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I dont expect well cave on the debt ceiling and want something for that. the president going by the way, im not going to negotiate. i think we know how at least its going to start. >> happy new year, right? >> yeah. >> david gurrigan, he called 2014 a breakthrough year. in fact, the economic numbers we got today were really pretty good. gdp at 4.1%. if we were running for reelection, they would be helpful but hes not. how does the improving economy affect the agenda now? >> john, i do think in f...

Doing something anti a person who has been working for him while the opposition is pushing for it. so there needs to be some breathing space between, say, kathleen sebelius and the rollout before the president might look and say, hey, you know, its time for you to go spend more time with your family or other big names. its clear he needs fresh blood which is not unusual for a president going into a midterm that he, as david points out, desperately would love to see gains on capitol hill. >> davi...

Hearing more and more about the real obama is coming forward and tends to be on the progressive side and wants to address income and equality, thats very central to him and i bet he does have curves. i think there will be big questions whether hell be seen as tough enough, especially with iran. >> david, candy, john king, thanks for being with us and happy holidays. >> thank you. up next, a powerful story of forgiveness, an american teacher living in libya shot and killed. his widows message i...

My honest i opinion, i think kathleen sebelius didnt understand this. she got a lot of mumbo jumbo people explaining it and said things that were misleading. >> listen, im sorry, look, we had a variety of newspaper reports saying his staff did know. they had a big argument what he should say and how to describe this. the political people basically came down hard on youve got to make this very simple and very reassuring and thats the way well sell this program. i just do not believe that the pres...

Clinton, their credibility was badly damaged by the incident, and they both came back. it took a lot of work. the president has to make up for it. if he gets a growing economy and into a deal that is welcomed on all sides and maybe this thing works better over time, you know, his -- this will be an incident of the past but right now, i think you can say fairly hes been -- this damage to him has been devastating. im not sure its fatal. >> let me put it in perspective for you two, more people, how...

Successfully can the president extricate himself from this mess? >> i think its very damaging. i think he based his entire presidency on this single great initiative. he had more than three years to prepare for the rollout but i agree with david gurrigan its not fatal. as he pointed out, when bill clinton issued his apology for monica lewinsky, it was not the low point yet to be impeached and like barack obama, the republicans were out to get bill clinton. they disliked him. president obama is f...

It took a lot of work. the president has to make up for it. if he gets a growing economy and into a deal that is welcomed on all sides and maybe this thing works better over time, you know, his -- this will be an incident of the past but right now, i think you can say fairly hes been -- this damage to him has been devastating. im not sure its fatal. >> let me put it in perspective for you two, more people, howard dean, more americans signed a petition to have me deported for my opposition to gun...

>> let me say a couple things. first of all, i disagree with david. the staff led him to believe it was true and the early staff was weak and made a lot of mistakes and i think hes a truth teller. i do believe that he told the truth as he heard it and saw it. secondly, anybody who compares this to katrina is smoking something. 3,000 people were killed in katrina. we havent lost any lives here yet. this may be a big political mess and blah, blah, blah, we havent lost lives. >> that is my initial ...

Will he stand by his man? >> howard dean, the former presidential candidate and david gurrigan. let me start with you on this. i watched the presidents press conference yesterday, and as he went on and on and on and on taking the blame, soaking it in and so on, i just began to find myself distancing myself from him in term s of credibility and thinking why are you talking so much about this? just get it fixed. >> well, sometimes he does seem to think the longer he talks the more he persuades and...

Catastrophic obama care, which we assume it doesnt work at all, falls flat on its face how does that impact hillary clinton, if at all? >> youre assuming hillary clinton will run and be the candidate and at this point, before 2008, nobody even knew about barack obama. so there is so much time. i think its more clearly going to affect the elections next year and also, one possible larger impact, which is actually much more important than how it affects hillary clinton and thats how it affects lib...