head of the whole country and i m saying he has to play a more aggressive role. get people in the room. show this is serious. at the same time show we as republicans have to anticipate there s going to be another one of these in six weeks or eight weeks or three months whatever it is. we can t have republicans criticizing the system or saying this is the wrong decision to make. we have to anticipate ted cruz is going to try to do this again. ted cruz and 30 or 40 people in the house and we have to start going after him by name. i ve been doing it all along. i wish i had more company. what will happen is months from now after this is resolved he ll say republicans are on the edge of winning but they lost their nerve at the end and cave-in. this entitlement will work and rewrite history and we have to make sure he doesn t do it. it s time to speak out against him. there s 30 who iv in the house that will go with him. we can t let john mccain and erick cantor be put in this position again
i know it sounds crazy because the debt ceiling is very similar in terms of negotiating. but for john boehner and erick cantor and everyone else aths way to say to their colleagues we don t have an upper hand now let s fight later on. i feel they will go back to what the original plan was short term continuing resolution and live to fight another day. if they could win a battle where they get the president to defund obama care, that would be one thing. if you could because we tried to not raise the debt limit several times, i always voted against raising the debt limit and you always have the day before the markets panicking and everybody on wall street calling the leadership panel and you always fold like a house of cards. so if they could be smart through these two battles they actually were starting to see the republican brand rise for
0 brian cranston is an absolutely rockable forunbreaka breaking bad. i lot of times these academies go after for a few years the contrarian award when the best thing to do is give it to the guy. michael jordan was the mvp for so many years, let s give it to carl malone. beatles didn t win a grammy. john lennon didn t get one after he died. that tells you about these award shows. is that true? you got shut out of the this morning the hostage standoff there is winding down. kenya s military announced late last night that most of the hostages have been rescued but in ten exchanges are still taking place with the terrorists. the latest death toll is 68 people dead. and 175 injured. nbc news s ron allen is in nairobi. reporter: several explosions were heard at the mall. government troops could be seen to be moving into aggressive positions. al shabab is taking responsibility for the attack. militants say they are attacking for kenya sending troops into somalia where the fighte
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on us and the eyes of the world are on us. reporter: next month the government will take in $172 billion in taxes. but it will owe $307 billion. after paying the interest on the debt, the government could pay for social security, medicare, medicaid, troop salaries and veterans benefits, homeland security, unemployment insurance, tax refunds, education, and the faa. but that means it could not fund the centers for disease control, food stamps, aid for needy families, federal housing, energy and highway programs, the fbi, and much more. as the clock winds down on the nation s credit, a war of words is boiling over. if they bring this economy down, they ve broken it and they own it. republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collececrs for the obama economy. reporter: democrats have found their villain. house majority leader eric cantor has shown he shouldn t even be at the table. it s time for leader cantor to make some concessions. it was childish. reporter: canto