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Todd: elizabeth warren joining them at the picket line demanding a better contract deal. here is what is stalling negotiations. >> reporter: classes canceled wednesday with negotiations between the teachers union and the city stalling yet again, demonstrators got the support of elizabeth warren, herself a former teacher. her message to educators don't give up the fight. >> i am here to stand with every one of the people who stand for our children every day. >> reporter: teachers and staff in the third-largest school district in the nation are at odds over better pay, smaller class sizes and im...

>> [ inaudible ]. >> as long as we get what he has laid out he would be happy to sign that. >> [ inaudible ]. >> i think he is worried that -- i'm trying not to get run over by a truck. >> heated language could be stalling negotiations? >> i think he is worried that democrats' unwillingness to put the country ahead of their party is what is stalling things from moving forward whether the budget or a deal on daca. >> democrats are definitely using thursday comments as leverage. >> i don't think they are using it as leverage but as an excuse not to help this president get something accomplished ...

I think a number of prominent democrats have come out and said that they don't feel like attaching daca to the budget is a good idea and so hopefully we'll stick to that and get something done. >> it is stalling negotiations. >> no, i think he's worried that democrats' unwillingness to actually put the country ahead of their party is what is stalling things from moving forward. whether it is the budget or whether it is a deal on daca. >> all right, also happening now, you're looking at live pictures from the senate judiciary committee. the homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen will testi...

Today. he blamed the president and democrats for stalling negotiations on a debt deal. >> despite the claims that the president supports a balanced approach, the democrats have yet to get serious about real spending cuts. and secondly, no substantive progress has been made in the talks between the white house and the house over the last two weeks. >> tough talk. it's also completely divorced from reality. right before the news conference, boehner met with treasury secretary tim geithner who offered republicans a detailed plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. it included $1.6 trillion in new revenue ...

Republicans are walking tall in public but hanging their heads behind closed doors. john boehner struck a defiant tone during a news conference today. he blamed the president and democrats for stalling negotiations on a debt deal. >> despite the claims that the president supports a balanced approach, the democrats have yet to get serious about real spending cuts. and secondly, no substantive progress has been made in the talks between the white house and the house over the last two weeks. >> tough talk. it's also completely divorced from reality. right before the news conference, boehner met w...