at the mall. behind me, ladies and gentlemen, are representatives from the military coalition. they have my back. unlike the administration and congress which doesn t have my back. as we stand here, the government is shut down, military readiness is eroding, veterans fear they will not disabled veterans fear they will not be getting checks, dependents and survivors have that worry. that shouldn t be. bill: former navy seal ben smith is with me now and, ben, good day to you. you were quite vocal on sunday, you got a lot of attention for what appeared to be a short but very succinct speech at the world war ii memorial. you said something to our producers a bit earlier today, you think the government is trying to provoke the veterans to do something. what do you mean by that? and that s just not my
mike emanuel is running all this down on the hill. let s start with what we think we know, good morning. reporter: well, bill, here s what the house republicans are proposing as a counteroffer. we knew they would not like the outlines of a deal that harry reid and senator mitch mcconnell had been negotiating, so they re going to counter with funding the government through february 15th, to raise the nation s borrowing authority until february 7th, no extraordinary measures meaning that it is february 7th and that is it, and then they have got to deal with the debt at that point. it would have members of congress and political appointees in the administration live under obamacare, a lot of people think that is a very fair measure. why not make them live under it? a two-year delay of the medical device tax which does have a lot of bipartisan support in both the house and the senate and income verification to make sure there is not fraud related to obamacare. so not really central compo