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You know, they filed in texas, which, by the way, is stayed. they filed a motion to stay it because of the shutdown. they can't move forward in litigation. but they filed this case in north carolina, which is, like, exactly the same case that we filed, and it's good to have we, the people, actually on the side of voters. >> you said aggressive. i want to listen to attorney general eric holder because he sort of laid down the gauntlet talking about north carolina and the ways in which he fully plans for this to be indicative of what he would do in other states. let's listen far moment. >> to ot...

My paycheck. that's the bottom line. i understand that there may be some other members who are deferring their checks and i think that's admirable, but i'm not in that position. that's representative renee elmers out of north carolina. i was, like, what? what do you think is happening as a result of the government shutdown here? >> yeah. and this is getting into a recurring issue, which is a lot of these debates are about the congress themselves. for example, the big republican demand right now is to slash their own staffers' health benefits, which has led to a lot of consternation. there was ...

In the first 24-hour period leading up to the shutdown, and you've got the republican national committee claiming it did even better, raise a million dollars in just less than 48 hours from monday to wednesday. even as we are about to go bump up against this debt ceiling, in other words, are the parties winning as they are positioning themselves in all this? >> well, there's a bit of wisdom in politics that when it comes to fund-raising, losing is winning. right now you have both sides really up in arms right now and able to go out there and excite their people into giving some money. that kin...

Times," the "post." him and paul ryan are trying to craft a mechanism where they could get to a grand bargain. it would make the debt ceiling and the government funding thing look like just rild-alongs, just coming along for the ride. >> stay with me. this is great. i want to report very briefly on this. there is fresh news this morning, the house has now passed a bill that would guarantee furloughed federal workers their pay for all of the time off the job they incur during the shutdown once the government reopens. it's basically back pay. president obama has expressed his support for the bil...

Today, and i'm pretty willing to bet there are enough votes in the house right now to make sure the united states doesn't end up being a the deadbeat. >> okay so, this question of deadbeat has to do with raising the debt ceiling. speaker boehner has continuously indicated he's not going to allow default, but if we don't get this dealt with, are we going to bump up against that debt ceiling conversation? >> we absolutely are. and the big talk right now is one of the reasons the shutdown is expected to go on a while is that it seems inevitable we'll have to resolve these two things at once. it's...