john boehner said it will have to come with a significant spending cuts or reform. what, in your perspective, what does that look like? guest: we have not finalized that. i will be frank. we have been so focused on the cr. cr. the order i anticipate it happening is the cr and budget. we have got to reach some kind of agreement on what we think is needed if, in fact, conservatives are going to consider that. the truth is conservatives are not going to raise the debt ceiling unless it is something really good for taxpayers and helps put us on the path i've been describing. in my mind, it is that important. we do not know. guest: are there a couple of key options on the table? guest: it is all general. we think serious spending cuts with the bill itself and structure and process reforms, as we go forward, whether it is spending as a percentage of gdp, whether it is a balanced budget amendment, there are lots of things being talked about. we think it is quickly becoming a time where we have to focus in and say, "we think this makes sense, if that will happen." host: pub

as you were bound for washington, you promised, schilling, not boehner's clone.he last couple of weeks because you came in and said hey, wait a minute, we made a promise about how much spending we were actually going to cut. we haven't lived up to it. are you satisfied now or upset about how the leadership handled it? >> i'm actually quite satisfied with it. the thing that's nice about the leadership is they are giving us a voice. they could say, hey, look, you guys don't count, we're just going to run the way we want and that's the thing i have noticed with the leadership. here's the thing we've got to remember is that we've got 87 new freshmen here and there's some major growing pains, so it's not going to be perfect but we will strive towards perfection so i'm pretty happy with it. >> mayor reed, your issue as the mayorf atlanta is one that local cities and states are dealing with all over the country and that is you're strapped for cash. you gave a commencement address last december and this is part of what you said, which was interesting and it could become

house speaker boehner says he wants to slash $100 billion. >> read my lips.we're going to cut spending. >> reporter: outside boehner's home, a small protest. blocking pregnancy programs, economists estimate 200,000 to 800,000 jobs would be lost to boehner's cuts. >> listen, with i don't want anyone to lose their job, whether they're a federal employee or not. but come on, we're broke. >> reporter: the republican party posted a reminder on youtube. it's the second anniversary of the obama stimulus plan. the debt has increased. unemployment is still over 9%. the president says the stimulus worked. >> we're now growing again. we've seen 1.3 million jobs added in the private sector since i've been president. >> reporter: meanwhile, the clock is ticking. two weeks until the government could shut down. to prevent that, democrats asked boehner to agree to short-term funding. >> a government shutdown would be a disaster for our nation and for our economy. >> now he's resorting to threats to do that without any negotiation. >> reporter: but the speaker says no deal un

and john boehner warned lee about parting with female lobbyists. and they are still refusing to comment. >> and for the woman who got that photograph schumanns to remain anonymous bush had a comment? >> yes, she wanted to remain aand she has recommended that the wife cat " tested " and the wife-get tested that he is probably been with other women on the craigslist. >> the other republican senator john kyl, the g zero senatyle, the whip. >> there is a time for everything and if this is time for me to and service to the public and shinnery 2013. >> the fifth congress- jan 2013. hutcheson, and lieberman are also not going to be continuing their terms. >> the republican off gabrielle giffords. if you recall she was shot and ahead of last month in arizona is getting six hours of therapy daily. and she is speaking and she said to her husband that she supports her husband to go to the shuttle in april. and still it is not known if she is under complete understanding that she was shot for >> north on, both looking good a bit heavy. perhaps we are hollywood

and that he is a closeted muslim so just take a listen to speaker boehner his response. maybe it's not my job to tell the american people what to think our job in washington this to look for me american people having said that of the state of hawaii has said that he was born there that's good enough for me the president says he's a christian i accept images word. so better doesn't think that it's his responsibility to tell the american people what to do or say you know somehow i just don't believe that i mean congress makes laws that force us to do or think about something every day that would be why like that officials are called leaders right you lead the rest will follow they ever heard that line before john or how about the responsibility of politicians to speak the truth to their constituents and boehner is part of the g.o.p. well you know they have this funny habit of trying to regulate tell everyday americans how they're supposed to live you know they're the party of more reality well opinions on abortion who you love and even which church you should attend but ap

