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Majority might say let it go, we are against it anyway. he sends something he knows they will reject to prove to the base he is not ready to cave. house republicans acknowledge boehner would have the votes to pass the clean funding bill stripped of the health care provision fist he put it on the house floor. you willing to vote for a continued resolution that comes back that does not delay obama care some. >> i am not, but some are willing to do that. >> it's a growing group as far as the folks he was referring to who think a government shut down is bad politics. some are asking why pick a f...

>> you know, i think it's really true that a lot of republicans, for example, who voted against the stimulus, remember that, and said it was against america, were among the first to say, please give us some money, or i'm proud of what this stimulus did for our district rather than to say that the money came from the stimulus. i wrote a column this week about one republican who is not a partnership krit. tom coal has been on msnbc a lot because he was from moore, oklahoma. he was one of the small-time republicans who voted for aid for sandy victims and said on the floor, look, there are a lot o...

You need a majority. why are you trying to make it more complicated than it is. >> is mitch mcconnell going to save the day? >> i don't know about that, but let me take issue. the republican conference in the house is very conservative. we are seeing a very conservative conference that may not coming to to vote on something, even if nancy pelosi can corral the democrats, they need to pick off republicans. we don't know if any of them would vote for something like this. john boehner is ready to strike a deal. i'm not sure many others are. in the senate we have seen a number of conservative repu...

Party. when the chairman becomes the certainly of controversy, a tough, uphill battle. >> others are condemning his remarks, including senators lindsey graham and jim demint. >> who is calling for his resignation. >> you have neoconservatives who have spoken out, including bill kristol and lynn lynne cheney. one member of congress, tom coal, oklahoma said i find the me marks unacceptable. he could apologize and resign. he undercut forces fighting in the field and politicized a war. he's embarrassed the party. it's time for him to go. he's the former chief of staff of the rnc and he does weild

Draw down troops. >> the draw down is underway. there are 77,500 troops. by the end of august, 50,000 troops will be on the ground. the mission at that point will shift from combat to more of a diplomatic, economic, that type of mission. so the vice president reiterated that was still the plan. it was interesting because john mccain was on the sunday talk shows yesterday and he doesn't always agree with biden but he was struck by the progress made as he and fellow senators were able to go to the markets in baghdad. >> was there a mishap with vice president biden's plane? >> it was an interesti...