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i m pamela brown in washington. we re following two major stories on this sunday night. hurric hurricane fiona hammers ps puer rico and it could be days before the lights are back on. president biden pays tribute to queen elizabeth with final mourners in line to pay respects. tomorrow s funeral is hours away. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we began tonight with the latest on hurricane fiona. the storm has made landfall along the southwest coast there, puerto rico and officials say the entire island is already without power and the storm is causing catastrophic flooding. i want to turn to cnn laeyla santiago who is live. what are the conditions like where you are right now, leyla? reporter: we re on the forth eastern part of the island, capital san juan. still coming down, still rain, still wind. in the southern part of the island, the same if not more. the last time i talked to you, we talked about the critical patients, the hospitals and buildings that depend on p ....
He is responsible for this. he s brought us to this point. right. so the it s entirely the democrats fault that a bunch of republicans piers, hello. how many times. trying to defund obama care. how many times have we sent legislation to the senate and harry reid just continues to table it? i mean, why not debate it on the floor. have an up or down vote. as a matter of fact, we have democrats that have come out against obama care. i mean the unions are against it. even the person that wrote it max baucus has called it a train wreck. it s like harry reid is acting like a spoiled brat crossing his arms. there s nothing wrong with obama care. we re not going to discuss it. as if they keep saying it s not true. no, it s failing. we need to have this discussion. if it s so great, what are they afraid of. obama care passed both chambers. it was signed into law upheld by the supreme court and, of course, was front and center in barack obama s re-election last ....
Overly optimistic. remember the pressure on the fiscal cliff was that taxes were going to rise. there was a pretty serious policy reason for republicans to not want that to happen. what happens with the debt default depends on what lessons both parties take from this can current debate. if the republicans extract some policy concessions from white house over the government shutdown, what does that do to the psychology of the republicans and the house going into the debt default? maybe it worked with the shutdown. maybe it s not such a big gamble to extract more policy concessions. let me ask ben this question because there s a bigger thing here at play. there s the 2016 election. you guys have lost twice now. you re desperate to get back into power. how is that going to happen if your own party is so obviously fractured when the likes of john mccain are so diametrically ....
The fear among republicans, frankly, that they are the ones who will get the blame. that is the big reason why john bane area, the house speaker didn t want to go down this route in the first place. remember, he wanted to pass a bill that just funded the government and worry about the other things that they wanted to do dealing with the debt ceiling in the negotiations in the next three weeks. he was unable to do that. he didn t have the votes to do it within his republican caucus. that s why they set out the series of votes they have lost each time dealing with chipping away at obama care. when will this end? we simply don t know. over the weekend, a senior republican said to me of the conservatives in the house caucus, we just have to let them touch the stove enough times so they realize they re going to get burn. what is unclear right now, piers, is how burn they feel or whether or not they feel the burn yet. and it just seems as though watching john boehner and the ....