be true yes or no, playing for a majority in the house? >> yes i do. one of the key things to me is sequestration. the way that he played it which was, game of chicken. let me try to force the republicans right up to the end to sort of the unilaterally capitulate and give me taxes. he was never very clear what taxes. never laid out a plan saying vote for my plan. i want the republicans admit that we need to raise taxes. it didn't work. and his job approval ratings plummeted. but the other thing is, the republicans said, mr. president you keep painting this dire picture how the sequestration cuts are going to hurt. why don't we give you flexibility to cut less important things and protect the more important things and president said no. if you were presidency sitting there saying i'm trying to focus on the in issue, you would say yeah, give me the flexability and we'll manage the problem. bill: if you're right and believe this reporting then you have a stalemate for 18 months yet again in washington. now go back to 2012. if you buy into the theory that the president won re-election because of the