shutdown. when you have senators who vote to deny cloture on a funding bill. and when that bill comes up, you have a vote. a yes means fund the government. a no means don't fund the government. in 2013 virtually every single republican voted to fund the government, including me multiple times, and virtually every -- in fact, every single democrat, i believe, in 2013, voted to shut the government down. the same thing is true here. virtually every single republican voted this week to fund the government. virtually every single democrat voted to shut it down. >> reporter: sir, that's simply not the case. this was about obamacare funding. >> those facts are incorrect. >> reporter: you insisted at that time -- >> i get that you want to debate me but you don't have any facts. >> why were all of your gop colleagues angry with you if you didn't? >> in 2013, unfortunately, republicans were divided. that was a mistake and i wrote a book a couple years ago called "a time for truth." i walked through what happened and said the mistake made then