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How been maing up, mr. president and use your mandate to bring this country together to stop us from becoming greece? doing what boehner, tip oneill and ronald reagan did? this political trophy you want rising rates runs the government for left len days when. it cops to debt ceiling time, mr. president, you will have a republican party make sure we save medicare and social security from bumps and save this country from becoming greece. one of his proposals we should never have any congressional ...

Not getting engaged, for not having the one-on-one interviews. he has taken that step, as david said, he has taken control of this. hes in charge. thats presidential leadership, isnt it? and thats good news. >> its the best way to do it. you know, he tried to lead from behind on a couple of things, did not work out as well, and i think that its his mandate. its his election victory. we all know in our own lives that presidential attention is enormously effective. im wondering whether youre heari...

Republicans would save families from a worse tax increase then you can have spending and entitlements fights next year. there will be a debt ceiling issue, still the continuing resolution for funding the government. its not as if everythings solved this month. >> kirsten? you seem similarly unimpressed by the scenario. >> as she so often i say, i have to say. >> the deal that seems to be on the table is the 37% rate. >> chris: lets -- the top tax rate is 35%. if the bush tax cuts lapse it goes t...

Republicans would save families from a worse tax increase then you can have spending and entitlements fights next year. there will be a debt ceiling issue, still the continuing resolution for funding the government. its not as if everythings solved this month. >> kirsten? you seem similarly unimpressed by the scenario. >> as she so often i say, i have to say. >> the deal that seems to be on the table is the 37% rate. >> chris: lets -- the top tax rate is 35%. if the bush tax cuts lapse it goes t...

What they should do and let the demcrats take responsibility for the ones that dont get i dont want to see new legislation brought through the house right now. i dont think that is smart. there is no way they will win on this one. they will be held up as being obstructionalist and that is sad they are the only sensible people in the game. >> were you surprised for the president to be asking for the debt ceiling to be raised? >> no. he will play every card he can . stee how far he can push the re...

-- blank check. it has been appropriated by the congress and it should be an incremental increase in the debt limit when the congress decides to spend money --. >>neil: republican or democratic president, you dont think that with be equally abused? in other words if you get the whole debt ceiling issue out of the equation you are not giving any president a license to spend and any congress is complicity in that spending? >>guest: well, they wrote the constitution here in philadelphia, article ii...

Thats what the middle class wants and sdooefshdeserves. we ought to do it now. we dont have to fall off this cliff. >> the president spoke about today why he wants to take the debt ceiling issue out of discussions about the fiscal cliff. take a listen. >> if congress in any way suggests theyre going to tie negotiations to debt ceiling votes and take us to the brink of default once again as part of a budget negotiation, i will not play that game. >> congressman, the last time republicans used the...

Face-to-face, they want to sit down, roll up their sleeves and hammer out something. kevin mccarthy went to the cameras right after that, he said there are 72 hours extremely critical in this fight that are coming right now. also i want to mention one other thing and that is just crossing from nancy pelosi who says that she does not think that the debt ceiling issue is part of this fiscal cliff discussion, which is interesting, because that is different than the plan that timothy geithner brough...

For re-election in two years saying no way. >> bob: lets remember that he took a lot of heat the last time around when he got to the debt ceiling, debt ceiling issue. he was negotiating the whole time. not out in the country campaigning. this time around they decided that strategy, staying in washington. dealing with the republicans. >> eric: what though? who is he campaigning? one size says raise taxes. look, the super committee couldnt get it done. gang of six couldnt get it done. how are the ...

Ceiling as it is, theres no money to pay the tax refund. >> right. as you pointed outer, this debt ceiling issue, $16.4 trillion that youre going to exceed, and theyll use, quote, extraordinary measures or tools they have available to -- >> greta: lets face it. if you dont have any more money, you have no more money -- you cant even borrow, have no more credit, that means youre cooking the books somehow. >> exactly. republicans have said, were willing to work with you on the fiscal cliff issues,...