in this process, john boehner let 1,000 flowers bloom. amendments coming all over the place. long days of amendments and crazy coalitions, tea party democrats with republicans killing programs here and there. this is all about boehner is saying to the 87 freshmen, go for it. knock out as much as you want. ask for more spending reductions than we have put on the table. let them see how the process works. they can say if the spending reductions don't go down, they tried and there was no market and later if boehner has to put together a deal with the white house which is how anything can get done, he can go back to the tea party freshmen and say, look, i didn't as a leader say you must do it this way. we got to put a deal together. he would have created some good will. this is how they see it in house leadership, create some good will and get the 87 freshmen go along. >> when this hits the senate, how much sticks? we're talking about proposals that was pretty radical. it was to take the government out of any aid to family planning at all. they're talking about taking out the who

i'm not sure that boehner comes off that well. on this business of shutting down the government, we are talking about the political effects of it. there is a country here to run. whoever gets the blame for shutting down the government, we are a country at war. we have people at war in iraq and afghanistan, and you are going to shut down the government? the public at large is going to be very negative and it is vital which side gets the blame for shutting it down. >> you are 65, 70 or 80 years old. you go to the mail box and your check hasn't come in for social security. who do you blame? >> i think they are going to blame whoever is in office. people are set up. they are saying i cut back on my spending. my family is making sacrifices. i can no longer use my homes a ena a.t.m. machine. they say i changed this in my personal life. why can't the government do the same? chris: our regulars, including john, who is here, if there is a government-shut-down, who would win the p.r. win? >> 11 say the president wins. only one, peggy noonan

first of all -- a shout out to speaker boehner for what he has done in the house. allowing this debate to take place. but these are the small items. but nonetheless, it is a preview of what we will see when we get down to the big issue of the entitlements. obama is right to -- on the continuing resolution. but then when we resolve that issue -- and i think we will resolve it in some way -- then you have to buy nature get to entitlements. >> you can have a debate -- >> they know it. they are starting to acknowledge it. >> the president said the republicans' cuts are too deep and it threatens a veto. >> let's use a scalpel. >> house speaker john boehner says if the president does not cut deeply, republicans will. >> for the last two years since the president has taken off as the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. and if some of those jobs are lost in it, so be it. we are broke. >> so what? >> they are fighting over this 12%. it the whole game is elsewhere. but like the two political parties -- both the republicans and democrats, while the rest of

house speaker john boehner is now promising the largest budget cuts in congressional history. speaking before conservative conference last night, boehner said house republicans would vote next week on a spending bill that cuts "more than $1 billion in government funding for the current fiscal year." republican leaders had initially outlined plans to cut $74 billion in the measure, but tea party members wanted more citing their campaign promises. senator boehner will join david gregory for an exclusive interview this sunday on "meet the press" right here on your nbc station. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. in hawaii a tragic turn of events when powerful waves crashed into a lava wall. the impact washed two people over the sharp rocks. rescue crews were called in to treat the couple who were both seriously injured. >>> raging flames lit up the sky over eastern ohio last night. the explosion happened when an underground gasline ruptured. firefighters gained control of the blaze after cutting off the supply to the pipeline, but it to

speaker boehner can't control the votes in his caucus to prevent a shutdown of government. and now he's resorting to threats to do just that. >> the two sides have until march 4th to come to an agreement. that's when the current temporary funding bill expires. >>> president obama continues his west coast tech tour this morning, flying from san francisco to portland, oregon, to inspect an intel computer chip plant. mr. obama dined last night with a dozen tech industry leaders, including facebook's mark zuckerberg, apple's steve jobs, and google's eric schmidt. >> he doesn't really care how facebook works or how they're going to design the next iphone. he's here to see how these companies grow in the middle of the worst recession ever. we're having great years. facebook, exploding through the recession. apple exploding through the recession. and many others, google. booming through the recession. >> the president hopes to boost the economy by promoting u.s. leadership in high-tech innovation. >>> now to the turbulent middle east. funerals are being held today in bahrain for p

