joining me now is reince priebus. thanks for your patience this morning and i know we got sidetracked with listening to the president there so thank you. >> that's all right. i heard some of it. >> let me start with congressman stutsman's comments saying he's not sure what republicans really want. bottom line, what is the endgame that they're asking for, you're asking for? >> first of all, i think what he's saying is that we don't know what we're going to be able to get out of it because the president hasn't been willing to talk about this issue and negotiate something that can resolve the problem. you just heard the president just say, i don't know, 15 minutes ago there's not going to be any negotiation. he refuses to even sit down and talk to these guys in a way that is in a good spirit and in a negotiates spirit and he called the meeting yesterday and i think he reported on it, of course, he called in the speaker and mitch mcconnell and the others saying there's not going to be a negotiation. they're offering solut

congressman david price, reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee. >> woodruff:n is affecting one colorado community, still recovering from last month's devastating floods. the newshour's mary jo brooks has our report. >> reporter: the floodwaters that swept through estes park a month ago damaged hundreds of buildings and destroyed two main roads that led into town. the sewage system was so broke than a third of the residents still must use port-a-pottys that have been set up throughout the neighborhoods. in spite of all that, folks here have been working round the clock to get their town backçó n shape for throngs of tourists who come every year to view the spectacular fall colors. estes is the gateway toútse rocky mountain national park, which draws more thanÑi three million visitors a year. the town of 6,000 people depends on the park for its livelihood and residents were hopeful that a strong october tourist season could help with their financial recovery. they managed to get 90% of their shops and restaurants back open-- and then came the government shutdown

reince? >> you mentioned that about the va running out of money at the end of the month.s after that? >> well, hopefully that won't happen. hopefully they come to their senses and realize that the american people are not with them no matter what their stunts are because, you know, ed, it was really so disingenuous, the folks responsible for shutting down the government to show up there for a photo-op and say we don't shut down our government after they just shut it down themselves. to use these world wor 2 heroes as political roprops is disgusting. >> the disabled vets out there, i'm told those are their living expenses. they live on fixed incomes. >> that's right. >> what's the hardship ahead? >> they can't buy groceries. they can't get the supplies they need. they maybe sometimes can't pay their rent or mortgage. i mean, to think about what's going on right now and that's just our veterans. how about the military personnel? my brother does search and rescue right now in the air force. he's on an air force base in florida. he's 1,000 miles away from his wife and daughter

mckay, the great reince priebus, we just saw him there offering rnc funds, $150,000.you think it would help if mothers on wic support stormed a memorial to draw attention to their needs? >> it certainly wouldn't hurt. i think that, you know, in every time there is a crisis like this in washington, there are certain events that become flash points. for some reason, the war memorial may not be the most important -- probably isn't the most important thing going on here but it was the flashpoint and yesterday republicans and conservatives thought maybe this was something that could turn public opinion or start to turn the narrative in their favor. but i think when reince priebus went out there after the white house already announced that, look, these war memorials are going to be open now for, you know, war veterans to come and visit from now on. he still went out there and offered the money. i think that was a little bit of an overreach and i think that a lot of even political observers who were paying attention to the game here are going to think that was probably a bad

he slams reince priebus as preferring war memorials to living children.er harry reid's comments. why would i help one kid with cancer? watch this. >> the rnc chair reince priebus arrived with urgent word that the republican national committee will pay to keep the world war ii memorial open for a month. >> i have come here to announce that the republican national committee has put aside enough money to hire five security personnel full time to keep the world war the two memorial open. >> he notably didn't announce he'll pay for children to get access to clinical cancer trials they are being denied. i guess he prefers open war memorials to living children. >> did they hear reid? why help one kid with cancer? >> this is not biased. this is a 100% bold-faced lie told by msnbc. it was the republicans who yesterday put forward a spending bill to restore funding for children with cancer. it was harry reid who said no. that is a flat out 100% lie told by national television. did you hear that, martin? >> he doesn't care. why does he care? >> not on that network t

steve, that's not reince priebus, is it? it's a reince priebus look-alike. it was a look-alike. so it is not. but yeah, boehner's going to be out there in a second, as i said. nancy pelosi and democrats are going to be holding their own press availability, the progressive caucus has just met, and they're going to be coming out. steve, let me get your take on this while you're here. dueling press conferences at the same time. both sides, you know, there's really not a carrot and stick approach here. because the democrats, the president offering no carrots. just a stick. >> what's happening here, it's interesting. it looks like the strategy that's emerged on the republican side is they're going to try to go for this temporary four or six-week extension of the debt ceiling but not for reopening of the government at the same time. so the strategy here that boehner has is he wants to see if he can pass this with all republican votes in the house. because democrats will not sign off on anything that doesn't also reopen the government. and boehner's margin for error is is so small. if

