one. right, but there are many republicans right now, we talked about a number that changed their mind that would be willing to vote a clean bill moving forward. talking to pete king last night, he s opposed to obama care but he said look, you don t have the votes to be funded so you got to move on. anderson, bringing up republicans that support that position, how about the 35 democrats that voted with us on these funding measures tonight? how about the 35 that voted with us yesterday? how about the 35 that voted with us when we wanted the postponement of the individual mandate along with the provision that says congress has to live under the same laws as every other american when it comes to obama care? we have a lot of democrats with us on that. appreciate your perspective on that. thank you. now to the other side, joseph crowley, who is house chair of the democratic caucus. congressman, you just heard, representative salman talking. does he make some sense here that this s
ideological agenda, they hate the affordable care act. that is irresponsible, reckless and unacceptable. john boehner was clearly frustrated. he said we have a divided government, americans put republicans in charge of the house, why not try to negotiate, give in on something? is there something that the democrats could give in on? i think john boehner is frustrated and more frustrated, anderson, by his own caucus. i don t pretend to understand the ins and outs of that but he s sided with the far right, with the tea party within his caucus as you mentioned yourself, there are members of the republican caucus who want a clean cr and bring it to the floor. i hope they have the fortitude to press their leadership to do just that. anderson, the democratic caucus we have tried to find a solution
i think there are false promises just like the last ones have been. we have to take the time we have now, this is policy matters and i think this is a reasonable approach to share opinions, have them share their opinions and have a vote. the american process is to have when we have differences to have a conference committee come together and work out the differences and that is the process. but isn t that what this president was elected on? he ran this was clearly discussed and been discussed for a long, long time just about everywhere. haven t the american people spoken on this in two elections for this president? weren t we in the house of representatives elected against obama care? the 40 of you, yeah, but there is moderate republicans who would be willing to pass this, as you know. there is not one republican that voted for obama care, not
ground and fight these 30, 40 people what if you re on a motorcycle, some car comes over hits the motorcycle and takes off, you wouldn t chase him? i was laughing today. it wasn t funny. before you were born richard ramirez, who was the night stalker in l.a., a crowd ran him down. this guy was responsible, beat had living daylights out of him before the police got there. so i mean, they might have thought the motorcyclist thing this guy was hitting and running. still a lot we don t know. that s the bottom line. thank you. let us know what you think. follow me on twitter. we learned about what it was like inside that room in the white house that president obama sat down with congressional leaders. we have breaking news ahead on that. what would you do? [ woman ] i d be a writer. [ man ] i d be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i d be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you?
the people want, which is not shut down, the government and make fairness, apply to everyone when it comes to the affordable care act and senate democrats are not doing that. paul, what about that? is it the president s obligation to negotiate? well, of course, and he and his party have. now, i committed math. i was a liberal arts major, i committed math and looked it up. i looked at the original budget proposal. he asked for $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending and the house republican budget, congressman ryan and republicans wanted 967 so there was 230 billion separating them. the democrats are agreeing to 92% of the cuts. nancy pelosi talked about it. you could see the frustration. she has her caucus ready to vote for cuts they hate and ready to support. that is a huge concession. when you win 92% of the funding cuts you want, it s called a win and the tea party people, i don t know if they are too crazy or stupid or cruel but there is something wrong. they have a screw loose