we wanted to continue calling on john baneer to allow a vote on the so-called clean spending bill that will keep the government open for a period of time. only up until next month putting pressure on john boehner sayinging the votes were there if only he this allow democrats to help us push across the finish line. >> i'm suggesting to the speaker and will continue to be. let's stop the excuses, let's take a vote in the house and end this shut down right now. let's put people back to work. there's enough reasonable in the house who are willing to vote yes on a budget that the senate has already passed. that vote will take place today. the shut down will be over. then serious negotiations will proceed around every item in the budget. >> now, there are those who he calls the denyers and they look at this impending deadline of october 17th. they say it's not that bad, the president is harming people needlesly. he can pay his -- they are having none of that. he was sounding the alarm that a default was going over the debt ceiling will be catastrophic to the nation. >>> we have senior citize

house speaker john baneer did not want this fight.rivers of our debt. he wanted to avoid a government shutdown. how they got to where they are right now is the group of conservatives in the house, they pushed this position. and that's where they are right now. do you think house republicans overplayed their hand? a lot of this is about policy, but it is also about strategy when it comes to politics. >> we have enough republicans criticizing republicans. >> you've done that, too, in the past. you know that. >> we need structural damages. i don't mean to insult my kids but it's almost like kids and homework. you have a week to do a report. it all seems to happen the night before. congress in d.c. -- >> do you think it will get done? >> i thenk it will get done but we need structural changes. i don't think they'll confront the tough decisions about balancing the budget until they absolutely have to. they need the pressure and structural reforms. make them have a balanced budget amendment in the constitution, require a supermajority to wr