The strategy is the American people are demanding it and going to demand it more and more on October 1st, October 2nd. They're going to keep demanding that we do something about this, and Republicans are feeling the heat. You have a good number of Senate Republicans and House Republicans...say this is untenable. Republicans, as was mentioned, when they talk to us privately, they say this is untenable. When I even sat with the president yesterday and explained to him about this, he said, oh, that's bad. (15:33–15:41)
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Asserts that many Senate and House Republicans privately acknowledge the current situation as untenable.
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