i mean, listen to how much the head of the rnc reince priebus kept talking about the gop's need to attractinority voters. listen to this. >> more to make up ground in minority communities. real urgency of connecting with minority communities. build a recruitment program for minority candidates. promote the minority lead ners our party. especially strong focus on historically black colleges and universities. new national field program designed to engage minority groups. >> i mean, it's also schizophrenic. you're having the chairman of the party over and over again, minority, black voters, black colleges. while you're doing things like honoring jesse helms and no one denouncing it. when you're making racist statements about the president, no one denouncing it. you can't have it both ways. >> best thing that reince priebus could do if he wants to attract african-american voters, is he can tomorrow hold a press conference and denounce that north carolina state senator and say, look, president obama's an american. he's a patriotic american. let's put an end to this b.s. that would attract, i th

but it's not just reince priebus. the reality is the president is not going to be impeached.president has not done anything to be impeached. the reality is when you take a look at the constitution and what is an impeachable offense, this clearly does not rise to it. specifically on obama care, i have strong, strong reservations about obama care but the fact of the matter is, this was passed by the congress in a democratic way and obviously this president signed it into law. what we need to have is a rational conversation about the future of our spending in this country. we need to have a rational conversation on both sides about the leadership on both sides in terms of talking about spending and so forth. so to talk about impeachment is just a waste of everybody's time because it's not even rooted in reality. >> what's interesting here, robert said something very interesting. he said rational and reality. neither of those things are currently circulating through the blood of the republican caucus at this point in time. >> i disagree with you, jimmy. jimmy, look, here's the tr

reince priebus, the chairman of the republican party, accuses the white house of hiding the numbers. the gop has filed a freedom of information request to find out exactly how many people have been able to enroll. and next week health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is set to testify. lawmakers are hoping she will shed some light on what happened, anne-marie. >> tara mergener in washington. thank you, tara. >>> well, a tentative deal has been reached to end the four-day old strike against the san francisco bay area main commuter train system. the agreement was announced late last night. it still has to be approved by union workers. b.a.r.t. management hopes to have trains running at full strength by this afternoon. the strike affected some 400,000 commuters. meanwhile, federal investigators say a trainee was operating an out-of-service train that struck and killed two people over the weekend. >>> in florida, investigators say they've identified suspects who may have helped two inmates escape from prison even forge documents. the two convicted killers, joseph jenkins an

. >> reporter: reince priebus is the chair of the national republican committee and he fired a freedomf information request to find out how many people have successfully signed under for health care so far. >> this is an answer to a very simple question that they know right now what the answer is and they're not telling us. >> the administration's biggest fear is the difficulty signing up will keep away young healthy people. the health care act needs them to offset the cost of insuring those who are older and sicker. norah, charlie. >> joining us is senator marco rubio of florida, he said he will introduce a bill until healthcare.gov is fixed. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> it was mandated, the last since legislation was considered by congress, during the campaign it was debated. what do you think you can accomplish now? >> i think there are two separate issues. the first is whether obama care should even exist or function obviously i believe it should be repealed or replaced. that's a separate one that i'm raising with regards to the law that i intend to introduce. what i'

. >> reporter: reince priebus is the chair of the national republican committee and he fired a freedominformation request to find out how many people have successfully signed under for health care so far. >> this is an answer to a very simple question that they know right now what the answer is and they're not telling us. >> the administration's biggest fear is the difficulty signing up will keep away young healthy people. the health care act needs them to offset the cost of insuring those who are older and sicker. norah, charlie. >> joining us is senator marco rubio of florida, he said he will introduce a bill until healthcare.gov is fixed. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> it was mandated, the last since legislation was considered by congress during the campaign it was debated. what do you think you can accomplish now? >> i think there are two separate issues. the first is whether obama care should even exist or function obviously i believe it should be repealed or replaced. that's a separate one that i'm raising with regards to the law that i intend to introduce. what i'm a

they had to send -- reince priebus went there yesterday.people like steve lonigan and as a democrat, i agree. >> lois, last night there was a debate for new york city mayor. i want to play a clip of something because he was asked about the national party. listen to joe loda's response. >> where i don't agree with the national republican party is long and hard. i am pro-choice, they are not. i am pro gay rights as well as marriage equality, they are not. i have been outspoken about these issues over and over again. i went and i talked to the tea party. when i went, there were things that i disagreed with them and things that i agreed with them on. do not lump me with the national republicans. >> it's unbecoming. i mean, look -- >> you're insulting me. >> took it as an insult. >> i know, it's laughable, it's new york city. but the irony here, i think, is if he were just running on a third party line, he probably would be performing ten points better. he'd still get crushed but the republican brand right now, find a republican that isn't an in

