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You don't have that fight. >> i couldn't agree with you more. the republicans in d.c. have become the surrender caucus. they can't defund planned parenthood, they can't stop amnesty, can't stop obamacare. >> they can't or they won't? >> both. the reality is they need a backbone transplant. i don't like what pelosi and reid are doing for our country, but at least they fight for their principles. i'm proud of this lawsuit, quite frankly. look, the obamas' attorneys might as well get comfortable in baton rouge. we're not backing down from this fight. i know there are a lot of republicans in d.c. ...

>> i'm rung out of time. i apologize. we'll do this another day. we need more time. thank you both. coming up, governor bobby jindal. he's trying to defund planned parenthood. a federal judge is attempting to block this. the 2016 republican presidential candidate joins me next to explain how he's going to respond to the administration. also shannon bream has a full report, straight ahead. dads don't take sick days, dads take nyquil severe the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. ♪ it's the final countdown!

Defunding or delaying, whatever, trying to really radically overhaul obama care. but when you look at the politics of the house and the republican world today that josh is describing, do you think that's going to happen? >> well, first of all, i think when you look at somebody like senator harry reid, he has a spine of steel. they're not going to allow anything that is going to move forward that will defund obama care, but extraneous provisions on it. i think senator mccain got it right. that is shutting down the government is a recipe for disaster, a disaster when it happened 17 years ago. an...

Of the tea party who view it as their job to stan on what they would call a defining principle every day, almost no matter what. they say they will fight to defund the president's health care plan, even though it passed four years ago, even though the president won re-election, even though the supreme court upheld it, they say at every opportunity they'll try to get in the way of the president getting funding for his signature initiative. what they have told their own leadership is, we will not go along with keeping the government running, passing the basic spending bill to keep the government...

Our economy. >> reporter: ruling out negotiations over the debt ceiling or legislation that defunds obama care, white house press secretary jay carney offered this colorful defense of the president's outreach. >> you're obviously referring to speaker boehner's video, is that right? >> saying the president is more willing to negotiate with vladimir putin than he is with house republicans. >> that is irrefutably false. the video i thought demonstrated putin envy. >> reporter: the white house was instead taking note of the bruising battle inside the gop. texas senator ted cruz seemed to give up o...