Ted Cruz "Democrats are blocking funding the Veterans"

look we have senator Ted Cruz of Texas in the crossfire along with democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island we

are delighted to have both of you with us nndb glad to be here glad to have you here walking across our we're going to start start with you well

you know you kind of got us into this whole situation you're the guy you had this great plan you're going take

out this a wallstreet journal op ed doesn't include obamacare did that now we're going to lift the debt ceiling without obamacare being touched possibly would

you support Paul right moving forward to get this debt ceiling thing resolved without your obamacare obsession well

event venue trying hard how god give you credit for that and and and an awful lot of wash would like to

you were kind of a lone voice on that now most of this almost kind of delusional sounding your entire party is

to be resolved now you said in your on record saying you don't even want to deal with the debt ceiling collapse without

making obamacare part of that are you still on that position par Ryan said listen let's deal debts you are

you still saying we can't even build the debt ceiling until we do what obamacare fresh look and you know the the whole country understands we have way too much debt under president Obama the debt has gone from roughly ten trillion dollars to nearly seventeen true it's

larger there are whole and I think we need to do structural reforms to to to get our spending under control but at the same time you

gotta fight one thing it you can't fight everything at once we are in the mid a of an epic movement millions of Americans have risen up and say they

want relief from obamacare so Washington let's politicians in both parties in Washington have not been listening to the American people but over two million Americans signed a national petition and

don't find it dot com because obamacare isn't working it movement has gone from a different the

the Republicans the house now put on the table a six week extension of the debt ceiling partial response I suspect to secretary treasurer Lou

JetBlue saying you should be a disaster next yeah off from here are speculating that Evans the yeah but but

but from your standpoint could you vote for a clean six week extension to move the she

is to move the debt ceiling down the the road just just to make sure we don't go to defy I think what we want to see is the

government put back to work as well and I think there is support for that in the sun that way we get off

of the hostage negotiations that are going on right now we get to regular negotiation everybody

I know and what island knows the difference between negotiator and negotiating while holding hostages and I understand why the Republican Party wants to leverage of holding a

government shut down and the economy hostage but I really think it's important that we do our level best to both take

away the threat of the debt when president has veto power senator Reid can block virtually everything in the sun so in terms of hostage taking I think Republican respect a

pretty fair amount of hostage taking well the democratic those are parliamentary

maneuvers in the back and forth this is different this is hundreds of thousands of