standoff is going nowhere, and it s going nowhere fast. the hard sell, speaker boehner is going back to the drawing board after his plan came up short on spending cuts and he came up short on votes. brace yourself for a ten, 20 or 30-day extension. it s wednesday july 27. coming up, we ll get the very latest on this game of let s make a deal. from democratic senator chuck schumer, we can t get our debt ceiling raised and we re all by ourselves. let s go to my first read of the morning. hurry up and wait. let s flash back to speaker boehner less than 24 hours ago. i think we re going to have some work to do to get it passed, but i think we can do it. the house vote planned for today not happening and the plan is to vote tomorrow, plan, that
the senate majority leader harry reid. with provisions that he likes in there. greta: so the onus is against president obama? he doesn t get a vote that will take him through the election so he doesn t have to talk about spending cuts and taxes again while in an election year. since when is that the dictator of what we ve got to do to get the fiscal health of this country right? greta: suppose the boehner bill doesn t pass? members of congress had made s to vet you with you and you can peel off enough democrats what happens? you got default, [ talking over each other ] our plan or harry reid s plan. if nothing else, the harry reid plan is sitting there. harry reid does not have the vets now for that plan which is why it is so important have the votes now for that
he s making it worse by wanting to incur more debt, grow government and not presenting any plan to the american people to show us what he really believes the solution is. greta: governor, thank you. earlier today we spoke with house majority leader eric cantor. nice to see you. good to be with you always. greta: the vote is tomorrow on the boehner bill. right. greta: headcount, gonna win or not? we are going to do it. we ve got some work yet to do. this is a terribly anxious time for the country. if you look at where we are over the last six months, we ve actually begun to make some progress changing the way this town does business. i believe that s what the republican majority was elected to do. to force washington to stop spending money it doesn t have. greta: the new gop freshmen who ran on the campaign balanced budget amendment which is not part of the boehner bill, that s a problem,
the senate majority leader harry reid. with provisions that he likes in there. greta: so the onus is against president obama? he doesn t get a vote that will take him through the election so he doesn t have to talk about spending cuts and taxes again while in an election year. since when is that the dictator of what we ve got to do to get the fiscal health of this country right? greta: suppose the boehner bill doesn t pass? members of congress had made s to vet you with you and you can peel off enough democrats what happens? you got default, [ talking over each other ] our plan or harry reid s plan. if nothing else, the harry reid plan is sitting there. harry reid does not have the vets now for that plan which is why it is so important have the votes now for that
plan which is why it is so important. i was one who said months earlier, we can sustain two votes in the house. let s get all the cuts down now. the president said no, we need to raise taxes instead. we came back and said fine let s do this in mentally. we are going to insist that we do this incrementally. we are going to insist that we not increase without sufficient cuts. we don t want to give you a blank cheque. greta: what does he said when you say things like to him? he gets agitated. greta: i don t think he s wild about you now. i think we have a professional cordial relationship. again, i ve been through this before with the president when we were discussing the stimulus bill. the president doesn t like people who differ with him on policy grounds. i saw that in the white house. we come from different world