say that over and over again. >> i do, too. i just came back from a two-hour meeting with him and that was, that was basically the same view privately as it was publicly. >> i think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that, now we're willing to compromise. i know we don't want to be here but we're going to win this, i think. >> reporter: at a campaign style event in maryland -- >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: president obama pulled a bit of an ace out of his sleeve, sounding the alarm for a key voting bloc, seniors. >> in a government shutdown, social security checks go out on time. >> reporter: as he explained why defaulting is worse than a government shutdown. >> in an economic shutdown, if we don't raise the debt ceiling they don't go out on time. >> reporter: he pressured them to fund the government and drop the obama care concession. >> call a vote. put it on the floor. let every individual member of