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Republicans today to address automatic spending cuts and make a deal to avoid a government shutdown in just a few weeks, but can the president fight his lame-duck status to get another win in a republican-controlled congress? correspondent kevin koerk has the story. >> is it likely? president obama today tooled a group of cold cos that the american economy would suffer greatly in lawmakers shut down the government. the white house and capitol hill at odds once again, this time over sequestration spending levels and planned parenthood funding. planned parenthood service almost a half billion a ...

Conservative. could the country survive them? now sequestration spending levels and government size levels, those are the norm. those are what president obama is essentially begging for. and he said he's willing to accept as the normal now. so speaking boehner and the right have actually orchestrated this situation where they have used the threat of a government shutdown and a debt default to normalize spending levels that were previously very recently considered way too radical for the country. >> so maybe the bar is shifting, as you limit -- david, let me stay with you. let's say, and again,...

Offering obama a haf loaf, as it were, i'll give you the debt ceiling for another six weeks and that's all, but i'm not going to give you the shutdown being over just yet until you agree to negotiate. and obama is bringing him into the white house, talking. but it's kind of a non-negotiation negotiation from obama's point of view because he doesn't want to admit he's doing any actual negotiating. there's a lot of kabuki dancing going on here, and it's difficult to say who is giving up more at this particular moment in time, but they clearly are each moving somewhere. >> this is what it's comin...