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What i want to say to the president is, eight times, eight times he said he would have these negotiations on c-span, before the american people. finally, a year later we are on c-span. pull out these unsavory deals put in behind closed doors in the backrooms of the white house and in harry reids and lets start over and give the american people a legitimate chance to see how this works. >> greta: maybe this question -- im curious how this happened behind the scenes? the president did run on trans...

Because these are serious jobs. its real money on the table. and those jobs would clearly have been lost. they only need to talk to republican or democratic governors who are willing to put those teachers out of work, because they didnt have the money until they got the stimulus funds. >> last point on this, richard, the televised jobs debate challenge from boehner and cantor to pelosi and hoyer. as ive said before, i think ive seen this show already, its on c-span and its called congress, right...

And those jobs would clearly have been lost. they only need to talk to republican or democratic governors who are willing to put those teachers out of work, because they didnt have the money until they gott the stimulus funds. >> last point on this, richard, the televised jobs debate challenge from boehner and cantor to pelosi and hoyer. as ive said before, i think ive seen this show already, its on c-span and its called congress, right? the republican leadership not think anybody would, sort o...

Can persuade people to do anything. i mean, during the campaign, the republicans did accuse him of that a number of times, of being the messiah and the one and believing in his own publicity. im starting to believe it could be true, because if he thinks at this late date that he can get them in a room, its going to change, were going to put it on c-span, maybe some of that will change something, but, you know, its the job of party b to block the agenda of party a. what he has to do, i think, is ...

Democrats had both houses and the white house and you are complaining. they rejected obamas agenda. >> if you look at the massachusetts election i think that was a rejection, big message. >> sean: nancy pelosi deserves to be fired. >> fix that by inviting the republicans to the table which hes done. maybe he made a mistake, obviously. but he can fix it,qí he has time to do that >> sean: ill tell you how we can fix it, fire them. fire nancy pelosi, reid and obama for not keeping all the meetings...

Slammed on, shutdown, democrats had both houses and the white house and you are complaining. they rejected obamas agenda. >> if you look at the massachusetts election i think that was a rejection, big message. >> sean: nancy pelosi deserves to be fired. >> fix that by inviting the republicans to the table which hes done. maybe he made a mistake, obviously. but he can fix it,qí he has time to do that >> sean: ill tell you how we can fix it, fire them. fire nancy pelosi, reid and obama for not ke...

In other words, mr. president do you promise -- i saw the letter boehner and cantor sent to the president. do you need a promisor commitment that he will not use the reconciliation process before it would be wise enough to sit down? >> i think the best negotiation would be one where the president says, i will not use the reconciliation. the legislative trick in the democrats own vernacular and where he says well start over with a blank sheet of paper, new with our ideas and come together with ca...

In other words, mr. president do you promise -- i saw the letter boehner and cantor sent to the president. do you need a promisor commitment that he will not use the reconciliation process before it would be wise enough to sit down? >> i think the best negotiation would be one where the president says, i will not use the reconciliation. the legislative trick in the democrats own vernacular and where he says well start over with a blank sheet of paper, new with our ideas and come together with ca...

The american people? >> the president has two problems. one is transparency. he said eight times he was going to have the negotiations on c-span, he didnt. and bipartisanship. he claimed he was going to be bipartisan theres not one republican bill in the book. if his intent is to get a photo-op so he can check the box and claim an that he has bipartisanship and transparency that seeps disingenuous this is really -- >> sean: if republicans dont go hes going to claim i opened the door, they said n...

Obeshane, former chairwoman of the virginia republican party and vice president of young americas foundation. thanks to both of you for being here. >> hi alisyn. >> thank you. alisyn: whats incredible is the white house started from the position of virtually every american thinking that the health care system had to be fixed somehow, that it was broken, and now a year later, polls show that most americans dont want any health care reform. where did they go so wrong? >> well, one thing is that th...