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About what you were saying earlier about the nih. the nih funding has gone up dramatically over the years, and actually that's because of senate republicans under bill frist, leading the charge to double nih spending over the course of a decade. and in fact, it was a republican measure that would have restored those sequester cuts that was attached to the senate budget earlier this year. it's not quite fair to say that republicans intended to send all these kids kicking and screaming off of the cancer trials -- >> no, i'm not saying that. that's what they've been saying about harry reid for tw...

Just tired of looking at each other. and that's one of the things that i think is playing into this. i want to speak to a moment about what you were saying earlier about the nih. the nih funding has gone up dramatically over the years, and actually that's because of senate republicans under bill frist, leading the charge to double nih spending over the course of a decade. and in fact, it was a republican measure that would have restored those sequester cuts that was attached to the senate budget earlier this year. it's not quite fair to say that republicans intended to send all these kids kick...

Federal government. and it's obviously a way to make people aware and to make a political point about the cost of the shutdown. disgraceful, political and entirely unnecessary. >> bret: george, you mentioned earlier about the word default. as we approach this debt ceiling date, the technical default and the understanding of that and what it means. the tax revenue coming. in and paying out the debts, the interest on the debt that the country owes to other countries. >> default is failure to pay your interest and your principle on your debt. we have lots of tax revenues coming and not enough to ...

Which is a budget for 2014, that would make a lot of sense to me. and even i, somebody who opposed the sequester from day one, i would hold my nose and vote for a six-extension, but i'm not going to hold my nose and vote for anything explore than that. >> we're not sure that republicans and john boehner are open to pursuing some kind of grand bargain, again, you look at the history of john boehner and the republicans on the lines they have drawn in this, which is basically absolutely no new revenue. do you think of those talks reopened again in any way, do you think anything is going to be dif...

The house republicans sent to the senate contains the exact amount of spending, the same 906 billi billion. the fight is only about obama care, if the government reopens, there is now no difference between the two parties in washington. keep that in mind if the republicans do back down on obama care, if they do end up accepting that clean funding bill and letting the government reopen. you may here rush limbaugh or jim demint call him a traitor, but if the government opens for business it will be operating on republican terms. that game is already over and republicans have won it. joining us, ...