i was told just before coming down to the hallway here to take out this meeting that the whole concept of medical devices, the tax on medical devices which re...

Corker about that last hour. >> this is the first time since 1955 and '6 that we've had two years in a row of reduced spending, and, obviously, they don't like that, so they took what they thought was, they thought they were in a better place than us and tried to take advantage of that. hopefully, that move has been brought back to the middle, and if so, maybe we can move ahead today with an agreement. but they certainly were overreaching. martha: we will see. brit hume joins me now, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, martha. martha: you know, i remember just a couple of days ago ...

Or not the new sequester levels should be extended, which are ready to kick in. as you know there are democrats and people in the white house not happy about the sequester level. also the timing. is there some way to cut this in half and figure out how long a debt ceiling extension makes sense so we're not facing this again in a couple of weeks? >> i do think there will be an agreement. andrea, lets be clear. where republicans no question in the house overreach to try to defund the bill, it's an overreach. you know that. i know that. it's an overreach to undo a budget put in place in 2011. whi...

House? >> reporter: well, that's the million dollar question, craig. i have to say in light of what the leaders said on the senate floor it has to be very encouraging for the global financial markets ifener closer to a deal. we don't know what a deal is going to look like. we know it's going to be an extension of the debt limit. democrats want a long debt limit extension and short government funding. republicans want the inverse, they like the sequester levels and shorter extension of debt limit. presumably reid and mcconnell will figure out some sort of agreement there and perhaps with that o...

>> it's worth pointing out, the thing we are fighting to reopen the government to do is to fund at sequester levels, right? the thing that was supposed to be so awful that no one would go for it is our new baseline. jowani, this morning, apparently, there was a bit of an attempt to retake the world war ii memorial by veterans. so senator cruz showed up. and i want to listen to senator cruz's understanding of the shutdown and then have you respond to it. >> two weeks ago, the house of representatives passed legislation to open every memorial in every federal park in this country. two weeks ago,...