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Election. and im assuming this is a hard-nose negotiating tactic. but at some point, how does his bluff get called on that? he cant think hell get more than what he wanted before the election. >> i think the bluff can get called in two ways. we can always go past january 1st and then all the taxes come back and we can start from there. and thats why i dont think people should be worried about the fiscal slope or whatever we want to call it. these are bunch of artificially-imposed deadlines to cr...

Conservatives. take your chance and take medicine now. over the long run, better for the economy. >> kimberly: call his bluff. be strong at the negotiating table to make sure you can do what is best in interest of the country. these are tough time and you have to stand your ground. if you look at the recent polling, obama dropped three points. in polling with the gallup poll. people arent happy with him anyway. >> eric: there is a counterproposal, around $800 billion in revenue through tax refor...

Thats how you guys are with taxes. you sent me this letter. you say $800 million in taxes from tax reform, but well figure it out next year. no, we need the money now. tell us what deductions you get rid of and maybe you can give me a specific proposal where you outline those cuts and then we can negotiate is and maybe well get this settled by christmas. >> the first point about the election returns i think is a beautiful idea and makes me want to commission that from somebody. but there is this...

Conservatives. take your chance and take medicine now. over the long run, better for >> kimberly: call his bluff. be strong at the negotiating table to make sure you can do what is best in interest of the country. these are tough time and you have to stand your ground. if you look at the recent polling, obama dropped three points. in polling with the gallup poll. people arent happy with him anyway. >> eric: there is a counterproposal, around $800 billion in revenue through tax reform. they go th...

Slashed. geithner and bane spinning away on the sunday talk circuit. id roll the video but we prefer you stay awake for the segment. listen to rush limbaugh shed some light. >> why would he want to go over the cliff? what happens when we go over the cliff? democrat orgasm happens. taxes go up for everybody. nirvana to these people. >> eric: i will disagree with rush. its good for the g.o.p. to call obamas bluff. one or two results will follow us over the cliff. we go back to recession. that will...

Into the kennedy years. the cuban missile years involved the same kind of stakes that happened in berlin and in korea, indochina. eisenhower was a wartime commander and he understood the difficulties in dealing with the soviets but because he commanded the western front in world war ii, he also understood the possibilities for rough or fundamental, i would say, co-existence or cooperation with the soviets and i think that this was behind this bluff. it was behind the kennedy bluff in cuba. it wa...

David did for john adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the apples have fallen. >> i get the point. i think about ike, i think about him as humble and how can a guy from kansas be where i am at right now and some things i really think are great about that guy and youre doing what david did for john adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called "ikes blu...

>> historians tackled this and -- >> by the way -- >> threatening something worse? >> well, thats what they say. i want to congratulate him, by the way, on this book. ive really enjoyed it, evan. we had talked about it earlier. this is a -- this bluff that you cover in the eisenhower years is a really critical part of the story of that era. its also a bluff that, in all fairness, condition continues into the kennedy years. the cuban missile years involved the same kind of stakes that happened in...

Party. and all those people, all that crowd i have really come to love, sarcastically. i havent read your book but i know its great because i know your angle. to me, the greatest thing about ike is we didnt get involved in suez. tell me about his ability to bluff, saying im not going to go into these wars. he basically said no, no, no to the hawks. >> he had seen war, he ran world war ii on the european side and wanted to avoid one. after he got us out of korea in 1953, he didnt lose anybody in ...

But in that period, the idea that -- >> okay. >> the united states and the soviet union would have a general nuclear exchange over differences, say, regarding berlin or cuba was to some degree a bluff. but it was something that rested, i think, on a hard-nosed understanding that the soviets did not, in the final analysis, want war, nor did we. and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the apples have fallen. >> i get the point. i think about ike, i think about him a...