john boehner said it will have to come with a significant spending cuts or reform. what, in your perspective, what does that look like? guest: we have not finalized that. i will be frank. we have been so focused on the cr. cr. the order i anticipate it happening is the cr and budget. we have got to reach some kind of agreement on what we think is needed if, in fact, conservatives are going to consider that. the truth is conservatives are not going to raise the debt ceiling unless it is something really good for taxpayers and helps put us on the path i've been describing. in my mind, it is that important. we do not know. guest: are there a couple of key options on the table? guest: it is all general. we think serious spending cuts with the bill itself and structure and process reforms, as we go forward, whether it is spending as a percentage of gdp, whether it is a balanced budget amendment, there are lots of things being talked about. we think it is quickly becoming a time where we have to focus in and say, "we think this makes sense, if that will happen." host: pub

and john boehner warned lee about parting with female lobbyists. and they are still refusing to comment. >> and for the woman who got that photograph schumanns to remain anonymous bush had a comment? >> yes, she wanted to remain aand she has recommended that the wife cat " tested " and the wife-get tested that he is probably been with other women on the craigslist. >> the other republican senator john kyl, the g zero senatyle, the whip. >> there is a time for everything and if this is time for me to and service to the public and shinnery 2013. >> the fifth congress- jan 2013. hutcheson, and lieberman are also not going to be continuing their terms. >> the republican off gabrielle giffords. if you recall she was shot and ahead of last month in arizona is getting six hours of therapy daily. and she is speaking and she said to her husband that she supports her husband to go to the shuttle in april. and still it is not known if she is under complete understanding that she was shot for >> north on, both looking good a bit heavy. perhaps we are hollywood

remember john boehner said late last week we're not simply going to extend at current levels. he didn't say how much below current levels he would take in order to get a short-term extension. my guess is it won't take all of that much to to get that extension. >> woodruff: the role of the president. how much clout does he have? >> the fact that the president's numbers have risen since mid-term elections gives him some leverage. the poll numbers that i mentioned that show the public crediting him with wanting to work with republicans gives him some leverage. and one of the reasons for those poll numbers is that deal he made in the lame duck session on tax cuts. he was seen as compromising with them on extending those bush era tax cuts. certainly it's easier to give people money through tax cuts than it is to take away in spending cuts. he won some credibility with the public there. so he has some cards had to play. he'll also by the way if there is a shutdown have some advertise kregs in exactly what parts of the government get shut down and how quickly. >> woodruff: john harwo

some people are asking of john boehner is really going to be tough and have as zero tolerance policy when it comes to sex scandals would not be something. i mean that would be delicious but that makes me wonder does that mean that john boehner is never going to answer to all the sexy sexy e-mails that i sent him from my personal r. and skin fetish website because if so i'm aren't broken. i really hope for yours they agree does am for those of our we get to read about correspondence so we better be the first to know it's there it's all i got to say thanks for joining us. thank you. are over for we go tonight it's time for our tweet of the day just a few hours ago egyptian president hosni mubarak stunned the world when he said he was not leaving office immediately after reports all day had said he was going to resign so tonight we think the people of egypt should tweet a gawker got me shirtless pics of mubarak we know that it's all it took for congressman christopher a leader resign within a matter of hours yesterday and that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make treat

i=john boehner has the worst job in washington, and right behind is kevin mccarthy, republican whip, who has the vote count. we are in for a really what the time as we move forward with a lot of uncertainty about what will and will not come out of the house. >> if this a case of be careful what you wish for, charles? >> what they are cting is t 2011 budget, and that started in october 1, 2010. basically only half a year is left. you have to do huge amounts of cuts and what remains this year. that makes it twice as hard. this could be a huge trap for republicans. again, if you ask for cross-the- board, that is ok. it is a percentage. the minute you go into programs, and they have already named 70 programs, only to get half of this amount, you are hitting every constituency, every stri in theountry, in some way. the democrats are sitting and watching this and they are going to feast on this. >> the road back has already been laid out there. the republican study committee has such things as cutting out all aid to egypt, for example. that is one of the things they want to do. i think the

