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This fight. >> right. >> conservatives are going to lose this. >> but your point is so important. they're going lose it because of the math in congress, where you're going to get essentially democrats and some portion of the republican caucus to pass something out of that house. the question is, the president can team up with the house freedom caucus to essentially scotch it and force a shutdown himself. >> in the house, you have the tuesday group and a few moderates. i call it within the republican caucus in the house, you have the governing caucus and the shutdown caucus. the governing caucu...

The clean bill. i just have to assume this is not the last time we'll see john boehner spending weeks and weeks pretending to the extremists that something other than the impossible is possible. >> he's done this before with the shutdown caucus. they did it on the debt ceiling about three years ago. they did it on obamacare when they did shut down the government for 17 days and they did it on homeland security. it was bizarre on homeland security, because 535 members of congress were in favor of funding. we weren't arguing about the budget. but we had this group that had the provisions that th...

Pretending to the extremists that something other than the impossible is possible. >> he's done this before with the shutdown caucus. they did it on the debt ceiling about three years ago. they did it on obamacare when they did shut down the government for 17 days, and they did it on homeland security. it was bizarre on homeland security, because 535 members of congress were in favor of funding. we weren't arguing about the budget. but we had this group that had the provisions that the speaker was pretending to back until they got exhausted. and then he could sneak it by and he came to the dem...

So these are very isolated districts. if you look at the demographics within those districts, they're trending very different from the rest of america. in that sense they are safe, noncompetitive districts. and that means that they're not under the sway of the leadership. again, if you think about the 80 or so republicans that are members of this kind of shutdown caucus behind what we're going through right now. >> yeah. >> they represent only a third of the republican caucus and less than 20% of the house of representatives. >> mark, we know that we are more polarized than we've ever been, bu...

Something that is good for not just our party but for this country. >> oh, reince, i've used that talking that point myself. joining me now is christina. thank you for being with me today. >> nice to join you. >> robert, you had a piece and you went behind the scenes looking at this shutdown debate among republicans in congress and on the one hand the leadership is acknowledging that it's a losing strategy but at the same time they are having to thread the political needle. here's something you wrote. the delicate political situation has forced boehner and cantor to work against the shutdown c...