Not the 60 votes they would need in the next phase to get this through. it s going to fail at some point. it s just a matter of when it fails. at that point there doesn t seem to be any alternative plan. everybody says they feel like they are heading toward oo shutdown. mitch mcconnell has been the person to watch here. he came back from the white house saying build a wall. he came back towing the president s line saying this is important. he hasn t given any indication about what the plan may be after that. if there s nobody talking, there s no real way around this. that said, we do expect that the house is likely will be in session tomorrow. we re waiting on final word for that and house republican leaders are currently holding a meeting as well. that could potentially hold out some hope that there will be some negotiations here going forward. i got to tell you, right now it s really hard to see a way
Delaying the individual mandate we just got rid of on tax deal, but compared 2013, 2016 how two presidents have acted, i went through the middle 2013 i think i was on your show during that shutdown will look you go in eye till president obama wanted that shutdown to weapon eyweaponize it to hurt republicans want that down in this president worked really, really hard to prevent shutdown we had folks in white house several times mr. schumer there he is twifl engaged yesterday calling people trying to get government open. he didn t have a meeting a bipartisan leader congressional leaders yesterday does have one on schedule for today. he had one thursday not yesterday we can split hairs all the time. happened on friday night. we knew was also coming we had a bipartisan meeting with senators several for several times, in fact i think several meetings leading into o shutdown this president i don t think anybody could say that this president wants a
they re saying it s at risk because of your refusal to pass a clean debt limit. we are not going to pass a clean debt limit increase. under no circumstances? i told the president the votes are not in the house to pass a clean debt limit and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. julia sat down with president obama for an interview friday night. did you sense any signs of him softening? no, not at all. and it really is striking just how far apart the president and john boehner are at this point. the conversation that they re having now about the debt ceiling now is very similar to the conversation that they have been having about the government shut up to o shutdown where the president says these are two things, that congress simply has to do alone. john boehner acting at the behest of a lot of the conservative members of his caucus say, hey, let s use both as opportunities to extract some kind of concession from the