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Inanimate sleeve the idea of now cutting social security or medicare, sort of committing to it on the stage. it seemed like incredible theater from where we sat. i have to ask you if you saw the same way and what it was like from your vantage point. >> that is wonderfully optimistic take on what happened. the idea that he suddenly forced a conversion of republicans on the question of protecting social security and medicare. i dont think thats actually what occurred in that chamber, because i kno...

Narrow, parochial, ideological viewpoints. the american people are not dumb. they understand this congress, especially the right wing of it, held us hostage while they failed to be accountable themselves. >> 16 days. you know, maria, weve seen what happens when someone tries to pop the right wing bubble. they cant handle the troouth. take a listen. >> give me one damn program he said hed cut. >> hes cut entitlements. >> not entitlements. one program. >> what do you want to yell for? >> because y...

Hed rather cut a deal -- >> lets talk about the taxes. >> but hes willing to on the tax deal. >> to get the taxes up on the rich. >> let me say -- >> finish this point. two years ago when he gave in on a temporary extension of the bush tax cuts to get a second stimulus bill, the president said at the time im not doing this again. a lot of people didnt pay attention to his vow, but i think hes damn serious. >> my view, theres only one issue that matters, and thats what are you going to do about e...

Some point in time -- >> its december 3rd. ready? he got to get this done by december 31st under ideal circumstances. what is grovers role going to be the next three weeks? >> i think hes going to continue to be the guy against taxes. hes not going to change at all. >> if we dont have any taxes on the deal, there wont be a deal. the democrats -- >> there is no deal. the white house people have told me again and again that the president doesnt want to go over the cliff. hed rather cut a deal -- >...

Hed rather cut a deal -- >> lets talk about the taxes. >> but hes willing to on the tax deal. >> to get the taxes up on the rich. >> let me say -- >> finish this point. two years ago when he gave in on a temporary extension of the bush tax cuts to get a second stimulus bill, the president said at the time im not doing this again. a lot of peep didnt pay attention to his vow, but i think hes damn serious. >> my view theres only one issue that matters and thats what are you going to do about entit...

So far, all 40,000 feet up for them. we want it clean out the tax code. close deductions. cut entitlements. they have to get specific. frankly, i dont think they know what their specifics are. as you said in your introductions, the publicly didnt want to hear it. they dont want to necessarily -- people running for office in 2014 dont want to say, here is how i think you should cut it. the president has hundreds of billions of dollars of savings in medicare he is bringing to the table. >> you don...

Become a problem in the negotiation says republicans, aside from premium support in medicare, which they know they cant get, they actually dont flow what medicare cuts they want. they dont know what a middle ground is for them on entitlements. how do you see that part of the negotiation going. republicans dont have a set of, here are our asks, and here is what can you give us. thats part of why they want obama to tell them what they want. >> the president is starting out in the right place. so f...

Every day. there isnt a day he doesnt make that point. he campaigned against rick perry talking about social security as a ponz write scheme. we need to guarantee our contract with seniors. mitt romney is not campaigning on anything like cut entitlements and -- >> ryan -- >> six words. when people describe paul ryan as brave or courageous, it makes me think about how we have really degraded the term political courage in our system. it does not take political courage to take a whack at the most v...