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>> reporter: rea torically it does feel that way at times. if you read between the lines of what the president said and you combine that and couple with it what jay carney said at the briefing, you start to see what the white house is basically offering boehner a get out of jail free card in this whole shutdown mess that we're in right now. first of all, let me play a little bit of what the president said today at fema. take a listen. >> there's not a subject that i'm not willing to engage in. what i've said is that i cannot do that under the threat that if republicans don't get 100% of their ...

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Martha: fox news alert on what has become a test of wills in our nation's capitol. the battle over obamacare could shut down the government if lawmakers can't get on the same page by midnight tonight. that is how we start a, welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. we are now 14 hours from that deadline for a federal budget after a weekend which we saw, well the house passed another plan, while the senate spent their time away from the office. they did not meet but there was at least one senator making his case in republica...

They didn't meet. the math is getting too complicated for me. thank you, tom. if there's one independent voice in this shutdown mess, someone almost as critical as i have been. vermont senator bernie sanders. welcome, senator. always a joy to have you on the show. >> good to be with you. >> what do you make of this? is this an embarrassment, a fight for equity? what should happen now? >> well, it's all of the above and many other things. you know, the bottom line here is that we have our republican friends who think that the way to balance the budget is to give huge tax breaks to the wealthi...

View protections for daca recipients as amnesty. if that's the case, the president has to come out of these talks with something he can then take back to his base and say, look, i have something to show for it. the president seems to think that's wall funding. this is the crux of the issue with the government set to run out of money, in just, what, less than 11 hours. >> garrett haake, let me turn to you on capitol hill. what have we heard from lawmakers. we don't have a timeline for the first vote in the series. what are lawmakers saying about the prospects for a shutdown as you make your way...