tonight. the drama is turning into a major disaster for the republican leadership up there this party that prides itself on strong national security. late today the house voted to kill an initial vote on to fund the department for a mere three weeks. let me say this again, just for three weeks they wouldn't do it. speaker boehner made a bet he could pass the measure if he had only republican votes to do it and he he was torpedoed by 50 votes in his own party. democrats would not help bail him out. what now tonight? i'm joined by the moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. the republicans took over both houses, there was a notion afoot that they would be unanimous in getting along with each other, they would actually move together as a buffer to the president, a challenge to the president. now they're a challenge to each other. >> well, they are in this case that's for sure. look, there seems to be three options here. one of which i don't think boehner's going the take tonight. option one is to put the