it didn t work and now we have this across-the-board cut in defense and discretionary and you can t they can t don t have flexibility. and it is really going to bite and it is it is a ridiculous way to govern and i m i m hoping for two reasons that we can come to a settlement. one, because we should just from the point of view of the substance of having more rational budget but also just to prove to the american people we can do our most basic job. i think it is almost more important that we do something than what the details are. just to show that, you know, for the first time in four, five years, we can actually pass a budge net the united states congress. think of that. you know, you are in a unique position. you are an independent and we have the democrats and republicans at logger heads. the angus king plan. dealing with $255 billion in
we passed a budge net the senate and they passed a budge net the house. but just as with this shutdown a few extreme republicans in the senate have objected every time she s tried to go to conference. we should be going to conference on the budget, on appropriations, on funding the government. but we should haven t to go through a hugely disruptive government shutdown just to do our jobs. would you be willing to go to conference on this if it were both, if they basically said, okay, we re going to go to conference on the big budget and on the funding resolution? well, chuck, i think that would be progress. that would be having folks in a room with an agenda and something to negotiate over. the challenge, though, is that resolving the conferenceable issues in our budget could take weeks or months, and we ve got estimates out from economists that every week the federal government is shut down it will hurt our economy $10 billion. if this goes on more than a few weeks we really will t
for one dollar for debt limit increase. you balance the budge net 10 years without raising taxes. the republicans aren t giving this up any time and neither are democrats. megyn: do you see irony that the president wants to eliminate congress from raising the debt limit. when he was a senator he said in part we are debating raising a debt limit and he said this is a sign of leadership failure. increasing america s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. washington is shifting the burden on the backs of our children and grandchildren. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership and america deserves better. it s true when bill clinton left office in 2000 we had you are plus and the deficit would
if you are voting on a budge net the senate you are going to vote on tax increases. but in an election seat it s tough to take. they don t want their fingerprints on a plan. the democratic chairman of the senate budget committee argues little progress can be made in an election year and harry reid could avoid a vote because it would have taken 60 votes to bring a budget to the floor. the par limb but the marley men tearan has ruled it only takes 50 votes, not 60. the parliamentarian can t force them to do it but she said you have to do it. reporter: so they could
congressman paul ryan s budget plan. democrats are fuming. they are making it clear there is no way they will pass this. what is their plan? they haven t had a budge net three years. our next guest lays out some of that for us. bill: there are calls for eric holder to step down. what is next for the attorney general. do you believe you are capable of running the top law enforcement agency in this country? if you look at everything i have done in this tempt the past three years and you look at the department the state it was in when i got here . -one. -two.