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Year 2009. but this president is operating by not having a budget passed in the normal order of things so the government knows how much money it's going to spend over the next twelve months, but instead by a series of continuing resolutions and stop gap measures. it's unbelievable. we have not had a highway funding bill which traditionally has been a six year bill, we've not had one since 2009. we have people across the country trying to figure out what are the five or six years going to look like for building roads and repairing bridges and the federal government cannot bring its self because...

Confidence up there on capitol hill that we are actually done finally with the 2011 budget? >> there's high confidence on both sides going through these negotiations that we're not going to be seeing a hiccup and we're actually supposed to be seeing a vote on monday on this long-term deal, t.j. >> all right. brianna, what's the truth and what's the spin? i ask because both sides were trying to spin this as the other side's fault of a possible shutdown. we're the ones who are being adults here and so on and so forth. you tell me the spin prosecufro sides but isn't the truth, yes, you stopped a ...

There's another proposal for a week. the president, of course, would like -- i think everybody would like if they could work it out to get the entire six months. what that tells you is they don't have a deal. they have a number of ideas, but you have a bunch of politicians all with different political interests saying try this, try this, try this. where are we? >> they don't have i deal, but sources in both parties do say that they are getting closer, but the fact of the matter is time is running out. there have been different kinds of short-term stop gap measures that have been drafd and they...

Extension, which would be buy congress a bit more time with more cuts and funding the department of defense for the rest of the year which is something that secretary gates has urged members to do. so it's another option on the table. at the white house today, that meeting will be pivotal because all sides have been blaming each other. house republicans have said the senate has failed to act, failed to pass any kind of a short-term budget other than these stop gap measures. and that the house has done its job over and over. but the numbers have appeared to change. we've been hearing how there ...

Controlled, right? house speaker under intense pressure from the conservative republican fresh men, many of them tea partiers who are elected to slash the budget. tea party activists want boehner to man up. >> i say to the republican leadership take off your lace panties, stop being noodle back s, take a strong, bold, unwavers stand for and with the american people. >> never mind that reported deficit. they want $100 billion in cuts to things like quote obama care, planned parenthood and npr. what's lost in all of this is reality. after passing six stop gap measures to keep the government goin...