defund effort in the of representatives. he introduced that legislation. he said look, ted cruz is a friend of ours. he has conversations with us. we ve talked with him, but this isn t anything we wouldn t be doing on our own if ted cruz wasn t coming over and talking with us. but certainly it has made an influence on speaker john boehner. it s made his job much more difficult because there has been this active coalescing around some plans that maybe leadership would like to put the kibosh on. okay. lauren fox, david nakamura, we ll see if there s a can i bosch on the government shutdown stuff coming up. thank you guys. we invite you all to watch meet the press tomorrow. david gregory s guest is tom cruz. let s go now to the weather and an early sign of winter in wyoming. two inches of snow fell in parts of casper, knocking down several trees. although that snow is expected to melt this weekend. how is the rest of the country shaping up? meteorologist dylan dreyer has the answers.
only if you cut spending. bill: absolutely. and that will happen. not next year but for this year. bill: that will happen. you are dodging the essential question. let s stop. when the budget comes up. let me answer you. but when the budget comes up like for the irs or for h.h.s., the republicans have to say we will appropriate money for these agencies but only if you eliminate funds to enforce obama ha care and only if you make it a criminal penalty to transfer money into these programs. bill: he is not going to do it? if obama doesn t go along with it, vetoes it, then we have a government shutdown and the issue will be obama care. and the republicans will win that. bill: i don t think the republicans will take it. oppose obama care. bill: i don t think the republicans are going to take it that far. er time we try this government shutdown stuff it flips back against the party who does it look, far more. that s the conventional wisdom but it s wrong. bill: all righ
only if you cut spending. bill: absolutely. and that will happen. not next year but for this year. bill: that will happen. you are dodging the essential question. let s stop. when the budget comes up. let me answer you. but when the budget comes up like for the irs or for h.h.s., the republicans have to say we will appropriate money for these agencies but only if you eliminate funds to enforce obama ha care and only if you make it a criminal penalty to transfer money into these programs. bill: he is not going to do it? if obama doesn t go along with it, vetoes it, then we have a government shutdown and the issue will be obama care. and the republicans will win that. bill: i don t think the republicans will take it. oppose obama care. bill: i don t think the republicans are going to take it that far. er time we try this government shutdown stuff it flips back against the party who does it look, far more. that s the conventional wisdom but it s wrong. bill: all righ
bill: absolutely. and that will happen. not next year but for this year. bill: that will happen. you are dodging the essential question. let s stop. when the budget comes up. let me answer you. but when the budget comes up like for the irs or for h.h.s., the republicans have to say we will appropriate money for these agencies but only if you eliminate funds to enforce obama ha care and only if you make it a criminal penalty to transfer money into these programs. bill: he is not going to do it? if obama doesn t go along with it, vetoes it, then we have a government shutdown and the issue will be obama care. and the republicans will win that. bill: i don t think the republicans will take it. oppose obama care. bill: i don t think the republicans are going to take it that far. er time we try this government shutdown stuff it flips back against the party who does it look, far more. that s the conventional wisdom but it s wrong. bill: all right. you say. bill, conven
he cut a deal to make obamacare happen, something that this guy couldn t do. the buck stops in the oval office, not somewhere else. he refuses to take responsibility. frankly, the reason why he s responsible is because he is engaged, he s demonstrated a careless, casual, reckless indifference to the mechanics of governing. he hasn t even tried to learn how to do his job. he s so busy out campaigning in kentucky and tennessee, he hasn t bothered to do the substantive work to be the president of the united states. to keith s president, the president himself acknowledged it s been an interesting experience for him. he has learned a lot, a lot about the arcane rules of legislating was one thing he said. but also i can t get off of this. this is a president who said he is the ultimate deal maker. he spent years criticizing president obama for not being able to close a deal. found this doozy from 2013 when the government shutdown stuff was all happens. listen to what then just donald trump