alaska who served in the senate in to his 80s and vice president biden spoke at it and he said ted stevens may have been a republican but we were friends. we worked together. our families were friends. we would fight during the day in the central@and we would spend the evening together over dinner. and you had to build coalitions across party lines in order to get anything done. well, the new generation that's come in they are not playing by those rules. you get the folks like senator ted cruz who are less concerned about building coalitions so that they can get something passed and they are more concern the about sort of their core values, what the people back home are saying, and really the a generaagenda that they bring e senate independently. >> and congress needs to work with the white house and mike have care is there. viqueira is there and mike, the president spoke tonight and he was clearly dispoint it had came to this. >> reporter: that is a theme that the president had struck throughout the course of this drama, impasse, crisis really. considering the fact that we just walked rig

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steven horseford and republican congressman luke messer. now look, i'm going to shock everybody tonight. there is something about tedd there's something about him that really concerns me. he took bold action for something he believes in. every leader i admire has done that, including dr. martin luther king jr., my personal hero. but here is the difference. and here's what really bothers me about ted cruz. senator cruz will not take personal responsibility for his own actions or for the consequences of his actions. he says, this is not my shutdown. this is obama's shutdown. now look. dr. king never called a rally or a march and then said, it is not my rally. this must be bull connor's rally. dr. king's tactics were controversial, they were provocative. but he owned them. ted cruz should have taken personal responsibility and said yes, i did this and here is why. don't blame other people for the shutdown, senator cruz. own it. and the fact that you won't makes me fear you're not going to be a great leader but a misleader. so with that i want to turn to you. you have been allied with senator cruz. i know you share a lo

ted cruz now speaking he for those gathered here in washington. that summit continues through the weekend. earlier today, we spoke to steven dennis, white house correspondent with roll call, about the latest on the budget impasse. to talk about the negotiations. we should not call the negotiations, right? it depends on what they are negotiating about. , manyesident made clear times, that he would not negotiate over some kind of ransom but he has been open to talking about setting up a budget process, some kind of framework for getting a bigger budget deal done. that seems to be where they are going. that is the opening he provided a few days ago in his press conference and is one that they have continued to subtly put out there as a way to give republican some assurance that those negotiations would be real and substantive and cover some of the issues they want to cover , and yet, reopen the government. that is the real question, not just the short-term debt deal, which is starting to look more and more like something that is baked into the cake, and whether they can reopen the government on tuesday after the holiday on mo