donation is something we think should be legal or shouldn t be legal. if we re going to debate it, we ll debate it on those terms. instead, they felt their jobs would be put at risk if they didn t confront this head-on or it will would be worth it to fold that sector of their electorate back in. they didn t stop it. if they were willing to negotiate a full budget with democrats where they could horse trade at the margins over issues that include funding for women s health care. they might be even able to provide a minor victory for anti-abortion causes. instead what they re doing is demanding everything and saying we re going to fund the government at current levels and we want to do it with a rider that says no more funding for planned parenthood and that can t pass. if that s the only thing they re willing to offer, the only way this ends is with a government shutdown.
a failure to fund the department of homeland security fully has real impacts on public safety. reporter: in the senate even conservatives backed off threats to hold up homeland funding. all eyes are on republicans in the house. who are still insisting on also blocking the president s executive action on immigration. this is a violation of our constitution. it s a violation of the balance of powers in our constitution. and it needs to be addressed. we re doing it. is it worth shutting down the homeland security department over? we passed a bill to fund the department. reporter: that bill stops the president from carrying out his plan to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay legally. senate republicans know that can t pass. and hope to avoid an embarrassing embarrassing shutdown weeks after taking control of the chamber. to save face some nat republicans argue a texas court is already stopping the
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defund obama care, calling him john boehner 2.0 in the conservative fire brand that they remember from the 1990s but if you listen closely to house speaker boehner s comments yesterday, it s clear he s laying the responsibility for the strategy squarely on senator ted cruz. one of the republican party s most vocal opponents of obama care is standing shoulder to shoulder with his house colleagues, a show of unity after senator ted cruz infuriated senators by suggesting his own strategy to defund obama care can t pass the senate. they accused cruz of having less fight in him than democrat wendy davis, another hard charging texan praised for kru saiding for a lin ral cause earlier this year. just yesterday a senior house republican aide said it s disappointing to see that wendy davis has more guts than ted cruz. now, he used a different word than guts but other republicans have called you a tony and a joke, how do you respond to them? i m always impressed with the
shutdown isn t just pitting republicans against democrats, it s pitting republicans against republicans. cnn s erin mcpike has the latest on the party s divisions, whether they can pull it all together. reporter: one of the republican party s most vocal opponents of obama care is standing shoulder to shoulder with his house colleagues, a show of unity after senator ted cruz infuriated conservatives by suggesting his own strategy to defund obama care can t pass the senate. they accuse cruz of having less fight in him than wendy davis, praised for crusading for a liberal cause earlier this year. just yesterday, a senior house republican aide said it s disappointing to see that wendy davis has more guts than ted cruz. he used a different word than guts. but other republicans have called you a phony and a joke. how do you respond to them? i m always impressed with the courage of anonymous