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To compromise? >> i think one of the things people need to keep in mind is even though we look like were deadlocked right now, maybe the democratic strategy with regard to republicans is looking at the 2014 mid-term elections. its a high number of republicans that want the status quo, but the vast majority of the american public does not want this. and i think that if the sequester deal, if it actually happens, when you start seeing these stories across the country about the impact on real peopl...

Line with a child? >> i think the problem that republicans -- theyve painted themselves into a corner on the issue offing with deficit hogs. they have to worry about their right on all of these issues. you still have the on going civil war in the party. and a lot of it is over, you know, what the tea party has with this fiscal irresponsibility. so any time youre talking with something with bigger government or government paying out more money, the republicans have pretty much got themselves into...

Tonight, there will be new initiatives intended to answer three questions according to white house aides. how can we create more jobs and give preem the skills they need for the jobs and how do folks who work hard make a decent living. it comes two weeks before a new set of budget showdowns. the president and congressional republicans on march 1st, a series of what some believe are draconian cuts. they dont want them, but will kick in. at the end of the month, the government completely runs out ...

Health care and on bank regulation and on immigration and on a whole host of things, hes got to beat the republicans politically. hes got to beat them on spending, and hes got to back them into a corner politically. hes got a chance to be more consequential in a second term -- this is usual -- >> whats his one, two, three agenda. >> gun control, immigration reform, and number one is what chuck was grilling him on today, which is his strategy on beating the republicans on debt and spending. >> fi...

Agenda which were looking at the challenges of in a "huffington post" series called "the road forward." if he wants to go forward, if he wants to complete the job on health care and on bank regulation and on immigration and on a whole host of things, hes got to beat the republicans politically. hes got to beat them on spending, and hes got to back them into a corner politically. hes got a chance to be more consequential in a second term -- this is usual -- >> whats his one, two, three agenda. >>...

>> he cant do anything until the budget showdowns are over. >> right. >> hand they cant be piecemeal. youre not going to get immigration, not going to get guns. i question whether guns ultimately is going to get done right now. the president himself seems to believe if public opinion is not with him to get it done, then hes going to not going to be able to do that with congress going all the way i think thats the second question. i think the most consequential issue he has to deal with after the...

That we ought to be talking about. >> okay. lets talk about the gridlock there in washington, as the government delayed that shutdown by a valid six weeks. we were worrying about it a couple weeks ago when the house passed its spending bill. now, youve said you want to end these budget showdowns with a two-year budget. how would that work and what kind of opposition would you have to it? >> well, theres actually growing support in the senate for a biannual budget proposal. it had a hearing yeste...

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