in this process, john boehner let 1,000 flowers bloom. amendments coming all over the place. long days of amendments and crazy coalitions, tea party democrats with republicans killing programs here and there. this is all about boehner is saying to the 87 freshmen, go for it. knock out as much as you want. ask for more spending reductions than we have put on the table. let them see how the process works. they can say if the spending reductions don't go down, they tried and there was no market and later if boehner has to put together a deal with the white house which is how anything can get done, he can go back to the tea party freshmen and say, look, i didn't as a leader say you must do it this way. we got to put a deal together. he would have created some good will. this is how they see it in house leadership, create some good will and get the 87 freshmen go along. >> when this hits the senate, how much sticks? we're talking about proposals that was pretty radical. it was to take the government out of any aid to family planning at all. they're talking about taking out the who

all right it's time for tonight's tool time war now the orange speaker of the house john boehner was on meet the press over the weekend talking about the budget pressing political issues like whether or not obama was born in the united states and host david gregory decided to question boehner about those in the republican party who claim that president obama is not a citizen of the u.s. and that he is a closeted muslim so just take a listen to speaker boehner his response. maybe it's not my job to tell the american people what to think our job in washington this to look for me american people having said that of the state of hawaii has said that he was born there that's good enough for me the president says he's a christian i accept images word. so better doesn't think that it's his responsibility to tell the american people what to do or say you know somehow i just don't believe that i mean congress makes laws that force us to do or think about something every day that would be why like that officials are called leaders right you lead the rest will follow they ever heard that line b

john boehner's clever maneuvering here is that the republicans went home and the dog didn't bark. citizens are not outraged. juan wishes that they were outraged. >> there was a conference call at the house. >> chris: we are running out of time. is there going to be a shut down eventually or not and if there isn't and they have to make a deal whose terms will it be under? >> there will not be a shut down i don't think it will be a good deal for republicans and shut real spending in real time. >> chris: the conventional wisdom is i think fair to say whether it is right or wrong is back in 1995 when there was a government shutdown it work today the benefit of president clinton and the detriment of newt gingrich and the house republicans. but there is big differences. i went back and checked. the deficit in 1995 was $164 billion. it is now $1.5 trillion. >> i mean people are in a mood to cut. they want the deficit resolved. here is the dirty little secret. what they are talking about now has nothing to do with cutting the deficit. it is about securitying spending that is for sure. the

john boehner did grandstanding back then. and republicans got durp dumped on. voters didn't like having their social security checks held up and took it out on the g.o.p.. republicans aren't eager to see that repeated and congressional democrats know it. >> just think it's important for to us recognize that we cannot allow the government to shut down. >> we're seeing republicans warn of dire consequences and republicans vote to cut funding for projects that play to their base z says what is likely to happen is short term funding will be passed before the march 4th deadline. >> ways of buying more time for two parties in that agreement. >> he says that will likely see a number of funding resolutions while congress kicks this down the road. >> there is a lot of band aids. >> and ts president flew to oregon today after having dinner in woodside last night. no one is disclosing what was discussed, david louie zeroes in on what they think will come out of the gathering. >> the president spent 15 hours on the ground leaving for oregon. it's still a mystery what is di

how embarrassing and that was what we saw john boehner respond to at the beginning of the seth. segment. >> this is the power of the tea party that has come back to buy the the republican leadership. it is now more evident than ever as the republican leadership in the majority tries to actually govern. it is interesting the tea party 87shmen, i think there are 876 of them said we were never even asked. no one asked us where we were going to vote. the leadership is taking thicks for granted and they got hurt on this. there is a civil war going on right now and it is becoming apparent. looks to me like they are setting up barack obama's reelection. they are positioning themselves as extremists. they want to cut things like head start, policemen on the street. funding for scientific research in america. people look at this and say yes, we are concerned about the deficit but we don't want to kill jobs, kill the economy, republicans, why would they be doing this? even the chamber of commerce doesn't want this. >> i think that is what the republican members will hear when they go back

