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People that are making investments and moving the economy. and it's not a game of chicken as the folks want to characterize it that we should be engaged in. >> representative sestak, there's a growing sense among democrats at the white house thatry will give away too much. is this perceived as a loss? >> i don't think it should be. we all know we can't permit this country to approach the debt ceiling. this is the dumbest thing we could ever do. that would mean that $1 out of every $3 that we owe isn't going to be able to be done. so you're not going to pay soldiers, you're not going to pay the...

Is pushing the most are going to oppose whatever deal comes out. it seems to me it gets to the floor, democrats will vote for this, peter kings and the sort of more main stream republicans will as well. i don't think you have to have many tea party republicans be for this. the people that drove the shutdown probably will not vote for the final group anyway. >> and then when that happens, perry is probably right. you are back exactly where everybody thought this would be when you started. maybe not the medical tax device per se, a situation in the house the jig is up. this thing expires on thur...

The president comes back to the table. >> i appreciate her efforts to find a consensus. but the plan she suggested that i have seen and in writing, it is not going to go any place at this stage. >> that last sound bite from reid was his reaction on the senate side to a proposal that the republicans thought was promising. a proposal by susan collins of maine that would extended the debt ceiling for a little longer until january 31st and this would have kept the government open for six months and delayed the medical tax device for two years. as you heard, the majority leader harry reid rejected ...

Ways and means committee, to put nervous republicans at ease saying they will come up with a deal but also, jon, these republicans have to reach across the aisle to democrats. so they're trying to get mored moderate republicans together to reach over to democrats while we're hearing all the stuff about liberal spin in the news. this is the deal that is happening, real deal behind the scenes. jon: speaker boehner take as lot of heat from within his own conference but sending out guys like paul ryan and congressman camp, those are guys pretty well-trusted among republicans pretty well-known for ...

Was more about scorekeeping. this was more about fodder for attack ads in 2014, in 2016, there were amendments on the keystone xl pipeline. there were amendments on the medical tax device that pays for obama care. there are amendments on all sorts of things that don't have to do with the budget. so it was as political as it was about policy last night. >> yeah. but amie, you know, democrats passing this first budget in four years here, how significant is that? and what does it call for? >> well, it's significant just like andy said. it's sort of all politics at play. but you know, it's so vast...