bill burton you said on twitter you only came to hang out with stephanie cutter.e you don't mind if i ask you a question or two. >> he had to say that. >> that was tweeted. but no, i want to ask you some questions. i actually agree with president obama that the debt ceiling default would be catastrophic. and i think that we are facing that real catastrophe. i agree with him that even flirting with the default is dangerous, and for those reasons if i were him i would do everything i could to avoid it. i would negotiate with anyone. i'd get myself to a table and say, let's find something that we can agree on to avoid this. even to avoid flirting with it. why hasn't he done that? >> well, i think you can start with something that david just said here, that obama care is a hill to die on. i mean, that is a pretty grim picture of what we're dealing with, right? >> why obama care, though? i brought up the debt ceiling. >> but that's what this fight is all about. >> spending cuts next change for debt ceiling. >> what the president has already done he sat down with republ

joining me here is bill burton who worked in the white house for a good many years and was also in the obama campaign. what is your reaction to the fact we are now ending on a wimper stage? >> well, it is great for the country that we're finally ending the shutdown, that we won't default on our debt, but i will say that i have some concerns as a democrat that this is not all good for the democratic party. i think there is some reasons for us to be cautious about what happens next here. and this is counter-conventional wisdom, i think that boehner may be stronger, because if he has support of his conference that he didn't have before -- >> well, right now you see the senate is going through a roll call vote. this is the second vote they have taken, the first, a procedural vote, you have to clear cloture, it happened just before you joined us on air. and now there is an actual vote on the resolution that is being offer offered. it is about 35 pages long, including a nice bit of pork for the army project that happens to be in kentucky, where the good senate minority leader, mitch mcconnel

bill burton is a former white house deputy press secretary. erved during president obama's first term and is the co-founder of priorities usa action. bill, thanks for being here with us today. what's going on right now in the white house? >> thanks for having me. i think at the white house what you have are serious adults trying to get through this crisis, get the government back open, get the debt ceiling raised and move on -- move forward with some of the key priorities that need to happen in this country. >> is there a lot of talking going back and forth with congressional leaders? >> yeah, i'm sure. you know, the president has done his part talking to leaders in both parties. you saw the members of the house democrats who were over there yesterday. i'm sure dennis mcdonough and rob neighbors and the whole legislative team are cleaning close tabs on everything that's happening on capitol hill and actively negotiating. but the president isn't out there being very forceful in his message. as he said in that clip that you showed earlier, someti

bill burton, a former obama white house spokesman and co-founder of priorities usa action fund, it willeditor for roll cal and republican strategist bill musser. thanks for being here. i want to start with you, bill, since you know what it's like to be inside the white house. how is the administration handling this and how can they turn this around? >> i think they're being as aggressive as you would expect. they're trying to get health care to folks. of course there's going to be some glitches along the way. the good news is there are hundreds of thousands of people who have aplid, they are hitting some of their targets. but i've been at the white house, worked with the president from '07 to 2011, and i know when things are not going right it is a very uncomfortable place to be if you're right in his line of fire. so you can bet that people are burning some midnight oil trying to get this thing fixed p. >> knowing what you know of him, do you think someone will have to be fired in the wake of this? >> i don't know about people getting fired or anything like that. the focus right now is

joining us now is bill burton, executive vice president at global strategy group which i'm sure is lesserrifying than it sounds. >> don't count on it. >> well, there is less confidence on the side of the republicans, by the way they have handled this politically. is that just trash talk? is there reason for them to be so confident? >> i was running for rahm emanuel, and in the process of winning the house for democrats, making nancy pelosi speaker, was building a case over the course of would years. and i think what you're seeing democrats do right now is they're building a case. there is a talented staff. they have recruited very great candidates across the country. but this part of the case they're building, which is that republicans are at center of this dysfunction, you have to get them out of power, is a very important part of getting to the next piece of the case, which is here is the real life consequences of the dysfunction in the lives of middle class americans and all over the country. because i don't think you can get to that place, you can actually get to election day and co

outfront tonight i want to bring in the former white house deputy press secretary bill burton and republicanonal committee shawn spicer. you just heard joe johns reporting the obama administration knew in september the web site wasn't ready to go live. people seeing what really happened and the scale of the problems thus far ask fairly how could they have ignored that it seems. >> i don't think anyone is ignoring any of the problems that are happening. what is happening is thousands upon thousands of people are successfully going online and able to sign up for health care which they may have not had before or had access to before. there are obvious problems with the web site and the way this was rolled out. at the end of the day the long term effects of this law are going to have such a vast positive impact on the lives of so many americans that these short-term health web site problems are just that, short-term web site problems that can be fixed. >> and look, you may be absolutely right about that, bill. history could pro1,000% right. there's got to be frustrations. >> there's frustration

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bill burton who supports the president's refusal to negotiate and david limbaugh who says republicansossfire. >>> welcome to crossfire. i'm stephanie kurt on the left. i'm s.e. cupp on the right. president obama and the democrats spent the day trying to paint the republicans as extremists. i think it's other way around, insisting he won't negotiate on the debt ceiling? something that's routinely been negotiated is worse than posturing. it's threatening to

bill burton who supports the president's refusal to negotiate and david limbaugh who says republicansossfire. >>> welcome to crossfire. i'm stephanie kurt on the left. i'm s.e. cupp on the right. president obama and the democrats spent the day trying to paint the republicans as extremists. i think it's other way around, insisting he won't negotiate on the debt ceiling? something that's routinely been negotiated is worse than posturing. it's threatening to bring the country to the brink of default. >> i'm not budging when it comes to the full faith and credit of the united states, that that has to be dealt with, that you don't, you don't pay a ransom, you don't provide concessions for congress doing its job. >> it isn't intellectually honest or productive to say i'm willing to negotiate but not until i get everything i want. republicans are right to insist on negotiations. they're right to insist on spending cuts. and the american people support them. >> i think that's a really good try. >> okay. >> however, for the president to get everything he wants, let's be clear about what we're

bill that's something that our judicial system is going to sort through and decide. who has a legitimate claim and what is the dollar value of that. and given that how a burton knowingly destroyed evidence and bt was criminally negligent why are these companies still being awarded government contracts. i'm not certain what kind of government contracts any of the three are receiving. of course coming out of halliburton is in or out of business and. don't probably would be inappropriate to. do borrow from any just nation in government contracts because there are. inappropriate actions. of be on the deepwater horizon but don't you think that the pentagon should stop him from arrow oil and gas from the very company that poison the entire gulf of mexico i mean do you think enough has been done to punish these corporations from the government. they've been punished quite severely to date and with more still to come so i don't think anyone is going to. be accused of being excessively lenient would it be a transmission were our what were those punishments. very soon a severe fines in the case of b d they were denied access to do leases from mexico. those are those a