. >> woodruff: speaker of the house john boehner took issue, saying: >> if the president truly wants an adult conversation about our fiscal challenges, shouting down reform-minded leaders is a bad way to start. call off the attacks and lead, mr. president." the fight is being joined in other states, where republicans are also trying to lower employee benefits. protests are planned in coming days in ohio, indiana, missouri, new jersey, and pennsylvania. more than 20 state legislatures are considering benefit cuts. we get two views now on the issues being debated in wisconsin and elsewhere. randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers, one of the unions protesting in wisconsin. she was in madison last night. and jonathan williams is the director of the tax and fiscal policy task force for the american legislative exchange council, which represents conservative state lawmakers. thank you both for beinging with us. randy weingarten, you first. just so that we understand, governor walk never wisconsin said all he's trying to do is simply ask state workers to bear t

. >> our political analyst says republicans led by speaker of the house john boehner are already signalling that they will back away from a government shutdown. as the headlines hit, about which particular programs are going to be hurt and people see the pain it's gonna cause, it's going to be hard for them to be uncompromising. >> the house voted to cut an extra engine for a joint strike fighter, a engine the pentagon said it didn't need but one being built in the district of john boehner. boehner sustained from the vote. >> wisconsin is expecting tens of thousands of people who rally today to protest the republican governor's attempt to cut union workers' pay, benefits and bargaining rights. >> they were broke. now we don't have anymore options. we can't do what the previous governor and legislative majorities did and that is wait for the federal government to bail us out because the federal government doesn't have any money either. democratic lawmakers delay action on the proposal. today conservatives including tea party members are expected to be bused in to counter protests. in the mid

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boehner who's recently prank called by his tanning salon takeover. you hello speaker boehner on call from capitol hill tends to let you know the unfortunately with this continuing on very frequent candidates come from. jamie weinstein and their show hussein dan gainor thank you all for everybody do appreciate. the providence rhode island school board just sent out terminations letters to two thousand teachers in that city essentially telling them that they could lose their job before the next school year this is the latest attack on teachers around our nation as states struggle balance their budgets following three decades of tax cuts for the very rich but are teachers really the problem when it comes to budget deficits are they the ones who are overpaid real. back in two thousand and nine the american people were outraged three months earlier they just handed over seven hundred billion dollars to wall street at the behest of president george w. bush and former goldman sachs c.e.o. then secretary treasury and folsom who warned that if the taxpayers d

>> joining me now, the speaker of the house, representative john boehner of ohio. mr. speaker, welcome back to "meet the press." >> david, good to be with you. >> i want to talk about egypt, this is a developing story. you heard rick santorum, former senator, might run for president, voicing the view of some republicans, that we were hasty here and that the united states walked way way from a stalwart ally and we don't really know what the consequences will be. is that your view? >> well egypt has been a strong ally of the united states for the last 30 years. and this is clearly a very complex situation. but when people are crying out for freedom, when they're crying out for democracy, i think our country, has a responsibility to listen. >> do you think president obama did it efficiently, effectively? >> i think they've handled what is is a very difficult situation, about as well as it could be handled. >> the question now is what happens next? will the united states stand by democratic movements sweeping the middle east? and should we? >> i believe we should always li

even though the senate is threatening to reverse them john boehner says he's not budging. >> when we say we're going to cut spending read my lips we are going to cut spending. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner's comments have triggered more fierce of a government shutdown. he says he won't pass a temporary expansion of government funding without the big budget cuts. democrats and republicans have until march 4th to cut a deal. that is the day the government runs out of money if congress doesn't act. reporting live from washington, d.c. alison burns. >>> time now 5:16. in just a couple hours san jose mayor chuck reid will speak at the state of the valley conference. that speech follows mayor reid's state of the city address last night. the mayor said san jose is facing $1 so million deficit. he deficit -- $110 million deficit. >> if we maintain our city budget at the current level, we'll have to reduce the budgets in every department by over 50%. that makes closing half of our libraries and community centers. >> now san jose's budget is due in june. >>> new york is inviting stan

