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Republicans have laid the ground work telling our constituents in town halls this is where we need to go. >> so we showed that clip. we didn't show the clip of them giving the standing ovation and carrying you out on their shoulders. during this crisis, you went to town hall meetings and you told your constituents hey listen the shutdown strategy, this may not be the best way to go. you told them thing that want they may not have wanted to hear and while you got blasted for it you also had a great reception for it. >> in our town hall meeting, we do more than 15 a year. early on we told people...

For your health. lz, ted cruz says he is not going way. he is not backing down. not even ruling out another round of this shutdown strategy in january. mccain vows that will never happen. so what do you say? >> you know, this thing has a couple of tentacles we need to look at. the tea party came into power in 2010 under the guys of reeling in some of our -- [ inaudible ] they weren't happy with the stimulus package. i think that's a good mission to be on. but what happened once they got into power is that they got splintered. instead of focussing on things like defunding planned parenthood the...

Fever, i do think about something different with this point. so you had your tea party group of people who got convinced and the conservatives got conventioned the shutdown strategy might work. some might be chasing. but throughout the whole period since the election, you have people like paul ryan saying when we get to that next debt limit, when we get out there in september, october, that's when we will get president obama to the table to negotiate. so we have to continue to make demand, whether about obama care or the budget, come to him with relief. with an offer. he'll come to the table a...

Talk about the government shutdown and ted cruz, the texas u.s. senator who has been at the forefront of this, didn't disappoint. he got a standing over vision forms 21-hour speech against obamacare in the senate and wasted no time urging the right not to abandon its principles and keep up the fight to defund obamacare, cut spending before they raise the debt limit and make sure they come out withal e government and hold to conservative values. watch. >> listen, none of us know what will happen on this obamacare fight right now. in my view the house of representatives needs to keep what it has...

Health care is another slide in their mind towards the horrible society and they'll say she's part of it too. >> it wouldn't have happened if they won the civil war too. anyway, thank you. a lot of changes we haven't liked. thank you for coming on. have a nice weekend, both of you. up next, shutdown strategy. how republicans will try to get back in the game, if you will, after the devastating new polls by nbc and the wall street journal and how democrats will keep the pressure on if they're smart and tough enough. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. have sinus p, you feel...conge...