while chuck schumer was on the floor talking about the bipartisan nature of the current cr negotiation. perry is right. you could see he didn t offered a qualified opinion there. there won t be a vote by saturday. i think this process now is actually taking on it is more reflective of a normal process, of growing the vote, having house leadership go out there and find a number of folks that are no, but are then maybes and then turn them from maybes to yeses. that will take a lot longer than by saturday. what do you make this is something that happened this week and all of a sudden wasn t happening anymore, which was president trump talking about how he was going to withdraw the u.s. from nafta. it was kind of leaked from the banion wing of the white house, that they were preparing to do this. trump did tweets about it and all of a sudden phone calls between president trump with the leaders of mexico and canada and now he was renegotiating. it seems to me this is what we re going
cruz s shutdown as well as president obama s. but here s they are afraid. they are afraid of the tea party wing of the republican party. here s the thing. if you look at the polls is that boehner follows cruz, mcconnell follows paul. that s the reality of the republican party. john boehner, the reason i said he has a very difficult task, john boehner is trying to hold a caucus together. right. and yes, there are elements of his caucus that are much more extreme than other elements in the caucus. the thing that i am disappointed by, frankly, with the republican caucus, is if you look at the data, if you look at the polls, the american people say don t shut the government down. however, 70% of the american people say let s have a discussion about spending. sure. along with the debt ceiling. that s the time for the fight. repealing or defunding obama care shouldn t be part of a cr negotiation. i agree with that. i think there are pieces. if it would have been m