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The senate finance chairman max baucus weighing in today on the looming government shutdown. and robert mueller saying today his concerns about what a new budget not being passed before friday might mean. >> i can tell you that already i have adverse morale -- adversely affecting morale in the bureau because a number of persons don't know whether they will be here on monday, don't know whether they'll get paid. i do expect that our investigations will continue unhindered. we'll do everything we can to support that.

The american people want and the american people spoke loud and clear last november. >> but, amy, why wouldn't it also be in the house republican leadership and speaker boehner leadership's fault because they're not talking about -- no one is talking about $100 billion because they say the year started already. that was a year long number and now we're already in april. would you give them that much, to prorate it for what's left? >> they have already cut some because it has been prorated. but let's cut the 60 something billion and move forward and look at a budget for a ten-year, budget. but ...

Thing we want. just so many people, andrea. you pointed out a minute ago, who are dependent upon the government to do what the government is supposed to do. i'm hopeful twhil his will be resolved. >> there was a house budget hearing today, ambassador susan rice was testifying to try to save the american -- the u.s. contributions to the u.n. budget. with the u.n. doing everything it is now in cote d'ivoire, only after u.n. forces fired on the leader there that he began to talk about giving up after this four-month stalemate and civil war, let's look at susan rice before the house budget committ...

Recessionary time like that, use that -- those dollars to actually move our country forward by putting them into public colleges and universities that tend to feel the sharpest edge of the cuts when we take money and we put it into prisons. >> ben, what will you say to grover norquist and others who are against all tax increases, when you face this budget crunch, which is affecting the states and affecting the public colleges and junior colleges that have been such important transition points, especially from for minority communities. >> this is one place where he and i are actually in total a...

Deserve to go to college from going to college and they're saying no, not because they care about the deficit, but they have an ideology just to get rid of all government. >> amy kramer is director of grassroots and the tea party express and joins me now. the democrats seem to be taking some delight in trying to say, well, poor speaker boehner, he can't control his caucus because the tea party is on his case. and the tea party becomes the boogie man and inin so some wayt is a democratic strategy, if you will. >> we are on all of their cases. that's the thing. we need to stop playing party poli...