offer we have sent four different crs, a budget, 12 different funding bills oh, come on, that s simply not true. we have had 200 democrats in the house vote with us on different funding measures, prie piers, we sent to the senate. we have a president obama who says he doesn t want to negotiate with us. now, we have never had a president not negotiate a debt ceiling deal. we know that our nation cannot continue to borrow $2 billion a day, we ask them, join us at the table, work with us, we need to work to a solution that is going to be fair for the american taxpayer and is going to be respectful i want to try and keep the speeches to a minimum. okay. let me go back to debbie. all right, let s get to the bigger picture here. the shutdown is very annoying and we ll see as i speak to people at the moment, very
sure. marsha blackburn, i mean, all this is true depending who you talk to on both sides. personally i blame the republicans more than the democrats. i would expect you to. like most of the americans, i blame both sides. that s right. i want to see business done. you re exactly right. they should be blaming both sides. and i can tell you what, pierce, if it were up to debbie and i, you would see us sit down as a table and work something out. there is no question. she and i would agree about that. we already talked about that. we can get it done. here is where we here is what we have done. we have offered and continued to offer we have sent four different crs, a budget, 12 different funding bills oh, come on, that s simply not true. and with bipartisan support, we have had 200 democrats in the house vote with us on different funding measures, piers, that we have sent to the senate. harry reid will not take them up. and then we have a president who
i would expect you to. like most of the americans, i blame both sides. that s right. i want to see business done. you re exactly right. they should be blaming both sides. and i can tell you what, pierce, if it were up to debbie and i, you would see us sit down as a table and work something out. there is no question. she and i would agree about that. we already talked about that. we can get it done. here is where we here is what we have done. we have offered and continued to offer we have sent four different crs, a budget, 12 different funding bills oh, come on, that s simply not true. we have had 200 democrats in the house vote with us on different funding measures, piers, we sent to the senate. we have a president obama who says he doesn t want to negotiate with us. now, we have never had a
shutdown that was ongoing and his refusal to talk or be held hostage, which is his words, by the speaker and the republicans in the house. i did not hear one difficult question, one question that would be, i guess, a welcome opportunity for the president to explain his position of not negotiating and using historiccable precedent to define why he is not negotiating with anybody in congress. steve: mark miller of cbs radio asked a good question at one point where he said what about all these funding measures that the republicans have passed to go ahead and fund veterans and national parks and n.i.h. and stuff like that? he essentially punted on that, swatted that away. nobody asked a single question about the affordable care act, which was interesting. and as you look at him right there in the briefing room, on the front row are all the tv reporters. he did not take a single question from any tv
congressman steve king gave his take on all how all of this will end. there will be a snowball effect from each side that will roll here and at some point, one mass will get greater than the other, one size of the snowball will get greater than the other and one side or the other is going to have to move. let s go to our chief congressional correspondent dana bash, following all of the latest developments on capitol hill. so what are the latest developments? the housekeeps passing these piecemeal funding measures, the senate rejects that. where do we go from here? reporter: you know, it s unclear. the house speaker is continuing to have meetings with his colleagues. i passed his office and some some republican members going in to talk strategy. and the barbs are flying and getting a lot more personal, wolf. harry reid just spoke on the senate floor, he spoke eight press conference, really giving it to john boehner, sort of in the way you heard the president but in more biting ter