remember john boehner said late last week we're not simply going to extend at current levels. he didn't say how much below current levels he would take in order to get a short-term extension. my guess is it won't take all of that much to to get that extension. >> woodruff: the role of the president. how much clout does he have? >> the fact that the president's numbers have risen since mid-term elections gives him some leverage. the poll numbers that i mentioned that show the public crediting him with wanting to work with republicans gives him some leverage. and one of the reasons for those poll numbers is that deal he made in the lame duck session on tax cuts. he was seen as compromising with them on extending those bush era tax cuts. certainly it's easier to give people money through tax cuts than it is to take away in spending cuts. he won some credibility with the public there. so he has some cards had to play. he'll also by the way if there is a shutdown have some advertise kregs in exactly what parts of the government get shut down and how quickly. >> woodruff: john harwo

i mean that would be delicious but that makes me wonder does that mean that john boehner is never going to answer to all the sexy sexy e-mails that i sent him from my personal r. and skin fetish website because if so i'm aren't broken. i really hope for yours they agree does am for those of our we get to read about correspondence so we better be the first to know it's there it's all i got to say thanks for joining us. thank you. are over for we go tonight it's time for our tweet of the day just a few hours ago egyptian president hosni mubarak stunned the world when he said he was not leaving office immediately after reports all day had said he was going to resign so tonight we think the people of egypt should tweet a gawker got me shirtless pics of mubarak we know that it's all it took for congressman christopher a leader resign within a matter of hours yesterday and that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make treat come back tomorrow i'll be speaking with jane hamsher founder of fire dog lake on the continued assault against wiki leaks and now journalists are defending o

first of all -- a shout out to speaker boehner for what he has done in the house. allowing this debate to take place. but these are the small items. but nonetheless, it is a preview of what we will see when we get down to the big issue of the entitlements. obama is right to -- on the continuing resolution. but then when we resolve that issue -- and i think we will resolve it in some way -- then you have to buy nature get to entitlements. >> you can have a debate -- >> they know it. they are starting to acknowledge it. >> the president said the republicans' cuts are too deep and it threatens a veto. >> let's use a scalpel. >> house speaker john boehner says if the president does not cut deeply, republicans will. >> for the last two years since the president has taken off as the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. and if some of those jobs are lost in it, so be it. we are broke. >> so what? >> they are fighting over this 12%. it the whole game is elsewhere. but like the two political parties -- both the republicans and democrats, while the rest of

the fact is john boehner the new speaker of the house in the first six weeks has not been able to rein tea party element saying we want more cuts, more cuts. the people in the leadership of republicans in the house wanted a reasonable cut in the neighborhood of $30 billion and hall rogers the head of the appropriations said this is $180 billion indiscriminate, heavy handed. this will not come to any reasonable end. it will not lead to negotiations with the democrats. just making the democrats more fixed in their opposition. >> chris: i know you want to respond to that. we are running out of time. this will come down to a decision on march 3, boehner put a marker wayent to se markl cuts in spending. >> i think there will be real cuts. that is what the voters wanted and i think they will compromise on that. the idea this is draconian budget cuts back to 2008 levels or god forbid, 2007 levels, oh, that is brutal, that's ridiculous. and under paul ryan economied to entitlement reform. they are doing the right thing and not just cuts to the specialty spending. entitlement reform. governor w

here hello speaker boehner i'm calling from capitol hill to insulate you know unfortunately with this continuing military for continue to discount from. jamie weinstein and your show hussein gainer thank you all for being. the providence rhode island school board just said no terminations letters to two thousand teachers no city essentially telling them that they could lose their job before the next school year this is the latest attack on teachers around our nation as states struggle balance their budgets following three decades of tax cuts for the very rich but are teachers really the problem when it comes to budget deficits are they the ones who are overpaid real. back in two thousand and nine the american people were outraged a few months earlier they just handed over seven hundred billion dollars to wall street at the behest of president george w. bush and former goldman sachs c.e.o. then secretary treasury and paulson who warned that if the taxpayers didn't pay up our economy would collapse the market had frankly already tanked caking with many of the state's pension funds and o

john boehner's clever maneuvering here is that the republicans went home and the dog didn't bark. citizens are not outraged. juan wishes that they were outraged. >> there was a conference call at the house. >> chris: we are running out of time. is there going to be a shut down eventually or not and if there isn't and they have to make a deal whose terms will it be under? >> there will not be a shut down i don't think it will be a good deal for republicans and shut real spending in real time. >> chris: the conventional wisdom is i think fair to say whether it is right or wrong is back in 1995 when there was a government shutdown it work today the benefit of president clinton and the detriment of newt gingrich and the house republicans. but there is big differences. i went back and checked. the deficit in 1995 was $164 billion. it is now $1.5 trillion. >> i mean people are in a mood to cut. they want the deficit resolved. here is the dirty little secret. what they are talking about now has nothing to do with cutting the deficit. it is about securitying spending that is for sure. the

