joining me right now is republican north carolina congressman robert pittenger. you initially tried to tell your skpit yan constituents that it was a bad idea but you voted for it anyway so now you are going down by not standing up. do you regret that decision? >> well, sir, i said in the summertime at six town hall meetings that i felt like it was a noble effort but an ill-fated strategy. i feel like that president obama would stick by his signature legislation, which he's done. sometimes you need to be careful what you wish for. the impact of obama care has been clear. premiums are going up. you know, the jobs are down. cbo says it's unsustainable in spending. i really felt like it was the wrong strategy. but when we address the need for taking care of our military, i just couldn't imagine not sending a check for families of those fighting in afghanistan or defending us around the world. but when that was addressed, i felt that this was an effort that the american people needed us to fight for. >> at this point -- >> so to that end we addressed it. >> with the

robert pittenger of north carolina: >> i think what we're looking at is coming together in a reasonable way is and say, hey, we'll meet you halfway. >> reporter: the change in tone say nod to reality. business groups who were worried about the shutdown and default, had begun threatening to campaign for democrats and gallup's latest poll found the public's approval of republicans has sunk to an all-time low-- 28%-- well below the democrats' 43%. senate republicans aren't entirely comfortable with the plan that their house g.o.p. colleagues put forward today for two reasons. first of all, they think that the government should be reopened immediately. second of all, they worry that six weeks, a six-week increase in the debt ceiling doesn't give the g.o.p. and the president enough time to negotiate over very thorny spending issues that the two sides have been at odds over for years, scott. >> pelley: nancy the meeting at the white house just broke up. things are very fluid. what happens next? >> reporter: well, house republicans are all telling us that they're going to be working throughout

. >> also congressman robert pittenger says -- a real crisis is a failure to live within our means. republican and democratic leaders met for breakfast this morning as they began talks at solving the budget problems. here's what they had to say after the meeting. >> we just want to say that the four of us, the ranking member of the senate budget committee, the ranking member of the house budget committee, chairman of the senate budget committee, and myself, we had a very good conversation. we decided how we are going to proceed over breakfast. we want to look for ways to find common ground, to get a budget agreement. our goal is for the good of the american people. to get the debt under control. to do smart deficit reduction. and to do things that we think the economy needs to get people back to work. those are our shared goals. we are going to try to find how we can reach common ground and create a budget process that achieves that. that's what we are beginning to talk about. >> chairman ryan is right. good conversation over breakfast this morning as we begin the challenge that has

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