House Republicans on Tuesday failed to push through three different measures that would have reopened the national parks, and funded veterans programs and the District of Columbia government operations while the federal government is shut down. Each of the three required a two-thirds majority to pass, meaning that they needed votes from a bloc of Democrats.

House leaderships aides say they expect to bring the same three measures to a vote on Wednesday in a way that would require only a simple majority to pass.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier dismissed the Republicans' effort, saying, "This is not serious… It won't work." The White House threatened to veto the measures had they passed the House and gotten through the Senate.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spoke with Piers Morgan. "What we see now is Republicans, they have abandoned their insistence that we deal with our budget issues. When the president put on the table a budget that reduces the deficit and even addresses entitlement reforms as they demanded they ignored that. Now they're making this about getting a political scalp, which is ... defunding or dismantling or disrupting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The president won't do that," he said.

Dana Bash spoke with Anderson Cooper about what is going on on Capitol Hill right now. "Everybody's gone. There are no negotiations, no votes," she told him. "The House did vote earlier this evening which you and I talked about that they voted to keep three agencies open but it didn't pass.

Actually they're going to try to get back at it tomorrow. They're also going to try to pass funding for NIH, because they saw that the president was complaining that kids with cancer can't get into clinical trials.

And that really does seem to be the strategy in fact Republicans admit that's the strategy right now. Wait to see what the president complains about, try to pass at least that particular part of spending for the government, and see what they do. Because big picture, (House Speaker) John Boehner and his Republican leadership are still insisting they're not going to give in to what the Democrats are demanding.

And that is just a clean, no-strings attached bill to fund the government even for six weeks. And they are at an amazing standoff.