boehner to halt the steep fall that our financial institutions were about to take. we did not want to do it. the democrats did not create the problem. it was the president bush solution very republicans did not want to vote for it and we cooperated with president bush. the idea of cooperation in a bipartisan way to do the right thing for our country is one that we have to keep uppermost in our minds. as we see this flood of amendments that every idea anyone could ever think of, it is interesting but it is not what needs to happen. what needs to happen is we need to establish priorities. it is not everything you can think of. it is those things that must be done for the american people and their top priority is the creation of jobs. we must have a continuing resolution that does just that -- make it a priority for job creation, deficit reduction, and strengthening the middle-class. no i am pleased to yield to the distinguished democratic whip, steny hoyer. >> can thank you very much, madam later. we have as the speaker indicated been here for two months. we have been

aides to speaker boehner would not comment on any conversation john boehner may have had with lee and just said that attacks nearly ten years ago on 9/11. >>> the second largest bank in measure, jpmorgan chase, admitted today it had mistreated thousands of the nation's men and women in uniform by overcharging them on their mortgages or outright foreclosing on their homes. in some cases, it happened while they were on war duty in iraq or afghanistan. the admission came after an exclusive report by our own senior investigative correspondent, lisa myers, who has our follow-up report tonight. >> reporter: army lieutenant colonel sarah smith and her family were foreclosed on by chase almost two years ago, while she was on active duty in iraq. >> i remember it being very difficult, very hard. >> we love you, honey. >> reporter: marine captain jonathan rolls and his wife, julia, were overcharged by chase for their mortgage, then harassed for money they did not owe. today the couple told an outraged congressional committee they had been battling chase for five years. >> we've spoken with mana

. >> reporter: that provoked the senate's top democrat to accuse speaker boehner of being reckless enough to trigger a government shutdown. >> and now he's resorting to threats to do just that, without any negotiations. that is not permissible. we will not stand for that. he's wrong. >> reporter: if congress can't agree on cuts soon, the government is scheduled to run out of money to pay its bills in two weeks. but some republicans predicted a more dire fate. >> if we're not careful, the united states will follow the roman empire. >> reporter: there was drama, with a debate until almost 4:00 this morning and again all day over cuts as different as trimming programs to corral wild horses out west. >> it's too expensive and problematic. >> reporter: to complaints about the size of bureaucracy at the transportation security administration. >> the airports i go through, there are way too many tsa employees just standing around. >> reporter: some of the turmoil is actually internal. for conservatives, their ideology pitted against hometown interests. >> this is not about me. this is not about

speaker john boehner's plan to slash $1 million from the budget could mean the loss of many jobs. >> i don't want anyone to lose their job, but come on, we're broke. >> boehner agreed to short term funding so the government doesn't shut down in two weeks, but so far, no deal. >>> the lawrence livermore national lab tonight is the subject of a different kind of drug bust. the lab is not adequately keeping track of its dangerous drug samples. tracking of the drugs were lax to the extent that some of of them were missing entirely. administrators say they've taken immediate action in response, among the drugs identified as not properly monitors are cocaine, methamphetamines, opium and black tar heroin. the drugs are used for biomedical research and forensic science. >>> san francisco police are hoping surveillance video will help them find a man who stabbed a teenager on a muny bus. it happened yesterday afternoon. the 18-year-old got into a fight with another man who pulled out a knife. the suspect jumped off the bus with another woman. the victim was taken to the hospital and listed in