. >> our political analysts say republicans led by john boehner are already signalling that they will back away from a government shutdown. >> as the headlines hit about which particular programs are gonna be hurt and who's gonna be hurt and people see the pain that's gonna cause, it's going to be very hard for them to be uncompromising. >> in a victory for the president, the house voted to cut an extra engine for the joint strike fighter, a engine the pentagon said it did need but one that was being built in the district of house speak he were john boehner. speaker boehner abstained from the vote. >> wisconsin is expecting tens of thousands of people to rally today to protest the republican governor's attempt to cut union workers' pay benefits and bargaining rights. >> we're broke. we don't have anymore options. we can't do what the previous governor, legislative majorities did and that is wait for the federal government to bail us out because the federal government doesn't have any money either. >> protests filled wisconsin capital for the past four days and have drawn support for p

. >> reporter: our political analyst says republicans led by speaker of the house john boehner are already signaling they will back away from a government shutdown. >> as the headlines hit, about which particular programs are going to be heard and who is delegate to be heard and people see the pain that will be caused it will be hard to be uncompromising. >> reporter: the house voted to cut an extra engine for the f 35 joint strike fighter that the pentagon said it didn't need but one that was being built in the district of house speaker john boehner. the speaker abstained from the vote. mark matthews, abc 7 news. >>> a dramatic revealation by massachusetts senator scott brown brown. he says he was molested by a camp counselor as a child. his disclos comes in an interview with 60 minutes thatle air this >> you tell us that you were actually sexually abused more than once? >> fortunately nothing was ever consummated so to speak. he said if you tell any one i will kill you, i will make sure that no one believes you. when people find people like me at that young vulnerable age that are lost,

. >> house speaker john boehner says if the president does not cut deeply, republicans will. >> for the last two years since the president has taken off as the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. and if some of those jobs are lost in it, so be it. we are broke. >> so what? >> they are fighting over this 12%. it the whole game is elsewhere. but like the two political parties -- both the republicans and democrats, while the rest of the country is saying we have a problem with the dead but the two political parties -- >> they are fretting about -- >> maybe they will get to it but they did not show -- >> they are writing about subsidies for poor people and heating in the northeast -- fighting about subsidies. about women, infants, and children subsidies so we don't have kids who are intellectually challenged. they are fretting about stupid stuff that is 12% of the budget. >> house republicans are literally stealing the food out of the miles of babies. nutritional and pregnant women and their young children -- one of items on the cutting block -- so they can do >> let me e

think about what would happen in this country if john boehner was making the decisions. the decisions about what was covered. or mitch mcconnell. that is how it would shake out. we have had these problems over the years where high-profile exhibits cannot -- cannot -- came up with any number of barriers between the funding and the practitioners. you will have greater government control over content. the issue that i wanted to address, sandy, you talked about being connected to the diversity. ron, you talked about the current toxic atmosphere. you'll mentioned -- several of you have mentioned that quality journalism is happening in this country. there is no question about that. the global post and in international areas, there is quality journalism. the question to me is not whether there can be quality journalism, but how as the news media becomes increasingly atomized around the country, how can anyone get a comprehensive view of the world? it used to be that we could pick up the chronicle and hope to find at least as close to a comprehensive review as possible. no longe

i say, shutdown and let john boehner explain it. i am not in support of a government shutdown. this would hurt confidence in the world market, plus millions of elderly people would be left in financial crisis." that is stephen from kentucky. he is a democrat. take up, a democrat. thank you for waiting. go ahead. are you there? let's try missouri. don on the independent line. hi, don. caller: yes, sir. hello? i believe the government should be shut down. host: why? caller: well, because they are all corrupted anyway. host: anything else you want to add? caller: well, they are not going to do anything for the american people. they have forgotten who they work for. the american people keep reelecting them. they are not doing anything. they let the gas prices go sky high. the economy is getting worse and worse. in our time, we will live to see history repeating itself. and we need to have protests like they did in egypt. we need to have them here. host: appreciate your thoughts. we will do this for 10-12 minutes, and then we will take a deeper look at the president's budget with mi

