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Talking about, and that is whether boehner will decide to go with a minority of the majority. he just spoke with boehner. boehner has been brutally attacked for what happened last night by conservatives. look at this. washington post conservative columnist jennifer rubin called the fiasco a stunning miscalculation. boehner lost control of the caucus and with it, any juice he might have. i mean, the washington examiner says boehner is now useless. if i'm john boehner and they've already given me this humiliating defeat, what do i have to lose to come back and deal with a minority of the majorit...

I've got a mandate to help middle class families and families that are working hard to try to get in the middle class. that's my mandate. that's what the american people said. they said, work really hard to help us. >> that is the president's plan date. whether boehner and company like it or not. and today at the white house, the president continued to build his case. he met with small business owners to keep the focus on letting the bush tax cuts expire for the rich. it's all part of a campaign to get a fair deal done. tomorrow he'll meet with a group of middle class americans who will explai...

Will take both sides. >> i'm not suggesting he not make a deal. i'm suggesting he use the strength of his bargaining position to make a deal. >> the key thing, whether boehner at the end of the day can make the deal and remain speaker. >> exactly. >> that's the whole issue back in the summer of 2011. it's the same issue now. and the interesting divide is going to be between the house republicans and those senate republicans. we tend to lump them together. remember there was the gang of six that ended up causing problems when they came up with a reasonable plan which included republicans in the...

He's doing and the republican party is leaderless, and it has no idea what it's doing. >> while everyone was pounding the president on this, you were looking ahead to the damage that was going to be done to your own party. what was your instinct? >> it's just what mark said. the republican party is leaderless. they don't have a strong leader in the house. they don't have a strong national leader in the senate. i'm not talking about whether boehner and mcconnell can run their institution. >> they're great at that. >> they're great at that. but nationally they don't have. they've got a guy and m...

can pass it in the next day or two and avert the first default on our national debt in history. >> i am worried about the size of defense cuts that may be contemplated, but that doesn't mean i'm therefore rejecting the agreement. i'm just worried. >> this is a head scratcher. stocks take a tumble after the debt relief rally that happened earlier this morning. the dow surged more than 120 points, but a weak manufacturing report, just sanction the market. stocks posting the worst weekly performance in more than a year in a debt stalemate last week. the dow is at 12:07. down 70 points. ...