i=john boehner has the worst job in washington, and right behind is kevin mccarthy, republican whip, who has the vote count. we are in for a really what the time as we move forward with a lot of uncertainty about what will and will not come out of the house. >> if this a case of be careful what you wish for, charles? >> what they are cutting is the 2011 budget, and that started in october 1, 2010. basically only half a year is left. you have to do huge amounts of cuts and what remains this year. that makes it twice as hard. this could be a huge trap for republicans. again, if you ask for cross-the- board, that is ok. it is a percentage. the minute you go into programs, and they have already named 70 programs, only to get half of this amount, you are hitting every constituency, every district in the country, in some way. the democrats are sitting and watching this and they are going to feast on this. >> the road back has already been laid out there. the republican study committee has such things as cutting out all aid to egypt, for example. that is one of the things they want to do. i

and it is messy and kind of ug leigh but i think boehner has actually done a great thing. he promised transparency. i thought he would back off, but it's tough. he has lost some things. he lost an engine firm that will help ge which is big in ohio, his home state and stuck with the idea it will be open. more power to him t is a real legislature now. as for the cuts, i don't agree with all of them but i do think they're takinging deficit seriously. to me the most important thing that happened in the house was the republicans announcing hen they do next year's budget they are going to put entitlements on the table. that is a big step, much more than the president's willing to do. about this current continuing resolution this year, you know i'm glad they are taking the deficit seriously. i don't quite see the exit strategy here. i see them voting on this stuff. i don't actually see it getting through the senate and certainly not true the white house. so are they positioning themselves for a primes? have they fought about what the next step is going to be? i don't quite see. i

speaker boehner and chairman ryan issued a statement saying their budget would tackle entitlements. do you think it is the time to tackle entitlements or work on health care? >> whether they are talking about social security, they ruled that out yesterday. it was not clear that medicare reform, which i pointed out is part of the recently passed health reform legislation. we made significant changes to medicare. we got beaten up by our report -- our republican candidates -- our republican colleagues for it. we will have to take a look at those proposals. we absolutely need to get on a bipartisan basis to tackle some of these broader issues. not just for the next 10 years, but for the 10 beyond that. that is when everything really comes to a head. we are much better if we act today to address these issues. the longer we delay, the more painful it will be. >> there is a plan to put the fiscal commission's plan into legislation. there is not much talk across the rotunda between you and right hand. why not make that the adult conversation about the deficit? >> i will have a conversation

john boehner has said he would not do it at current levels. the question is how big of a cut from current levels will it take to move something through the house? my guess is that at the end of the day the house still is going to try to move something that cuts spending, not nearly as much as republicans have already passed. >> very quickly, let ask you a question of the budget drama in wisconsin. the governor there wants to limit the bargaining power of public employees. does this signal the weakening of public employee unions across the country? >> reporter: the decline of private sector unions have made public sector unions the most vibrant part of the labor movement and the most vibrant labor union contributor to the democratic party. but this is a potentially big blow. budget deficits across the country have put them in a very difficult spot. but one thing we know, lester, nothing in politics moves in a straight line. it will be a blow if they lose this fight in wisconsin but there are more chapters to go in this story. >> john harwood, g

boehner and two other top house republicans had lunch with mr. obama yesterday at the white house. both sides claim the meeting was constructive, particularly when it came to the economy, jobs and spending. >> we're able to find enough common ground. >> the economy so desperately needs us to work together for jobs. >> to jobs to cutting cutting spending. >> as for the spending cuts, republicans will propose $100 billion in cuts over the next seventh months for the fiscal year that will end october 1st. the reason for that, pressure from tea party conservatives, particularly that freshman class. >>> lawyers for tom delay, the former majority leader of the house, are asking for a new trial. they claimed the jurors in the case had made up their minds even before deliberations. or that they failed to follow the judge's instructions. delay was convicted of illegally funneling campaign contributions. >>> a terrible family tragedy has been unfolding overnight in the atlanta area. two, little boys were killed. and their father and brother are in the hospital after an attack. police say the

boehner. i think he, actually he is a very sober and calculate person, and he is not going to fall into traps the way the previous folks addicted and i think more importantly, the spending has gone up a lot. the deficit is so large, and the amount that they need to spend may be an ultimate deal so close to the current level that it seems kind of unthinkable that they wouldn't be able to get this whole thing to work out without a government shutdown. because the alternative is that after the last election, mr. obama could say hey, i really don't think, would you shut down the government. sure you passed that bill in the house but i'm going to veto it. i'm not going to help because i'm not willing to cut spending this much, given the massive deficit. i think that's a much harder position you have to take. but on your site i looked at the history of the budget showdowns, the debt limit has gone up, 64 times? times? it's got a 62 and down three i think since 1962 which is the year i was born there

