party voters and republicans will reach out and try to find areas where we can agree on reigning in spending. i would think that in terms of opening up trade to make our goods more competitive and accessible to foreign markets would be an area where there could be some common ground but the notion that well, then republicans should come in and we should cut spending here and raise taxes there, i don't think there are many people right now on the economy or in the electorate who say yeah, we're going to send some of these people to washington so they can help raise tax, that's not likely to happen. jenna: since you did work with the former president, george w. bush, you're working with karl rove now to help back some of these republican candidates, what do you think you've learned from your time with the former president, that mistakes that republicans shouldn't make this time around? >> look, i think obviously president bush, i'm very proud of my time with president bush, i do think there was a time when republicans had control of congress, where we -- when we were in the white house, where voters would like to have seen greater spending restraint and i think that