>> congressman james clyburn. we're awaiting the president's remarks for the health care law. >> joining me now, carrie brown and michael smerconish. congressman clyburn was on and i think this is what we would expect and will see from democrats, each of them pointing out a story of success in their own state and district. and quite honestly we will expect to hear the same from republicans, however they would point out people who went on and say they did not get the health care they were hoping for. they are paying more and not able to keep their doctor. it is a battle of the storylines here. >> it certainly is. it's anecdote versus anecdote for the administration at least now, the website appearing to be mostly functional. they don't have that drowning out positive stories they are trying to tell. i don't think they are going to be declaring the website fixed until they resolve the back end issues with the insurers. that's still a big problem. they are working on it. until that happens, they are going to continue

south carolina congressman and leader james clyburn joins me now. thank you so much for joining me this afternoon, senator clyburn. >> thank you for having me. >> do you agree with senator pelosi, should this legislation pass? is this a good deal? >> i think it is. it's a relatively good deal. all things are relative. it's not the bill i would have written and i'm certain it's not the bill she would have written. but if you look at this, we have reached what i consider to be a pretty honorable compromise. that is what it's about. we don't get all of what we wanted, they don't get all of what they wanted but it's an honorable compromise and i'm vote for it. >> congressman as you know, a lot of progressive groups are upset about this deal because it doesn't include a provision to extend unemployment benefits to 1.3 million americans who are going to lose those benefits at the end of the year. did you fight hard enough to get that included? >> we fought hard to get it included. i never wanted to be inside this budget deal but wanted to be part of the b

joining me now is congressman and assistant democratic leader james clyburn who is involved with this conference. good morning to you, sir. >> thank you so much for having me, chuck. >> tell me where we are. how close are we? are we going to see something on december 13th produced collectively that is supported by murray and ryan? >> i would say we are very, very close yet far away. we are close. >> why do you say you are far away. it sounds like you know what you are negotiating over. is that what you are trying to say? >> that's right. we on the democratic side are very, very leery of putting together any kind of a budget deal that tends to rest too heavily on people who were on fixed incomes and we don't want to see a budget deal that will cost jobs and we want to see a deal that will include unemployment insurance because to get rid of that will cost 200,000 jobs. if you let that die, you want a budget deal that will do something about the sequester. we believed that that ought to be done away with. i think the republicans feel the same way. we are far apart because we cannot seem

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we are very ably led in our discussion from our side by our ranking member chris van hollen james clyburn, our assistant leader, and by the ranking member on the appropriations committee. i wish now to -- i am very pleased to be joined by our house democratic leadership as we hear ranking member chris van uslen come forward and give a word on what he sees going forward. >> thank you, leader pelosi. it is great to be here with my colleagues and my fellow contrary, ms. lowen. .here is no budget agreement there's been a lot written, but there is no budget agreement yet. we believe these negotiations have already dragged on way too long. we share the view of the republican chairman of the appropriations committee who wrote to all the conferences some time ago saying we should right aftere thanksgiving so the appropriators could get to work. that is the senate of the -- that is the chairman of the senate appropriations committee. we also believe that as this ,rocess has dragged on important priorities are at risk of being left behind. we have is why presented our priorities. these are prioriti