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With us on this friday evening. i think that might have been about the best advice ever come from the former speaker, calling it a dead loser. he is calling their bluff here. but why do the republicans keep going down this road? >> well, they just -- you know, they got this thing going on where they just keep talking to each other, and they keep lurching and further and further to the right. just think when newt gingrich becomes the voice of reason within the republican party, how far to the rig...

You guys cant be responsible. and theyll cave. >> am joined tonight by ohio congressman tim ryan. congressman, good to have you with us on this friday evening. i think that might have been about the best advice ever come from the former speaker, calling it a dead loser. he is calling their bluff here. but why do the republicans keep going down this road? >> well, they just -- you know, they got this thing going on where they just keep talking to each other, and they keep lurching and further and...

I think that might have been about the best advice ever come from the former speaker, calling it a dead loser. he is calling their bluff here. but why do the republicans keep going down this road? >> well, they just -- you know, they got this thing going on where they just keep talking to each other, and they keep lurching further and further to the right. just think when newt gingrich becomes the voice of reason within the republican party, how far to the right they must have lurched. and i jus...

Disabled american veterans, all the veterans organizations are going to be there. the afl-cio and all the unions will be there. and i think the vast majority of the american people are going to be there. what we are talking about, ed, and you made this point, were not talking about financial issues. were talking about ideology. what the republicans want to do is destroy the social safety net that has existed in this country since the 1930s. they just -- they want to give more tax breaks to peopl...

So its clear he wants to increase spending hes willing to give a nod to a cut here and there but wants more spending and more taxes that. is what he said again and again. we have to raise revenues, close loopholes so hes going get a seconds shot at raising taxes. that, i think is his objective. he repeated this idea im not going to debate. speaking about raising the debt ceiling. i think that is a bluff he cannot keep. hes going to put the economy in jeopardy. last time we had a debt ceiling iss...

Claim biographer and journalist and discussed his new book on the 34th president, the who gave us our highways. >> for years, dwight david eisenhower was viewed as a man who was disengaged and bumbling and he loved to golf other than govern. according to a book, ikes bluff, his secret battle to save the world. beneath that was an exterior was a man and this former generals greatest victory were the wars he did not fight. joining me now is journalist and author evan thomas. dwight eisenhower its ...

Once he got us out of korea. >> that was his goal and why he got elected. >> it took a few months, but he got out. he kept the troops out of vietnam and had a lot of crisis. there were constant crisis in the 1950s. in china, russia, berlin, korea and vietnam and ike would bluff with nuclear weapons and he was determined to keep us out of war. >> do you think he was an isolationist? >> no. he believed we had to be in the world and very much for native. the first supreme allied commander and he op...

Ikes bluff, the secret battle to save the world. he is an underwritten about president. you got it first. >> thank you, chuck. >> thank you, sir. top quality interview from chuck todd. 110 hours and counting now until the cliff deadline. the only thing that everyone can agree on is there is probably not going to be a deal. our gaggle will be here to break it down and the senate surprise we did not see coming. first, the white house soup of the day, chipotle beef. i have a pronunciation from my p...

Said that the speakers plan, plan "b" was dead on arrival. it wasnt going to be votessed on. so this was an exercise in futility. >> thats right. heres the challenge. obama clearly believes right now that he can bluff the house republicans and they will cave. i think people forget when they talk about bill clinton and i got a lot done -- which is true, welfare reform, four consecutive balanced budgets and serious reforms and we closed the government for six days in november of 95, closed it for ...

Working in good path. theyve gone from $1.4 trillion in revenue and the white house said income over 250 and they moved to 400,000 and social security cuts, theyre on the table and progressives are furious about that and medicarel ijity aides and progressives are mad about that. what more can the president and the white house give in to make this happen. as we look at the clock, the time is running out and lo and behold, were getting into january and well go over the cliff. >> i think republican...