. >> house speaker john boehner drawing a line in the sand.ough, yesterday, the house passed the biggest spending cut in modern american history. now it goes to the democrat-controlled senate. it sets up an epic clash of ideas over how to solve a massive budget crisis. it sets the stage for a possible government shutdown. joining me once again, george will, congressman steve southerland from florida. elected with tea party support. jonathan karl, and donna brazile. so you're our man on capitol hill. this was the first shot in the big battle over spending cuts. really, people like congressman southerland showed their muscle. >> this is the tea party's moment. imagine this. we're talking not only about cutting government spending. washington has never really done that. we're talking about how much. even the democrats. even nancy pelosi came out with a measure that would continue government funding temporarily, freezing it at last year's level. that is what democrats would traditionally call a cut. you're not going with inflation. this is a momen

boehner sustained from the vote. >> wisconsin is expecting tens of thousands of people who rally today to protest the republican governor's attempt to cut union workers' pay, benefits and bargaining rights. >> they were broke. now we don't have anymore options. we can't do what the previous governor and legislative majorities did and that is wait for the federal government to bail us out because the federal government doesn't have any money either. democratic lawmakers delay action on the proposal. today conservatives including tea party members are expected to be bused in to counter protests. in the middle east reports this morning that anti-government protestors in bahrain at pearl square in the capital city forcing military troops and police to retreat. yemen riot police have shot and killed a protestors during a tenth straight day of protests there inspired by uprising in egypt. as security forces opened fire and threw stones. thousands of people have moved through the capital chant being the fall of yemen's president that's ruled the company for 32 years. somali pirates have captu

speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell, other republican leaders have not taken it off the table when asked. and there are lots of people on the hard right clambering for a shutdown. >> look, we are not looking for a government shutdown, but at the same time we are also not looking at rubber-stamping the high elevated spending levels that congress blew through the joint two years ago. >> the amendment is adopted. >> reporter: on saturday the republican-controlled house passed $61 billion in cuts. the senate democrats say that leaves too many americans paying the price. now the showdown could lead to a shutdown for the first time since 1996, a four-week closure. >> it would be destabilizing at a time when everybody is hopeful we can start growing this economy quicker. >> reporter: president obama urged congress to compromise and find slimmer spending cuts. but house speaker john boehner has vowed there will be no temporary funding without serious slashing. and with the debt at record levels republicans think this time the public is behind them. with the clock ticking and either side ready to

house speaker john boehner says no. >> not without some cuts. >> read my lips. >> speaker boehner is on the course to lead to a shutdown nap is reckless. >> reporter: national museums, passport offices were closed the last time. >> no matter how you define essential, there are people who depend on services who aren't going to receive them. >> reporter: the president has warned a government shutdown could actually harm the economic recovery. how serious is this? no signs of compromise so far. but the latest word from the white house, officials there haven't yet planned for a possible government shutdown. >> david, thank you. >>> and we're going to turn now to the weather tonight and a powerful sign that winter is not over. highways are shut down across parts of the northern plains and the midwest today. these pictures from wisconsin, accidents all along the interstate there. flights also have been canceled. blizzard and winter storm warnings stretch from the dakota all of the way east to new york blizzard warnings are up in the midwest. >> reporter: david, it's a powerful system bring

speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell, other republican leaders have not taken it off the table when asked. and there are lots of people on the hard right clamoring for a shutdown. >> the only way we'll shut the government down is if democratic colleagues insist on keeping the federal government large and unsustainable. >> the clock is ticking. the senate will likely ask for an extension to keep the government afloat. but republicans are considering a filibuster. >>> budget problems in the state have led a parent organization based in san francisco to push lawmakers to allow voters to decide the fate of public education here. nbc bay area's kimberly tere has more on how the group is combining grassroots efforts and social media to pressure lawmakers. >> and if we do not educate them now, they're not going to be there for us. >> reporter: a group of san francisco parents is making it their administration to get an initiative on june's special election ballot. governor jerry brown's proposed budget hinges on getting voters to accept taxes. mix, parents don't understand what this problem is b