. >> i want to ask you michael, reince priebus the leader of the republican party, he beat you in thatace. i don't think he's the true leader of anything. he has sided with ted cruz against the speaker, it seems. and to take sides against the elected leader of the house who holds a constitutional position is to undermine him in his own caucus. i think that's part of this problem. why is priebus one of the lemmings running towards a freshman senator who's only been in congress a half a year? >> and i can't speak to the rationale behind it other than the idea about fund raising. that part of the base that is ginned up in this are going to write a check. and so i think as i said at the time, that was not a playing field for the party to present itself in terms of taking sides. the majority leader, the speaker have carved out the pathway. the party has to rally behind that. and part of boehner's problem right now is that he's in a corner and he's not in a face-off with obama, he's in a face-off with his own people. and so how does he now turn that face around to confront in a unified fashi

. >> reince priebus, the rnc chair again after the 2012 election came out with an extremely long diagnosis of the party's problems that they needed to fix with minority, women, young voters and especially with people outside the conservative base in general. this shutdown enraged all of them like never before and even worse, the underlying dynamic of it shows that republican leaders in congress are really more insulated than ever. they feel the need to listen even more to their most conservative members. they're thinking about less and less about how to reach to people who don't think of themselves as republican or conservative. i think priebus was set back. >> you picked ted cruz as a winner in all of this. >> i think you have to look at what his goal was. if you think his goal was that he really, truly believed that this was going to end with obama defunding obama care that would defund his signature legislative accomplishment, he didn't win, but if he was trying to raise his national profile and if he was going start winning straw polls which were going for 2016. if he wanted to add to

earlier today reince priebus announced he and the rnc is willing to keep the world war ii memorial but in typical fashion, that's not negotiable. democrats called it a stunt. joining me now with reaction to this and more we have a busy night. texas senator ted cruz. i don't know where to begin here. go ahead. >> look. this is harry reid's shutdown. it is the perfect example of liberal arrogance. your times the house of representatives endeavored to compromise to pass the bill that funds the federal government but at the same time presents enormous harms obama care is causing to millions of american s. four times harry reid said go jump in a lake. he won't negotiate, won't talk. he told the president don't talk to congress. apparently their view is the president should negotiate with iran but not with congress. that's unreasonable, ridiculous and that's what their position is. >> why would we want to help one kid with cancer? do i have to begin to answer that? if you want to talk about cold, callous, heartless, mean spirited, hateful. all the rhetoric harry reid throws around against re

. >> reince priebus is now going to have to do an autopsy on this autopsy, chris. >> you think they payecide it was unfortunate for them to go after women's issues and make women angry? it's not an interest group. >> we're the majority, but they can't help themselves and this is the ideology of the party. we've got some guys that have a language problem. they use the wrong language. they talk about race. it's not just that. it's the underlying ideology of this modern republican party. actively repels women. we saw this gender gap increase during the shutdown because women were more upset about the shutdown than men. everybody hated it, but women hated it more. >> why is that is this. >> for one thing, we always see a gender gap on economic issues. they're more sensible. may feel more vulnerable. they've been more of a pro government voting block and i think we're seeing that in this race, too. >> do you know what you just said, my friend? >> women are more sensible than men. now, if i said something like that -- >> oh, forgive me. >> i think you may be right. because i think in many way

national monuments with rnc chairman reince urging republicans to show up to vamployees and compromised the integrity of the building. the report highlighted the fact that in 2009, 11,000 veterans waited more than a year for benefits. a figure which grew to a jaw-dropping it 245,000 in 2012. and that backlog is expected to grow. political reports that because of the shutdown, the va may have to furlough as many as 20,000 claims processors. if it lasts more than two weeks, 3.6 million veterans may not receive disability claims or pension payments. a shutdown certainly doesn't help the va in its efforts to help the more than 62,000 veterans who are homeless on any given night. so, yes, of course veterans should be able to visit the world war ii monument, but that's just part of what happens when you shut down the government over an ideological crusade, a point nancy pelosi made on the floor last night. >> we have to think of the ramifications of our actions. when we shut down government, we can't say, oh, we're not respecting our veterans because they can't go to the world war ii memorial

reince priebus, the head of the rnc, told republicans after the election they needed to be more inclusiveing. is virginia definitive proof that nobody has listened to a single word he said, and that his so-called autopsy, his autopsy report, it's about as useful as mitt romney's own plan for his own presidential inaugurationer er ier i er ice? >> as usual, you're eloquently insightful there. nobody is listening, nobody is home, the lights are dimmed and the republican party is hurdling toward its own demise. the refusal to engage in a sensible appreciation for people who think differently than you is the mark of not only our humanity but of broadening our conception of politics to say that, look, even if i disagree with you, i don't have to demonize you. the bitterness and vitreal we see expressed here is a denunciation of american politics at its best. what happened to out of many one? what happened to understanding even though we disagree, republican, democrat, independent, liberal, conservative, radical, left or right, that at the end of the day we're still american citizens and we are