their excitement over a letter attorney general holder wrote to john boehner. our legal analyst calls it complicated but boiling down to a point. >> official position of the obama administration is that sexual orientation is a constitutional protective class and same-sex marriage is a right. >> this legal team cited the decision today in a the time. >> attorneys supporting this prop 8 marriage ban say there is no reason to awill you gay marriage while the case is pending. the head of the catholics for common cause tell me developments run count dwroir wishes of the voters. >> this obama administration is splitting with the bipartisan majority in congress and people in 90% of the stays. >> he believes the ground is shifting and he and his partner have an interest in getting married as soon as possible. >> my father has cancer and spent the last summer in houston at md anderson clinic dealing with it. >> he says there are real consequences for delaying it. >> we should have our rights back. >> and professor cane telling me the decision today by the obama administ

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that's where john boehner is going to say the problem is, being sure that he can secure that. i don't think there's anybody on his side right now in a leadership position who says let's close down the government and we'll pin it on barack obama, and i think they've made the effort to reach out the olive branch. >> i agree with mark. i spoke to him before the program and he said they feel, that there are good vibrations in the senate. that the senate is moving also in the direction of some deficit reduction. and so at least for this, the next few weeks -- >> lehrer: they would agree to a $4 billion cut for two weeks. >> a lot of the cuts being proposed in the initial thing are some of the things the democrats want any way, so it's an easier deal now. the bigger problem is the next deal. i would say they are less certain about where their own members are. but i strongly get the sense that the leadership and even some of the freshmen, as long as they're moving in the right direction they'll consider it a job well done. >> lehrer: new subject. the president has caught some heat be

house speaker john boehner is now promising the largest budget cuts in congressional history. speaking before conservative conference last night, boehner said house republicans would vote next week on a spending bill that cuts "more than $1 billion in government funding for the current fiscal year." republican leaders had initially outlined plans to cut $74 billion in the measure, but tea party members wanted more citing their campaign promises. senator boehner will join david gregory for an exclusive interview this sunday on "meet the press" right here on your nbc station. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. in hawaii a tragic turn of events when powerful waves crashed into a lava wall. the impact washed two people over the sharp rocks. rescue crews were called in to treat the couple who were both seriously injured. >>> raging flames lit up the sky over eastern ohio last night. the explosion happened when an underground gasline ruptured. firefighters gained control of the blaze after cutting off the supply to the pipeline, but it to

the fact is john boehner the new speaker of the house in the first six weeks has not been able to rein the tea party element saying we want more cuts, more cuts. the people in the leadership of republicans in the house wanted a reasonable cut in the neighborhood of $30 billion and hall rogers the head of the appropriations said this is $180 billion indiscriminate, heavy handed. this will not come to any reasonable end. it will not lead to negotiations with the democrats. just making the democrats more fixed in their opposition. >> chris: i know you want to respond to that. we are running out of time. this will come down to a decision on march 3, boehner put a marker wayent to se markl cuts in spending. >> i think there will be real cuts. that is what the voters wanted and i think they will compromise on that. the idea this is draconian budget cuts back to 2008 levels or god forbid, 2007 levels, oh, that is brutal, that's ridiculous. and under paul ryan economied to entitlement reform. they are doing the right thing and not just cuts to the specialty spending. entitlement reform. govern

on the house side john boehner saying he thinks there's a six to eight-month window to have this conversation everybody's talking about. >> that's really interesting. john, mike allen, of course, spoke with paul ryan. >> right. >> he said that in april they are going to include entitlement reform in their budget. why do they want to do that? >> they want to show credibility and particularly want to show credibility on health care costs, which they think is politically safer. if you really look at the nuances of what paul ryan said to mike allen, he definitely said yes, we will be in talking about medicare and medicaid. when mike pressed on social security, he sort of glided past that and that reflects the republican calculation. he feels they have been burned many times in the past on social security. on the other hand they definitely feel there is consensus towards bringing health care costs under control. widespread belief particularly among independents that last week's health care was about expanding access, not really tackling costs. they're prepared to put their necks out further on hea