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Be having -- i don't know if they are. but they should be having at this point is that, you know, for the american people, maybe they look and say, oh, yeah, the house republicans are the ones holding this up. but the public looks and says, this is a washington problem. this is maybe more on the house republicans but this is everybody. the president is the president of the united states. he's the most visible figure in washington. the white house has to determine whether to act in the best interest of the country here. >> how does this end from talking to the president? i suspect he feels this...

To end the government shutdown rereflects republican priorities. it's the republican budget. the funding levels of the this short-term funding bill called the c.r. is lower than what democrats think it should be. nevertheless democrats are willing to put votes on to re open the government. so when you hear the notion that democrats aren't compromising, we are compromising so much we are willing to re open the government at funding levels that reflect republican wishes, don't at all reflect our wishes. for example at fema they are still subject to the sequester. even before the shutdown they we...