reince priebus had this to say about secretary sebelius' claim that president obama didn't know about the warning signs, saying either secretary sebelius is lying to protect president obama or the president needs to get control of his signature health care law. here is kathleen sebelius last night answering questions about whether her job as secretary should be on the line. >> did you ever talk about resigning to the president? >> what i talked about is doing the job that i came here to do. this is the most important work i've ever done in my life. >> if this persists or even at this point now, would you consider resigning over this? >> i think my job is to get this fully implemented and to get the website working right. i work at the pleasure of the president. he is singularly focused on making sure we deliver on this promise. >> joining me right now is new york democratic congressman joe crowley, serves on the house ways and means committee. congressman, republicans like darrell issa are eager to begin these hearings on the flawed aca rollout. is it most important at this point beca

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. >> reporter: now on the of question when the president knew about these glitches rnc chairman reinceebus is out with a tough statement, either in his words secretary sebelius is lying about when the president found out, or, he was left in the dark and needs to get personal control as commander-in-chief over his signature health law. that is something jay carney will be pressed about. bill: thanks. we'll watch for that. ed henry leaving the coverage from the north lawn. martha? martha: it raise as lot of questions. let's go to chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com. chris, it is striking to think that the president didn't ask to see the website, didn't ask to see the rollout, take me through this, guys, how will it work when somebody logs on. are we really supposed to belief that he believe nodidea that the website was not ready to go? >> contrast the close attention he has been giving to selling insurance for all of these months. he has been out talking about what they're selling which are insurance policies. he has been trying to en

. >> i think it's unfair rp back in august, reince priebus said it was a thinly veiled attempt.y debate. >> this is what they wanted to do promoting one person that might be running for president. you're not going to be hosting debates and deposing the candidates running for president 2016 on the republican side of the aisle. >> reporter: now that cnn and nbc have canceled their projects. the republican party said they will consider letting them host the republican debate. norah and charlie, all a spokesman from the clinton camp would say is >>> there are a few things worse for a spy than being outed. it happened to cia agent valerie plame a decade ago. she's in the toyota greenroom. we'll talk about her new career, nsa scandal, iran and more. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." ♪ i see you you see me ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] may your lights always be green. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ beeping ] ♪ may you never be stuck behind a stinky truck. [ beeping ] ♪ may things always go your way. but it's good to be prepared... just in case they don't. toyota. let's go places, safely. for those n

it ended by warning us that reince priebus, the rnc chairman, said just last year people an in this countrydignity and respect. the question for today is whether the party of lincoln stand in 2013 on vilifying the lgbt community. you can help answer that question by saying no to the bigotry and declining the invitation. well, that's where we are and they want to talk to you today a little bit about this. this is a tough topic because it is a dangerous time to be a christian conservative. i'll tell you what i mean. along with a but that is sent out to all the congressmen they are running ads against randy forbes down in virginia trying to disparage him for being part of the american family association banquet today and for being here. you should see the ad. i wish i had to run for you. there are threats being made. we all know that a little more than a year ago for lloyd corrigan's came into the offices of the family research council because he looked on the southern poverty law center's website, check the list of hate groups, found frc and a couple of others, gone into the building with the

reince priebus issued another statement the chairman of the rnc, he said we're dealing with a fundamentalreakdown in leadership. someone should be held accountable. i also suggest that president obama fire hhs secretary sebelius. if hhs were a private company, she would have been gone two weeks ago." does the president still have full confidence in kathleen sebelius? >> yes. i don't find it surprising that the republican party chief would be calling for her to resign. but what people have to remember the president always says that obama care is more than a website. what we've created is a new marketplace where people can get affordable insurance. what would have been a big problem and what may have spoken to a flaw in the underlying legislation would be if people weren't interested and instead what we're having is overwhelming interest and people wanting to purchase this insurance. so we still are very unhappy with the state of the website and we will fix it, but this is a having more interest is a better problem than not having any at all. >> will the president support complete transpare

happened in the aftermath of the presidential campaign was the chairman of the public and party with reinceriebus went on a listening tour and came up with the report that when the today's coverage came out it was mostly to compensate for the hispanic vote losses but in fact there were over 250 representations that covered the ground operation information analytics and so on. clearly that report did not resonate with the tea party movement but i'm wondering what your senses as to whether that report and those recommendations has resonated with any part of the republican constituency whether it is a blueprint or whether it has just been shelved for the future? >> a good question. what i would say to that is i think a number of the things that report highlighted on the process side of politics, fewer debates for example or improving the ground operation and getting back up to speed with technology are things that are happening. i think the republicans believe they will be more ready on those fronts and 2016 than they were in 2012. so on that i think there is a consensus that the party needs t